Terms and Conditions Albania Tour Guide
We are Albania Tour Guide, a company registered in Albania.
Our address is the Rruga Beslidhja 21, Lagjia nr. 3, Bathore, Kamez, Tirana 1030, Albania.
These terms and conditions are your contract with us for provision of any Holiday Services you book with us.
In this document, “you” and “your” include the lead-named person on the confirmation invoice (who must be at least 18 years old at the time of booking) and all persons on whose behalf you make a booking.
These are the agreed terms
1. Definitions
“Holiday” means any tour, transportation or activity constituted in the services we offer.
“Holiday Services” means our service in providing a Holiday.
“Regulations” means The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangement Regulations 2018.
“Online Travel Agency” means any online travel agency that sells our Holiday via their website
2. The contract between us
Albania Tour Guide Holiday Services vary. Whatever service you choose, the terms of this contract will apply unless we indicate otherwise.
The contract between us comes into existence when we send our confirmation invoice to you or an Online Travel Agency sends a confirmation invoice to you on our behalf. You will have undertaken to pay for your booking and we will have undertaken to provide you with the Holiday we describe on our website or on the Online Travel Agency’s website.
If we are unable to accept your booking, we will of course return your payment to you immediately.
When you make a booking with us, whether or not through our website, you have the benefit of our full compliance with the Regulations.
For you to make a booking, we require a completed booking form, as provided on our website or on the Online Travel Agency’s website. Our confirmation invoice will be sent to you by email by us or by the Online Travel Agency.
We may decline your booking for any reason and we do not have to give you the reason. If that happens we will return your money to you immediately and in any event within 14 days.
3. Your authority to book for others
If you make a booking on behalf of others as well as yourself, you guarantee that you have the authority of each of those other people to enter into the contract and that you and they have agreed to be jointly and severally liable to us. You now accept personal liability for the acceptance and compliance of each of those people, with these contract terms.
It is your responsibility to ensure that all of the details on your travel documents are correct and notify us of any discrepancy or misunderstanding immediately. We shall also look only to you for making payments as they become due, ensuring the accuracy of the personal details and other information supplied by other members of your party and for whatever liaison communication is necessary between you and each other party to keep them fully informed.
As lead member of your party, we will deal only with you in our correspondence.
4. What is included in the price of an Albania Tour Guide Holiday?
travel from the meeting point to your return to the departure point (which is likely to be the same place);
sightseeing in Albania, as described on the booking confirmation of the Holiday, that you have reserved;
accommodation, if a Holiday is more than 1 day (unless otherwise stated in the itinerary);
services of one or more Representatives.
5. What is NOT included?
flight to and from the holiday destination;
all other costs incurred before you board transport at the meeting point and after you return to the departure point;
travel insurance or any other insurance personal to you;
passport and visa costs;
vaccinations and medication, before, during and after the Holiday;
food and drink over and above what we include in the Holiday as described in the Holiday itinerary;
gratuities you choose to give, in addition to any we give on your behalf where we consider appropriate.
6. Holiday prices
We shall not change the price of your booking once we have accepted your booking.
7. Special requests
Any special requests relating to your travel arrangements must be sent to us at the time of booking by email. While we try to meet your reasonable requests, we do not guarantee that they will be fulfilled.
If we are able to confirm a special request, we will do so by confirmation in an email to you before your departure date.
8. Changing your booking
We will always do our best to help you with any change to your booking. However, we give no guarantee that we shall succeed.
If you require any change, you must tell us by email. A change will be subject to any costs we incur in making the change for you.
Please note that costs are likely to be higher, the closer you are to the departure date. Most travel arrangements cannot be changed once a reservation has been made.
9. Transferring your booking
If you would like to transfer your booking from one person to another person, the following terms apply:
The transferee must satisfy any special conditions or qualifications applicable to the Holiday.
You must inform us about your intention to transfer your booking to the transferee at least seven days before the departure date by email.
You and the transferee will accept that you and he/she will be jointly and severally liable for full payment of any outstanding sums due in respect of the booking as well as fees, charges or other costs arising from the transfer.
We will not refund or compensate you if changes made to your booking, or re-booking, leave you paying for parts of the Holiday Service which you do not use.
10. Cancellation by you
If you or a member of your party needs to cancel your booking and you booked via www.albaniatourguide.com, you must tell us by email. We will not accept a cancellation by telephone alone.
If you or a member of your party needs to cancel your booking and you booked via an Online Travel Agency, you must cancel on the Online Travel Agency’s website, where you made the booking.
To receive a full refund, travelers may cancel up to 24 hours before the experience start date in the time zone of Albania. No refunds will be given after that time period.
If you or a member of your party cancels your booking due to an uncontrollable event affecting the Holiday then we shall not charge any cancellation fee as set out in last previous paragraph. Other terms set out in this paragraph shall apply as is.
In any circumstances giving rise to cancellation, we will consider allowing you to transfer the money you have paid, to some other Albania Tour Guide Holiday you choose. But whether we do so is in our discretion, for which we do not have to give a reason.
In any of the above circumstances, we will return any money due to you within 14 days.
Note: we strongly recommend that you take out holiday insurance which covers the cost of cancellation.
11. If we cancel your Holiday or make changes
Because we make travel arrangements far in advance, we sometimes have to change an arrangement and occasionally even cancel a Holiday. If that happens the following terms apply:
We will always inform you as soon as possible about any change. If that happens you may:
accept the change; or
accept our offer of alternative travel arrangements of a comparable standard; or
cancel your booking, whereupon we will give you a full refund of all money paid.
Provided your final payment has been made we will cancel your travel arrangement only in circumstances where we have no choice but to do so.
12. If you have a complaint
Your point of contact during the Holiday will be:
Name: Manon Van Der Loo
Address: the Dushku Residence, Rruga Beslidhja, Lagjia nr. 3, Bathore, Kamez, Tirana 1030, Albania
Contact details: contact@albaniatourguide.com or 0044 7448 081100
If you have a problem during your Holiday it is most important that you immediately inform the relevant provider as well as our representative. If you complain only after you have returned home, we shall not be able to investigate the problem – for your benefit and ours. If that happens, you may lose your right to compensation.
If you feel our representative has not resolved your problem please write to us within 14 days of your return giving us full details of your Holiday and concise details of the complaint and any subsequent history.
13. Limitations on our liability
We want you to enjoy a perfect holiday with Albania Tour Guide. We shall do our best to make this experience special for you. Nonetheless, we must make clear the limitations in law.
If we fail to provide the Holiday set out on our website and to which these terms apply, we will pay you appropriate compensation. We are not liable if any failure is due to:
your own carelessness or negligence in any aspect of your behaviour whilst on Holiday;
medical emergencies;
laws, culture and standards of service and behaviour in any country we may visit;
changes we reasonably make to an itinerary or to accommodation or any other aspect of the management of your booking;
some third party unconnected with the provision of travel arrangements where we could not reasonably have foreseen or avoided those circumstances;
any other unusual and unforeseeable circumstances beyond our control;
a specific event or series of events which we or our contractors or providers could not reasonably have foreseen or prevented;
We and you are subject to international conventions, when they apply. This may limit the amount of a claim you may make, against us or anyone else.
The services and features included in your booking are those specified in our website. If you choose to buy other goods or services during your Holiday, those are not part of our service, even if our representative helps you to buy or arrange them. Accordingly we are not liable to you for any happening in connection with that service or goods.
It is a condition of this contract that you take out a policy of travel insurance for every trip. You alone are wholly responsible for arranging your insurance. The period of cover should start no later than the date you make your booking with us.
14. Passport, visa and immigration requirements
It is extremely important that you obtain and carefully check travel and immigration documents required for each country you visit. You alone are responsible for obtaining required travel documents for your party. We do not accept responsibility for any delay or problem which may occur in this connection. If we have local representation at the time of any such problem, we will assist you as far as reasonably possible to resolve it. However, for the benefit of other people on that holiday, it will not be possible to delay or change travel arrangements or events which will affect others in the tour group.
15. Help we need from you
Your itinerary will provide details about your chosen Holiday, but the following are contractual matters:
Most Albania Tour Guide Holidays require reasonable physical fitness and appropriate footwear. You should be prepared to walk up to a couple of kilometres a day, sometimes on uneven or slippery surfaces.
To satisfy the majority of our clients, we apply “no smoking” rules in the same way that they are applied by law in Europe. Please note however, that smoking is permitted in some places we may visit so we cannot prevent third parties from smoking in a bar or restaurant.
If we provide medical help to you, whether or not you specifically ask for it, we will provide receipts for all costs (for your insurer) and you now agree to repay us that cost on your return from the Holiday.
If at any time, it is our opinion (given by any of our staff or representative) that you are acting in a way which may cause accident, injury, discomfort or extreme displeasure to any other member, we may exclude you from the programme for the remainder of the Holiday. You will understand that this extreme action will not be taken lightly but may be necessary to protect the health, safety or enjoyment of other travellers.
16. Terms and conditions of third party providers
Many of the services we provide, including options which may occur from time to time during your Holiday, are provided by third parties and not directly by us. Each has their own terms and conditions. Whilst the law provides that we are liable to you in the round, for any failure connected with such a provider, our obligations do not cover every contractual term.
Accordingly, instances may arise where you have no redress, for example, in the purchase of locally produced goods. If our representative warns you of a possible problem, for example related to food, and you choose not to take that advice, then we are not liable for any problem which may arise.
17. Miscellaneous matters
Albania Tour Guide takes your privacy seriously and will only use your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 as fully described in Schedule [1] to this agreement.
If any term or provision of this agreement is at any time held by any jurisdiction to be void, invalid or unenforceable, then it shall be treated as changed or reduced, only to the extent minimally necessary to bring it within the laws of that jurisdiction and to prevent it from being void and it shall be binding in that changed or reduced form.
Subject to that, each provision shall be interpreted as severable and shall not in any way affect any other of these terms.
Any obligation in this agreement intended to continue to have effect after termination or completion shall so continue.
No failure or delay by any party to exercise any right, power or remedy will operate as a waiver nor indicate any intention to reduce that or any other right in the future.
The parties agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
In the event of a dispute between the parties to this agreement, then they undertake to attempt to settle the dispute by engaging in good faith with the other in a process of mediation before commencing arbitration or litigation.
This agreement does not give any right to any third party under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise, except that any provision in this agreement which excludes or restricts the liability of the directors, officers, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated companies of a party, may be enforced under that Act.
Any communication to be served on either of the parties by the other shall be delivered by hand or sent by first class post or recorded delivery or by e-mail.
It shall be deemed to have been delivered:
if delivered by hand: on the day of delivery;
if sent by post to the correct address: within 72 hours of posting;
If sent by e-mail to the address from which the receiving party has last sent e-mail: within 24 hours if no notice of non-receipt has been received by the sender.
The validity, construction and performance of this agreement shall be governed by the laws of Albania and the parties agree that any dispute arising from it shall be litigated only in that country.
Schedule 1: Privacy notice
The following information constitutes our privacy notice.
In this Schedule, “we”, “our”, or “us” refers to Albania Tour Guide and “you”, “your” refers to the lead-named person on the booking details all persons on whose behalf a booking is made.
You can contact us by e-mail about privacy at contact@albaniatourguide.com
Introduction
1. This is a notice to inform you of our policy about all information that we record about you. It sets out the conditions under which we may process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us.
2. We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that you are entitled to know that your personal data will not be used for any purpose unintended by you, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.
3. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, and hope that you reciprocate.
4. Except as set out below, we do not use, share or disclose to a third party, any information collected under this contract or otherwise.
1. Definitions
In this Schedule, the following words shall have the following meanings:
“Act” means the Data Protection Act 2018.
“Data Protection Legislation” means all or any of:
(a) the GDPR,
(b) the applied GDPR,
(c) the Act,
(d) regulations made under the Act
(e) regulations made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 which relate to the GDPR or the Law Enforcement Directive.
“the GDPR” means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation).
“the applied GDPR” means the GDPR as applied by Chapter 3 of Part 2 of the Act.
“Law Enforcement Directive” means Directive (EU) 2016/680 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA.
“data controller”, “data processor”, “data subjects”, “personal data”, “process”, “processed” and “processing” shall have the meanings respectively, as defined in the Act. Note that “process” and “processing” are defined to include simple events like receiving data into our system, or storing it. Processing is not limited to “doing something with it”.
In this agreement, “personal data”, is limited to data which comes into our hands in some way connected to the terms and conditions of your booking.
2. Data Protection
4.1 The obligations described in this Schedule are in addition to our obligations under the Data Protection Legislation.
4.2 Under the Act, we are obliged to inform you what personal data we hold about you, or may hold at some future date. We must tell you how we propose to use that data and give you other information.
3. What data we may process in each category
We shall process this basic personal data:
4.3 your name, age, personal address, private email address.
4.4 telephone number
4.5 passport data
4.6 all other information you gave to us.
4.7 all data which comes to the attention of any of our representatives or other staff whom you may contact for any reason.
4.8 financial information processed through the banking system.
4.9 information supplied to us by a third party.
4.10 information relevant to the performance of your contract.
4.11 technical information relating to electronic communication, which is personal information only when associated with the name or identity of the data subject.
4. The bases on which we process information about you
The Data Protection Legislation requires us to determine under which of six defined grounds we process different categories of your personal information, and to notify you of the basis for each category. We mention three categories below. The others are not relevant to your contract.
If a basis on which we process your personal information is no longer relevant then we shall immediately stop processing your data.
If the basis changes then if required by law we shall notify you of the change and of any new basis under which we have determined that we can continue to process your information.
Information we process because we have a contractual obligation with you
When a contract is formed between you and us, in order to carry out our obligations under that contract we must process personal information.
We use your information in order to provide you with our services under that contract.
We process this information on the basis there is a contract between us, or that you have requested we use the information before we enter into a legal contract.
We shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of the contract.
Information we process with your consent
Only when you have given us explicit permission to do so, do we process your personal information under the basis of consent.
We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by telling us. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use our services further.
Information we process because we have a legal obligation
Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory obligation.
For example, we may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
This may include your personal information.
5. Specific uses of information you provide to us
Booking and pre-booking enquiries
We use your personal information to arrange, process and confirm your booking and to answer any pre-booking enquiry you may have. While making your travel arrangements we will need to disclose personal data to the suppliers of the services which are part of your booking.
Communicating with you
When you contact us, whether by telephone or by e-mail, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need.
We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business.
We keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you at a later time.
Dealing with complaints
When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us.
We use that information to resolve your complaint.
If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is.
If we think your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.
We may compile statistics from information relating to complaints to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.
6. Management of your information
Access to your personal information
At any time you may review or update personally identifiable information that we hold about you.
To obtain a copy of the information we hold about you, please contact us at contact@albaniatourguide.com
After receiving the request, we will tell you when we expect to provide you with the information, and whether we require any fee for providing it to you.
Removal of information
If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our record, you should contact us at contact@albaniatourguide.com
If you do so we have no alternative than to treat your request as notice to terminate this contract. If that happens, termination will accord with the provisions in this contract.
All provisions in this contract relating to termination, express and implied, will follow.
Verification of your identity
When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personal identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.
7. Post termination
4.13 Physical goods of yours, which we necessarily hold as part of our contractual relationship are not personal data and are not affected by the Act.
4.14 Upon termination of our agreement with you, we and any contractual data processor will:
4.14.1. delete all your personal data from our electronic records by some method which prevents future re-activation of that data.
4.15 We shall not destroy or delete all your data and retain such personal data for six years, for these reasons:
4.15.1. for accounting and taxation purposes;
4.15.2. to provide evidence if required in connection with a legal claim;
4.15.3. for any other reason where the law provides a six years limitation period;
4.16. If any event occurs which requires us lawfully to continue to retain data beyond that period, then we may do so.