Privacy Policy

The term “Personal Information” refers to any information that can be used to identify you as an individual. It can include, among other things, your name, address, age, gender, personal financial history, insurance or social security number.

1. To Provide Superior Customer Service to our Guests

Personal Information is collected to assist us in making your reservation and providing the services you request; to ensure we meet your needs while you are staying with us and/or to allow us to contact you in relation to matters that arise from your stay with us. By keeping certain stay related Personal Information on file, such as information regarding guest history and itemized spending, guests of Sun Mountain Lodge have the ability to confirm prior transactions and reconcile statements or invoices.

 

2. To Keep Our Guests and Owners Informed

We may use the Personal Information you provide to send you newsletters regarding our property and to advise you of promotions or to inform you of offers or other information that may be of interest to you. In order to do this, your information may be shared with a third party, including a marketing and communications company. These companies are under contract with Sun Mountain Lodge and are contractually required to protect all guest information to which they have access. If you do not wish to receive information from Sun Mountain Lodge, you may indicate your wishes on your registration card when you stay with us or you may advise us by email at: sunres@sunmountainlodge.com

 

3. For Marketing Research
Finally, we may wish to contact guests to conduct surveys or focus groups to receive your views of our property and service delivery. Such information may be collected by a third party under contract with us and they will be contractually required to protect your Personal Information as explained below. Occasionally we will combine information from a number of guests to better understand trends and guest expectations. When this occurs, all identifiers are removed and the aggregate information cannot be linked to any particular guest.

OUR WEBSITE

A. Initially by visiting our website
When you visit our website, you are initially given a “cookie”, and your computer is assigned an ID number. A cookie is a commonly used device that tracks an individual user’s preferences, and is capable of enhancing your visit to the site. Cookies allow us to provide a customized experience without the visitor having to remind us of his or her preferences each time she or he visits our site. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. Sun Mountain Lodge cookies DO NOT follow visitors after leaving our website.

 

We also use cookies to collect and maintain aggregate web site data (such as the number of visitors to a particular site), which helps us see which areas are popular with our users and which are not. Among other things, this helps us improve and update the site, based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed.

 

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can block them by adjusting the settings on your Internet browser. Visitors should understand, however, that rejecting cookies will affect your ability to benefit from the conveniences afforded by the use of cookies, and you will not be able to use certain customization features associated with creating a user profile.

 

Once you have visited our website and accepted our cookie, your ID number is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you visit our website. Despite the fact that you remain anonymous until you enter Personal Information in the website, the ID number allows us to log your session, so that we may better assist you should you need some individualized service or support. Once you enter Personal Information on the website, we associate your ID number with your contact information so we can recognize you on a future visit. We also use it to keep track of information that appears to be of particular interest to you.

 

B. While Browsing Our Web Site
While in the process of browsing our website, you also provide us with information that does not reveal your personal identity. We use this aggregated, anonymous data mainly for editorial purposes, but we do not connect it to any Personal Information, such as your name or address.

 

While you explore our website for the information that interests you, you may wish to put in a specific “Information Request” or you may wish to participate in one of our online surveys or promotions. To respond to this request or to participate in our various programs, we may ask you for Personal Information, such as your name, zip/postal code, e-mail address, and phone number.

 

In the event you choose to provide us with this information, we will only use it for the purpose we have specified to you. We will only e-mail you if you want us to, and you can choose a number of alternate methods by which to receive a reply to a request. Your transmittal of your personal data shall constitute your acknowledgment and agreement to the terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Policy. If you are uncomfortable providing this information over the Internet, you can always call our Reservations Office for more details.

 

If you wish, you may also submit your e-mail address in order to be placed on a subscription list or to receive other information. You will be placed on these lists only when you indicate your desire to be included. In deciding whether or not to join such lists, please note that they are only used for internal purposes – we do not sell or rent our lists to anyone. In the event you choose to join one of our lists, you may ask to be removed from the list at any time. Visitors will always have the ability to accept or decline any form of communication from Sun Mountain Lodge.

 

WHEN MAKING A RESERVATION

A. On Our Web Site
If you decide that you would like to make a reservation at Sun Mountain Lodge, you will be linked to our reservations department. Visitors to www.sunmountainlodge.com who elect to make reservations online will be required to complete a reservation profile the first time they make a reservation. When you create a reservation profile you will be asked to provide specific Personal Information, including your name, address and contact information, as well as certain guarantee and deposit information to secure your reservation, such as your credit card number. Your transmittal of your Personal Information shall constitute your acknowledgment and agreement to the terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Policy.

 

Your credit card number will be verified using a checking sequence. Once your reservation is confirmed, Sun Mountain Lodge will notify you of the confirmation and provide a confirmation number. Due to the personal nature of the information you give when making a reservation through our website, we have taken every precaution to ensure that our reservation system is secure. Your credit card number is protected with the most sophisticated encryption technology available and is transmitted on a private network.

 

We also receive a copy of the reservation profile at our website excluding your credit card number connected to your ID number. We will then use that information to create a log in our website database.
We also occasionally combine information from a number of web visitors in a way that does not identify any user, in order to identify user patterns.

 

B. During your stay at a Hotel or Resort
During your stay, we record your itemized spending to properly assemble your folio, which sets out your room rate and other expenses billed to your room. We also record this information to comply with financial reporting requirements, including those imposed by our auditors and government regulators. We may also collect certain information as required by local laws (e.g. passport number). Information particular to your stay may also be stored (i.e. health issues, payment difficulties, special requests, service issues).

 

In addition, we may retain the content of any document (including letters, comment cards, electronic documents such as e-mails and other similar forms of communication) that you send us before, during or following your stay. This information may be shared with employees of the hotel but will not be shared with any third party.

 

IN OUR MARKETING DATABASE

Sun Mountain Lodge maintains a database of guest information which is used for marketing, promotion and research purposes. Guests will only receive such information if they have provided permission on their Hotel registration form, on the Sun Mountain Lodge web site, or in some other form. Any information sent provides a clear notice of how to discontinue receiving promotional materials.

When you log-in to complete or modify a Booking Profile, Guest Service Profile, your online interaction with us is protected from eavesdropping using the highest level encryption technology based on the browser you use. In order to ensure your privacy and the protection of information you choose to share with us, we allow only encrypted communications from all of our web forms.

 

It is important to note that any e-mail communication is not secure. This is a risk inherent in the use of e-mail. Please be aware of this when requesting information or sending forms to us by e-mail (for example, from the Contact Us section of our web site). We recommend that you do not include any confidential information (i.e. credit card information) when using e-mail. For your protection, our e-mail responses to you will not include any confidential information.

 

Finally, to be prudent, please be sure to always close your browsers when you are done using a form or the reservation site. Although the session will terminate after a short period of inactivity, it is best to close your browsers immediately upon completion, since while you are logged on it is easier for someone to attempt to get access to your profile.

If you are invited and elect to create a Guest Profile on our web site, you will be asked to furnish specific Personal Information. You will also be asked to provide a password for use each time you log-in. Once you have created a Guest Profile, we may add online session data to your Guest Profile on subsequent visits to our website. When you provide information, including revised information to your Guest Profile, we may use the information you provide to update other databases maintained by us.

 

By completing your Guest Profile you are considered to have provided consent to share your Personal Information within Four Seasons in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Agents, contractors or third party service providers of Sun Mountain Lodge may receive your Personal Information in the course of providing services to Sun Mountain Lodge to better serve your needs. Using contractual or other arrangements, Sun Mountain Lodge ensures these parties protect your Personal Information in a manner consistent with the principles articulated in this Privacy Policy.

 

We will only share Personal Information about you outside Sun Mountain Lodge without your consent, where: (a) it is required or authorized by law (for example, in response to a legal subpoena); (b) it is required to provide you with services you have requested in which case you will be considered to have implied your consent (i.e. car rental); (c) if your stay has been paid for by a third party we will provide billing information to the paying party; (d) if you have failed to pay amounts owed to a property.

 

If Sun Mountain Lodge suspects any unlawful activity is taking place, it may investigate and/or report its findings or suspicions to the police or other relevant law enforcement agency.

We understand that you may like to know what Personal Information we hold about you. We are happy to assist you with your request. To protect your Personal Information, however, we require that you prove your identity to us at the time your request is made. You may make a request to the Reservations Manager at Sun Mountain Lodge.

 

When you make a request in person, we will require you to produce some form of photo identification such as a passport or a driver’s license and you will be asked to sign a request form.

 

Where you make a request by other means, we require the request be made in writing via fax or letter including a copy of a government-issued identification and signature. We also require home and business addresses and phone numbers so we can check them with our files and satisfy ourselves as to your identity.

 

The above information is required to create an audit trail of how the request has been handled. Where a request is made, any correspondence or application may be kept and added to your Personal Information.

 

Sun Mountain Lodge reserves the right to decline access to your Personal Information under certain circumstances. If your Personal Information will not be disclosed, you will be provided with the reasons for this non-disclosure.

If at any time you wish to update your Personal Information, you may request to do so by contacting our Reservations department:

• via e-mail at sunres@sunmountainlodge.com
• via letter – Attention: Reservations Manager

 

P.O. Box 1000
Winthrop, WA  98862

 

Or you may visit our web site at www.sunmountainlodge.com

Your Personal Information will be stored for the period of time required by law in the jurisdiction of any hotel holding the information. It may be stored indefinitely by Sun Mountain Lodge as long as there is a business purpose for doing so. From time to time we may delete your Personal Information if you have not stayed with us in a number of years.

If we decide to make significant changes our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page so you are always aware of how we treat Personal Information. Minor changes may be made and posted in a revised policy. Changes of use will not apply retroactively to Personal Information for which you have given explicit consent, which was acquired before the change to the Privacy Policy except as may be required by law. If at any point we decide to use Personal Information in a manner different from that stated in this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by letter or e-mail sent to your last known address. If you do not agree with the different way we intend to use Personal Information, you may ask in writing that we not use it in that different way. If you do not object, you will be deemed to have consented to the use of your Personal Information in the changed manner.