Privacy PolicyAt WELCOME HOTELS we take the protection of your privacy and the safeguarding your personally identifiable information very seriously. The following explains how WELCOME HOTELS deals with such personal data.
Personal data
Any use of personal data is governed by the Data Protection Act. “Personal data” means data which relate to an individual who can be identified from these data and which provide information concerning the individual’s behaviour or attributes. This also includes your name, address, postal address and telephone number as well as details of your reservations and stays, particular wishes or interests and data concerning use of our online-product as long as these data can be directly or indirectly attributed to you.
Storing and processing of personal data
Any personal data you may give us is strictly for use of the hotel chain only. We need your name, address and correspondence data in order to be able to process your reservation. These data are stored by the hotel concerned as well as by WELCOME HOTELS GmbH and are used primarily for us to process your reservation. Within the framework of the regulations governing the use of data the individual hotels and WELCOME HOTELS GmbH may use these data to communicate further information concerning products offered by WELCOME HOTELS, their associated companies and partners. In so doing we strive to only communicate information we believe is of interest to you. Your personal information is not disclosed to a third party.
Online products
Data collected via the WELCOME HOTELS GmbH website will comprise only data freely and voluntarily provided by you or for which you have given your specific consent. These data will only be put to the declared use. When you visit our website our web server stores your Internet service providers’ IP-address, the pages you visited and the date and duration of your visit. These data are used solely for statistical purposes. These data, neither in full nor in part are not disclosed to a third party. The data are used to detect people’s preferences and to help us present the best possible website. A personalized evaluation can not be affected as the IP address does not provide access to any personal data.
Google Analytics
This Website uses google analytics, a web analysis service from google inc. ("google"). Google analytics utilizes so-called "cookies", small text files which are stored on your hard drive and allow an analysis of your use on the website. The information generated by the cookie (including you ip-address) will be transmitted to and stored by google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may avoid the installation of cookies by a corresponding adjustment in your browser software; we would like to inform you, though, that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in their full range. By using this website, you declare yourself to be in agreement with Google handling the data obtained about you by means of the methods described above.
facebook
Our website uses so called Social Plugins („Plugins) of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”).
The plugins are identifiable by one of the Facebook logos (white “f” on a blue background or a “thump-up” sign) or are identified by the phrase “Facebook Social Plugin”. The list and the look of Facebook Social Plugins can be found here: developers.facebook.com/plugins.
Purpose and detail of the data assessment and the further use and analysis of the Data through Facebook and your thus related personal rights and control functions to protect your private data can be found in the data disclaimer of Facebook: www.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you are a member of Facebook and do not want Facebook to collect your data via our website and stores it in relationship to your Facebook member account, you will need to log out of Facebook prior to the visit of our website and you may also have to delete any related cookies stored locally by Facebook.
Furthermore it is possible to block the data generation of Facebook Plug-ins by using browser add-ons such as „Facebook Blocker“
Your rights
The Data Protection Act gives you rights concerning information, amendments, deletion and the right of objection to your personal data being used for marketing purposes. Should you wish to make use of this right please contact us at: info@welcome-hotels.com. Please enter "Data protection – no advertising" in the subject box. Due to the Data Protection Act we are unable to discuss your personal data stored in our database over the phone.
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