Privacy Policy

SFV Holidays and Tours

At SFV Holidays and Tours, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, why we collect it, how we use it, when it may be shared, and the choices available to you when you use our website, enquire about our travel services, make a booking, or otherwise interact with SFV Holidays and Tours.

By using our website or providing your information to us, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with SFV Holidays and Tours, we may collect different types of information.

Personal Information

When you submit a travel enquiry, request a quotation, make a booking, contact us, or otherwise interact with our services, we may collect information such as:

  • Full name
  • Mobile number
  • Email address
  • Billing information, where applicable
  • Travel-related information
  • Number of travellers
  • Preferred travel dates
  • Destination preferences
  • Accommodation preferences
  • Transportation requirements
  • Information provided through enquiry or contact forms
  • Information provided while requesting customer support
  • Booking and payment details
  • Any other information you voluntarily provide to us

We only request information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant travel service or business purpose.

Travel and Booking Information

When you enquire about or book a tour or travel service with SFV Holidays and Tours, we may collect information related to your booking, including:

  • Destination
  • Travel dates
  • Number of travellers
  • Tour package selected
  • Hotel or accommodation requirements
  • Transportation requirements
  • Sightseeing preferences
  • Special travel requirements
  • Booking reference or confirmation number
  • Payment status
  • Cancellation or refund information
  • Communications relating to your booking or enquiry
Payment Information

Payments may be processed through third-party payment gateways, banks, financial institutions, or other payment service providers.

SFV Holidays and Tours may receive information such as payment status, transaction reference, payment method, or other information necessary to confirm a payment.

We do not intend to store complete debit card, credit card, CVV, UPI PIN, banking passwords, or similar confidential payment credentials on our website. Such information is generally handled directly by the relevant payment gateway or financial institution.

2. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, or similar technologies.

This may include:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Pages visited
  • Time spent on pages
  • Referring website
  • General website usage information
  • Date and time of access

This information may be used to understand website performance, identify technical problems, improve user experience, and maintain website security.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

SFV Holidays and Tours may use cookies and similar technologies to improve website functionality and understand how visitors use our website.

Cookies may help us:

  • Remember certain preferences.
  • Keep website features functioning properly.
  • Understand website traffic and usage.
  • Improve website performance.
  • Analyse visitor behaviour and website usage.
  • Measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
  • Provide relevant website functionality.

Some cookies may be placed by third-party service providers used by our website.

You may be able to control or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of the website.

4. How We Use Your Information

SFV Holidays and Tours may use collected information for legitimate business and operational purposes, including:

  • Responding to travel enquiries.
  • Preparing and providing travel quotations.
  • Planning and arranging tours and holidays.
  • Processing and confirming bookings.
  • Arranging accommodation and transportation.
  • Coordinating sightseeing and travel services.
  • Confirming payments.
  • Providing customer support.
  • Communicating itinerary and travel-related information.
  • Processing cancellations, changes, refunds, or other booking requests.
  • Improving our travel services, website, and customer experience.
  • Detecting and preventing fraudulent or unauthorised activity.
  • Maintaining website and payment security.
  • Analysing website usage and performance.
  • Sending promotional communications where permitted and where you have provided the appropriate consent or preference.
  • Complying with applicable legal, regulatory, and governmental requirements.

We will not use your personal information for a purpose that is materially different from the purpose communicated to you without an appropriate legal basis or consent where required.

5. Travel and Booking Communications

When you submit an enquiry or make a booking with SFV Holidays and Tours, we may contact you through email, phone, SMS, WhatsApp, or other available communication channels regarding your enquiry or travel arrangements.

These communications may include:

  • Enquiry confirmation
  • Travel quotation
  • Booking confirmation
  • Payment confirmation
  • Tour itinerary
  • Hotel or accommodation details
  • Transportation details
  • Travel schedule updates
  • Important destination or tour information
  • Cancellation or refund updates
  • Customer service communications

These are service-related communications and may be sent when necessary to provide or support your requested travel service.

6. Marketing Communications

Where applicable, and subject to your preferences and applicable law, SFV Holidays and Tours may send promotional communications about:

  • New tour packages
  • Holiday destinations
  • Travel offers and discounts
  • Seasonal travel packages
  • Special promotions
  • Travel updates
  • Events or campaigns
  • Other SFV Holidays and Tours announcements

You may opt out of promotional communications by using the unsubscribe option provided in the communication or by contacting us directly.

Opting out of promotional messages will not necessarily stop essential booking, travel, or service-related communications.

7. Sharing of Information

SFV Holidays and Tours does not sell or rent your personal information as a commercial product.

We may share limited information with trusted service providers where reasonably necessary to arrange your travel services and operate our business.

Depending on the services you request, these may include:

  • Hotels and accommodation providers
  • Airlines, transport operators, and vehicle providers
  • Tour operators and local travel partners
  • Payment gateway providers
  • Travel insurance or related service providers, where applicable
  • Website hosting providers
  • Website maintenance and technology providers
  • Analytics providers
  • Customer support service providers
  • Communication service providers
  • Marketing or advertising service providers, where applicable
  • Professional advisers, where necessary
  • Government authorities or law-enforcement agencies where legally required

For example, when you book a tour, relevant information such as your name, contact details, travel dates, and other necessary booking information may need to be shared with hotels, transport providers, tour operators, or other service providers involved in fulfilling your travel arrangements.

Service providers receiving information from us are expected to handle it appropriately and only for the purposes for which it is provided or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

8. Payment Security

SFV Holidays and Tours may use third-party payment gateways or financial service providers to process online transactions.

When you make a payment, you may be redirected to or interact with the payment provider’s secure systems. Payment information may therefore be subject to the privacy policies and terms of the relevant payment provider.

SFV Holidays and Tours does not request your UPI PIN, ATM PIN, banking password, OTP, or similar confidential authentication credentials through email, WhatsApp, phone calls, or website forms.

Never share your OTP, UPI PIN, card PIN, CVV, or banking password with anyone claiming to represent SFV Holidays and Tours.

9. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, payment services, hotel websites, airline websites, transportation providers, booking services, or other external websites.

If you click on a third-party link, you will be subject to that third party’s privacy policy and terms rather than this Privacy Policy.

SFV Holidays and Tours is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites.

We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any external service before providing personal information.

10. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction.

However, no website, online transmission, storage system, or electronic communication method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

If we become aware of a security incident affecting personal information, we will take appropriate steps as required by applicable law and the circumstances of the incident.

11. How Long We Keep Your Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including:

  • Processing travel enquiries and bookings.
  • Arranging travel services.
  • Providing customer support.
  • Maintaining business and booking records.
  • Handling cancellations, refunds, and disputes.
  • Meeting legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, or compliance requirements.
  • Preventing fraud and misuse.
  • Resolving complaints or disputes.

When personal information is no longer reasonably required, it may be deleted, anonymised, or securely disposed of, subject to applicable legal or regulatory requirements.

12. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the ability to:

  • Request information about personal data processed by us.
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Request deletion of personal information where applicable.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Opt out of promotional communications.
  • Raise a privacy-related complaint or concern.

Certain information may need to be retained where required for legal, tax, accounting, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or other legitimate purposes.

To make a privacy-related request, please contact us using the details provided in the Contact Us section below.

13. Children’s Privacy

Our website is not intentionally designed to collect personal information from children without appropriate authorisation where such authorisation is required by applicable law.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate permission, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

14. User-Submitted Information

If you submit information through our contact forms, travel enquiry forms, booking forms, feedback forms, reviews, or other website features, we may use that information to respond to your request and provide the relevant travel service.

Please avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive personal information through public forms, reviews, comments, or other areas of the website.

15. Reviews, Feedback and Public Content

If SFV Holidays and Tours provides an option to submit travel reviews, testimonials, comments, photographs, videos, or other content, information that you voluntarily publish through a public area of the website may be visible to other users.

Please consider carefully what personal information you include in publicly visible content.

SFV Holidays and Tours may use submitted reviews, photographs, testimonials, or feedback for website, service, promotional, or marketing purposes where permitted and appropriately disclosed.

16. Fraud Prevention and Website Security

We may use certain information to detect, investigate, and prevent:

  • Fraudulent bookings or transactions.
  • Unauthorised account activity.
  • Suspicious enquiries or bookings.
  • Payment abuse.
  • Website attacks.
  • Spam or malicious activity.
  • Other security threats.

This may include reviewing booking information, device information, IP addresses, transaction information, or other relevant technical information.

17. Legal and Regulatory Disclosure

SFV Holidays and Tours may disclose personal information where reasonably necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Respond to lawful requests from government authorities.
  • Comply with court orders or legal processes.
  • Protect the rights, property, and safety of SFV Holidays and Tours, our customers, employees, partners, or others.
  • Investigate fraud, security incidents, or unlawful activities.

Any disclosure will be limited to what is reasonably required for the relevant purpose, subject to applicable law.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

SFV Holidays and Tours may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, business practices, technology, services, or applicable legal requirements.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

We encourage customers to review this page periodically to remain informed about how we handle personal information.

19. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, complaints, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact SFV Holidays and Tours.

SFV Holidays and Tours

Email: sfvdomestic@gmail.com

Phone: +91 7587682811

Business Address: Plot No. 9, 3rd floor, above al-beik, Zone-I, Maharana Pratap Nagar, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462011

For privacy-related requests, please mention “Privacy Request” in the subject line of your email and provide enough information for us to identify and respond to your request.

We will review and respond to privacy-related requests within a reasonable period and in accordance with applicable law.

Important Notice

This Privacy Policy is intended to explain SFV Holidays and Tours’ general privacy practices in a clear and transparent manner. It should be read together with SFV Holidays and Tours’ Terms & Conditions, Cancellation & Refund Policy, Booking Policy, Shipping/Travel Policy where applicable, and other applicable website policies.

Where applicable law provides a consumer or individual with rights that cannot legally be excluded or restricted, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to remove or limit those rights.