Privacy & Cookie Policy

Version: 2.0, last update: 15/02/2022

This “Privacy Policy” describes the way TRYPEVENTS HOTELAPPZ, having its corporate seat in Paris, and offices at 14 RUE SOLEILLET 75020 PARIS in France , registered with the French Trade under the number 82978414900025 collect, process and protect your personal data. HotelAppz is committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with applicable privacy laws and regulations such as the GDPR and the CCPA.

This HotelAppz Privacy Policy applies to processing of personal data of visitors of the HotelAppz website, representatives of our business partners, individuals who contact us via our website and applicants that apply for any job positions at HotelAppz.

In the event of any discrepancies between this Privacy Policy and any specific Privacy Policy applicable to any HotelAppz product or services, the specific Privacy Policy prevails.

I. What Data Do We Process?

HotelAppz Website

When you visit HotelAppz website, sign up for our events/webinars or for a newsletter, book a demo with HotelAppz or contact HotelAppz via our website we may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

Identification details (name, surname)
Contact details, such as address, phone number, e-mail address
Events/webinars you signed up for
Newsletters you signed up for
Information about the company you work for and your work position
Any further information you share with us

HotelAppz Customer Services

When you attend a presentation call of HotelAppz or you contact HotelAppz via our customer service center, we may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

Identification details (name, surname)
Contact details, such as address, phone number, e-mail address
Information about the company you work for and your work position
Video/voice recordings of you
Any further information you share with us

HotelAppz Careers

When you apply for a job at HotelAppz we may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

Identification details (name, surname)
Contact details, such as address, phone number, e-mail address
Information from your CV, Cover Letter about your past positions, qualifications, etc.
Any further information you share with us during the recruitment process
Criminal record

II. How Do We Process Data?

HotelAppz Services

When you create a User Account with HotelAppz, we process your log-in data (your email address) and data relating to the services you reserve or order, including past services and orders.

We process the data for the purpose and on the legal basis of delivering the functionalities of Mews Personal Area to you.

HotelAppz Website

HotelAppz may use your data for marketing purposes, i.e., if you sign up for our newsletter or other marketing communication or which may, according to your past preferences, be of interest to you. These communications shall strictly adhere to applicable legal regulations. Advertising and marketing materials of other parties shall be sent to you only if you opted in to these communications, via our website e-mail or otherwise. The legal ground for the processing of your data for marketing purposes is consent or our legitimate interests.

Your decision about receiving marketing communication may be withheld in accordance with the opt-out rules described in each marketing email or other form of communication via the unsubscribe option in the footer of every email. Opting out can be done also via changing the settings of your User Account or by directly contacting HotelAppz. If you opt out, HotelAppz shall retain only such data that is necessary for the provision of services to you in accordance with the rules set out in this policy.

HotelAppz Careers

If you apply for any open job positions at HotelAppz through HotelAppz website or other means, we will process personal data you provide us with for the purposes of evaluating your application and information contained therein to assess whether you are a suitable candidate for any of our positions. We may also conduct pre-employment screening of job applicants to verify inter alia the truthfulness of the information contained in your CV and other documents you provide us with. For particular positions, you may be asked to provide us with your criminal record as well. The pre-employment screening is always done in such a way that its proportionality, adequacy and compliance with applicable law is assured. The legal ground for processing this data is the performance of contract or pre-contractual relations or your consent (where applicable).

We may keep your CV in our internal database in order to consider you for future positions at HotelAppz ,subject to your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time in your User account or by sending a message to privacy@hotelappz.com

Legal obligations

In some instances, legal regulations impose obligations on us under which we are obliged to process personal data. Such cases are for instance tax and accounting laws and the provision of some data to public authorities based on law. Thus, we can process your data for the purpose of fulfilling our legal obligations and archiving our internal records. The legal ground for processing of such data is compliance with legal obligations.

III. Cookies and Other Technologies on Our Websites

Our websites use cookies to collect information about individuals who visit our website. Cookies are small, encrypted text files that are stored on your computer or other device. Cookies help us to operate our website, and provide important features and functionality on our website. They help us to understand how our website is being used. At the same time, we use cookies for statistical and analytical purposes, for example to track and monitor what country, what pages and what method was used to visit our website as well as to enable personalization.

Additionally, cookies help us deliver online advertising that we believe is most relevant to you. Cookies are also used for profiling. Cookies can help us to understand how our website is being used, for example, by telling us if you get an error message as you browse. For more information about cookies please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.

We use the following types of cookies:

essential (necessary) cookies, which are essential for the provision of access to our websites and for the provision of services explicitly requested by you. They enable core functionalities of the website such as marking your data inputs, network management and accessibility; (if these cookies are disabled, our website may not work properly);
analytical (performance) cookies help us to analyze how you navigate our websites and what content is relevant to our users. They are used for performance measurement and improvement;
functional cookies allow us to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language and currency you prefer, to remember your name and email and automatically fill in forms and allow for personalization, such as live chats, videos and the use of social media;
advertising cookies, which help deliver tailored and customized advertising.

We may collect the following data via cookies:

IP address, gender, time zone, browser settings, operating system, information about website visits including the URL, search terms, information about what you viewed or searched on our website, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs).

When you visit our websites, you shall be informed through a cookie banner placed at the bottom of the website that we collect cookies. The banner allows you to manage what kind of cookies can be collected by HotelAppz. You can change the settings and withdraw your consent at any time through the Privacy settings provided on the bottom of our websites.

When we collect essential cookies the legal ground for the processing of this data is legitimate interest. It is not possible to disable these cookies through the Privacy settings as our websites might not function properly when you disable this type of cookies. However, if you still wish to do so, you may follow the instructions below in the section Disabling cookies.

When we store data or gain access to data already stored in your terminal equipment such as your PC or mobile device for analytical, functional, or advertising purposes we only do so once you have given us your consent.

HotelAppz emails and/or websites and the communications generated from using and/or registering for HotelAppz services and/or platform, such as promotional emails, may contain electronic images known as “web beacons”. Web beacons generally work in conjunction with cookies, and we may use them in the same way we use cookies (see above).

Disabling cookies

If you do not wish cookies to be collected, you may restrict, block or delete the cookies at any time by modifying your browser configuration. Although each browser is parameterized differently, cookie configuration is normally located on the “Preferences” or “Tools” menu. If you turn off cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited (in the case of essential cookies you may not be able to access our website).

If you wish to prevent new cookies from being installed or if you wish to delete existing cookies you can find the instructions on the links below. The exact procedure depends on which browser you are using:

For mobile devices you can limit tracking via the privacy setting on your device (disabling the advertising identifier), for instructions please see https://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice/.

Furthermore you can use a third-party tool to opt out of targeted advertising. Available third-party opt-out tools include the Digital Advertising Alliance, the Network Advertising Initiative, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (Europe only).

We also use so-called social plugins from the following social networks on our websites: (i) facebook.com, (ii) twitter.com, (iii) linkedin.com (“plugins”), which are indicated by their logos on our websites. When you visit our websites, your browser establishes a direct connection with the servers on which these plugins run. The content of the plugins is transferred directly by Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn to your browser, which then integrates it into our website. Integration of the plugins causes Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn to receive the information that you have accessed on the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged with Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn it will be able to assign your visit to your account on these social networks.

Please note that an exchange of this information already takes place when you visit our website regardless of whether you interact with the plugin or not. If you do not want Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn to gather data about you via our website, you must log out of them before visiting our website. For more information regarding how these social networks process your data in their privacy policies:

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Twitter https://twitter.com/en/privacy

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

IV. Data Retention

Generally personal data shall be kept for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was processed. The length of time that HotelAppz will hold your personal data will also depend on the legal basis on which your data is processed. Shall the processing be based on legitimate interest, your data will be processed for as long as the given legitimate interest of HotelAppz is in place. For data kept based on legal obligations, the data-retention period is prescribed by applicable legal regulations. For data processed based on performance of a contract, the data is processed for the duration of the contractual relationship and for an applicable limitation period. Shall the processing be based on your consent, your personal data shall be erased after you withdraw your consent. Please bear in mind that the same data may as well be processed based on other legal basis in which case your withdrawal of consent might not mean a full erasure of your data.

HotelAppz shall neither collect an excessive amount of personal data nor other information which is not relevant for the purposes for which the personal data is collected.

HotelAppz shall not store data provided by you or collected automatically during the phone calls for a longer period than what is necessary, given the purposes for which they were provided or collected. Moreover, you can withdraw your consent to process your data at any time by sending a message to privacy@hotelappz.com, in which case we will remove your data from our system.

The personal data of successful applicants is processed and retained in line with our employee Privacy Policy. The personal data of unsuccessful applicants that provided us with their consent for considering them for future positions at Hotelappz is processed for the period for which the consent was given, whereas you may withdraw your consent at any time. The personal data of unsuccessful applicants that have not provided us their consent for retaining their personal data are retained for as long as the given legitimate interest of Hotelappz to protect itself from legal claims and effectuate the hiring process.

V. Data Sharing, Processors and Transfers to Third Countries

Your personal data shall not be shared with any third party except for the following situations:

data is necessary for provision of Hotelappz Services,
based on your consent,
entrusting of personal data to processors who process personal data on behalf of Hotelappz,
HotelAppz is obliged to provide the personal data on the basis of law or upon order by a public authority, or

In order to allow you to manage various reservations/orders made with Enterprises, HotelAppz may share your personal data with Enterprises for the sole purpose of making and managing your reservation/order as well as other services as offered by Enterprises.

Categories of Processors

HotelAppz uses trusted third-party providers that in some instances process personal data on behalf of HotelAppz and based on instructions provided by HotelAppz. HotelAppz may use the following categories of providers (processors under GDPR):

data center, hosting
marketing providers
analytics and recording providers
providers of polls or surveys
business management providers
task management and communication providers
legal services, tax, accounting, and audit services
recruitment and applicant verification providers
information security providers

Transfers to Third Countries

HotelAppz will transfer your data to countries outside the EU/European Economic Area only if such a transfer is compliant with applicable legal regulations. That means, for instance, that our provider is seated in a country for which the European Commission issued a decision that it provides an adequate level of personal data protection, standard contractual clauses and/or other transfer mechanisms are in place that ensure adequate safeguards with respect to the protection of privacy and fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals and, if necessary, additional measures are applied to ensure that the data subject is granted a level of protection essentially equivalent to that guaranteed by the GDPR.

VII. Your rights

Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) applies to the processing of your personal data you are entitled under the GDPR to the following rights:

Right of access

You are entitled to be informed inter alia about what personal data HotelAppz processes about you, for what purposes, and who are the recipients of your personal data.

Right to rectification

You have a right for any of your incomplete, inaccurate, or out-of-date personal data to be rectified.

Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)

You are entitled to the erasure of certain personal data that we have collected and processed about you. Please be aware that HotelAppz might be allowed or even obliged to keep some of the personal data despite your deletion request.

Right to restriction of processing

In given cases such as when we process inaccurate personal data about you, or you deem the processing as no longer necessary, you may ask for a restriction of the processing.

Right to data portability

You have a right to receive personal data you provide us with in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to have it transmitted to another controller where technically feasible.

Right to object

You are entitled to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data that concerns you and is carried out in the public interest or for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by HotelAppz, including profiling.

The exercise of your rights may be limited shall HotelAppz be obliged to keep any of your personal data for the purpose of compliance with legal obligations, for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or any other compelling reasons as provided by the relevant data protection law.

Right to not be subject to automated decision making

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision: (a) is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between you and HotelAppz (b) is authorized by law and the law lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests; or (c) is based on your explicit consent. HotelAppz does not make decisions based solely on automated processing that would have significant effects for HotelAppz user. For completeness, HotelAppz uses cookies and similar technologies the use of which may amount to profiling. For information on how to withdraw your consent for the use of cookies or disable cookies, please see chapter III. Cookies of this Privacy Policy.

Should you wish to exercise any of your rights, you may contact us at privacy@hotelappz.com.

Right to file a complaint

If you wish to file a complaint in regard to the processing of your personal data by HotelAppz, you may contact our DPO at dpo@hotelappz.com who will undertake to resolve the issue.

VIII. California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) Notice

Consumers residing in California have some additional rights in respect to their personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act or (“CCPA”). If you are a California resident, this section applies to you and supplements the above policy.

Your Californian Consumer Rights

Where the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 Assembly Bill No. 375 (“CCPA”) applies to the processing of your data you are entitled to the following rights:

Right to notice

You have the right to be informed about how your personal information will be used. We have gone into detail about how we process your personal information in chapter II. How Do We Process Data? of this Privacy Policy.

Right of access

You are entitled to be informed about what personal data HotelAppz processes about you, for what purposes and who are the recipients of your personal data.

Right to request deletion

Right to recieve equal services

You have a right to not be discriminated against even if you exercise any of your CCPA rights.

IX. Changes of Privacy Policy and language versions

HotelAppz shall, from time to time, change and update the terms of this Privacy Policy. You shall be informed of any changes to this Privacy Policy by the publishing of an updated version on HotelAppz website, and you may also obtain a copy of the amended Privacy Policy either via your User Account or via the email address you have provided to HotelAppz.

The English-language version of this Privacy Policy shall be controlling in all respects and shall prevail in case of any inconsistencies with translated versions HotelAppz may provide, if any.

X. Contact Details

Should you wish to know more about HotelAppz, its protection of your privacy, or about this Privacy Policy, you can contact HotelAppz at privacy@hotelappz.com

Please help HotelAppz ensure that your data is up to date. If you believe that some of the data processed by HotelAppz is incorrect, please contact HotelAppz at privacy@hotelappz.com