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 you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.