Last Updated on 2 June 2025
Effective Date 2 June 2025
Who We Are & How to Contact Us
Our website address is https://diycruiseports.com.
By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.
We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Policy will be effective 30 days from when the revised Policy is posted in the Service and your continued access or use of the Service after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend that you periodically review this page.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data processing practices, you can contact us using the Contact Form on our website.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (which may include your name and comment text), as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. We do this to:
- Enable commenting functionality and facilitate discussion on our website
- For spam detection and prevention
If you request to sign up to our newsletter, we will collect your name and email address in order to send you our newsletter and provide you with updates, marketing communications and promotional materials related to DIYCruisePorts.com.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to:
- Enhance your user experience, remember your preferences, and understand how you use our website (e.g., pages visited, time spent)
- For website analytics and to improve our website’s functionality and content
- For targeted advertising
We will obtain your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device. You can manage your cookie preferences via our cookie banner/settings.
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.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these external websites. We recommend you review their privacy policies directly.
How We Use Your Personal Data
We use the information that we collect about you for the purposes described above including:
- Marketing / Promotional Communications (with Consent): To send you newsletters and marketing communications if you have opted-in to receive them
- Targeted Advertising: To display personalised advertisements to you based on your interests and browsing behaviour (if you use advertising cookies and have consented)
- Website Operation and Improvement: To operate, maintain and improve our website, personalise your experience and analyse website usage
- Spam and Fraud Prevention:
How long we retain your data
We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy:
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is to enable us to recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically and to maintain a record of website discussions.
- Newsletter Subscribers: If you have opted-in to subscribe to our newsletter, we will retain your name and email address until you unsubscribe. Upon unsubscribing, your personal information will be deleted within 30 days.
- Cookies: Cookie retention periods vary. Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies have longer expiration dates. You can customise your cookie preferences using our cookie consent tool.
We may need to retain certain information for longer periods if required by applicable law (e.g., for tax or accounting purposes) or for other legitimate reasons, such as to resolve disputes, prevent fraud, or enforce our legal agreements. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, which does not identify you personally, may be stored indefinitely for statistical and analytical purposes.
Your Rights
Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to access and rectify or erase your personal data or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of your data, withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
Do note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.
Security
The security of your information is important to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.
Affiliate Programmes
DIYCruisePorts.com participates in affiliate marketing programmes. This means we may post customised links, provided by retailers, to track referrals to their websites and we may earn an advertising fee from any purchases made through these links. These affiliate marketing programmes uses cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Third Party Links
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Service. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
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.
