Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is valid from 28 November 2007. It concerns itself with the collection of personal information the publication of content through this website on or after this date.

Please read this policy carefully before providing us with any personal information or submitting anything to the site.

If you have questions about this policy, contact us.

1. We log your IP address in order to diagnose problems with our server, administer the site and track usage statistics. Anonymous edits, hotel reviews, etc. will be identified by IP address, which will be published on the site under 'change history' and related sections.
2. Cookies will be placed onto your hard drive. For unregistered users, we do this to anonymously remember your travel preferences, and to understand how you use our site. For registered users, we do this to identify you as the logged-in owner of your account. Accepting cookies is not mandatory for unregisted users.
3. Other information retained for unregistered users includes your browser type and your 'referrer' information.
4. Registered users should expect the following information to be retained (in addition to the non-personal information above, your email and your chosen username): your searches, travel dates, travel companions, hotels you stayed at and hotels you plan to stay at. Providing this information is optional. This information is stored internally and used to personalize your visit to the site.
5. Using the 'share' feature to publish content to other sites is entirely optional. We will retain your username/screenname/id/email/login for those third-party sites, but will never retain your password for these nor will we extract and store any non-essential information while communicating with those sites.
6. Your profile on Hotelarific will be publicly viewable and identifiable via your username. Your public profile will contain info such as your reviews, favourite hotels, etc.
7. Your 'friends only' profile on Hotelarific will display your travel dates, and other more sensitive information to users that you have previously granted 'friend' status.
8. Your email address and other private information will not be displayed on your public or 'friends only' profile.
9. We do not sell or rent any personal information to any third party.
10. We will protect your private information as best we can through server security, diligence and appropriate employee discretion.
11. Your login is valid for 30 minutes after your last activity. If you choose 'remember login' during login, your login is valid indefinitely.
12. We may periodically contact you with offers, news updates, etc. You can opt-out from these from your account page.
13. You may be sent email updates through this site about relevant changes. For example, edits to your favourite hotels. You can opt-out from these from your account page.
14. We will co-operate with legal authorities and transfer your user information in response to legal requests, subpoenas or other legal processes.
15. You can cancel your account. Please contact us directly.
16. All content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This includes content that you publish, e.g. hotel reviews, edits, etc.
17. We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so. We will notify you of the changes via a site message.