All material found in the pages of this Website is protected under the copyright laws of Tanzania. Certain names, words, titles, phrases, logos, icons, graphics or designs in the pages of this Website may constitute trade-names, trade-marks or service marks of Ports Line Hotel & Spa. The display of trademarks, trade names or service marks on pages at this Website does not imply that a license of any kind has been granted to anyone else.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Protecting your privacy is very important to us. We have developed this Privacy Policy to protect your personal information and keep it confidential.

We do everything we reasonably can to protect your rights of privacy on systems and websites controlled by us, but we are not liable for any unauthorized or unlawful disclosures of your personal and confidential information made by third parties who are not subject to our control, for example advertisers and websites that have links to our Site. You should take note that the information and privacy practices of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which we provide hyperlinks, may be different from ours.

Our policy outlines the type of personal information we collect and receive, the circumstances in which we collect or receive personal information, the policies and procedures we have established outlining its use and storage, and for sharing certain types of personal information in certain limited circumstances, the procedures you should follow if you have any questions or requests in respect of your personal information or our policies and procedures and the person to whom such questions or requests should be directed, and the means by which to communicate with that person.

In this policy ‘Ports Line Hotel & Spa’, as it may exist from time to time, which include, without limitation, the subsidiaries which carry on a business that use the following name: Ports Line Hotel & Spa. The words ‘we’ and Ports Line Hotel & Spa’ do not include third-party hotel owners or third parties involved in the delivery of services, however, we have requested such hotel owners and third party suppliers to abide by the terms of our Privacy Protection Policy. In this policy, personal information means information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, e-mail address or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available and is not part of your work identification.

It also includes information on guest preferences and usage, when such information is supplied to or recorded by Ports Line Hotel & Spa in the course of transacting business with an individual.

The Privacy Protection Policy does not apply to information regarding Ports Line Hotel & Spa corporate customers. However, such information is protected by other Ports Line Hotel & Spa policies and practices and through contractual arrangements.

HOW YOU MAY PROVIDE US YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • By making a reservation or by using Ports Line Hotel & Spa services.
  • By registering on the website.
  • By providing the information to us by participating in a marketing initiative.
  • By visiting our website.

Below we will outline the type of information normally collected in each of these circumstances, the reasons for doing so, how we will use it and store it. When you voluntarily send us electronic mail, we will keep a record of this information so that we can respond to you. We only collect information from you when you register on our website or fill out a form. Also, when filling out a form on our site, you may be asked to enter your name, email address or phone number. You may, however, visit our site anonymously. In case you have submitted your personal information and contact details, we reserve the rights to Call, SMS, Email or Whatsapp about our products and offers, even if your number has DND activated on it.

MAKING A RESERVATION

When making a reservation or using Ports Line Hotel & Spa services it is necessary to have information in order to identify you, contact you and to process your purchase and requests. This information usually includes your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, credit card number and expiration date, and language preference. It may also include if you choose to share that information with us, your preferences regarding the delivery of your services such as type of room, type of bed, and the like. You may wish to have your purchase of Ports Line Hotel & Spa’ services recognized in a third party’s loyalty program with which Ports Line Hotel & Spa has a relationship. To do so will require you providing us certain verification information such as your membership number in the third party program. We also offer special discounts from time to time that may have qualifying criteria. Sometimes we offer special offers to, for example, seniors or children. To assess your eligibility and process your reservation correctly, we need to record your date of birth at the time of booking. You may be required to provide personal identification with your date of birth in order to verify this upon check-in.

Ports Line Hotel & Spa may use the information you provide to send you offers and information about Ports Line Hotel & Spa services. Your information will not be given to any third party but rather the offer of the third party will be provided to Ports Line Hotel & Spa which will manage the distribution.

If you do not wish to receive such offers and information you may unsubscribe or opt-out by sending an email to info@portslinehotel.co.tz, using the subject line “Unsubscribe”, so indicating your request with sufficient personal identifiers so we can appropriately act on your request. All our marketing communication of this type will also contain instructions for unsubscribing.

REGISTERING ON THE WEBSITE

Individuals interested in sharing their experiences at Ports Line Hotel & Spa may wish to do so through our website. Although registration is not required to view the site, it is required to enable sharing and other functions on that website. The personal information you provide during registration is used to validate your identity and to enable us to manage and administer your contributions to the website, and to contact you regarding your contributions or use of the website. We may also use your information to contact you about updates or changes to the website, shared content that may be of interest to you or other offers and information related to Ports Line Hotel & Spa or marketing partners whose products and services may be of interest to you.

We may from time to time use third-party service providers to facilitate the operation of our website. As a result, your personal information may be accessed, administered or stored by such third parties to the extent reasonably required for them to perform such services. Some service providers may be located in other jurisdictions that do not have privacy legislation similar to that found in Tanzania, and information in such jurisdictions may be accessed pursuant to the laws of those countries.

PORTS LINE HOTEL & SPA OFFERS YOU THE ABILITY TO RECEIVE TARGETED, TIMELY NOTIFICATION OF TIME SENSITIVE OFFERS

To sign up for this service we require you to provide us with your e-mail address, first name, last name, language preference, and country of residence. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link provided on every e-mail message and you will no longer receive e-mail offers and promotions for the specified subscription or website, as the case may be. You may at any time in the future opt-in to receive e-mail offers.

BY VISITING OUR WEBSITES

We use “cookies” on our websites. Cookies are pieces of information that an Internet site transfers to your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is an industry-standard — you’ll find them almost everywhere on the Internet. Ports Line Hotel & Spa uses cookies to recognize visitors when they return to our sites. Once we know it’s you, we can customize your online visit.

We may also evaluate our content and services and tailor our websites, for visitors, based on other information we collect, such as IP addresses, which are numbers assigned to your computer whenever you use the Internet, pixel tags (or clear gifs), and the type of Internet browser or operating system you are using. This information is collected in the aggregate, but we may tie it to your personal information through cookie use as described above.

We use Google Analytics to measure how visitors interact with content on our websites. We also use Facebook Custom Audiences to ask Facebook to show you ads that are customized based on your interaction with our websites or our Facebook applications and to measure how you interact with those ads. All of these services use cookies and similar technologies, such as web beacons, tags, and embedded scripts, to record information about your interaction with our websites. Additional information on how these services use such technologies can be found on Google’s website, and Facebook’s website. Google Analytics security and privacy principles summarize how Google protects information collected through Google Analytics. Facebook’s Data Use Policy describes how Facebook protects information collected through Facebook Custom Audiences.

If you do not wish to have data relating to your visits to our websites collected through Google Analytics, you may opt-out by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. You may opt-out of Facebook Custom Audiences by visiting Facebook’s opt-out page.

WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • To establish and maintain a responsible commercial relationship with you and to provide on-going service.
  • To understand your needs and preferences. We maintain a record of the products and services you receive from us and we may ask for additional information so that we can serve you better. For example, we may record your preference for the type of room.
  • To develop, enhance market or provide products and services. For example, we look at our guests’ use of our services so that we can better understand how to improve our services.
  • To manage and develop our business and operations. For example, we analyse guest patterns of usage of our hotels and services to help us manage them efficiently and plan for future growth.
  • To meet legal and regulatory requirements.

WHEN DO WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We disclose personal information only in these limited circumstances:

  • We may disclose a guest’s personal information to a person who, in the reasonable judgment of Ports Line Hotel & Spa, is seeking the information as an agent of the guest – for example, a travel agent who is booking a reservation on behalf of the guest.
  • Personal information will be shared with a third party involved in supplying the guest with the services they have purchased to the extent necessary to affect the supply and the processing of the transaction.
  • Personal information may be shared with a third party retained by Ports Line Hotel & Spa to perform functions on its behalf such as reservations handling, data processing or storage, guest surveys or research.
  • Personal information may be shared with an agent retained by Ports Line Hotel & Spa to evaluate a customer’s creditworthiness or in order to collect a customer’s account.
  •  Personal information may be shared with a public authority or an agent of public authority if in the reasonable judgment of Ports Line Hotel & Spa it appears that there is an imminent danger to life or property which could be avoided or minimized by disclosure of the information, or which disclosure is compelled by legal authority. Any such disclosure of a guest’s personal information by Ports Line Hotel & Spa to a third party will be made only on a confidential basis conditioned upon the information being used only for the purpose for which it has been disclosed.

PRINCIPLES

  • Ports Line Hotel & Spa will not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any other purpose than those identified above, except with your consent.
  • Ports Line Hotel & Spa will protect your personal information with appropriate security safeguards.
  • Ports Line Hotel & Spa will take appropriate steps to protect the confidentiality of your personal information when dealing with third parties.
  • Ports Line Hotel & Spa will strive to keep your personal information as accurate and up to date as is necessary for the purposes identified above.
  • Ports Line Hotel & Spa will honour your request to access your personal information in a timely fashion as is reasonably possible. You are always free to refuse to provide personal information to us. You may also withdraw your consent with respect to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice, by e-mailing us at info@portslinehotel.co.tz, using ‘Unsubscribe’ as the subject line, and providing us sufficient personal identifiers so we can act effectively on your request. However, in either case, this may limit our ability to serve you.

If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices or wish to make a request in respect of your personal information please contact our Privacy Officer at shaban@portslinehotel.co.tz or if you prefer by writing us at:

Ports Line Hotel & Spa

P.O Box 1, 4950, Arusha, Tanzania

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