Hotels & Lodging · Hotel chain (franchisor) · Structural / no discrete incident
Choice Hotels International
Headline
Choice Hotels franchises about 7,600 hotels with roughly 1,700 corporate employees — a ratio that tells you exactly where your data actually lives.
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
Choice Hotels franchises about 7,600 hotels with roughly 1,700 corporate employees — a ratio that tells you exactly where your data actually lives. Nearly every property is independently owned, so the front desk that photocopies your ID and stores your card belongs to a small business, while the privacy policy you would search for belongs to a Maryland-headquartered franchisor with no operational control over that desk. The brand-versus-owner gap also splits geographically: buy a Radisson stay in the US and you are dealing with Choice; the identical brand abroad is a different corporation entirely.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Website terms of use govern site and app use; consumer arbitration provisions not confirmed this pass.
Data sharing
Choice Privileges links stay history across ~7,600 hotels and 20+ brands (Comfort, Quality Inn, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge, Rodeway, Clarion, Cambria, WoodSpring, MainStay, Suburban Studios) plus the Radisson Americas brands acquired in 2022. The policy expressly covers information collected AT a hotel, not only online — so front-desk and on-property data feeds the same profile.
Fees and billing
Franchisee-set resort and amenity fees; the franchisor sets brand standards but not the fee schedule at any given property.
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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy policy https://www.choicehotels.com/legal/privacy-policy | Not fetched yet | N |
| Terms of service https://www.choicehotels.com/legal/terms-of-use | 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.