Does Sonesta Select Sonesta Essential maintain a website to advertise the Brand Hotels?
Sonesta_Select_Sonesta_Essential Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
We maintain a website for the Brand Hotels and certain other Network Brands to advertise, market, and promote Brand Hotels and other applicable Network Hotels, the products and services that they offer and sell, or the franchise opportunity (the "Franchise System Website"). We will have sole discretion and control over the Franchise System Website (including design, contents, and continuation). In connection with the Franchise System Website, we may require you to: (i) provide us the information and materials we request to develop, update, and modify the Franchise System Website with reference to your Hotel information; and (ii) notify us whenever any information on the Franchise System Website is not accurate with respect to your Hotel. We will own all intellectual property and other rights in the Franchise System Website, including your webpage, and all information they contain (including the domain name or URL for your webpage, the log of "hits" by visitors, and any personal or business data that visitors supply). We also may discontinue the Franchise System Website, create a separate Franchise System Website for any one of the, or any combination of the, Network Brands, or consolidate the Franchise System Website with the website of any other brands we or our affiliates maintain, at any time.
Source: Item 11 — **FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 52–64)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Sonesta Select Sonesta Essential's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, they do maintain a website for the Brand Hotels. This website is used to advertise, market, and promote the Brand Hotels, along with the products, services, and franchise opportunities associated with them. Sonesta Select Sonesta Essential retains sole discretion and control over this Franchise System Website, including its design, content, and continuation.
As a franchisee, Sonesta Select Sonesta Essential may require you to provide information and materials to develop, update, and modify the Franchise System Website with reference to your specific Hotel's information. Additionally, you are responsible for notifying Sonesta Select Sonesta Essential if any information on the website is inaccurate regarding your Hotel.
Sonesta Select Sonesta Essential retains ownership of all intellectual property and other rights related to the Franchise System Website, including your webpage and all its content, such as the domain name or URL, visitor logs, and any personal or business data provided by visitors. Sonesta Select Sonesta Essential also reserves the right to discontinue the Franchise System Website, create separate websites for any of the Network Brands, or consolidate the Franchise System Website with other brands' websites maintained by them or their affiliates at any time.