Ocean City Boardwalk Hotels, Maryland

Privacy policy

The Grand Hotel and Spa name, design, logo, related marks, and all images on this website owned by Grand Hotel and Spa are registered and/or used in the U.S.

All trademarks, service marks, and trade names not owned by Grand Hotel and Spa referenced on this website are the property of their respective owners.

Privacy of GrandHotelOceanCity.com Users

Grand Hotel and Spa values your privacy and will protect any information we learn about you from your visit to our website. Your privacy is very important to us.

Secure Reservations

If you decide to make an online reservation with Grand Hotel and Spa, you will be linked to a reservation interface and a third party booking engine (“Booking Engine”) provided by WorldXA. While it appears to be part of our site, the Booking Engine is in fact provided by a third party and is governed by its privacy practices. We understand that security remains the primary concern of online consumers and have chosen the Booking Engine Vendor carefully.

Cookies

Our website uses Cookies technology. Cookies are small digital signature files that are stored by your web browser that allow your preferences to be recorded when visiting the website. Also they may be used to track your return visits to the website. Cookies enable our website to keep track of your preferences and activities relating to the website. Our website creates session cookies for each visit in order to facilitate your visit. The session cookie expires at the end of the session.

  • Use of Cookies and E-Mails – We use a third party service provider to send marketing e-mails on behalf of Grand Hotel and Spa. There are no cookies in the e-mail. However, when an e-mail recipient clicks on a link to pinkshell.com included in the e-mail, a persistent cookie is placed on the user’s computer. This cookie is used to measure the effectiveness of our e-mail marketing efforts and better understand how our users navigate through the site. The cookie set by our service provider will remain on your hard drive 30 days after the last time you clicked on the coded link in the e-mail, or until you delete it.
  • Use of Cookies for Advertising – We use third party service providers, including Google Adwords Remarketing, to serve and host our advertisements. These third parties use persistent cookies to track the number of times our site is accessed and whether the site was accessed from the advertisement. The cookies generated from the advertisements do not contain personally identifiable information and may remain on your hard drive three or more years unless deleted by you.

The third party service providers mentioned above are contractually bound not to use any information they gather for any purpose other than providing services to us. Cookies do not corrupt or damage your computer or computer files. In addition, we do not use cookies to gather information concerning your visits to websites other than pinkshell.com. If you do not wish to receive these cookies, you may set your browser to reject the cookies (consult the instructions for your particular browser on how to do this), although doing so may affect your ability to perform certain transactions on our website.

Google Ads

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads.

Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to sites they visit on the Internet.

Website visitors may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. You can view information about how to opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.

E-Mail

It is our intention to only send you e-mail communications that will be useful to you and that you want to receive. When you make a reservation and provide your e-mail address, we will occasionally contact you via e-mail and provide information about special offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. These communications will relate to Grand Hotel and Spa offers and/or news updates that pertain to the resort. We use a third party e-mail service provider to send e-mails. This service provider is prohibited from using your e-mail address for any purpose other than to send Grand Hotel and Spa related e-mail. Every time you receive e-mail you will be provided the choice to opt-out of future e-mails by following the instructions provided in the e-mail.

Withdrawing Consent to Use

If, after permitting use of your personal information, you later decide that you no longer wish for Grand Hotel and Spa to include you on its mailing list or otherwise contact you or use your personal information in the manner disclosed in this Privacy Policy or at the Site, simply tell us by sending an e-mail through our website contact form, or by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” button at the bottom of our email communication to you.