Privacy Policy

Distinctive Living Limited (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our website terms and conditions) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Personal Information
Visiting or using the Distinctive Living website does not require you to provide any personal information.

If however you wish us to contact you, you may decide to provide us with personal information by filling in the contact request form on our site distinctiveliving.co.uk (our site). If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

Any personal information/data that you provide will only be used for the purposes of contacting you or providing the services you have requested.

IP addresses and cookies
We may collect information about visits to our site and your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. The information is collected for the purpose of administration of our site and in the compilation of reports of aggregated statistics to measure the use of our site in terms of traffic date and which pages in our site are being visited.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. A cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server and which is then stored by the browser in a text file. Each time the browser requests a page from the server this message is sent back which enables the user to be identified. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.

We may use the information provided by cookies and IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, or for research and marketing purposes to help us better serve our clients. No information which personally identifies you will be collected through the cookies.

You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie so you have the chance to accept it and can set your browser to turn off cookies. No personally identifying information from you will be collected as part of these cookies.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is Google’s free web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how their visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics collects information anonymously, and it reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. In order to use Google Analytics on our site we are required to display the following notice from Google:-
“This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.”

Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.

Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@distinctiveliving.co.uk