Refund & Cancellation Policy

REFUND

Refunds will be processed as per the airline / hotel fare rules and cancellation policy. Such refunds shall be subject to STV Tours receiving the same from the airlines. However, the convenience fee paid to STV Tours paid at the time of booking is a non-refundable fee.

All cancellations made directly with the airline need to be intimated to STV Tours, in order to initiate the process of refund. The processing time for refunds may vary depending on the mode of payment, bank, etc. The refund shall be processed after deducting the STV Tours service fee, which is independent of the convenience fee as mentioned above.

The refund will be credited with in 7 days to the same account from which the payment was made. For example, if the User used a credit card, STV Tours will make an appropriate charge reversal to the same credit card; likewise, if the User used a debit card, STV Tours will credit the money to the same debit card.

In the event of cancellation and refund of partially utilized tickets, upfront discount and promo code discount availed at the time of booking would be deducted from the refund amount.

CHANGES IN EXISTING BOOKING

Any changes to an existing booking will be subject to the charges levied by the Charter Company. The User shall be obligated to pay applicable charges in the event of any alternation or modification to the existing booking.


CANCELLATION OF TICKET

• Cancellation of tickets can be done either through email to STV Tours or by calling on the customer care number.
• Any cancellation is subject to such cancellation charges as mentioned on the ticket.


PAYMENTS FOR BOOKINGS, AND CANCELLATIONS

• Reservations will be subject to cancellation and refund policies of the Activity Provider which may vary from time to time.
• STV Tours may charge applicable taxes or service charge, convenience fees etc. wherever applicable. Any booking is subject to applicable cancellation policy set out on the booking page or as communicated to the User at the time of booking.







Terms and Conditions

Welcome to STV Tours, We are glad that you choose us to serve you for providing the best travel experience. We always endeavor to offer you a very delightful tour & travel experience. At the same time, we ask you to read and follow our below Terms and Conditions. The domain name of the website is owned by STV Tours and Events Private Limited (“we/us/our/TT”), the company registered under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956. In order to use this website, you must give your unqualified consent to our Terms and Conditions and if you don’t agree with any part of these Terms and Conditions, we kindly ask you to not use this website in any way. Hence, please make sure that you go through these Terms and Conditions very carefully to avoid any ambiguity or misunderstanding and ensure a smooth and joyful tour experience.

Description & Commencement

These Terms and Conditions be called STV Tours and Events Private Limited ( A Domestic and International Destination Management Company or Travel or Event Company ) Terms and Conditions. STV Tours and Events Private Limited will be hereinafter referred as “STV Tours”, “the Company”, “we”, “us” or “our” and its users our customers referred as “Guest”, “them” or “they”, “You”, “Your”. These Terms & Conditions applicable to all Domestic and International Tours, Corporate Tour, Group Tour, Customized Tour & Travel Packages, Holiday Packages, and itinerary organized by STV Tours and Events Private Limited. By using our website, you give your unqualified consent to the website’s terms of use, and you confirm to comply with these.

Definitions

In these Terms and Conditions, or else the context requires STV Tours and Events Private Limited works under the name ‘STV Tours’, therefore, these both names shall be considered one and the same and used synonymously everywhere. Guest/s means all the customers, groups, persons, clients, tourist, travellers, visitors, sightseers, who have submitted their names or inquired about tour/itinerary packages or booked a tour by giving partial or full payment for any confirmed or planned tours, customized tour/packages or any other travel related services provided by STV Tours ( which expression shall, unless it be repugnant to the context or meaning and include their concerned/respective heirs, executors, and administrators ) Customized Tour/Travel/Holiday package means a modified holiday or tour wherein an itinerary is designed as per the requirements of individuals or groups. FIT means Free Independent Travel, though STV Tours does not entertain this travel service (FIT) and only entertain GIT, means Group Inclusive Tour/Group Tour/Corporate Tour Tour/s or Travel means any Domestic or International Tours organized by STV Tours Domestic or India tours designed for anyone to explore the states of India and the Indian subcontinent from India. MICE/Corporate tour/ means particular group tourism dedicated to booking, planning, and facilitating Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibitions, Seminars, and other events. Allied service providers contain Hotel, management, airlines, caterers, restaurants, places of entertainment like theme parks, museums, art galleries, tour guides who provide the services to the Guests. We don’t fix the price for the tours provided by us as we only entertain Corporate/Group tour which is generally customized/modified as per the guests’ choice or requirement so the finalized price of such tour is subjected to be vary depending on requirements. The first day of the group tour/itinerary/corporate tour/ may start at any time, Be it morning, afternoon, or evening, at the very first location/destination/site depending on the arrival of scheduled or concerned flight/train/cruise or any other mode of transportation and the same will be applicable in case of the last day of the tour. In a nutshell, a ‘Day” shall mean a duration/period/time or part of the day or 24hrs or its relative part thereof.

Force Majeure:

Neither STV Tours nor any of its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, officers, directors, agents, tour managers, or suppliers and their respective successors, heirs and permitted assigns shall be responsible for, or be deemed to be in default on account of, any failure to perform or due to delay in execution or performance of any of its obligations hereunder, in whole or in part, if such execution is rendered impracticable by the occurrence of acts of war, whether declared or undeclared, embargo, sabotage, acts of terrorism, riot or other civil disruption. Which shall further express as below:
• Declared or undeclared war, hostile invasion, act of foreign enemies;
• Civil disruption, riot, rebellion, revolution, insurrection or military or usurped power or civil war
• Explosion, Epidemic, fire, flood, earthquake, or other exceptional natural calamity and act of God
• Ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel, or from any nuclear waste/refuse from the combustion or process of nuclear fuel, radioactive or toxic explosive, or other hazardous properties of any explosive or radioactive nuclear assembly or nuclear component of such
• Any act or omission of any state of central government instrumentality
• A change in legal requirements
• Strikes, lockouts or other industrial disruption or disturbances;
• Sudden huge weather change or abnormal weather or sea/ocean conditions including tempest, lightning, hurricane, typhoon, rain & temperatures. Both you and STV Tours shall use their best effort to avoid, overcome and offset the effects of any cause or potential cause of an event of Force Majeure. Upon cessation of the reason of the Force majeure, the Terms of Use given hereinafter shall again become fully operative. However, a Force majeure event shall not relieve you or STV Tours of the obligations accrued prior to the occurrence of the Force majeure. website means https://www.stvworld.co.in/ Tour manager/escort, leader: A person designated by the company to assist/guide/escort/ the guests in and or during India and/or World Tours Organized by STV Tours. VISA means a certificate or a legal document issued by a competent authority, immigration department or other authorities of a country to show/display or prove that the applicant’s credentials or identity has been verified and he or she has been granted permission to enter the country for a temporary stay within a certain or specified or declared period. (please note the company does not have any role to play for issuance/ rejection of Visas other than being a guide or facilitator) Terms and Conditions mean all these terms and conditions including booking criteria, tour payment, tour packages, itinerary, web pages, and its form submission, and other documents as may be updated from time to time. However, at any moment, if you need any clarification or more information regarding our services.







Privacy Policy

At STV TOURS AND EVENTS, your personal privacy is very important to us, and so is being transparent about how we collect, use, and share the information we hold about you. This policy is intended to help you clearly understand:

What information we collect about you

We collect information about you when either you or your employer provide it to us, when you use our Services, and when other sources provide it to us, as further described below.


Account and profile information:


We collect information about you that we reasonably need for our business functions and activities and which is required by law. We use the information you provide to us to book and manage travel, accommodation, car rental, group events such as conferences and meetings, and other related products and services on your behalf and as your agent. We use your personal preferences and requirements when coordinating timetables and availability, and your financial and contact details to purchase, deliver and provide notifications of reservations and other communications related to these services. We may collect personal information about you such as:

• Your name;

• Your contact details, including residential or business address, telephone number and email;

• Company details (if applicable);

• Date of birth;

• Payment information; and

• Travel-related details including passport details, frequent flyer details, drivers licence and other similar information.

While you travel we will use your contact and itinerary information to facilitate your journey and deal with third-party suppliers on your behalf, and afterwards the relevant detail of your journey or event feeds into our billing processes. Where you have booked through a business we may provide your journey data and other associated reporting to the assigned business contact for management information. For business or corporate customers, your access to the Services is provided via a contract between STV Tours and your employer, therefore our legal basis for processing your personal data under the GDPR is ‘Performance of Contract’.

How we use information we collect from you

How we use the information we collect depends in part on which Services you use, how you use them, and any preferences you have communicated to us. Below are the specific purposes for which we use the information we collect about you.


To provide the Services and personalise your experience:

We use information about you to provide the Services to you, such as booking and managing travel and accommodation, renting vehicles, providing peripheral services such as visa assistance and travel insurance, arranging and managing events and tours, and providing travel technology solutions, among others.
We use the information about you to process transactions with you, authenticate you when you log in, provide customer support, and operate and maintain the Services.
Our Services also include tailored features that personalise your experience by automatically analysing your activities to provide search results, notifications, and recommendations that are most relevant for you. Where you use multiple Services, we combine information about you and your activities to provide an integrated experience, such as to allow you to find information from one Service while searching from another or to present relevant product information.

To communicate with you about the Services:

We use your contact information to send transactional communications via email and within the Services, including confirming your bookings, providing itineraries, providing customer support, and sending you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and administrative messages. These communications are part of the Services, and in most cases, you are unable to opt out of them. If an opt out option is available, you will find that option within the communication itself or in your account settings.

To market, promote and drive engagement with the Services:

We use your contact information and information about how you use the Services to send promotional communications that may be of specific interest to you, including by email. These communications are aimed at driving engagement and maximising what you get out of the Services, including information about new features, survey requests, newsletters, and events we think may be of interest to you. We also communicate with you about new product offers, promotions and contests. You can control whether you receive these communications as described below under “Opt-out of communications”.

Third Party Website Links

Our website may include automatic links to third party banner or to other internet websites at some points as part of a specific purpose. We want to clarify that we do not share any sort of your personal data or information with these third party websites or links unless you allow us to do so.

Transfer of Your Personal Information

STV Tours head office is situated in Noida, Uttar Pradesh from where we execute our travel operations. Our tour managers may keep your information related to your visa, passport details in order to assist you while check-in and check-out at the Airports or furnishing details at immigration whenever it requires. This also means that customer data would be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of your country/India ( only when you are booking or planning a tour or itinerary with us ). However, we ensure the full confidentiality of the customer information by our secure method of data storage in offline or online. In order to book your tour or itinerary, we may share your personal data with allied service providers such as Hotels, Airlines, Destination or Travel Management Companies, Transport Service Providers or any other supplementary involved in customizing, booking or purchase. Please take note that while booking or planning a tour or itinerary with us, You authorize us to share information relevant to the said allied service providers. You are also advised to go through the privacy policies of the respective suppliers whose services you select to avail as how the said allied service providers use or process the information shared with them is beyond our authorization and purview. We may need to share customer data with our business partners like Banks, Insurance Companies, Visa Consulates, International SIM Card providers, etc. STV Tours may disclose customer data or your personal information if and when required by law. The data or information will be disclosed or furnished when it is necessary to comply with a court order, any on-going judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on us or to execute the legal rights or defend against legal claims in bona fide situations.

Marketing Use

We may use your personal data provided by you through booking/purchasing/form or survey on our website, to contact or notify you via email, telephonic and/or other electronic/non-electronic means of correspondence. Our notification or update may be related to the query that you submitted on our website or through phone call, and to inform you regarding the updates during or in the meantime of booking/purchasing of a tour with us. However, at any point of time, You can ask us to not process your personal information for marketing purposes by sending a request to our E-mail address: info@stvworld.co.in You also give us your consent to use your photographs captured during tours to be published on our website, and our preferred social media platforms for only marketing and advertisement objectives.

Protection and Security of Data

STV Tours always endeavors to ensure the protection of your personal data seriously, but information transmitted via the internet is never fully secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your transmitted data. Hence, any transmission or submission of data done through the internet is at your own risk. However, our website is equipped with stringent security measures to prevent the alteration, loss, and misuse of the information. Though your data remains safe with us, we cannot assure the full security or breach of your personal information. Under no circumstances, STV Tours will be held responsible for any loss or breach of your personal information due to malicious attempts of unlawful activity or interception of your personal data done by a third party/other party of your personal information or private communications.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

We have Trademarks, Watermarks, and Copyrights registered in the name of STV Tours and our Director. Our products; tour packages, itinerary, etc., our ideas and concepts published on websites, social media platforms, or other online or offline presence, are predominantly developed by us. You agree that You will not use or display any registered IPR without our prior written consent being received from . Any party or individual who attempts or exercises to infringe Intellectual Property Rights vested upon us shall face legal consequences.

Authenticity of Data

STV Tours does not take responsibility for any sort of authenticity, accuracy, and correctness of demographic information or personal data provided by you. It is your duty to furnish correct details or information as per your legal or government authorized documents/IDs.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy is subjected to revised and updated at any time without notice. By browsing, opening, using this website for transactions or storing any data/information, You give your consent to comply with the updated or latest revised privacy policy in effect at such time. Hence, you have to make sure you have access to the updated privacy policy.