We at Hello Homes Limited (“we”) understand that making purchases online involves a great deal of trust on your part. We take this trust very seriously, and make it our highest priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal information you provide to us.
This policy (together with our Terms of Use and Booking Terms and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
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Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.hellohomessitges.com (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, opening a host account, posting material, editing your profile, booking a stay or requesting further services, and includes but is not limited to your name, address, email address, phone number and if you are a user with accommodation to rent out (a host), bank account or PayPal details, or if you are a user who wishes to rent out accommodation (a Guest) and make a booking via our site, billing information. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our site or a booking.
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If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
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We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
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Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your bookings.
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Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
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We may monitor, record, store and use any telephone, email or other communication with you in order to check any instructions given to us, for training purposes, for crime prevention and to improve the quality of our customer service.
IP Addresses
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
Cookies
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the site to operate.
Different types of cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how users move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preference (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. Third parties use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed by advertising networks more relevant to your interests. We share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in them table below.
If you register with us or if you continue to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis service) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
| Cookie | Name | Type | Purpose | More information |
| Google Analytics | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz | Analytical/performance cookies | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports on general user traffic, conversion statistics and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information anonymously. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google Analytics |
| Adwords | Google_mkwid | Analytical/performance cookies | These cookies are used to collect Google Adwords-specific user traffic and conversion statistics. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google advertising |
| KISSmetrics | km_ai km_lv km_ni km_uq km_vs kvcd | Analytical/performance cookies | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile internal user conversion and site features usage statistics. | Click here for an overview of privacy at KISS metrics. |
| Marin | _msuuid | Targeting Cookies | This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information for advertising management across third party websites and to produce internal conversion statistics. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Marin. |
| Amazon AWS | AWSELB | Strictly necessary Cookies | This cookie is used to manage the session and balance the server load in storing and retrieving data from our provider Amazon Web Services. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Amazon WS |
| Hello Homes Session | _helloapartments_session | Strictly necessary Cookies | This cookie stores information about your settings preferences (such as language, currency, favourite properties, etc.), and so allow us to customise our site. It is also used for tracking in internal A/B tests, conversion statistics and affiliate programs. | |
| Hello Homes Authentication | remember_token | Functionality Cookies | This cookie remembers users’ login details after a session has ended for any future visits provided the cookie was not deleted in the interim. | |
| Hello Homes Translation | do_not_autotranslate | Functionality Cookies | This cookie allows the site to remember if a user prefers to see original or translated reviews. | |
| Addthis | di dt loc psc uid uit uvc | Targeting Cookies | These cookies are needed for the social media dropdowns at the top of the property profile pages of our site. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Addthis |
| datr | Targeting Cookies | This cookie is needed for the ‘like’ buttons to function on the site. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Facebook | |
| New Relic | NREUM | Analytical/performance cookies | This cookie is used to measure our site’s technical performance for our users. | Click here for more information about New Relic |
| Adyen | JSESSIONID hppsession | Strictly necessary Cookies | This cookie is essential for our payment services provider to track payments made via our site | Click here for more information about Adyen. |
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our site.
Behavioural Advertising
Some advertisers use cookies to provide you with targeted advertising. For example, advertisers may use a profile based on which sites you have visited to present you with advertisements relevant to you. If you are based in the European Union and would like to learn about these types of cookies and how to opt-out, please visit https://youronlinechoices.eu/. If you are based in the USA, please visit https://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
The above websites are external websites and we are not responsible for their content.
Where We Store Your Personal Data
The data that We collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers. Where We have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Uses Made of the Information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
* To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
* To contact you in relation to a listing, booking or proposed booking, including providing you with booking confirmation and updates.
* To provide you with the products and services you request.
* To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
* To manage your account, including processing payments and refunds and providing notifications.
* To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
* To enforce our Terms of Use, Booking Terms and this Privacy Policy.
* To notify you about changes to our service.
* To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
We may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you.
If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are a new customer we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form or the booking page).
Disclosure of your Information
Hello Homes is designed to allow hosts and guests to share information with one another in order to facilitate arranging stays. Listings posted by hosts, ratings and reviews of hosts and guests, and the profile information (as described below) of hosts and guests are, as far as you allow it, visible to any visitor to the site.
When you register on our site and submit your personal information to create a profile page, other users will see some of the information you provided as indicated on such page. We do not allow our users to browse user profiles but they may access your profile through various ways (if you made a booking request, a host may for instance look at your personal profile). Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. You can review and revise your profile information at any time.
If you post a listing, we may also display the geographical location of your property in the form of a map so that potential guests can see the general area and neighbourhood of your property, but you can choose whether to display the actual street address or not. Note that users will never have access to your billing information.
We may disclose and/or transfer your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If Hello Homes Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its users will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and Booking Terms and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Hello Homes, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@hellohomessitges.com.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to Information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Last update: 20 May 2013
Any changes we may make to our privacy and cookies policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacyand cookies policy are welcome and should be addressed to info@hellohomessitges.com.
GUESTS AND REGISTRATION PROCESS
At Hello Homes we deeply value the trust placed in us to share your personal data. Let us understand the potential concerns about the privacy and security of your information. This is why we want to ensure that the processing of your personal data is carried out with the utmost care and respect, following strict privacy policies.
The passport number, email address and telephone number requested during the registration process are recorded only for essential communication purposes and to ensure an optimal service experience. These data are essential not only to offer you direct and effective contact during your stay, but also to comply with our legal obligations.
Specifically, the passport number requirement is included within the need to comply with the Organic Law 4/2015, of March 30, on the protection of citizen security. This legal requirement requires us to record certain data about our clients, but we want to reiterate that this information is handled with the utmost discretion and security, and will not be shared, disclosed or used for other commercial or other purposes. /p>
At Hello Homes we do not share your personal data with third parties under any circumstances, except in accordance with the legal requirements mentioned above. The security and privacy of your information is our priority and we employ all necessary measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. We are committed to making your experience with us not only memorable, but also safe and reliable. If you have any additional questions or concerns about how we handle your personal information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
