PRIVACY POLICY

At Filokypros Character Houses we stress the importance of privacy and are committed to earning the trust of our guests by adopting high standards for the protection of personal information.

Our policy outlines the type of personal information we collect and receive, the circumstances in which we collect or receive personal information, the policies and procedures we have established outlining its use and storage, and for sharing certain types of personal information in certain limited circumstances, the procedures you should follow if you have any questions or requests in respect of your personal information or our policies and procedures and the person to whom such questions or requests should be directed, and the means by which to communicate with that person.

In this policy ‘Filokypros’ means Filokypros Character Houses and its affiliated companies, as they may exist from time to time, which include, without limitation, the subsidiaries which carry on business that use the following names: Filokypros Character Houses. The words ‘we’ and ‘Filokypros Character Houses” do not include third party hotel owners or third parties involved in the delivery of services, however we have requested such hotel owners and third party suppliers to abide by the terms of our Privacy Protection Policy.

In this policy, personal information means information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, e-mail address or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available and is not part of your work identification.

It also includes information on guest preferences and usage, when such information is supplied to or recorded by Filokypros Character Houses in the course of transacting business with an individual.

The Privacy Protection Policy does not apply to information regarding Filokypros Character Houses corporate customers.However, such information is protected by other Filokypros Character Houses policies and practices and through contractual arrangements.

HOW YOU MAY PROVIDE US YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

1.By making a reservation or by using Filokypros Character Houses.

2.By providing it to us in communications regarding service delivery such as comment cards.

3.By providing the information to us by participating in a marketing initiative.

4.By visiting our website.

Below we will outline the type of information normally collected in each of these circumstances, the reasons for doing so, how we will use it and store it.

MAKING A RESERVATION

When making a reservation or using Filokypros Character Houses services it is necessary to have information in order to identify you, contact you and to process your purchase and requests.This information usually includes your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, credit card number and expiration date, and language preference.It may also include, if you choose to share that information with us, your preferences regarding the delivery of your service such as type of room, type of bed, and the like.You may wish to have your purchase of Filokypros Character Houses services recognized in a third party’s loyalty program with which Filokypros Character Houses has a relationship.To do so will require you providing us certain verification information such as your membership number in the third party program.We also offer special discounts from time to time that may have qualifying criteria.Sometimes we offer special offers to, for example, seniors or for children.To assess your eligibility and process your reservation correctly, we need to record your date of birth at the time of booking.You may be required to provide personal identification with your date of birth in order to verify this upon check-in.

Filokypros Character Houses is a family of management companies that manage hotels for third party owners. Your personal information is shared with the third party owner of the hotel where you intend to stay and those of its employees involved in delivering the service to you to the extent necessary for them to do so and to process the transaction.All hotels that are managed by Filokypros Character Houses are required to agree to abide by the terms of this Privacy Protection Policy.

From time to time, we offer packages or other services that involve third parties.If you are partaking of such a package or service, your personal information will be shared with that third party to the extent necessary to provide that service and process the purchase or request.

Filokypros Character Houses may use the information you provide to send you offers and information about Filokypros Character Houses services and those of select third parties.Your information will not be given to these third parties but rather the offer of the third party will be provided to Filokypros Character Houses which will manage the distribution.

If you do not wish to receive such offers and information you may unsubscribe or opt-out by sending an email to info@filokypros.com, using the subject line “Unsubscribe”, so indicating your request with sufficient personal identifiers so we can appropriately act on your request.All our marketing communication of this type will also contain instructions for unsubscribing.

REGISTERING ON THE WEBSITE

Individuals interested in sharing their experiences at Filokypros Character Houses may wish to do so through our website. Although registration is not required to view the site, it is required to enable sharing and other functions on that website. The personal information you provide during registration is used to validate your identity and to enable us to manage and administer your contributions to the website, and to contact you regarding your contributions or use of the website. We may also use your information to contact you about updates or changes to the website, shared content that may be of interest to you, or other offers and information related to Filokypros Character Houses or marketing partners whose products and services may be of interest to you.

We may from time to time use third party service providers to facilitate the operation of the website. As a result, your personal information may be accessed, administered or stored by such third parties to the extent reasonably required for them to perform such services. Some service providers may be located in other jurisdictions that do not have privacy legislation similar to that found in Canada, and information in such jurisdictions may be accessed pursuant to the laws of those countries.

INFORMATION PROVIDED TO US IN COMMUNICATIONS REGARDING SERVICE DELIVERY SUCH AS COMMENT CARDS

Information provided to us in such a fashion will be used solely for the purpose of recording your comments, communicating with you in respect of them, reviewing them with the subject hotel and hotel personnel, for the purposes of recognizing employees for excellence of service delivery and for developing improvements in service delivery.

BY VISITING OUR WEBSITE

We use “cookies” on our websites. Cookies are pieces of information that an Internet site transfers to your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is an industry standard — you’ll find them almost everywhere on the Internet. Filokypros Character Houses uses cookies to recognize visitors when they return to our sites. Once we know it’s you, we can customize your online visit.

We may also evaluate our content and services and tailor our websites, for visitors, based on other information we collect, such as IP addresses, which are numbers assigned to your computer whenever you use the Internet, pixel tags (or clear gifs), and the type of Internet browser or operating system you are using. This information is collected in the aggregate, but we may tie it to your personal information through cookie use as described above.

We use Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics to measure how visitors interact with content on our websites. We also use Facebook Custom Audiences to ask Facebook to show you ads that are customized based on your interaction with our websites or our Facebook applications and to measure how you interact with those ads. All of these services use cookies and similar technologies, such as web beacons, tags and embedded scripts, to record information about your interaction with our websites. Additional information on how these services use such technologies can be found on Google’s website, Adobe’s website and Facebook’s website. The Google Analytics security and privacy principles summarize how Google protects information collected through Google Analytics. Adobe’s Privacy Policy summarizes how Adobe protects information collected through Adobe Analytics. Facebook’s Data Use Policy describes how Facebook protects information collected through Facebook Custom Audiences.

If you do not wish to have data relating to your visits to our websites collected through Google Analytics, you may opt-out by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. You may also opt-out of data collection through Adobe Analytics by visiting Adobe’s Privacy Center. You may opt-out of Facebook Custom Audiences by visiting Facebook’s opt-out page.

WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

1.To establish and maintain a responsible commercial relationship with you and to provide ongoing service.

2.To understand your needs and preferences.We maintain a record of the products and services you receive from us and we may ask for additional information so that we can serve you better. For example, we may record your preference for type of room.

3.To develop, enhance, market or provide products and services.For example, we look at our guests’ use of our services so that we can better understand how to improve our services.

4.To manage and develop our business and operations.For example we analyze guest patterns of usage of our hotels and services to help us manage them efficiently and plan for future growth.

5.To meet legal and regulatory requirements.

WHEN DO WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We disclose personal information only in these limited circumstances:

1.We may disclose a guest’s personal information to a person who, in the reasonable judgment of Filokypros Character Houses, is seeking the information as an agent of the guest – for example, a travel agent who is booking a reservation on behalf of the guest.

2.Personal information will be shared with the Filokypros Character Houses hotel for which your reservation has been made so that they may provide the services you have reserved.

3.Personal information may be shared with other Filokypros Character Houses hotels so that they may better provide services to you in the event you wish to travel to that Filokypros Character Houses hotel in the future.

4.Personal information will be shared with a third party involved in supplying the guest with the services they have purchased to the extent necessary to effect the supply and the processing of the transaction.

5.Personal information may be shared with a third party retained by Filokypros Character Houses to perform functions on its behalf such as reservations handling, data processing or storage, guest surveys or research.

6.Personal information may be shared with an agent retained by Filokypros Character Houses to evaluate a customer’s credit worthiness or in order to collect a customer’s account.

7.Personal information may be shared with a public authority or an agent of public authority if in the reasonable judgment of Filokypros Character Houses it appears that there is an imminent danger to life or property which could be avoided or minimized by disclosure of the information, or which disclosure is compelled by legal authority.

Any such disclosure of a guest’s personal information by Filokypros Character Houses to a third party will be made only on a confidential basis conditioned upon the information being used only for the purpose for which it has been disclosed.

PRINCIPLES

1.Filokypros Character Houses will not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any other purpose than those identified above, except with your consent.

2.Filokypros Character Houses will protect your personal information with appropriate security safeguards.

3.Filokypros Character Houses will take appropriate steps to protect the confidentiality of your personal information when dealing with third parties.

4.Filokypros Character Houses will strive to keep your personal information as accurate and up to date as is necessary for the purposes identified above.

5.Filokypros Character Houses will honour your request to access your personal information in as timely fashion as is reasonably possible.

You are always free to refuse to provide personal information to us.

You may also withdraw your consent with respect to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice, by e-mailing us at info@filokypros.com using ‘Unsubscribe’ as the subject line, and providing us sufficient personal identifiers so we can act effectively on your request.

However, in either case, this may limit our ability to serve you.

If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices or wish to make a request in respect of your personal information please contact our Privacy Officer at info@filokypros.com or if you prefer by writing us at:

P.O.Box 53458, CY 3303
Limassol – Cyprus
Office Hours Tel: 00357 25366622
24 Hours Tel: 00357 99520973
Fax: 00357 25366873

email: info@filokypros.com
web: www.filokypros.com