Privacy Policy

The website www.maehongsonhostel.com is owned and managed by Karnsiree 1988 Co., Ltd (www.karnsiree.com).

We take personal privacy very seriously. As a general rule, we do not collect your personal information unless you decide to provide that information to us. When you choose to provide us with your personal information, you are giving us your permission to use that information for the stated purposes listed in this privacy policy. If you choose not to provide us with that information, it might limit the features and services that you can use on this website.

Generally, the information requested by www.maehongsonhostel.com will be used to provide a website feature or service to you, such as commenting, support, or providing future content better tailored to your interests. You find a description of the intended use of that information, how that information is collected, security measures we take to protect that information, and how to grant or revoke consent for the collection and use of that information in the 'Privacy Notice' section of this privacy policy.

This privacy policy includes the following five key elements:

• Notice: What personal information we collect throughout the site.
• Security: What measures we take to protect user data.
• Choice, Access and Regress: What options you have if you don't want to provide us with information (Choice), how to find out what information we hold and how to correct it (Access), and how to alert us if we are in any way violating this Privacy Policy (Regress).

Notice

Email Addresses

Some of the services on this website allow you to send us an email. We will use the information you provide, such as email address or phone number, only to respond to your inquiry. Keep in mind that email transmissions are not encrypted by default, so we suggest you do not send sensitive information such as credit card numbers, or bank account information via such contact forms.

If such information is required, it will be via a web page that clearly states the page, and its transmission of information is secure and encrypted. We will delete all electronic messages received from visitors when no longer needed.

Newsletter

When subscribing to our email newsletter, we ask you to enter your name and/or email address or other details to help you with your experience.

As a newsletter subscriber, we keep a record of your IP address, the emails you open, and the links you click within those emails, so that we can more accurately recommend content, occasional third party offers and products that you might find valuable.

Third-Party Websites and Applications

On our website, we use commenting and social media plug-ins and third-party websites. We use those third-party services to interact with visitors and to build our community on social media. We also uses these third-party services to measure the number of visitors to our website, to interact with visitors on the site, and to make our website more useful to visitors.

In such cases, the third-party application may request an email address, username, password, internet protocol (IP) address, and geographic location for account registration or sign-in purposes. We don't use those third-party websites or services to collect personal information from individuals. Any personal information collected by the third-party website will not be stored or transmitted by www.maehongsonhostel.com. We have no control over, or access to specific login information or any other sensitive personal information provided to third-party websites. However, we will make sure that we only use services from trusted third-party service providers that have implemented by themselves privacy policies.

Information for Tracking and Customization (Cookies)

Our website, www.maehongsonhostel.com, uses cookies to provide a customized user experience on the site. A cookie is a small file that a website transfers to your computer to allow your browser to remember information about your last session on that website. Your computer only shares information in the cookie with the specific website that provided it, and no other website can request that information. Our website also uses third-party analytics services (like Google Analytics or Hotjar) to gather this information for analysis.

www.maehongsonhostel.com collects and temporarily stores certain information about your visit to help us to better align our content and the website design with your needs. The information these cookies collect includes:

1. The domain you access our website from
2. Your computer's IP address
3. The date and time you accessed the site
4. The operating system of your computer
5. The browser you're using to access our site
6. The Universal Resource Locators (URLs) of the pages you visit on our website
7. Your username, if you've logged into the site
8. The URL of the site you came from if you clicked a link there that brought you to our website.

We may share this information internally with Karnsiree Co., Ltd. employees or third-party contractors as needed. This information is only used to improve the website and enhance our visitors' experience. Raw data logs are only retained temporarily for site management purposes.

Security

We take the security of your personal information very seriously. We take several precautions to ensure that the information we collect is secure and inaccessible by anyone outside of our organization. These precautions include advanced access controls to limit access to that information to only internal personnel who require access to that information. We also use numerous security technologies to protect all data stored on our servers and related systems. Our security measures are regularly upgraded and tested to ensure they are effective.

We take the following specific steps to protect your information:

1. Use internal access controls so only limited personnel have access to your information.
2. Anyone with access to user information is trained on all relevant security and compliance policies.
3. Servers that store visitor information are regularly backed up to protect against loss.
4. All information is secured through modern security technologies like secure socket layer (SSL), encryption, firewalls, and secure passwords.

All access safeguards described above are in place to prevent unauthorized access by outsiders to information stored on or transmitted by our systems.

Choice, Access, and Redress

You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website:

1. Ask for a list of personal information we have about you (if any).
2. Request a change, correction, or deletion of your personal information.
3. Request that we avoid collecting anything in the future (opt-out).

If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your machine, you have the option to turn cookies off in your browser. However, keep in mind that turning off cookies may impact how this website functions. Disabling browser cookies will also impact how other websites you visit store browser cookies as well.

Whenever we collect any sensitive information (such as credit card information), the information is encrypted and securely transmitted. You can confirm this by looking for the "lock" icon in the browser address bar, and also confirm that the URL link starts with "https."

If you believe at any point that we are not following this privacy policy as stated, please contact us immediately via email ([email protected]) or by telephone (+66 XX XXX XXX).