What Personal Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you choose to provide voluntarily when using our web sites and mobile applications. This information includes your IHG® Rewards Club account. You can use our site without creating an account, but you will need to create an account if you want to take advantage of certain features, such as "Favorite Destinations," "Room/Rate Preferences" and other time saving features. We may also ask for personal information when you contact our Customer Service department. This will allow us to protect your confidentiality by verifying your identity.

Following a stay in one of our hotels, your hotel stay information is collected and stored by our hotels locally, and subsequently transferred to a centralized database. This facilitates aggregated trend analysis used for hotel management purposes such as planning new hotel locations, evaluating hotel amenities, guest preferences, and advertisement planning. In addition, your business with us is valued and we may use the record of your stay to send you via postal mail or email, communications such as guest surveys or promotional offers and benefits. You may "opt-out" or choose to be excluded from these communications by noting this on your guest registration during your hotel stay or by contacting Customer Service. For Customers who do not reside in the United States, and who have not chosen to enroll in the IHG® Rewards Club program, we may contact you regarding your satisfaction with your hotel stay but will not send you any sales promotional communications or special offers unless you have consented to receive such communications.

Our web sites do not intentionally solicit or collect personal information about children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 and would like to use our web site, please ask a parent or guardian for assistance.

Some of our promotional offers have a "Tell A Friend" feature that allows you to have the offer sent to a friend with your comment. If you choose to use this feature, we collect the email address of your friend(s) to facilitate the referral but do not store it for other uses.

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Where Do We Collect Your Personal Information?

When you place a hotel reservation, we request your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card number and expiration date. We use this information to process and fulfill your reservation.

When you register for a IHG^®Â Rewards Club account, we ask for your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address and PIN. Additionally, when you utilize our IHG^®Â Rewards Club mobile application we will also collect information through your device such as: device type, other mobile applications which may be on your device, and your geo-location data. There is a membership fee for Ambassador that requires credit card information to process. Credit card information is optional for IHG^®Â Rewards Club accounts and may be added after you have registered. Additional optional information in your profile is collected for specific services such as check-in conveniences, room preferences, or point transfers to airline or other partner programs. You may access and update your profile in IHG® Rewards Club or Ambassador online at any time, using your membership number and PIN. This data is stored in data bases protected from intrusion and unauthorized viewing by commercially available software products we purchase in good faith from third party suppliers, and you do not have to re-enter it with each visit to our web site. It is also used to recognize you as a repeat customer so we can personalize your shopping experience. Once you become a IHG® Rewards Club member, you will have access to our special features, including "Favorite Destinations", which conveniently stores your most frequented hotels and cities. IHG^®Â Rewards Club and Ambassador members receive newsletters and promotional offers from both InterContinental Hotels Group and its program partners, and points statements. IHG^®Â Rewards Club and Ambassador member information is shared with program partners, listed in the membership welcome package and newsletters, unless you decline by requesting an "opt-out" of that portion of the program by contacting IHG^®Â Rewards Club or Ambassador service centers. Contact information can be found on our Customer Service page.

When you join the InterContinental Hotels Group Email List, we request your email address in order to send you email on the latest offers, advanced notice of events, and more.

To deliver this information to you, we use a third-party email marketing service that helps us conduct targeted permission-based email campaigns. When registering for our email program, this service company may collect and store personal information you provide on our behalf and have agreed with us it will not share, rent, sell, trade or provide any of this information to parties other than InterContinental Hotels Group. If you are no longer interested in receiving InterContinental Hotels Group Email communications, instructions for removal from the list are included in every email we send you.

We access location based information from your mobile device while searching for an InterContinental Hotels Group location in the area in which you have expressed interest. We do not use this information to specifically locate you for any reason other than to provide you the service. If you do not wish to allow us to use your location information then please do not use the service. If you have allowed us to utilize your location information in the past and wish to revoke the permissions to do so please turn off location services at the device level.

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How We Use Your Personal Information

Information we collect on our web sites and mobile applications may be used to enhance your experience in the following ways:

• Confirm your hotel reservations
• Request your evaluation of a hotel stay via a satisfaction survey
• Send you emails that relate to a hotel stay
• Register you as a member of IHG^®Â Rewards Club
• Deliver merchandise you have redeemed online
• Bill your credit card for Advance Purchase Reservations and Advance Deposits
• Respond to your customer-service inquiries or requests
• Communicate special offers and featured items to you, if you choose to receive such notices
• Customize your experience on our web sites
• Locate hotels near you
• Evaluate other travel related mobile applications on your device in order to improve our services

Contests

From time-to-time, we may request information from you through contests. Participation in these contests is completely voluntary and you have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information gathered from contests will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Demographic information will be used for purposes of monitoring and improving your experience on this site.

We may co-sponsor some contests on our site with other companies. If you enter one of these contests, our co-sponsor may receive the information collected or may collect the information directly. In such cases, we will tell you who is collecting your information, how our co-sponsor may use the information and how you can contact our co-sponsor.

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When and With Whom We Share Your Personal Information

We will share personal customer information with our hotels, representatives and trusted service providers and contractors for limited purposes, including fulfilling customer reservations; offering certain products and services in connection with our web site; communicating to customers via email and through our interactive chat feature; providing customer service; detecting, preventing or taking action against fraud; enhancing and improving customers' online experience; enabling access to our partners' sites; providing a personalized online experience; completing credit card transactions; or other similar business purposes. For members of IHG® Rewards Club, information is shared with our program partners for the purpose of transferring rewards points and, with our prior approval, to extend special offers. In order to transfer points to other programs and to earn or redeem points quickly, we offer links to selected third party services for these services. In order to use these optional services, it is necessary to share some of your personal information. These third parties have agreed to comply with our privacy policies. In addition, we may share a modified version of your IHG Rewards Club membership number with advertising partners so that we can advertise to you based upon the ads that appear to interest you. We require these partners to agree not to re-identify you or your IHG Rewards Club number and not to use the number for their own purposes or to provide advertising for other of their advertiser clients.

For customers using employer-issued corporate credit cards, we may share hotel charge information, including your name, address, credit card number, and room charges, with your credit card company, who may in turn share this data with the bank that issued your credit card and your employer.

Aside from the purposes described above, we do not share your personal information with any other third parties unless we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the disclosure is required by law or to protect the safety of hotel guests, employees, the public or InterContinental Hotels Group property, or in the event of a sale or transfer of assets of our company. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on our business entity. We may share aggregated demographic and statistical information in the course of our business with certain third parties. This sharing does not include any personal information that can identify any individual person.

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Please note that our site links to other sites and that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from ours. We advise you to check the privacy policies of other Web sites before disclosing any personal information. In any event, please note that these sites do not share your personal information with us.

Occasionally when linking to another site, you may still see our site's logo or frame. This is to provide you with a seamless experience when visiting our Web site. In these cases you are no longer on our site and are now on a different Web site whose information collection practices may differ from ours. The privacy policy of the site you are on will govern how information collected from you is used. You can always know what site you are on by checking the location bar within your browser.

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How We Protect the Security of Your Personal Information 

In our efforts to protect your personal data, we use generally accepted standards for safeguards including administrative, technical and physical measures. Additional safeguards are in place for sensitive personal data. These safeguards are continually updated and maintained by qualified information security professionals.

One of the security techniques we use for online transactions is a technology called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If your browser is capable of SSL (and most are), your sensitive information (including geo-location data) will be automatically encrypted, or encoded, before it is sent over the Internet or through our mobile applications. More about SSL Technology.

We have also obtained a digital security certificate from Verisign, Inc., a leading provider of Internet trust services. This certificate guarantees that your personal information is being transmitted in secure (encrypted) form to our Web servers, not to some unknown or unauthorized server. When you enter a secure portion of our site (which is any page containing any of your personal information), an image of a closed lock or a solid key should appear in your browser window.

Your personal information is also protected by the Personal Identification Number (PIN) created when you joined the IHG^®Â Rewards Club program. Please keep this PIN confidential. You may change it anytime by going to Your Account. Log in and then click "Personal Information" to enter a new PIN. If you contact one of our service centers by telephone, a Customer Service Associate may ask you for your PIN to verify your identity if you are requesting service.

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What is the credit card fraud policy?

In the unlikely event that you experience unauthorized use of your credit card on our web site or any web site, promptly report the fraudulent activity to your credit card company. Under applicable law, you may be only liable for the first $50 of the fraudulent charges. Please check with your credit card company to verify specific terms and conditions.

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Cookies and Other Computer Information

We use cookies as well as other technologies on our websites, mobile applications and in other areas of our business to collect information and provide you with the services that you have requested or participated in. We also use the information that we collect to improve our products and services as well as your experience when visiting our websites and using our mobile applications.

You can choose to visit our web sites without cookies, but without these identifying files you will not be able to take advantage of certain desirable features of our site. These features include remembering your login (so you don't have to remember your number) and providing a more personalized online experience. To visit without cookies, you can configure your browser to reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.)

We may also utilise third party tracking pixels and cookies provided by our advertising delivery partners to help manage online advertising. These pixels enable our partners to recognise a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our websites as well as provide you with targeted advertisements. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by InterContinental Hotels Group websites only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.  We do however contractually require our advertising delivery partners to protect your information and to use any information only for the limited purposes for which it is collected. The information we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.

IHG participates in the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioural Advertising managed by the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”). As part of this commitment, IHG has agreed to comply with the standards and guidelines promulgated by the DAA. For more information regarding targeted advertisements and and/or to opt out of automatic collection for these purposes, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

This web site may from time to time offer "web widgets". Some widgets support functions that may require that you to disclose certain personally identifiable information given your choice of participation. This information is collected in many different ways such as: forms, surveys, contests, forums, subscribing or unsubscribing to mailings and correcting or updating personally identifiable information and are only used for the purpose in which they were collected. Some widgets may utilize an optional import contacts feature to help you invite your contacts to download our widget. If you so choose, we make it easy for you to invite people from your email address books to download our widget. At your request, we will search your email address book to help you import your contacts to our site. You can import your contacts from your email address book automatically and select who to send emails manually to download the widget. The email invitation will come from your entered email address.

This web site may include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features may be transmitted to the Social Media Company and are governed by that company's privacy policy.

We also collect certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to our web sites. This information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your computer's operating system, browser type and the address of a referring Web site, if any. We collect this information to enhance the quality of your experience during your visit to our site and will not sell or rent this information to any third parties.

We use various web site analytics tools and technologies regarding activities on our web site and within our mobile app that require storage of web session data. The overall aim of these tools is to aid in making the website easy to use and to proactively identify and correct error conditions. These tools and technologies are also used to assist web site visitors who report problems in the use of our website. Stored web session data is never sold or rented to third parties and is purged when these purposes have been fulfilled.

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How do I correct or update my information?

We provide storage of personal information for IHG^®Â Rewards Club Members and InterContinental® Ambassadors that can be updated online. IHG^®Â Rewards Club members and Ambassador members can modify their personal information anytime. Simply go to Your Account, log in and edit whatever information you wish. Your request will be responded to within 30 days of requesting the change. If you wish to delete your account entirely, please contact the nearest IHG^®Â Rewards Club Service Center.

If you wish to no longer have your geo-location data collected through our mobile web site or app you may turn off geo-location at the device level.

Non-IHG^®Â Rewards Club members can alter their email preferences by visiting our Email Registration Site.

We may retain your personal information and geo-location data for as long as your account is active, as needed to provide you services and we will use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

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How can I decide what communications I will receive?

Guest Satisfaction Surveys

We strive to maintain and continually improve the quality of all hotels in our brands. Customer comments and feedback are valued and used as a quality tool. As part of the hotel stay experience, we engage a third party to randomly survey guests and request an evaluation of the hotel property and service. These surveys are sent via email and postal mail. If you have a preference for either email or postal mail or if you do not wish to be contacted for satisfaction surveys, please advise the hotel either at check-in or during your stay. You may also contact the IHG Privacy Office at the information provided below.

Email Communications

If you choose to receive periodic comminications from us, we may from time to time send you email messages describing new promotions, featured hotels and special offers. You can choose to stop receiving these emails at any time. If you are a US resident and stay at one of the IHG brand hotels, we value your patronage and will send you special offers and promotions. If you do not wish to receive these offers, you may discontinue at any time by using the "Unsubscribe" feature included on each email message.

For IHG^®Â Rewards Club or InterContinental® Ambassadors, simply go to Your Account, sign in, click "Communication Preferences" and revise your preferences.

If you are not a member of IHG^®Â Rewards Club or InterContinental® Ambassadors, and you have an email account with us, you can alter your email preferences by visiting our Email Registration Site. Links to this site can be found on each brand web page.

Email communications that we use are described in more detail as follows:

Membership Transactions: We may send you email confirmations of any member transactions that you conduct (redemption, promotion registration, points deposit). These confirmations will only be sent if a transaction is conducted.

Reservation/Stay Related Interactions: We may send you a reservation confirmation email to confirm any reservation you make with IHG. A similar confirmation may be sent if you modify or cancel a reservation. These confirmations will only be sent if a transaction is conducted.

Pre-Arrival Communications: We may use your email address used for your reservation to provide a reservation summary with hotel and local area information a few days prior to that particular stay. 

Post-Stay Communications: We may use your email address used for a hotel reservation to thank you for that particular hotel stay or to request your feedback on your stay.

Operational Notices: Email addresses may also be used to respond to your customer service inquiries and to answer any other questions you may have about our site. We may also need to send emails to inform you of any changes to our site that might affect your personal information or to notify you "of problems with your reservation.

IHG^®Â Rewards Club Members

The membership terms and conditions of IHG^®Â Rewards Club include provisions for data privacy as follows:

Data Privacy. Under the data protection legislation of various countries, we are required to particularly draw your attention to the fact that by applying for membership or by continuing to exercise the privileges of membership and in order to make it possible for IHG to perform its obligations under the Program, you accept and explicitly authorize that your personal information which is supplied by you in the enrollment form or during the course of your Program membership (i) shall be processed by SCH, in its capacity of data controller, by its subsidiaries, affiliates or franchisees, including IHG hotels in nearly 100 countries, and by the IHG^®Â Rewards Club and InterContinental Ambassador Service Centers and (ii) may be transferred worldwide to any third parties with which IHG is affiliated within the scope of the Program ("Frequency Alliances") or to third parties to process your personal data on our behalf or where required by applicable law or in the event of a company reorganization, merger or acquisition, for use of such information for its (their) administration of membership records, guest service, advertising, marketing and communication purposes. They or we may contact you for marketing purposes by mail, fax, telephone or email. 

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process on our Web site.

As an additional benefit of membership, we provide selected offers and promotions from various companies who are program partners. A separate and additional enrollment is needed for members who are residents of Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia or Canada. You will need to check the relevant box on the offline enrollment form or contact your IHG^®Â Rewards Club or InterContinental Ambassador Service Center to receive this benefit. Members residing in all other areas of the world, including the U.S.A. do not need to complete an additional enrollment for this opt-in feature but if you wish to be excluded from such offers and promotions, you will need to contact the IHG^®Rewards Club Service Center in your region and ask to be removed.

Right of Access to Data. You have a right of access to your data by sending a written request to your regional IHG^®Â Rewards Club or InterContinental Ambassador Service Center. 

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More About Your Privacy

"InterContinental Hotels Group is a Participant in the TRUSTe Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to advance privacy and trust in the networked world. As this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices monitored for compliance by TRUSTe.

If there are questions or concerns regarding this statement, we ask that you first contact:

InterContinental Hotels Group

Attn: Privacy Office

Three Ravinia Drive

Atlanta, Georgia 30346 

Phone: 1-770-604-8347

Fax: 1-770-604-5275

Email: privacyoffice@ihg.com

InterContinental Hotels Group has received TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy statement and our practices have been reviewed for compliance with the TRUSTe program viewable on the validation page available by clicking the TRUSTe seal.

If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact TRUSTe at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request. 

Please click here for fax and postal mail information. TRUSTe's Dispute Resolution process is only available in English.

The TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected through this Web site, and does not cover information that may be collected through software downloaded from the site.

InterContinental Hotels Group complies with the U.S. – E.U. Safe Harbor framework and the U.S. - Swiss Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from European Union member countries and Switzerland. IHG has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement and commits to adherence to the 15 FAQs that make up the Safe Harbor Framework. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view InterContinental Hotels Group’s certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/ and search “Six Continents Hotels, Inc.”

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Changes to the InterContinental Hotels Group Privacy Policy

InterContinental Hotels Group reserves the right to change, modify or amend this policy at any time. However, if there are changes made to the use of users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days prior to the changes taking effect. Last Updated on February 21, 2014.