Terms & conditions

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

In addition to our rights of disclosure as mentioned hereinabove, we may also disclose the Data when required by law or court order, or as requested by other government or law enforcement authorities, or in the good faith that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable including but not limited to protect the rights or properties of Stanford Hotels. This also applies when we have reason to believe that disclosing the Data is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

CONTENTS

The information and material contained in this site are for general references only. Stanford Hotels make no warranty or representation, express or implied, regarding any matter whatsoever relating to this site or any linked site. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Stanford Hotels shall accept no responsibility or liability in respect of any loss or damage howsoever arising.

Use of or visit this site does not constitute any binding contract over any goods and services provided by Stanford Hotels, nor does it constitute an offer of any goods and services provided by Stanford Hotels. Goods and services may only be available in certain countries and any offer to purchase goods or to obtain services from Stanford Hotels are subject to acceptance by Stanford Hotels and in accordance with specific terms and conditions on which they are offered.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Stanford Hotels’ websites may contain or reference patents, copyrighted materials, trade secrets, technologies, products, processes or other intellectual property or proprietary rights of Stanford Hotels. You have no license to or right to use any such patents, copyrighted materials, trade secrets, technologies, products, processes and other intellectual property or proprietary rights of Stanford Hotels is granted to or conferred upon you.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

This Privacy Statement shall be governed and construed in all respects by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and any difference or dispute arising out of or in connection with this Privacy Statement in any respect shall be submitted to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts/tribunals of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for adjudication.

We, Stanford Hotels, (hereinafter referred to as either “we” or “us” or “our”) respect the privacy of all its customers and business partners, and treats personal information (personal data) provided by you as confidential. We know that you are concerned how information about you is collected, used and stored, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so with due care and diligence at all times in accordance with all the relevant laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

We endeavor to collect information strictly in accordance with this Privacy Statement. The types of personally identifiable information (hereinafter collectively referred to as either “the Data” or “personal data”) that we collect may include but not be limited to:

• Name

• Personal Identification Data, e.g. the Hong Kong Identity Card Number

• E-mail address

• Telephone Number

• Fax Number

• Credit card information including name of cardholder, credit card number, credit card billing address and expiry date

• Lifestyle information such as room preferences, leisure activities, names and ages of children, and other information necessary to fulfil special requests

• Any other relevant information for any of the purposes as mentioned herein below

We may also collect non-personally identifiable information about you, such as your use of our websites, communication preferences, travel habits, aggregated data relative to your stays, and responses to promotional offers and surveys.

Purpose For Collection, Processing, and Disclosure:

The Data you provided may be collected and used by Stanford Hotels for one or more of the following purposes:

• Providing services such as processing a transaction (e.g. making a reservation, fulfilling a request for information, or completing a product order):

• For marketing purposes, such as sending you updates on our latest promotions, including joint- and cross promotions with our business partners;

• Performing market research via surveys to better serve your needs, improve the effectiveness of our website, your hotel experience, our various types of communications advertising campaigns, and/or promotional activities:

• For identification and verification purposes; credit card settlement on hotel bills,

• When required or authorized by or under any law or any court order or any law enforcement agent or authority or any other government authority organization or body to disclose the information:

• Disclosing any of the Data to any third party either in Hong Kong or overseas if the disclosure is necessary for or directly related to any of the above purposes; and 

• or any other purpose, which is either necessary for or directly related to any of the above purposes.

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DATA SECURITY

Stanford Hotels ensures the privacy and security of personal data of every visitor, user and booker to our website.

To maintain the accuracy of the Data, as well as preventing from unauthorized access and ensuring the correct use of the Data, we have carried out appropriate physical, electronic and managerial measures to safeguard and secure the Data we collect online.

The website has a firewall in place, which is devised and set up to protect the Data collected from you against unauthorized or accidental access. However, complete confidentiality and security is not yet possible over the Internet, and privacy cannot be assured in your communications to us. You acknowledge that personal information is disclosed at your own risk, and may be subject to unauthorized use by others. This may result in you receiving unsolicited messages from other parties. We are not responsible in any manner for direct, indirect, special or consequential loss or damage, howsoever caused arising out of the communication of information to us.

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USE OF COOKIES

To enhance your experience across our websites, some of our web pages may use “cookies.” Cookies are text files that we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally-identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering for one of our services. However, once you choose to furnish the site with your personally-identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your username and/or password in password-protected areas, and to offer you products, programs, or services.

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LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES

In order to anticipate your needs, Stanford Hotels provides links to other websites for your convenience and information. Stanford Hotels is not responsible or liable for any content presented by or contained on any independent website, including, but not limited to, any advertising claims or marketing practices. Please note that while Stanford Hotels will protect your information on owned and operated websites. Third party websites that are accessed through links on our websites have separate privacy and data collection practices, and security measures. We have no responsibility or liability for the practices, policies and security measures implemented by third parties on their websites. For the sake of protecting your personal data, we strongly recommend you to contact them to ask questions about their privacy practices, policies and security measures before disclosing any personally identifiable information. We also strongly recommend that you review the privacy statements and policies of linked websites to understand how those websites collect, use and store information.

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CONTACT US

You always have ultimate choice on the information you would like to receive from us. We will occasionally send you E-mail updates about our latest products and services, as well as special offers to subscribers. Should you decide not to receive any E-mail updates from us, feel free to unsubscribe to these services or please e-mail us to remove you from the subscription list. If you have any queries or comments concerning our privacy and security matters, please e-mail us.

You are entitled to (i) ascertain from us our policies and practices in relation to personal data; (ii) be informed by us of the kind of personal data of you held by us; and (iii) be informed by us of the main purpose(s) for which your personal data are held by us or are used or are to be used by us.

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ACCESS TO DATA

You have the right to :

• ascertain from us whether we hold any of your personal data;

• request access to your personal data, if any held by us – within a reasonable time, at a fee to be charged by us, in a reasonable manner, and in an intelligible form;

‍• be given reason(s) if your request in (b) above is refused by us;

• object to our refusal referred to in (c) above;

• request the correction of any of your personal data, if any held by us;

• be given reason(s) if your request in (e) above is refused by us; and

• object to our refusal referred to in (f) above.

AMENDS OR UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY STATEMENT

Stanford Hotels reserves full rights to amend or update this Privacy Statement at our discretion from time to time as it sees fit or necessary to meet any change in any of the relevant laws or the regulatory environment, or business needs, or to satisfy the needs of our guests, properties, strategic marketing partners, and service providers or to meet any other purposes. Updated versions will be posted to our website and date stamped so that you are always aware of when the Privacy Statement was last updated. The whole contents of this Privacy Statement will then be construed accordingly in conjunction with such amended or updated versions.