Terms of use

Website Terms of Use

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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE.

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www.farantravel.com is a website owned and operated by Faran Travel Limited (“Faran”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 15457784 and we have our registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ. 

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By connecting with, accessing and/or using www.farantravel.com and/or any of our related website, blogs, applications or platforms (collectively, “the Website”), you agree that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by and to comply with these terms of use  (“Terms”). All rights in and to the content of the Website remain at all times expressly reserved by Faran. 

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It is important to note the following:

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• The terms "user", “you", “client” and “your” are used interchangeably in these Terms and refer to all persons using and/or accessing the Website for any reason whatsoever. Accordingly, the terms “us”, “our” or “we” refers to Faran.

• These terms were last updated on 29 Feb 2024.

 

1. INTRODUCTION TO THESE TERMS AND THE WEBSITE

1.1. These Terms govern your access to, and use of, the Website and the content on it.

1.2. The Website and these Terms are subject to change without notice. These Terms are updated or amended from time to time and will be effective upon Faran uploading the amended Terms to the Website. Your continued access or use of the Website constitutes your acceptance to be bound by the Terms, as amended. It is your responsibility to read these Terms periodically to ensure you are aware of any changes.

1.3. Unauthorised use of the Website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

1.4. The Website is made available free of charge. 

1.5. We do not guarantee that the Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of the Website for business and operational reasons. 

1.6. Without prejudice to any of Faran’s other rights (whether at law or otherwise), Faran reserves the right to deny you access to the Website where Faran believes (in its reasonable discretion) that you are in breach of any of these Terms.

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2. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE USER AND ACCEPTABLE USE

2.1. By using the Website, you warrant that:

2.1.1. you will not post, upload, replicate or transmit any abusive content on the Website that is or could reasonably be considered to be threatening, harassing, defamatory, abusive, racist, sexist, discriminatory, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or restrict any user in any way from properly using the Website;

2.1.2 you will not send any unsolicited electronic messages or use any software, routine or device to interfere or attempt to interfere electronically or manually with the operation or functionality of the Website including but not limited to uploading or making available files containing corrupt data or viruses via whatever means or deface, alter or interfere with the front end ‘look and feel’ of the Website or the underlying software code;

2.1.3. you will not infringe the intellectual property or other rights of any third party or the Website or transmit content that the user does not own or does not have the right to publish or distribute;

2.1.4 you will not use the Website platform for any commercial purpose;

2.1.5. you will not use the Website to breach any applicable law or regulation or perform or encourage any illegal activity including (without limitation) promoting or facilitating money laundering or financial crimes; and/or

2.1.6. you will not facilitate or assist any third party to do any of the above.

2.2. The Website is only available on compatible devices connected to the internet. It is your responsibility to obtain these devices and any data network access necessary to utilise the Website. The network’s data and messaging rates and fees may apply if you use the Website and you shall be responsible for such rates and fees. 

2.3. You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

2.4. If we determine, in our absolute discretion, that you have breached this clause 2 we may immediately take all or any of the following actions:

2.4.1. temporarily or permanently withdraw your right to use the Website;

2.4.2. temporarily or permanently remove any content uploaded by you to our Website;

2.4.3. issue a warning to you;

2.4.4. issue legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;

2.4.5 take further legal action against you; and/or

2.4.6. disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary to do so.

2.5. We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this clause 2. The actions described in clause 2.4 are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate in respect of your breach.

2.6. We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our Website.

2.7. You acknowledge that your breach of this clause 2 may cause damage or loss to us and you agree to indemnify us in full against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage including consequential losses, incurred as a result of such a breach. If you are a consumer, this means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of this clause 2.

2.8. We may provide your identity to a third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. You also acknowledge that we may be required to hand over such information by order of a court of law. Please see our Privacy Policy for further information.

2.9. If you wish to complain about any content posted on the Website by a third-party user, please e-mail us at info@farantravel.com setting out full details of your complaint. 

2.10. In order to investigate your complaint, we may need to share your identity and the details of your complaint with the user that posted the content that is the subject of your complaint. Please see our Privacy Policy for further information.

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3. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO

3.1. The Website may include links to other internet sites ("the other sites"). Faran does not own or endorse the other sites and is not responsible for the information, material, products or services contained on or accessible through the other sites. Any such hyperlinks do not imply any endorsement, agreement on or support of the content or products of such target sites.

3.2. Faran does not purport to own the content on other sites which may be shown on the Website. Should the owner of any content showcased on the Website want the content to be removed, please write to info@farantravel.com to request the removal of such content.

3.3. The user’s access and use of the other sites remain solely at the user’s own risk and on the terms set by the relevant third-party operator of the other sites.

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4. ADVERTISING AND SPONSORSHIP

4.1. The Website may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion in the Website complies with all applicable laws and regulations.

4.2. Faran, its employees, suppliers, partners, affiliates and agents accordingly exclude, to the maximum extent permitted in law, any responsibility or liability for any error or inaccuracy appearing in advertising or sponsorship material.

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5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS 

5.1. We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Website, and in the material published on it. All website layout, website content, material, information, data, software, icons, text, graphics, layouts, images, sound clips, advertisements, video clips, user interface design and layout, trade names, logos, trademarks, designs, copyright and/or service marks available on the Website, together with the underlying software code (“the intellectual property”) are owned (or co-owned or licenced, as the case may be) by Faranl, its members, associates and/or partners, whether directly or indirectly, and as such, are protected from infringement by domestic and international copyright, trade mark and other proprietary and intellectual property legislation and treaties. 

5.2. You may not copy, download, print, modify, alter, publish, broadcast, distribute, sell or transfer any intellectual property, editorial content, graphics or other material on the Website or the underlying software code whether in whole or in part, without the written consent of Faran first being granted, which consent may be refused at the discretion of Faran. No modification of any intellectual property or editorial content or graphics is permitted. Should you breach these provisions, Faran and/or the rightful intellectual property rights owner may launch legal proceedings against you for a breach of contract, resulting in a claim of damages against you.

5.3. Where any of the Website intellectual property has been licensed to Faran or belongs to any third party, other than that which has been submitted by a user to the Website, all rights of use will also be subject to any terms and conditions which that licensor or third party imposes from time to time and you agree to comply with such third party terms and conditions.

5.4.Subject to adherence to the Terms, Faran grants to users a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable license to use and display all content and information contained in the Website on any machine of which the user is the primary user for your own personal non-commercial use. 

5.5. Any content you upload to the Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of the Website a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

5.6. When you upload or post content to the Website, you grant us the following rights to use that content:

5.6.1. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the Website and across different media including to promote the site or the service, to expire when the user deletes the content from the Website;

5.6.2. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for other users, partners or advertisers to use the content for their purposes to expire when the user deletes the content from the Website.

 

6. NO TEXT OR DATA MINING, OR WEB SCRAPING

6.1. You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to the Website or any services provided via, or in relation to, the Website. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

6.1.1. Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the Website or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.

6.1.2. Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

6.2. The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

6.3. This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

 

7. DO NOT RELY ON THE INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE

7.1. The content on the Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

7.2. The Website, including any intellectual property appearing therein, is provided “as is” and “as available”. Faran makes no representations, warranties, or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on the Website is accurate, complete or up to date.

 

8. USER-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED BY US

8.1. All information or opinions of users made available on the Website are those of the authors and not Faran. This information and these materials have not been verified by us. Faran does not endorse, approve or certify such information, nor guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such information on the Website.

 

9. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES AND YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE THEM

9.1. Faran takes reasonable security measures to ensure the safety and integrity of the Website and to exclude viruses, unlawful monitoring and/or access from the Website. However, Faran does not warrant or represent that your access to the Website will be uninterrupted or error-free or that any information, data, content, software or other material accessible through the Website will be free of bugs, viruses, worms, trojan horses or other harmful components. The user’s access to and use of the Website remains solely at the user’s own risk and the user should take their own precautions accordingly.

9.2 You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

 

10. HOW WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA

10.1. Our Privacy Policy sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you or that is provided to us when you use the Website. 

 

11. LIMITATION OF OUR LIABILITY

11.1. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Faran and our respective agents and representatives shall have no liability whatsoever to you or any third party for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with your:

11.1.1. use of, or inability to use, our Website; or

11.1.2. use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Website, including your or a third party’s content uploaded to the Website.

11.2. If you are a business, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

11.2.1. loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

11.2.2. business interruption;

11.2.3. loss of anticipated savings;

11.2.4. loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

11.2.5. any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

11.3. If you are a consumer, please note that we only provide our Website for your domestic and private use only. You agree not to use our Website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

11.4. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Website or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

11.5. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes or limits our liability for:

11.5.1. death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

11.5.2. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or

11.5.3. any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

11.6. Please note that different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services to you, which will be set out in Cartology Travel Ltd’s Booking Terms and Conditions.

 

12. DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND GOVERNING LAW

12.1. If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

12.2. If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

13. GENERAL

13.1. If any provision in these Terms is deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remainder of the Terms shall remain in full force and effect.

13.2. Any failure by us to enforce or exercise any provision in these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of that provision or any other provision.

13.3. We may transfer, assign, sublicense or pledge in any manner whatsoever, any of our rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions to any third party without notice and without the need to receive your consent. You may only transfer, assign, sublicense or pledge your rights or your obligations under these Terms to another person if we provide our consent to you in writing.

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14. CONTACT US

14.1. To contact us, please e-mail info@farantravel.com