Note: Our Privacy Policy has been derived from the privacy policy of the team at Wordpress.com, who have shared their Privacy Policy under a Creative Commons Sharealike license.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, DIY Hotels collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. DIY Hotels' purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how DIY Hotels' visitors use its website. From time to time, DIY Hotels may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

DIY Hotels also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DIY Hotels does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information.

Certain visitors to DIY Hotels' websites choose to interact with DIY Hotels in ways that require DIY Hotels to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that DIY Hotels gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with DIY Hotels - by purchasing access to the Litmus compatibility testing service, for example - are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, DIY Hotels collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with DIY Hotels. DIY Hotels does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

DIY Hotels discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on DIY Hotels' behalf or to provide services available at DIY Hotels' websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using DIY Hotels' websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. DIY Hotels will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, DIY Hotels discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when DIY Hotels believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of DIY Hotels, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an DIY Hotels website and have supplied your email address, DIY Hotels may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with DIY Hotels and our products. We primarily use our company blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. DIY Hotels takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. DIY Hotels uses cookies to help DIY Hotels identify and track visitors, their usage of DIY Hotels website, and their website access preferences. DIY Hotels visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using DIY Hotels' websites, with the drawback that certain features of DIY Hotels' websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, DIY Hotels may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in DIY Hotels' sole discretion. DIY Hotels encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.