Mercure Hotel Value understands that privacy is important to you and wants your experience online to be as enjoyable and safe as possible. This privacy policy describes how Mercure Hotel Value handles your personal information generally and when you use this web site (the "Site").

What personal information is collected by Mercure Hotel Value?

Visitors to the Site provide various kinds of information in several different ways. Some visitors choose to submit personal information through subscription and entry forms, booking forms and requests for more information, either through e-mails, response devices or other methods. Depending on the service you are accessing, you could be asked at various times to provide information including but not limited to, your name, e-mail address or information about what you like and do not like. When booking accommodation on-line or paying for other goods or services, we may request your credit card number to complete the transaction or your mailing address to ensure delivery.

Similarly, guests at our hotels and other individuals may provide information to Mercure Hotel Value.

Mercure Hotel Value will generally not collect sensitive information about you such as details of your race, political beliefs, religion or health. However this may be required where we are providing you with specialised services (such as access requirements for a disability).

We need this personal information in order to provide you with our products or services, and so we can provide you with a broad range of information in relation to tourism, hospitality and services and to assist in delivering a better service to you.

This information will be recorded by the hotel or business to which it is given and updated by that hotel or business when additional information is supplied or upon request from you. The contact details of a hotel or business are available when you obtain services from thata hotel or business.

Use of personal information

Mercure Hotel Value uses the personal information collected to provide you with our services and to assist in making your experience with Mercure Hotel Value a satisfying one. Information is also collected to establish and maintain proper business records.

Your personal information may also be used by Mercure Hotel Value to notify you about new products, services or promotions in the tourism, hospitality or services industries from time to time.

Mercure Hotel Value's guests have the ability to make reservations via the accorhotels booking facility included as part of the Site. The benefit of this booking facility system is that you can make a reservation at any time, 24 hours per day. If you choose to make a booking via the telephone and you make your call outside usual business hours in the country from which you are calling, you may be talking to an operator from overseas but your personal information collected at that time will only be used to process your booking and as otherwise described in this privacy policy.

Will your information be given to anyone else?
All personal information collected by Mercure Hotel Value is only made available to those authorised individuals who need to handle that information for the purposes outlined in this policy. In some circumstances, personal information may also be disclosed outside Mercure Hotel Value.

For example, we may disclose personal information to third parties to whom Mercure Hotel Value contracts out specialised functions (such as mailing houses and printing companies). In such cases we will require an undertaking from such persons to comply with applicable privacy legislation and that they do not use the personal information for any purposes beyond the scope of our contract with them. Personal information may also be disclosed to third parties for the purpose of completing your transaction with us (for example, your credit card provider), providing the goods or services you have requested (for example booking a tour or acommodation for you where the supplier is not part of Mercure Hotel Value) and for the purposes of associated administration (for example frequent flyer number and expenditure details will be sent to the relevant airline).

Mercure Hotel Value will also disclose personal information when required by law and may disclose it when reasonably necessary to assist an enforcement body or to lessen or prevent a threat to individual or public health or safety.

Use of cookies
The Site uses cookies exclusively for session management. These temporary cookies serve to identify the user during each individual visit to the site ("session"). This is a built-in feature of Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. These cookies are temporarily stored in the user's browser throughout the course of each individual session. No other use is or can be made of the information contained in these cookies, and there is no trace of individual sessions.

External links on our site
Other companies, which place advertising or links on the Site, may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising or content through the use of cookies. Due to the technical operation of the Internet, Mercure Hotel Value cannot control this collection of information and accepts no responsibility for this collection, use or disclosure. You should contact these advertisers or content providers if you have any questions about their use of the information they collect.

Similarly, there may be links that will let you leave the Site. The use of information and/or privacy provided by the operator of a linked site as to any information you provide in accessing a linked site is in no way subject to this privacy policy. Mercure Hotel Value takes no responsibility for any privacy policies or practices of any web sites accessible from the Site, whether or not such practices conform to privacy policies of those sites.

Removal from our lists
If you do not want to receive e-mail or posted offers from Mercure Hotel Value generally please let us know by sending an e-mail message to info@mercurevaluehotel.com.

If you follow the instructions for "un-subscribing" included as part of Accor's regular e-mail offers, your name will be removed from the mailing list for that publication/e-mail offer only.

Access and Correction
You may have a right to seek access to information, which Mercure Hotel Value holds about you. You may also have the right to ask us to correct information about you which is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. If you wish to exercise your right under any applicable privacy legislation to seek access to the personal information held by a specific hotel or business, then please contact the Hotel or business General Manager directly. If you wish to access information held by Mercure Hotel Value generally, then you should address your request in writing to Mercure Hotel Value's General Manager.

Please note that in the interests of protecting the privacy of all Mercure Hotel Value customers, if you request details of any personal information held by Mercure Hotel Value, we will need to identify you properly. To do this, we may telephone you or require your current name and address (including any former addresses that may assist in identification) and a copy of a form of identification such as a current driver's licence or passport.

We will assume, unless you tell us otherwise, that your request relates to our current records about you. This will include the personal information about you, which is held on our databases and files. Generally, we will not charge you for our costs of providing access to our current records about you. For legal and administrative reasons, Mercure Hotel Value may also store records containing personal information in its archives. You may seek access to the records held by Mercure Hotel Value which are not current records, but if you do so, we may charge you for the cost of providing access.

If you are of the view that personal information about you is not accurate, complete or up to date, please provide Mercure Hotel Value with your request for correction (contact details are set out below). Any requests for correction will be dealt with promptly.

Is personal information stored safely?
Reasonable steps are taken to ensure the security of personal information from such risks as loss or unauthorised access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.

Contacting us
If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy or about how Mercure Hotel Value has handled personal information about you, please contact Mercure Hotel Value:

In Saudi Arabia by telephone (966) 1 277 3300; or
by facsimile (966) 1 277 4400; or
by e-mail: info@mercurevaluehotel.com

Changes to the privacy policy.
The privacy policy may change from time to time. The policy was last updated on 1 January 2009