Privacy policy
Last updated on 26 September 2026.
This policy explains which personal data are processed when you use Kinkstay, for what purposes, for how long, and how you can exercise your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable data protection laws.
1. Data controller
The controller is Plaerus Studios, 191/93 m.1 Surasak, Sriracha, Chonburi 20110, Thailand. It can be reached through the contact form.
2. What we process, and why
| Situation | Data | Purpose and legal basis | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| You write to us through the contact form | Name, email address, message | Answering your request (legitimate interest) | Three years from the last exchange |
| You ask a host a question from a listing | First name, email address, dates, message | Forwarding your message to the host by email (performance of your request). The message is not stored in the website's database. | Mail server logs only, as below |
| You use "near me" or sort by distance | Your position, rounded to about 100 metres | Sorting the list by distance (your consent, requested by your browser) | Not stored: used for the request only |
| Any visit | IP address, browser type, pages requested, date and time | Security and proper operation of the website (legitimate interest) | Server logs kept by the host for twelve months at most |
Kinkstay does not sell personal data, does not build advertising profiles and does not use any audience measurement tool. Search performance is followed through Google Search Console, which only reports aggregated search data and places no cookie on your device.
3. Recipients
Your data are accessible only to the publisher and, within the limits of their tasks, to the following categories of recipients: the website's hosting provider; the email delivery service used to send messages; and, for questions sent from a listing, the host of that listing. The list of recipients by name is provided on request.
When you click a booking link, you leave Kinkstay: the host's website or the booking platform then processes your data under its own policy.
4. Third-party resources
To display the website, your browser loads some resources directly from third-party servers, which therefore receive your IP address: fonts from Google Fonts; and, only when you open a map, map tiles from OpenStreetMap and the Leaflet map library from the cdnjs network. None of these resources is used by the publisher to identify you.
5. Cookies
Kinkstay uses no advertising or audience measurement cookies, which is why no consent banner is displayed. The hosting provider may set a short-lived technical cookie to protect the website against automated traffic, and WordPress sets session cookies only for logged-in administrators. These cookies are strictly necessary and do not require consent.
6. Transfers outside the European Union
The website and its data are hosted in France. The publisher being established in Thailand, data may be accessed from there, solely to answer your requests and to administer the website, and access is restricted to what these tasks require.
7. Your rights
You have the right to access, rectify and erase your data, to restrict or object to their processing, and to data portability. You can exercise these rights through the contact form; an answer will be given within one month. You may also lodge a complaint with the data protection authority of your country of residence; in France, this is the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL).
8. Minors
The website is intended for adults only. No data concerning minors is knowingly collected; if such data were sent to us, they would be deleted.