Privacy Policy
When You visit the Site, in certain parts of the Site, we may ask You to provide us with personal information so that we can provide You with information You request. You are under no obligation to provide us with this information, but without the said information, we may not be able to provide You the information You have requested. The Site may also include certain features that allow You to communicate with us by electronic means such as email. You are responsible if You choose to use these communication features to provide personal identification information to us (such as by including Your name and/or address in the body of an e-mail message). When You provide any personal identification information to us, You affirm that You are knowingly and voluntarily providing us the information. We may respond to the electronic communication messages You send us. The use of cookies and other information is used to optimize the viewing experience, troubleshoot any problems and better serve content. We work to ensure that the personal identification information You do intentionally provide us remains private. We will not sell, rent, or trade the personal identification information You provide to anyone outside Shashi Tours, unless we are required to do so by law. Please be aware, however, that it may be possible for others to read messages that You send over the Internet, you are therefore advised not to send any such information by electronic communication that You would like to keep confidential.
This Privacy Policy explains the following:
What Personal Information we collect from you and how we use it?
With whom (if anyone) your Personal Information is shared?
What safeguards we have in place to protect your Personal Information?
Other information you should know about your privacy?
What Personal Information we collect from you and how we use it?
When browsing our Website, you are not required to provide any Personal Information unless and until you choose to make a purchase or sign up for one of our e-mail newsletters or other services as described below.
Member Registration
What Personal Information we collect from you and how we use it?
With whom (if anyone) your Personal Information is shared?
What safeguards we have in place to protect your Personal Information?
Other information you should know about your privacy?
What Personal Information we collect from you and how we use it?
When browsing our Website, you are not required to provide any Personal Information unless and until you choose to make a purchase or sign up for one of our e-mail newsletters or other services as described below.
Member Profile
As a Website member, you can choose to complete your online profile by providing us with travel preferences, frequent – traveller or affinity numbers, credit card billing information, paper ticket delivery address, and other Personal Information. This information is primarily used to assist you in making reservations quickly without having to type in the same information repeatedly. For example, you can store your airline frequent – flyer numbers so that when your make a reservation on that airline, we may automatically pre – fill the frequent – flyer number input box for you.
Online Surveys
Shashi Tours values opinions and comments from members, so we frequently conduct online surveys. Participation in these surveys is entirely optional. Typically, the information is aggregated, and used to make improvements to the Website and its services and to develop appealing content, features and promotions for Website members. Survey participants are anonymous unless otherwise stated in the survey.
Automatic Logging of Session Data
We automatically log generic information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, which we call “session data”, that is anonymous and not linked to any Personal Information. Session data consists of things such as IP address, operating system and type of browser software being used and the activities conducted by the user while on the Website. An IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the internet, such as our web servers, know where to send data back to the user, such as the pages of the Website the user wishes to view. We collect session data because it helps us analyze such things as what items visitors are likely to click on most, the way visitors are clicking through the Website, how many visitors are surfing to various pages on the Website, how long visitors to the Website are staying and how often they are visiting. It also helps us diagnose problems with our servers and lets us better administer our systems. Although such information does not identify any visitor personally, it is possible to determine from an IP address a visitor’s Internet Service Provider (ISP), and the approximate geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.
Cookies
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. There are many myths circulating about cookies, but you should know that cookies are only read by the server that placed them, and are unable to do such things as run programs on your computer, plant viruses or harvest your Personal Information. The use of cookies is very common on the Internet and Shashi Tours use of cookies is similar to that of such Websites as Expedia and Orbitz, as well as Yahoo!, CNN.com and other reputable online companies. First and foremost, you can rest assured that no personally identifiable information (“PII”) about you (e.g., name, address, etc.) is gathered or stored in the cookies placed by the Website and, as a result, none can be passed on to any third parties. Cookies allow us to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience at our Website. Shashi Tours uses cookies to personalize your experience on the Website, and with respect to advertisements. As to the former, these types of cookies allow you to log in without having to type your log – in name each time (only your password is needed. We may also use such cookies to display an advertisement to you while you are on the Website or to send you a “Best Day to Buy” email (or similar emails – assuming you have not opted out of receiving such emails) focusing on destinations in which we think you might be interested. None of this information is passed to any third party, and is used solely by us to provide you with a better user experience on the Website. A cookie may also be placed by our advertising server. Such cookies are used only for purposes of tracking the effectiveness of advertising served by us on our Website and no PII is gathered from you by the use of these cookies, nor is this information shared with any third parties. Similarly, a cookie may be placed by our third – party advertising companies or advertisement providers or servers. These companies may use aggregated statistics about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about travel – related goods and services that you may be interested in or any goods and services of potential interest to you. The information they collect does not include your PII. The third – party advertising companies or advertisement providers may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of ads. Any such information is anonymous. They may use this anonymous information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. No PII is collected during this process. The information is anonymous, and does not link online actions to an identifiable person. If you would like more information, and want to explore the option of not having this information collected by third – party advertisers. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies. Of course, by changing the options on your web browser or using certain software programs, you can control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your browser. Shashi Tours supports your right to block any unwanted Internet activity, especially that of unscrupulous websites. However, blocking Shashi Travels & Tours Pvt Ltd cookies may disable certain features on the Website, and may make it impossible to purchase or use certain services available on the Website. Please note that it is possible to block cookie activity from certain websites while permitting cookies from websites you trust, like Shashi Tours Website.
Other
From time to time we may add or enhance services available on the Website. To the extent these services are provided, and used by you, we will use the information you provide to facilitate the service requested. For example, if you email us with a question, we will use your email address, name, nature of the question, etc. to respond to your question. We may also store such information to assist us in making the Website.
With whom (if anyone) your Personal Information is shared?
When you reserve or purchase travel services through the Website, we must provide certain of your Personal Information to the airline, hotel, car – rental agency, travel agency or other involved third party to enable the successful fulfilment of your travel arrangements. However, we do not sell or rent individual customer names or other Personal Information to third parties except sharing of such information with our alliance partners or vendors who are engaged by us for providing various promotional and other benefits to our customers from time to time basis their booking history with us. We use non – personally identifiable information in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful online services by performing statistical analysis of the collective characteristics and behaviour of our customers and visitors, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Website. We may provide anonymous statistical information based on this data to suppliers, advertisers, affiliates and other current and potential Business partners. We may also use such aggregate data to inform these third parties as to the number of people who have seen and clicked on links to their websites. Occasionally, Shashi Travels & Tours Pvt Ltd will hire a third party to act on our behalf for projects such as market – research surveys and contest – entry processing and will provide information to these third parties specifically for use in connection with these projects. The information we provide to such third parties, alliance partners, or vendors are protected by a confidentiality agreement and is to be used solely for completing the specific project, and the usage of that information will be in compliance with the TRAI regulations.
Intellectual Property Notice And Restrictions On Use Of Materials
This Site is owned and operated by Shashi Travels & Tours Pvt Ltd and features trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property which are the property of Shashi Travels & Tours Pvt Ltd , its divisions, affiliates or subsidiaries. You agree that You will not display the Shashi Tours Marks or other third party trademarks, or use the Shashi Travels & Tours Pvt Ltd Marks or other third party trademarks in any manner, without the prior written permission of Shashi Tours or the respective owners of other third party marks. This Site may also contain trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property rights of third parties, including our clients. All such rights are proprietary to their respective owners. Users are prohibited by law and these conditions from modifying, copying, distributing, transmitting, displaying, publishing, selling, licensing, creating derivative works or using any content on this Site for commercial or public purposes in any way or in any manner or medium. Unauthorized use of this web site and system including but not limited to unauthorized entry, misuse of passwords, or misuse of any information posted on this site is strictly prohibited and would attract both penal and punitive action. Except as specifically permitted in accordance with the Terms and Conditions governing use of this Site, any use of Shashi Tours or other third party trademarks or trade names found on the Site is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of their respective owners.
Disclaimer Of Warranties And Liability
The contents of the Site are provided on an “as is” basis without warranties of any kind. Shashi Tours cannot be held responsible or liable – (a) as to the accuracy, correctness, reliability, correctness, timeliness, non-infringement, title, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose of the contents of the Site; (b)the contents available through the Site or any functions associated therewith will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects will be corrected or that the Site and the server is and will be free of all viruses and/or other harmful elements. Shashi travels & tours pvt ltd shall also not be liable for any damage or loss of any kind, howsoever caused as a result (direct or indirect) of the use of the Site, including but not limited to any damage or loss suffered as a result of reliance on the contents contained in or available from the Site.
Third Party Advertisements
Please note that third parties advertise on our Site. We do not share any of your personal Information with these third party advertisers unless you give us permission, in writing to do so. These advertisers may seek to use cookies and pixel tags to track Session Data about the ads you have seen and types of things in which you appear interested. These advertisers may also use combined information about your visits to our Site and other sites in order to provide advertisements about related goods and services that may be of interest to you. When you click on one of these advertisers’ links, you are leaving our Site and entering another site. We are not responsible for such third party’s sites. You should carefully review the privacy statements of any other site you visit, because those privacy statements will apply to your visit to that site, and may be very different from our policy.
Links
This Site may include links to other websites operated by parties other than Shashi Tours, Shashi Tours is not responsible and assumes no responsibility for the contents of any non-Shashi Tours linked Internet website, or for any potential damage arising out of or in connection with the use of any such link. The Internet websites to which links are provided in this Site are not under the control of Shashi Tours. Access to any other Internet sites linked to the Site is entirely at the user’s own risk. All links to other web sites are provided as a convenience to the user of the Site. In no circumstances shall Shashi Tours be considered to be associated or affiliated in whatever manner with any trade or service marks, logos, insignia or other devices used or appearing on web sites to which the Site is linked and shall not be held responsible in any manner whatsoever for use of the said web sites.
Termination
These Terms and Conditions remain in effect for all use made of this Site unless specifically terminated by Shashi Tours. Shashi Tours may amend or terminate these Terms and Conditions at any time for any reason, with or without notice. Upon termination, You must destroy all materials obtained from this Site and all copies made thereof. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY Please note that this privacy policy may change from time to time. If we make material changes that will affect personal information we have already collected from You, we will make reasonable efforts to notify You of the changes and to give You the opportunity to amend or cancel your registration
Miscellaneous
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Law of India, regardless of where the user is based. You agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions shall be filed only in the courts at Mumbai, and You hereby consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and Conditions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. Shashi Travels & Tours Pvt Ltd can revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting.