Special Offers
Special Offers
Last updated 24 May 2018
At the Washington Mayfair Hotel (referred to as “Property” in this Privacy Policy), we strive to deliver outstanding products, services, and experiences to our Guests and Clients (referred to as “you” / “your” in this Privacy Policy). We value your business and, more importantly, your loyalty. We recognize that privacy is an important issue. We have developed this Privacy Policy (this "Policy") to explain our practices regarding the personal information we collect when you visit this site and via our other online services (including Social Media Pages).
This Privacy Statement describes the privacy practices of the Washington Mayfair Hotel for data that we collect:
Collectively, we refer to the Websites, and our Social Media Pages, as the “Online Services” and, together with offline channels, the “Services.” By using the Services, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Statement.
Please read this Policy carefully before submitting personal information about you to us. By using any of our products or services and/or by agreeing to this Statement, e.g. in the context of booking rooms with us or for any other services, you understand and acknowledge that we will collect and use personal information as described in this Statement.
“Personal Data” are data that identify you as an individual or relate to an identifiable individual.
At every touch point or guest interaction, we may collect personal information. In addition to any other information you may choose to provide to us, this personal information may include:
If you submit any Personal Data about other people to us or our Service Providers (e.g., if you make a reservation for another individual), you represent that you have the authority to do so and you permit us to use the data in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
“Other Data” are data that generally do not reveal your specific identity or do not directly relate to an individual. To the extent Other Data reveal your specific identity or relate to an individual, we will treat Other Data as Personal Data. Other Data include:
We also collect Other Data in a variety of ways
If you do not want data collected with cookies, you can learn more about controlling cookies at:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/
You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Online Services. For example, we will not be able to recognize your computer, and you may not be able to successfully book with us. You also will not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs. At this time, we do not respond to browser “Do-Not-Track” signals.
We use your personal information in a number of ways, including to provide and personalize the services you request and expect from the Washington Mayfair Hotel, to offer you the expected level of hospitality in-room and throughout our Property, conduct direct marketing and sales promotions and as set forth below in more detail:
Provide the Services you request – We use Personal Data and Other Data to provide Services you request, including:
- To facilitate reservations, payment, send administrative information, confirmations or pre-arrival messages, to assist you with meetings and events and to provide you with other information about the area and the Property.
- To complete your reservation and stay, for example, to process your payment, ensure that your room is available and provide you with related customer service
- To support our electronic receipt program. When you provide an email address in making a reservation, we use that email address to send you a copy of your bill. If you make a reservation for another person using your email address, that person's bill will be emailed to you, as well. You can opt out of receiving your bill via email and instead receive a paper copy by contacting the front desk
Personalize the Services according to your Personal Preferences – We use Personal Data and Other Data to personalize the Services and improve your experiences, including when you call the Property, visit the Property or use the Online Services.
Present offers tailored to your Personal Preferences
- We use Personal Data and Other Data to send you marketing communications and promotional offers, as well as periodic customer satisfaction, market research or quality assurance surveys. We will only send you promotional and marketing communication in accordance to your Personal Preferences with your consent.
- We use Personal Data and Other Data to allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests and other promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional rules and may contain additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Data. We suggest that you read any such rules carefully.
Manage Contractual Relationship – We will use Personal Data and Other Data to manage our contractual relationship with you, because we have a legitimate interest to do so and/or to comply with a legal obligation
Business Purposes – We use Personal Data and Other Data for data analysis, audits, security and fraud monitoring and prevention (including with the use of closed circuit television, card keys, and other security systems), developing new goods and services, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities.
We will collect your consent prior to processing your data where required by applicable law.
We are obligated to collect certain data, including your name, address, payment information, and by law, for guests from certain countries, travel document information, in order to process your reservation. Failure to provide this information will result in our inability to process your reservation.
The term "sensitive information" refers to information related to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, sex life, or sexual orientation, genetic information, criminal background, and any biometric data used for the purpose of unique identification.
We do not generally collect sensitive information unless it is volunteered by you or unless we are required to do so pursuant to applicable laws or regulations. We may use health data provided by you to serve you better and meet your particular needs (for example, the provision of disability access).
We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18 years of age. As a Parent or legal guardian, please do not to allow your children to submit personal information without your permission.
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Data. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact” section on our Website.
We will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
- The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Services)
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them)
- Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as, for statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations)
If you have given us your contact information (mail address, fax number, email address or phone number), we may want to inform you in accordance with any preferences you have expressed, and with your consent where required, about our products and services or invite you to events via email, online advertising, social media, WhatsApp, telephone, text message (including SMS and MMS), postal mail, our customer relations, and other means (including on-property messaging, such as your in-room television or smart devices where available).
If you prefer not to receive email marketing materials from us, you may opt-out at any time by using the unsubscribe function in the email you receive from us or by contacting dpo@washington-mayfair.co.uk
To opt out of text messages, please email dpo@washington-mayfair.co.uk or reply “STOP” to the message you received.
Even if we already hold your personal data, you still have various rights in relation to it. To get in touch about these, please contact us. We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event in accordance with the requirements of any applicable laws. Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues which you raise.
11.1 Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR): You have the right to ask us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and you may ask us to modify, update or delete such information. At this point we may comply with your request or, additionally do one of the following:
- we may ask you to verify your identity, or ask for more information about your request; and
- where we are legally permitted to do so, we may decline your request, but we will explain why if we do so.
If you require additional copies, we may need to charge a reasonable fee.
11.2 Right to rectification: If your personal data is inaccurate or incomplete, you are entitled to ask that we correct or complete it.
11.3 Right to object: You may ask us at any time to stop processing your personal data, and we will do so:
- If we are relying on a legitimate interest to process your personal data -- unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing or
- If we are processing your personal data for direct marketing.
11.4 Right to withdraw consent: Where we have obtained your consent to process your personal data for certain activities (for example, credit allowances), or consent to market to you, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
11.5 Right to erasure: In certain situations (for example, where we have processed your data unlawfully), you have the right to request us to "erase" your personal data.
If you wish to exercise your rights please contact us as described in the “Contact” section below. We will respond to your request within 30 days however we may be allowed to extend this period in certain cases, and will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply.
We may modify this Policy from time to time. When we make material changes to this policy we will post the revised policy on the homepage of our site. You can tell when this Policy was last updated by looking at the date at the top of the Policy. Any changes to our Policy will become effective upon posting of the revised Policy on the site. Use of the site following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Policy then in effect.
If you have any questions about this Policy or how the Washington Mayfair Hotel processes your personal information, please contact us by email to dpo@washington-mayfair.co.uk or by postal mail to
Washington Mayfair Hotel 5 Curzon Street MayfairW1J 5HE - United Kingdom
