Privacy Statement
Holiday Inn Express Paris is committed to protecting your privacy and developing
technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement
of Privacy applies to the Holiday Inn Express Paris Web site and governs data collection
and usage. By using the Holiday Inn Express Paris website, you consent to the data
practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Holiday Inn Express Paris collects personally identifiable information, such as
your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Holiday Inn
Express Paris also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique
to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically
collected by Holiday Inn Express Paris. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This
information is used by Holiday Inn Express Paris for the operation of the service,
to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding
use of the Holiday Inn Express Paris Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through Holiday Inn Express Paris public message boards,
this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Holiday Inn Express
Paris does not read any of your private online communications.
Holiday Inn Express Paris encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web
sites you choose to link to from Holiday Inn Express Paris so that you can understand
how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Holiday Inn Express
Paris is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites
outside of the Holiday Inn Express Paris and Holiday Inn Express Paris family of
Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Holiday Inn Express Paris collects and uses your personal information to operate
the Holiday Inn Express Paris Web site and deliver the services you have requested.
Holiday Inn Express Paris also uses your personally identifiable information to
inform you of other products or services available from Holiday Inn Express Paris
and its affiliates. Holiday Inn Express Paris may also contact you via surveys to
conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services
that may be offered.
Holiday Inn Express Paris does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third
parties. Holiday Inn Express Paris may, from time to time, contact you on behalf
of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest
to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail,
name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition,
Holiday Inn Express Paris may share data with trusted partners to help us perform
statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or
arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal
information except to provide these services to Holiday Inn Express Paris, and they
are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Holiday Inn Express Paris does not use or disclose sensitive personal information,
such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Holiday Inn Express Paris keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit
within Holiday Inn Express Paris, in order to determine what Holiday Inn Express
Paris services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content
and advertising within Holiday Inn Express Paris to customers whose behavior indicates
that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Holiday Inn Express Paris Web sites will disclose your personal information, without
notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action
is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on Holiday Inn Express Paris or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights
or property of Holiday Inn Express Paris; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances
to protect the personal safety of users of Holiday Inn Express Paris, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Holiday Inn Express Paris Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your
online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a
Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your
computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server
in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save
you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Holiday Inn Express Paris pages,
or register with Holiday Inn Express Paris site or services, a cookie helps Holiday
Inn Express Paris to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This
simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses,
shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Holiday Inn Express Paris
Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily
use the Holiday Inn Express Paris features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of the Holiday Inn Express Paris services or Web sites
you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Holiday Inn Express Paris secures your personal information from unauthorized access,
use or disclosure. Holiday Inn Express Paris secures the personally identifiable
information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment,
protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information
(such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected
through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Holiday Inn Express Paris will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to
reflect company and customer feedback. Holiday Inn Express Paris encourages you
to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Holiday Inn Express
Paris is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Holiday Inn Express Paris welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Holiday Inn Express Paris has not adhered to this Statement,
please contact Holiday Inn Express Paris. We will use commercially reasonable efforts
to promptly determine and remedy the problem.