Privacy Policy

About Us

Next Stop Douro – Atividades Hoteleiras, Lda, NIF 513204695,  Rua dos Camilos, Nº 115 5050-273 Peso da Régua, hereinafter named  Next Stop Douro

Our website is at: https://www.originaldourohotel.com

You can contact us by:

Email: info@originaldourohotel.com
Telephone: +351 254 001 181 (Cost of call to national fixed network)

We are committed to protecting your personal data. In this regard, we have prepared this Policy, which underpins our commitment to respect the rules of personal data protection. In addition, we have taken appropriate measures to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of your data, as well as all other rights you may have.

What personal data are collected and how they are collected

Booking, Purchasing and User Registration

When you make  a reservation or purchase on our  website, at www.originaldourohotel.com, we ask your personal data: full name, address, VAT number, email and telephone. These data are fundamental for us to contact you in order to provide information about  your reservation or purchase and proceed to its confirmation.

To avoid the repeated sent of this information on every purchase, you can make a registration on our website. This way, you will be given a password (which you can customize) associated to your email, with which you can enter your reserved area on our website and proceed in an easier way  to reserve or purchase on our website.

The collected data are kept for the duration of the user registration on the website or, in the case of reservations or purchases without registration, for 1 year, regarding customer support related to the purchases or reservations during the validity period for provision of services after their acquisition.

Newsletter

When you request to subscribe to our newsletter, your e-mail address will be collected, which we use to send you, as requested, promotional and marketing information about Next Stop Douro. We will keep your e-mail address until you show us the contrary will through the means and contacts made available.

Email

When you contact us via email, we collect your email address so that we can respond directly to your communication.

These data are kept for 1 month, in view of customer support related to orders or technical issues arising from the use of the website.

Phone call

When you contact us via phone call, we may collect your telephone number if we need to contact you again within the scope of the information or services to be provided.

If you place an order through our telephone contacts, we may ask you for the following information: full name, address, VAT number, email address and telephone number.

The data collected are used only for the purpose of managing purchases and reservations and requesting additional information and / or providing clarifications regarding them.

These data are kept for 1 month, in view of customer support related to orders or technical issues arising from the use of the website.

Embedded content from other sites

Posts on this site may include embedded content (such as videos, pictures, posts, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves as if the user were visiting those sites.

Those sites may collect data about you, use cookies, incorporate third-party tracking, monitor your interactions with it, including logging interactions with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in on this site.

One of the incorporated sites is TheBookingButon through which room reservations are made at our hotel.

Links to other websites

At our website, at  originalwww.originaldourohotel.com, may be included links to access other websites that are unrelated to Next Stop Douro. The provision of such links is done in good faith, and  Next Stop Douro cannot be held responsible for the collection and processing of personal data carried out through these websites, nor can be held responsible for such  websites, namely regarding the  accuracy, credibility and features available on them.

Cookies

“Cookies” are small software labels that are stored on the computer through the browser, retaining only information related to preferences, not including, as such, personal data.

This website uses cookies to improve your browsing experience. Of these cookies, those categorized as “necessary” are stored on your web browser and are essential to ensure some basic functionality of the website. We also use third-party cookies to help us analyze and understand how you use the website. These cookies are stored on your browser only with your consent. You can also opt out of using these cookies, but doing so may have some consequences on your browsing experience.

Third party cookies

This website uses third-party cookies, namely from TheBookingButton website, in order to carry out the booking procedure.

How can you manage cookies?

All browsers allow the user to accept, refuse or delete cookies, and also inform the user whenever a cookie is received, namely by selecting the appropriate settings in the respective browser. The user can set cookies in the “settings” or “preferences” menu of his browser.

Note, however, that by disabling cookies, you can prevent some web services from working correctly, affecting, partially or totally, navigation on the website.

How your data  is treated

The processing of personal data consists of an operation or set of operations carried out on personal data or personal data sets, by automated means or not, namely collection, registration, organization, structuring, preservation, adaptation, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure, dissemination, comparison, interconnection, limitation, erasure or destruction.

The Next Stop Douro is obliged to guarantee in all cases the strict compliance with the legislation on the protection of personal data, which are stored in specific databases created for this purpose and in no case will the data collected be used for another for which they were collected or given the consent of the data subject.

With whom your data is shared

We have a partnership with Siteminder.com  to offer you online booking services. Although we offer website content and you book directly with us, reservations are processed by The Booking Button from Siteminder.com. The information you provide on this site may also be shared with Siteminder.com  and its affiliates. This information may include personal data such as your name, your contact details, payment details, guests traveling with you and any preferences you have specified when making a reservation.

Third party service providers:  We use service providers to process your personal data strictly on our behalf. Such processing includes the purposes of this Privacy Policy, such as facilitating payment of reservations, sending marketing material or for analytical support services. These service providers are bound by confidentiality clauses not to use your personal data for their purposes or any other purpose.

Competent authorities: we disclose personal information to law enforcement and other government authorities to the extent required by law or strictly necessary for the prevention, detection or prosecution of criminal acts and fraud.

How long your data is retained

We keep your data for as long as necessary to provide good information or services.

What rights do you have about your data?

Right of access

You have the right to confirm that your personal data is being processed and, if applicable, to obtain a copy of this data and complete information on the processing.

Right of rectification

You have the right to correct errors, modify data that may be inaccurate or incomplete, and ensure that the information processed is correct.

Right of suppression

You have the right to delete your data without undue delay if processing is unlawful or if the purpose of the processing or collection is no longer applied.

Right of restriction

You have the right to request the suspension of processing if such processing is illegal or inappropriate.

Right of objection

You have the right to object to the processing of your data if the purpose of the processing is direct marketing or if the processing should be interrupted for reasons relating to your personal situation unless we prove irrefutable legitimate reasons to continue processing it or if the processing is necessary to enforce or defend legal claims.

Right not to be subject to automated individual decisions

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including characterization, that produces legal effects that concern you or that affect you, except as necessary for the performance of a contract, permitted by law or based on your explicit consent.

These rights do not include  any personal data that is obligatory to maintain for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where your data is sent to

Next Stop Douro  can communicate  your  data with the  purpose of fulfilling  legal obligations,  namely to police, judicial, fiscal and regulatory entities.

Safety

Next Stop Douro  is committed to ensuring the protection of the personal data that are made available to it, and approved and implemented strict rules in this matter. Compliance with these rules is an obligation of all those who legally access them.

Bearing in mind the concern and commitment that Next Stop Douro reveals in the defense of personal data, technical and organizational security measures have been adopted in order to protect the personal data made available to it against its dissemination, loss, misuse, alteration, treatment or unauthorized access, as well as against any other form of illicit treatment.

Access to Customer’s personal information is limited to employees who have a legitimate need to come into contact with such information in order to provide Customer services in the performance of their duties.

In addition, third parties which, in the context of the provision of services, process personal data of Customers in the name and on behalf of the Next Stop Douro, are required, in writing, to carry out adequate technical and safety measures that, in each case, comply with the requirements of the legislation in force and ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject (in particular, the protection of the privacy and personal data of the Customers).

In this way, any entity subcontracted by Next Stop Douro will treat the personal data of our Clients, in the name and on behalf of the Next Stop Douro and adopting necessary technical and organizational measures in order to protect personal data against the accidental or illicit destruction, loss accidental, unauthorized alteration, dissemination or access, and against any other form of illicit treatment. In any case, Next Stop Douro remains responsible for the personal data made available to it.

Notwithstanding the security measures adopted by the Next Stop Douro, we warn that you should adopt additional security measures, namely to ensure that you use a PC and Browser updated in terms of security patches properly configured, with an active firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware and to ensure the authenticity of the websites you visit on the internet, and avoid websites you do not trust.

Contact Information

For any information about our  privacy policy , exercise the rights to your data  or cancel the subscription of our newsletter, contact us by email  info@originaldourohotel.com.

How to complain

Regardless of being able to submit complaints directly to  Next Stop Douro through the contacts made available for this purpose, you can complain directly to the Control Authority, which is the National Data Protection Commission (CNPD), using the contacts made available by this entity for that purpose.

Future changes to this Privacy Policy

In the future, it may be necessary to update or revise this Privacy Policy.  Next Stop Douro  reserves the right to do so, at any time  and without prior notice, by publishing the  revised version  at  www.originaldourohotel.com .

These changes will take effect from the day of its publication and only on the personal information collected after the publication of the revised version.