Who we are

Welcome to Dream Homes Media, accessible at https://dreamhomes.media. Your privacy is critically important to us, and this policy is designed to inform you about how we collect, use, and protect your personal information. By using our website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection and Use

Comments: When you leave comments on Dream Homes Media, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to aid spam detection. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy can be found at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture becomes visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media: To protect your privacy, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.

Cookies

We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website:

• If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies, making future comments more convenient. These cookies last one year.
• A temporary cookie checks if your browser accepts cookies upon visiting our login page, containing no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
• When logging in, cookies save your login information and screen display choices, lasting two days to a year depending on your selections.
• Editing or publishing an article sets a cookie in your browser indicating the post ID, which expires after one day.

Embedded Content

Our articles may include embedded content from other websites. Such content behaves as if you visited the other website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.

Data Sharing

Your data is kept confidential except in cases like a password reset request, where your IP address is included in the reset email.

Data Retention

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. For registered users, we store the personal information provided in their profile. Users can manage their personal information at any time, but cannot change their username. Administrators can also see and edit this information.

Your Rights

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including data you’ve provided. You can also request the erasure of your personal data, which does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Data Processing

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

Updates to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your experience with Dream Homes Media is secure and enjoyable.