The Elite International Group (“Elite Hospitality”) has a strong commitment to providing excellent service to all of our customers and visitors of this Web site, including respecting your concerns about privacy. We understand that you may have questions about how this Web site collects and uses the information that you provide to us. We have prepared this statement (“Statement”) to inform you of the privacy principles that govern this Web site.

This Statement contains numerous general and technical details about the steps we take to respect your privacy concerns. We have organized the Statement by major processes and areas so that you can quickly link to the information of most interest to you. At The Elite Hospitality meeting your needs and expectations form the foundation of everything we do – including protecting your privacy. If, after reviewing this Statement you have any privacy questions or concerns, please send an email to privacy@elitegroup4u.com or send a letter to:

Elite Group International
Attn: Information Protection & Privacy
PO Box 5458
Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain

Browsing

Visitors who browse this Web site do so on an anonymous basis. We have not configured this Web site to collect any information from your computer without your input. This means that, unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide us with information, we will not know your identity, your e-mail address, or any other information identifiable to you.

Information We Collect and How We Use It When we need to collect personally identifiable information from you to provide you with a particular service, we will ask you to voluntarily supply us with the information we need. For example, if you would like to make a reservation or apply for VIP membership, we will ask you for information such as name, address, telephone number, email address, credit card number and any preference to process your reservation. The personally identifiable information you provide to us is made available for the purpose of meeting your reservation request. We will use your email address to send a confirmation and, if necessary, might use the other information to contact you. Unless you tell us otherwise, the information you provide will then be used by us for marketing of Elite Hospitality hotels and other Elite Hospitality products. Elite Hospitality may use the services of third-party mail houses for the sole purpose of mailing materials.

We may also ask you to fill out an online customer survey, to obtain your suggestions or comments about your use of Elite Hospitality services, or for similar purposes. Providing this information is solely at your choice.

Children’s Privacy

This Web site is not intended for children and we do not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information from children.

Cookies

This Web site makes only limited use of “cookie” technology. “Cookies” are strings of text that a Web site transmits to a user's computer. Cookies enable a website to keep track of a user's preferences and activities relating to that website. Our Web site creates a temporary cookie for each visit in order to facilitate your visit. Our cookies expire automatically after you leave our Web site. These cookies transmit no information about you or your computer back to Elite Hospitality. If you do not wish to receive these cookies, you may set your browser to reject the cookies (consult the instructions for your particular browser on how to do this), although doing so may affect your ability to perform certain transactions on our Web site.

Joining the Email Community and Opt-Out

It is our intention to only send you email communications that will be useful to you and that you want to receive. At your sole choice, you may join the Email Community by providing your name, postal and email address. We will periodically contact you via email and provide information about Elite Hospitality special offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. We use a third party e-mail service provider to send emails. This service provider is prohibited from using your email address for any purpose other than to send Elite Hospitality related email. If you do not wish to receive email with updates and information please unsubscribe here. In addition, every time you receive an email about special offers or promotions you will be provided the choice to opt-out of future emails.

Other Sites

Elite Hospitality is only responsible for the privacy statement and content of this Web site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the use of cookies on Web sites that you have accessed this Web site from and to the non-Elite Hospitality Web sites that you may access from this Web site.

Legal Issues

This is Web site is subject to laws of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Elite Hospitality will disclose personally identifiable information without your permission when required by law, or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to investigate or protect against harmful activities to Elite Hospitality, guests, visitors, employees, or property (including this site), or to others. As mentioned previously, laws related to personally identifiable information vary by country.

In the future, we may need to change this privacy statement. All changes will be made here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. This statement was last updated on April 27, 2010.