Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 20th, 2022

Mill Street South Holdings Inc. (operating as Port Hope Suites) (“COMPANY”, “PORT HOPE SUITES”, “WE”, “US” or “OUR”) takes steps intended to meet privacy principles and requirements with respect to personal information under applicable Canadian privacy legislation. The purpose of this statement is to inform our customers and other individuals we deal with (“you” or “your”) how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information. Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, as more particularly described under applicable privacy legislation. This statement applies to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information in Canada. This statement does not apply to information about our employees or to information that is not personal information.

The Company and its agents and representatives collect personal information in a number of circumstances in the course of operating and managing a hotel and hospitality business. Personal information we collect includes:

  • name, address, telephone number, and other contact information;
  • transaction history, purchase history, request history;
  • customer profiles, customer preferences;
  • such other information we may collect with your consent or as permitted or required by law

At Port Hope Suites we stress the importance of privacy and are committed to earning the trust of our guests by adopting high standards for the protection of personal information.

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.

How you may provide us your personal information

  • By making a reservation or by using our services.
  • By providing it to us in communications regarding service delivery such as comment cards.
  • 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.

Making a Reservation

When making a reservation or using Port Hope Suites Hotels 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, email 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 service such as type of room, type of bed, and the like. You may wish to have your purchase of our services recognized in a third party's loyalty program with which we have 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. To assess your eligibility and process your reservation correctly, we may need to collect additional information at the time of booking such as your date of birth.

All hotels that are managed by Port Hope Suites are required to agree to abide by the terms of this Privacy Protection Policy.

From time to time, we offer packages or other services that involve third parties. If you are partaking of such a package or service, your personal information will be shared with that third party to the extent necessary to provide that service and process the purchase or request.

Port Hope Suites may use the information you provide to send you offers and information about Port Hope Suites Hotels services and those of select third parties. Your information will not be given to these third parties but rather the offer of the third party will be provided to us 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 unsubscribe@porthopesuites.com, 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.

Information provided to us in communications regarding service delivery such as comment cards

Information provided to us in such a fashion will be used solely for the purpose of recording your comments, communicating with you in respect of them, reviewing them with the subject hotel and hotel personnel, for the purposes of recognizing employees for excellence of service delivery and for developing improvements in service delivery.

Port Hope Suites 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 email address, first name, last name, language preference, and country of residence. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link provided on every email message and you will no longer receive email 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 email offers.

By visiting one of 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. Port Hope Suites 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. The 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

  1. To establish and maintain a responsible commercial relationship with you and to provide ongoing service.
  2. 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 type of room.
  3. 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.
  4. To manage and develop our business and operations.For example we analyze guest patterns of usage of our hotels and services to help us manage them efficiently and plan for future growth.
  5. To meet legal and regulatory requirements.

When do we disclose personal information

We disclose personal information in these circumstances:

  1. We may disclose a guest's personal information to a person who, in the reasonable judgment of Port Hope Suites, 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.
  2. 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 effect the supply and the processing of the transaction.
  3. Personal information may be shared with a third party retained by Port Hope Suites to perform functions on its behalf such as reservations handling, data processing or storage, guest surveys or research.
  4. Personal information may be shared with an agent retained by Port Hope Suites to evaluate a customer's credit worthiness or in order to collect a customer's account.
  5. Personal information may be shared with a public authority or an agent of public authority if in the reasonable judgment of Port Hope Suites 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 Port Hope Suites 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

  1. We will not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any other purpose than those identified above, except with your consent.
  2. We will protect your personal information with appropriate security safeguards.
  3. We will take appropriate steps to protect the confidentiality of your personal information when dealing with third parties.
  4. We will strive to keep your personal information as accurate and up to date as is necessary for the purposes identified above.
  5. We will honour your request to access your personal information in as timely fashion as is reasonably possible.
  6. 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 emailing us at unsubscribe@porthopesuites.com, using 'Unsubscribe' as the subject line, and providing us sufficient personal identifiers so we can act effectively on your request.s

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 privacy@porthopesuites.com.