Does Sonesta Simply Suites maintain a franchise system website for Brand Hotels?
Sonesta_Simply_Suites 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.
You may not register, own, maintain or use any domain name, homepage, electronic address, website, email address, social media account, username, screen name, other online presence or presence on any electronic, virtual, or digital medium of any kind (collectively, the "Online Presence"), relating to Network Hotels or your Hotel or that includes the Network Marks,
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 48–60)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Sonesta Simply Suites FDD, Sonesta Simply Suites maintains a website for 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, which is referred to as the "Franchise System Website". Sonesta Simply Suites has sole discretion and control over the Franchise System Website, including its design, contents, and continuation.
Sonesta Simply Suites may require franchisees to provide information and materials to develop, update, and modify the Franchise System Website with reference to their Hotel information and notify them whenever any information on the Franchise System Website is not accurate with respect to their Hotel. Sonesta Simply Suites owns all intellectual property and other rights in the Franchise System Website, including the franchisee's webpage, and all information they contain, including the domain name or URL for the webpage, the log of "hits" by visitors, and any personal or business data that visitors supply.
Sonesta Simply Suites 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 they or their affiliates maintain, at any time. Franchisees may not register, own, maintain or use any domain name, homepage, electronic address, website, email address, social media account, username, screen name, other online presence or presence on any electronic, virtual, or digital medium of any kind relating to Network Hotels or their Hotel or that includes the Network Marks, except as approved in advance by Sonesta Simply Suites.