Privacy Policy

This Website is owned and operated by Home and Hosed Ltd. We provide this notice to explain our commitment to your privacy and our information handling practices.

This notice is available on our homepage and every page where personal information may be requested.

Home and Hosed Ltd. are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Our Commitment to Your Privacy

It is our policy to respect and protect the privacy of its site users, advertisers and business partners. Home and Hosed Ltd. will only access and disclose information provided to Home and Hosed Ltd. on this Website as necessary to comply with applicable laws and government requests, to provide contracted services to clients, to operate or maintain its systems, or to protect itself or its clients. Home and Hosed Ltd. will not make available your personal data, in any form, to any third party except when required to do so by law.

Data Security

To prevent unauthorised access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we hold.

Advertiser’s Data

The personal registration data entered is not published or will be made available in any form to any third party. Only the data entered in the Contact page (Contact Name, telephone and facsimile numbers) of advertising is published. Home and Hosed Ltd. uses stealth email technology (your email address is not available to the general public). All data supplied is accessible and amendable by the Advertiser via the Advertiser Administration Area. This area requires your Username and Password and it is the Advertiser’s responsibility to keep these secure.

User’s Data

The use of the Website does not require you to provide any personal information about yourself, however when sending enquiries to advertised properties a copy of that enquiry is held in archive on our servers.

Access to Enquiry and Registration Information

Home and Hosed Ltd. will under no circumstances give access to your information to any third party for any purpose, either commercial or otherwise. Your information is maintained on a web server in a well protected environment. Home and Hosed Ltd. nor any Website operator, however, can guarantee that your information will remain secure from unauthorised access.

Cookies and Sessions

In some areas of the site you must have 'Cookies' enabled on your machine to receive online services. Cookies are small text files placed on your hard drive by the server of the website you are visiting to help improve the sites functionality and enable us to identify which areas of the site are more popular. They cannot deliver a virus.

The site also uses 'Sessions' for securing areas and providing personalised services. These mechanisms are employed solely for convenience in order to provide personalised, time and cost saving services.

How to find and control your cookies:

If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:

1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

In Internet Explorer 3.0:
You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced

Newsletters

Home and Hosed Ltd. make available an e-mail newsletter service to Users and Advertisers. This is an ‘opt in’ service with an unsubscribe option.

Users under 18

If you are under 18, please get your parent/guardian's permission before providing personal information to the Home and Hosed Ltd. Website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

General

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy.