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Terms and
Conditions of Use
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Your
privacy is very important to us at Global Hotelindex Ltd. With that in
mind, we have established and implemented information handling practices
for Global Hotelindex Ltd that we believe are consistent with the highest
standards and best practices of organizations doing business on the
Internet. This privacy policy ("Policy") describes the practices that
apply to our site, including, specifically, the information we collect
about you, when and how we collect that information and what may happen to
that information. We have prepared a detailed privacy policy because we
believe you should know as much as possible about our practices so that
you can make an informed decision about the extent of your use of our
site.
we will not collect personally identifiable information like
your name, e-mail and mailing address and telephone number ("Personal
Information") without your knowledge or permission;
we will not
disclose your Personal Information to third parties unless you have
authorized us to do so;
we will allow you to view, correct or
remove your Personal Information and other information associated with
your registration as a user of our site;
we will take reasonable
steps to protect the security of the Personal Information we collect from
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WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT
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You
can always visit our site without revealing who you are or providing any
Personal Information. When you visit our site we do collect usage
information, but it is anonymous and is not linked to you as an
individual. We use this data to better understand things like how our site
is navigated, how many visitors arrive at specific pages, the length and
frequency of stays at our site, the variety of searches of our site's
database, the types of browsers and its language and computer operating
systems used by our visitors and the Internet Protocol addresses from
which our visitors connect to our site. We use this information to improve
our site content and ease of use.
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COOKIES
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Upon
your first visit to www.globalhotelindex.com, Global Hotelindex Ltd sends
a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a piece of data that identifies
you as a unique user. Global Hotelindex Ltd uses cookies to improve the
quality of our service and to understand our user base more. Global
Hotelindex Ltd does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by
tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Global Hotelindex
Ltd will not disclose its cookies to third parties except as required by a
valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court
order.Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset
your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being
sent. Be aware, however, that some parts of the Hotel Search Service may
not function properly if you refuse cookies.
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THIRD-PARTY
ADVERTISERS
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We
work with Internet marketing companies to advertise Global Hotelindex Ltd
on the Internet, and we have third-party advertisers on our site.
Third-party advertisers may use cookies and pixel tags to gather
information about the ads you have seen and the types of things that you
appear interested in. We do not share any Personal Information about you
with these advertisers unless you give us specific permission to do so,
separate from any permission you provide during the registration process.
These advertisers may use combined information about your visits to our
site and other sites in order to provide advertisements about related
goods and services that you may be interested in. This privacy policy does
not cover the policies or practices of these third-party advertisers. In
addition, we use the services of a marketing company to help us measure
the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our site. To do
this, we use pixel tags and cookies provided by the marketing company on
this site. The information we collect helps us learn things like what
kinds of customers our site attracts, which of our products most interest
our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see.
Although the marketing company logs the information coming from our site
on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be
used.
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WHEN
YOU DECIDE TO REGISTER OR ADD YOUR HOTEL PERSONAL INFORMATION
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If
you decide to register with us or add your Hotel, we will collect Personal
Information about you that you voluntarily share with us. We collect
Personal Information that is necessary for us to provide you with the
services offered on our site. As mentioned, this Personal Information
includes things like your name, e-mail and mailing address and telephone
number. You will provide an e-mail address and select a password that will
be required to gain access to portions of our site.
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YOUR
HOTEL INFORMATION
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We
will combine your hotel information and other information you voluntarily
share with us in what we call your "Profile". We also add the data about
how you use our site to your Profile. We collect and use all of the
information in your Profile to improve the quality of our service to you
and your experience with us.
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HARING
OF HOTEL AND PERSONAL INFORMATION
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We
will disclose your entered hotel information on our site. Global
Hotelindex Ltd may share information about you with advertisers, business
partners, sponsors, and other third parties. However, we only divulge
aggregate information about our users and will not share personally
identifiable information with any third party without your express
consent, except in certain limited circumstances: (a) to protect the
security of our site and our rights under our Disclaimer & Legal;
(b) to protect ourselves against liability; (c) in response to
legal process, (d) if we believe in good faith that the law requires
it; or (e) in connection with a sale of our business or
company.
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ADDITIONAL
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
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We
may partner with other companies to offer you additional products or
services. If you sign up for any of these additional products or services,
we will share your name and any other Personal Information that is
necessary for these other companies to provide the products or services
you have signed up for.
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LINKS
TO OTHER SITES.
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Our
site provides links to other sites. When you click on one of these links,
you are leaving our site and entering another site that we do not control
and for which we cannot be responsible. You should carefully review the
privacy statements or policies on any other site that you visit because
those privacy statements or policies will apply to your visit to that site
and may be very different from our policy. In some cases, for example the
booking of a hotel room, our site will link you directly to the chosen
hotel site where you may be asked to provide Personal Information. This
privacy policy will not cover the use of your Personal Information by
these other companies. We encourage you to read each other company's
privacy policy before signing up for any of its products or
services.
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OTHER
INFORMATION.
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RECOMMEND
TO A FRIEND Global Hotelindex offers services to allow our users to
send information about our site to their friends. If a user elects to use
our "Recommend to a Friend" referral service for informing a friend about
our site, or elects to use our E-mail to inform a friend about deals on
our site, we ask them for the friend's e-mail address. We will
automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit our
site. We store this information for the purpose of sending this one-time
e-mail and investigating suspected frauds.
COMBINED NON-PERSONAL
INFORMATION We may also combine anonymous information supplied by you
and other users during registration on our site with information about
your use and others' use of our site. We will use this combined
information to describe our user base, without reference to any specific
individual, to potential partners, investors and advertisers. We will not
share your Personal Information with any other users of our site.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES We may change this policy from time to
time. If we decide to change our policy, Global Hotelindex Ltd reserves
the right to change or modify our Privacy Policy at any time with or
without notice. If any change is unacceptable to you, you may request that
we remove your Personal Information from our
records.
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A
SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT CHILDREN.
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CHILDREN Children
- (individuals under 16 years of age) - are not eligible to register for
or use the services available on our site. We believe that parents should
play a central role in their child's online activities and should monitor
those activities to ensure that sites visited by their child are
respecting their child's privacy.
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