What information are you collecting and how are you collecting it?

Every computer connected to the Internet is given a domain name and a set of numbers, that serve as that computer's "Internet Protocol" IP address. When a visitor requests a page from any Web Site within the Scotland's Personal Hotels Network, our Web servers automatically recognize that visitor's domain name and IP address. The domain name and IP address reveal nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed our Site. We use this information to examine our traffic in aggregate, and to investigate misuse of the Scotland's Personal Hotels Network, its users, or to cooperate with law enforcement. See also Will you disclose the information you collect to outside third parties? We do not collect and evaluate this information for specific individuals. Our Web servers do not record e-mail addresses of the visitors.

What are cookies?

From time to time, Scotland's Personal Hotels or its advertisers may send a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and is stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other Web sites. Cookies cannot damage your system. We use cookies to identify which areas of Scotland's Personal Hotels 's Network of Web Sites you have visited or customized, so the next time you visit, those pages may be readily accessible. Our advertisers may also use cookies to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. Our advertisers and we may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you see on our Site. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our Site and other Web sites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

How do you use single-pixel gifs?

Scotland's Personal Hotels and its advertisers do not use single-pixel gif images, sometimes referred to as web bugs or web beacons.

What information do you collect when I register for something?

Scotland's Personal Hotels offers access to some services that are free but that require registration. We may use your registration contact information to send notification of Scotland's Personal Hotels products and services by e-mail and/or postal mail. We will never share that information with any third party, except when legally required to do so - see below.

What other information do you request?

We may also request your e-mail address or mailing address for the purposes of conducting a survey or to provide additional services (for example, subscriptions to e-mail newsletters, announcement lists or information about offers). Whenever we request the identity of a visitor, we will clearly indicate the purpose of the inquiry before the information is requested. We maintain a strict "No-Spam" policy that means that we do not intend to sell, rent, or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third-party.

We may from time to time send e-mail announcing new Scotland's Personal Hotels products and services. Except as stated above, Scotland's Personal Hotels will not send you email that you have not agreed to receive.

When you sign up for any Scotland's Personal Hotels service, your name or alias is recorded solely for purposes of maintaining your own account within our site. This information is not used to monitor your activity, nor is it used to identify you outside the Scotland's Personal Hotels Network in any way.

When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask for your name, address, and e-mail address so we can administer the contest and notify winners.

What information do you collect when I purchase something?

If you are purchasing something from Scotland's Personal Hotels, we need to know your name, e-mail address, mailing address. This allows us to process and fulfil your order and to notify you of your order status. This information may also be used by us to notify you of related products and services. E-mail information will not be shared or sold to third parties for any purpose. Credit card indormation is not given to ViaaLynx.com, but only to our payment partners, and as such Scotland's Personal Hotels has no access to those details.

Wherever Scotland's Personal Hotels collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.

Will you disclose the information you collect to outside third parties?

Scotland's Personal Hotels will disclose personal information and/or an IP address, when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:

1) Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Scotland's Personal Hotels ,

2) Protect and defend the rights or property of the Scotland's Personal Hotels Network of Sites and related properties, or visitors to the Scotland's Personal Hotels Network of Sites and related properties,

3) Identify persons who may be violating the law, the Scotland's Personal Hotels legal notice and Web site User Agreement, the rights of third parties, or otherwise misusing the Scotland's Personal Hotels Network or its related properties,

4) Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities.

Scotland's Personal Hotels uses reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed to us secure. Scotland's Personal Hotels reserves the right to transfer all such information in connection with the sale of all or part of Scotland's Personal Hotels 's capital stock or assets. Furthermore, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive the information. We are not responsible for such third party privacy policies or how they treat information about their users. See below, What else should I know about my privacy when online?

Opt-in announcement List Privacy Policy

As an added benefit to the visitors of the Scotland's Personal Hotels Network of sites, we have a an accoasional newsletter which users can choose to subscribe to. Details of such subscriptions are not divulged to any third party at any stage.

What else should I know about my privacy when online?

The Scotland's Personal Hotels Network of Web sites contains many hyperlinks to other Web sites. The Scotland's Personal Hotels Web Sites also contain advertisements of third parties. Scotland's Personal Hotels is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites or advertisers. Scotland's Personal Hotels does not share any of the individual personal information you provide Scotland's Personal Hotels with the Web sites to which Scotland's Personal Hotels links, except as stated elsewhere within this Privacy Policy, although Scotland's Personal Hotels may share aggregate data with such Web sites (such as how many people use our Site).

Please check with those Web sites to determine their privacy policy.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example through e-mail, discussion lists, or elsewhere - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.

Your Consent To This Agreement

By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of information by Scotland's Personal Hotels as specified above. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.