Terms and conditions

From here you can find out what will happen to your details, and the responsibilities of The Treehouse Guide and yourself. The Treehouse Guide website is run by Patrick Fulton, who may be reached via the contact page.

Copyright

'The Treehouse Guide' is a trademark of The Treehouse Guide 2003-2024. The content and design of this website are © Patrick Fulton 1997-2024. Various scripts used on the site are copyright of their respective owners as indicated within the script source code.

As protected by international law, no part of this website (text, images or other media) may be used on another website, printed publication or other media without written permission. You will also be in breach of copyright law if you plagiarise or adapt any text or image from this site. Attributing the work does not exempt you from copyright. If you copy text or images to your own website, printed publication or other media without permission, even with an attribution, you are in breach of copyright laws. Any copyright issues will be pursued.

Use of this website

You use this website at your own risk. The Treehouse Guide accepts no responsibility for any damage to your computer as a result of any content of the site, including scripts. While The Treehouse Guide asserts that the website is virus free and contains no spyware or other malicious software, you should always use up to date firewall and antivirus software. The Treehouse Guide has no control over the content of third party sites which may be linked from The Treehouse Guide.

Use of information on this website

The information on this website is for informational purposes only. Those seeking to use it in real life situations are advised to seek professional assistance before embarking on any project. Use of any information on this site is at your own risk. The Treehouse Guide accepts no responsibility for any damages, of any magnitude, caused as a result of the use of information on this website.

Privacy statement

Website usage data and cookies

Usage data is collected when you visit The Treehouse Guide's website. This is used to track the referring page, search keywords used and page visit lengths using your IP address and a cookie on your computer. The IP address is recorded to separate each visitor record. The cookie allows web analytics software to determine if you have previously visited the site before. Tracking data is never shared with other parties or used to contact users. All usage data is aggregated to identify general trends and improve The Treehouse Guide's website. To prevent any tracking of your visit, you can disable Javascript and cookies in your browser.

Advertising

The Treehouse Guide does not accept advertising or distribute any user information with advertisers.

Email

Communications sent by email will be recorded. You will not be added to any mailing list or database unless you have specifically agreed to as part of a registration process. If you then decide you would prefer not to receive any further communication from The Treehouse Guide, please contact us. Your email address will never be distributed or sold by The Treehouse Guide. The Treehouse Guide does not support spam email.

Contact page form

Information submitted through the form on the contact page will be treated in the same way as email (see above). You may specify in your message that you would prefer not to contacted again in the future. This applies to any other forms not mentioned in this document.

World treehouse list

Information submitted to the world treehouse list may be published. You can choose to show your email address with your listing, but bear in mind that this increases the chance of your address being harvested automatically by third party spam software. The Treehouse Guide encodes email addresses on this website to reduce this risk, but cannot guarantee that your email address will be safe. If you need to make changes to an old listing, please contact us. Do not include location information that will allow others to find your treehouse. Entries may be edited before publication.

Alterations to details stored about you

If you wish to change any information The Treehouse Guide has stored about you, or published on the website, please contact us.

Term of data storage

Any communication between you and The Treehouse Guide will be recorded by The Treehouse Guide, but will not be distributed to third parties, unless it is obliged to do so by law. Data will be stored on servers in the USA and the UK.