Privacy Policy
Cheap Hotel London has provided this privacy policy because we value your right
to privacy. This policy is effective from 18th March 2008 and governs
the collection of personal information through this website on or after this date.
This policy describes the types of information Cheap Hotel London collects from its users and
how that information is used. Please read this policy carefully before providing
us with any personal information.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
The website and hotel booking engine is owned by Cheap Hotel London. All information
entered on the booking engine on the website is passed through to Cheap Hotel London
over a 128 secure socket layer (SSL), provided to Cheap Hotel London by Geo Trust. If
you wish to verify this cert when you are making a booking, please click on the
secure locket, either on the bottom right of your screen or to the right of the
address bar on Internet Explorer 7 and upwards.
If you choose to book with us, you will be contacted in relation to your booking
or if you have agreed to receive information about special offers from Cheap Hotel London. You
will also be able to add content to our site. You will be requested to submit for
posting a review of a hotel you stayed in which you have booked through Cheap Hotel London.
This communication will be conducted using an email address you have provided to
us.
We collect personal information which may include, your name, email address, mailing
address, telephone number and travel preferences. We only collect information that
you manually enter into our forms, such as the review hotel procedure or otherwise
information which is necessary to process your hotel booking through the booking
engine. You are under no obligation to respond to our requests to review or post
a review in any detail in respect of any hotel you have booked through the site
although this is useful to other users of the site and in circumstances where reviews
are shared with our partners or affiliates.
Cheap Hotel London personnel may update information to accurately reflect any new information
(such as change of your email address) in communications received from you.
If you click through from our site to another website, you should review the privacy
policies of that site to find out what information they collect from you and how
they use it.
If you visit our site by “clicking through” from a site operated by one of our partners,
and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that
you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the
privacy policy of the site from which you reached our site in order to determine
what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that
information. We may or may not retain that information, but if we do, we will only
use it in accordance with our privacy policy regardless of the privacy policy of
the partner site from which you came to us.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT WHEN YOU DO NOT BOOK WITH US
Unless you make a booking through our hotel booking engine, we don’t collect information
from you. Your IP address is logged in order to help diagnose problems with our
server, administer our website and track usage statistics. You IP address may vary
each time you visit, or it may be the same depending on whether you access our site
through an always-on connection or a dial up connection. Regardless, it would be
extremely difficult for us to identify you through your IP address and we make no
attempt to do so. If you reach our site by clicking on a link or advertisement on
another site, then we also log that information. This helps us to maximise our internet
exposure and to understand the interests of our users. All of this information is
collected and used in aggregate that is it is used to generate overall reports on
visitors, not on individuals.
We may use cookies to track your use of our site, however these cannot be used to
read data off your hard drive. You can configure your web browser to accept or reject
cookies, however you may not be able to use our website if you elect or configure
your browser to block them. As we can’t collect personally identifiable information
by using cookies, we suggest you allow us to place one on your computer. Of course
at all times, you should ensure that your hardware is protected whilst using the
internet using appropriate software virus and spyware detection products which are
industry recognised.
HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
As mentioned, when you provide us with your details it will be in respect of making
a booking through the hotel booking engine. We may email you only on opt-in Special
Offers on the Cheap Hotel London website or contact you on the email address provided to submit
a review of a hotel you have stayed in which was booked through us. You may opt-out
from such communications at anytime by contacting us.
In addition to these communications, we may send you notifications about special
offers or to tell you about opportunities available from our partners. You may opt
out of any or all marketing communications from Cheap Hotel London in any commercial email we
send or at any time.
We endeavour at all times to ensure that the information which we have in relation
to you is only used for the above purposes. We also endeavour to ensure that any
information we have about you is accurate.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Cheap Hotel London does not sell or rent any personal information to any third party.
In particular, when we publish and share reviews of hotels which you may have submitted,
with our partners and affiliates, no personally identifiable information will be
publicly available. This information will not be in a form that will allow any third
party to identify you personally.
We may be required to disclose personally identifiable information in response to
requests from law enforcement authorities and will do so only in accordance with
the Data Protection laws as applicable.
We will not display your email information or address publicly anywhere on our site.
You can at all times request that we erase and delete any information we currently
hold from our systems.
STEPS WE TAKE TO PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Cheap Hotel London has implemented security procedures to help protect the personal information
stored in our systems. We also provide a secure payment system to protect your details
through the booking process. We limit access to personal information about you to
employees who we believe reasonably need to come in contact with that information.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it adviseable to do so.
If we make material changes that will affect personal information we have already
collected from you we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes
and give you the opportunity to request us to erase and delete information which
we hold.