Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Introduction

• • BookGreyhoundBus recognizes the importance of privacy of its users and also of maintaining confidentiality of the information provided by its users as a responsible data controller and data processor.
  • This Privacy Policy provides for the practices for handling and securing user’s Personal Information (defined hereunder) by  BookGreyhoundBus and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • This Privacy Policy is applicable to any person (“User”) who purchase, intend to purchase, or inquire about any product(s) or service(s) made available by  BookGreyhoundBus  through any of BookGreyhoundBus customer interface channels including its website, mobile site, mobile app & offline channels including customer service centers and offices (collectively referred herein as “Sales Channels“).
  • For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, wherever the context so requires “you” or “your” shall mean User and the term “we”, “us”, “our” shall mean BookGreyhoundBus . For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, Website means the website(s), mobile site(s) and mobile app(s).
  • By using or accessing the Website or other Sales Channels, the User hereby agrees with the terms of this Privacy Policy and the contents herein. If you disagree with this Privacy Policy please do not use or access our Website or other Sales Channels.
  • This Privacy Policy does not apply to any website(s), mobile sites and mobile apps of any third parties, even if their websites/products are linked to our Website. User should take note that information and privacy practices of BookGreyhoundBus business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which  BookGreyhoundBus provides hyperlink(s), may be materially different from this Privacy Policy. Accordingly, it is recommended that you review the privacy statements and policies of any such third parties with whom they interact.
  • This Privacy Policy is an integral part of your agreement to the Terms & Conditions with  BookGreyhoundBus and all capitalized terms used, but not otherwise defined herein, shall have the respective meanings as ascribed to them in the Terms & Conditions.

  Processing of Personal Information

  • Please note that the data shared with  BookGreyhoundBus shall be primarily processed in united states and such other jurisdictions where a third party engaged by  BookGreyhoundBus  may process the data on  BookGreyhoundBus  behalf. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are providing  BookGreyhoundBus  with your explicit consent to process your  information for the purpose(s) defined in this policy. 
  • If you have any concerns in the processing your data and wish to withdraw your consent, you may do so by writing to the following email id: legal@bookgreyhoundbus.com However, if such processing of data is essential for us to be able to provide service to you, then we may not be able to serve or confirm your bookings after your withdrawal of consent as such withdrawal may severely inhibit our ability to serve you properly and in such case, we may have to refuse the booking, or unreasonably restrict us to service your booking (if a booking is already made) which may further affect your journey or may lead to cancellation your booking.

  Information and its Legal Basis

  • The information as detailed below is collected by us to be able to provide the services and also to fulfill our legal obligations as well as our obligations towards third parties as per our Terms & Conditions.
  • “Personal Information” of User shall include the information shared by the User and collected by us for the following purposes:
  • Registration on the Website: Information which you provide while subscribing to or registering on the Website, including but not limited to information about your personal identity such as name, gender, marital status, religion, age etc., your contact details such as your email address, postal addresses, frequent flyer number, telephone (mobile or otherwise) and/or fax numbers. The information may also include information such as your banking details (including credit/debit card) and any other information relating to you; billing information payment history etc. (as shared by you).
  • Other information: We may also collect some other information and documents including but not limited to:
    • Transactional history (other than banking details) about your e-commerce activities.
    • Your usernames, passwords, email addresses and other security-related information used by you in relation to our services.
    • Data either created by you or by a third party and which you wish to store on our servers such as image files, documents etc.
    • Data available in public domain or received from any third party including social media channels, including but not limited to personal or non-personal information from your linked social media channels (like name, email address, friend list, profile pictures or any other information that is permitted to be received as per your account settings) as a part of your account information.
    • Information pertaining any other traveler(s) for who you make a booking through your registered  BookGreyhoundBus  account. In such case, you must confirm and represent that each of the other traveler(s) for whom a booking has been made, has agreed to have the information shared by you disclosed to us and further be shared by us with the concerned service provider(s).

  End Use of your Personal Information

  • The Personal Information collected may be used in the following manner:
  • While making a booking, we may use Personal Information including, payment details which include cardholder name, credit/debit card number (in encrypted form) with expiration date, banking details, wallet details etc. as shared and allowed to be stored by you. We may also use the information of travelers list as available in or linked with your account. This information is presented to you at the time of making a booking to enable you to complete your bookings expeditiously.
  • We may also use your Personal Information for several reasons including but not limited to:
    • confirm your reservations with respective service providers;
    • keep you informed of the transaction status;
    • send booking confirmations either via SMS or Whatsapp or any other messaging service;
    • send any updates or changes to your booking(s);
    • allow our customer service to contact you, if necessary;
    • customize the content of our website, mobile site and mobile app;
    • request for reviews of products or services or any other improvements;
    • send verification message(s) or email(s);
    • validate/authenticate your account and to prevent any misuse or abuse;
    • contact you on your birthday/anniversary to offer a special gift or offer.
  • Marketing Promotions Programs
  • Marketing promotions programs help us to identify your preferences, develop programs and improve user experience. Personal Information collected by us for such activities may include contact information and survey questions. As a registered User, you will also occasionally receive updates from us about fare sales in your area, special offers, new  BookGreyhoundBus  services, other noteworthy items (like savings and benefits on hotel reservations or any other applicable travel services ) and marketing programs.
  • In addition, you may look forward to receiving periodic marketing emails, newsletters and exclusive promotions offering special deals.
  • From time to time we may add or enhance services available on the Website. To the extent these services are provided, and used by you, we will use the Personal Information you provide to facilitate the service(s) requested. For example, if you email us with a question, we will use your email address, name, nature of the question, etc. to respond to your question. We may also store such Personal Information to assist us in making the Website the better and easier to use for our Users.
  • You may however choose to opt out of such reward programs by writing to us. For various purposes such as fraud detection, offering bookings on credit etc., we at times may verify information of customers on selective basis, including their credit information. 
  • Additionally,  BookGreyhoundBus may share your Personal Information, anonymized and/ or aggregated data to a third party that  BookGreyhoundBus may engage to perform certain tasks on its behalf, including but not limited to payment processing, data hosting, data processing and assessing credit worthiness for offering bookings on credit.

  Use of Cookies

  • BookGreyhoundBus uses cookies to personalize your experience on the Website (not including mobile app(s) in this section) and the advertisements that maybe displayed. BookGreyhoundBus use of cookies is similar to that of any other reputable online companies
  • Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your device’s hard drive. Cookies allow us to serve you better and more efficiently. Cookies also allow ease of access, by logging you in without having to type your login name each time (only your password is needed); we may also use such cookies to display any advertisement(s) or promotion to you while you are on the Website or to send you offers (or similar emails – provided you have not opted out of receiving such email focusing on destinations which may be of your interest.
  • A cookie may also be placed by our advertising servers, or any third-party advertising companies. Such cookies are used for purposes of tracking the effectiveness of advertising served by us on any website, and are used to collect aggregated statistics about your visits to the Website in order to provide advertisements in the Website or any other website about services that may be of potential interest to you. The third-party advertising companies or advertisement providers may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of the advertisements. All such information is anonymous. This anonymous information is collected through use of a pixel tag, which is an industry standard technology and is used by all major websites. They may use this anonymous information about your visits to the Website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. Except for anonymous information, no other information is collected during this process. The information so collected during this process, is anonymous, and does not link online actions to a User.
  • Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. Of course, by changing the options on your web browser or using certain software programs, you can control whether cookies will be accepted by your browser.  BookGreyhoundBus supports your right to block any unwanted Internet activity, especially that of unscrupulous website. However, blocking  BookGreyhoundBus cookies may disable certain features on the Website, and may hinder an otherwise seamless experience to purchase or use certain service available on the Website. Please note that it is possible to block cookie activity from certain websites while permitting cookies from websites you trust.

  Retention of your Personal Information

  • BookGreyhoundBus will retain your Personal Information on its servers for as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes defined in this Private Policy. In certain circumstances we may retain your Personal Information for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with any legal, regulatory, tax or accounting requirements.
  • Where your personal data is no longer required we will ensure it is either securely deleted or stored in a way which means it will no longer be used by the business.

  Sharing of your Personal Information

  • Your information shall be shared with the end service providers like hotels or any other suppliers who are responsible for fulfilling your booking. You may note that while making a booking with  BookGreyhoundBus you authorize us to share your information with the said service providers and suppliers. It is pertinent to note that  BookGreyhoundBus does not authorize the end service provider to use your information for any other purpose(s) except as may be required for fulfilling their part of service. However, how the said service providers/suppliers use the information shared with them is beyond the purview and control of  BookGreyhoundBus as they process Personal Information as independent data controllers, and hence we cannot be made accountable for the same. 
  • BookGreyhoundBus does not sell or rent individual customer names or other Personal Information of Users to any third parties except sharing of such information with our business/alliance partners or vendors who are engaged by us for providing various services and for sharing referral, promotional and other benefits to our customers from time to time basis their booking history with us.

  Group Companies

  • In the interests of improving personalization and service efficiency, we may, under controlled and secure circumstances, share your Personal Information with our affiliate or associate entities. This will enable us to provide you with information about various products and services, both leisure- and travel-related, which might interest you; or help us address your questions and requests in relation to your bookings.
  • If the assets of  BookGreyhoundBus are acquired, our customer information may also be transferred to the acquirer depending upon the nature of such acquisition. In addition, as part of business expansion/development/restructuring or for any other reason whatsoever, if we decide to sell/transfer/assign our business, any part thereof, any of our subsidiaries or any business units, then as part of such restructuring exercise customer information including the Personal Information collected herein shall be transferred accordingly.

  Business Associates and Third Party Suppliers

  • We may also share certain filtered Personal Information to our corporate affiliates or business partners who may contact the customers to offer certain products or services, which may include free or paid products/services, which will enable the customer to have better travel experience or to avail certain benefits specially made for  BookGreyhoundBus  customers. Examples of such partners are entities offering co-branded credit cards, travel insurance, insurance cover against loss of wallet, banking cards or similar sensitive information etc. If you choose to avail any such services offered by our business partners, the services so availed will be governed by the privacy policy of the respective service provider.
  • BookGreyhoundBus may share your Personal Information to third party that  BookGreyhoundBus  may engage to perform certain tasks on its behalf, including but not limited to payment processing, data hosting, and data processing platforms.
  • Any Personal Information which we collect and which we may use in an aggregated format is our property. We may use it, in our sole discretion and without any compensation to you, for any legitimate purpose including without limitation the commercial sale thereof to third parties. The information we provide to such third parties, alliance partners, or vendors/suppliers are protected by confidentiality agreements and such information is to be used solely for completing the specific activity, and in compliance with the applicable regulations.

  Permitted Disclosure

  • In addition to the circumstances described above,  BookGreyhoundBus may disclose User’s Personal Information if required to do so:
    • by law, required by any enforcement authority for investigation, by court order or in reference to any legal process;
    • to conduct our business;
    • for regulatory, internal compliance and audit exercise(s)
    • to secure our systems; or
    • to enforce or protect our rights or properties of  BookGreyhoundBus or any or all of its affiliates, associates, employees, directors or officers or when we have valid reasons to believe that disclosing Personal Information of User(s) is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by any such activities.
  • Such disclosure and storage may take place without your knowledge. In that case, we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any damages howsoever arising from such disclosure and storage.

  Opt-Out the receipt of E-Mails

  • You will occasionally receive e-mail updates from us about fare sales in your area, special offers, new BookGreyhoundBus  services, and other notable items. We hope you will find these updates interesting and informative. If you wish not to receive them, please click on the “unsubscribe” link or follow the instructions in each e-mail message.

  Permission for Usage of Mobile Application

  • When the  BookGreyhoundBus  app is installed on your phone or tablet, a list of permissions appear and are needed for the app to function effectively. There is no option to customize the list. The permissions that  Travellocents LLC requires and the data that shall be accessed and its use is as below:
  • Android permissions:
  • Device & App History: We need your device permission to get information about your device, like device brand, OS (operating system) name, OS version, mobile network, hardware model, unique device identifier, preferred language, etc. Basis these inputs, we intend to optimize your travel booking experience, use OS specific capabilities to drive great in-funnel experiences using components of device’s OS, etc.
  • Identity: This permission enables us to know about details of your account(s) on your mobile device. We use this info to auto-fill your email ID’s and provide a typing free in-funnel experience. It helps us map email ID’s to a particular user to give you the benefit of exclusive travel offers, wallet cash-backs, etc. It also allows facilitating your Facebook and Google+ login.
  • Location: This permission enables us to give you the benefit of location specific deals and provide you a personalized in-funnel experience. When you launch BookGreyhoundBus app to make a travel booking, we auto-detect your location so that your nearest city is auto-filled. We also require this permission to recommend you nearest hotels in case you are running late and want to make a quick last minute booking for the nearest hotel. Your options are personalized basis your locations. For international travel, this enables us to determine your time zone and provide information accordingly.
  • SMS: If you allow us to access your SMS, we read your SMS to auto fill or prepopulate ‘OTP’ while making a transaction and to validate your mobile number. This provides you a seamless purchase experience while making a booking and you don’t need to move out of the app to read the SMS and then enter it in the app.
  • Phone: The app requires access to make phone calls so that you can make phone calls to hotels, our customer service centers directly through the app.
  • Contacts: If you allow us to access your contacts, it enables us to provide a lot of social features to you such as sharing your booking with your friends, inviting your friends to try our app, send across referral links to your friends, etc. We may also use this information to make recommendations for hotels where your friends have stayed. This information will be stored on our servers and synced from your phone.
  • Photo/Media/Files: The libraries in the app use these permissions to allow map data to be saved to your phone’s external storage, like SD cards. By saving map data locally, your phone doesn’t need to re-download the same map data every time you use the app. This provides you a seamless map based hotel selection experience, even on low bandwidth network.
  • Wi-Fi Connection Information: When you allow us the permission to detect your Wi-Fi connection, we optimize your experience such as more detailing on maps, better image loading, more hotel options to choose from, etc.
  • Device ID & Call Information: This permission is used to detect your Android ID through which we can uniquely identify users. It also lets us know your contact details using which we pre-populate specific fields to ensure a seamless booking experience.
  • IOS Permissions:
  • Notifications: If you opt in for notifications, it enables us to send across exclusive deals, promotional offers, travel related updates, etc. on your device. If you do not opt for this, updates for your travel like PNR status, booking confirmation, refund (in case of cancellation), etc. will be sent through SMS.
  • Contacts: If you opt in for contacts permission, it enables us to provide a lot of social features to you such as sharing your hotel with your friends, inviting your friends to try our app, send across referral links to your friends, etc. We will also use this information to make recommendations for hotels where your friends have stayed. This information will be stored on our servers and synced from your phone.
  • Location: This permission enables us to give you the benefit of location specific deals and provide you a personalized in-funnel experience. When you launch our app to make a travel booking, we auto-detect your location so that your nearest city is auto-filled. We require this permission to recommend your nearest hotels in case you are running late and want to make a quick last minute booking for the nearest hotel. Your options are personalized basis your locations. For international travel, this enables us to determine your time zone and provide information accordingly.

  Protection of your Personal Information

  • Website has stringent security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. All payments on the Website are secured. Whenever you change or access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. Once your information is in our possession we adhere to strict security guidelines, protecting it against unauthorized access.

  Accessibility rights of your Personal Information

  • You may access your Personal Information from your user account with BookGreyhoundBus .com. You may also correct your Personal Information or delete such information (except some mandatory fields) from your user account directly. If you don’t have such a user account, then you write to info@bookgreyhoundbus.com
  • We reserve the rights to revise the Privacy Policy from time to time to suit various legal, business and customer requirement. We will duly notify the users as it is necessary. You may submit your concerns in relation to this Privacy Policy via email to us at info@bookgreyhoundbus.com and  BookGreyhoundBus shall use all reasonable efforts to respond to your concerns and inquiries.