Applicant Privacy Notice Date: June 1, 2018

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1 Applicant Privacy Notice Date: June 1, 2018 Facts Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. and its Affiliates ( we, our, us ) value your trust and are committed to the responsible management, use and protection of personal information. This Applicant Privacy Notice ( Notice ) describes our practices in connection with Processing of personal information ( Personal Information ) that we collect through the Careers section of our websites ( Careers Site ) and offline in connection with your application for a job or internship with us or one of our Affiliates. Personal Information submitted elsewhere on our and our Affiliates websites will be used in accordance with each website s online Privacy Notice. We are an international business and therefore our Careers Site may be outside the country in which you reside and as a result information protection standards may differ. We will take steps to transfer your Personal Information only after adequate safeguards are in place, such as model contractual clauses and other adequacy mechanisms or derogations or under transfer mechanisms approved under Applicable Law. Applicable Law What Information Do We Collect And From What Sources? All capitalized terms are defined in the Definitions section at the end of this Notice. You can find our contact details in the "Do you have any questions?" section below. This is a global Notice and we understand that Applicable Law can vary in many jurisdictions. To the extent that any provision of this Notice is contrary to the laws of a jurisdiction, the laws of that jurisdiction will govern our Processing of your Personal Information. We may collect the following information from you in connection with your application: Name, address, telephone number, address, and other contact information; Username and password for the Careers Site; Work authorization status; CV, résumé, cover letter, previous work experience and education information; Skills and related assessments; Professional and other work-related licenses, permits and certifications held; Information relating to references; Interview Video and/or audio; and Any other information you elect to provide to us (e.g., employment preferences, willingness to relocate, current salary, desired salary, awards or professional memberships). In addition, we may Process Sensitive Data where required or permitted by Applicable Law to do so and we may obtain additional consents for the Processing of such data at the point of collection where we are required to do so. We ask that you avoid submitting Sensitive Data, except where such information is legally required or specifically requested by us. 1

2 Data Accuracy What Is The Purpose Of Collecting And Legal Basis For Using Your Any information you submit through the Careers Site must be true, complete and not misleading. If you provide us with Personal Information of a reference or any other individual as part of your application, it is your responsibility to obtain consent from that individual prior to providing the information to us. We may need your Personal Information to comply with legal obligations or, if you are offered employment, as necessary to perform the employment relationship or to take steps prior to entering into an employment relationship and you are therefore required to provide such information to us. The information that you submit on the Careers Site will be used for our global personnel recruitment, management and planning purposes, as permitted by Applicable Law, including to: Process your application; Assess your capabilities and qualifications for a job; Conduct reference checks; Comply with or monitor compliance with any applicable law or regulation; Conduct background checks if we offer you a position; and Comply with reporting obligations. Where permitted, we are allowed to Process your Personal Information if we can rely on our legitimate interests, including where we: Respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about your application, and send you information regarding the Careers Site and related material about working for us and changes to our terms and policies; Analyze responses to job postings, compile statistics; Have legal, business and contractual obligations to take steps to prevent threats to us or to our customers; Must retain and access Personal Information for legal or compliance reasons; and/or Must protect our own justified business interests and or those of our actual or prospective customers or clients or must Process Personal Information for any such other justified business reasons directly or indirectly related to the reasons set out above. The information about you will be added to our international candidate database and may be used to consider you for opportunities with us and our Affiliates other than the one(s) for which you apply. If you do not wish us to do this or want to learn more about such continued use, please contact us at mycareer@wyndham.com. If we hire you, Personal Information we collect in connection with your application may be incorporated into our human resources system and may be used to manage the newhire process; any such Personal Information may become part of your employee file and may be used for other employment-related purposes. 2

3 How Do We Share Or Disclose Your We may disclose, share or otherwise distribute Personal Information to third parties, including but not limited to the following circumstances to the extent we are allowed or required to do so under Applicable Law (and you can contact us via the "Do you have any questions?" section below for further information): Legal Requests and Investigations. We may disclose your Personal Information to a law enforcement agency, or by a court order, or under the discovery process in litigation, investigations, and prosecutions or in response to requests from government agencies and/or regulators and/or tax advisers, legal advisers, accountants, financial advisers and/or any other person having appropriate legal authority or justification for receipt of the same. We may also disclose Personal Information to cooperate with law enforcement agencies or any of the above bodies, including but not limited to matters of national security, criminal charges, civil claims or as may otherwise be permitted by Applicable Law. Third-Party Service Providers. We may provide Personal Information to vendors and third-party service providers that help us provide, support and maintain our business (e.g., cloud providers operating the Careers Site, recruiting companies and back office service providers). We may provide the vendors and service providers with Personal Information or the vendors and service providers may collect Personal Information directly from you on our behalf. You can contact us via the "Do you have any questions?" section below for further information about our third-party service providers. Group Companies. We may share your Personal Information with our Affiliates for the use or Processing described in this Notice. You can contact us via the "Do you have any questions?" section below for further information about our Affiliates. Business Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, spin off, divestiture, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, financing due diligence, or transition of service to another provider, your Personal Information may be shared or transferred as part of such a transaction. Protection. We may disclose Personal Information when such disclosure is necessary to comply with Applicable Law or to enforce or apply our policies or other agreements; or protect our rights, property or safety and the rights, property and safety of our employees, customers, and/or others. What Are My Rights In Relation To My Personal In accordance with Applicable Law, and unless otherwise pre-empted by other legal requirements, you may have the following rights (subject to limitations and exemptions under Applicable Law): Withdrawal of Consent. To Process your Personal Information we may require your consent. You have the right to decline to provide your consent and/or, if provided, to withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. When we are relying on consent to process your data we will make this clear 3

4 at the point of collection e.g. if we are collecting sensitive data. Access. The right to access the Personal Information we Process about you. Right to Rectification. You have the right to request that any inaccurate or incomplete Personal Information held by us or on our behalf is corrected. It is your responsibility to ensure that you submit true, accurate and complete information to us. Right to Erasure and to Restrict Processing. Under certain grounds you may have the right to request that we delete Personal Information that we hold about you or to restrict us from Processing. Right to Data Portability. You may have the right to receive your Personal Information in a format that would enable you to transmit such Personal Information to another company or to direct us to transfer directly to another company. Right to Object to Processing. You may have the right to request that we stop Processing your Personal Information and/or stop sending you communications about other opportunities at with us and our Affiliates. We will assess your request and determine, under Applicable Law, whether we have any justification for the continued Processing. Please contact us via the "Do you have any questions?" section below if you want to exercise any of these rights where available under Applicable Law. Security How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Do You Have Any Questions? We will take reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We will retain Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by Applicable Law. If you have any questions about our retention periods you can contact us at the below address. If you have any questions or concerns about this Notice or would like to exercise your rights in relation to your Personal Information, you can contact us at If you have a complaint or concern about how we are Processing your Personal Information then we will endeavor to address such concern(s). In addition, you may have the right to direct your complaint/concerns to a data protection authority. Updates To This Notice And New Uses Of Your Personal From time to time we may revise this Notice and/or use Personal Information for new, unanticipated Processing purposes not previously disclosed in this Notice. We will make the revised version available to you and bring any material changes to your attention. Unless otherwise provided or required by Applicable Law (e.g., obtaining consent from you for the relevant material changes), the revised Notice will take effect immediately 4

5 Information Aggregate Data Cookies Definitions upon such posting. We may anonymize your Personal Information so that it does not in any way identify you as an individual. Our Services may use cookies and similar technologies (collectively, cookies ). See the Privacy Notice located on our home page for further details about our cookie usage. Affiliate means any current, former or successor company, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, firm, association, business or organization who is or was directly or indirectly controlled, is or was controlled by or is or was under common control with us. For a list of Affiliates, click here. Effective Date: June 1, 2018 Applicable Law means any applicable regulation, statute, rule or contractual requirement (to the extent they form part of a contract between us and you or contain legal obligations). Personal Information means any information that, either by itself or in combination with other pieces of information, identifies, or can be used to identify, an individual or relates to an identifiable individual or as otherwise defined under Applicable Law. Process means the collection, use, sharing, retention, disclosure or otherwise processing of Personal Information. Sensitive Data may include information on: race or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union membership; sexual life or orientation; criminal record; health data; genetic or biometric data or as otherwise defined under Applicable Law. We reserve the right to modify, add or remove portions of this notice at any time. If we decide to change this notice, we will post the updated Notice here. 5