Who we are
Best Diving Hawaiʻi (bestdivinghawaii.com) is a publication of Eye To Ad Media, based in Denver. In this policy, "we" and "us" mean the publisher of this website. Questions about privacy can be sent through our contact page.
Information you send us
Our contact form passes along whatever you choose to type into it, normally a name, an email address and a message. The form is delivered to our inbox by FormSubmit (formsubmit.co), a third-party form-handling service. We use what you send only to read and answer your message, and we keep it only as long as we need to for that purpose and our normal business records. We do not sell it or add you to a mailing list.
Some pages include an inquiry form for a featured dive shop. Those forms are labeled, and the information you enter in them is sent to that business so it can respond to you. Its own privacy practices then apply.
Information collected automatically
Like nearly every website, our hosting provider and the third-party services we use can receive technical data when your browser loads a page. That includes your IP address, browser and device type, the page requested, the referring page and the time of the request. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives this kind of request data.
Cookies and advertising
Ads on this site are delivered by Google AdSense. As a third-party vendor, Google places and reads cookies in your browser so it can show ads here that reflect your earlier visits to bestdivinghawaii.com and to other websites. Google's advertising cookies allow Google and the companies it works with to choose ads for you based on that browsing history.
- To turn off personalized ads from Google, go to Google Ads Settings.
- To stop many other ad companies from using cookies for personalized ads, visit www.aboutads.info.
- For Google's own explanation of how it uses data from partner sites like ours, see policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Opting out does not remove ads; it makes them less tailored. You can also clear or block cookies in your browser at any time without breaking the site.
Visitors in Europe and the UK
For readers in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK, data-protection law requires a clear choice before advertising cookies are used to personalize what you see. Where that applies, a consent banner from a Google-certified consent platform asks you first, and you can revisit your answer later. If you decline, Google can still show non-personalized ads, which use cookies only for limited tasks like capping how often an ad repeats, counting impressions and spotting fraud.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to ask us to delete it. Because we collect very little, this usually means messages you have sent us. Contact us and we will respond within a reasonable time. California residents may also ask that we not sell or share personal information; we do not sell personal information.
Children
This site is written for a general adult audience planning travel. It is not aimed at children under 13, and we would delete any information we learned had come from a child that young.
Links to other sites
Our guides link to government agencies, news outlets, dive businesses and other travel guides. Once you leave this site, the other site's privacy policy applies.
Changes
We may update this policy as our services change. Check the revision date shown above to see when it last changed.