Privacy Policy for HotelDeposit.org

Effective Date: April 3, 2026. Last Updated: April 3, 2026.

HotelDeposit.org publishes hotel security-deposit and incidental-hold information for informational purposes. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it, and what choices may be available to users.

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1. Information We Collect

Information submitted through forms, including hotel names, cities, states, stay dates, deposit details, payment-method details, and free-text notes.
Optional contact information if you choose to provide it for follow-up.
Technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, timestamps, referrer data, and similar usage metadata.
Cookie and tracking data, including analytics cookies, advertising cookies, and preference cookies, if used.
Fraud-prevention and moderation records such as duplicate-detection hashes, rate-limit logs, and internal review notes.

2. How We Use Information

Review, moderate, publish, summarize, edit, or reject user-submitted hotel-policy reports.
Operate, secure, debug, and improve HotelDeposit.org.
Detect duplicate submissions, spam, abuse, fraud, and security incidents.
Measure site usage and performance.
Support monetization through affiliate links, advertising, and attribution tools, if enabled.
Comply with legal obligations and enforce site policies.

3. User-Submitted Content

User submissions may describe hotel deposit and incidental-hold policies. Do not submit sensitive personal information about yourself or others in free-text fields. We may redact or remove personal details before publishing any hotel-related content.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies and similar technologies for core functionality, analytics, fraud prevention, affiliate attribution, and advertising. If we use targeted advertising or similar adtech, we may provide a privacy choices mechanism to opt out where required by law.

5. Sharing of Information

Hosting, analytics, security, moderation, and infrastructure providers.
Advertising and affiliate partners, if used.
Processors and service providers acting on our behalf.
Government authorities or other parties when required by law or necessary to protect rights, safety, and security.

6. Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for moderation, fraud prevention, legal compliance, security, dispute handling, and business operations. We may retain limited suppression or request records to honor future deletion or opt-out requests.

7. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or obtain a portable copy of personal information you provided to us, and to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, or certain profiling activities. To submit a request, use our Privacy Requests page.

We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before processing a request. We will not require you to create a new account solely to exercise privacy rights.

8. Appeals

If we deny a privacy request, you may appeal by following the instructions on our Privacy Requests page or by contacting reports@hoteldeposit.org.

9. Children’s Privacy

HotelDeposit.org is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

10. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information. No security measure is perfect, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.