Effective Date: October 1, 2017
This privacy statement applies to Bavarian Inn and all its subsidiaries. The Bavarian Inn strives to deliver outstanding products, services, and enjoyable experiences at all of our unique shops, restaurants and hotel. We value your loyalty and recognize that privacy is an important issue. We have created this Statement to explain our practices regarding the personal information we collect from you/about you on this website or through other forms of communication with us. Your use of the Website signifies your agreement of the Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to the terms of the Privacy Statement, please do not use the Website or provide any information to us.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
At every guest interaction, we may collect personal information. This personal information may include: your contact information; information related to your visit or reservation at our property; participation in the Perks Club; participation in a contest or marketing program; interaction on social media; information related to the purchase of our products or services; surveys; personal characteristics; payment information; guest preferences; and marketing and communication preferences. Also, information related to conversations, including recording or monitoring customer service calls and messages.
In addition to the information we collect from you directly, we may also infer information about you based on the information you provide to us or from Other Information we collect.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU
We use your personal information in a variety of ways, including providing service and personalizing the service at our Bavarian Inn properties, administering the Bavarian Inn Perks Club, and conducting direct marketing and sales promotions and as outlined below:
- Perks Club Members: If you are a Perks Club member, we use your information to administer the loyalty program, including awarding points to your account. We also use your information to communicate news, promotional and transactional materials, and to deliver advertising to you through online, email, mobile, and display advertising, as well as on our website and applications and through our customer service call center.
- Marketing and Communications: We may use your personal information to provide or offer you emails, newsletters, promotions, as well as other marketing messages. We use your information to provide account alerts, and reservation confirmations; to send you marketing messages; and to conduct surveys and contests. We may provide these communications via email, postal mail, online advertising, social media, telephone, text message and other means.
- Service Improvements: We may use your personal information to improve services.
- Data Correctness, Analytics and Personalization: We may aggregate your personal information with data from third-party sources for the purposes of keeping information up to date and for analytics.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE SHARE
In order to offer you the best level of service and promotional offers, we may share your personal information with our subsidiaries (Bavarian Inn shops, restaurants and hotel) for the purpose of marketing. Bavarian Inn will never sell or provide your contact information to third parties of any kind outside of the Bavarian Inn, Inc. or Frankenmuth River Place Shops, LLC or the Frankenmuth Cheese Haus, Inc.
OTHER INFORMATION
When you visit/interact with Bavarian Inn websites, we collect other identifying information about your use of the site, such as the pages you visit, and the number of times you visit our sites. We use this information, to deliver you email, online and mobile advertisements. We use cookies and other technologies to collect this information. We may use information to understand more about our users. This includes demographic data, such as gender, date of birth, and marital status, inferred interests such as hobbies and travel preferences.
PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN
We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18 years of age. As a parent or legal guardian, please do not to allow your children to submit personal information without your permission.
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES
Our website contains links to third parties' websites. Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, use, maintenance, sharing, or disclosure of data and information by such third parties. If you provide information through third-party sites, the privacy policy and terms of service on those sites apply. We encourage you to read the privacy statements/policies of websites that you visit before submitting personal information.
PROTECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Bavarian Inn will take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration or destruction, and also keep personal information accurate and up-to-date as possible. For online transactions, we use reasonable technology to protect the personal information that you transmit to us via our site. Unfortunately, no security system or system of transmitting data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be entirely secure.
CHANGING AND ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
As a hotel guest and/or a Perks Member,the information you provided to us at the time of registration may be accessed, reviewed and updated at any time by signing in or calling the Reservation or Perks office. Some changes such as changing email or date of birth (if an error occurred) will have to be done by phone call to the Perks office. You will be asked to verify other personal information to access your account.
RETAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION
We retain personal information about you for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Statement, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.
CHOICES – MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
If you have given us your contact information (mail address, fax number, email address or phone number), we may want to inform you about our products and services or invite you to events via email, online advertising, social media, postal mail, our customer service call center, and other means (including on-property messaging, such as your in-room television).
If you prefer not to receive email marketing materials from us, you may opt-out at any time by using the unsubscribe function in the email you receive from us. Please note this WILL unsubscribe you from all future promotions including information on your Perks Club Account and upcoming reservations. Opting out of email will also stop all notifications that “additional credit” has been added to your Perks Card.
CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us by email at Lodgeinfo@bavarianinn.com or by calling 989-652-7200.