HOTEL INTER CONNECT - PRIVACY POLICY

Hotel Inter Connect has created this privacy statement to demonstrate commitment to our users in helping them better understand what information we collect and what may happen to that information

OVERVIEW

As part of the normal operation of our services we collect and, in some cases, may divulge information about you. By accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions, you agree to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy.

1. A Special Note About Children.

Children are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that minors ( under the age of 18 ) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor you may only use this service with the permission and guidance of your parents or guardians.

2. Information We Collect.

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a smooth, efficient and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs and make your experience easier. You agree that in order for our members to meet each other we may feature members' profiles in our advertising. Your name, address, telephone number and email address are confidential and will not be posted in your profile. Your profile is available for other members to view and does not include any other information except the username you chose upon registering.

Please note that your personally identifiable information will be stored and processed in the UK . The laws on holding personal data in the UK may differ from the United States and other areas of Europe but as we shall explain, Hotel Inter Connect will hold and transmit your information in a safe, confidential and secure environment.

We use data collection devices such as “cookies” . Most “cookies” are session cookies meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits.

3. Our Use Of Your Information.

We use information in the files we maintain about you, and the other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Web site to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms and Conditions. At times we may look across multiple members to identify problems and resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information to identify members multiple Member ID number or aliases.

You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyse site usage, improve our content and product offerings and customize our sites content, layout and services. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.

You agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that in some cases are targeted to your interests, such as advertisements, product offerings, administrative notices and communications relevant to your use of the site. By accepting the Privacy Policy you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications we encourage you to opt out by sending us an email at Contact Us.

4. Our Disclosure Of Your Information.

Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting or foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government, law enforcement agencies or third parties. Under certain circumstances, certain third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or members may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our Web site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that this information may be disclosed.

Financial Information.

Under some circumstances, we may require some additional information, but not limited to credit card details. We use this financial information, including your name, address and other information, as well as to bill you for use of our services. We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for services and/or products, to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase or engaging in any other transaction that uses financial information on the Web site, you consent to our providing of your financial information to our service providers or such other third parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering, or making reservations for products or services of third parties offered on the Web site, or by participating in programs offered on the Web site that are administered by third parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangement with these third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their omissions or actions.

Advertisers.

We gather up data across all our members' accounts and may use this data in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these transactions, we do not disclose any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password, credit account number or bank account number, is never disclosed to marketing advertisers. We may use third party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that is collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.

External Service Providers.

There may be a number of services offered by external service providers that help you use our Web site. If you choose to use these optional services, and in the course of doing so, disclose information and /or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy.

Legal Requests.

Hotel Inter Connect cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, deem necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.

Your Use of Other Members Information

Our service includes a message sending service. As a member you might gain access to other members contact information. By accepting this Privacy Policy you may only use such information for a) Hotel Inter Connect related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, and b) any other purpose that such member expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure of the purposes. In all cases you must give Members an opportunity to remove themselves from your data base and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another member to any third party without our consent or that of the other member after adequate disclosure. Hotel Inter Connect and our members do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add Hotel Inter Connect to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report spam from other Hotel Inter Connect members, please Contact Us.

Accessing, Reviewing and Changing your Profile.

Following registration, you can review and change the information you submitted during registration through our Members Service menu, including your password and email address. If you change your password and email we will keep track of your old password and email. You can also change name, address and phone number.

Upon your written request, we will suspend your membership, contact information and financial information from our databases. Such information will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible and in accordance with the law.

We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove for certain circumstances such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our terms and conditions. Such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored back up systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.

Control of your Password.

You are responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your Hotel Inter Connect password or login information to any third parties. If you choose to share this information with any third parties, you are responsible for all actions taken with your information and should review each third parties privacy policy. If you loose control of your password you may loose control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password is compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect about you. Hotel Inter Connect does not control the privacy policies of third parties so you are subject to ask questions before you disclose your information to others and accept full responsibility of such.

Security.

Hotel Inter Connect uses standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information such as “firewalls”. Hotel Inter Connect treats data as an asset that must be protected against loss or unauthorized access however, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet.

Notice.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on your comments and our need to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. You will be advised of any such changes and given the opportunity to notify Hotel Inter Connect of any agreement/disagreement to such changes.