Cookie Policy
Our website http://www.corinthia.com (“Website”) is owned by the Corinthia Group (“Corinthia”, “Corinthia Hotels”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) and includes the direct and indirect subsidiaries of International Hotel Investments p.l.c. We automatically collect information you provide to us or information about your visit to our Website through “cookies” to help manage your interactions with our Website.
1. What exactly are cookies?
1.1. To collect the information as described in this statement, we may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies on our website.
1.2. A cookie is a small piece of information (“data file”) which is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive, mobile phone or other technological device to track an individual user’s preferences and information regarding current and past visits to our Website. Cookies allow us to provide a customised and enhanced experience without you having to remind us of your preferences each time you visit our Website.
1.3. We may use third-party partners or technology to automatically collect this information about the use of our Website, through cookies and other technologies including beacons, pixels, and embedded scripts or similar tools.
1.4. We use cookies and other technologies necessary for authentication and security purposes. We also use optional cookies to provide personalised content and to better understand how our Website is used.
1.5 Cookies may allow us to log your session so that we may better assist you should you need some individualised service or support. Once you enter personal information on the Website, we associate certain cookies with your session information so we can recognise you on a future visit.
1.6. We use the information collected through cookies and other technologies to recognise new or returning Website visitors, to serve behavioural advertising, to record and monitor your interactions with our Website over time, including your browsing activity and interaction with certain features and functionalities that may be introduced from time-to-time. We collect this information to better understand the interests of our Website visitors and to improve your online experience. Information collected automatically through these tools may be combined with other personal information we collect from you or receive from other sources.
1.7. To find out more about how CCL and our third-party partners use your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.
2. Cookies placed on our website
2.1. Cookies can be first-party or third-party cookies.
2.1.1. First-party cookies - cookies that the Website you are visiting places on your device.
2.1.2. Third-party cookies – cookies placed on your device through our Website but by third parties such as Google.
2.2. We use the following cookies on our Website. We may combine information from these types of cookies and technologies with information about you from any other source.
2.2.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies – These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. They are deleted when you close the browser. These are first-party cookies.
2.2.2. Performance cookies – These cookies collect information in an anonymous form about how visitors use our Website and related apps. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors, see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it and identify the regions that they are visiting from. These are first-party cookies.
2.2.3. Functionality cookies – These cookies allow our Website and related apps to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect will be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other Websites. These are first-party cookies.
2.2.4. Analytics cookies – We may use third party analytics services such as Google Analytics and other providers. These service providers help us analyse how users use our Website and to identify user patterns. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website will be transmitted to and stored by third-party analytics service providers on servers, most likely outside the EEA. The information collected for this purpose will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers. On our behalf, third-party analytics service providers will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet activity in connection with the use of the Website. These service providers may retain and use anonymised, aggregated data collected from users of our Website in connection with their own businesses, including in order to improve their products and services. For information on how to prevent these cookies please click here. In addition, authentication and tracking logs will be used to compile user statistics.
2.2.5. Social Media cookies – These cookies together with social media plug-ins allow you to use functionalities of social media networks such as Meta/Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and others alike on our Website. These are persistent cookies which will be kept on your device until their expiration or earlier manual deletion. If you use these functionalities, the plug-in and its content are loaded directly from the social media provider’s servers and included on the Website by your browser. If you log into your respective social media account at the time you interact with the social media plug-ins on our Website, the social media provider will connect this information with your social media user profile.
2.3. We cannot influence which personal data the social media provider will collect about you. Please see their respective privacy notices for further information:
Facebook
Google
X
Instagram
Pinterest
3. Cookie consent and opting out
3.1. We assume that you are happy for us to place cookies on your device. Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. However, if you, or another user of your device, wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser setting. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our website, our platforms and our services.
3.2. Whilst we assume you are happy for us to place cookies on your device, we nevertheless request your consent for doing so. When you arrive on our Website, a pop-up cookie banner will appear asking for your consent to place non-necessary cookies on your device. In order to provide your consent, you need to select Allow all cookies, Allow selection or Use necessary cookies only. Once your consent has been provided, this cookie banner will not appear again when you revisit our Website for 30 days unless you clear your cookies from the browser and/or this Cookie Statement has been updated. Furthermore, you may adjust your cookie settings at any time via the Cookie link, which is available through the cookie icon. If you, or another user of your device, wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you may also do so via the cookie link.
3.3. For more information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
4. Changes to this Statement
4.1. If there are any changes to this Cookie Statement, we will replace this page with an updated version. The cookie banner will re-appear with a link to the new terms being displayed on-screen, and you will also be required to re-submit your cookie preferences before you continue to use the Website.
5. Contact us
5.1. If you have any questions about this Cookie Statement or our data protection practices, please contact us at:
· email: dpo@corinthia.com
· address: 22, Europa Centre, Floriana, FRN 1400, Malta
· telephone: +356 2551 4000
Last updated: 3rd April 2025