Effective Date: July 8, 2026
At Top Venice Hotels, accessible at https://topvenicehotels.com, protecting your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we may collect, how we use it, and what rights you may have under applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us at:
Email: support@topvenicehotels.com
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
For the purposes of applicable data protection law, Top Venice Hotels acts as the data controller for personal data collected through topvenicehotels.com.
We process personal data only where we have a valid legal basis to do so under applicable law, including the GDPR.
Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data
We may process your personal data for the following purposes and on the following legal bases:
1. Responding to Contact Inquiries
If you contact us by email or through a contact form, we may process your name, email address, and the content of your message.
Legal basis:
- Article 6(1)(f) GDPR – our legitimate interest in responding to inquiries, providing support, and managing communications
- Article 6(1)(b) GDPR – where processing is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a potential agreement or cooperation
2. Operating and Securing the Website
We may process technical data such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and server logs to ensure website stability, prevent abuse, detect security incidents, and maintain technical performance.
Legal basis:
- Article 6(1)(f) GDPR – our legitimate interest in maintaining the website’s security, integrity, and proper functionality
3. Website Analytics and Performance Improvement
Where permitted, we may use analytics tools to understand how users interact with the website, improve content, optimize usability, and monitor performance.
Legal basis:
- Article 6(1)(a) GDPR – your consent, where analytics cookies or similar technologies require prior consent
- Article 6(1)(f) GDPR – our legitimate interest, where analytics are strictly necessary, limited, or configured in a privacy-friendly way in accordance with applicable law
4. Preference and Functionality Cookies
We may use cookies or similar technologies to remember user preferences and improve website functionality.
Legal basis:
- Article 6(1)(a) GDPR – your consent, where required for non-essential cookies
- Article 6(1)(f) GDPR – our legitimate interest in providing strictly necessary technical functions essential to operating the website
5. Affiliate Tracking and Marketing-Related Technologies
As an affiliate-based website, we may use affiliate tracking tools and, where applicable, marketing-related cookies that help third-party partners recognize referrals from our website.
Legal basis:
- Article 6(1)(a) GDPR – your consent, where affiliate or marketing cookies are not strictly necessary and require prior consent
6. Compliance with Legal Obligations
We may process and retain certain data where necessary to comply with applicable legal, tax, regulatory, or law-enforcement obligations.
Legal basis:
- Article 6(1)(c) GDPR – compliance with a legal obligation
7. Establishing, Exercising, or Defending Legal Claims
Where necessary, we may process personal data in connection with legal disputes or the enforcement and protection of our rights.
Legal basis:
- Article 6(1)(f) GDPR – our legitimate interest in establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims
Your Data Protection Rights
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with similar legal protections, you may have the right to:
- Request access to the personal data we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
- Request erasure of your personal data where legally applicable
- Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances
- Request data portability where applicable
- Object to certain types of processing
- Withdraw your consent at any time where processing is based on consent
- Lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at:
Email: support@topvenicehotels.com
Right to Lodge a Complaint
If you believe that your personal data has been processed unlawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for data protection.
If the website operator is established in Poland, the competent supervisory authority is:
President of the Personal Data Protection Office
(Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych – UODO)
ul. Stanisława Moniuszki 1A
00-014 Warsaw
Poland
If you are located in another EEA country, you may also lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country of residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement.
Information We May Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
1. Information You Provide Directly
This may include:
- Your name
- Your email address
- The contents of any message you send to us
- Any other information you choose to provide when contacting us
2. Automatically Collected Information
When you visit topvenicehotels.com, certain technical information may be collected automatically, such as:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring and exit pages
- Date and time of visits
- Pages viewed and general interaction data
3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Remember preferences
- Improve website functionality
- Analyze traffic and user behavior
- Support affiliate link tracking
For more information, please review our Cookie Policy.
How We Use Your Information
We may use your information to:
- Respond to inquiries or support requests
- Operate, maintain, and improve our website
- Understand how visitors use our content
- Monitor website performance and security
- Comply with legal obligations
- Support affiliate reporting and related website operations
Top Venice Hotels does not sell your personal data.
Affiliate Links and Third-Party Services
Top Venice Hotels is an informational and affiliate-based website. Some links on our website may lead to third-party travel providers, hotel booking platforms, or related services.
If you click an affiliate link or visit a third-party website, that provider may collect data in accordance with its own privacy policy and cookie practices.
We do not control the privacy practices of third-party websites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before submitting personal data or completing a transaction.
Log Files
Like many websites, Top Venice Hotels uses standard log files. These files may record information when visitors access the website.
The information collected may include:
- IP addresses
- Browser type
- Internet service provider (ISP)
- Date and time stamps
- Referring and exit pages
- Click data
This information may be used for analytics, administration, performance monitoring, and security. It is generally not used to identify individual users directly.
Cookies and Consent Management
We use cookies and similar technologies to enhance the user experience, operate essential website functions, analyze traffic, and support affiliate or marketing-related features.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation, security, and core functionality of the website. They do not require prior consent where permitted by law.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website so that we can improve its content, usability, and performance.
Marketing and Affiliate Cookies
Marketing-related and affiliate tracking cookies may be used to measure referrals, understand campaign performance, or support attribution by third-party partners.
Managing Consent
Where required by law, non-essential cookies – including analytics, affiliate, and marketing cookies – are used only after you have given your consent through our cookie banner or consent management platform.
You may:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Customize your preferences by category
You may also withdraw or modify your consent at any time through the cookie settings tool available on the website, where implemented.
Refusing certain non-essential cookies may affect analytics, personalization, or affiliate tracking functionality, but it should not prevent basic access to the website.
Third-Party Providers
We may use third-party services to support the operation of the website, including services related to:
- Website hosting
- Analytics
- Security and spam prevention
- Embedded content
- Affiliate tracking and reporting
Each third-party provider operates under its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review those policies where relevant.
Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no system or method of internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
International Data Transfers
Some third-party services we use may process data outside your country or outside the European Economic Area.
Where applicable, we aim to work with providers that use appropriate safeguards for international data transfers in accordance with relevant data protection laws.
Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including:
- Responding to communications
- Maintaining administrative records
- Meeting legal obligations
- Supporting security and fraud prevention
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of data and the purpose for which it was collected.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in legal requirements, technology, or the way our website operates.
Any updated version will be published on this page together with a revised effective date.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your GDPR rights, or the way your personal data is handled, please contact us:
Top Venice Hotels
Website: https://topvenicehotels.com
Email: support@topvenicehotels.com