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Privacy
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1.
Privacy Policy
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We highly value your trust in choosing
Star-Holidays.net for your online hotel
reservation. Therefore, we will duly and
diligently safeguard and protect the
privacy and confidentiality of your
personal details (including your credit
card details). |
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2.
Information collection |
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When you make a reservation for a hotel
(or any other type of accommodation),
you will be asked to complete online
forms providing for: your name, (home or
office) address, (business or private)
email address, (mobile, home or office)
telephone number, credit card details
(i.e. credit card type and number, CVC
code, expiration date, credit card
holder name) and to the extent
available, reservation preferences and
smoking preference. This information is
required to process, book and complete
your reservation (including the sending
of a confirmation email of the booking
to you). |
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3.
Disclosure of personal details |
For our services, we shall collect for
the following purposes the following
information:
Reservation orders: For the purposes of
completing your booking and save for
disclosures required by law, criminal
investigations, subpoenas or court
orders, we will only disclose your name
and the credit card details to the
relevant hotel with which a booking is
made. However, please note that from
time to time, we may use third party
distributors which provide certain
services and functions for and on our
behalf. These third party distributors
may have access to (part of your)
personal information in order to perform
their services and functions, but are
subject to a confidentiality obligation
pursuant to which they cannot use, share
or disclose the information for any
other purpose.
Surveys: By completing a booking, you
agree to receive an invitation email to
complete our guest review form which we
will promptly send to you after your
stay of the hotel, which review can also
be completed anonymously. By completing
the guest review, you agree that the
completed guest review can be uploaded
to our website at the relevant hotel
information page for the sole purpose of
informing (future) customers on the
service (level) and quality of the
relevant hotel. We reserve the right to
adjust, refuse or remove review forms at
our sole discretion. The guest review
form should be regarded as a survey and
does not include any (further
commercial) offers, invitations or
incentives whatsoever. If you no longer
wish to receive a survey request email,
you can simply click on the unsubscribe
link or reply (with "unsubscribe" in the
subject line).
Newsletters and other information : If
you wish to subscribe for our newsletter
or wish to receive other information
from us (in respect of our, our
affiliated companies' or business
partners' products or services), we
offer you the option to "Opt in" for
this service. If you no longer wish to
receive our newsletter and other
promotional communications, you can
simply click on the unsubscribe link or
reply (with "unsubscribe" in the subject
line). Visitor's registration and
"cookies": For (improvement of) our
service and product, we use (temporary
and persistent) cookies to track
browsing behavior and monitor and record
the visits and use of our website(s).
Cookies are text files stored at your
computer, either temporary or persistent
on your hard drive. Cookies are used for
authenticating, session tracking (state
maintenance), and maintaining specific
information about the users of our
website, such as site preferences or the
contents of their electronic shopping
carts. Furthermore, we will record your
IP address, browser type, Internet
Service Provider (ISP) for fraud, misuse
and criminal investigation purposes.
Please note that, in accordance with
European personal data protection laws,
strict security procedures are observed
within Star-Holidays.net to prevent personal
data misuse and unauthorized access.
Log files: For marketing analysis and
quality improvement purposes, we collect
on an anonymous basis various
information with respect to the total
amount of transactions, referring/exit
pages, platform type, date/time stamp
information and the number and location
of clicks on a given page. Please note
that from time to time, we may use third
party service providers to collect,
monitor and report on this anonymous
data.
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4. Protect and secure your credit card
information |
In order to protect and safeguard the
personal data provided to us, we have
implemented and use appropriate business
systems and procedures. For example,
your credit card information is
transmitted to us through a secure
server protocol, which encrypts all your
personal and credit card details. The
encryption method used is the industry
standard "Secure Socket Layer" (SSL)
technology. Our SSL certificate has been
issued by AMTECH(www.amtechq8.com).
Furthermore, we have implemented and use
security procedures and technical and
physical restrictions for accessing and
using personal information. Only
authorized employees are permitted to
access personal information for
performing their duties in respect of
our services.
Our server and network are protected by
firewalls against unauthorized access
and we have intrusion detection systems
that monitor and detect unauthorized
(attempts to) access to or misuse of our
servers.
Your credit card details will be kept by
us up to maximum 10 days after a booking
is made. After that period, your credit
card data will be deleted.
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5. Control over your data |
You always have the right to review the
personal data you have stored with us.
You can request your personal data by
emailing us at customer.service@star-holidays.net.
Please state 'request personal data' in
the subject line of your email.
If your personal data is
incorrect, we will change it upon your
request. You can also ask Star-Holidays.net to
remove your personal data from its
database by sending us an email to the
aforementioned email address.. |
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6. When does Star-Holidyas.net send you
emails? |
After you have made a booking, you will
receive a confirmation message with all
the information about your booking. You
may take this confirmation to the hotel
as proof of the reservation.
Furthermore, after your stay at the
hotel, we will send you the guest review
survey, which we appreciate to be filled
in by you. Your completed guest review
form may be uploaded onto the relevant
hotel's information page on our website
for the sole purpose of informing
(future) customers of your opinion of
the service (level) and quality of the
hotel. To the extent that you have
"Opted in" you may receive from us and
from time to time our newsletter or
other information.
If you have any suggestions or
remarks about this privacy statement,
please send an email to
customer.service@star-holidays.net
We are at all times entitled
to change the way we collect, transmit
and process the personal information and
such other information as we may deem
necessary. This Privacy Statement may
therefore be amended from time to time
in order to reflect the latest changes. |
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