PRIVACY STATEMENT
SOHOTEL, and its group companies, management companies and affiliates (“SOHOTEL”, “we”, “our” or “us”) respect the privacy of all its customers and business partners, and treats personal information (personal data) provided by you as confidential. We know that you are concerned how information about you is collected, used and stored, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so with every due care and diligence in accordance with all the relevant laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
We have provided this Privacy Statement as an explanation of the information we collect, how we use it, and how the use of this information can benefit your experience on our web sites. Please take a moment to read the sections below.
Types of information we collect:
We may request information in several areas of our website, including but not limited to, when you:
1. use our Online Reservations and newsletter subscription;
2. submit enquiries and feedback forms;
3. response to different types of communications (e.g. Surveys, promotional offers, or reservation confirmations).
4. submit a job application
We endeavor to collect information strictly in accordance with this Privacy Statement. The types of personally identifiable information (hereinafter collectively referred to as either "the Data" or "personal data") that we collect may include but not be limited to:
1. Name
2. Personal Identification Data, e.g. the Hong Kong Identity Card Number
3. E-mail address
4. Telephone Number
5. Fax Number
6. Credit card information including name of cardholder, credit card number, credit card billing address and expiry date
7. Lifestyle information such as room preferences, leisure activities, names and ages of children, and other information necessary to fulfill special requests
8. Any other relevant information for any of the purposes as mentioned herein below
We may also collect non-personally identifiable information about you, such as your use of our websites, communication preferences, travel habits, aggregated data relative to your stays, and responses to promotional offers and surveys.
PURPOSE FOR COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND DISCLOSURE
The Data you provided may be collected and used by SOHOTEL for one or more of the following purposes:
1. Providing services such as processing a transaction (e.g. making a reservation, fulfilling a request for information, or completing a product order):
2. For marketing purposes, such as sending you updates on our latest promotions, including joint- and cross promotions with our business partners;
3. Performing market research via surveys to better serve your needs, improve the effectiveness of our website, your hotel experience, our various types of communications advertising campaigns, and/or promotional activities:
4. For identification and verification purposes;
5. When required or authorized by or under any law or any court order or any law enforcement agent or authority or any other government authority organisation or body to disclose the information:
6. Disclosing any of the Data to any third party either in Hong Kong or overseas if the disclosure is necessary for or directly related to any of the above purposes; and
7. or any other purpose, which is either necessary for or directly related to any of the above purposes.
DATA SECURITY
SOHOTEL safeguards the privacy and security of personal data of every visitor, user and booker to our website.
To maintain the accuracy of the Data, as well as preventing from unauthorized access and ensuring the correct use of the Data, we have carried out appropriate physical, electronic and managerial measures to safeguard and secure the Data we collect online.
The website has a firewall in place, which is devised and set up to protect the Data collected from you against unauthorized or accidental access. However, complete confidentiality and security is not yet possible over the Internet, and privacy cannot be assured in your communications to us. You acknowledge that personal information is disclosed at your own risk, and may be subject to unauthorized use by others. This may result in you receiving unsolicited messages from other parties. We are not responsible in any manner for direct, indirect, special or consequential loss or damage, howsoever caused arising out of the communication of information to us.
COOKIES
To enhance your experience on our web site, some of our web pages may use "cookies." Cookies are text files that we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally-identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering for one of our services. However, once you choose to furnish the site with your personally-identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your username and/or password in password-protected areas, and to offer you products, programs, or services.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
In addition to our rights of disclosure as mentioned hereinabove, we may also disclose the Data when required by law or court order, or as requested by other government or law enforcement authorities, or in the good faith that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable including and without limitation to protect the rights or properties of SOHOTEL. This also applies when we have reason to believe that disclosing the Data is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.
CONTENTS
The information and material contained in this site are for general references only. SOHOTEL disclaims any warranty or representation of any kind, express or implied, as to any matter whatsoever relating to this site or any linked site. To the fullest extent allowed by law, SOHOTEL shall accept no responsibility or liability in respect of any loss or damage howsoever arising.
Use of or visit this site does not constitute any binding contract over any goods and services provided by SOHOTEL, nor does it constitute an offer of any goods and services provided by SOHOTEL. Goods and services may only be available in certain countries and any offer to purchase goods or to retain services from SOHOTEL are subject to acceptance by SOHOTEL and in accordance with specific terms and conditions on which they are offered.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
All contents of this website are: ©2023 SOHOTEL. All rights reserved.
SOHOTEL websites may contain or reference patents, copyrighted materials, trade secrets, technologies, products, processes or other intellectual property or proprietary rights of SOHOTEL. No license to or right in any such patents, copyrighted materials, trade secrets, technologies, products, processes and other intellectual property or proprietary rights of SOHOTEL is granted to or conferred upon you.
APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Privacy Statement shall be governed and construed in all respects by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and any difference or dispute arising out of or in connection with this Privacy Statement in any respect shall be submitted to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts/Tribunals of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for adjudication.
AMENDS OR UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY STATEMENT
SOHOTEL reserves full rights to amend or update this Privacy Statement unilaterally from time to time as it sees fit or necessary to meet any change in any of the relevant laws or the regulatory environment, or business needs, or to satisfy the needs of our guests, properties, strategic marketing partners, and service providers or to meet any other purposes. Updated versions will be posted to our web site and date stamped so that you are always aware of when the Privacy Statement was last updated. The whole contents of this Privacy Statement will then be construed accordingly in conjunction with such amended or updated versions.
