Personal information of visitors will be treated with extreme carefulness and they will be secured. In all cases Looking for Booking B.V. will restrain the requirements that apply for the Dutch Law Protection of Personal information. Below we will explain which information we collect, for which reason, how we get that information, your rights and how you can use your rights.
The processing of personal information by Looking for Booking B.V. is registered at the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) in The Netherlands under the number (number has been requested)
Description of concepts
In this regulation we understand by:
• Liable: Looking for Booking B.V. (“LookingforBooking”), located in Groningen (The Netherlands), Sint Walburgstraat 5.
• Personal information: All information that is traced from an individual person.
• Processing personal information: Every act or completeness of acts related to personal information from the collection till the removal of this information.
• Visitor: Visitors of our website, that not necessary have to make an hotel reservation.
Data collection
• Active exposed information: When you reserve a exclusive offer of a hotel on LookingforBooking, you send out your (personal) information (like: name, first names, initials, title and gender, address, postal code, place of living) to Looking for Booking through a secured connection, with result that others can not see your personal information.
• Passive exposed information: While surfing the internet you will enable, perhaps without your awareness, us (but perhaps others) capable of collecting information about you. Examples are the ‘IP-address’ of the computer you use to surf the internet, operating system, the internet browser you use and internet pages you visit. With this information LookingforBooking can improve the quality and access to these internet pages. With this information we can see which pages are visited a lot and which not. So far as we use this information, it will always be anonymous and totalized.
• Cookies: LookingforBooking also uses another method (so called “cookies”) that are used a lot to improve the operation of internet pages and to better adjust to the preferences of the users. Cookies are little text files that are automatically placed, by the visited webpage, on the computer of a visitor. In this cookies the preferences of a visitor can be saved so by a next visit the webpage can automatically adjust to the preferences. Also (temporary) cookies will be used to improve the operation of a website.
The aim and purpose of data processing
The by you displayed information will be used for the correct and complete process of the reservation and they will be send to the by you reserved hotel through a secured connection. In case if you also have filled in your e-mail address, LookingforBooking will send you, by e-mail, a confirmation of the reservation. Next to this LookingforBooking will use your e-mail address to send out the monthly free hotel newsletter of LookingforBooking.
The data will be used to:
• To process your reservation in a correct way and to send you the confirmation of the reservation.
• To send the requested hotel newsletters.
• To meet the law- and regulations.
Price contests on the website
When you participate in a price contest on this website, we ask you for your name and e-mail address. This information will be used to proceed the contest in a correct way and to inform the winners of the contest. When you register for the contest on this website you give LookingforBooking the approval of using your e-mail address for marketing- or service purposes, exclusively by LookingforBooking.
Storage of personal information
Your personal information, which you provide while making a reservation will be stored by LookingforBooking for, at the latest, two years after your application. When you sign out on LookingforBooking for receiving the free hotel newsletter, your personal information will be deleted from our database before, at latest, one month. Except when we have to save this information for a longer period because of a requirement law. The procedure for signing out is described on the websites and in each hotel newsletter that has been sent.
Providing personal information
LookingforBooking will not provide your personal information to any other party, except for the treatment of reservations or if law- and regulations obliges us to do so. The personal information will be exclusively used for the written purposes in this statement. The hotel that is chosen by you has it’s own requirements concerning the Law Protection Personal information. For the treatment of your personal information by those hotels we refer to the appropriate privacy statement of the concerning hotel.
The right of inspection en correction
You will always have the right to inspect the information LookingforBooking has about you. You have the right to let us improve or delete inaccurate information. You can request this information, only in a written way, by sending a letter to: Looking for Booking B.V., Sint Walburgstraat 5, 9712 HX Groningen. Mention, in the letter, your complete address (also if possible a e-mail address) and your request for inspection. Now you will receive, as soon as possible, an overview with your personal information. For this purpose we will take, each time, €4,50 in account.
Secrecy
The workers of LookingforBooking, LookingforBooking itself and they that in order of LookingforBooking have access to personal information, are obliged to secrecy of the personal information of what they know, except if they are obliged to make an announcement by the law- of regulations.
Security
To prevent that unauthorized will inspect your personal information, LookingforBooking has different security capabilities, including active measures against unauthorized access, unauthorized usage, unauthorized changes, illegal and unintentional destruction and unintentional loss.
Start and changes of regulation
This privacy statement is valid since 2009 and can only be changed by LookingforBooking. If the privacy statement will be changed, we will inform you on our websites.