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Privacy Policy

IFA Hotels & Resorts ("IFA") may collect certain information about you (a "data subject") in the course of your use of the Website and in conducting our relationship with you. This information will be processed for the purposes of providing information to you, advising you and otherwise as is appropriate in the context of our relationship with you. We may pass your information on the following companies:

Nakheel L.L.C. A Dubai-based world-class property developer with whom IFA has a strategic relationship.
Kingdom Hotel Investments, a world-class property developer with whom IFA has a strategic relationship.
Istithmar, a major investment house based in the United Arab Emirates focusing on private equity, real estate and other alternative investments with whom IFA has a strategic relationship.
Moreland Developments, a property subsidiary of the Tongaat-Hulett Group, a major South African company that is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, with US$ 1.1 billion in assets and 9,100 employees, with whom IFA has a strategic relationship.
Resort Condominiums International (RCI), a global leader in vacation property exchange with a worldwide network of 3,700 affiliated resorts, with whom IFA has a strategic relationship. RCI is also a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation, the world’s largest travel company and leader in hotels, car rental, and timeshare and travel distribution.
United Investments Portugal (UIP), one of the IFA Hotels & Resorts consortium members.
Raimon Land, a Bangkok based luxury condominium and real estate development company listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), with whom IFA has a strategic relationship.
Yotel, the world’s most radical hotel concept, of which IFA owns a majority share.
Ohlthaver & List, Namibia’s largest privately held group of companies outside of the mining sector with vested businesses that actively promote and support business growth in Namibia, with whom IFA has a strategic relationship.
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, , with whom IFA has a strategic relationship, is one of North America’s leading owner/operators of luxury hotels and resorts.
Starwood, with whom IFA has a strategic relationship, is one of the world’s largest hotel and leisure companies.
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, with whom IFA has a strategic relationship, is a premium hotel management company with over 12,000 employees, and is represented in 25 countries with over 80 hotels existing or under construction.
Kempinski, with whom IFA has a strategic relationship, comprises over 45 properties in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America, boasting the oldest luxury collection in the world.
Sun International, Africa’s most significant tourism and leisure group, was incorporated in 1983 and is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE Ltd). The group, with whom IFA has a strategic relationship, operates resorts and luxury hotels in South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland.

This may involve the transfer of your information to countries which do not have data protection laws.

You may have a right of access to, and correction of, information that we hold about you. Please contact us at via our Contact Us page if you would like to exercise either of these rights.

You consent to the processing and transfer of information described in this privacy policy.

If you provide us with personal information relating to third parties, you will, through your direct contact with the data subjects, take all steps necessary to legitimise your processing of their personal information as described in these terms and conditions (including by obtaining consent of the data subject to processing), to provide information to the data subjects to ensure fair processing of their information (including information as to our name and address, your disclosure of information to us for the purposes as described above, our possible further disclosure of information as necessary for the purposes described above, and the data subject's rights of access and correction as described above) and otherwise to ensure the fairness and lawfulness of all processing of personal information relating to the data subject. By providing IFA with any personal information originating from a third party data subject, you confirm that you have taken and completed these steps.

Marketing Consents
By using the Website, you consent to IFA processing your personal data for IFA's own direct marketing purposes. If you do not wish your personal information to be processed by IFA for direct marketing purposes, you may opt out of such processing by contacting us via our Contact Us page.

Terms of Use

IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE
ATTENTION: THIS LEGAL NOTICE APPLIES TO THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THIS WEBSITE UNDER THE DOMAIN NAME WWW.IFAHOTELSRESORTS.COM AND TO ANY CORRESPONDENCE BY EMAIL BETWEEN US AND YOU (“WEBSITE”). PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. USING THIS WEBSITE INDICATES THAT YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE. THIS NOTICE IS ISSUED BY IFA HOTELS & RESORTS KSCC AND ITS SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES (“IFA”).

Introduction

1.1. By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave this Website immediately.

1.2. IFA may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the then-current legal notice because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Website.
Licence

2.1. You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website only for personal, non-commercial use on the following basis:

(a) No documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
(b) No graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text; and
(c) The IFA copyright notice appearing on the Website (© 2003 IFA Hotels & Resorts KCSS. All rights reserved) appears in all copies.

2.2. Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation trade marks, logos, brands, trading names, photographs and graphic images), are owned by IFA or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts or material from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.

2.3. Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without IFA’s prior written permission.

2.4. Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.
Service Access

3.1. Whilst IFA endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, IFA will not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

3.2. Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond IFA’s control.
Visitor Material and Conduct

4.1. Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. IFA will have no obligations with respect to such material. IFA and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

4.2. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:

(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
(b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or
(c) constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of, or infringe the rights of any third party enforceable in, the United Arab Emirates or any other country in the world; or
(d) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

4.3. You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).

4.4. IFA will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing IFA to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraph 4.2 or 4.3.
Links To and From Other Websites

5.1. Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. IFA has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content. Thus, IFA does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

5.2. If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website and subject to the following conditions:

(a) You do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the IFA logo;
(b) You do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website:
(c) You do not in any way imply that IFA is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
(d) You do not misrepresent your relationship with IFA nor present any other false information about IFA;
(e) You do not otherwise use any IFA trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from IFA;
(f) You do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and
(g) Your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

5.3. IFA expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 5.2 for breach of these terms and take any action it deems appropriate.

5.4. You shall fully indemnify IFA for any loss or damage suffered by IFA or any of its group companies for breach of paragraph 5.2.
Disclaimer

6.1. Whilst IFA endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, IFA does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. IFA may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products and prices described in them, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and IFA makes no commitment to update the material on this Website.

6.2. The material provided at this Website is provided "as is" without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, IFA provides you with this Website on the basis that IFA excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms including, without limitation, those described in paragraphs 6.2(a) to 6.2(c) inclusive below, which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website:

(a) As to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill.
(b) As to the non-infringement of any third party's intellectual property rights of any content published or made available through this Website.
(c) As to the server that makes the Website available being free of viruses or other disruptive code which may infect, harm or cause damage to your computer equipment or any other property when you access, browse, download from or otherwise use the Website.
Liability

7.1. IFA, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of IFA’s group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use, or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website, or the material on such websites including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.

7.2. To the extent that it is not possible under applicable law to exclude liability as described in paragraph 7.1, then in no event shall the aggregate liability of IFA, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), any of IFA's group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exceed UAE DHMS 100.00.

7.3. Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit IFA’s liability (i) for death or personal injury caused by IFA's negligence; (ii) for fraud; or (iii) for any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

7.4. If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.
Severability

8.1. Each provision of this legal notice is severable and distinct from the others. If any provision is or at any time becomes to any extent invalid, illegal or unenforceable under any enactment or rule of law, it shall to that extent be deemed not to form part of this legal notice, but (except to that extent in the case of that provision) it and all other provisions of this legal notice shall continue in full force and effect and their validity, legality and enforceability shall not be affected or impaired as a result.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction

9.1. This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with UAE law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Dubai courts.

Issue Date: 31st December 2006

Copyright

Limitations of liability
In no event, will IFA Hotels & Resorts be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages for any use of this website, or on any other hyper-linked website, including - without limitation - any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programmes or other data on your information-handling system or otherwise, even if IFA Hotels & Resorts are expressly advised of the possibility of such damages.

IFA Hotels & Resorts respects the rights (including the intellectual property rights) of others, and we ask our users to do the same.

Trademarks
The IFA Hotels & Resorts logo and the logos of IFA's subsidiaries are all trademarks of IFA Hotels & Resorts KSCC. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.