Privacy Policy

1. Privacy Policy

1.1 The terms "We" / "Us" / "Our"/”Company” individually and collectively refer to World Travel Accommodation Ltd (www.HomeStayHoliday.com) and the terms "You" /"Your" / "Yourself" refer to the users. This Privacy Policy does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature. This Privacy Policy is a legally binding document between you and World Travel Accommodation Ltd (both terms defined below). The terms of this Privacy Policy will be effective upon your acceptance of the same (directly or indirectly in electronic form, by clicking on the “Accept” tab or by use of the website or by other means) and will govern the relationship between you and World Travel Accommodation Ltd for your use of the website “Website” www.HomeStayHoliday.com. This document is published and shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology (reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data of information); that require publishing of the Privacy Policy for collection, use, storage and transfer of sensitive personal data or information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully by using the Website, you indicate that you understand, agree and consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Website. By providing us your Information or by making use of the facilities provided by the Website, you hereby consent to the collection, storage, processing and transfer of any or all of your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information by us as specified under this Privacy Policy. You further agree that such collection, use, storage and transfer of Your Information shall not cause any loss or wrongful gain to you or any other person.

2. User Information

To avail of certain services on our Websites, users are required to provide certain information for the registration process namely: - a) your first name, name, b) Company name, c) email address, d) password etc., and/or the like. The Information as supplied by the users enables us to improve our sites and provide you the most user-friendly experience. All required information is service dependent and we may use the above said user information to, maintain, protect, and improve its services (including advertising services) and for developing new services. Such information will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in the public domain or is furnished under law for the time being in force.

3. Cookies

3.1 To improve the responsiveness of the sites for our users, we may use cookies, or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the user's individual interests using the Identified Computer. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser (if you click on their ads), a process that we do not control. Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data such as the web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come.

3.2 At this precise moment and until further modification and notification, HomeStayHoliday does not use any other cookies than those necessary only for the proper functioning and management of the site. The other following articles 9. Internet user’s responsibility and 10. Links towards other sites: warning, therefore applies once redirected to third-party sites to which you go on your own.

3.3 Once the user of HomeStayHoliday is redirected to the third part website, cookies can be automatically installed on its browser. The cookie is an element which does not allow identification of the user, but is used to record information relative to its browsing habits on the website. The parameter settings of your browser allow normally to inform you about the presence of cookies and to possibly refuse it.

3.4 To improve the responsiveness of the sites for our users, we may use cookies, or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the user's individual interests using the Identified Computer. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply (an example of this is we you ask for our Personalized Horoscope). A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser (if you click on their ads), a process that we do not control. Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data such as the web pages you view. Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come.

4. Information Security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. All information gathered on our Website is securely stored within our controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access. However the internet is an ever evolving medium. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. Of course, our use of any information we gather will always be consistent with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be.

5. Grievance Redressal

Redressal Mechanism: Any complaints, abuse or concerns with regards to content or comment or breach of these terms shall be immediately informed to the designated email address: contact@homestayholiday.com

6. Privacy life Policy

6.1 HomeStayHoliday reserves the right to moderate any announcement without beforehand informing the announcer about it if necessary and/or applicable.

6.2 Download of contents and disclaim of responsibility: during registration, the host or the advertiser have the possibility to create a publicly accessible service or a profile of search (see 7. Data accessible to the public). During this stage, the host or advertiser can transfer files, particularly images, but not only, on the server of the HomeStayHoliday and / or on the server of the service provider of the HomeStayHoliday.

6.3 The host guarantee and certify being in possession of the full right’s property necessary for the publication of the contents transferred on the HomeStayHoliday website. Moreover, they are committed not violating any law or any right of third parties. They discharge the HomeStayHoliday as well as each from his employees, from any responsibility as for a possible complaint coming from third parties; in particular concerning the legal expenses included the expenses of courts and lawyer fees.

6.4 The internet users who use the HomeStayHoliday website are expressly informed about risks bound to technical specificities of the internet network. HomeStayHoliday, cannot thus guarantee that all the information exchanged via the services spread by HomeStayHoliday will not be collected and/or hijacked by third parties and that the confidentiality of the exchanges will be guaranteed.

7. Data accessible to the public

7.1 HomeStayHoliday needs certain personal and/or commercial data of the hosts as well as those of the providers to be able to serve as a reservation intermediary through the hosts’ website. These data are accessible by all internet users. During the registration, members, subscribers, and service providers, are informed that all the information concerning them are accessible to all the users of the HomeStayHoliday website.

7.2 HomeStayHoliday reserves the right to pass on to members, subscribers or subscriber providers which are registered on the site, the publicly accessible data. Furthermore, the visitors of the HomeStayHoliday website can communicate information’s which are contained in the profiles of the members, subscribers and service providers publicly accessible, and this, by e-mail.

7.3 The contents which are present at every minisite, photos, texts, banners, links, are the property of the registered or subscribed internet user concerned, namely, the host, and the advertiser. Any reproduction is consequently prohibited without their authorization. The requests of authorization are to be sent to the concerned internet users.

7.4 HomeStayHoliday cannot be held as responsible in any case for the contents of the announcement or the lack of relevance of the information inserted into the forms spread on the HomeStayHoliday website, as far as these announcements are written by third parties under their own and full responsibility.

8. HomeStayHoliday Commitments

8.1 Personal data: the personal information which is collected by HomeStayHoliday, particularly in the forms, which concern you, is used for better knowing you and therefore, to provide you a better service. HomeStayHoliday can use the personal information to inform you about new offers. HomeStayHoliday can also allow contacting you through questionnaires intended to know your opinion on current offers and offers to come. However, HomeStayHoliday does not sell or rent its lists of names, addresses or any other coordinates to third parties. On the other hand, HomeStayHoliday can share this data with reliable partners always with the aim of providing you with detailed services.

8.2 Data translation: HomeStayHoliday reserves the right to proceed or make possibly carry out the translation of all information collected if necessary, in languages in which its service is available. Also, HomeStayHoliday will take care only about the translation of certain elements of an announcement and do not guarantee their whole exactitudes. HomeStayHoliday can also modify a part of the contents of an announcement to make it more readable, without the agreement of the announcer.

8.3 Use of the contact’s coordinates by the HomeStayHoliday: information collected during the registration, in particular e-mail addresses, will be used by HomeStayHoliday to inform members, hosts and/or providers, about innovations of the site, and to be able to pass on certain requests, offers or information, as for example the search for agents or for emissary.

9. Data protection law and Freedom

9.1 You have a right of access, modification, rectification and deletion of the data which concern you. To exert your right, send an e-mail to the following address: contact@homestayholiday.com

9.2 HomeStayHoliday uses the information obtained only in purposes defined in the terms of use of the service. HomeStayHoliday naturally treats this data in a confidential way, and in the absolute respect of the laws of the Republic of Ireland.

10. Internet user’s responsibility

10.1 The user of HomeStayHoliday website recognizes that he has the competence and the necessary means to reach and use this site. He recognizes as well to have proceeded to the check of his IT configuration, which contains no virus and that it is in perfect operating condition.

10.2 The user recognizes to have acquainted with the present terms of use and makes a commitment to respect it.

10.3 The Word Travel Accommodation Ltd is brought to spread on the HomeStayHoliday website, certain information, photos, maps, software, or other services developed by thirds parties. HomeStayHoliday does not take any part on their development, and cannot thus guarantee the appropriate, reliable, exact, relevant, and exhaustive character of the information, data and services spread via the HomeStayHoliday website. Consequently, the internet user must use the information appearing on the HomeStayHoliday website with rigorous caution, and to proceed to any checks under its own responsibility.

11. Links towards other sites: warning

11.1 The Internet user is informed that during his visits to our website HomeStayHoliday may lead to and/or can provide links to other websites. These websites are independent from the website. HomeStayHoliday will not edit or control the sources and contents of these websites or links thereof to other websites. Links to such websites shall not be deemed, in any way whatsoever, to represent any approval or validation of or adherence from HomeStayHoliday to the contents of such websites. HomeStayHoliday will therefore not be held liable for the contents, products, services, advertising, cookies or other elements of these websites and any actual or alleged damages or losses consequential to or relating to the use of such information, services or data available over these websites. It will be up to the user to manage themselves acceptance or rejection of these hypertext links or cookies set up on third party sites.

11.2 The insertion of these links does not mean that HomeStayHoliday approves elements contained on these sites. We cannot thus be held as responsible for the contents of these sites, just because these sites appear on the HomeStayHoliday website. That does not engage in any manner, the responsibility of HomeStayHoliday.

11.3 HomeStayHoliday gives no guarantee concerning the veracity, the current event, the quality, the comprehensiveness and the exhaustiveness of the indexed web sites contents or on their relevance and exhaustiveness, neither than on their possible access’s difficulties and/or functioning.

11.4 HomeStayHoliday will not thus be held as responsible within the framework of a dispute occurring between a retail website indexed on its HomeStayHoliday website and an internet user. The operators of the retail websites who are referenced by HomeStayHoliday are thus considered as the only ones responsible for the respect or not, of all regulations which are applicable to products or to offered services to the internet users, in particular as regards with laws and regulations relative to the consumer protection, the remote sale, the misleading or misleading advertising, the prices, the conformity of products and services, or still with the specific regulations of products and considered services

12. Protection of persons and properties

12.1 The internet user recognizes that HomeStayHoliday wishes to promote a loyal internet practice of the network and in compliance with good moralities. Consequently, the internet user makes a commitment to not use the HomeStayHoliday website for illicit purposes. He thus avoids spreading messages or information in any form or nature whatsoever:

Which would incite to discrimination or to hatred?

Which would threaten a person or a group of persons?

Which would be in pornographic or paedophile character?

Which would be against to public order, to moralities, or to respect for private life?

Which would be, slanderous, in an offensive character, xenophobe, racist or striking the honour or the reputation of others

Which would incite to suicide?

Which would incite to commit crimes, offences or terrorism acts?

Which would make the apology of war crimes or crimes against humanity?

Which would violate the legislation on the correspondences secrecy, or, in a general way, which would be against a regulation or a current law?

The whole, whatever the country of use of the HomeStayHoliday web site.

12.2 The internet user commits himself to not use the services proposed by the HomeStayHoliday or to the personal data which he would have had access to on HomeStayHoliday website, for commercial purposes and in a general way, to not propose products and services which would pay him directly or indirectly. He commits himself to not making any restriction by any means it is to the use of the HomeStayHoliday website, and to not falsify in any case, the elements or mentions of the site. Finally, he commits himself to not getting into the computer system of HomeStayHoliday and to not proceed to any alteration of its contents, quite as not commit any infringements repressed by laws. Moreover, he prohibits himself to proceed to the sending in mass of none requested messages (spamming) in the mailboxes of HomeStayHoliday and/or to other internet users. On this subject, answering to legal obligations, HomeStayHoliday position is irrevocable

13. Intellectual property and other rights

13.1 The website is owned and operated by HomeStayHoliday. The website, including (but not limited to) text, content, software, video, music, sound, graphics, photographs, illustrations, artwork, photographs, names, logos, trademarks, service marks and other material (Content) is protected by copyrights, trademarks and/or other proprietary rights. The Content includes both content owned or controlled by HomeStayHoliday and content owned or controlled by third parties and licensed to HomeStayHoliday. All individual articles, reports, and other elements making up the website may be copyright works. The User may not use any of HomeStayHoliday’s trademarks or trade names without HomeStayHoliday’s prior express written consent and the User acknowledges that he/she has no ownership rights in and to any of those names and marks. Documents or information displayed on the website may only be copied for information purposes, for strictly personal and private use. The website or its Content may not be copied and/or displayed, whether in full or in part, in any medium whatsoever for any other purposes, including for commercial purposes. The reproduction or unauthorized use of any Content may constitute a criminal offence (except for royalty free stock photos).

13.2 Copyright and Trade Mark: the editorial contents (copyright), graphic (registration of drawings and models) and illustrative (logo, registration of significant sign), published by the Word Travel Accommodation Ltd (HomeStayHoliday.com) are protected by laws.

13.3 Any reproduction or total or partial representation of the HomeStayHoliday web site in any manner whatsoever it is, both in Ireland and abroad, without the express authorization of HomeStayHoliday is forbidden. In case of non compliance with this rule, it would constitute a forgery.

13.4 Database: databases appearing on the website are protected by the provisions of the law relative to authors' rights carrying transposition of the European directive from March 11th, 1996 relative to the legal protection of databases. Are in particular prohibited the extraction and the re-use, quantitatively or qualitatively substantial, of the contents of databases contained on this website.

13.5 Trademarks and Logos: the trademarks of HomeStayHoliday and of its partners, as well as logos appearing on the site, no matter are they semi figurative or not, are trademarks of the Word Travel Accommodation Ltd. Any total or partial reproduction of these trademarks and of these logos which would be made from the elements of the site without the authorization of HomeStayHoliday is forbidden.

14. Password and Identifier

Each internet user creating an account on his personal space is clearly defined by an identifier as well as a password. The password which allows the internet user to identify him and to connect to the HomeStayHoliday website services is strictly personal and confidential. The internet user is the only responsible for the use which he makes of his password. He makes moreover a commitment to keep it secret and to not reveal it under whatever form that it is, nor to anyone else.

15. Access restriction to the HomeStayHoliday website

15.1 HomeStayHoliday reserves the right to refuse to any internet user, the access to whole or part of its HomeStayHoliday website, in a unilateral way and without any prior notice being necessary, particularly in case of obvious violation of the present terms of use, by an internet user.

15.2 In the same way, HomeStayHoliday reserves the right to refuse any internet user, the access to whole or part of its HomeStayHoliday website, in a unilateral way and without any prior notice being necessary, if by any manner, an internet user was able to penetrate the HomeStayHoliday website without having settled beforehand his right of subscription.

16. Liability

HomeStayHoliday, its directors, managers or employees will not be held liable for any damages whatsoever as may arise from logging on to this website. HomeStayHoliday reserves the right to modify, suspend or even interrupt the display of all or any part of this website - particularly links to other websites. HomeStayHoliday cannot be held liable for any imprecision, inaccuracy or omission relative to the information provided on the website and/or for any damage resulting from fraudulent intrusion by a third party, more generally, any damage, direct or indirect, regardless of its cause, origin, nature or consequences, whether it be the result of access or inability to access the website, the use of the website, including any damage or virus which may infect your computer system, and/or credit given to any information provided directly or indirectly by the website. The content of the website is provided, as is, without any kind of warranty, whether express or implied. HomeStayHoliday does not provide any express or implied warranty relative, without limitation, to their merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Further, in no event whatsoever shall the on-line information on the website be used to give any medical opinion and replace any consultation with a health professional. Similarly, this information may not be construed as any recommendation to use products without a doctor's opinion.

17. Modification of these terms of use and privacy policy

17.1 HomeStayHoliday reserves the right to modify whole or part of the terms of use and mentions of warning of the present privacy policy subject to the right in force into the Republic of Ireland. Consequently, HomeStayHoliday recommends to its visitors, to regularly read the present clauses.

17.2 HomeStayHoliday will indicate in a clear way any change that it would be make, to inform at best its visitors, of possible modifications. The use of the website will be subjected to the terms of use and to its privacy policy into force at the time of the use.

17.3 Each subscriber who would break the rules of the present terms of use and legal notice, will see itself applied an observation to its profile after investigation carried out by HomeStayHoliday and would be even if neccessary, deleted from the HomeStayHoliday network.