Crowne Plaza Reading East Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Meridian Leisure Hotels Group Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how Meridian Leisure Hotels Group collects and uses the personal information you provide to us. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

What Personal Information We Collect
We collect personal information that you choose to provide voluntarily when using our web sites and mobile applications. This information includes your IHG® (Meridian Leisure Hotels Group) Rewards Club account. You can use our site without creating an account, but you will need to create an account if you want to take advantage of certain features, such as "Favorite Destinations," "Room/Rate Preferences" and other time saving features.

Following a stay in one of our hotels, your hotel stay information is collected and stored by our hotels locally, and subsequently transferred to a centralized database. This facilitates aggregated trend analysis used for hotel management purposes such as planning new hotel locations, evaluating hotel amenities, guest preferences, and advertisement planning. In addition, your business with us is valued and we may use the record of your stay to send you via postal mail or email, communications such as guest surveys or promotional offers and benefits. You may "opt-out" or choose to be excluded from these communications by noting this on your guest registration during your hotel stay or by contacting Customer Service. For Customers who do not reside in the United States, and who have not chosen to enrol in the IHG® Rewards Club program, we may contact you regarding your satisfaction with your hotel stay but will not send you any sales promotional communications or special offers unless you have consented to receive such communications.

Our web site does not intentionally solicit or collect personal information about children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 and would like to use our web site, please ask a parent or guardian for assistance.

Some of our promotional offers have a "Tell A Friend" feature that allows you to have the offer sent to a friend with your comment. If you choose to use this feature, we collect the email address of your friend(s) to facilitate the referral but do not store it for other uses.

Where Do We Collect Your Personal Information?
When you place a hotel reservation, we request your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card number and expiration date. We use this information to process and fulfil your reservation.

Additional optional information in your profile is collected for specific services such as check-in conveniences, room preferences, or point transfers to airline or other partner programs. This data is stored in data bases protected from intrusion and unauthorized viewing by commercially available software products we purchase in good faith from third party suppliers, and you do not have to re-enter it with each visit to our web site. It is also used to recognize you as a repeat customer so we can personalize your shopping experience.

When you join the Meridian Leisure Hotels Group email List, we request your email address in order to send you email on the latest offers, advanced notice of events, and more.

To deliver this information to you, we use an email marketing service that helps us conduct targeted permission-based email campaigns. When registering for our email program, this service company may collect and store personal information you provide on our behalf and have agreed with us it will not share, rent, sell, trade or provide any of this information to parties other than Meridian Leisure Hotels Group. If you are no longer interested in receiving Meridian Leisure Hotels Group Email communications, instructions for removal from the list are included in every email we send you.

We access location based information from your mobile device while searching for an Meridian Leisure Hotels Group location in the area in which you have expressed interest. We do not use this information to specifically locate you for any reason other than to provide you the service. If you do not wish to allow us to use your location information then please do not use the service. If you have allowed us to utilize your location information in the past and wish to revoke the permissions to do so please turn off location services at the device level.

How We Use Your Personal Information
Information we collect on our web sites and mobile applications may be used to enhance your experience in the following ways:

• Send you emails that relate to a hotel stay
• Bill your credit card for Advance Purchase Reservations and Advance Deposits
• Communicate special offers and featured items to you, if you choose to receive such notices
• Customize your experience on our web sites

When and With Whom We Share Your Personal Information
We will share personal customer information with our hotels, representatives and trusted service providers and contractors for limited purposes, including fulfilling customer reservations; offering certain products and services in connection with our web site; communicating to customers via email and through our interactive chat feature; providing customer service; enhancing and improving customers' online experience; enabling access to our partners' sites; providing a personalized online experience; and completing credit card transactions. These third parties have agreed to comply with our privacy policies.

Aside from the purposes described above, we do not share your personal information with any other third parties unless we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the disclosure is required by law or to protect the safety of hotel guests, employees, the public or Meridian Leisure Hotels Group property. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on our business entity. We may share aggregated demographic and statistical information in the course of our business with certain third parties. This sharing does not include any personal information that can identify any individual person.

Links to Other Sites
Please note that our site links to other sites and that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from ours. We advise you to check the privacy policies of other Web sites before disclosing any personal information. In any event, please note that these sites do not share your personal information with us.

Occasionally when linking to another site, you may still see our site's logo or frame. This is to provide you with a seamless experience when visiting our Web site. In these cases you are no longer on our site and are now on a different Web site whose information collection practices may differ from ours. The privacy policy of the site you are on will govern how information collected from you is used. You can always know what site you are on by checking the location bar within your browser.

How We Protect the Security of Your Personal Information
In our efforts to protect your personal data, we use generally accepted standards for safeguards including administrative, technical and physical measures. Additional safeguards are in place for sensitive personal data. These safeguards are continually updated and maintained by qualified information security professionals.

One of the security techniques we use for online transactions is a technology called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If your browser is capable of SSL (and most are), your sensitive information (including geo-location data) will be automatically encrypted, or encoded, before it is sent over the Internet or through our mobile applications. 

What is the credit card fraud policy?
In the unlikely event that you experience unauthorized use of your credit card on our web site or any web site, promptly report the fraudulent activity to your credit card company. Under applicable law, you may be only liable for the first $50 of the fraudulent charges. Please check with your credit card company to verify specific terms and conditions.

Cookies and Other Computer Information
When you visit our web sites, you will be assigned a persistent "cookie" (a small text file) to be stored on your computer's hard drive. The purpose of the cookie is to identify you when you visit our site so we can enhance and customise your online experience.

You can choose to visit our web sites without cookies, but without these identifying files you will not be able to take advantage of certain desirable features of our site. These features include remembering your login (so you don't have to remember your number) and providing a more personalised online experience. To visit without cookies, you can configure your browser to reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.)

This web site may utilize 3rd party tracking pixels to help manage online advertising. These pixels are provided by our advertising delivery partners. These pixels enable our partners to recognise a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website as well as provide you with targeted advertisements. The information we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.

This web site may from time to time offer "web widgets". Some widgets support functions that may require that you to disclose certain personally identifiable information given your choice of participation. This information is collected in many different ways such as: forms, surveys, contests, forums, subscribing or unsubscribing to mailings and correcting or updating personally identifiable information and are only used for the purpose in which they were collected. Some widgets may utilize an optional import contacts feature to help you invite your contacts to download our widget. If you so choose, we make it easy for you to invite people from your email address books to download our widget. At your request, we will search your email address book to help you import your contacts to our site. You can import your contacts from your email address book automatically and select who to send emails manually to download the widget. The email invitation will come from your entered email address.

This web site may include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Some of our business partners (e.g. advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Meridian Leisure Hotels Group websites only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

We also collect certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to our web sites. This information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your computer's operating system, browser type and the address of a referring Web site, if any. We collect this information to enhance the quality of your experience during your visit to our site and will not sell or rent this information to any third parties.

We use various web site analytics tools and technologies regarding activities on our web site and within our mobile app that require storage of web session data. The overall aim of these tools is to aid in making the website easy to use and to proactively identify and correct error conditions. These tools and technologies are also used to assist web site visitors who report problems in the use of our website. Stored web session data is never sold or rented to third parties and is purged when these purposes have been fulfilled.

How can I decide what communications I will receive?
Email Communications
If you choose to receive periodic communications from us, we may from time to time send you email messages describing new promotions, featured hotels and special offers. You can choose to stop receiving these emails at any time. If you do not wish to receive these offers, you may discontinue at any time by using the "Unsubscribe" feature included on each email message.

Data Privacy
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, we are required to particularly draw your attention to the fact that that your personal information which is supplied by you may be used  for guest service, advertising, marketing and communication purposes. They or we may contact you for marketing purposes by mail, fax, telephone or email.

Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process on our Web site.

DigiTickets Privacy Policy

Policy Owner

This policy is owned and distributed by IT and Compliance manager of Digital Ticketing Systems Limited

Who we are

In this Privacy Policy, references to "we", "us", and "our"" are to Digital Ticketing Systems Limited (Company number 07044584). References to "our Website" or "the Website" are to *.digitickets.co.uk.

Digital Ticketing Systems Limited is the data controller responsible for the personal information collected through this Website.

Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following categories of personal information:

Information You Provide Directly

When you contact us, make a purchase, register for services, or complete forms on our Website, we may collect information such as:

• Name
• Postal address
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Purchase and booking information
• Any other information voluntarily provided by you

Payment Information

Payments made through our Website are processed by authorised payment service providers. We do not store your full credit or debit card details on our systems.

Our payment providers may process payment information and carry out fraud prevention and verification checks. Where international transfers are required, appropriate safeguards will be applied in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Digital Ticketing Systems is PCI DSS v4.0.1 compliant and are annually assessed/certified.

Website Usage Information

When you visit our Website, we may automatically collect:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device information
• Screen resolution
• Operating system
• Referral source
• Pages visited and actions taken on the Website
• Date and time of access

Marketing Preferences

If you choose to receive marketing communications, we will record your preferences and any interactions with our emails, including whether emails are opened or links are clicked.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate our Website, remember your preferences, analyse usage, and improve user experience. Further information is provided in our Cookie Policy below.

How We Use Your Information

We process personal information for the following purposes:

• To provide products and services you request
• To process transactions and fulfil orders
• To provide customer support and after-sales services
• To manage bookings and accounts
• To improve our Website, products, and services
• To ensure Website security and prevent fraud
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations
• To send marketing communications where we have your consent or another lawful basis to do so

Lawful Basis for Processing

Under UK GDPR, we rely on one or more of the following lawful bases:

• Performance of a contract: to provide goods or services you have requested.
• Legal obligation: where processing is necessary to comply with legal requirements.
• Legitimate interests: to manage and improve our business, Website security, and customer experience.
• Consent: where required, including for certain cookies and marketing communications.

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time.

Sharing Your Information

We may share your personal information with:

• Payment processors
• Hosting and IT service providers
• Delivery and fulfilment partners
• Marketing and communications providers
• Analytics and Website performance providers
• Professional advisers and auditors
• Regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies, or courts where required by law

All third-party service providers are required to process personal information only on our instructions and in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

We do not sell personal information to third parties.

International Transfers

Where personal information is transferred outside the United Kingdom, we will ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as:

• Transfers to countries deemed to provide an adequate level of protection; or
• Approved contractual safeguards, such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or equivalent mechanisms.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including satisfying legal, accounting, regulatory, and reporting requirements.

Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it is processed.

Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites function properly, remember preferences, improve performance, and provide analytics information.

How We Use Cookies

We use the following categories of cookies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of the Website and cannot be disabled through our cookie management tools.

Cookie	Purpose	Duration
PHPSESSID	Maintains user session and shopping basket functionality	Session / 24 minutes
dtAnalyticsConsent	Records cookie consent preferences	1 year

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the Website so that we can improve performance and usability.

These cookies are only placed with your consent.

Google Analytics

Examples include:

• _ga
• _ga<container-id>
• _gid
• _gat_<tracker-name>

Used to collect aggregated statistical information about Website usage.

Google Privacy Information:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Microsoft Clarity

Examples include:

• _clck
• _clsk
• CLID
• ANONCHK
• MR
• MUID
• SM

Used to analyse user interactions and improve Website usability.

Microsoft Clarity Information:

• https://clarity.microsoft.com/blog/cookies-in-clarity/
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/

Performance Monitoring Cookies

Performance monitoring tools help us identify technical issues and improve Website reliability.

Examples may include cookies used by services such as New Relic.

Managing Cookies

When you first visit our Website, you will be presented with a cookie banner allowing you to:

• Accept all cookies
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Choose your cookie preferences

You may change your preferences at any time through our cookie settings tool.

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect Website functionality.

Your Data Protection Rights

Under UK GDPR, you may have the right to:

• Access your personal information
• Correct inaccurate information
• Request deletion of your information
• Restrict processing
• Object to processing
• Request portability of your data
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

For more information about your rights, visit:

https://ico.org.uk/

Automated Decision-Making

We do not generally make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects using solely automated processing.

Where automated tools are used for fraud prevention, security monitoring, or service administration, appropriate safeguards will be applied in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

Childrens Data

Our Website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children unless necessary to provide services requested by a parent, guardian, school, attraction, venue, or authorised organisation.

Where we process children's personal information, we take additional care to ensure appropriate protections are in place.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact:

Digital Ticketing Systems (t/a DigiTickets)

Sentio House, Pynes Hill, Exeter, Devon, EX2 5AZ

www.digitickets.co.uk/compliance-request

If you have concerns about how we use your personal information, you may submit a privacy complaint to us using the contact details above.

We will acknowledge your complaint and investigate it in accordance with applicable data protection legislation. We aim to respond without undue delay and within the timescales required by law.

If you remain dissatisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

Other Websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to this Website. Links to third-party websites are provided for convenience only. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, and we encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.

Last Updated: 5 August 2026