Please read our Cookie Statement below which further explains how Hostelworld makes use of cookies and other similar tracking technologies.</li> </ul> Why do you use my personal data? <p>As you probably expect, the main reason we use your personal data is in order to process your accommodation and tour/experience bookings and to deal with any queries or issues that arise in relation to those bookings. We also use your personal data for a number of other reasons, such as tailoring adverts and our marketing emails so they are relevant to you, monitoring your use of the HW Platform to help us make improvements, and to provide the additional services that we make available on our website and apps. For more details about why we use your personal data, click here.</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Bookings</strong> - We use your personal data in order to process bookings with properties and tour/experience providers and aggregators, and to let you manage your bookings through the HW Platform.