Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Paris Finest Hotels collects, uses and protects personal information when you browse our website, contact us or follow links to hotels and booking partners.
Last updated: August 11, 2026. The legal entity responsible for Paris Finest Hotels and its contact details are identified in our Legal Notice.
Data controller
The operator of Paris Finest Hotels, identified in our Legal Notice, is the data controller for personal information processed directly through this website unless stated otherwise.
Privacy questions and requests can be submitted through our Contact page.
What information may we collect?
Information you send us
When you use our contact form, this may include your name, email address, organization, inquiry category, URLs you provide and the content of your message.
Technical information
Our hosting, security and infrastructure providers may process technical data such as IP address, browser type, device information, requested pages, timestamps and diagnostic or security logs.
Cookie & consent data
We may store information needed to remember your cookie choices and, where permitted, information generated by analytics or similar technologies.
Outbound-link information
When you follow a hotel or affiliate booking link, the destination website may receive standard web information such as the referring page and may process data under its own privacy policy.
We ask you not to submit sensitive personal information through our general contact form unless it is genuinely necessary for your request.
Purposes and legal bases
| Purpose | Typical data | Legal basis under GDPR, where applicable |
|---|---|---|
| Respond to inquiries | Name, email, message, organization | Legitimate interests and, where relevant, steps taken at your request |
| Review factual corrections | Contact details, URLs, source information | Legitimate interests in maintaining accurate editorial content |
| Handle partnership inquiries | Professional contact and proposal information | Legitimate interests and/or pre-contractual steps |
| Secure and operate the website | IP address, logs, device and request data | Legitimate interests in security, fraud prevention and reliable operation |
| Non-essential analytics | Usage and device information | Consent where consent is legally required |
| Affiliate measurement | Referral and transaction-attribution data handled by relevant partners | Consent for non-essential trackers where legally required; partner processing may have its own legal basis |
| Legal compliance | Information necessary to respond to lawful requests | Legal obligation and/or legitimate interests |
Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent for future processing without affecting processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
How we use cookies
Cookies and similar technologies can serve different purposes. Some are necessary for the website to operate or remember privacy choices; others may measure audiences, improve the site or support commercial attribution.
Strictly necessary
Used for essential functions such as security, technical operation and remembering privacy preferences where applicable.
Analytics
If analytics requiring consent are enabled, they are intended to help us understand aggregate site use and improve our editorial experience.
Affiliate & commercial attribution
Selected partners may use permitted technologies to understand whether a booking or transaction followed a referral from Paris Finest Hotels.
Where applicable law requires consent, non-essential cookies or trackers should not be activated before you have made a valid choice. You should also be able to refuse or later withdraw consent without unnecessary difficulty.
The exact cookies and services active on the site should be shown in the site’s cookie-management interface or cookie settings, where available.
Audience measurement
Paris Finest Hotels may use audience-measurement tools to understand how readers find and use the website, which guides are useful and where the site can be improved.
When an analytics configuration requires consent under applicable law, it should be disabled until consent is obtained. If an audience-measurement configuration qualifies for a legal exemption, it must still comply with the requirements applicable to that exemption.
We avoid using volatile analytics information as permanent editorial facts about individual readers.
What happens when you leave Paris Finest Hotels?
Our articles may contain links to hotel websites, booking services and other third-party partners.
When you click an external link, you leave the Paris Finest Hotels environment. The destination website may process information under its own privacy policy, cookie policy and terms.
Some outbound links are affiliate links. If an eligible booking or purchase is completed after a referral, Paris Finest Hotels may receive compensation.
Service providers and recipients
Personal information may be accessible to service providers only where reasonably necessary for them to provide services to Paris Finest Hotels. Depending on the final technical setup, these categories may include:
Hosting & infrastructure
Providers used to host, cache, deliver and protect the website.
Security providers
Services used to detect abuse, malicious traffic or technical threats.
Contact & email services
Tools used to deliver contact-form submissions and respond to messages.
Analytics providers
Where enabled and permitted, services used to measure website use.
Professional advisers
Legal, accounting or other advisers where access is necessary for a legitimate professional purpose.
Authorities
Public authorities or courts when disclosure is legally required.
Affiliate and booking partners generally process information under their own policies once you visit their websites.
Data may be processed outside your country
Some website service providers may process personal information outside France or the European Economic Area.
Where the GDPR applies and an international transfer requires safeguards, the relevant transfer should rely on an appropriate legal mechanism, such as an adequacy decision or approved contractual safeguards, where applicable.
The exact transfer mechanism depends on the provider and processing activity concerned.
How long do we keep personal information?
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to legal, security and dispute-resolution requirements.
| Data category | Typical approach |
|---|---|
| Contact inquiries | Normally retained only as long as needed to handle and document the inquiry; ordinary professional correspondence may be retained for up to three years after the last meaningful contact where appropriate. |
| Editorial correction records | May be retained where reasonably necessary to document sourcing, corrections and editorial decisions. |
| Security & technical logs | Retained for a limited period appropriate to security, troubleshooting and legal requirements. |
| Cookie-consent records | Retained for a limited period so the website can remember and demonstrate your privacy choice, then renewed or deleted as appropriate. |
| Analytics data | Retained according to the configured service and limited to what is reasonably necessary for audience measurement. |
Specific legal obligations may require certain records to be retained for longer than the ordinary operational period.
Privacy rights under the GDPR
Where the GDPR applies to the processing of your personal data, you may have rights including:
Access
Ask whether we process your personal data and request access to it.
Rectification
Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Erasure
Ask for deletion where the legal conditions for erasure are met.
Restriction
Ask us to restrict certain processing in circumstances provided by law.
Objection
Object to processing based on legitimate interests in circumstances where the law gives you that right.
Portability
Request eligible data in a portable format where the legal conditions apply.
Withdraw consent
Withdraw consent for future processing where consent is the legal basis.
Complain
Lodge a complaint with a competent data-protection authority, including the CNIL in France where appropriate.
To exercise a privacy right, contact us through the Contact page and make clear that your message concerns a privacy request. We may need to verify your identity where reasonably necessary to protect your information.
U.S. state privacy rights
Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights if the relevant law applies to Paris Finest Hotels and to the processing in question. Depending on the jurisdiction, these can include rights to know, access, correct or delete personal information and to opt out of certain forms of sale, sharing or targeted advertising.
Paris Finest Hotels does not sell contact-form submissions or reader contact lists for money.
If a U.S. state privacy law applies and grants you an applicable right, you may submit a request through our Contact page. We will handle verified requests as required by applicable law.
Our website is not directed to children
Paris Finest Hotels is an editorial travel website intended for people researching luxury hotel stays. It is not directed to children and we do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through the site.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us, contact us so the situation can be reviewed.
How we protect information
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration or loss.
No internet transmission or storage system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Third-party privacy policies apply after you leave
Paris Finest Hotels contains links to hotels, booking platforms, restaurants, tourism authorities and other third-party websites.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites. Review their privacy and cookie information before providing personal data to them.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when the website, service providers, legal requirements or our data practices change.
When we make a material revision, we will update the date shown at the top of this page and, where required, provide additional notice or seek renewed consent.
The essentials
No hotel checkout
Hotel reservations are completed with hotels or booking partners, not directly with Paris Finest Hotels.
Contact data stays purposeful
Information you send through our form is used to handle the inquiry and related legitimate needs.
Optional trackers need a valid basis
Where consent is required, non-essential analytics or commercial trackers should wait for your choice.
Affiliate sites have their own rules
Once you leave for a booking provider, its privacy policy governs its processing.
You have rights
Applicable data-protection laws may give you access, deletion, objection and other privacy rights.
You can contact us
Privacy questions and rights requests can be sent through our Contact page.
Privacy questions or requests
To ask a privacy question or exercise an applicable privacy right, use our Contact page and identify the message as a privacy request.
Privacy: frequently asked questions
Does Paris Finest Hotels collect my hotel payment details?
No. Paris Finest Hotels does not currently process hotel reservations. Payment information for a hotel booking is entered on the hotel or third-party booking provider’s website.
What happens to information submitted through the contact form?
We use it to review and respond to your inquiry and for related legitimate administrative, editorial, security or legal purposes where necessary.
Does Paris Finest Hotels use cookies?
The site may use essential cookies and may use optional analytics or commercial-attribution technologies. Where consent is legally required, optional trackers should not be activated before a valid choice is made.
Can I withdraw cookie consent?
Where the site uses consent-based cookies, you should be able to change or withdraw your choice through the site’s cookie settings or consent-management interface.
Does Paris Finest Hotels sell my contact information?
Paris Finest Hotels does not sell contact-form submissions or reader contact lists for money.
How can I request access to or deletion of my data?
Use our Contact page, identify your request as a privacy request and describe the right you wish to exercise. We may request reasonable verification before acting on the request.
Who is responsible for my data after I click a hotel booking link?
The destination hotel or booking provider processes information under its own privacy policy when you use its website. Paris Finest Hotels does not control that third party’s checkout or privacy practices.