Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.smarthomepoint.com and you can read more about us (including our contact information) on our About Us page.

Smart Home Point is a property of Perry Media And Development Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 12856747.

Address: Unit A 82 James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England, IP28 7DE

Email: info@smarthomepoint.com

Advertising

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Affiliate Disclosure

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases: some of the links found on https://www.smarthomepoint.com/ are affiliate referral links. This means that if a reader clicks on text or an image, https://www.smarthomepoint.com/ may receive a commission from purchases. There is no additional cost to you — it helps pay for hosting and server costs. Thanks!

What Personal Data We Collect & Why We Collect It

Smart Home Point is committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use collected information lawfully, and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) EU regulations and the California 2020 legislation the CCPA.

European Economic Area Resident Information

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete any of your personal data (if any) maintained by us, you can contact us at:

tristan (at) smarthomepoint (dot) com

If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, you can click into the ad preferences section when the site first loads (for EU citizens) or alternatively please refer to the ‘AdThrive/CafeMedia’ section.

California Resident Information

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, click the opt out link provided in the footer of this page (for California residents) or alternatively please refer to the ‘AdThrive/CafeMedia’.

You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided.

To make such a request, please contact us at:

tristan (at) smarthomepoint (dot) com

To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

We use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you.

Finally, we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services. You can read more about this under the “Analytics” section.

Newsletter

If you sign up to the Smart Home Point newsletter, we will collect your email address (and optionally your name, if you choose to provide it). We will never resell your email address.

The newsletter is designed to keep our readers up to date on all the latest news from the smart home world, along with giving some tips and tricks from our latest articles and videos.

You can unsubscribe any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in the emails.

Controlling cookies within your browser

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

  1. Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en 
  2. Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
  3. Operahttp://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ 
  4. Internet Explorerhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies 
  5. Safarihttps://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
  6. Edgehttps://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Like many other Web sites, Smart Home Point makes use of analytics and log files.

Log Files

The information inside such analytics and log files may include internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information. These log files are all held securely on a server and are never shared with any third parties.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service called Akismet.

Contact

You can find our detailed contact information here, although the main email address for privacy concerns is:

tristan (at) smarthomepoint (dot) com