Privacy Notice and Information for Data Subjects pursuant to Art. 13 and Art. 14 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
This notice describes how we process your personal data.
If you book a hotel room with ‘Premier Inn’ or ‘ZIP by Premier Inn’, or a table at ‘Thyme Restaurants’, the controller is ‘Premier Inn Hotels Ltd’.
The address of both companies is Whitbread Court, Houghton Hall Business Park, Porz Avenue, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5 5XE, United Kingdom. Please see “How do I get in touch with you” below for contact details for specific matters.
If you book a hotel room with ‘hub by Premier Inn’, or a table at ‘ProvenDough Deli+Bar’, the controller is ‘Premier Inn Ochre Ltd’
If you book a hotel room with ‘Premier Inn’ in Germany the controller is Premier Inn GmbH, or Premier Inn Hotel GmbH, depending on which hotel you book (the Terms and Conditions of your booking will show you which Premier Inn hotels are operated by the aforementioned companies). The address of these companies is
Premier Inn Holding GmbH, Sitz: Europa-Allee 22, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The aforementioned companies are also the respective controllers in respect of the reservation data we receive from online travel agents in accordance with their privacy policy if you book a hotel room through such online travel agent for a "Premier Inn" in Germany. This data may be: Name/title of the person(s) making the booking, name/title of guests, gender, address, email address, telephone number, travel dates, purpose of travel, room rate. Otherwise, we have no influence on the further processing of your data by the online travel agent. You can find information on the processing of your data by the online travel agent in the privacy policy of the relevant online travel agent.
If you book a hotel room with ‘Premier Inn’ in the Isle of Man, the controller is Premier Inn (Isle of Man) Ltd, whose address is 2nd Floor, St Mary’s Court, 20 Hill Street, Douglas, IM1 1EU, Isle of Man.
If you book a hotel room with ‘Premier Inn’ in Dublin, the controller is Premier Inn Hotels and Restaurants Ireland Ltd, whose address is Dublin Airport, Airside Retail Park, Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
If you book a hotel with ‘Premier Inn’ in Jersey, the controller is Premier Inn (Jersey) Ltd, whose address is 4th Floor, St Paul’s Gate, 22-24 New Street, St Helier, JE1 4TR, Jersey.
Whenever you deal with one of these companies, the ‘controller’ of your personal information will be the company in our group that you are interacting with or with whom your information has been shared. A ‘controller’ is a company that decides why and how your personal information is processed.
Where this policy refers to "we", "our" or "us" or “Premier Inn” below, unless it mentions otherwise, it’s referring to the particular company that is the controller of your personal information.
This notice applies to:
And anyone contacting, visiting or using our:
Where you exercise any of your rights, we will process your personal data to comply with your request in accordance with our legal obligations.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with any data protection supervisory authority, in particular, the one of the country in which you are resident, work or in which your complaint arises. For the contact details of the Information Commissioner in the UK see www.ico.org.uk, for Information Commissioner in the Isle of Man see www.inforights.im and for the Office of Information Commissioner in Jersey see https://oicjersey.org . For the contact details of the competent German supervisory authority see https://www.bfdi.bund.de Details of all EU supervisory authorities can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080
We may provide additional information during the booking and check-in process and at other points at which we collect your personal data.
If you wish to exercise your rights, please visit our Contact Us page where you will be directed to a feedback form. Then please select “Privacy” from the “Reason for contact” drop-down box.
If you require further details of our Privacy Notice please read more below.
We collect personal information when you book with us or request or use our services. This includes hotel and restaurant visits, using our websites or apps, or corresponding with us. We may also receive personal data about you from another source. This includes:
Third parties that we receive personal data from may include:
Group companies
We will share your personal data with Whitbread Group plc and other companies in the Whitbread Group for administering hotel and restaurant services & products. Details of the Whitbread group can be found on our corporate website at www.whitbread.co.uk. The group includes inter alia Whitbread Group plc and Premier Inn Hotels Limited in the UK and Premier Inn Holding GmbH and its subsidiaries in Germany. Premier Inn shares data within the Whitbread group when Whitbread Group plc provide us with support, advisory, IT, safety and security, including CCTV, and other services.
Premier Inn Hotels Ltd is the representative of Premier Inn (Isle of Man) Ltd and Premier Inn (Jersey) Ltd in the EU.
Service Providers
For some activities Premier Inn uses third party service providers including where we are joint controllers. Your personal data will be disclosed to such organisations where this is necessary to provide a service to you, or where it is in our legitimate interests. You will be informed separately if a third party is operating as a joint controller with Premier Inn. Third parties are used to:
Other parties
Personal data may be shared with regulators, government authorities and/or law enforcement officials for the prevention or detection of crime, if required by law or if required for a legal or contractual claim or regulatory purposes.
We disclose your personal data to payment providers, technology providers, insurers, and other specialist professional and technical advisers, to manage your bookings, arrange payments, and provide services.
With your consent, we will also disclose your personal data to Ombudsman services and Citizens’ Advice.
A very small number of hotels using the Premier Inn brand are run by a franchisee partner Greene King Brewing and Retailing Limited. Your data will be shared with such franchisee where you book one of those hotels to enable them to fulfil your booking and any related services requested by you. Such franchisee is committed to protecting your privacy but, to be clear, the franchisee is an independent business and is responsible for the operation of its own hotels and compliance with data protection laws.
Restructure and sale
We may restructure our internal group of companies so that different group companies run our hotels and related services. So, for example, in the future Whitbread Group plc (or another group company) may take over responsibility for the running and operation of hotels from Premier Inn Hotels Ltd. If this happens we will let you know and your data may be shared with such company and processed as set out in this notice.
In the event that the business is sold or integrated with another business, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchaser’s adviser and will be passed to the new owners of the business.
International transfers
Sometimes we may need to send or store your data outside of the European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway) (‘EEA’). For example, to follow your instructions, comply with a legal duty or to work with or receive services from our service providers who we use to help run your accounts and our services.
If we do transfer information outside of the EEA, we will make sure that it is protected by using one of these safeguards:
For some of our service providers in the US, we rely on EU-US-DPF. For example the party who helps us with our customer feedback surveys. We rely on contractual measures for a small number of our suppliers who have or use offices outside the EEA and who have restricted access to some data to provide us with IT services including development, testing, support and maintenance. For further details on the mechanisms used and for a copy of the chosen safeguards please contact privacyofficer@whitbread.com
Business Account
If you apply for a Business Account a separate Privacy Notice will also apply. Further information is available by clicking here.
Significant automated decision-making
Like many businesses we use business rules on financial and other information in order to detect and prevent fraud. When used, these may identify a risk and, as a result, a particular transaction may not be processed.
Withdrawing consent
Wherever we rely on your consent, you will always and at any time be able to withdraw that consent with effect for the future. We will continue to process your personal data for other purposes on a different lawful basis (other than consent) where that applies.
Objecting to data processing including direct
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of your personal data which is conducted on the legitimate interest basis or which is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller, including profiling based on those provisions. In such case, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which overrides your interests, rights and freedoms or that the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have an absolute right to opt-out of direct marketing, and any profiling we carry out for direct marketing, at any time and without any limitation. You can do this by clicking on the 'unsubscribe' link located in the footer of every marketing email or text or by contacting us (see the contact details provided below). Where you objected to our processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for such purposes.
Where you have a relationship with another organisation, such as a social media platform like Facebook, we may ask them to send marketing to you, subject to your consent. If you object to receiving marketing from us we will stop marketing to you. However, please contact the organisation directly if you want to withdraw your consent to such organisation marketing to you.
Other qualified rights
These rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal personal data about another person or you ask us to erase information which we are required by law to Relevant exemptions are also included within the data protection laws that apply in the UK or Germany as the case may be. We will inform you of relevant exemptions we rely upon when responding to any request you make.
To exercise some of these rights, you can get in touch with us by:
filling out this webform.
This is the best way for us to handle your request directly and for you to get the quickest response.
If you have concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with any data protection supervisory authority, in particular, the one of the country in which you are resident, work or in which your complaint arises. For the contact details of the Information Commissioner in the UK see www.ico.org.uk, for Information Commissioner in the Isle of Man see www.inforights.im and for the Office of Information Commissioner in Jersey see https://oicjersey.org.
For the contact details of the competent German supervisory authority see:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Details of all EU supervisory authorities can be found at:
http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080
We keep your data to enable us to fulfil our contract with you or to provide services, where required by law, to respond to a question or complaint, to obey rules about keeping records, to uphold or protect contractual or legal rights or where it is in your or another party’s vital interests or our legitimate interests. Where we process personal data on the basis of your consent, we will retain it only for as long as required for the specified purpose. We also keep your data in line with any statutory limitation periods and for tax, legal or regulatory purposes.
The period for which we will retain your personal data depends on the purposes for which we are processing it and where the same personal data is processed for two or more purposes, we will retain it for the longest period. For example, we retain:
In any of the cases mentioned above, we may retain the personal data for longer, if it is required for the purposes of any internal or external investigation or litigation. In these cases, it may be retained until the matter is resolved. We may keep your data for longer in line with any limitation periods, or if we cannot delete it, e.g. for tax, legal or regulatory reasons.
You have the qualified right to request deletion of your personal data at any time, or we may choose or be obliged to erase your personal data earlier, for example, if we no longer need to process it.
When you call up our web pages, you transmit data to our web server via your Internet browser (for technical reasons). The following data is recorded during an ongoing connection for communication between your Internet browser and our web server:
For reasons of technical security, in particular to defend against attempts to attack our web server, this data is stored by us for a short time. It is not possible for us to draw conclusions about individual persons on the basis of this data. After seven days at the latest, the data is anonymised by shortening the IP address at domain level, so that it is no longer possible to establish a link to individual users. In anonymised form, the data is also processed for statistical purposes; it is not compared with other data sets or passed on to third parties, even in excerpts.
Information about the first and third parties cookies and other technologies we use is available in our Cookie Notice
Queries and exercise of rights
If you have any queries or want to exercise any of your rights please see the “Contact Us” page on our website where you will be directed to an enquiry form. Then please select ‘Privacy’ from the ‘Reason for contact’ drop down box.
General data protection queries
If you have any questions, suggestions or complaints about the processing of your personal information in the UK, please contact our data protection officer in the UK:
Whitbread Group PLC, Legal Department, Whitbread Court, Porz Avenue, Houghton Regis, LU5 5XE
Email: Privacyofficer@whitbread.com
If you have any questions, suggestions or complaints about the processing of your personal information in Germany, please contact our data protection officer in Germany:
Dr. Sebastian Kraska, Marienplatz 2, 80331 München
Email: skraska@iitr.dei
This Privacy Notice was last updated on 22 March 2024. Any changes to this Privacy Notice will be communicated on our website.