1 General
1.1 The website is run by Scandic Hotels AB (Scandic). By using the website, you accept the terms and conditions in whatever form they take at the time of use. The terms and conditions apply to all your use of the website.
1.2 Scandic may add to, renew or improve the information on the website. Scandic retains the right to change, add to or delete all or parts of the website at any time. If you continue to use Scandic’s website after changes have been published on this page, you thereby accept the changes.
1.3 Separate terms and conditions apply to the frequent guest programme and reservations.
2 Intellectual property rights
2.1 All content on the website is protected by copyright, trademark legislation, patents or other intellectual property rights. Unless otherwise stated, the material published on the website belongs to Scandic, companies within the Scandic group or their licensors.
2.2 You may print out individual pages from the website. Otherwise, you may not copy, reproduce, publish, upload, send, transfer or distribute any material or any information from the website without first receiving written permission from Scandic.
3 User-generated content
The term user-generated content relates to all content that visitors to the website create on or upload to the website, e.g. entries in guest books, photos or comments in a forum, and so on. When you choose such functions on the Scandic website, you directly contribute content that you yourself are responsible for and that you as a user can be held accountable for. Scandic has the right to remove, fully or in part, user-generated content that, wholly or partly, breaches Swedish law or that in some other way can be considered damaging to Scandic. In the case of such misuse, Scandic is also entitled to take further measures that may be necessary to combat the abuse.
4 Hyperlinks
On its website, Scandic may provide links to websites belonging to a third party. If you use these, you will leave Scandic’s website. Scandic has no influence over these websites and is not responsible for the material on them. We urge you to read the privacy policy of such websites before giving any information about yourself.
5 Limitation of liability
Scandic provides no guarantees regarding the function or availability of the website or that the content of the website is correct. Scandic cannot be made liable for losses caused directly or indirectly by use of the website or its content.
6 Automatically gathered information and Cookies
6.1 In order to enable Scandic to improve the website, we gather certain information about you when you use the website and we save that information on our servers. This information includes details about your operating system, type of web browser, domain name and IP address, which URL you came from and go on to and what parts of the website you visit. This information is used primarily to improve the website.
6.2 We use “cookies” to make your use of the website easier during your visit. Cookies are small files containing a serial number that can identify you as a unique user and that are saved on your computer, so that we can then adapt our website to your requirements. This information helps us to keep track of what you are interested in, giving you quicker access to the information you are looking for. Most web browsers have a function that allows you to block the use of cookies. In some cases blocking cookies can make the website function less well, or not function at all, depending on the settings you have chosen for your web browser.
7 Personal data
7.1 Your privacy is of the utmost importance to Scandic and we take our commitment to protect our customers’ personal data extremely seriously. All information that you send to us is handled in accordance with the Swedish Personal Data Act. By using the website, you accept that the information you send is gathered and handled in line with the provisions of the act.
7.2 You give us the right to use, store or in some other way process personal data, e.g. your name or address and other information that may be attributable to you, so that Scandic, companies within the Scandic group or partner companies are able to provide products and services available on the website.
7.3 Scandic may use your personal details to send information on new products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You can unsubscribe to such information by e-mailing
info@scandichotels.com. If you would like Scandic to pass on your personal details to our partner companies, so that they can send information to you about products and services that may be of interest, please e-mail
info@scandichotels.com. Partner companies may be based in countries outside the EEA that do not have legislation providing the same extent of protection for personal data.
7.4 Scandic may pass on your personal details to consultants and others if we consider it necessary in order for us to be able to manage, maintain and operate the website or if we are required to provide such information by law. Partner companies may be based in countries outside the EEA that do not have legislation providing the same extent of protection for personal data.
7.5 Scandic may collate statistics, responses to surveys and questionnaires, traffic patterns and such like, and provide such collated information to a third party for advertising or other marketing purposes, but such collated information will not contain any personal details.
7.6 You have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we have about you and to request that any errors in the data are corrected. If you would like to make such a request, please contact us at
info@scandichotels.com.
8 Security
8.1 All information about your credit or debit card number, expiry date and invoicing and delivery addresses that you provide in conjunction with transactions will be used by Scandic, or by others on our behalf, to process the transaction. The information will be saved on a secure server and be encrypted, and may be used by Scandic to facilitate and personalise future transactions with you.
8.2 Although Scandic takes all reasonable measures to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of information that you submit when you are online.