PRIVACY POLICY

1.Your right to privacy
2.Collection and usage of information
3.Use of technical information
4.Security
5.Change to privacy policy

Your right to privacy

Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. fully respects your right to privacy in relation to your interactions with this website. Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time by posting a new privacy statement at this location. Therefore, you are responsible for periodically checking the privacy statement for changes. If you wish to contact us in relation to this, our details are as follows:
Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd,
Trionora Apartments,
Dr Alvares Costa Road,
Panaji - Goa- 403001
Tel: +91-832-2424001, 2424002, 2424003, 2436666.
Fax: +91-832-2423926
Email: reservations@goa-tourism.com
Website: www.goa-tourism.com

Collection and use of information

Goa Tourism Development Corporation will not collect any personal information about you from this website without your prior consent. Any information provided by you will be treated with highest standards of security and confidentiality. Goa Tourism Development Corporations Ltd. will not disclose or sell any of your personal information, including your name, address, shopping, or transaction history to any third party without your permission.

Use of Technical Information

Cookies are files which are transferred to your computer hard disk by a website. Cookies can store information about your preferences and other information which you need when you visit a website. Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. does not generally use cookies but these may be necessary in some parts of our website in order to provide certain features such as the customized delivery of certain information. To prevent the use of cookies you should activate the facility, which is available in most web browsers that enable a user to deny or accept cookies.

Statistical and analytical information collected through the standard operation of our Internet servers and logs provides us with general and individually specific information. Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. will make no attempt to identify individual users, or to associate any technical information collected through the standard operations of our Internet servers or logs with any individual user.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. However, it is not possible to guarantee the security or integrity of information you disclose online since a sufficiently powerful attack from an unauthorized third party could compromise your data.

Change to our privacy policy

We will inform you if our privacy policy has changed by prominently displaying a note to this effect on our Web site home page.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1.Copyright Infringement
2.Specific Warnings
3.Hotel Reservation
4.Cancellation Policy
5.Payment Security
6.How to use the website
7.Information
8.General

Copyright Infringement

If you believe that any information or content owned by you has been used on the Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. Web Site in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with a written notice that includes an identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed and the location on the Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. Web Site where you believe the infringement occurs as well as your address, telephone number, email address, and we will remove such content upon verification of your claim. You may send this notice to Dy. General Manager (Marketing), Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd., Trionora Apartments, Dr. Alvares Costa Road, Panaji - Goa 403001.

Ph:+91-832-2424001, 2424002, 2424003, 2436666
Fax:+91-832-2423926.

Specific Warnings

You must ensure that your access to and your use of the site are not illegal or prohibited by laws, which apply to you. You must take your own precautions that the process which you employ for accessing the site does not expose you to the risk of virus, malicious computer code, computer program routine or process or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system. Without limitation, you are responsible for ensuring that your own computer system meets all relevant technical specifications necessary to use the site and is compatible with the site. For the removal of doubt, Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. does not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system, which arises in connection with your use of the site or any Linked Web Site.

Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. does not guarantee or warrant that any material available for downloading from the Site or any Linked Web Site will be free from any virus, infection or other condition, which has contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for taking sufficient precautions and checks to satisfy your own particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output.

You must ensure that any information which you provide to Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. is accurate and complete and does not contain any virus, malicious computer code, computer program routine or process or other form of interference which may damage the computer system of Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. or the information or which may detrimentally interfere with or surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information.

Hotel Reservation

The reservations feature of the site is provided solely to assist customers in determining the availability of travel related services and products and to make legitimate reservations and for no other purpose.

You warrant that you are at least 18 years of age, possess the legal authority to enter into the legal agreement constituted by your acceptance of these Conditions and to use the site in accordance with such Conditions.

You agree to be financially responsible for your use of the site including without limitation for all reservations made by you or on your account for you, whether authorized by you or not. For any reservations or other services for which fees may be charged you agree to abide by the terms or conditions of supply including without limitation payment of all moneys due under such terms or conditions

The site contains details of hotel charges and room rates (including any available special offers) for resorts owned or managed by or through Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. Hotel reservation terms and conditions of booking are set out on the site and payment will be in accordance with the procedure set out in such terms and conditions.

No contract will subsist between you and Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. or any of its affiliates in respect of any services or products offered through the Site unless and until Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. accepts your order by automated confirmation through the site confirming that it has accepted your reservation, booking or order and any such contract shall be deemed to incorporate the hotel reservation terms and conditions of booking. Any other relevant terms and conditions relating to particular services or products are set out in the Site.

You undertake that all details you provide to in connection with any services or products which may be offered by Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. on the site (including hotel room reservations) will be correct and, where applicable, the credit card which you use is your own and that there are sufficient funds to cover the cost of any services or products which you wish to purchase. Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. reserves the right to obtain validation of your credit card details before providing you with any services or products.

Cancellation Policy

25% when intimation is received 30 days or more in advance.
50% when intimation is received more than 3 days (72 hours) or more but less than 30 days in advance.
100% when intimation is received less than 3 days (72 hours) in advance.
The charges will be debited against one day’s advance.
Cancellation or curtailment of period of stay refund if any will be at the discretions of the Manager of the Hotel Establishment.
Cancellation of group booking will be charged 50% on room rent on its period of stay (5 rooms and above).
Cancellation of any booking will be charged 50% (more than 3 days and 100% less than 3 days) for the period of stay during peak season.
All credit card transactions will be refunded through credit card only.
All disputes are subject to the jurisdiction of Goa Courts only.

Payment Security

All payments that happen on Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. site are secure. We do not capture any credit or debit card details on our site. The client for all online payments is taken to the principal payment gateway site for completion of the transaction. The credit card or debit card information is not stored in any retrieval system or storage system of Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd.

Verified by Visa (VbV) is an online service designed to make Internet transactions safer by authenticating a cardholder's identity at the time of purchase. Verified by Visa software installed at a merchant website activates the cardholder interface during the authentication process.

The aim & objective of Verified by Visa is to create a level of consumer trust and confidence in online booking similar to that in the physical booking environment. It is designed to improve both cardholder and merchant confidence in Internet purchases as well as reduces disputes and fraudulent activity related to the use of Visa payment cards.

To know more visit the following URL's

http://www.visa-asia.com/ap/sa/merchants/productstech/vbv_intro.shtml

How you may use the website

The site is for your personal non-commercial use and the information may be downloaded or printed by you solely for that purpose. This right to use the information is a license only, not a transfer of title, and is subject to the following restrictions:
The information may not be used for any commercial purpose or public display, performance, sale or rental
No copyright or other proprietary notices may be removed.
The information may not be transferred to another person.
Software may not be interfered with in any manner
Every person downloading, reproducing or otherwise using the information must prevent any unauthorized copying of the information.
You will only use the information for lawful purposes and in accordance with these conditions.

Information

You accept that all information provided on the site or any other material accessed through the site including via any Linked Web Site is general information and is not in the nature of advice.

You also accept that all of the information is provided on an "as is" basis and to the extent permitted by law, is provided without any warranty, representation or condition of any kind whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise. You assume all responsibility and risk for your use of or reliance upon the information and the site or any other material accessed through the site including via any Linked Web Site.

Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. seeks to ensure that the information is reliable and accurate, errors and omissions may occur and therefore, to the extent permitted by law, Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. does not make or give any representation or warranty (express or implied) of any kind as to any matter relating to the Site and any Linked Web Site, including without limitation, as to merchantability, non infringement of intellectual property rights or fitness for purpose.

In particular Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. does not warrant that:

The Information or any other material accessed through the Site including via any Linked Web Site is reliable, accurate or complete including, without limitation, information relating to prices and availability; or your access to Information or any other material accessed through the Site including via any Linked Web Site will be uninterrupted, timely or secure.

Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. is not liable for any loss (direct or indirect) resulting from any action taken or reliance made by you on the Information or any other material accessed through the Site including via any Linked Web Site. You should make your own inquiries and seek independent professional advice before acting or relying on any such information or material.

Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. may from time to time update, modify or add to the Information, including these conditions and absolutely reserves the right to make such changes without any obligation to notify past, current or prospective users of the site. Unless otherwise specified to the contrary all new information shall be subject to these conditions.

Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. does not guarantee that the site will operate continuously or without interruption or be error free. In addition, Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. may also suspend or discontinue any aspect of the site at any time without being liable for any direct or indirect loss as a result of such action.

General

Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. does not accept any liability for any failure by Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. to comply with these conditions where such failure is due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control. If Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. waives any rights available to it under these conditions on one occasion; this does not mean that those rights will automatically be waived on any other occasion.

If any of these conditions are invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining conditions shall nevertheless continue in full force. You are completely responsible for all charges, fees, duties, taxes and assessments arising out of the use of the site.

DISCLAIMER

1.Disclaimer
2.Termination of access

Disclaimer

The information on this site is intended to be useful and informative for the customers and members of Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. will use reasonable care to ensure that the information is accurate at the time it is added on the site.

Please note, however, that Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. cannot guarantee the information is accurate and it shall not be liable for any losses or damage that any one may suffer as a result of relying on this information. The information may be changed by Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. at any time.

Please also note that the contents of this web site do not constitute an invitation to make a purchase. Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. assumes no responsibility for the contents of any other websites to which the Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. website has links.

Termination of access

If you breach any of these conditions your license to use the site will terminate immediately without the necessity of any notice being served. The provisions of these conditions excluding, limiting and disclaiming the liability of Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. will nevertheless survive any such termination.