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Privacy Policy
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Online Privacy Policy
Apartotels is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We have designed
our websites and booking engines in such a way that you may visit them without identifying
yourself or revealing any personal information, unless you opt to do so. Once you
opt to provide personally identifiable information (any information by which you
can be identified such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit
card number), it will only be used to support your customer relationship with us
and for our own internal purposes, including marketing and research, customization
of our websites and improving the content of our websites.
This Online Privacy Statement regarding the privacy of the information you provide
online covers the following main areas: Awareness, What we Collect, Information
Sharing, Choice, Access & Accuracy, Security, Oversight, and Right to Change.
Awareness
Apartotels provides this Online Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy
policy and the practices and choices you can make about the way your information
is collected and used. This notice may be accessed from any area of Apartotels’
websites and our online proprietary booking engines.
What we collect
When making a reservation:
You will be asked for your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and credit
card information when you make a reservation online or by phone through customer
support center. This information will be used to contact you for customer service,
to guarantee your reservation with our travel suppliers and/ or to bill you for
your travel purchase. You may also be asked for other personal information. During
the booking process you can choose not to receive our newsletter or travel reminders
by un-checking the appropriate boxes on the online form. Thereafter, if you do not
want to receive them, please click on the “unsubscribe” link or follow the instructions
in each e-mail message.
Third-party vendors:
Some of Apartotels’ online booking engines are powered by MaxRevPar. It should be
noted that vendor may have privacy policies and practices that differ from those
of Apartotels. Therefore, we strongly recommend you to read the privacy policies
of vendor carefully when using their websites.
About Cookies
Cookie technology is used by many websites, including those owned by Apartotels
to help users navigate efficiently. The cookie is a small text file that resides
on your hard drive. Our site(s) will request the cookie from your browser so that
we can retrieve the stored information from time to time. This will help you avoid
making the same selections over and over again. However, Apartotels does not use
cookies to store personal information, such as credit-card numbers.
Here is an example to show how cookies are used: When you conduct a search using
our booking engine for apartments in London a cookie will be set recording the city
of London as the parameter of your search. London will automatically be entered
into the city field in the search form when you return to the search form to narrow
or change your search.
It is to be noted that with most browsers, a user can set the preferences to show
a warning each time a cookie request is received. However, you can also usually
set the browser not to accept cookies at all. But we suggest that you allow your
browser to accept cookies to make your experience of using our booking engines more
convenient.
Information Sharing
Apartotels will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information
to third parties. However, we will share the personal data you provide with other
third-party vendors in order to complete your reservation, only if we have your
permission or are required by law. We do not knowingly permit the site to be used
by any person under the age of eighteen and we do not knowingly collect any personal
information from children (meaning those younger than thirteen years of age). We
will always cooperate with law enforcement authorities.
Choice
Apartotels will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided
to us online in ways unrelated to the purposes described above without letting you
know and offering you a choice. However, please be aware that our website and those
of our affiliates may contain links to other websites, and the privacy of these
other websites may differ from those of Apartotels. This Online Privacy Policy does
not apply to other websites. Therefore we strongly recommend and encourage you to
read the privacy policies of all other websites you visit.
Access & Accuracy
Apartotels strives to keep your personally identifiable information accurate. Every
effort is made to provide you with online access to your registration data so that
you may update or correct your information. We will also take reasonable steps to
verify your identity before giving you access or enabling you to make corrections
to your user account.
Security
Apartotels is committed towards protecting the security of your information. However,
we have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard
and secure the information we collect online, to prevent unauthorized access, data
accuracy and to ensure the appropriate use of information. When collecting or transferring
sensitive data such as credit card information we use encryption. You can click
here to link to see our encryption certificate.
Oversights
If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy,
Drop us an email admin@apartotels.com
Your use of our website is subject to our User Agreement.
Right to Change
We review our Privacy Policy from time to time, and may make changes to the policy
pursuant to such review. Please periodically review this page to make sure you have
the current version. Regardless of changes, we will abide by the privacy practices
described to you in this Privacy Policy at the time you provided us with your personal
information. The foregoing Privacy Policy was last updated on 01/Jan/2008
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