Last updated: February 2026
Hotel 3 Paardekens ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.
1. Information We Collect
Personal Information
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:
- Make a booking or reservation
- Contact us via email or contact form
- Subscribe to our newsletter
- Create an account on our website
This information may include your name, email address, phone number, postal address, and payment information.
Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity through cookies and similar technologies, including:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Pages visited and time spent on pages
- Referral source
- Device information
2. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They help us provide you with a better experience and allow certain features to function properly.
Types of Cookies We Use
Necessary Cookies (Always Active)
These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable basic features such as session management, security features, language preference storage and cookie consent preferences. These cookies do not require your consent where they are strictly necessary for the website to work.
Analytics Cookies (Requires Consent)
We use Google Analytics (tracking ID: G-MX66JGB1Z9) to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve our service and user experience. These cookies may collect information such as visitor and page-view numbers, navigation through the site, time spent on pages and browser/device information.
Google Analytics privacy policy: Google Privacy Policy.
Marketing Cookies
We do not currently use marketing or advertising cookies. If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and request consent where required.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, you can accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can also control or remove cookies through your browser settings.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Process and manage your bookings and reservations
- Communicate with you about your stay or inquiries
- Improve our website and services
- Analyze website usage and trends
- Comply with legal obligations
- Prevent fraud and enhance security
4. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share information with service providers that help us operate the website or provide hotel services, when required by law, or in connection with a business transfer.
5. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure.
6. Your Rights Under GDPR
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, applicable data-protection law may give you rights including:
- Right to access
- Right to rectification
- Right to erasure
- Right to restrict processing
- Right to data portability
- Right to object
- Right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details below.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
8. Children's Privacy
Our website is not intended to collect personal information directly from children. If you believe information has been collected from a child inappropriately, please contact us.
9. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external sites and encourage you to review their own privacy notices.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The current version will be published on this page together with an updated revision date.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact:
Hotel 3 Paardekens
Begijnenstraat 3
2800 Mechelen, Belgium
Phone: +32 15 342 713
Email: info@3paardekens.be