Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://ouruniquestays.com.

This blog is a personal blog witten and edited by Nicola Lavin, owner of Our Unique Stays.

For questions about this blog or to have date removed, please contact [email protected]

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

This blog accepts forms of advertising, sponsorship, or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.

The owner of this blog is compensated to provide honest opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, an honest opinion is always given. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blogger’s own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

Our Unique Stays participates in ad networking that uses cookies to track the activity of the user that clicks on these ads to deliver content ads that appeals to the user.

This blog currently uses the ad networking company She Media. You can access thier privacy policy here https://www.shemedia.com/ad-services-privacy-policy

Your choices about ads and analytics:

To learn more about how to manage your preferences regarding their cookie-based advertising in addition to the options outlined above, please see the “Cookie Management” section in their Cookie Notice.

Please note that you may still receive (from them or third parties) and SM and third parties on thier behalf may still serve advertisements within the Publisher Network Websites even if you opt out of tailored advertising, but the ads delivered by them will not be based on your activity across unrelated web sites or apps.

Do Not Track.  SM does not act on “do not track” requests from your browser because, this way, they are able to personalize your experiences on the Publisher Network Websites. For more information, go to http://www.networkadvertising.org or http://www.aboutads.info. Please note that “Do Not Track” is a distinct privacy mechanism from the legally recognized browser-based opt out signals described above, which they honor in accordance with applicable law.

This blog does not produce any content which may result in a conflict of interest.

Plugins

Contact Form 7

With the default configuration, this plugin, in itself, does not:

track users by stealth;
write any user personal data to the database;
send any data to external servers;
use cookies.

If you activate certain features in this plugin, the contact form submitter’s personal data, including their IP address, may be sent to the service provider. Thus, confirming the provider’s privacy policy is recommended. These features include:

reCAPTCHA (Google)
Akismet (Automattic)
Constant Contact
Brevo
Stripe

reCAPTCHA

This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.

If European Union or United Kingdom data protection law applies to the processing of your information, you can review the European requirements section below to learn more about your rights and Google’s compliance with these laws.

Access the full privacy policy through Google.