We welcome you to the internet site of http://www.comfortinnsantamonica.com/. To provide you, our customers, the Site under the following notices, terms and conditions. When you access, browse or use this Site(s), you acknowledge that you understand and agree to be bound by these use terms.
Service Marks and Trademarks

COMFORT, SLEEP and CHOICE PRIVILEGES and other related trademarks, service marks and designs ("Marks") are registered and owned by Choice Hotels International in the United States and other countries. You may not use the Marks in any way without their license or written permission. Other trademarks and service marks that may appear on the Site are the property of their respective owners.

Copyrights
Our Site content, including text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, and software, and the compilation of them, is our property or the property of our content suppliers and vendors, and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. You may use the Site content and software only as a resource for your travel needs, and not for any other use. You may not display, distribute, modify, reproduce, republish or transmit the Site content.

Site Use
The Site is intended to assist you in determining the availability of and booking hotel rooms. Except for printing information in connection with your travel, you may not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or otherwise exploit this Site unless we provide you with prior written permission to do so. We may refuse service, terminate access, and/or cancel transactions at our discretion.

You are responsible for the content of your submissions, and you allow us to use that content in ways consistent with our privacy policy below. You may not post or transmit to the Site any unlawful, defamatory, profane or like material that could give rise to civil or criminal liability under law.

The rates listed on the Site are provided by the individual hotels and are represented in their local currency. Currency may be converted at the Site, however, it is provided for informational use only. We base international currency conversion on publicly available sources, so we do not warrant or guarantee that conversion rates will be the same at the time you pay the hotel. Your payments to hotels on the Site are exclusively between you and the hotel, and we do not assume any liability or involvement in disputes you may have with a hotel. Hotels may change price and availability of rooms listed on the Site without notice.

PRIVACY

You are anonymous on this Site until you knowingly provide us with information. While we may configure the Site to create a temporary "cookie" for us to keep track of your preferences and activities during your visits (for example, customizing the Site to show the brand that you originally typed in), the cookie gives us no information about you or your computer. Set your browser to reject cookies if you have further concerns.
When you voluntarily provide us with information, such as your name, address, phone number, credit card information and room preference, your information is encrypted if transferred over a Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) browser, available on browsers such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. The padlock icon on the lower right side of your screen will appear locked and the first characters of the Site address will change from "http" to "https" if you are accessing a secure server. Once information reaches us, we store it behind a secure firewall that blocks access to the information outside our server.

We pledge to keep confidential the private information that you provide to us. We require our employees, endorsed vendors, agents and affiliates to affirm the confidential nature of your information and not share it with any third party.

We will not sell, trade, rent or release your private information to anyone outside our company and franchisees, without your approval and giving you the opportunity to opt out. We may disclose your information to parties requiring it under law or use it to perform credit checks, report or collect debts owed or protect the rights or property of Choice, the Site or its users.

If we offer a contest, sweepstakes, and promotion, we will post clear rules about how we may request additional private information that may be used by our sponsors for marketing. You will be given the option to opt out of the opportunity to receive additional information from us or our sponsors.

If you leave the Site via links on the Site, we are not responsible for the privacy or other policies on those sites.

Your privacy is very important to Comfort Inn Santa Monica. In using this Web site, you may be asked to submit various information that personally identifies you (“Personal Information”). To help protect your privacy, we adhere to the following guidelines with respect to such information:

• When possible, this Web site will provide our customers with the means to make sure that their Personal Information is correct and current.
• We and our service providers use Personal Information to operate the site, to provide services, and to inform our customers of new features, services, and products.
• We may disclose Personal Information if required or permitted to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with applicable law or with legal process served on Comfort Inn Santa Monica; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Comfort Inn Santa Monica, and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Comfort Inn Santa Monica services, or the general public.

Our customers should also be aware that information and data may be automatically collected through the standard operation of our internet servers and through the use of “cookies”. “Cookies” are small text files a Web site can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user’s ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto a system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to each customer that has no meaning outside the assigning site. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows a user to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies may be necessary to provide customers with certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on this Web site.

This Web site may provide links to other sites that are sponsored and maintained by third parties. We are providing such links solely as a convenience to you. Accordingly, we make no representations concerning the content of such sites and the fact that we have provided a link to such site does not constitute an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation by us with respect to the sites, their owners, or their providers.

If at any time you believe that we have not adhered to these principles, please notify us at gm.ca430@choicehotels.com

DISCLAIMER

COMFORT INN SANTA MONICA, PROVIDES THIS SITE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. WE DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT ANYTHING ABOUT SITE OPERATION OR SITE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NON-INFRINGEMENT, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM SITE USE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

Applicable Law, Modification
We create and control this Site in the State of California, U.S.A. Accordingly, California law governs these use terms, without regard to California conflicts of law principles. You must comply with local laws. We may change the Site and these use terms at any time, so revisit this page periodically to determine the current terms of use.