Privacy policy

Effective November 8, 2026

This policy covers the diablovalleyit.com website and DVIT Home, a private home-monitoring dashboard operated by Diablo Valley IT for its owner's own home.

This website

The website does not use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers, and it does not ask you for personal information. The site is served through Cloudflare, which processes standard technical data such as IP addresses to deliver and protect it. If you email us, we use your message only to reply.

DVIT Home

DVIT Home is a self-hosted dashboard used by a single account owner to view the status of devices in their own home. It is not offered to the public and does not accept sign-ups.

With the owner's permission, DVIT Home connects to Google's Smart Device Management API to read data from the owner's Google Nest thermostats: the thermostat names, indoor temperature and humidity, heating and cooling mode, temperature set points, eco mode, connection status and whether heating or cooling is running.

• How it's used: only to show the owner their own thermostats and to calculate how long, and at what estimated cost, their heating and cooling ran.
• Where it's stored: on the owner's own computer, not on third-party servers. The Google sign-in token is stored there too, readable only by the owner's account.
• Sharing: the data is not sold, shared, or transferred to anyone, is not used for advertising, and is not used to train AI models.
• Read-only: DVIT Home does not change thermostat settings.
• Retention and removal: data is kept only as long as the owner keeps the dashboard. Access can be revoked at any time in the Google account's security settings (Third-party apps with account access) or in the Google Home app, after which DVIT Home can no longer read any thermostat data.

DVIT Home's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected]