Your privacy is important to us. It is Hostfive's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect on the Hostfive website, and other sites we own and operate.
We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide you with a service. We do so by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also tell you why we are collecting it and how it will be used.
We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide the requested service. When we store data, we protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
We do not share personally identifying information publicly or with third parties, except when required by law.
Our site may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites and cannot accept responsibility for their respective privacy policies.
You are free to refuse our request for personal information, understanding that we may not be able to provide some of the services you want.
Your continued use of our site will be considered acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, please contact us.
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are small files downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they collect, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however, this may downgrade or break certain elements of the site's functionality.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies enabled if you are not sure whether you need them, in case they are used to provide a service you use.
You can prevent cookies from being set by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser's Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
If you create an account with us, we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
We use cookies when you are logged in, so that we can remember that action. This prevents you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are normally removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications valid only to subscribed / unsubscribed users.
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be recalled whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you may encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit, so we can continue producing engaging content.
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you may encounter through this site.
The user undertakes to make appropriate use of the content and information that Hostfive offers on the site, by way of example but not limited to:
We hope this has clarified things for you and, as mentioned before, if there is something you are not sure whether you need or not, it is usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it interacts with one of the features you use on our site.
This policy is effective as of May 2023.