Privacy Policy
OVERVIEW
This Privacy Notice sets out how Hotelaat+ processes and protects the privacy of your personal information. This policy describes how we treat personal information about you when you visit www.hotelaat.com. We recommend you review this privacy policy.
At Professional Travel Ltd (hereinafter referred to as PRO Traveling ) the owner of www.hotelaat.com we understand that data privacy is a very important issue and we take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as private and confidential. We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personal details every time you make purchases online and consider customer information safety a matter of great importance.
Our privacy policy does not apply to the practices of other companies advertised, or otherwise listed, on hotelaat.com (hereinafter referred to as Hotelaat+). By using our portal, you signify your acceptance of this Policy.
Please note that this Policy applies only to information collected by our website and not to information collected or obtained by other means or media. Our policy ensures that any information you provide us remains private and secure.
This privacy policy is applicable to hotelaat.com only and does not apply to any affiliated websites/portals or any other third-party websites, even if they are linked with the Hotelaat+ website. It is recommended that you read the privacy policy of the other parties you interact with.
We use your Personal Information provided to us either voluntarily or mandatory to provide you with information on Hotelaat+. We need to collect, use and disclose personal information to perform our business functions, including making bookings on behalf of our customers. We are committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal information and maintaining various safeguards to protect the personal information in our care
At the time of registration, personal information provided by you is the only mandatory submission you are required to make as a user.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information has a meaning under your local data protection law. Personal information generally means information that relates to a living individual who can be identified from that information.
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR DATA/INFORMATION?
Some data is collected when you provide it to us voluntarily. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This data is primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you access the page. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website, and some information collected from you is mandatory for the delivery of our services to you.
BELOW IS A LIST OF HOW THE DATA IS COLLECTED FROM YOU:
Voluntary information: Some information is voluntarily provided to us by you, such as name, physical address, email address, IP address, phone number, and credit card information, as well as details including gender, occupation, location, purchase history, and other demographic information when you wish to buy and/or apply to use any of our services, consult with any of our teams or customer service team, send us an email, post on our blog or any other of our social media networks or communicating with us with any other ways;
Mandatory information: Collected personal information provided by you at the time of registration, making a reservation, applying for a vacancy/career opportunity, or making online payment, etc are the only mandatory submission you are required to make as a user of our services.
Automatically collected information: This information is collected when you browse our website for the services we offer, such as your visit to our Website, your usage of the Services, and your web browsing. That information may include your IP address, your operating system, your browser ID, your browsing activity, and other information about how you interacted with our Website;
Cookies and tracking: We and our partners may use various technologies to collect and store information when you use our Services, and this may include using cookies and similar tracking technologies on our Website, such as pixels and web beacons, to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, serve targeted advertisements, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole;
Information from other sources: From time to time, we may obtain information about you or your Subscribers from third-party sources, such as public databases, social media platforms, third-party data providers, and our joint marketing partners.
WHAT DO WE USE YOUR DATA FOR?
Part of the data is used to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visitors use the site and also for offering you our services in the best way possible and to bill and collect money owed to us;
To promote the use of our services to you and others. For example, if we collect your Personal Information when you visit our Website and do not sign up for any of the Services, we may send you an email inviting you to sign up. If you use any of our Services and we think you might benefit from using another Service we offer, we may send you an email about that. You can stop receiving our promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email we send. In addition, we may use the information we collect in order to advertise our Services to you or suggest additional features of our Services that you might consider using. In addition, we may use your Personal Information to advertise our Services to potential or other users like you
To send you System Alert messages. For example, we may inform you of temporary or permanent changes to some of our services, such as planned outages, new features, version updates, releases, abuse warnings, and changes to our Privacy Policy;
Account data: We may use your information for the account data which may be processed to operate our websites, provide our services, ensure the security of our websites and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases, and communicate with you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our websites and business;
Transaction data: We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of services, that you enter into with us and/or through our websites (“transaction data”). The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased services and keeping proper records of those transactions;
Newsletter data: We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our newsletters and other notifications (“newsletter data”). The newsletter data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the newsletters and other notifications and analyzing their use. The legal basis for this processing is consent;
Message data: We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us by email or any similar communications system (“message data”). The message data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. The message data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you (including where appropriate sending you sales or marketing materials) and record-keeping.
WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE REGARDING YOUR DATA?
You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection.
ANALYTICS AND THIRD-PARTY TOOLS
When visiting our website, statistical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily when using cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from this data.
CONTACT FORM
Should you send us questions via the contact form or request any registration, services, applying for a job vacancy, etc., we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, to answer your question (s) and request (s). We do not share this information without your permission.
You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request).
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
Your use of the Hotelaat+ portal constitutes a business relationship and agreement wherein we provide travel and tourism-related services for your use. In exchange, PRO Traveling reserves the right to use the contact information collected during site submission to deliver notices regarding changes or updates to our services, to provide free newsletters, to inform you of additions to the Hotelaat+ website, or to send important announcements.
When you make reservations/bookings we might be obligated to provide appropriate personal information to our partner and/or third-parties agencies/suppliers to facilitate your travel arrangements.
Personal information, which includes name, IP address, email address, mailing address, telephone number, and travel information, etc. that the client provides voluntarily will be transmitted using secure SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption, which enables your browser to scramble and encode your information before it is transmitted to our servers.
You may remove yourself from any or all of our notice and announcement mailings at any time if you wish so. Any mailing received from our company is identified and includes a valid company email address.
IS PERSONAL INFORMATION TRANSFERRED OVERSEAS?
We may disclose your personal information to certain overseas recipients, we ensure that any such international transfers are either necessary for the performance of a contract between you and the overseas recipient or are made subject to suitable safeguards as required.
In providing our services to you, it may be necessary for us to disclose your information to relevant overseas travel service providers. The relevant travel services providers will in most cases receive your personal information in the Hotel in which they will provide the services.
REGISTRATION
Users are asked to provide certain personal information when they sign up for our Services, including name, address, telephone number, email, etc. The personal information collected from Users during the registration process is used to manage each User’s account (such as for billing purposes, etc). PRO Traveling does not rent or sell email addresses or any other personal data.
In instances where PRO Traveling and an affiliated company or a partner jointly promote the Services, PRO Traveling may provide the partner with certain personal information about who subscribed to the Services as a result of the joint promotion for the sole purpose of allowing us and the partner to assess the outcome of the promotion. In this case, the partner may not use personal information for any other purpose.
COOKIES
Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device’s memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
WE MAINLY USE COOKIES FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:
authentication and navigation – we use cookies to identify you when you visit and navigate through our website;
shopping cart – we use cookies to maintain the state of shopping carts as you navigate our website;
personalization – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize our website for you;
security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;
analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services.
A “cookie” is a small data file that can be placed on your hard drive when you visit certain Web sites. PRO traveling may use cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track information for statistical purposes to improve the products and services we provide and to manage our telecommunications networks. These cookies do not enable third parties to access any of your customer information.
Advertisers and partners may also use their cookies. We do not control the use of these cookies and expressly disclaim responsibility for information collected through them.
SECURITY
Your personal information is stored on a protected server. Access is restricted to PRO Traveling staff only.
In addition, Cybersecurity is also adopted by the portal in order to achieve protection against criminal or unauthorized access or use of electronic data. We apply appropriate security measures on our systems (such as access permissions, and anti-virus software…) to prevent the loss, destruction, falsification, alteration, and leakage of your data and personal information.
The website shall also exert all possible efforts to ensure that external parties who have access to the data maintain strict controls and confidentiality.
THE PORTAL SHALL IMPLEMENT THE FOLLOWING SECURITY MEASURES:
Encrypted data, whether stored in the e-service or transmitted to our servers, thus makes it unreadable as it flows over the internet.
Secure authentication (using login credentials, security PIN, fingerprint, QR code, etc.), which allows you to access the website using your credentials only and requests you to change your password regularly.
Automatic time out, which automatically signs you out after a period of inactivity.
Remote data wipe, which can be executed remotely by the portal or by yourself if the phone is lost or stolen. This action wipes your data as well as the keys used to encrypt said data and information.
DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS
We ensure the website’s compliance with Turkey’s general data protection regulations concerning electronic services and the collection and processing of personal data.
UPDATING INFORMATION
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
QUESTIONS & CONCERNS
If you have any questions or comments, if you want to update, delete, or change any Personal Information we hold, or if you have a concern about the way in which we have handled any privacy matter, please use our email address and/or contact form/details to send us a message.
CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP
In the event of a change in ownership, or a direct merger or acquisition of PRO Traveling with another entity or multiple entities, all (or a selected proportion) of Hotelaat+ customer information (including email addresses) may be transferred to a separate entity or entities. All Hotelaat+ subscribers and registered users have to check and review the Privacy Policy to become aware of any changes in the policies. Subscribers and users may choose to access and modify any of their registration and subscription information at that time.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy is reviewed periodically, and periodic changes may be made to our policies regarding those reviews. All updates and amendments are effective immediately upon their uploading on our website. For the most recent version of the Privacy Policy, it is advised to check back on this page to ensure that you have the latest version of our privacy policy and stay informed of changes that may affect you, as your continued use of the Website signifies your continuing consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.