Privacy Policy
At HOTELS, LLC (“HOTELS Magazine,” “We” and “Us”), your privacy is a primary concern. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how the information you provide to HOTELS Magazine during your use of all websites currently owned or operated by HOTELS Magazine, including www.hotelsmag.com, and any other website that We may own or operate in the future (the “Website”), handled by Us.
Information Collected About You
If you have given consent, HOTELS Magazine collects information such as your name, job title, phone number, mailing address, email address, fax number, and company classification that you provide via submission of forms, email correspondence, social media, subscription requests on the Website, survey, promotion and other verbal and written communications.
We occasionally collect credit card information for e-commerce purposes, including paid subscriptions, event and webinar registrations, and other products. HOTELS Magazine does not keep such information on file after processing, although some of our vendors, such as Eventbrite, Paypal and others, may do so.
How Your Information Is Used
We ask for this information so that We can provide services through the Website—including fulfilling your requests, for internal business purposes, and to follow up with you after your visit.
We might use the information to learn about users and to analyze how you and others interact with and respond to HOTELS Magazine.
Furthermore, we use the information for marketing or promotional communications, including offers or promotions about our or third parties’ products, services or other initiatives.
We sometimes share contact information, including email addresses, of those who register on our website, enewsletters, eblasts, etc. with third parties whose products and services we think you might find relevant or useful. HOTELS Magazine also offers certain subscription-based content. Along these lines, We also use your information to determine your eligibility for content subscriptions and the prices for such subscriptions, should fees apply.
In addition, we may share either individual or anonymized aggregated usage or traffic information to legitimate third parties, such as advertisers, event sponsors and others, regarding your visits to and activity on this website, including the number of times you viewed or clicked on an advertisement. All data collected during the registration process may be shared with sponsors in order to contact you regarding their products or services in their normal course of business.
HOTELS Magazine relies on third parties to collect and process your data. Along these lines, HOTELS Magazine may disclose or transfer information you have shared:
- With contractors acting on behalf of HOTELS Magazine who are engaged in professional services agreements and are therefore bound by privacy and confidentiality terms identical to those enacted by HOTELS Magazine;
- In response to a subpoena, search warrant, court order, official government or regulatory investigation, or other legal processes where required by law;
- If required to do so in response to a perceived threat to a person’s health or property.
You may request to know whether your information has been disclosed or transferred by HOTELS Magazine to any third party at any time.
Cookies
You may have access to restricted or password-protected areas of the Website. If you do, we may use cookies. “Cookies” are small text files that are either used for the duration of a session (‘session cookies’), or saved on a user’s hard drive in order to identify that user the next time he/she logs on to the Website (‘persistent cookies’). We may use ‘session cookies’ to identify registered users logging in to the restricted areas of the Website. These cookies are deleted from the component’s server soon after the session ends and are not collected or saved. We may also use ‘persistent cookies’ when a registered user clicks on the “save password” check box on login. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that, although if you do disable cookies from your browser you may not be able to access certain sections of the Website.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
This Website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website data traffic to Google servers. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage.
You may opt out of Google Analytics cookies altogether. Please see here Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-on.
We, along with third party vendors such as Google, use first party cookies (Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies to optimize and serve ads based on past visits to the Website.
Your Right to Choose
Any information that We collect from you on the Website is information that you specifically and voluntarily provide. You may choose not to provide any or all of the information that is requested on the Website. By so choosing, however, you may limit your ability to receive some or all of the services generally offered to users of the Website. In the event that you no longer want us to process or utilize your information, please contact us at info@hotelsmag.com to inform us of this choice.
Sharing Your Information
Except as explained herein, the information that you provide to Us through the Website will not be sold, shared, or rented to any outside organization for its use in marketing or solicitation. We may share your information with a third party acting as our agent to provide and process the services that you request. We may also share aggregated customer information such as statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related Website information, with our business partners and other vendors, but such aggregated information will not contain any personally identifying information of any users of the Website.
We may disclose or access your account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or as needed to enforce the terms of the Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy.
The Security of Your Information
We strive to protect the privacy of the information that you share with Us. We have undertaken reasonable efforts to implement security measures designed to protect all data we collect against unauthorized access. We utilize the industry standard security measures available through your browser, so that it is unlikely that your information can be read as it travels over the Internet. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, although we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of the information that you submit to Us via the Website and you do so at your own risk.
The Integrity of Your Information
HOTELS Magazine uses the information that you provide to Us only for the purposes for which you submit such information and not in any way that is incompatible with the purposes for which it was collected. We take reasonable steps to ensure that information that we receive from you is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current, including providing mechanisms by which you can amend or update your information.
Any information we obtain about you in connection with Us may be processed and stored in the United States or other countries.
If you wish to view, erase, or rectify information collected about you, you may make such a request to HOTELS Magazine by emailing info@hotelsmag.com. If you seek to restrict or suspend processing of information about you, you may use the same email address and/or telephone number.
Third-Party Links
In the interest of providing you with the highest level of customer service, HOTELS Magazine may provide links to third party websites. The provision of such links shall not be construed as an endorsement of the content or security associated with such third-party websites. HOTELS Magazine recommends that you carefully review the privacy policies of third-party websites before interacting or using such websites.
Transfer of Business Assets
As part of our business strategy, we might acquire, buy or merge with other businesses or assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that HOTELS Magazine or substantially all of its assets are acquired, both personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information will be one of the transferred assets.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
If HOTELS Magazine updates or modifies this Privacy Policy, We will post the changes on this page so that you will always have the ability to know what information We collect, how We use the information, and under what circumstances We deliver the information.
Children’s Privacy
HOTELS Magazine does not target the Website to children under the age of thirteen (13) nor does it knowingly collect information from children under the age of thirteen (13). Thus, HOTELS Magazine requests that individuals under the age of thirteen (13) do not provide HOTELS Magazine with any information via the Website or any other form of communication. HOTELS Magazine remains committed to protecting the privacy of children and therefore encourages parents and guardians to utilize any and all parental tools available to monitor children’s online activities.
California Residents
California residents who provide personal information to HOTELS Magazine have a right to request, once per calendar year, information about HOTELS Magazine’s disclosure of personal information to third parties pursuant to California law. If requested, HOTELS Magazine will provide a list of the personal information disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of the third parties. All such requests must be submitted to HOTELS Magazine via email at info@hotelsmag.com. HOTELS Magazine reserves the right not to respond to requests submitted to addresses and phone numbers other than those specified in this paragraph.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, without notice. Please refer to the date at the top of this page to see when this Policy was last revised.
*Last updated, July 7, 2023