1. OUR PRIVACY PROMISE
- We promise to collect, use and store your personal data in a safe and secure way.
- We promise to only use your personal data for the specific purposes stated.
- We promise to keep you informed about how we use your information and who we give it to.
This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Water Sports Village Limited (“Paradise Cove or PCBH”) collects personal information about you and how we use that data, who that data may be sent to and how you can amend data you have submitted to us.
Paradise Cove is committed to protecting your personal information when you use our services. Whenever you provide such information, we will only use your information in line with all applicable data protection laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local DPA. Your information will be kept in a secure environment and access to it will be restricted according to the 'need to know' principle.
2. OUR PRIVACY POLICY
"Personal data" means any information collected and logged in a format that allows you to be identified personally, either directly (e.g. name) or indirectly (e.g. telephone number) as a natural person.
This privacy policy forms part of the terms and conditions that govern our hotel services. By accepting these terms and conditions, you expressly accept the provisions of this policy.
Our privacy policy applies to our website www.paradisecovehotel.com, and to personal information supplied over the telephone, by e-mail, fax or letter, SMS, through representatives, through online medium or channels and any other means.
This includes collecting unique online identifiers such as IP addresses, which are numbers that uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet. For more information, see our section on ‘cookies’ below.
3. WHO ARE WE
Water Sports Village Limited (WSVL) is a public company limited by shares incorporated in the Republic of Mauritius. Its registered office is situated at Axis Corporate Consultants Ltd, 2nd Floor, The AXIS, 26 Cybercity, Ebene 72201, Mauritius.
WSVL is an associate of Attitude Hospitality Ltd (AHL) and the company owns a hotel operating under the name of “Paradise Cove Boutique Hotel (PCBH).
WSVL has a management agreement with Attitude Hospitality Management Ltd(AHML)and AHL for the management and operations of PCBH.
AHML(Attitude) as the Management entity, shall be responsible for handling your personal information, inputted on this website and for reservation and marketing purpose. Given that the contractual relationship will primarily be with the hotels, the responsibility for handling and keeping your personal information will rest on both the hotel and AHML.
This policy applies:
- To all data processing at Attitude i.e. those operating under Attitude brand name and/or any other brand owned by Attitude.
- To all reservation websites, including brand sites namely www.paradisecovehotel.com.
4. PRINCIPLES FOR PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The seven principles below are applicable within our organisation throughout the world.
- Transparency: When collecting and processing your personal data, we will communicate all information to you and inform you of the purpose and recipients of the data.
- Legitimacy: We will collect and process your personal data only for the purposes described in this Policy.
- Relevance and accuracy: We will only collect personal data that is necessary for data processing. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal data we hold is accurate and up to date.
- Storage: We will hold your personal data for the period necessary for processing the same in compliance with the provisions of the law.
- Access, rectification, opposition: You may access, modify, correct or delete your personal data. You may also oppose the use of your personal data, particularly to avoid receiving sales and marketing information.
- Confidentiality and security: We will ensure reasonable technical and organisational measures are in place to protect your personal data against alteration or accidental or unlawful loss, or unauthorized use, disclosure or access.
- Sharing and international transfer: We may share your personal data within our organisation or with third parties (such as commercial partners and/or service providers) for the purposes set out in this Policy. We will take appropriate measures to guarantee security when sharing or transferring such data.
5. PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
At various times, we will be obliged to ask you, as our guest, for information about you and/or members of your family to provide you the best of our personalised service.
- Contact details (for example, last name, first name, telephone number, email)
- Personal information (for example, date of birth, nationality)
- Your credit card number (for transaction and reservation purposes)
- Your arrival and departure dates
- Your preferences and interests (for example, smoking or non-smoking room, preferred floor, type of bedding, type of newspapers/magazines, sports, cultural interests)
- Your questions/comments, during or following a stay in one of our establishments and any communication you sent to us.
- Your itemized spending during your stay being room charged.
We do not deliberately collect sensitive information, such as information concerning race, ethnicity, political opinions, religious and philosophical beliefs, union membership, or details of health or sexual orientation or character certificate.
However, in limited cases we might need to collect sensitive data to provide you with a better service and meet your needs, such as your food preferences, allergies, health conditions, current medication and/ or any physical conditions that affect your mobility. In these cases, the sensitive information will be those volunteered by you and which you have unequivocally agreed to communicate to us.
6. WHEN PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
Personal data may be collected on a variety of occasions, including:
1. Hotel activities:
- Booking a room
- Checking-in and paying
- Eating/drinking at the hotel bar or restaurant during a stay
- Other activities such as SPA, Water Sports etc.
- Requests, complaints and/or disputes.
2. Participation in marketing programs or events:
- Signing up for loyalty programs
- Participation in guest surveys (for example, the Guest Satisfaction Survey)
- Online games or competitions
- Subscription to newsletters, in order to receive offers and promotions via email.
3. Transmission of information from third parties:
- Tour operators, travel agencies, reservation systems, and others
- Profiling
4. Internet activities:
- Connection to our organisation websites (IP address, cookies)
- Online forms (online reservation, questionnaires, our organisation pages on social networks, network login devices such as Facebook login etc.).
5. Closed Circuit Television Systems and Other Security Systems:
- Closed circuit Tv (CCTV) images.
7. HOW WILL PARADISE COVE AND / OR ATTITUDE USE THE INFORMATION IT COLLECTS ABOUT ME?
We collect your personal data for a number of purposes including the following:
1. Meeting our obligations to our guests
2. Managing the reservation of rooms and accommodation requests
3. Creation and storage of legal documents in compliance with accounting standards.
4. Managing your stay at the hotel:
- Monitoring your use of services (telephone, bar, etc.)
- Managing access to rooms
5. Improving our hotel service, especially:
- Processing your personal data in our guest marketing program in order to carry out marketing operations, promote brands and gain a better understanding of your requirements and wishes
- Adapting our products and services to better meet your requirements
- Customizing commercial offers and the promotional messages we send to you through various channels
- Informing you of special offers and any new services created by our organisation or one of our subsidiaries.
- Carrying out surveys and analyses of questionnaires and guest comments
- Managing claims/complaints
6. Managing our relationship with guests before, during and after your stay:
- Providing details for the guest database
- Segmentation operations based on reservation history and guest travel preferences with a view to sending targeted communications
- Predicting and anticipating future behaviors
- Developing statistics and commercial scores, and carrying out reporting
- Providing context data for the offer push tool when a guest visits a Group website or makes a reservation
- Knowing and managing the preferences of new or repeat guests
- Sending you newsletters, promotions and tourist, hotel or service offers, or offers from partners, or contacting you by telephone
- Managing requests to unsubscribe from newsletters, promotions, tourist offers and satisfaction surveys
- Taking into account the right to object
7. Use a trusted third party to cross-check, analyze and apply certain devices to your collected data at the time of booking or at the time of your stay, in order to determine your interests and your guest profile, and to allow us to send you personalised offers.
8. Securing and enhancing your use of Paradise Cove websites, especially:
- Improving navigation
- Implementing security and fraud prevention.
9. Conforming to local legislation and applicable international legislation (for example, storing of accounting documents).
8. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
To provide you with the best-individualised service, we have to share your personal data with internal and external recipient subject to the following conditions:
a. Within Attitude or the hotel, in order to offer you the best service, we can share your personal data and give access to authorised personnel from the Group, including:
- Hotel staff
- Reservation staff using Attitude’s reservation tools
- IT departments
- Commercial partners and marketing services
- Medical services if applicable
- Insurance services if applicable
- Legal services if applicable
- Generally, any appropriate person within Attitude entities for certain specific categories of personal data.
b. With service providers and partners: your personal data may be sent to a third party for the purposes of supplying you with services and improving your stay, for example:
1. External service providers:
- Diving Centres and Boathouse service providers
- Taxi Drivers
- Shops
- Exhibitors
- Kite Surfs
- Entertainment groups
c. Local authorities: We may also be obliged to send your information to local authorities if this is required by law or as part of an inquiry and in accordance with local regulations.
Paradise Cove and / or Attitude does not routinely disclose personal information to other organisations unless:
- Required by law.
- Use or disclosure is permitted by this policy.
- We believe it necessary to provide you with a service or product which you have requested or are contracted to.
- To protect the rights, property or personal safety of any member of the public or a guest of Paradise Cove and / or Attitude or the interests of Paradise Cove and / or Attitude.
- You give your consent.
9. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
For the purposes set out in Clause 7 of this policy, we may transfer your personal data to internal or external recipients who may be in countries offering different levels of personal data protection.
Consequently, in addition to implementation of this Policy, Paradise Cove and / or Attitude employs appropriate measures to ensure secure transfer of your personal data to Attitude entity or to an external recipient located in a country offering a different level of privacy from that proposed in the country where the personal data is collected.
As part of the hotel operation, your data may be sent to other service providers outside Mauritius and European Union.
In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the Internet and may be available, via the Internet, around the world. Paradise Cove and / or Attitude cannot prevent the use of such information by others. By submitting your personal data, you expressly agree to these transfers, storing, processing and publishing.
However, any such transfer of information does not change any of our commitments to safeguard your privacy and the information remains subject to existing confidentiality obligations.
10. DATA SECURITY
Paradise Cove and / or Attitude takes appropriate technical and organisational measures, in accordance with applicable legal provisions, to protect your personal data against illicit or accidental destruction, accidental alteration or loss, and unauthorized access or disclosure. To this end, we have taken technical measures (such as firewalls) and organisational measures (such as a user ID/password system, means of physical protection etc.).
In the course of processing or transmitting your credit card CVV number Paradise Cove and / or Attitude will observe and fully comply with Data Security Standard.
Paradise Cove and / or Attitude will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, whether electronically or in hard copy, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. We also require our employees and data processors to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by Paradise Cove and / or Attitude.
11. COLLECTION OF OTHER INFORMATION
“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:
- Browser and device information
- App usage data
- Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
- Demographic information and other information provided by you
- Aggregated information
If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it for the required purposes and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Statement. We and our third party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:
- Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Online Services (such as the Apps) you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Online Services function properly.
Through your use of the Apps: When you download and use an App, we and our service providers may track and collect App usage data, such as the date and time the App on your device accesses our servers and what information and files have been downloaded to the App based on your device number. - Using cookies: You may view our Cookie policy on our website for more information.
- Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Online Services to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Online Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of the Online Services and response rates. We also use Google Analytics which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. These services may collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt-out by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- IP Address: Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Online Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems and administering the Online Services. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
- By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services (for example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).
12. HOW LONG WILL PARADISE COVE AND / OR ATTITUDE KEEP MY INFORMATION
We retain your personal data only for the period necessary for the purposes and in accordance with the provisions of applicable laws.
13. WHAT RIGHT DO I HAVE OVER MY PERSONAL INFORMATION
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to:
- Access your personal data by making a subject access request
- Rectification, erasure or restriction of your information where this is justified
- Object to the processing of your information where this is justified
- Data portability
14. HOW TO CONTACT US
To exercise your rights, please contact the Data Protection Officer using the following contact details:
Data Protection Officer
Attitude Hospitality Management Ltd.
The Junction Business Hub,
Block C
Calebasses Branch Road
Calebasses
Republic of Mauritius
Email: dpo@hotels-attitude.com
For the purposes of confidentiality and personal data protection, we will need to identify you in order to respond to your request. You will be asked to include a copy of an official piece of identification, such as a driver's license or passport, along with your request. In some cases, we may also request an administrative fee to cover the cost of access.
We will try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
15. UPDATES
We may modify this policy from time to time. Consequently, we recommend that you consult it regularly, particularly when making a reservation at the hotel.
Paradise Cove operates in a dynamic business environment. Over time, aspects of our business may change as we respond to changing market conditions. This may require our policies to be reviewed and revised. Paradise Cove reserves the right to change its privacy policy at any time and notify you by posting an updated version of the policy on our website.
The amended policy will apply between us whether or not we have given you specific notice of any change.