Holiday Radar is a Chrome extension that helps users compare visible hotel prices across supported booking websites. This policy explains what information the extension handles, why it handles it, where that information goes, and the choices available to users.
Holiday Radar:
reads hotel and stay information from supported booking pages only to provide its price-comparison features;
performs its extraction and comparison coordination locally in the user's browser;
does not operate a developer-controlled server; usage analytics are enabled by default and sent directly to Google Analytics unless the user turns reporting off;
does not collect account credentials, payment-card details, personal communications, health information, or precise physical location;
does not sell user data or use it for advertising, creditworthiness, or lending; and
does not execute remotely hosted code.
On supported hotel-booking websites, Holiday Radar may read:
the page URL and supported provider domain;
hotel or property name and destination shown on the page;
check-in and check-out dates;
number of adults and rooms;
requested or displayed currency;
visible prices and limited surrounding text needed to distinguish current prices from crossed-out, unavailable, or unrelated prices; and
navigation and tab information needed to connect a provider result to the source hotel page that requested it.
Holiday Radar is limited to the supported Agoda, Tripadvisor, Vio, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Trip.com, Priceline, Traveloka, and MakeMyTrip domains declared in the extension package. It does not monitor general browsing on unrelated websites.
Holiday Radar stores preferences through Chrome's extension storage, including:
whether comparison tabs open in the background;
whether provider tabs close after a check;
the panel position;
the panel's collapsed state; and
whether the settings section is expanded; and
whether usage analytics are enabled.
Chrome may sync these preferences between browsers signed into the same Chrome profile when Chrome Sync is enabled. That synchronization is provided by Google and is governed by the user's Google and Chrome settings.
While a comparison is running, Holiday Radar temporarily stores information such as the selected hotel and stay details, requested provider, provider URL, tab identifiers, and pending comparison targets in memory and Chrome session storage. This allows a provider tab to return its result to the correct source hotel tab and allows an interrupted extension service worker to resume the active comparison.
Usage reporting is enabled by default. While reporting is enabled, the extension sends confirmed search clicks, View deal clicks and search completion events to Google Analytics to measure use of and improve its price-comparison features. You can turn reporting off at any time using “Share usage analytics (optional)” in the toolbar popup or widget Settings. The publisher can view this usage data in Google Analytics. The transmitted fields are the event name, supported source-site code, offer-provider code where applicable, extension version, a random installation identifier, session identifier, and a minimal engagement parameter. Both click events also include the widget entry point and whether background tabs, automatic tab closing and advanced controls are enabled. Search clicks include the number of providers in the scan. View deal clicks include the selected direct or Tripadvisor route, the number of currently available offers and whether a scan is still running. Search completion events include whether the scan completed, was stopped or failed, its elapsed duration rounded to whole seconds, the total number of provider rows counted independently, and counts of valid prices, not-found results, no availability, unavailable prices, timeouts, closed tabs, errors, stopped checks and unknown results. The identifier is pseudonymous, not a name or email address. Google also receives ordinary network information such as the request's IP address.
Analytics payloads do not include hotel names, page URLs, stay dates, occupancy, prices, account information or credentials. The reporting preference uses Chrome Sync when enabled. The random identifier is stored locally and the session identifier in Chrome session storage. Turning reporting off stops new requests and clears both local identifiers, but does not delete data already received by Google. Google processes received information under its privacy policy. Retention of received analytics data follows the Google Analytics property's configured retention settings and Google's applicable policies.
Holiday Radar uses this information only to:
show the current source hotel-page price as a comparison baseline;
create searches on supported booking providers for the selected hotel and stay;
request or select the chosen currency where a provider supports it;
read and display visible provider prices;
sort comparable prices;
coordinate, focus, reuse, reload, or close comparison tabs according to the user's actions and settings; and
remember the user's extension preferences and panel layout.
Hotel and stay information is not used to build profiles or for advertising, creditworthiness or lending. Separately, optional usage analytics measure feature usage and scan reliability as described above.
When the user starts a price check, Holiday Radar opens HTTPS pages on supported booking providers. To perform the requested comparison, the destination URL may include the hotel name or destination, stay dates, number of adults and rooms, and requested currency. The selected provider receives this information as part of the normal webpage request, just as it would if the user performed the search directly on that provider's website.
Providers may also receive ordinary browser and network information, such as the user's IP address, cookies, browser information, and referral parameters already present in provider links. Holiday Radar does not control the providers' websites, cookies, security checks, availability, or privacy practices. Information received by a provider is governed by that provider's own privacy policy.
Holiday Radar does not send hotel-page information or exact comparison prices to the Holiday Radar publisher or to a developer-controlled server. While usage reporting is enabled, Google Analytics receives the limited usage metadata and product-setting flags described above, which the publisher can view.
Holiday Radar does not sell user data.
Holiday Radar transfers information included in HTTPS navigation to booking providers as part of price comparison, and sends the limited usage data described above to Google Analytics only when reporting is enabled. It does not transfer data for advertising, data brokerage, unrelated analytics, creditworthiness, or lending.
Comparison state is temporary. It is removed as checks complete, tabs close, or the browser session ends, subject to Chrome's session-storage behaviour.
Preferences remain in Chrome extension storage until the user changes them, clears the extension's stored data, or removes the extension, subject to Chrome Sync settings and retention.
Holiday Radar's publisher does not retain a server-side copy because the extension does not send this information to a publisher-controlled server.
Booking providers may retain information they receive under their own privacy policies.
Google receives and retains analytics sent while reporting is enabled under its policies and the Analytics property's retention settings. Turning reporting off does not erase historical analytics.
Holiday Radar limits its access to supported booking domains and uses HTTPS URLs when navigating to providers. Its JavaScript is included in the installed extension package; it does not download or execute remotely hosted code.
No browser extension or internet transmission can be guaranteed completely secure. Users should review the final room, price, tax, meal, cancellation, account, and payment details directly on the booking provider's website before booking.
Users can:
choose which provider checks to start;
stop an active multi-provider comparison;
control background-tab and automatic-tab-closing preferences;
turn usage analytics off or back on in the toolbar popup or widget Settings;
clear Holiday Radar's extension data through Chrome's extension or site-data controls; or
uninstall Holiday Radar to stop all extension processing.
Holiday Radar does not provide user accounts and therefore does not maintain an account record for users to access, correct, or delete from a publisher-controlled server.
Holiday Radar is a general hotel-comparison utility and is not directed to children. It does not knowingly collect children's personal information.
Holiday Radar's use of information received through Chrome extension permissions complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Information is used only to provide or improve Holiday Radar's single-purpose, user-facing hotel price-comparison functionality. It is not used or transferred for personalised advertising, unrelated purposes, creditworthiness, or lending, and it is not made available for human review except when required by law, for security, or when a user explicitly provides information for a support request.
This policy may be updated when Holiday Radar's functionality or data practices change. The effective date at the top will be revised when a material update is published. Any new data practice will be disclosed through the Chrome Web Store and, where required, within the extension before it takes effect.
For privacy questions or requests, contact:
Publisher: Holiday Radar
Email: arcadiumfoundry@gmail.com