Terms and Conditions

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL website (hereinafter called “Site”). Please review the following basic terms that govern your use of and purchase of products and services from our Site. Please note that your use of our Site constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by those terms of use (hereinafter called the “Agreement”). The” Agreement” is between you and ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL and/or any ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL subsidiary, collectively referred to here as “ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL”.

PRIVACY, GDPR

Please review our privacy policy, which also governs your visit to the Site, to understand our practices. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.

COPYRIGHT

Unless otherwise noted, all materials, including but not limited to images, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, video clips, and written and other materials that appear as part of this Site (collectively, the “Contents”) are copyrights, trademarks, trade dress and/or other intellectual properties owned or licensed by ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL. The Site as a whole is protected by copyright, all worldwide rights, titles, and interests in and to which are owned by ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL.

The Contents of our Site, and the Site as a whole, are intended solely for personal, noncommercial (other than for the purchase of products and services from our site) use by the users of our Site. You may download or copy the Contents and other downloadable materials displayed on the Site for your personal use only. No right, title, or interest in any downloaded materials or software is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading or copying. You may not reproduce (except as noted above), publish, transmit, distribute, display, modify, create derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of, or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, any of the Contents, the Site, or any related software.

USER COMMENTS, FEEDBACK, AND OTHER SUBMISSIONS

All comments, feedback, postcards, suggestions, ideas, and other submissions disclosed, submitted, or offered to ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL on or by this Site or otherwise disclosed, submitted, or offered in connection with your use of this Site (collectively, “Comments”) shall be and remain ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL’s property. Such disclosure, submission, or offer of any Comments shall constitute an assignment to ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL of all worldwide rights, titles, and interests in all copyrights and other intellectual properties in the Comments. Thus, ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL will own exclusively all such rights, titles, and interests and shall not be limited in any way in its use, commercial or otherwise, of any Comments. ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Comments in confidence; (2) to pay to user any compensation for any Comments; or (3) to respond to any user Comments.

You agree to use the Site for lawful purposes. You are prohibited from posting on or transmitting through any ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL website, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including but not limited to any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable national, or international law.

PROHIBITED ACTS

By using this Website, you represent and agree that:

1.     You shall not disguise the origin of information transmitted through the Website;
2.     You shall not place false or misleading information on the Website;
3.     You shall not use or access any service, information, application, or software available via the Website in a manner not expressly permitted by ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL;
4.     You shall not engage in spamming, flooding, harvesting of e-mail addresses or other personal information, spidering, screen-scraping, database-scraping, or any other activity to obtain the list of users or other information, or sending chain letters or creating pyramid or Ponzi schemes via the Website;
5.     You shall not input or upload to the Website any information which contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, the Website, or Information or that infringes the Intellectual Property (defined herein) rights of another;
6.     You shall not access certain areas of the Website which are restricted;
7.     You may not use or access the Website or the Systems or Services in any way that, in ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL’s judgment, adversely affects the performance or function of the Systems, Services, or the Website or interferes with the ability of authorized parties to access the Systems, Services or the Website; and
8.     You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any portion or aspect of the Content or the Information, without the express written consent of ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL.

LINKS

We are not responsible for the content of any sites that may be linked to or from any ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL website. These links are provided for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. Any other website accessed from the Site is independent of ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL, and ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL has no control over the content of that other website.

DISCLAIMER

THIS SITE AND ALL CONTENTS OF THE SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE, BY YOUR USE OF THE SITE, THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK, AND THAT YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL NECESSARY SERVICING OR REPAIRS OF ANY EQUIPMENT YOU USE IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF OUR SITE, AND THAT ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THIS SITE

INACCURACY DISCLAIMER

From time to time there may be information on any ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL website that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions that may relate to product descriptions, pricing, and availability. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update information at any time without prior notice.

TERMINATION

This Agreement is effective unless and until terminated by either you or ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL. You may terminate this Agreement at any time. ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL may also terminate this Agreement at any time and may do so immediately without notice, and accordingly deny you access to the Site, if in ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL’s sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of this Agreement.

PAYMENT TERMS & CANCELLATION POLICY

Unless ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL advises otherwise in its sole discretion, the below payment terms and cancellation policies will apply.

Payment Terms

Payment Terms

A 30% refundable deposit is to be made upon the commitment of the tour unless booked within 45 days.
70% of the total tour cost must be paid 45 days before arrival.
Full payment is required 45 days before the arrival date.

Additional fees may be required – ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL will advise specifically case by case.

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be made in writing and acknowledged by ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL.

More than 60 days before arrival date: no cancellation charge

46-60 days before arrival date: 10% of the price

22- 45 days before arrival date: 25% of the price

21- 15 days before arrival date – 50% of the price

14 – 8 days before arrival date – 75% of the price

7 days or less before arrival date – 100% of the price

Depending on specific supplier cancellation policies, the above conditions may be modified.

Separate Agreements

For some clients, ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL may have alternative and separate payment and cancellation policies in place. If a separate and valid agreement is in place, then the terms outlined in the separate and valid agreement will supersede those mentioned above.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY & TRAVEL PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL or its agents shall not be held liable for (A) any damage to, or loss of, property or injury to, or death of, persons occasioned directly or indirectly by an act or omission of any other provider, including but not limited to any defect in any aircraft, watercraft, or vehicle operated or provided by such other provider; and (B) any loss or damage due to delay, cancellation, or disruption in any manner caused by the laws, regulations, acts or failures to act, demands, orders, or interpositions of any government or any subdivision or agent thereof, or by acts of God, strikes, fire, flood, war, terrorism, insurrection, sickness, quarantine, epidemics, theft, or any other cause(s) beyond their control. Participants waive any claim against ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL Ltd. For any such loss, damage, injury, or death. Participants understand that the itinerary, schedule, prices, and services can alter without prior notice for any reason. Participants are solely responsible for being in sufficient health to undertake the tour and for taking all appropriate medical precautions. ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL Ltd. Strongly advises participants to obtain medical/trip and cancellation insurance.

SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY

Please review our other policies, such as our privacy policy, posted on the Site. These policies also govern your visit to ASIA ENCOUNTER TRAVEL’s Websites. We reserve the right to make changes to the Site, policies, and these Terms and Conditions at any time.