This Cookie Policy explains how Hotel-Room.com uses browser storage and how third-party services used for hotel search may use cookies or similar technologies. Our core hotel search is available without requiring optional analytics consent.
What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files that a website or service can store in your browser. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels and device identifiers. They can be used to remember settings, maintain a session, measure traffic or support a third-party service.
Hotel-Room.com also uses local storage for the cookie-preference record itself. Although local storage is technically different from a cookie, we describe it here because it serves a similar preference-management purpose.
Categories used on Hotel-Room.com
1. Essential and functional storage
These technologies support basic site operation, security, interface preferences and the consent choice itself. They are not switched off through our optional analytics setting because the site needs them to remember that choice or provide a requested core function.
2. Core hotel-search services
The primary hotel-search experience connects with BusinessHotels.com. Search and booking functionality can involve a third-party iframe or booking page. BusinessHotels.com and downstream booking providers may use their own cookies or session technologies when necessary to perform hotel search, maintain booking context, prevent fraud, secure transactions or provide the booking flow.
3. Google Places and Maps functions
The AI Hotel Finder and Hotels Near Me tools can load Google Maps/Places services when those tools are used. Google may receive technical information such as IP address, device/browser information and the search or location request needed to return results. Google may use cookies or similar technologies according to its own policies.
4. Optional analytics
Hotel-Room.com includes a consent preference for optional analytics. If optional analytics are added or enabled, they should load only when the saved preference allows that category. At the time this policy was prepared, the site's core functions do not depend on optional analytics being enabled.
Current first-party preference storage
| Storage | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
hotelRoomConsent in local storage | Remembers whether optional analytics are allowed and the time the preference was saved. | Until cleared by the user or replaced by a newer preference. |
Other first-party technical storage may be introduced as the site evolves. When practical, this policy will be updated to describe material new uses.
Third-party storage
Third-party services can set or read their own cookies when their content is loaded. Hotel-Room.com cannot directly control the name or lifetime of every third-party cookie because those technologies are managed by the third party and can change over time.
Services that may appear in the Hotel-Room.com experience include BusinessHotels.com for live hotel search and booking access, Google Maps/Places for property identification and nearby search, and the hotel or booking provider reached after you continue to a booking page.
Your choices
You can choose “Essential only,” allow optional analytics, or open Cookie Settings and change the preference later. Clearing browser data can also remove the saved consent record, in which case the banner may appear again.
Your browser may provide additional controls to block cookies globally, block third-party cookies, clear local storage or limit tracking. Blocking all cookies can affect third-party booking pages, login or payment flows even when Hotel-Room.com itself remains viewable.
Do Not Track and privacy signals
Browsers and privacy tools can send signals such as Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. The technical meaning and legal effect of these signals varies by jurisdiction and service. Hotel-Room.com aims to avoid unnecessary tracking and does not make the core hotel-search experience depend on optional analytics consent.
Retention and security
The first-party consent preference remains in local storage until you clear it or we replace it with a new version. Third-party retention is governed by the provider operating that service. We use reasonable technical measures to reduce unnecessary storage, but no browser or internet system can be guaranteed completely secure.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this policy when site technology, analytics, booking integrations or legal requirements change. The date at the top of the page identifies the latest published version.