Terms of Use

This Terms of Use is a binding agreement between you and Asia Blue – Tours (referred to as “us”, “we”, “the site” or “company”). By using this website located at (the “site”), you agree to abide by these Terms of Use. If at any time you find these Terms of Use unacceptable, you must immediately leave the website and cease all use of it.

Booking Terms

All online bookings must be paid for with either a 20% deposit or in full. Bookings and payments are made securely through the site and PayPal or Stripe. You must include a contactable phone number, email address, hotel name and room number with your online booking. This allows us to contact you with a confirmed pickup time for your dive trip and/or course, as well as gaining further information, such as sizes for dive equipment. All trip/course bookings made for the following day must be received before 8pm. Bookings made after 8pm for a next day trip/course will be moved to the day after.

Refunds

If for any reason you wish to cancel your booking, notification must be made in writing to Asia Blue – Scuba no later than 7 days before the trip or dive course start date (the full amount paid will be refunded, less a 20% admin fee). For cancellations made in less than 7 days of course or trip start date, 50% of the payment will be refunded. Rebooking a tour, trip or course will incur a 20% rebooking fee. No refunds will be provided if any cancellation that is made 24 hours before or on the day of dive course, trip or tour. Booking deposit payments are not refundable under any circumstances.

Copyright

All content of the site or services are the copyright © 2023 of Asia Blue Group or its respective partners and have full permission for the use of any such content under the terms set in this agreement.

Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and permit you to control the treatment of your personal information. Our Privacy Policy is expressly incorporated into this agreement by this reference.

Website Signups and Mailings

You may have the option, but not obligation, to sign up to our website to receive updates, new information and offers from us. Should you do so, you are also agreeing to receive emails from us of a commercial nature.

Email Communications

When you contact us, you expressly consent and agree to receive email responses from us. These email communications may be commercial or non-commercial in nature. Non-commercial emails may include, but are not limited to, administrative issues and announcements of changes to these terms, the Privacy Policy or other site documentation.

Use of Software

Our company may make certain software available to you from the site. If you download software from the site, the software, including all files and images contained in or generated by the software, and accompanying data (collectively, “software”) are deemed to be licensed to you by company, for your personal, noncommercial, home use only – unless specified any different. Company does not transfer either the title or the intellectual property rights to the software, and company retains full and complete title to the software as well as all intellectual property rights therein. You may not sell, redistribute, or reproduce the software, nor may you decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble, or otherwise convert the software to any other form. All trademarks and logos are owned by company or its licensors and you may not copy or use them in any manner.

User Content

By posting, downloading, displaying, performing, transmitting, or otherwise distributing information or other content (“user content”) to the site, you are granting company, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives a permanent, non-exclusive license to use user content in connection with the operation of the internet businesses of company, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives, including without limitation, a right to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat user content. You will not be compensated for any user content. You agree that company may publish or otherwise disclose your name in connection with your user content. By posting user content on the site, you warrant and represent that you own the rights to the user content or are otherwise authorised to post, distribute, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute user content.

Intellectual Property Laws

When accessing the site, you agree to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the site is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content (collectively, “content”) in violation of any third party’s copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property, and you shall be solely responsible for any violations of any relevant laws and for any infringements of third party rights caused by any content you provide or transmit, or that is provided or transmitted using your user id. The burden of proving that any content does not violate any laws or third party rights rests solely with you. All digital millennium copyright act matters are processed pursuant to our DMCA Policy.

Inappropriate Content

You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any content that (a) is libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or threatening; (b) advocates or encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or foreign law or regulation; (c) advertises or otherwise solicits funds or is a solicitation for goods or services; or (d) provides medical advice to other users. Company reserves the right to terminate your receipt, transmission, or other distribution of any such material using the site, and, if applicable, to delete any such material from its servers. Company intends to cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials or agencies in the investigation of any violation of these terms or of any applicable laws.

Warranties

We hereby disclaim all warranties. We are making the site available “as is” without warranty of any kind. You assume the risk of any and all damage or loss from use of, or inability to use, the site or any service offered. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we expressly disclaim any and all warranties, express or implied, regarding the site, including, but not limited to, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non infringement. We do not warrant that the site or any service will meet your requirements or that the operation of the site or any service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Liability

Our liability to you is limited under our Terms of Use. To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall we be liable for damages of any kind (including, but not limited to, special, incidental, or consequential damages, lost profits, or lost data, regardless of the foreseeability of those damages) arising out of or in connection with your use of the site or any other materials or services provided to you by us. This limitation shall apply regardless of whether the damages arise out of breach of contract, tort, or any other legal theory or form of action.

Affiliated Sites

We have no control over and no liability for any third party websites or materials. We work with a number of partners whose internet sites may be linked with the site. Because we have no control over the content and performance of these partner and affiliate sites, we make no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of the information provided by such sites, and we assume no responsibility for unintended, objectionable, inaccurate, misleading, or unlawful content that may reside on those sites. Similarly, from time to time in connection with your use of the site, you may have access to content items, including, but not limited to websites, that are owned by third parties. You acknowledge and agree that we make no guarantees about, and assumes no responsibility for, the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of this third party content, and that, unless expressly provided otherwise, these terms of use shall govern your use of any and all third party content.

Prohibited Uses

We impose certain restrictions on your permissible use of the site. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate any security features of the site, including, without limitation, (a) Accessing content or data not intended for you, or logging onto a server or account that you are not authorised to access. (b) Attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the site, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorisation. (c) Interfering or attempting to interfere with service to any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, by means of submitting a virus to the site, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” “crashing” or instituting an attack on the site. (d) Using the site to send unsolicited e-mail, including, without limitation, promotions, or advertisements for products or services (e) Forging any tcp/ip packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or in any posting using the site. (f) Attempting to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of the source code used by us in providing the site. Any violation of system or network security may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us for certain of your acts and omissions. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless company, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives from any and all third party claims, losses, liability, damages, and/or costs (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising from your access to or use of the site, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your infringement, or infringement by any other user of your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. We will notify you promptly of any such claim, loss, liability, or demand, and will provide you with reasonable assistance, at your expense, in defending any such claim, loss, liability, damage, or cost.

Waiver

If, for whatever reason, a court of competent jurisdiction finds any term or condition in these terms of use to be unenforceable, all other terms and conditions will remain unaffected and in full force and effect. No waiver of any breach of any provision of these terms of use shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent, or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorised representative of the waiving party.

License

Nothing contained on the site should be understood as granting you a license to use any of the trademarks, service marks, or logos owned by us or by any third party.

Amendments

Company reserves the right to amend these Terms of Use. Should company seek to make such an amendment, which we determine is material in our sole discretion, we shall provide you notice by email of said change 15 days prior to the change going into force, and publish on the home page the fact an amendment will be made. Should a court of competent jurisdiction rule this amendment provision invalid, then this amendment clause shall be terminated as part of this agreement.

Termination, Membership and Subscription

Company reserves the right to remove any listing, comment or forum submission at any time, with or without warning or notice and without refund should information or action from any member be deemed by the site to be misleading, inappropriate or dishonest, if a member has breached the terms of use or privacy statement, or if the business or individual is unable to verify or authenticate any information submitted to the site.

Registration and Password

If permitted on the site for an account, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information and password. You shall be responsible for all uses of your account, whether or not authorised by you. You agree to immediately notify the site of any unauthorised use of your account or password. Your paid advertisement listing may not be transferred or assigned.