privacy-policy

PRIVACY: INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

By which you may be personally identified, including, but not limited to, first and last name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, some cookie and usage data, any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");

That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as the content you chose to view, account preferences, information voluntarily submitted when registering for an account; and/or

About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.

Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, browser types, browser version, unique device identifiers, and diagnostic data.

From third parties such as our business partners, if such third-party partners have previously received your consent to do so.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website or making a suggestion about our Website.

Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.

Your search queries on the Website.

You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of the Website, but you may be unable to access certain options or other services.

TRACKING COOKIES DATA

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies, such as cookies and similar tracking technologies, to collect and hold certain information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

Speed up your searches.

Recognize you when you return to our Website.

Safeguard against malware and spam.

Administer the Website.

Gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

Remember your preferences and voluntarily submitted information

Perform location related functionalities and analytics

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.

For more information about cookies and how to manage and/or remove them through your browser settings, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. We encourage you to consider keeping your cookies enabled, as if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Website, you may not be able to use or benefit from certain features of the Website, particularly the features that are designed to personalize your experience. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but generally allow users to modify their browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, to accept cookies only from certain websites, and/or to refuse all cookies.

Web Beacons. Pages of the Website (and our e-mails) may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or (opened an email) and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.

To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

To fulfill any purpose for which you provide it.

To provide customer support.

To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.

In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

For any other purpose with your consent.

We respect the privacy of our users and will not disclose or distribute our user list to any third party, nor will we permit anyone else to do so. However, we may use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you with your permission. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please use the Opt Out link on the bottom of any page on our Website or the link in the email you may have received.

RETENTION OF DATA

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreement policies. We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

TRANSFER OF DATA

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of the jurisdiction in which you reside and where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside of the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Hotel Investment Service, Inc.'s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Hotel Investment Service, Inc. about our Website users is among the assets transferred. If such a transaction occurs, you will be notified as described below in “Changes to Our Privacy Policy”

To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures.

To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the "email a friend" feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.

For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

To enforce or apply any binding agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Hotel Investment Services, Inc., our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

As required by law, we may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law such as to comply with a subpoena or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law, protect your safety or the safety of others, comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on us or to protect and defend our rights or property.

DATA SECURITY

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Information will take place to an organization or court unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise that you review the privacy policy on every site you visit. We have no control, endorse, own, operate or otherwise have input over the content, language or policies of third-party websites and we assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party services.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information including the following rights:

The right to know, by way of our privacy notice and any specific inquiries you direct to us, where personal information we have about you comes from, what we use that information for, whether it is being disclosed or sold, and to whom it is being disclosed or sold;

The right to “opt-out” of our sale of your personal information to any third parties, in the event we sell information;

The right, with some exceptions, to have your personal information deleted from our possession or control; and

The right to receive equal service and pricing from us even if you exercise any of your privacy rights.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users of our Website who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. A California resident may also use an authorized agent to submit a right to access request or a request to delete. To make such a request, to learn more, or if you have any questions or concerns about your California privacy rights, please visit the Privacy Notice for California Residents. You may also contact us using the information below.

Other Individual Rights

Some jurisdictions (state, federal, national and international), provide individuals with certain rights regarding their personal information. Examples of these laws, (without limitation) are: Canada (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”), and the European Economic Area (General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)). To exercise any rights your jurisdiction may provide, contact us by using the information at the bottom of this section. Your rights will depend on the location in which you reside and what is personal information for which you have personal rights is also defined by applicable law. What is listed here are only examples, which are taken from PIPEDA and GDPR:

Being informed about how we obtain and process your personal information;

Viewing and obtaining a copy of the personal information we maintain about you;

Amending or revising personal information we maintain about you;

Having personal information we maintain about you erased or forgotten;

Objecting to the use of your personal information for direct marketing;

Restricting our use of the personal information we maintain about you;

Transferring the personal information we maintain about you to another entity who will provide substantially similar services;

Objecting to our use of personal information we maintain about you;

Objecting to automated decision making based on your personal information;

Objecting to automated profiling based on your personal information;

Withdraw your previously provided consent (this right may only be available on a prospective basis); or

Filing a complaint with us or the appropriate governmental entity.

We may require that you verify your identity before exercising your individual rights. In most circumstances, individual rights are not absolute and where applicable law permits, we may choose to limit or deny a request. If we limit or deny a request, we will provide an explanation in writing.

How to Contact Us to Exercise Your Individual Rights

To exercise any of your individual rights, contact us using the information at the bottom of this page.

DO NOT TRACK REQUESTS AND SIGNALS

Do not track signals and requests are sent from your browser to websites you visit indicating you do not want to be tracked or monitored. Most often, you need to affirmatively elect to turn on the do not track signals or requests. Websites are not required to accept these signals or requests, and many do not. Currently, we do not honor do not track signals or requests.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Boutique Hotel Professionals LLC

Attn: Paul Wegert

44045 Five Mile Road

Plymouth, MI 48170

734-414-0600

[email protected]