Cheap-Hotels.com Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Cheap Hotels and reviewing our Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us, and our policy is simple: we collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit the website unless you choose to provide that information.

Information we gather and how we use it

We offer a large number of services, some of which require and some of which do not require any of your personal information. The following type of information may be collected from the below mentioned sources to provide you with an enhanced customer experience and to provide you with a larger number of options while with the services.

Log information – At the time you access any of our services, our servers routinely record any sort of information available which is connected to the browser in any kind whenever you visit the website. These server logs may include data such as your web request, browser type, browser language, Internet Protocol address, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may distinctively recognize your browser.

Cookies – Our servers send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer device that exclusively recognizes your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of service we can provide to our clients, including storing user preferences. The browser of your machine uses cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads around the internet.

Gadgets – some of our site applications are third party applications which have only been incorporated in the site to give you a greater user experience. When you use any of these gadgets, certain information is again collected through this and it is pertinent to mention that such information is also under this specific privacy policy. Any other sort of data collected by that particular application or gadget is governed by their privacy policies.

User communications – We may retain all the communications weather through e mail or oral whenever you communicate with us in any form. The purpose of retaining those communications is to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve services from our end.

Information you provide – You are required to fill in some of your personal information when making a fresh registration on the website. We ask you for information such as your name, email address and a password. For several services, such as our services programs, we also request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. In order to provide you with an enhanced experience we may merge all the information made available to us in different sources. For a few services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.

Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to our services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results, sites that comprise products or services, or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or ask for private information from you.

We only process the personal information provided by you for the only purposes which have been described earlier or later in the privacy policy and supplementary privacy policies for specific servers. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

1. Providing our services, not limiting to displaying advertising and customized content; 2. Research and analysis in order to continue, guard and advance our services; 3. Ensuring the methodological execution of our network; 4. Defending the rights or property of our users; and 5. Developing new services.

If you are looking for some more information on how to process personal information, please feel free to refer to our supplementary privacy notices for particular services.

Choices for personal information

When you sign up for a meticulous service that requires registration, we ask you to provide private information. If we use this information in a manner dissimilar than the reason for which it was collected initially from your end, then we will request for your aforementioned approval to any such use.

If we offer to use private information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the explicit service privacy notices, we will offer you an efficient way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use any sort of susceptible information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary service privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent in written which determines us to go ahead in using the same.

Most browsers are initially set up to acknowledge cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to point out when a cookie is being sent. However, various features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. You are free to refuse any of our requirements for asking to present individual information to any of our services, in which case we may not be able to make available those services to you.

Information sharing

Only certain personal information will be shared with third parties or other companies under the below listed circumstances. In case we use any other sort of information, we will make sure to get your permission in written prior to it: We have your consent. We require opt-in approval for the allocation of any susceptible private information. We provide such information to our subsidiaries, allied companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our directions and in fulfillment with this Privacy Policy and any other suitable privacy and safety procedures. We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or revelation of such information is rationally essential to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental appeal, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including exploration of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address deception, security or technical issues, or (d) defend against damage to the rights, possessions or security of its users or the community as required or acceptable by law.

Information safety measures

We take suitable safety measures to defend against illicit access to or unauthorized modification, revelation or annihilation of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical safety measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We confine access to private information to our employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or perk up our services. These individuals are bound by discretion obligations and may be subject to regulation, including termination and prohibited trial, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Data integrity

We process personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any related service-specific privacy notice. We appraise our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services or as otherwise permitted under this Policy. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but our company depends on the users who are required to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use our services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We make sure to ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process any requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal information. We provide the details for these procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs for these services.

Enforcement

Our compliance with the particular privacy policy is regular reviewed on our end. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our treatment of personal information by contacting us through the contact mentioned on this web site.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. In no condition will we reduce your rights of any kind without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and all the prior versions of the privacy policy will also be kept safely in an archive for your reference. If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through the contact mentioned through this web site.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Web Site and its members, managers, officers, employees, agents and the assigns of same, from and against any and all loss, costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses), claims, damages and liabilities related to or associated with your use of the Web Site and any violation of this Privacy Policy by you.

Last Update

This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 16, 2010.