TERMS OF USE
These terms and conditions are applicable to the usage
of the https://www.journeyandaman.in/ ("JOURNEY ANDAMAN ") by you. JOURNEY ANDAMAN shall
provide you (“User”) travel-related information, travel leads, pricing,
availability and reservations for airlines, hotels, railway, holiday packages,
bus and car rentals across cities and rural areas throughout India and abroad
(“Service/s or JOURNEY ANDAMAN Services”). These Services may be availed by the
User in India or outside India at any time during the year as is offered by
various third party vendors like airlines, hotels, bus operators
etc.("Service Providers" or "Vendors"). The website is also
for your education and information and is also used by us to obtain feedback
with a view to providing information and services with respect to the leisure
industry.
By accessing this site you agree to the following terms. In case you do not
agree to the following terms please do not read or refer to the material on any
of our pages.
Opening
an Account
In order to become able to use the JOURNEY ANDAMAN,
you must complete in full an application form on the Website. As part of the
application, you will be asked to provide us with a Username and Password. This
username and password will be used by you when using our services.
Usernames/Passwords
You
are solely responsible for the confidentiality of your username, and password.
In the event you have reason to believe your account, username and/or password
is being used in an unauthorized manner, you agree to contact us promptly so
that the appropriate modifications can be made to your account. Please be aware
that information will be sent to your email address that you provided to us at
the time of sign up.
Agreement
to Receive Mail
You
hereby consent to the receipt of physical & electronic communication from
us.
Contributions
on Website
Any
activity you do on the website (Comments, Reviews, and Questions etc) becomes
property of JOURNEY ANDAMAN. We reserve the right to modify or update that
information suitably.
Viruses
and Contamination of System
JOURNEY
ANDAMAN is neither responsible nor liable for any viruses or other
contamination of your system, nor for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or
omissions arising out of your use of this site or with respect to the material
contained on this site.
Linked
Sites
Any
linked websites in our website are not under our control and we are not
responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a
linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. We are providing these
links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not
imply endorsement by us of the site.
Content
and Intellectual property rights
All
content on the website including but not limited to icons, buttons, logos, text
etc, as well as any and all trademarks, whether registered or not constitute
the exclusive intellectual property of the JOURNEY ANDAMAN and is protected
under Indian law. You may not selectively download portions of the website
without retaining the copyright notices You may download material from the
website only for your own personal use and for no commercial purposes
whatsoever. Any and all information that is submitted by you including but not
limited to comments, feedback etc is the sole property of JOURNEY ANDAMAN which
may be used in any manner the JOURNEY ANDAMAN deems fit. We provide all content
to the best of our knowledge and we are not responsible for changes to third
party content.
Limitation
of Liability
JOURNEY
ANDAMAN makes no warranty that this site will meet your requirements, the
service or this site will be uninterrupted, the results that may be obtained
from the use of this site will be accurate or reliable, any information or
other material obtained by you through this site will meet your expectations
and any errors in this site will be corrected.
We shall not be liable to you for any special, consequential, incidental, and
exemplary or punitive damages, or loss of profit or revenues. We are also not
liable under any circumstances for damages arising out or related in any way to
your inability to access, or your difficulty in accessing, the website. We
shall not be liable under any circumstances for damages arising out of or in
any way related to products, services and/or information offered or provided by
third-party vendors accessed through the website or by any other means. All
content and information provided by JOURNEY ANDAMAN either through the website
or otherwise is provided to you without warranty of any kind either expressed
or implied, with regard to the merchantability, technical compatibility or
fitness for a particular purpose with regard to any service, products or
material provided by or through the website.
Indemnity
You
agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless JOURNEY ANDAMAN, and its officers,
employees, agents, and any third party information providers to the Website,
from and against all claims, actions, proceedings, expenses, damages and
liabilities, which are the result of, or are in any way related to your use of
the website.
Governing
Law
These
terms and conditions shall be governed by Indian law and the courts at Tezpur
shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all matters arising out of or in
connection with the use of the website by you.
Privacy
Policy
Please
refer to our Privacy Policy on the website.
Charges
& Pricing
JOURNEY
ANDAMAN does not charge any fees for browsing. JOURNEY ANDAMAN is ONLY a
ticketing/booking agent for various types of services. For example, JOURNEY
ANDAMAN does not operate bus services or run flights of its own etc. In order
to provide a comprehensive choice of bus operators or flights etc, departure
times and prices to customers, it has tied up with many Vendors. JOURNEY
ANDAMAN 's advice to customers is to choose the Vendor they are aware of and
whose service they are comfortable with. JOURNEY ANDAMAN is not liable for any
Discrepancy / Deficiency in service by the Service Providers / Vendors of any
service type.
Users can create free membership accounts on JOURNEY ANDAMAN for service
booking. From time to time, JOURNEY ANDAMAN at its sole discretion will add new
services, change existing services and remove some services as well.
Users shall be solely responsible for compliance of all applicable laws for
making payments to JOURNEY ANDAMAN. GST Credit (if applicable) will be provided
directly by the Vendor to the User and JOURNEY ANDAMAN will not be responsible
for non-receivable of the same.
While JOURNEY ANDAMAN strives for quality products and services with accurate
pricing information, typographical and other errors may occur. In the event the
Service is listed at an incorrect price or with incorrect service information
due to an error, JOURNEY ANDAMAN may at its discretion contact the User for
instructions or cancel User's booking and notify User of such Cancel.
JOURNEY ANDAMAN will have the right to rectify the price of the Service and
contact User for further instructions via e-mail address provided by User at
the time of registration, or cancel the booking and notify User of such
cancellation. If JOURNEY ANDAMAN cancels the order after the payment has been
processed, the said amount will be remitted to User’s account from which the
payment was made.
Payment
Options
JOURNEY
ANDAMAN Supports various Payment Methods
like Credit and Debit Cards (Visa, MasterCard, Rupay, Amex, Dinners etc),
Internet Banking (around 100 Indian Banks), Wallets, etc through an online
payment gateway system. JOURNEY ANDAMAN and the associated one or more payment
gateway makes full effort to fulfill information security requirement and uses
the latest encryption technology to protect and safeguard the Users Payment
Methods and their details.
All Payments for services purchased via JOURNEY ANDAMAN by
all types of users (travelers or agents or any other type) have to be pre-paid.
In case the credit is extended/provided to any type of user, then it needs to
be paid within the next working day. If the user misses his payment timelines,
then JOURNEY ANDAMAN has the right to cancel the purchased service or any other
purchased services of the same user or its sister concerns to recover the money
and penalty amount decided by JOURNEY ANDAMAN (upto 100% of the default
amount).
Company also reserves the right to charge 1% per day
penalty interest for overdoes, the same will charged after reminders and
notifications.
Gateway
Charges
Please
note that JOURNEY ANDAMAN cannot control any fees or conversion rates that may
be charged to User by their Banks or Financial Institution related to such a
transaction and JOURNEY ANDAMAN disclaims all liabilities in this regard.
JOURNEY
ANDAMAN Travel Special Fares
There
are three types of JOURNEY ANDAMAN Special Fares:
•
JOURNEY
ANDAMAN Special ZERO Reschedule Charges
•
Reschedule request needs to reach JOURNEY
ANDAMAN at least 36 hours for domestic flights and 72 hours for
international flights before the original departure time. If the request does
not come in this timeframe, then normal Airlines and JOURNEY ANDAMAN Travel
Reschedule charges will be charged. However, Customer can also directly work
with the airlines when the departure time is less than the above mentioned
timeframe. Any charges imposed by the airlines in this regard, will need to be
borne by the customer itself.
•
Exact flight details of the new
flight needs to be provided for Reschedule request - Only one option will be
handled for reschedule request.
•
JOURNEY ANDAMAN Travel takes 4 to 8
hours to respond during working hours for re-schedule request and is totally
dependent on seat availability and airlines response. Incase the airlines does
not provide timely or no response, JOURNEY ANDAMAN Travel cannot be held
responsible for the same.
•
JOURNEY ANDAMAN may charge certain
service fees for the service rendered.
•
JOURNEY
ANDAMAN Special ZERO Reschedule, 50% Cancellation Fees, Free Meal
•
Reschedule details covered
under JOURNEY ANDAMAN Special ZERO
Reschedule Charges
•
Airlines & JOURNEY ANDAMAN Cancellation Charges will be charged at 50%
For e.g. if Airlines cancellation charges were Rs 3000 and JOURNEY ANDAMAN Charges
Rs 499, then in this flight, the Airlines Cancellation Charges will be Rs 1500
and JOURNEY ANDAMAN Charges as Rs 249.
All Cancellation requests needs to reach JOURNEY ANDAMAN before 36 hours in domestic flights and 72
hours for international flights before the original departure time. If the
request does not come in this timeframe, then normal Airlines and JOURNEY
ANDAMAN Cancellation charges will be
charged. However, Customer can also directly work with the airlines when the
departure time is less than the above mentioned timeframe. Any charges imposed
by the airlines in this regard, will need to be borne by the customer itself.
•
Free Meal is supposed to be
provided by the airlines. However if for any reason, airlines does not provide
the Free MEAL, no compensation will be provided by JOURNEY ANDAMAN . MEAL
Selection needs to be done by the customer on the airlines website. JOURNEY
ANDAMAN will not choose any MEAL type on
customer's behalf.
•
JOURNEY
ANDAMAN Special ZERO Cancellation / Reschedule Fees, Free Meal
•
Cancellation requests needs to
reach JOURNEY ANDAMAN atleast 36 hours
for domestic flights and 72 hours for international flights before the original
departure time. If the request does not come in this timeframe, then
normal/standard Airlines and JOURNEY ANDAMAN Cancellation charges will be
charged.
•
Please read above for Rescheduling
of Flights & Free MEAL
Refund,
Cancellation & Re-scheduling Policy
In case of no-show or unutilized
bookings, User shall be required to make requests for any valid and applicable
refunds, as per Vendors’ policies or within 15 days from the travel date
(whichever is earlier). No refund would be payable for any requests made
after the expiry of 30 days of travel date / check-in as aforementioned and all
unclaimed amounts for such no-show or unutilized bookings shall accordingly be
deemed to have been forfeited.
The refund shall be processed within 15-20 working days from the date of the cancellation
request, after receiving back to back refund from the concerned Vendor. Payment
will be refunded back into the same original payment instrument like the same
credit card or bank account from which it was paid for the traveller. In case
of Travel Agent (B2B Booking), refund or recharge or upload of any type is
always credited in their agents JOURNEY ANDAMAN s account balance. In case of
agents account closure, the agent is supposed to consume its balance or clear
their dues (if any). No money transfer will be done to travel agents bank
account, in any circumstances.
In case User avails to book any of the Services offered by the Vendor and is,
thereafter, not contactable on the contact details provided, then the
tour/travel reservation selected by User will stand cancelled and JOURNEY
ANDAMAN or the Vendor would not be
liable for any charges/expenses incurred by User, either directly or indirectly
in this regard
Any Refund Claims arising due to cancellation / delay of flight by the Vendor
shall be subject to JOURNEY ANDAMAN receiving the refund from the Vendor. In
the Event Vendor does not refund the amount to the JOURNEY ANDAMAN , JOURNEY
ANDAMAN shall not be held liable for the
same
Cancellation/Re-scheudle of Flight Ticket upto 24 hours will be dealt by JOURNEY
ANDAMAN . Less than 24 hours, the USER should cancel it directly with the
airlines and inform JOURNEY ANDAMAN for
the refund processing
JOURNEY ANDAMAN shall charge a
cancellation fees - varying from time to time and transaction to transaction
and type of service. This fees will be over and above the Airlines Cancellation
Fees. Similarly for other service like Bus Tickets etc, JOURNEY ANDAMAN will add it's own cancellation fees over the
Vendor's cancellation Fees
Cancellation Policy is defined and governed by the Vendor and JOURNEY ANDAMAN will not be able to do any changes around it.
Refund will only be processed once the USER informs JOURNEY ANDAMAN
Partial Cancellation may or may not be allowed - This will depend on the
Vendor's Cancellation Policy
Re-scheduling of Services (For e.g. Date Change in Flights) will incur Fare
Difference, Airlines Re-schedule/Penalty Charges and JOURNEY ANDAMAN Re-schedule
Charges
Domestic and International Booking/Cancellation/Re-schedule will have different
amount of fees for different Services
Name Change, Title Change, Age Change, Sector Change etc is generally not
allowed by Vendors - Any such changes or more (not covered here) will not be
entertained by JOURNEY ANDAMAN . The User need to work directly with the Vendor
and JOURNEY ANDAMAN will not be
responsible / liable in any form
Once a confirmed ticket/service is booked/generated, Convenience Fees is not
refundable under any circumstances. If you are booking a special discounted
return fare then both sectors have to be cancelled together
The USER will be solely responsible for the Visa, Passport or any other
requirement for the travel. JOURNEY ANDAMAN will not be responsible for any inadequacy of any
form
Check the Baggage Allowance – Cabin and Check-in – No Free Baggage Allowance
for Infants. Meals, Seats, Special Requests are not guaranteed. USER needs to
check this with Vendor directly
Booking
Confirmation
User
should not take any action based on information on the Marketplace until User
has received a confirmation of User’s transaction. In case of confirmations to
be received by email, if User does not receive any confirmation of User’s
purchase/transaction within the stipulated time period, User may first look
into "spam" or "junk" folder to verify that it has not been
misdirected, and if still not found, please contact JOURNEY ANDAMAN 's call
centre or login into the User Account section of JOURNEY ANDAMAN .
In case a booking confirmation e-mail or sms gets delayed or fails because of
technical reasons or as a result of incorrect e-mail ID / phone number provided
by the user etc, a ticket will be considered 'booked' as long as the ticket
shows up on the confirmation page or in the User Account section of JOURNEY
ANDAMAN .
The total price payable will be displayed to the User before making payment to
the Vendor. Users are hereby informed that in case of a booking request being
rejected by a Vendor (i.e. not confirmed by the applicable Vendor), any amounts
collected by JOURNEY ANDAMAN for such booking will be refunded to the User’s
Account used for making the payments.
Offer Fares / Series Fares / Group Fare or any other
similar fares are non-refundable, non-changeable under any circumstances. In
these types of bookings, more than one (non related) passenger is added in the
same pre-purchased PNR. Names in this type of fares are updated between 8pm and
11pm, one night before the travel date. Hence, web checkin needs to be done by
the passenger or the travel agency once the names are updated. Do note Airlines
counter are not very friendly at some airports and machines may / may not
operate. Also airlines may levy service charges for issuing boarding pass from
the airport counter. Since these are collective passengers tickets, normal web
checkin, meal selection, extra baggage purchase, wheel chair addition, GST or
any other special services cannot be added in these tickets. Lastly in these
types of fares, our fare rules supersedes airlines and hence no refund requests
are entertained unless flight is cancelled or flight date/timing is changed by
more than 6 hours in domestic flights and over 24 hours in international
flights.
Name changes (minor or major) in any form cannot be done
in these fares. In this type of fares (Offer Fares / Series Fares / Group Fare
or any other similar fares), you are not supposed to contact airlines directly
or any other body for any reason. JOURNEY ANDAMAN should be your only point of contact for any
purpose and the decision of JOURNEY ANDAMAN will be final. Incase you contact airlines or
any other body, your account might be disabled and your balance will be
forfeited.
In case of schedule change and airlines provides
multiple options, agent/customer has the choice to choose among the given
options only within the given time. However, once names are updated in the
revised itinerary, thereafter no changes will be accepted of any type. Also
note if the agent/customer does not respond in the given time then Airlines / JOURNEY
ANDAMAN can choose any option.
Offline
Booking
JOURNEY ANDAMAN avoids and do not recommends travel agents for
doing offline booking with us. However, if the travel agents insists, JOURNEY
ANDAMAN can do the booking on behalf of
the travel agent as a courtesy. Having said that JOURNEY ANDAMAN will not be responsible for any type of
mistake like date, origin city, destination city, itinerary details, pricing,
name & details of the passenger etc. Travel Agent will be responsible for
any mistake or issue in offline booking from JOURNEY ANDAMAN . JOURNEY ANDAMAN on any circumstances will not bear any expense or refund any
part of the booking amount.
Promo
Codes
JOURNEY
ANDAMAN may generate promotion codes
from time to time which may be availed on the site for discount, if applicable.
JOURNEY ANDAMAN at its discretion, could
add new promo codes, change or withdraw existing ones without any prior notice.
Incase of any dispute with any party, JOURNEY ANDAMAN 's decision will be
binding and final.
When USER registers with JOURNEY ANDAMAN , JOURNEY ANDAMAN or any of its partners/afflilate/group
companies/partners/vendors may contact User from time to time to provide
information/offers of services that JOURNEY ANDAMAN or such other group companies believe may
benefit User.
Users
Responsibility & Liability
User shall be responsible for their own actions in
utilizing the Services purchased by User, and JOURNEY ANDAMAN shall
not be liable for any such action. JOURNEY ANDAMAN is only providing
a platform for communication and it is agreed that the contract for Service
shall be a strictly bipartite contract between the Vendor and User.
User represents that User is of legal age to form a
binding contract with JOURNEY ANDAMAN and is not a person barred from receiving Services
under the laws as applicable in India.
Any references to a Vendor being "verified"
(or similar language) only indicate that the Vendor has completed a reasonable
verification process. Any such description is not an endorsement, certification
or guarantee by JOURNEY ANDAMAN about any Vendor, including of the
Vendor's identity and credibility. JOURNEY ANDAMAN therefore
recommends that you always exercise due diligence and care when deciding
whether to avail services from a Vendor, or while having any other interaction
with them.
Upon
receiving User’s complaint, JOURNEY ANDAMAN shall inform the relevant Vendor of such
complaint and request for an explanation. Users are required to refrain from
raising frivolous and baseless complaints. User expressly acknowledges that the
Vendor providing the deficient Service will be solely responsible to User for
any claims that User may have in relation to such defective service and JOURNEY
ANDAMAN shall not in any manner be held
liable for the same.
Unless due to User’s negligence, in the event the Vendor fails to complete a delivery
of any Service, User acknowledges that the Vendor will be liable to make any
applicable refunds or payments. User agrees that JOURNEY ANDAMAN will not be held liable for failure of the
Vendor to make available any Service therein.
JOURNEY ANDAMAN reserves the right at
all times to disclose any information as is necessary to satisfy or comply with
any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to
edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in
part, in JOURNEY ANDAMAN 's sole discretion.
In no event shall JOURNEY ANDAMAN its
officers, directors, employees, partners or vendors be liable to User, the
Vendor or any third party for any special, incidental, indirect, consequential
or punitive damages whatsoever, including those resulting from loss of use,
data or profits, whether or not foreseeable or whether or not JOURNEY ANDAMAN has been advised of the possibility of such
damages, or based on any theory of liability, including breach of contract or
warranty, negligence or other tortuous action, or any other claim arising out
of or in connection with User’s purchase of the services herein.
JOURNEY ANDAMAN shall not assume any
liability for the non-availability of the Services where required or any action
or inaction that might be taken by the Vendor.
ALL
LINKED TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREUNDER ARE ASSUMED TO BE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND
AGREED BY USER.