TERMS OF USE

Opening an Account

In order to become able to use the DECODE HOLIDAYS, 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 DECODE HOLIDAYS. We reserve the right to modify or update that information suitably.

Viruses and Contamination of System

DECODE HOLIDAYS 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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 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 DECODE HOLIDAYS which may be used in any manner the DECODE HOLIDAYS 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

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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 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

Governing Law

Privacy Policy

Charges & Pricing

Users can create free membership accounts on DECODE HOLIDAYS for service booking. From time to time, DECODE HOLIDAYS 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 DECODE HOLIDAYS. GST Credit (if applicable) will be provided directly by the Vendor to the User and DECODE HOLIDAYS will not be responsible for non-receivable of the same.

While DECODE HOLIDAYS 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, DECODE HOLIDAYS may at its discretion contact the User for instructions or cancel User's booking and notify User of such Cancel.

DECODE HOLIDAYS 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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 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

DECODE HOLIDAYS  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. DECODE HOLIDAYS 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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 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 DECODE HOLIDAYS (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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 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 DECODE HOLIDAYS disclaims all liabilities in this regard.

DECODE HOLIDAYS Travel Special Fares

There are three types of DECODE HOLIDAYS Special Fares:

•       DECODE HOLIDAYS   Special ZERO Reschedule Charges

•       Reschedule request needs to reach DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 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.

•       DECODE HOLIDAYS 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, DECODE HOLIDAYS Travel cannot be held responsible for the same.

•       DECODE HOLIDAYS may charge certain service fees for the service rendered.

•       DECODE HOLIDAYS  Special ZERO Reschedule, 50% Cancellation Fees, Free Meal

•       Reschedule details covered under DECODE HOLIDAYS  Special ZERO Reschedule Charges

•       Airlines & DECODE HOLIDAYS  Cancellation Charges will be charged at 50% For e.g. if Airlines cancellation charges were Rs 3000 and DECODE HOLIDAYS Charges Rs 499, then in this flight, the Airlines Cancellation Charges will be Rs 1500 and DECODE HOLIDAYS  Charges as Rs 249. All Cancellation requests needs to reach DECODE HOLIDAYS   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 DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS . MEAL Selection needs to be done by the customer on the airlines website. DECODE HOLIDAYS  will not choose any MEAL type on customer's behalf.

•       DECODE HOLIDAYS  Special ZERO Cancellation / Reschedule Fees, Free Meal

•       Cancellation requests needs to reach DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS Cancellation charges will be charged.

•       Please read above for Rescheduling of Flights & Free MEAL

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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 's call centre or login into the User Account section of DECODE HOLIDAYS .

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 DECODE HOLIDAYS .

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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 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. DECODE HOLIDAYS  should be your only point of contact for any purpose and the decision of DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 / DECODE HOLIDAYS can choose any option.

Offline Booking

DECODE HOLIDAYS  avoids and do not recommends travel agents for doing offline booking with us. However, if the travel agents insists, DECODE HOLIDAYS  can do the booking on behalf of the travel agent  as a courtesy. Having said that DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS . DECODE HOLIDAYS  on any circumstances will not bear any expense or refund any part of the booking amount.

Promo Codes

DECODE HOLIDAYS  may generate promotion codes from time to time which may be availed on the site for discount, if applicable. DECODE HOLIDAYS  at its discretion, could add new promo codes, change or withdraw existing ones without any prior notice. Incase of any dispute with any party, DECODE HOLIDAYS 's decision will be binding and final.

When USER registers with DECODE HOLIDAYS , DECODE HOLIDAYS  or any of its partners/afflilate/group companies/partners/vendors may contact User from time to time to provide information/offers of services that DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS  shall not be liable for any such action. DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS  about any Vendor, including of the Vendor's identity and credibility. DECODE HOLIDAYS  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, DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS  will not be held liable for failure of the Vendor to make available any Service therein.

DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS 's sole discretion.

In no event shall DECODE HOLIDAYS  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 DECODE HOLIDAYS  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.

DECODE HOLIDAYS  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.