SH Hotels commits itself to comply with the
legislation in force regarding automated data processing and, in particular,
Organic Law 15/99 on the Protection of Persona Data dated 13th December
(hereinafter LPD). Through the privacy policy below, SH hotels
thus informs its clients of the following measures:
Towards the end of
rendering the services offered through www.sh-hoteles.com, as well as offering
customized products and services, improving commercial relations and managing
the requests made by our clients, SH Hotels shall handle its
clients' personal data in an automated manner, for the purposes specified
further on.
SH Hoteles guarantees that it shall take full responsibility
for the said files, and that these are duly declared and registered at the
General Registry of the Agency on Data Protection, the data base of which may be
consulted in the following web page ( http://www.agpd.es )
SH Hoteles
hereby informs you that your e-mail address will be included in an automated
file for the purpose of providing you information on our news and offers by
e-mail.
a.1.) On-line booking
On filling up the
On-line Reservation form, each registrant accepts and and authorizes SH
Hotels' s use and processing of the personal data thereby furnished for
the purpose of proceeding with the requested reservation, offering customized
products and services and improving commercial relations with our clients, as
well as the cession of the said data to the companies making up the SH
Hotels and its associates, for the purposes detailed above. Likewise,
the client making a reservation is informed that his personal and reservation
data shall be ceded to the companies that will have to intervene in the
management of the reservation and/or trip to the hotel of his/her destination,
independently of the country in which the said companies may be found, with the
possibility of international data transfers, for the exclusive end of managing
the reservation and assuring its execution.
a.2.) Job
Opportunities Form
On filling up the Job Application form, each
registrant accepts and and authorizes SH Hotels.' s use and
automated processing of the personal information furnished so as to integrate
them into our personnel selection data base for the purpose of personnel
selection in the different hotels and companies of SH Hotels,
as well as the cession of the said data to the companies making up
SHHotels and its associates, for the
exclusive purpose of personnel selection. SH Hotels informs the
holder that s/he may enforce his/her access, amendment, cancellation and
opposition rights, contacting the person responsible for processing said
information at the SH Hotels Human Resources Department, at the
address indicated above.
a.3.) Registration in the Offers and
Promotions Distribution List
SH Hotels hereby
informs you that your e-mail address will be included in an automated file
(distribution list) for the purpose of providing you information on our news and
offers by e-mail.
B) Confidentiality
SH
Hotels will not reveal your personal data to any other third party,
except for those parties specified in the preceding sections.
SH
Hotels guarantees that it will handle your personal data
confidentially, and that the server on which these are stored and handled is
equipped with the security measures established by Spanish standards in relation
to data protection.
C) Use of Cookies
Part of
SH Hotels's customizable services employ cookies
A
cookie is a very small text file that a web server may keep in the hard disk of
a computer to store information about users. It can only be read by the website
that sent it to the computer.
Normally, websites use cookies to obtain
statistical information about their web pages and to analyze the behavior of
their clients.
A cookie is not an executable file. It can neither
propagate nor contain a virus, nor may it be longer than 4,000 characters.
Sh Hotels uses cookies for the exclusive purpose of
preparing statistics on the use of its website. The information that SH
Hotels stores on your equipment through this mechanism only consists of
a number identifying a user, apart from preferences such as preferred navigation
language and the date on which the cookie was sent. This will enable our website
to identify you during your subsequent visits. It does not contain personal data
or economic or health-related information.
You may configure your
navigator to accept or reject the cookies you receive, or to warn you when a
server wants to send a cookie:
If you are using Microsoft Internet
Explorer, under the menu option See, select Internet Options and accede to
Advanced Options.
If you are using Netscape, under the menu option Edit,
select Preferences, and accede to the Advanced options. SH
Hotels would be grateful if you activate the acceptance of cookies,
since this would help us obtain more precise data so as to improve the content
and design of our web page in order to adapt it to your preferences.
SH Hotels may likewise register your IP addresses to
diagnose any problem with our server, to administer our web page and to analyze
user tendencies.