MELODYTRIP.COM PRIVACY POLICY
Updated on Sep 26, 2021
1) ABOUT US AND HOW TO CONTACT US
Melodytrip.com is a website and mobile application (“Website”) operated by MelodyTrip Travel Pte. Ltd., a limited liability company with its address at CENTRL Office, 1 Silver Fox Way, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE27 0QJ, UK (084569) and MelodyTrip Limited (”we”, “our” or “us”). We are a global online hotel marketplace.
To contact us, please email our customer service team (for our email address, please see http://melodytrip.com/contact).
2) ABOUT THESE TERMS
Your privacy is important to us. We value your trust and are committed to protecting and safeguarding any personal information you give us. This document, which we update from time to time, describes how we use and process your personal data and how we use cookies. It also tells you how you can contact us if you have questions about your personal information.
MelodyTrip provides online travel services through its own websites and mobile apps and through other online platforms such as partners’ websites and social media. The information that follows applies to all of these platforms.
Privacy
What kind of personal information does MelodyTrip use?
When you make a reservation, you’ll be asked for your name, address, telephone number, email address, payment details, the names of guests traveling with you and your preferences for your stay.
To make it easier to manage your reservations, you can open a user account. This allows you to save your personal settings, review previous bookings and manage future reservations.
When you visit our website, even if you don’t make a reservation, we may collect certain information, like your IP address, or browser, and information about your computer’s operating system, application version, language settings and pages that have been shown to you. If you’re using a mobile device, we might also collect data that identifies your mobile device, device-specific settings and characteristics and latitude/longitude details.
We may also receive information about you when you use certain social media services.
Why does MelodyTrip collect, use and share your personal data?
Reservations: First and foremost, we use your personal data to complete and administer your online reservation and forward your reservation details to the accommodation you have booked.
Customer service: We provide international customer service 24/7 from our local offices in more than 8 languages. Sharing your details with our global customer service allows for a quick response when you need us – including helping you find an appropriate services and any questions you might have about your reservation.
Guest reviews: We may use your contact information to invite you to write a guest review after your stay. This can help other MelodyTrip choose a place to stay that suits them best.
Account administration: We offer a user account facility on our website. We use the information you give us to administer this, allowing you to manage your bookings, take advantage of special offers, make future reservations more easily and manage your personal settings. Managing personal settings allows you to keep and share lists, share photos, see properties that you’ve searched for before, and see other information you’ve provided about accommodations and destinations. It also allows you to see any reviews you submitted about places you stayed in. If you want, you can share certain information in your user account by creating a public profile that’s associated with either your own first name or a screen name of your choice. The type of information you can share on this platform includes your photo, the names of places you’ve stayed in, your lists, your plans for future trips, your reviews and other information about services and destinations.
Marketing activities: We also use your information for marketing activities, as permitted by law. For example:
When you make a reservation with us or set up a user account, we may use your contact information to send you news about similar travel-related products and services. We also send our customers regular newsletters by email. You can opt out, or unsubscribe, from marketing communication at any time.
Based on the information you share with us, individualized offers may be shown to you on the MelodyTrip website, in mobile apps or on third-party websites, including social media sites.
When we believe that a particular offer may be of interest to you, we may decide to make contact with you by phone.
Other communications: There may be other times when we get in touch by email, by post, by phone or by texting you, depending on the contact information you share with us. There could be a number of reasons for this:
We may need to respond to and handle requests you have made.
If you haven’t finalized a reservation online, we may email you a reminder to continue with your reservation. We believe that this additional service is useful to you because it allows you to carry on with a reservation without having to search for the service items again or fill in all the reservation details from scratch.
When you use our services, we may send you a questionnaire or invite you to provide a review about your experience with MelodyTrip.
We may also send you other material related to your reservation, such as how to contact MelodyTrip if you need assistance while you’re away, or a summary of previous reservations you made using MelodyTrip.
Market research: We sometimes ask our customers to take part in market research. Any additional personal details that you give us as part of the market research will only be used with your consent.
Fraud detection and prevention: We may use personal data for the detection and prevention of fraud and other illegal or unwanted activities.
Improving our services: Finally, we use personal information for analytical purposes, to improve our services, enhance the user experience, and improve the functionality and quality of our online travel services.
How does MelodyTrip use social media?
We use social media to promote our services partners’ properties and to promote, improve and facilitate our own services website. For example, we integrated social media plugins into the MelodyTrip website. So when you click on one of the buttons and register with your social media account, information is shared with your social media provider, and possibly presented on your social media profile to be shared with others in your network.
In addition to implementing these buttons, MelodyTrip uses social media by maintaining accounts on several social media sites and by offering social apps. These social media services may allow you to share information with MelodyTrip. When you register with a social media app, you’ll be told which information will be shared with MelodyTrip. The information you choose to share with us may include the basic information that’s already available in your social media profile, email address, status updates and your friends list. This information is necessary to create a unique user experience either in the app itself or on our website. It facilitates things like personalizing our website to suit your needs, connecting you with your friends on travel destinations and analyzing and enhancing our travel-related services.
We may also enable you to sign in to MelodyTrip services with your social media accounts. Your social media provider will be able to tell you more about how they use and process your data in such cases.
How does MelodyTrip share your data with third parties?
In certain circumstances, we may share your personal data with third parties.
The accommodation you booked: In order to complete your reservation, we need to transfer relevant reservation details to the services (hotels/rentals/cars/cruises/tours/activities) you booked with. This may include information like your name, contact and payment details, the names of guests traveling with you and any preferences you specified when making a booking.
Your local MelodyTrip office: In order to support you during the reservation process and throughout your stay, your details may be shared with subsidiaries of the MelodyTrip corporate family. To find out more about the MelodyTrip corporate family, visit About MelodyTrip. Your information might also be shared with other members of the MelodyTrip group (for example: Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com and Kayak.com) for analysis to provide you with travel-related offers that may be of interest to you and to offer you customized service.
Third-party service providers: We may use third-party service providers to process your personal information on our behalf for the purposes specified above. For example, we may use service providers to send the reservation information on our behalf to the service item you just booked, or we may instruct third parties to contact you. When a reservation requires it, we may also work with third-party payment service providers to facilitate payment or payment guarantees. We also work with third-party advertisement networks to market our accommodation and services on other platforms, or involve third-party providers for analytical purposes. These third parties involved in any of these services will be bound by confidentiality agreements and will not be allowed to use your personal information for any purposes other than those specified above.
Competent authorities: We work with partner websites around the world to distribute the service items listed on our website and mobile apps (Hotels). When you make a reservation on one of these business partners’ websites, certain personal information that you give them may be shared with us. Similarly, we may share information with this business partner, for example, as part of the administration of your account, in order to manage your reservation, so that they can address queries related to your reservation and for marketing purposes. In this context, your information is governed by the privacy policies of these business partners.
Business partners: We work with business partners around the world to distribute or advertise services and to help our business partners distribute and advertise their travel-related services. This may mean that their services are integrated into our website or they have been enabled to show a customized advertisement on our website – or we are advertising on theirs. When you make a reservation on one of our business partners’ websites, certain personal data that you give them will be forwarded to us. Certain business partners may receive your personal data from us if requested by you. When you make a reservation on a business partners’ website, please read the privacy policies on these business partners’ websites for more information.
How does MelodyTrip use mobile devices?
We have free apps for a variety of mobile devices and use versions of our regular website that have been optimized for mobile. These apps and mobile websites process your personal details in a similar way as our website does – and they also allow you to use location services to find services nearby.
How does MelodyTrip use guest reviews and other destination-related information you share with us?
After your use any service booked through us, you’ll be invited to submit a guest review, which may ask for information about the service item, the surrounding areas, and the destination. If you don’t want your name to show with your review, you can use your screen name (which you can choose in your user account) or it can be displayed anonymously. By completing a guest review, you’re agreeing that it can be displayed (as further described in our Terms and Conditions) on, for example, the relevant service information page on our websites, in our mobile apps, in our social media accounts and in social apps, or on the website of the relevant property or on our business partner’s website, to inform other travellers about the quality of the service item you used.
If you indicate that a guest review was helpful – or not helpful – we will aggregate this with feedback from other customers in order to sort and prioritize guest reviews. We may use the information in your lists or in other destination-related information you share with us in an anonymous format to help other travellers find the right destination.
Cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is placed in the browser of your computer or on your mobile device. This Privacy and Cookies Policy applies to cookies and similar technologies (hereafter together referred to as “cookies”).
Why are cookies used?
Web pages have no memory. If you are surfing from page to page within a website, you will not be recognized as the same user across pages. Cookies enable your browser to be recognized by the website. So cookies are mainly used to remember the choices you have made – choices such as the language you prefer and the currency you use. They will also make sure you are recognized when you return to a website.
Do all cookies do the same thing?
No, there are different types of cookies and different ways of using them. Cookies can be categorized according to their function, their lifespan and according to who places them on a website.
How are cookies used?
Our website uses the following types of cookies:
Technical cookies: We try to provide our visitors with an advanced and user-friendly website that adapts automatically to their needs and wishes. To achieve this, we use technical cookies to show you our website, to make it function correctly, to create your user account, to sign you in and to manage your bookings. These technical cookies are absolutely necessary for our website to function properly.
Functional cookies: We also use functional cookies to remember your preferences and to help you use our website efficiently and effectively. For example, we remember your preferred currency and language, your searches and the property you viewed earlier. These functional cookies are not strictly necessary for the functioning of our website, but they add functionality for you and enhance your experience.
Analytics cookies: We use these cookies to gain insight on how our visitors use the website, to find out what works and what doesn’t, to optimize and improve our website and to ensure we continue to be interesting and relevant. The data we gather includes which web pages you viewed, which referring/exit pages you entered and left from, which platform type you used, date and time stamp information and details such as the number of clicks you make on a given page, your mouse movements and scrolling activity, the search words you use and the text you type while using our website. We also use analytics cookies as part of our online advertising campaigns to learn how users interact with our website after they’ve been shown an online advertisement, which may include advertisements on third-party websites. We will not know who you are, and we only obtain anonymous data.
Commercial cookies: We use these to show you MelodyTrip advertisements on other websites. This is called “retargeting” and it aims to be based on your browsing activities on our website, such as the destinations you’ve been searching for, the properties you’ve viewed and the prices you’ve been shown.
How long do MelodyTrip cookies stay active?
The cookies we use have varying lifespans. The maximum lifespan we set on some is five years from your last visit to our website. You can erase all cookies from your browser any time you want. To remove MelodyTrip cookies from your browser, go to the following link (please note that when you click on this link, all MelodyTrip cookies will be removed immediately): Purge Cookies.
How can you recognize MelodyTrip cookies?
You can find our cookies in your browser settings.
Does MelodyTrip use third-party marketing and analytics cookies?
YesMelodyTrip uses the services of trusted and recognized online advertising and marketing companies. MelodyTrip may also use third-party providers for analytical purposes. To enable their services, these companies need to place cookies.
The providers we use are committed to building consumer awareness and establishing responsible business and data management practices and standards.
When it comes to online advertising and marketing companies, we strive to only work with companies that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and/or the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Members of NAI and IAB adhere to industry standards and codes of conduct. NAI and IAB members allow you to opt out of the behavioral advertising. Visit www.networkadvertising.org and www.youronlinechoices.com to identify the NAI members that may have placed an advertising cookie file on your computer. To opt out of an NAI or IAB member’s behavioral advertising program, simply check the box that corresponds to the company from which you wish to opt out.
In order to control the collection of data for analytical purposes by Google Analytics, you may want to visit the following link: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Who has access to MelodyTrip cookie data?
Only MelodyTrip has access to MelodyTrip cookies. Cookies placed by third parties can be accessed by these third parties.
How can you manage your cookie preferences?
Using your browser settings in, for example, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or Chrome, you can set which cookies to accept and which to reject. Where you find these settings depends on which browser you use. Use the “Help” function in your browser to locate the settings you need.
If you choose not to accept certain cookies, you may not be able to use some functions on our website. Plus, opting out of an online advertising network doesn’t mean that you won’t receive or be subject to online advertising or marketing analysis. It means that the network you opted out of will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and browsing patterns.
Does MelodyTrip use web beacons?
In addition to using cookies, MelodyTrip sometimes uses web beacons. A web beacon is a tiny graphic image of just one pixel that’s delivered to your computer either as part of a web page request or in an HTML email message. Either directly or through service providers, we use these pixels as part of our online advertisements either on our website or on third-party websites to learn whether a user who is being shown an online advertisement also makes a reservation; to track conversion with partner websites and to analyze a user’s traffic patterns in order to optimize the travel-related services we bring to you.
Security
What security procedures does MelodyTrip put in place to safeguard your personal data?
In accordance with European data protection laws, we observe reasonable procedures to prevent unauthorized access and the misuse of personal information.
We use appropriate business systems and procedures to protect and safeguard the personal information you give us. We also use security procedures and technical and physical restrictions for accessing and using the personal information on our servers. Only authorized personnel are permitted to access personal information in the course of their work.
Your credit card details – when they are needed as part of the reservation process – are stored for a maximum of 10 days. After that, your credit card data will be either permanently deleted from our systems or will remain hashed in our system for fraud detection purposes. This is unless you have chosen to store your credit card details in your personal account.
Children
The services offered by MelodyTrip are not directed at children under 18 years old. The use of any of our services is only allowed with the valid consent of a parent or a guardian. If we receive information from a child under 18 years old, we reserve the right to delete it.
Contact
How can you control the personal data you have given to MelodyTrip?
You always have the right to review the personal information we keep about you. You can request an overview of your personal data by emailing us at help@melodytrip.com. Please write “Request personal information” in the subject line of your email and include a copy of your identity card to help us prevent unauthorized individuals from accessing your personal data.
If the personal information we have for you is incorrect, we will update it at your request. You can also ask us to remove your personal data from our customer database by sending an email help@melodytrip.com with “Request for removal of personal information” in the subject line. However, we may need to retain certain information, for example, for legal or administrative purposes, such as record keeping or to detect fraudulent activities. You can delete your user account at any time by signing into your account on the MelodyTrip website and choosing to remove your account.
Who is responsible for the processing of personal data on the MelodyTrip website and apps?
MelodyTrip controls the processing of personal data on its websites and mobile apps. If you have any suggestions or comments about this privacy notice, please send an email to help@melodytrip.com.
Last updated, March 2021
can contact us if you have questions about your personal information.
MelodyTrip provides online travel services through its own websites and mobile apps and through other online platforms such as partners’ websites and social media. The information that follows applies to all of these platforms.
Privacy
What kind of personal information does MelodyTrip use?
When you make a reservation, you’ll be asked for your name, address, telephone number, email address, payment details, the names of guests traveling with you and your preferences for your stay.
To make it easier to manage your reservations, you can open a user account. This allows you to save your personal settings, review previous bookings and manage future reservations.
When you visit our website, even if you don’t make a reservation, we may collect certain information, like your IP address, or browser, and information about your computer’s operating system, application version, language settings and pages that have been shown to you. If you’re using a mobile device, we might also collect data that identifies your mobile device, device-specific settings and characteristics and latitude/longitude details.
We may also receive information about you when you use certain social media services.
Why does MelodyTrip collect, use and share your personal data?
Reservations: First and foremost, we use your personal data to complete and administer your online reservation and forward your reservation details to the accommodation you have booked.
Customer service: We provide international customer service 24/7 from our local offices in more than 8 languages. Sharing your details with our global customer service allows for a quick response when you need us – including helping you find an appropriate services and any questions you might have about your reservation.
Guest reviews: We may use your contact information to invite you to write a guest review after your stay. This can help other MelodyTrip choose a place to stay that suits them best.
Account administration: We offer a user account facility on our website. We use the information you give us to administer this, allowing you to manage your bookings, take advantage of special offers, make future reservations more easily and manage your personal settings. Managing personal settings allows you to keep and share lists, share photos, see properties that you’ve searched for before, and see other information you’ve provided about accommodations and destinations. It also allows you to see any reviews you submitted about places you stayed in. If you want, you can share certain information in your user account by creating a public profile that’s associated with either your own first name or a screen name of your choice. The type of information you can share on this platform includes your photo, the names of places you’ve stayed in, your lists, your plans for future trips, your reviews and other information about services and destinations.
Marketing activities: We also use your information for marketing activities, as permitted by law. For example:
When you make a reservation with us or set up a user account, we may use your contact information to send you news about similar travel-related products and services. We also send our customers regular newsletters by email. You can opt out, or unsubscribe, from marketing communication at any time.
Based on the information you share with us, individualized offers may be shown to you on the MelodyTrip website, in mobile apps or on third-party websites, including social media sites.
When we believe that a particular offer may be of interest to you, we may decide to make contact with you by phone.
Other communications: There may be other times when we get in touch by email, by post, by phone or by texting you, depending on the contact information you share with us. There could be a number of reasons for this:
We may need to respond to and handle requests you have made.
If you haven’t finalized a reservation online, we may email you a reminder to continue with your reservation. We believe that this additional service is useful to you because it allows you to carry on with a reservation without having to search for the service items again or fill in all the reservation details from scratch.
When you use our services, we may send you a questionnaire or invite you to provide a review about your experience with MelodyTrip.
We may also send you other material related to your reservation, such as how to contact MelodyTrip if you need assistance while you’re away, or a summary of previous reservations you made using MelodyTrip.
Market research: We sometimes ask our customers to take part in market research. Any additional personal details that you give us as part of the market research will only be used with your consent.
Fraud detection and prevention: We may use personal data for the detection and prevention of fraud and other illegal or unwanted activities.
Improving our services: Finally, we use personal information for analytical purposes, to improve our services, enhance the user experience, and improve the functionality and quality of our online travel services.
How does MelodyTrip use social media?
We use social media to promote our services partners’ properties and to promote, improve and facilitate our own services website. For example, we integrated social media plugins into the MelodyTrip website. So when you click on one of the buttons and register with your social media account, information is shared with your social media provider, and possibly presented on your social media profile to be shared with others in your network.
In addition to implementing these buttons, MelodyTrip uses social media by maintaining accounts on several social media sites and by offering social apps. These social media services may allow you to share information with MelodyTrip. When you register with a social media app, you’ll be told which information will be shared with MelodyTrip. The information you choose to share with us may include the basic information that’s already available in your social media profile, email address, status updates and your friends list. This information is necessary to create a unique user experience either in the app itself or on our website. It facilitates things like personalizing our website to suit your needs, connecting you with your friends on travel destinations and analyzing and enhancing our travel-related services.
We may also enable you to sign in to MelodyTrip services with your social media accounts. Your social media provider will be able to tell you more about how they use and process your data in such cases.
How does MelodyTrip share your data with third parties?
In certain circumstances, we may share your personal data with third parties.
The accommodation you booked: In order to complete your reservation, we need to transfer relevant reservation details to the services (hotels/rentals/cars/cruises/tours/activities) you booked with. This may include information like your name, contact and payment details, the names of guests traveling with you and any preferences you specified when making a booking.
Your local MelodyTrip office: In order to support you during the reservation process and throughout your stay, your details may be shared with subsidiaries of the MelodyTrip corporate family. To find out more about the MelodyTrip corporate family, visit About MelodyTrip. Your information might also be shared with other members of the MelodyTrip group (for example: Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com and Kayak.com) for analysis to provide you with travel-related offers that may be of interest to you and to offer you customized service.
Third-party service providers: We may use third-party service providers to process your personal information on our behalf for the purposes specified above. For example, we may use service providers to send the reservation information on our behalf to the service item you just booked, or we may instruct third parties to contact you. When a reservation requires it, we may also work with third-party payment service providers to facilitate payment or payment guarantees. We also work with third-party advertisement networks to market our accommodation and services on other platforms, or involve third-party providers for analytical purposes. These third parties involved in any of these services will be bound by confidentiality agreements and will not be allowed to use your personal information for any purposes other than those specified above.
Competent authorities: We work with partner websites around the world to distribute the service items listed on our website and mobile apps (Hotels). When you make a reservation on one of these business partners’ websites, certain personal information that you give them may be shared with us. Similarly, we may share information with this business partner, for example, as part of the administration of your account, in order to manage your reservation, so that they can address queries related to your reservation and for marketing purposes. In this context, your information is governed by the privacy policies of these business partners.
Business partners: We work with business partners around the world to distribute or advertise services and to help our business partners distribute and advertise their travel-related services. This may mean that their services are integrated into our website or they have been enabled to show a customized advertisement on our website – or we are advertising on theirs. When you make a reservation on one of our business partners’ websites, certain personal data that you give them will be forwarded to us. Certain business partners may receive your personal data from us if requested by you. When you make a reservation on a business partners’ website, please read the privacy policies on these business partners’ websites for more information.
How does MelodyTrip use mobile devices?
We have free apps for a variety of mobile devices and use versions of our regular website that have been optimized for mobile. These apps and mobile websites process your personal details in a similar way as our website does – and they also allow you to use location services to find services nearby.
How does MelodyTrip use guest reviews and other destination-related information you share with us?
After your use any service booked through us, you’ll be invited to submit a guest review, which may ask for information about the service item, the surrounding areas, and the destination. If you don’t want your name to show with your review, you can use your screen name (which you can choose in your user account) or it can be displayed anonymously. By completing a guest review, you’re agreeing that it can be displayed (as further described in our Terms and Conditions) on, for example, the relevant service information page on our websites, in our mobile apps, in our social media accounts and in social apps, or on the website of the relevant property or on our business partner’s website, to inform other travellers about the quality of the service item you used.
If you indicate that a guest review was helpful – or not helpful – we will aggregate this with feedback from other customers in order to sort and prioritize guest reviews. We may use the information in your lists or in other destination-related information you share with us in an anonymous format to help other travellers find the right destination.
Cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is placed in the browser of your computer or on your mobile device. This Privacy and Cookies Policy applies to cookies and similar technologies (hereafter together referred to as “cookies”).
Why are cookies used?
Web pages have no memory. If you are surfing from page to page within a website, you will not be recognized as the same user across pages. Cookies enable your browser to be recognized by the website. So cookies are mainly used to remember the choices you have made – choices such as the language you prefer and the currency you use. They will also make sure you are recognized when you return to a website.
Do all cookies do the same thing?
No, there are different types of cookies and different ways of using them. Cookies can be categorized according to their function, their lifespan and according to who places them on a website.
How are cookies used?
Our website uses the following types of cookies:
Technical cookies: We try to provide our visitors with an advanced and user-friendly website that adapts automatically to their needs and wishes. To achieve this, we use technical cookies to show you our website, to make it function correctly, to create your user account, to sign you in and to manage your bookings. These technical cookies are absolutely necessary for our website to function properly.
Functional cookies: We also use functional cookies to remember your preferences and to help you use our website efficiently and effectively. For example, we remember your preferred currency and language, your searches and the property you viewed earlier. These functional cookies are not strictly necessary for the functioning of our website, but they add functionality for you and enhance your experience.
Analytics cookies: We use these cookies to gain insight on how our visitors use the website, to find out what works and what doesn’t, to optimize and improve our website and to ensure we continue to be interesting and relevant. The data we gather includes which web pages you viewed, which referring/exit pages you entered and left from, which platform type you used, date and time stamp information and details such as the number of clicks you make on a given page, your mouse movements and scrolling activity, the search words you use and the text you type while using our website. We also use analytics cookies as part of our online advertising campaigns to learn how users interact with our website after they’ve been shown an online advertisement, which may include advertisements on third-party websites. We will not know who you are, and we only obtain anonymous data.
Commercial cookies: We use these to show you MelodyTrip advertisements on other websites. This is called “retargeting” and it aims to be based on your browsing activities on our website, such as the destinations you’ve been searching for, the properties you’ve viewed and the prices you’ve been shown.
How long do MelodyTrip cookies stay active?
The cookies we use have varying lifespans. The maximum lifespan we set on some is five years from your last visit to our website. You can erase all cookies from your browser any time you want. To remove MelodyTrip cookies from your browser, go to the following link (please note that when you click on this link, all MelodyTrip cookies will be removed immediately): Purge Cookies.
How can you recognize MelodyTrip cookies?
You can find our cookies in your browser settings.
Does MelodyTrip use third-party marketing and analytics cookies?
YesMelodyTrip uses the services of trusted and recognized online advertising and marketing companies. MelodyTrip may also use third-party providers for analytical purposes. To enable their services, these companies need to place cookies.
The providers we use are committed to building consumer awareness and establishing responsible business and data management practices and standards.
When it comes to online advertising and marketing companies, we strive to only work with companies that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and/or the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Members of NAI and IAB adhere to industry standards and codes of conduct. NAI and IAB members allow you to opt out of the behavioral advertising. Visit www.networkadvertising.org and www.youronlinechoices.com to identify the NAI members that may have placed an advertising cookie file on your computer. To opt out of an NAI or IAB member’s behavioral advertising program, simply check the box that corresponds to the company from which you wish to opt out.
In order to control the collection of data for analytical purposes by Google Analytics, you may want to visit the following link: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Who has access to MelodyTrip cookie data?
Only MelodyTrip has access to MelodyTrip cookies. Cookies placed by third parties can be accessed by these third parties.
How can you manage your cookie preferences?
Using your browser settings in, for example, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or Chrome, you can set which cookies to accept and which to reject. Where you find these settings depends on which browser you use. Use the “Help” function in your browser to locate the settings you need.
If you choose not to accept certain cookies, you may not be able to use some functions on our website. Plus, opting out of an online advertising network doesn’t mean that you won’t receive or be subject to online advertising or marketing analysis. It means that the network you opted out of will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and browsing patterns.
Does MelodyTrip use web beacons?
In addition to using cookies, MelodyTrip sometimes uses web beacons. A web beacon is a tiny graphic image of just one pixel that’s delivered to your computer either as part of a web page request or in an HTML email message. Either directly or through service providers, we use these pixels as part of our online advertisements either on our website or on third-party websites to learn whether a user who is being shown an online advertisement also makes a reservation; to track conversion with partner websites and to analyze a user’s traffic patterns in order to optimize the travel-related services we bring to you.
Security
What security procedures does MelodyTrip put in place to safeguard your personal data?
In accordance with European data protection laws, we observe reasonable procedures to prevent unauthorized access and the misuse of personal information.
We use appropriate business systems and procedures to protect and safeguard the personal information you give us. We also use security procedures and technical and physical restrictions for accessing and using the personal information on our servers. Only authorized personnel are permitted to access personal information in the course of their work.
Your credit card details – when they are needed as part of the reservation process – are stored for a maximum of 10 days. After that, your credit card data will be either permanently deleted from our systems or will remain hashed in our system for fraud detection purposes. This is unless you have chosen to store your credit card details in your personal account.
Children
The services offered by MelodyTrip are not directed at children under 18 years old. The use of any of our services is only allowed with the valid consent of a parent or a guardian. If we receive information from a child under 18 years old, we reserve the right to delete it.
Contact
How can you control the personal data you have given to MelodyTrip?
You always have the right to review the personal information we keep about you. You can request an overview of your personal data by emailing us at help@melodytrip.com. Please write “Request personal information” in the subject line of your email and include a copy of your identity card to help us prevent unauthorized individuals from accessing your personal data.
If the personal information we have for you is incorrect, we will update it at your request. You can also ask us to remove your personal data from our customer database by sending an email help@melodytrip.com with “Request for removal of personal information” in the subject line. However, we may need to retain certain information, for example, for legal or administrative purposes, such as record keeping or to detect fraudulent activities. You can delete your user account at any time by signing into your account on the MelodyTrip website and choosing to remove your account.
Who is responsible for the processing of personal data on the MelodyTrip website and apps?
MelodyTrip controls the processing of personal data on its websites and mobile apps. If you have any suggestions or comments about this privacy notice, please send an email to help@melodytrip.com.
Last updated, March 2021
Our Website assists you in gathering travel information and determining the availability of travel products and services. It also allows you to book hotels (“Travel Products”) provided by third party suppliers (“Suppliers”). We also provide customer support services for bookings made on our Website. These terms apply to these booking services.
When you book a Travel Product, your booking is also subject to the relevant Supplier’s terms and conditions (for e.g., the airline’s or the hotel’s terms and conditions). It is important that you read these, as they form a separate legal agreement between you and the relevant Supplier. There is more information on this in each of the Travel Product sections below. If there are any inconsistencies between the Supplier’s term and conditions and these terms, these terms apply.
Different terms and conditions (such as cancellation and change rights) apply to different Travel Products, these will be made available to you during your booking process and form part of these terms. You should read them carefully before booking.
These terms also tell you the rules for using our Website, including the content standards that apply when you upload content to our Website, link to our Website or interact with our Website in any other way.
By using our Website and/or completing a booking with us, you confirm that you accept these terms and any relevant Supplier’s terms and conditions, and that you agree to comply with them. We recommend that you read these terms carefully (in particular section 10 on liability) and print a copy for future reference. If there is anything within these terms that you do not understand, please contact us using the details in section 1. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Website or complete a booking with us.
You warrant that you have capacity to enter into a legally binding contract (including being at least the required age to have capacity in your country) and that you will only use our Website to make legitimate reservations.
If you are booking Travel Products for a number of individuals, the first name you provide will be responsible for (i) providing accurate information on the other individuals, (ii) accepting these terms on their behalf and ensuring that they comply with them, (iii) checking the details in the booking confirmation and contacting us immediately if any of the details are incorrect, and (iv) paying the full price of the booking and any additional charges in relation to the booking.
We may amend these terms from time to time. We will note the date that amendments were last made at the top of these terms, and any amendments will take effect upon posting. Every time you wish to use our Website and/or completing a booking with us, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
References to this Website are deemed to include derivatives, including but not limited to linked websites and applications, whether accessed by mobile phone, tablet or other device.
3) RULES WHEN USING OUR WEBSITE
WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO OUR WEBSITE
We may update and change our Website from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users’ needs and our business priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.
WE MAY SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW OUR WEBSITE
Our Website is made available free of charge.
We may suspend, withdraw, or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
The provision of our Website is reliant on the internet and devices. You fully understand and agree that we will not be liable for any losses suffered by you as a result of our Website not being available due to events, circumstances or causes beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to internet, system or device instability, computer viruses and hacker attacks.
You are responsible for providing the necessary equipment (including but not limited to an appropriate device and internet connection) and ensuring that all persons who access our Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS
You warrant that all account information supplied by you is true, accurate, current and complete.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. You fully understand and agree that we will not be liable for any losses suffered by you as a result of you failing to treat such information as confidential.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of these terms.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us using the contact details in section 1 of these terms. In this situation, if you have saved your payment details to your account, you will also contact your payment account provider in order to reduce any losses that may occur.
HOW YOU MAY USE MATERIAL ON OUR WEBSITE
We are the owner or the licensee of all patents, copyright, trade marks, business names and domain names, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights and all other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered, in our Website. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off copies, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others to content posted on our Website.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Website must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the content on our Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our Website in breach of these terms, your right to use our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO
Where our Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
USER-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED BY US
This Website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the Website, including discussion forums, bulletin boards and review services. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our Website do not represent our views or values. We expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive area by a user in contravention of our content standards below.
If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us using the details in section 1 of these terms.
PROHIBITED USES
You may only use our Website for lawful purposes. You may not use our Website:
You also agree:
Ø any part of our Website;
Ø any equipment or network on which our Website is stored;
Ø any software used in the provision of our Website; or
Ø any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
CONTENT STANDARDS
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our Website (“Contribution”).
The content standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.
We will determine, at our discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the content standards.
A Contribution must:
A Contribution must not:
We have no obligation to post your Contributions, and we reserve the right in our absolute discretion to determine which Contributions are published on our Website.
RIGHTS YOU ARE GIVING US TO USE MATERIAL YOU UPLOAD
When you upload or post content to our Website, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of and display such content in connection with the services provided by the Website and across different media, including the use of such content to promote the Website and/or the services. You also grant us the right to take legal action against any infringement of your or our rights in the content. To the extent possible, you expressly waive any and all “moral rights” (including rights of attribution or integrity) that may subsist in your content and agree that you have no objection to the publication, use, modification, deletion or exploitation of your content by us.
If you believe that any of the content of our Website breaches your intellectual property rights, please contact us using the details in section 1 of these terms.
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES AND YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE THEM
We do not guarantee that our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Website. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our 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 our Website, the server on which our Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
RULES ABOUT LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link to our Website in any website that is not owned by you.
Our Website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Website other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
4) GENERAL BOOKING TERMS (APPLY TO ALL TRAVEL PRODUCTS)
DETAILS AND PRICE
You confirm that all details provided by you when making your booking (such as name, ID details, contact details, payment details and dates) are accurate and complete. If you notify us of any incorrect details provided by you by mistake, we will help you try and change the details on the booking however we cannot guarantee that the Supplier will permit this, in particular where a change could amount to a change in identity.
We advertise a large number of Travel Products and we try hard to ensure that the advertised price is always accurate, but sometimes errors do occur. If the error should reasonably have been apparent to you, we reserve the right to cancel the booking or (if agreed by you) change the price. If this happens, we will contact you.
BOOKING PROCESS
When your booking is complete, you will receive a confirmation email from us. You agree to check the details in the booking confirmation and to contact us immediately if any of the details are incorrect. More information on flight and hotel booking confirmations is in the relevant sections below.
We will assign a Melodytrip.com booking number to your booking. It will help us if you can tell us the Melodytrip.com booking whenever you contact us about your booking.
When using our booking services you shall not:
PAYMENT AND CURRENCY
When you book a Travel Product, the terms of payment will be made clear to you during the booking process. Some bookings require you to prepay online, some require you to pay at the time of using the Travel Product (for e.g., when you check-in at a hotel). If any sum is not paid in full in accordance with the terms of your booking, we may cancel your booking immediately.
Exchange rates are calculated in real time. When you prepay online, you will pay the exact amount shown on the payment page. However, if you are paying in a different currency, the provider of the account you pay with may use an alternative currency rate which you are responsible for confirming. Your account provider may also charge you a fee for international payments. You acknowledge that when you pay at the time of using the Travel Product (for e.g., when you check-in at a hotel) the exchange rate may have changed between the time of booking and the time of payment.
If you encounter a problem when you submit your payment, please do not submit the payment again. You can confirm whether your booking was successfully made by contacting us using the details in section 1 of these terms.
Any refunds will be paid back to the original payment method, unless we agree otherwise. The date that any refund will be paid into your account is subject to the provider of your account.
We take the security of your personal and payment information seriously and have robust measures in place to ensure that your details are kept safe.
TRAVEL PREPARATIONS
It is your responsibility to ensure that you have appropriate insurance and the required travel documents for your trip. This includes (but is not limited to) your passport/national ID card, visas, and medical documents (such as proof of vaccinations).
By offering Travel Products to or in a particular destination, we are not advising or confirming that you can travel to and/or around that destination without risk. You are responsible for checking for any travel warnings or restrictions in the destination you are travelling to and/or around, both before you book and before you travel.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you obtain any vaccinations required for your trip, and to follow any medical advice you have received.
5) HOTEL TERMS
HOTEL’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS
As highlighted under “About these terms”, your booking is also subject to the relevant Supplier’s (in this case the hotel you are staying in) terms. These can generally be found on the hotel’s own website. If there are any inconsistencies between these terms and the hotel’s terms and conditions, for e.g. where you have selected a cheaper room that cannot be changed or refunded, these terms will apply. If you have any questions on the terms and conditions that apply to your hotel booking, you can contact us directly (using the details in section 1 of these terms) as part of our customer support services.
BOOKING PROCESS
Your booking confirmation will be issued immediately after completing the booking process. As soon as the booking process has been completed, we will email you to notify you of this and from this point onwards, your room is guaranteed.
CHANGING, CANCELLING OR UPGRADING YOUR BOOKING
We will have provided you with information on your rights to change or cancel your hotel booking (and any associated fees) during your booking process; you may have selected a cheaper room that cannot be changed or refunded. This information forms part of these terms and should be read carefully before finalizing your booking. If you are unsure whether your hotel booking permits changes and/or refunds for cancellation, please contact us using the details in section 1 of these terms.
When your hotel booking permits changes, the hotel and/or rooms that you can change to may be limited by the hotel or the third party hotel inventory supplier, and so all of the options on our Website and/or alternative rooms at that hotel may not be available to you. We will provide you with information on the available options when we receive your request to change your hotel booking.
If your booking is changed or cancelled by the relevant hotel, generally that hotel’s terms and conditions will apply. Please contact us directly (using the details in section 1 of these terms) and we will help as part of our customer support services.
HOTEL RATINGS
Our guest ratings are based on verified reviews from users. Our star ratings are based on a combination of information, such as ratings provided directly by the hotels (including, where applicable, their star rating based on the standards in the country they are based), amenities, photos, guest reviews and price. This is to give you the best indication of the standard of the hotel. However, you acknowledge and agree that the star rating is an indication only, standards vary between countries and you are responsible for reviewing all of the information provided on the hotel on our Website, to ensure that you are happy with the standard of the hotel before booking.
6) HOW WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy and Cookie Statement (https://pages.melodytrip.com/service-guideline/privacy-policy-en-gb.html)
7) LIABILITY
OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU
MUCH OF THE INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY THE RELEVANT SUPPLIERS AND/OR USERS OF OUR WEBSITE WHO HAVE PROVIDED REVIEWS OF THE TRAVEL PRODUCTS . WE WILL ENDEAVOUR TO ENSURE THAT THE INFORMATION IS ACCURATE AND COMPLETE, HOWEVER TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE INCURRED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF THE INACCURACY OR INCOMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION.
NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS ARE GIVEN BY US IN RESPECT OF ANY INFORMATION WHICH IS PROVIDED TO YOU ON OUR WEBSITE AND ANY SUCH REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS ARE EXCLUDED, SAVE TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH EXCLUSION IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE INCURRED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF:
Ø NOT BEING ABLE TO CONTACT YOU WITH IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR BOOKING, WHERE YOU HAVE PROVIDED INCORRECT CONTACT DETAILS.
Ø YOU BEING UNABLE TO USE A TRAVEL PRODUCT (FOR E.G., BOARD A PLANE OR TRAIN, CHECK-IN TO A HOTEL, HIRE A CAR, USE AN AIRPORT TRANSFER SERVICE OR USE AN ATTRACTION TICKET) DUE TO THE ID DETAILS (INCLUDING NATIONALITY) PROVIDED BY YOU DURING YOUR BOOKING NOT MATCHING THOSE ON YOUR ID.
Ø YOUR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE RELEVANT SUPPLIER’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Ø YOUR FAILURE TO ARRIVE ON TIME OR ALLOW SUFFICIENT TIME FOR CHECK-IN, BOARDING OR (WHERE RELVANT) PASSPORT CONTROL AND SECURITY CHECKS.
Ø YOUR BEHAVIOUR BEING DEEMED AS UNACCEPTABLE BY THE RELEVANT SUPPLIER.
Ø ACTS OF GOD, FLOOD, DROUGHT, EARTHQUAKE OR OTHER NATURAL DISASTER;
Ø EPIDEMIC OR PANDEMIC;
Ø TERRORIST ATTACK, WAR, COMMOTION OR RIOTS, THREAT OF OR PREPARATION FOR WAR, ARMED CONFLICT, IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS, EMBARGO, OR BREAKING OFF OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS;
Ø NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION OR SONIC BOOM;
Ø ANY LAW OR ANY ACTION TAKEN BY A GOVERNMENT OR PUBLIC AUTHORITY; AND
Ø INTERNET, SYSTEM OR DEVICE INSTABILITY, COMPUTER VIRUSES AND HACKER ATTACKS.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ONLY PROVIDE OUR WEBSITE FOR DOMESTIC AND PRIVATE USE. 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.
BREACH OF THESE TERMS BY YOU
You are responsible for any losses suffered by us as a result of any use by you of our Website and/or booking services which is not in accordance with these terms.
Failure to comply with these terms may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
8) COMPLAINTS
If you have any questions or complaints about our Website or booking services, please contact us using the details in section 1 of these terms.
9) WHICH COUNTRY’S LAWS APPLY TO ANY DISPUTES?
These terms and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of them, their subject matter or formation shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of Singapore, although this shall not deprive you of any mandatory consumer rights of the law of the country in which you are resident in.
You and we both agree that the courts of Singapore will have jurisdiction over any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with these terms or their subject matter or formation, although this shall not deprive you of any mandatory right to choose instead to resolve any such dispute or claim in the courts of the country in which you are resident.
10) LANGUAGE
Where the original English version of these terms has been translated into other languages, the English version shall prevail in the event of any inconsistences between the versions.
11) GENERAL
These terms are between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of these terms.
If any court or relevant authority finds that part of these terms are illegal, the rest will continue in full force and effect.
Even if we delay enforcing these terms, we may still take steps against you at a later date.
