Privacy Policy

Privacy issues are a high priority for us at Travel Gupshup and we follow standard industry practices to maintain your personal information. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

Travel Gupshup does not spam or sell/lease its user information to third parties.

Policy Coverage

This Privacy Policy covers Travel Gupshup's treatment of personally identifiable information that Travel Gupshup collects when you are on the Travel Gupshup site, and when you use Travel Gupshup's services. This policy also covers Travel Gupshup's treatment of any personally identifiable information that Travel Gupshup's business partners share with Travel Gupshup. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Travel Gupshup does not own or control, or to people that Travel Gupshup does not employ or manage.

Personal Information Collected by Travel Gupshup

ONLINE REGISTRATION: In order to become a Travel Gupshup member, you must first create a member account on Travel Gupshup by providing information about yourself including but not limited to name, email address, and a password. Travel Gupshup checks for the validity of the email addresses.

RECOGNIZING YOU AS A TRAVEL GUPSHUP MEMBER: For Travel Gupshup to recognize you as a registered member, you must login with your login email and password. At the time of login, you will have the option to instruct the site to remember you so when you come back the next time to use Travel Gupshup, you would not have to login with your email and password. As is common in the industry, Travel Gupshup uses the technology of cookies and site log files to monitor user registration, to recognize registered members when they revisit the site and to track site usage. Our ability to identify you as a registered member allows us to customize the Travel Gupshup experience and to protect your personal information based on your account settings.

INTERNET COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL INFORMATION: The communication standards of the Internet industry transmit the URL of the site from which you visit Travel Gupshup, the IP address of your computer, the IP address of your ISP, various attributes of your computer such as operating system, resolution and browser software, and the date and time of your various requests for pages on Travel Gupshup. Travel Gupshup file logging system automatically logs all of this information in its log files for its analysis.

NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS: Visitors to Travel Gupshup may also sign up with their name and email address for a variety of newsletters that Travel Gupshup produces with varying frequency (e.g., News headlines) without having to register. Travel Gupshup confirms the subscription by sending an email to the email address specified before sending the newsletter.

Use of Information by Travel Gupshup

Travel Gupshup is an online website that offers a variety of services designed to connect people from around the world. The information, whether personal information of any form of self-expression is used to help you describe yourself to other users. Travel Gupshup also collects additional information in order to operate and improve our service.

VISIBILITY OF PUBLIC CREATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS: In addition to being a social and professional networking site, Travel Gupshup also provides a variety of forums for its members to express themselves in the form of articles, columns, opinions, comments and reviews. Since this expression is linked to the member's identity and the expression is in the public domain, the compilation of a member's creative contributions to Travel Gupshup will be visible to all visitors of Travel Gupshup whether or not they are registered members of Travel Gupshup.

VISIBILITY OF CONTACT INFORMATION: You will be able to create and share messages within Travel Gupshup. The visibility of your contact information will be restricted to registered users only should you decide to post an email address and your name on our site.

SHARING OF INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES: Travel Gupshup takes your privacy very seriously. Travel Gupshup will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties unless it is to carry out your instructions and to provide specific services.

EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS: Travel Gupshup generally communicates with you as a registered member of Travel Gupshup through the primary email that you have specified at the time of registration. This is also used as the login text string in conjunction with the password to authenticate you on the Travel Gupshup site. Your email and password are never shared with anybody within or outside Travel Gupshup. Travel Gupshup uses this email address to send you three types of communications:

• Sending you emails related to the proper functioning of your account
• Sending you newsletters that you have subscribed to
• Sending you occasional announcements about changes in Travel Gupshup's policies or promotions introduction of new services
• Please note that these email communications may contain commercial messages of advertisers; however, Travel Gupshup does not provide your personal information or emails to any of the advertisers; we just include the advertising banners they provide us in the emails that we send. As always you can opt out of the newsletters or promotional announcements.

PARTNERING WITH OTHERS: Travel Gupshup may partner with other online services to offer a combined service. Whenever we offer such combined services, Travel Gupshup will make it clear who the partner is and it will be entirely up to you to use or not to use the service. Where any personal information is passed along to the partner you will be informed prior to that sharing.

PROVISION OF AGGREGATE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES: Travel Gupshup reserves the right to provide aggregate demographic information of its member base to advertisers and others so as to attract pertinent advertisers to advertise on Travel Gupshup. We do not shared personal information of individual users with advertisers.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHERS TO YOU THROUGH TRAVEL GUPSHUP: Only registered members of Travel Gupshup are allowed to view your contact information if you have posted a request for travel assistance. Other registered users will get to know your name and email address. Travel Gupshup is not responsible for how these users use this information.

DISCLOSURES REQUIRED BY LAW: It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Accessing and Changing Your Account Information

You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your Travel Gupshup account, at any time by logging in to your account on the Travel Gupshup website and editing the information on your Profile page. You can also close your account through the Travel Gupshup website by sending your request to our Contact Us page with your login email address. You request will be processed within 7 business days.

Policy on Abuse on TravelGupshup.com

TravelGupshup.com is committed to ensuring and enforcing a safe and friendly online community space for all our members. To this effect, we have come up with a Policy on Abuse that we would like all our members to be aware of. These rules govern the use of the TravelGupshup.com website and its product/service offerings and we would like all our members to cooperate in complying with these rules so that everyone can have a pleasant experience.

Conduct and use of language:

• Member contributions must be civil and tasteful and must not be malicious or designed to offend. Use of swear-words or profanity is strictly prohibited.
• Do not refer to the personality of other participants or attack an individual’s character or personally insult another member. Do not harass, threaten or verbally abuse or intimidate anyone, or behave in any manner that would cause annoyance or distress to other members.
• Members of TravelGupshup.com may not insult or defame the site, including any of its employees, moderators or freelancers. You may not post the contents (in part or whole) of any email that you may receive from any TravelGupshup.com employee(s) and/or moderator.
• Do not to post any material that is obscene, defamatory, profane, libelous, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful or embarrassing towards other person(s) or an entity. We encourage a healthy exchange of opinions and disagreements. By all means challenge an opinion but please do it respectfully. Name-calling, insults and use of foul or abusive language will not be tolerated. This includes the use of offensive member Display Names and URLs (your personal website address on TravelGupshup.com).
• Please be sure before you divulge the details of your identity or personal information in your post(s), including photos of yourself or your family and friends. Anything posted online is accessible to the entire internet community and TravelGupshup.com is not liable in cases where such information is misused. Please be aware of the general dangers of online information sharing like identity theft, phishing and other fraudulent activities.
• Members of TravelGupshup.com are not permitted to collect or distribute personal data concerning other members at any time.
• Do not post messages more than once. This is also known as flooding. TravelGupshup.com reserves right to delete such posts and may terminate the accounts of such members.
• A member of TravelGupshup.com must not impersonate another member.

Advertising and Spamming:

• Commercial messages or promotional messages from businesses or organizations are not permitted on the Network. TravelGupshup.com provides a platform for its members to express themselves in the form of articles, columns, opinions, comments, reviews, art and photos but the website must not be used as a medium for marketing or selling to our members.
• No advertising or promotion is allowed except where it is for an event, publication or similar item that has direct relevance to the subject of discussion and is non-commercial in nature. Please bear in mind that the space on the Network is for creative contributions by members and not for personal advertising or promotion(s). Information about locating and sharing knowledge and expertise is welcomed, but must have relevance to the topic on which an opinion is expressed or a discussion is initiated.
• Do not post chain letters, promote pyramid schemes or recruit members for any “network marketing” or “multilevel marketing” businesses.
• Do not recruit members to join another website forum or chat group, whether personal or otherwise. If you have a suggestion for a new forum, please contact us.
• TravelGupshup.com encourages healthy discussion on the topics that members contribute to in forums and where relevant, members are allowed to post links to their content. However, overt promotion of, or inappropriate links to other known commercial websites on any forum are not permitted and will be removed.

Copyrighted Material: Uploading copies of copyrighted material as a whole or in part on TravelGupshup.com without explicit permission from the copyright owner shall be deemed to infringe on the copyright and this applies to materials such as text, images, music, movies, games, and other software in digital and analog format. TravelGupshup.com reserves the right to immediately delete such material without prior permission/consultation from the member. If you suspect that an image submitted to TravelGupshup.com is copyright protected and has been used fraudulently, please contact us.