Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
The Privacy Policy sets forth our policies regarding the collection, use and protection of the personal information of those using the tourskart.com website. Personal information means information that can be linked to a specific individual, such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and credit card number. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy, and become familiar with it, but you should know that we do not sell or rent our customers' personal information to third parties. Please note that we review our Privacy Policy from time to time, and we may make periodic changes to the policy in connection with that review. Therefore, you may wish to bookmark this page and/or periodically review this page to make sure you have the latest version. Regardless of later updates, we will abide by the privacy practices described to you in this Privacy Policy at the time you provided us with your personal information.
What personal information we collect from you and how we use it?
When browsing our site, 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 ( which you can opt out if not required ) or other services as described below. If interested on making a purchase, we collect information like name, contact details and travel details to assist regarding your travel plan.
2. Making a Purchase
In order to purchase travel and/or related services through our site, you must provide us with certain personal information such as your name, payment instrument details. However all the payment details are provided at the partnered payment gateway to avail any paid services or subscriptions to ensure maintenance and smooth functioning of the application. Any payments made are taxable and accountable as per law. We might also require more details about your travel, like government ID proofs etc to book services related to your travel.
Member Registration
If you choose to become a registered member of Tourskart, you must provide your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, a unique login name, password, and password validation, and a password hint to help you remember your password. This information is collected on the registration form for several reasons including but not limited to:
- Personal identification
- To complete holiday, air, hotel, car, and other reservations
- To allow us to contact you for customer service purposes, if necessary
- To customize the content of our site to strive to meet your specific needs;
- and/or
To make product or other improvements to our site. - In addition, we need your e-mail address to confirm your new member registration and each reservation you transact on our site.
Online Surveys
Tourskart values opinions and comments from members, so we frequently conduct online surveys. Participation in these surveys is entirely voluntary and optional. Typically, the information is aggregated, and used to make improvements to the tourskart.com site and its services and to develop appealing content, features and promotions for tourskart.com site members. Survey participants are anonymous unless otherwise stated in the survey.
3. 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 tourskart.com site. 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 site, how many visitors are surfing to various pages on the site, how long visitors to the site 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.
4. Cookies
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when applications set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this application may become inaccessible or not function properly. A list of the type of cookies we use is as follows;
- Strictly necessary cookies.These are cookies that are required for the operation of our application. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our application, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies.They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our application when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our application works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies.These are used to recognize you when you return to our application. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our application, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our application and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third-parties for this purpose.
Please note that third-parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our application.
5. SEVERABILITY
Each paragraph of this Privacy Policy shall be and remain separate from and independent of and severable from all and any other paragraphs herein except where otherwise expressly indicated or indicated by the context of the agreement. The decision or declaration that one or more of the paragraphs are null and void shall not affect the remaining paragraphs of this privacy policy.
6. AMENDMENT
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be on the website or Application. Any amendments to this Policy shall be deemed as accepted by the User on their continued use of the services.
7. With whom (if anyone) is your personal Information is shared?
When you reserve or purchase travel services through tourskart.com, 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 fulfillment of your travel arrangements. However, we do not sell or rent individual customer names or other personal information to third parties. 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 tourskart.com Site. 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 web sites. Occasionally, Tourskart 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 is protected by a confidentiality agreement and is to be used solely for completing the specific project.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should contact our Customer Support Desk at support@tourskart.com