Privacy and Cookie Policy

OneSearchHotels.com is committed to protecting your online privacy. Please read our Privacy and Cookie Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your information when you visit our website.

First and foremost, we do not collect, store or transmit any personally identifiable information about our visitors when you are browsing our website. The ONLY personally identifiable information we collect, store or transmit is your email address should you contact us or choose to leave one or more comments on our blog.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Cookies and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

• Remember your settings during and between visits. An example would be for us to avoid showing you our newsletter opt-in each time you visit.
• Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising).
• Include third party tools and content that are useful to our visitors. Embed YouTube videos about attractions.
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook.
• Improve the user experience on our website, by analyzing how visitors interact with it.

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions

Cookies may share non-personally identifiable information about your use of our site with our advertising and analytics partners. Scroll down for more details on these specific uses.

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting us permission to use cookies

The privacy settings on the web browser that you are using to view this website determine whether or not are site is able to set cookies. In addition to that, on your first visit, we display a consent form that allows you to choose what types of cookies you accept from us.

Third Party Content Cookies

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

• TravelPayouts.com – Powers our hotel comparison site operated under our subdomain compare.onesearchhotels.com. This subdomain is a third party site and is governed by a separate cookie policy.
• YouTube – Owned by Google – Powers most videos embedded on our site.

The Google integrations are covered under Google’s Privacy Policy

Travel Payouts White Label Affiliate Program

We feature hotel and flight search forms, hotel search maps, and hotel deal widgets on our website. These 3rd party tools link to our white-label subdomain – compare.onesearchhotels.com. This subdomain is a 3rd party website operated by the TravelPayouts affiliate program. It is governed by a separate privacy policy and cookie policy where you can view a full list of the cookies they use.

When you click a link to make a flight or hotel booking, your use of that site will be subject to its own Privacy Policy

Our affiliate links contain a tracking number in the URL that identifies us as the referring website. This tracking number does not convey any personal information about you whatsoever. Your personal information will only become known to the partner site if you provide it to them for the purpose of purchasing a service. In that case, they are the party responsible for the use and safe-keeping of your personal data and you should refer to their privacy policy and terms of service for more information.

Disabling cookies may affect or break some of the functions offered by these third parties.

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

If you interact with the respective sharing buttons, cookies may be set by: Facebook, Twitter, Google and Pinterest

The privacy implications on this will vary by social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service supplied by Google Inc. (“Google”). In turn, Google Analytics uses “cookies” in order to analyze your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is normally transferred to a Google server in the USA, where it is saved. Your IP address is abbreviated before transmission to Google. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information to analyze your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities, and to provide other services for the website operator related to the use of the website and internet usage. The IP address identified from your browser by Google Analytics will not be merged with other data collected by Google.

You can find further information about the conditions of use and data protection under Google’s Privacy Policy.

Advertising Cookies

Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.

Through participation in the Google Adsense program, we permit third-party companies to serve advertisements and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit this web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or a third party web beacon (invisible image file) to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org.

Google will only show non-personalized ads unless you consent to marketing cookies.

Non-personalized ads are targeted using contextual information rather than the past behavior of a user. Although these ads do not use cookies for ads personalization, they do use cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.

To learn more on how Google manages data in its products see Google Privacy and Terms.

Turning Cookies Off

You can easily switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). You can choose to turn off all cookies or just 3rd party cookies. Disabling 3rd party cookies is a good option to reduce tracking while maintaining most of the functionality on the site you are visiting.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact Form

You may send enquiries to us using the contact form. We collect no personally identifiable information from you except what you provide voluntarily when contacting us. We use your data only to answer your queries.

Third-Party Links

We are not responsible for the correctness, integrity or ownership of the information provided by third parties for whom there are redirecting links from this website. We nonetheless seek to ensure that these third parties to whom we link are trustworthy sites that provide additional information helpful to our visitors.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What rights we have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

OneSearchHotels.com may modify its Privacy Policy at any time. The most up-to-date version will always be available on this website and will govern how we use your information. We encourage you to regularly check this Privacy Policy by keeping track of any changes to it and how your personal information is used. If this Policy is substantially changed, in our sole discretion, you will be notified by means of an email if you are subscribed to our newsletter.