Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

DEV Hotel & Conference Centre (“Hotel” or “we”) is an independent hotel. This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) in compliance with provincial and federal regulations (where applicable), generally applies to any personal information (as defined below in Section 2 entitled Information We May Collect and How We May Use It) collected by the Hotel about all individuals who are not Hotel employees accessing our hotel premises which may include: (“guests”), visitors of our websites, applicants for employment opportunities with the Hotel and any other individuals with whom the Hotel deals, such as representatives of customers and business partners.

We make reasonable efforts to tell our guests why and how we collect, use, and disclose their Personal Information. We obtain their consent where required and handle their Personal Information in a manner that a reasonable person would consider appropriate under the circumstances.

The Privacy Policy is a statement of principles, guidelines and practices concerning the protection of personal information, how that information is used and/or shared, and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected by the Hotel through the channels outlined below:

2. Information We May Collect and How We May Use It

Definition of Non-Identifiable Information: Personal information that is de-identified and/or aggregated and cannot be associated with an identifiable individual is not considered to be personal information. The Hotel reserves the right to conduct statistical analyses through the use of personal information and/or data collected, including the data collected from individuals who enter our property, through our websites, Wi-Fi or entertainment services on an anonymous and/or aggregated basis in order to understand users’ interests, improve our services and measure interest in and use of our websites and/or mobile app. The Hotel reserves the right to provide its analyses based on such anonymous and/or aggregated data to third parties.

Definition of Personal Information: When used in this Privacy Policy, personal information means any information about an identifiable individual.

The Hotel generally collects personal information from or about our guests and other individuals with whom we deal for general business-related purposes such as to help prevent fraud, unauthorized activities, claims and other liabilities and to ensure the security of our properties. We may also use personal information to authenticate the identity of individuals contacting us by telephone, electronic means or otherwise, for internal training and quality assurance, to manage our business and ensure the efficiency, reliability and security of our systems and networks, and to ensure the security of our guests and of our hotel.

We may also collect and use, to the extent permitted by law, guests’ personal information to understand the interests and changing needs of our guests so we may provide personalized products, recommendations and services.

Other uses include processing payments, verifying creditworthiness if applicable, opening and managing accounts, delivering requested products and services, guaranteeing a reservation, ensuring a high standard of service, meet regulatory requirements, and enrolling you in a loyalty program in cases in which you clearly outlined your consent orally or in writing.

More specifically, the Hotel collects and uses personal information in the following manner:

  1. Information Collected from or About You. In many cases, we collect personal information directly from you when you visit our premises, make a reservation, use our services, make a complaint, submit an inquiry, contact us in person or through our websites, and use our websites to log in to our Wi-Fi network. You will therefore know when we collect this information. We also may receive personal information about you from third party intermediaries and service providers when you make your reservation through them, from our customers, such as your employer or from any other third party through which your visit at our hotel is administered or organized (for instance if you attend a conference organized by a professional association), but at all times, with your prior consent and/or as authorized by law either orally or in writing, before or at the time of collection, unless the purpose for the collection is obvious and is done so voluntarily by you.
    • Guests. We may collect information such as your name, contact information, email address, payment information, gender, date and place of birth, home address, telephone number, language preference, membership or loyalty program information, employer details, travel itinerary, prior stays, stay preferences, and other similar type of information in relation to your reservation or under your broader hotel stay, including the use of onsite outlets such as restaurants, concierge services, health clubs and spas, only in cases in which these hotel amenities are run and maintained by hotel staff. If hotel amenities are run by third-parties, we recommend that you check their privacy policy if applicable. We usually collect this personal information to provide you with our products and services or to provide you with the information requested or to contact you to answer your questions, requests or inquires or to administer the contest or promotions which you have entered. In applicable cases, we also collect information related to the security of the premises and well-being of our guests, such as companion information, and names and ages of accompanying children.
    • Customers, suppliers and other business partners, as individuals. We may collect the name, address, telephone numbers (office, cell), email addresses, and in certain circumstances, personal information collected in the context of a background check (such as employment records, credit records and criminal records) from employees of our customers, suppliers or business partners. We collect this personal information to evaluate and select customers, suppliers and other business partners, to initiate orders, process payments, establish and maintain responsible business relations, provide ongoing service and manage risk.
    • Employment Applications. We may collect the information which you have included in your resume when you submit a job application or when you apply for employment with the Hotel, for recruitment and other customary human resources purposes. For example, we may send you information about new job opportunities within the Hotel as well as other career development resources. We may also collect personal information in the context of a background check (such as employment records, credit records and criminal records)
  2. Information Collected Automatically. In some cases, we may collect information automatically which may not necessarily identify you as an individual. For instance, we may collect the following type of information:
    • CCTV. As a security measure and in order to ensure the safety of our guests and employees, we may use Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) at various locations on our premises in order to maintain the security of our properties. This collection is subject to applicable privacy laws and may be shared in limited circumstances, as detailed in Section 6 Sharing of Personal Information of this Privacy Policy.
    • Lock Information. As a security measure, we may collect information through our door lock system. This information includes the time when room doors were opened and closed. This information may be shared in limited circumstances, as detailed in Section 6 Sharing of Personal Information of this Privacy Policy.
    • Browser, Device, Behaviour, Demographic and Technical Information. When you visit our websites and use our Wi-Fi, we may collect technical information, using electronic means such as cookies. This information may include information about your visit or usage, including the IP address of your device/computer and which browser you used to access our websites or Wi-Fi, your operating system, resolution of screen, location, language settings in browsers, the site you came from, keywords searched (if arriving from a search engine), the number of page views, as well as information you entered and advertisements you have seen. We may also collect your gender, age group and interests, but such information is always aggregated and is not associated with any identifiable individual. We use this information to measure, to monitor traffic to our websites and improve the effectiveness of our websites or enhance the experience of our guests. Moreover, we may use the personal information collected from our guests to assess their interests and changing needs with a view to improving our products and services and developing new ones, as well as to evaluate potential improvements or other modifications to the functionality of our websites. For information on how you can limit the type of information that we collect, use or share about you when you visit and/or use our websites or Wi-Fi, please refer to Section 5 Right to Withdraw Consent of this Privacy Policy. We may also collect and use the following type of information:
      1. Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics which allows us to see information on user online activities including, but not limited to, page views, source and time spent on our websites and/or mobile app. This information is depersonalized and is displayed as numbers, meaning that it cannot be tracked back to individuals. You may opt-out of our use of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.
      2. Google Ads, previously known as Google AdWords: We use Google Ads to reach potential new clients or existing ones. Remarketing on Google Ads is also used to advertise the Hotel across the Internet and to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our websites. Google Ads remarketing will display ads to you based on what parts of our websites you have viewed by placing a cookie on your web browser. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site or this could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. This cookie does not in any way identify you or give access to your computer or mobile device. The cookie is only used to indicate to other websites that you have visited a particular page on our websites, so that they may show you ads relating to that page. If you do not wish to participate in our Google Ads Remarketing, you can opt out by visiting Google’s Ads Preferences Manager.
      3. Pixel Tags: We may use pixel tags (which are known as web beacons and clear GIFs) on our websites to track actions of users on our websites. Unlike cookies, which are stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website, pixel tags are embedded invisibly on webpages. Pixel tags measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of our websites so we can manage our content more effectively. Information we collect using pixel tags is usually not linked to our users’ personal data. You may choose to stop pixel tags by going to your browser settings.
    • Geolocation Information. When you use our Wi-Fi or utilize internet-connected devices on our premises, we, or our third-party providers, may gather location data, and any other personal information that would be clearly indicated on the devices themselves.
    • Traffic and Device Count. In some cases, we may track the number of individuals who enter our hotel or monitor foot traffic patterns within our hotel, without identifying guests in order to assist us in predicting information about our guests during their visit to our property. We may also track devices which have accessed and/or visited our hotel or used our services, websites and/or Wi-Fi for similar purposes, as well as ensuring we do not exceed our capacity to deliver reliable internet services to our guests.
    • Social Media. If you interact with us through a third party social media platform (such as Facebook or Twitter or a similar platforms) through which you allow us to collect (or the third party to share) information about you, (including personal information) such as details of your friends/connections, “likes”, comments you have shared, groups and location. In addition, we may receive information about you (including your personal information) if other users of third party websites give us access to their profiles and you are one of their friends/connections or information about you is otherwise accessible through your friends’/connections’ web page, profile page, or similar page on a social media platform or other third party websites or interactive service. We may supplement the information we collect about you directly with the information we receive from third parties in order to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you and send you details of promotions and/or offers which we believe may be of interest to you, although at all times, in compliance with applicable privacy laws.
    • Vehicle Information. If you park at our Hotel, we may collect information about your vehicle for the purposes of managing our parking facility, providing parking services to you, and enforcing our parking regulations.

We may use your information to contact you regarding future services and/or to conduct surveys on the quality of our products, services or customer service or to provide you with offers for additional products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. For more details on the type of commercial electronic messages that you may receive from us, please refer to Section 3 Electronic Communications and Notifications of this Privacy Policy. Unless required or authorized by law, the Hotel will not collect or use personal information for any other or new purpose without obtaining further consent.

3. Electronic Communications Notifications

You may receive the following type of electronic communications and notifications from the Hotel:

For more information on how you may unsubscribe from receiving such commercial electronic messages (CEMs) please refer to Section 5 Right to Withdraw Consent of this Privacy Policy.

In general, by interacting and/or doing business with us, visiting our hotel or submitting information to us in connection with using the Hotel services, visiting, interacting with and/or using our websites and/or Wi-Fi, directly through us or through our third-party service providers you are providing your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Exceptions to consent requirement. In certain circumstances, your personal information may be collected, used or shared without consent. These exceptional circumstances may include:

For more information on how the Hotel may share your personal information, please refer to the Section 6 Sharing of Personal Information of this Privacy Policy.

Consent may be withdrawn at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice; however, without such consent, the Hotel may in some cases limit the services it is able to provide to you and/or the Hotel may be prevented from entering into a business relationship, maintaining such relationship and/or interacting with you. You may also withdraw your consent as follows:

Type of Cookie Purposes
Essential Cookies These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our websites and to enable you to use some of its features. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with these services.
Functionality Cookies These cookies allow our websites to remember choices you make when you use our websites. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-select your preferences every time you visit our websites.
Analytics and Performance Cookies These cookies are used to collect information about your traffic to our websites and how users use our websites. The information gathered may include the number of visitors to our websites, other websites that referred them to our websites, the pages they visited on our websites, what time of day they visited our websites, whether they have visited our websites before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our websites more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our websites.
Targeted and Advertising cookies These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show advertisements which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites.
Social Media Cookies These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our websites, or you link your account, or engage with our content on or through a social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other. The social network will record that you have done this.

Table 1.1: Website Cookies

6. Sharing Of Personal Information

Your personal information will not be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without your approval, except the Hotel reserves the right to disclose personal information when authorized by law or as follows:

7. Security

The Hotel uses reasonable security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access. We have implemented security measures that contain administrative, technical and physical controls that are designed to safeguard your personal information. For example, we use industry-standard encryption technology to secure sensitive personal information when it is being collected and transmitted over the Internet as well as firewalls, site monitoring and intrusion detection software. In the event there is a security incident concerning any of your personal information collected and retained by the Hotel as set out in our Privacy Policy, we may contact you by email, letter, and telephone or through other secure form of communication.

There are security and privacy limitations of the internet which are beyond the control of the Hotel. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have any reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify our Privacy Officer as instructed in Section 13 Role of the Privacy Officer.

8. Retention Of Personal Information

We have personal information retention processes designed to help ensure that we retain your personal information for no longer than as reasonably necessary for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy or to otherwise meet our legal requirements.

9. Location, Storage Cross-Border Transfer

Your personal information is stored in secured locations and on servers controlled by the Hotel or its service providers, located either at our facilities or at the facilities of our service providers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Hotel and its third-party service providers may process or store your personal information outside of Canada. In accordance with the laws of those countries, in certain circumstances your personal information may be accessible by foreign law enforcement, regulatory bodies or other authorities. For more information about our practices and policies regarding the use of foreign service providers, please contact us as described below.

10. Children

The Hotel recognizes the importance of safeguarding the privacy of children. Children cannot make reservations at our hotel and cannot stay at our hotel without parental consent. Our websites are not aimed at, nor intended for, children under the age of thirteen (13). If you are under the age of thirteen (13), please do not use our websites, and if you are over the age of (13) but under the age of majority in the province or jurisdiction in which you reside, you should use our websites only with the involvement and permission of a parent or legal guardian. No personal information is purposefully or knowingly collected from children under the age of thirteen (13) by the Hotel without parental consent.

11. Updating nd Accessing Your Information

The Hotel respects your right to access and correct your personal information and complies with all laws regarding access and correction. If you wish to update your personal information held by the Hotel, please contact us using the contact information detailed in Section 13 Role of the Privacy Officer.

If the personal information is demonstrated to be inaccurate or incomplete, we will correct the information as required and send the corrected information to any organization to which we disclosed the personal information to in the previous year. If the correction is made, we will note the guest’s correction request in our records.

12. Privacy Policy Third Parties

This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information by the Hotel. Other websites and service providers that may be accessible through our websites have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy statements provided by all third parties prior to providing them with information or taking advantage of an offer or promotion.

By including outside links on our websites we are not implying that we endorse the linked site or its services. We have no control over nor are we responsible for any third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information.

In addition, we are also not responsible for data collection, use, disclosure or security policies or practices of other organizations such as but not limited to Amadeus, Amazon, Apple, Cendyn, Facebook, Google, Intello, MaestroPMS, Microsoft, Northwind or Third-Party Online Travel Agencies from which you might have completed your reservation.

13. Role Of Privacy Officer

The Hotel’s Privacy Officer and General Manager are responsible for ensuring compliance with this policy and with provincial and federal regulations.

If you have any questions, complaints, concerns, or questions about this Privacy Policy or the privacy practices of the Hotel in respect of how we collect, use and share your personal information, please direct your inquiry to the Privacy Officer:

Privacy Officer
DEV Hotel & Conference Centre
1950 Montreal Road
Cornwall, ON
K6H 6L2
Telephone : 1.877.832.6416

14. Disclosure Statement

In addition to every specific case outlined in this Privacy Policy, we will also use and disclose Personal Information when we deem it necessary or appropriate as follows:

15. Changes To Privacy Policy

The Hotel reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by notifying you of the existence of a new Privacy Policy. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means including, but not limited to, posting on our websites and the mobile app, or by any other means by which you obtain notice thereof. If the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice. Your continued use of our services, websites, mobile app and/or Wi-Fi after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgement of the modified Privacy Policy.

16. Data Subject Rights Per European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entails our European Union guests to the following additional rights regarding their Personal Information which may already be part of this Privacy Policy as outlined in this document:

  1. Right to Information: Guests have the right to request a copy of the Personal Information collected about them.
  2. Right to Rectification: Guests have the right to request the completion or rectification of incorrect Personal Information concerning them if it is incorrect or incomplete. See Section 11 Updating and Accessing Your Information.
  3. Right of Deletion: Under certain circumstances, guests can request the deletion of their Personal Information.
  4. Right to Limitation of Processing: If guests have given us their consent to process their Personal Information in individual cases, guests can revoke their consent and prevent further data processing, provided that no other justification is relevant. This right of withdrawing consent does not apply to the data that we store for the purposes of fulfilling this policy.
  5. Right to Data Portability: Guests may request that we transfer their Personal Information electronically that is still accessible or maintained by us to another service provider.
  6. Right to Complain: Guests can complain about our data processing to us or to the competent data protection authority. Refer to Section 13 Role of the Privacy Officer.

Please note there are exceptions to the above rights and therefore not every right can be exercised in every situation. Any requests under the rights outlined above must provide sufficient detail to identify the Personal Information being sought. A request to access Personal Information should be forwarded to the Hotels’ Privacy Office as per Section 13 Role of the Privacy Officer.

17. Data Subject Rights Per California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) entails our guests who reside in California to the following additional rights regarding their Personal Information which may already be part of this Privacy Policy as outlined in this document:

  1. Right to Request Disclosure: under CCPA rules, our guests have the right to receive, free of charge, the following information covering the twelve months preceding your request, for a maximum two times in a 12-month period:
    1. The categories of Personal Information we collected about you and the categories of sources from which we collected such Personal Information;
    2. The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you;

You may also request:

  1. The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling (if applicable) Personal Information about you;
    1. The categories of Personal Information about you that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom we sold such Personal Information (if applicable); and
    2. The categories of Personal Information about you that we otherwise shared or disclosed, and the categories of third parties with whom we shared or to whom we disclosed such Personal Information (if applicable).
  2. Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: guests have the right, at any time, to opt-out of the sale and/or sharing of their personal information with third-parties. Please note that we are currently unable to respond to Web browser “Do Not Track” settings. If you would like to opt-out of information sharing, please contact us by referring to Section 13 Role of the Privacy Officer. The Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing is restricted in the following situations that might restrict the Hotel ability to:
  3. Comply with federal, state, provincial or local laws;
    1. Comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, provincial, or local authorities;
    2. Cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activity that the business, service provider, or third party reasonably and in good faith believes may violate federal, state, provincial, or local law;
    3. Exercise or defend legal claims;
    4. Collect, use, retain, sell, or disclose consumer information that is deidentified or in the aggregate consumer information;
  4. Right to Delete Personal Information: Under certain circumstances, guests can request the deletion of their Personal Information. If submitted properly through the designated way as per Section 13 Role of the Privacy Officer, we will respond to your request consistent with applicable law. We reserve the right to deny your request to delete personal information under exceptions granted by the law. This includes, but is not limited to:
    1. We are unable to verify your request;
    2. Your request violates our security practices;
    3. Your request restricts our ability to match reasonable consumer expectations;
    4. Your request violates our legal obligations, or our ability to exercise legal claims or rights, or defend legal claims.
    5. Your request includes personal information that is medical information, or other types of information exempt from CCPA.
  5. Right to Non-Discrimination/No Retaliation: when exercising any of your CCPA rights, you have the right to not be unlawfully discriminated against because you exercised your CCPA rights.

Please note there are exceptions to the above rights and therefore not every right can be exercised in every situation. Any requests under the rights outlined above must provide sufficient detail to identify the Personal Information being sought. A request to access Personal Information should be forwarded to the Hotels’ Privacy Office as per Section 13 Role of the Privacy Officer.

We will make the requested information available within 45 days, or provide written notice of an extension where additional time is required to fulfill the request. If a request is refused in full or in part, we will notify the requester in writing, providing the reasons for refusal and the recourse available for the requester.

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