Hotels & Lodging · Hotel chain (member cooperative) · Data breach
Best Western Hotels & Resorts
Headline
Best Western is a nonprofit owned by its member hotels — it once called itself a 'cooperative membership association' but dropped that label around 1985 after courts treated it as a franchisor…
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
Best Western is a nonprofit owned by its member hotels — it once called itself a 'cooperative membership association' but dropped that label around 1985 after courts treated it as a franchisor — which matters when you ask who is accountable for a data breach at one property. The member hotels are independently owned, so there is no conventional parent company exercising operational control over the front desk. The privacy policy also confirms partner sharing runs both directions with airline loyalty programmes — earning points on a flight for a hotel stay means the two companies are exchanging your travel record.
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- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
US consumer arbitration provisions not confirmed this pass.
Data sharing
The privacy policy states information is shared with BWR programme partners including airlines the member selects, and with third-party business partners for promotions where the member has opted in. It also names Canada and India as jurisdictions where consent is the lawful processing basis, and discloses that BWI operates from the United States under US law.
Fees and billing
Property-set fees; Best Western Rewards points can be earned and burned with airline partners, which moves data as well as points.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
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| Privacy policy https://www.bestwestern.com/en_US/legal/privacy-policy.html | Not fetched yet | N |
| Terms of service https://www.bestwestern.com/en_US/legal/terms-of-use.html | Not fetched yet | N |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.