First Created: November 1st, 2023
Last Updated: November 22nd, 2023
liora™ Cambodia is the only entirely pet-friendly apartment hotel in Cambodia. The company exists to build vibrant living spaces and nurture communities that are sustainable, innovative and inclusive. A big part of being inclusive means ensuring that everyone feels valued and respected as an individual – down to the way we use your information and protect your human right to privacy.
The liora™ Cambodia is hosted on the domain: lioracambodia.com
liora™ Cambodia is the Cambodian subsidiary of lazarusrooms Corporation in the United States of America (USA).
This Privacy Policy describes how liora™ Cambodia, its affiliates (“we,” “us,” or “liora™ Cambodia”), process personal information in relation to your use of the liora™ Cambodia Platform.
1. Personal Information We Collect
1.1 Information Needed to Use the liora™ Cambodia Platform.
We may collect personal information about you when you use the liora™ Cambodia Platform.
Without it, we may not be able to provide all services requested. This information might include:
- Contact information and personal details such as your first name, last name, phone number, email address, and date of birth.
- Identity Verification and payment information such as images of your government-issued ID (as permitted by applicable laws), your ID number or other verification information may also be required for long-term stays.
1.2 Information You Choose to Give Us
You can choose to provide us with additional personal information. This information may include:
- Additional Profile Information. Such as gender, preferred language(s), city.
- Information About Others. Such as a payment instrument belonging to another person or information about a co-traveler. By providing us with personal information about others, you certify that you have permission to provide that information to liora™ Cambodia for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and you have shared the liora™ Cambodia Privacy Policy with them.
- Other Information. Such as when you fill in a form, add information to your account, respond to surveys, post to community forums, participate in promotions, communicate with liora™ Cambodia Support and other Members, import or manually enter address book contacts, provide your address and/or geolocation, or share your experience with us. This may include health information if you choose to share it with us.
1.3 Information Automatically Collected by Using the liora™ Cambodia Platform and Our Payment Services.
When you use the liora™ Cambodia Platform and Payment Services, we automatically collect personal and other information. This information may include:
- Geolocation Information. Such as precise or approximate location determined from your IP address, mobile or other device’s GPS, or other information you share with us, depending on your device settings. We may also collect this information when you’re not using the app if you enable this through your settings or device permissions.
- Usage Information. Such as the pages or content you view, searches for Listings, bookings you have made, additional services you have added, and other actions on the liora™ Cambodia Platform.
- Log Data and Device Information. Such as details about how you’ve used the liora™ Cambodia Platform (including if you clicked on links to third-party applications), IP address, access dates and times, hardware and software information, device information, device event information, unique identifiers, crash data, and the pages you’ve viewed or engaged with before or after using the liora™ Cambodia Platform. We may collect this information even if you haven’t created an liora™ Cambodia account or logged in.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies
- Payment Transaction Information. Such as payment instrument used, date and time, payment amount, payment instrument expiration date and billing postcode, PayPal email address, IBAN information, your address, and other related transaction details.
1.4 Personal Information We Collect from Third Parties
We collect personal information from other sources, such as:
- Background Information. For Members in the United States, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may obtain, for example, reports of criminal records, sex offender registrations, and other information about you and/or your background. For Hosts in India, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may perform criminal background checks. For Members outside of the United States, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and with your consent where required, we may obtain police, background, or registered sex offender checks. We may use your information, including your full name and date of birth, to obtain such reports.
- Enterprise Product Invitations and Account Management. Organizations that use our Enterprise products may submit personal information to facilitate account management and invitations to use enterprise products.
- Referrals and Co-Travelers. If you are invited to the liora™ Cambodia Platform, for example, as a co-traveler on a trip, the person who invited you can submit personal information about you such as your email address or other contact information.
- Guest Travel Insurance. If you make a claim under our Guest Travel Insurance policy, we will receive information regarding your claim in order to process, handle, or assess your claim and as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
- Other Sources. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may receive additional information about you, such as references, demographic data, or information to help detect fraud and safety issues from third-party service providers and/or partners, and combine it with information we have about you. For example, we may receive background check results or fraud warnings from identity verification service providers for use in our fraud prevention, security investigation, and risk assessment efforts. We may receive information about you and your activities on and off the liora™ Cambodia Platform, or about your experiences and interactions from our partners. We may receive health information, including but not limited to, health information related to contagious diseases.
2. How We Use The Information We Collect
We use personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
2.1 Provide, Improve, and Develop the liora™ Cambodia Platform
We may process this information to:
- enable you to access the liora™ Cambodia Platform and make and receive payments,
- enable you to communicate with other Members,
- process your request,
- perform analytics, debug, and conduct research,
- provide customer service training,
- send you messages, updates, security alerts, and account notifications,
- process, handle, or assess insurance claims or similar claims,
- personalise and customise your experience based on your interactions with the liora™ Cambodia Platform, your search and booking history, your profile information and preferences, and other content you submit, and
- enable your use of our enterprise products and accommodation services.
If you provide us with your contacts’ information, such as your friends or co-travelers, we may process this information to: (i) facilitate your referral invitations, (ii) share your trip details and facilitate trip planning, (iii) detect and prevent fraud, and (iv) facilitate your requests or for any other purpose you authorise.
2.2 Create and Maintain a Trusted and Safer Environment
We may process this information to:
- detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security and safety incidents, and other harmful activities,
- study and combat discrimination
- conduct fraud prevention, security investigations, and risk assessments,
- verify or authenticate information provided by you,
- conduct checks against databases and other information sources, including background checks,
- comply with our legal obligations, protect the health and well-being of our Guests, Hosts, Hosts’ employees, and members of the public,
- resolve disputes with our Members, including sharing information with your co-Host(s) or additional Guests about disputes related to your role as a co-Host(s) or additional Guests,
- enforce our agreements with third parties,
- determine eligibility for certain types of bookings, such as Instant Book,
- comply with law, respond to legal requests, prevent harm, and protect our rights (see section 4.5),
- enforce our terms and other policies, and
- assess or evaluate your interactions with the liora™ Cambodia Platform and information obtained from third parties. In limited cases, automated processes, which analyze your account and activities on the liora™ Cambodia platform as well as information in relation to activities on and off the liora™ Cambodia platform that can be associated with you, could restrict or suspend your access to the liora™ Cambodia Platform if such processes detect activity that may pose a safety or other risk to liora™ Cambodia, our community, or third parties. If you would like to challenge decisions based on automated processes, please contact us via the Contact Information section below.
2.3 Provide, Personalize, Measure, and Improve our Advertising and Marketing. We may process this information to:
- send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information based on your preferences and social media advertising through social media platforms,
- personalize, measure, and improve our advertising,
- administer referral programs, rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by liora™ Cambodia or its third-party partners,
- analyze characteristics and preferences to send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information that we think might be of interest to you,
- invite you to events and relevant opportunities, and
- send, with your consent, promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information that may be of interest to you based on your preferences.
2.4 Analysing and Sharing Your Communications
We may review, scan, or analyze your communications on the liora™ Cambodia Platform for reasons outlined in the “How We Use Information We Collect” section of this policy, including fraud prevention, security investigations, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, product development, research, analytics, enforcing our Terms of Service, and customer support purposes. For example, as part of our fraud prevention efforts, we scan and analyze messages to mask contact information and references to other sites, and subject to applicable law, we scan and analyze all images uploaded by users to the liora™ Cambodia platform in message threads, profiles, listings, and experiences for certain illegal or inappropriate activities (such as evidence of child exploitation) for the purpose of identifying and reporting content violations to appropriate authorities. In some cases, we may also scan, review, or analyze messages to debug, improve, and expand product offerings. We use automated methods where reasonably possible. Occasionally we may need to manually review communications, such as for fraud investigations and customer support, or to assess and improve the functionality of these automated tools. We will not review, scan, or analyze your messaging communications to send third-party marketing messages to you and we will not sell reviews or analyses of these communications. We may also share your communications as set out in the “Sharing & Disclosure” section.
2.5 Provide Payment Services. Personal information is used to enable, or authorize third parties to use, Payment Services, such as to:
- detect and prevent money laundering, fraud, abuse, and security incidents, as well as conduct risk assessments,
- comply with legal and compliance obligations (such as anti-money laundering regulations and sanctions enforcement),
- enforce Payment Terms and other payment policies, and
- provide and improve Payment Services.
3. Sharing and Disclosure of Information
3.1 Sharing With Your Consent or at Your Direction
Where you provide consent, we share your information as described at the time of consent, such as when authorising a third-party application or website to access your liora™ Cambodia account or participating in promotional activities by liora™ Cambodia partners or third parties.
Where permissible under applicable law, we may use certain information about you, such as your email address, that we share with social media platforms after de-identifying it to generate leads, drive traffic to liora™ Cambodia, or otherwise promote our products and services.
3.2 Sharing Between Members
To help facilitate bookings or other interactions between Members (who may be located in, or use service providers located in, jurisdictions with varying levels of data protection), we may share information in situations such as:
- Between Guests when:
- You as a Guest invite additional Guests to a booking, certain information is shared with each additional Guest, such as your name, travel dates, Host name, Listing details, Accommodation address, and other related information.
3.3 Information You Publish in Profiles, Listings, and Other Public Information
You can make certain information publicly visible to others, such as:
- Your public profile page, which includes your profile photo, first name (or initials where applicable), description, and city.
- Listing pages that include information such as the Accommodation or Experience’s approximate or precise location description, calendar availability, profile photo, aggregated demand information (like page views over a period of time), and additional information you choose to share.
- Reviews, ratings, and other public feedback.
- Content in a community or discussion forum, blog, or social media post.
We may display parts of your public profile and other Content you make available to the public like Listing details on third-party sites, platforms, and apps.
Information you share publicly on the liora™ Cambodia Platform may be indexed through third-party search engines. In some cases, you may opt-out of this feature in your account settings.
3.4 Host Service Providers
Hosts may use third-party services to help manage or deliver their services, such as cleaning services or lock providers. Hosts may use features on the liora™ Cambodia Platform to share information about the Guest (like check-in and check-out information, Guest name, Guest phone number) with such third-party service providers.
3.5 Complying with Law, Responding to Legal Requests, Preventing Harm and Protecting Our Rights
We may disclose your information to courts, law enforcement, governmental or public authorities, tax authorities, authorized third parties, or other Members, if and to the extent we are required or permitted to do so by law or where disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with our legal obligations, (ii) comply with a valid legal request (such as a subpoena or court order) or to respond to claims asserted against liora™ Cambodia, (iii) respond to a valid legal request relating to a criminal investigation to address alleged or suspected illegal activity, or to respond to or address any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our users to legal or regulatory liability (iv) enforce and administer our agreements with Members, including our Terms and Policies, or (v) protect the rights, property or personal safety of liora™ Cambodia, its employees, its Members, or members of the public.
Where appropriate, we may notify Members about legal requests unless: (i) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law, or (ii) we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of injury or bodily harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of fraud upon or harm to liora™ Cambodia, our Members, or expose liora™ Cambodia to a claim of obstruction of justice.
Where legally required or permissible according to applicable law, we may disclose Hosts’ and/or Guests’ information to tax authorities or other governmental agencies for the purpose of the tax authorities’ determination of proper compliance with relevant tax obligations. Relevant tax obligations include liora™ Cambodia’s tax obligations on its service fees, its facilitation of taxes on accommodations and withholding taxes, and Hosts’ individual tax obligations. Information that may be disclosed includes, but is not limited to, Host and Guest names, listing addresses, Host addresses, tax/business identification number(s), date of birth, and/or contact information, property parcel identification numbers, payout information, transaction dates and amounts, number of nights and Guests booked, gross and net booking value and payout amounts, taxes collected by liora™ Cambodia on behalf of Guests and Hosts, to the extent any of this information is known by liora™ Cambodia.
In jurisdictions where liora™ Cambodia facilitates or requires a registration, notification, permit, or license application or number of a Host with a governmental authority, we may share information of participating Hosts with the relevant authority, both during the application process, when the Listing is published, and periodically thereafter, such as the Host’s full name and contact details, Accommodation address, tax identification number, registration, permit, or license number, Listing details, reservation information, and number of nights booked subject to applicable laws.
3.6 Programs with Managers and Owners
We may share personal information of Hosts and Guests with landlords, management companies, homeowners’ associations, property owners, and/or property managers (“Building Management”), such as booking information and information related to compliance with applicable laws, in order to facilitate programs with Building Management. For example, guest booking and personal information, including guest contact information, may be shared with the Building Management of the building, complex, or community where a host lives and/or the listing is located to facilitate hosting services, compliance with applicable laws, security, billing, and other services.
3.7 Host Information Provided to liora™ Cambodia for Work Customers
If a booking is designated as being for a business or work purpose and (1) is made by a Guest affiliated with an Enterprise and (2) the Enterprise is enrolled in liora™ Cambodia for Work, we may disclose information related to the booking to the Enterprise (e.g., name of the Host, Accommodation address, booking dates, Listing details, etc.) to the extent necessary for the adequate performance of liora™ Cambodia’s contract with the Enterprise and to provide the services. At the request of the Enterprise or the Guest, we may also share this information with third parties engaged by the Enterprise to provide support services.
3.8 Service Providers
We share personal information with affiliated and unaffiliated service providers (including their service providers) to help us run our business and for their compliance purposes, including those that help us: (i) verify your identity or authenticate your identification documents, (ii) check information against public databases, (iii) conduct background checks, fraud prevention, security investigations, and risk assessments, (iv) perform product development, maintenance, and debugging, (v) allow the provision of the liora™ Cambodia Services through third-party platforms and software tools (e.g., through the integration with our APIs), (vi) provide customer service, advertising, or payments services, (vii) offer additional services you select, (viii) process, handle, or assess insurance claims or similar claims, or (ix) review, scan, and analyze communications on the liora™ Cambodia Platform for certain purposes (such as evidence of child exploitation). See the Analyzing and Sharing Your Communications section for additional information. These providers are contractually bound to protect your personal information and have access to your personal information to perform these tasks. Other Members can use services other than liora™ Cambodia to process your data. These can include email or reservation management software. Such services are outside of liora™ Cambodia’s control and will be subject to applicable laws around the world with varying levels of data protection.
3.9 Business Transfers
If liora™ Cambodia undertakes or is involved in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency event, then we may sell, transfer, or share some or all of our assets, including your information in connection with such transaction or in contemplation of such transaction (e.g., due diligence). In this event, we will notify you before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
3.10 Corporate Affiliates
To support us in providing, integrating, promoting and improving the liora™ Cambodia Platform, Payment Services, and our affiliates’ services, we may share personal information within our corporate family of companies that are related by common ownership or control. Some examples are:
- Sharing with liora™ Cambodia, Inc. Even if your country of residence is not the United States, your information will be shared with lazarusrooms Corporation., which provides the technical infrastructure for the liora™ Cambodia Platform.
4. Other Important Information
4.1 Third-Party Partners & Integrations
Parts of liora™ Cambodia may link to third-party services. liora™ Cambodia does not own or control these third parties. When you interact with these third parties and choose to use their service, you are providing your information to them. Your use of these services is subject to the privacy policies of those providers, including Google Maps/Earth Additional Terms of Use, Google Privacy Policy (see here for more information on how Google uses information), Paypal Privacy Statement, Citi Privacy Policy, and Stripe Privacy Policy.
5. Your Rights
You can exercise any of the rights described in this section consistent with applicable law. We may ask you to verify your identity and request before taking further action on your request.
5.1 Data Access and Portability
In some jurisdictions, applicable law may entitle you to request certain copies of your personal information or information about how we handle your personal information, request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and/or request that we transmit this information to another service provider (where technically feasible).
5.2 Data Erasure
In some jurisdictions, you can request that your personal information be deleted. Please note that if you request deletion of your personal information, or if your account is suspended, terminated, or voluntarily closed:
- We may retain your personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as prevention of money laundering, fraud detection and prevention, and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend an liora™ Cambodia Account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain information from that liora™ Cambodia Account to prevent that Member from opening a new liora™ Cambodia Account in the future.
- We may retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations. For example, liora™ Cambodia and liora™ Cambodia Payments may keep information for tax, legal reporting, and auditing obligations.
- Information you have shared with others (e.g., Reviews, forum postings) may continue to be publicly visible on liora™ Cambodia, even after your liora™ Cambodia Account is cancelled.
- Because we take measures to protect data from accidental or malicious loss and destruction, residual copies of your personal information may not be removed from our backup systems for a limited period of time.
6. Security
While no organization can guarantee perfect security, we are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unlawful or unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration.
7. Changes To This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with applicable law. If we do so, we will post the revised Privacy Policy and update the “Last Updated” date at the top. In case of material changes, we will also provide you with notice of the modification by email at least thirty (30) days before the effective date. If you disagree with the revised Privacy Policy, you can cancel your Account. If you do not cancel your Account before the date the revised Privacy Policy becomes effective, your continued access to or use of the liora™ Cambodia Platform will be subject to the revised Privacy Policy.
8. Contact Information
For questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or liora™ Cambodia’s handling of personal information, please contact info@lioracambodia.com.