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What Booking.com's terms say

C privacy grade · booking.com · Travel & local

Booking.com's terms of service and privacy policy have 15 rated points: 0 serious, 2 bad, 11 worth knowing and 2 good. 12 apply whenever you use the site, signed in or not; 3 only once you have an account.

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Signed in or not

Whenever you use Booking.com

Bad 2

  • Any liability on behalf of the service is only limited to the fees you paid as a user

  • Instead of asking directly, this Service will assume your consent to changes of terms merely from your usage

Worth knowing 9

  • There is a date of the last update of the agreements

  • Invalidity of any portion of the Terms of Service does not entail invalidity of its remainder

  • The court of law governing the terms is in location X

    The court of law governing the terms is in the Netherlands

  • This service informs you that its Terms of Service does not apply to third-party services

  • You should revisit the terms periodically, although in case of material changes, the service will notify

  • This service is a subsidiary of Company X

    This service is a subsidiary of Booking Holdings Inc.

  • Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location

  • You agree not to use the service for illegal purposes

  • Spidering, crawling, or accessing the site through any automated means is not allowed

Good 1

  • The court of law governing the terms is in a jurisdiction that is friendlier to user privacy protection

    The court of law governing the terms is in a jurisdiction that is friendlier to user privacy protection (Netherlands)

With an account

If you have a Booking.com account

Worth knowing 2

  • You must create an account to use this service

  • This service is only available to users over a certain age

    This service is only available to users over 18 years old

Good 1

  • Your account may be suspended and/or terminated for breaching the Terms of Service

    User accounts can be terminated after having been in breach of the Terms of Service repeatedly

The documents

Ratings by ToS;DR volunteers; they can lag behind the current terms. Not legal advice.