Privacy Notice - California

Effective Date: August 18, 2025

The Privacy Notice published by Farehutz.us, owned and operated by TGS Ventures Private Limited, is specifically intended to cover California residents according to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). This adds to the general Privacy Policy of Farehutz.us (“we,” “our,” or “us”) and describes in detail the corresponding collection, use, disclosure, and protection of personal information of users in the state of California under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively, “CCPA”).

So long as you are a resident of California, this Notice shall offer meaningful information concerning your rights to safeguard your personal information.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We believe that collecting personal information helps us give you the best travel booking services, a better user experience, and secure and reliable interaction with us at Farehutz.us. This is obtained along with your personal information gathered by us, by default whenever you visit our website, and by third-party parties as well.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

  • Identifiers: Like your full name, email address, phone number, IP address, and postal address.
  • Customer Records: Payment and billing information, past travel bookings, customer service calls.
  • Commercial Information: Records of products or services with payments made, dates of booking, and travelling preferences.
  • Internet/Device Data: Your device identifier, the type of browser you are using, the pages you have been accessing, and your usage habits.
  • Geolocation Data: The general location data based on the device or an IP address.
  • Sensitive Personal Information: Restricted in terms of payment credentials when there is a reason to do so to transact.

We use this information to:

  • Book and make travel arrangements
  • Offer and recommend individually
  • Answer customer questions
  • Identify fraud and protect your information
  • Be law-compliant
  • To improve the website's performance and functionality

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We can also submit your personal information to third parties with whom we will agree to use your travel requests in order to continue with our business operation.

With whom do we share information?

This includes payment processors, customer service platforms, marketing partners, and analytics tools. Like airlines, hotels, car rental services, and the rest of the travel services providers, in order to complete bookings. On occasions when combined promotions are on, or acts are put across. When the law needs it, when a court demands it, or to answer the lawful demands. Your information is used on a third-party basis, binding them to confidentiality and the purposes of its use that it is made available to them; of this, the third parties are contractually obligated.

Disclosure of Personal Information

During the previous 12 months, we have shared the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

  • Category A: Identifiers
    (Name, email, phone number, IP address)
  • Category B: Customer Records
    (Billing address, travel itinerary, customer support history)
  • Category C: Commercial Information
    (Booking history, travel preferences, service feedback)
  • Category D: Internet or Network Activity
    (Browsing history on our website, search behavior, session data)

Sales of Personal Information

Farehutz.us does not sell your information in the traditional way. The California law has specified what constitutes a sale, and share in case of certain data-sharing practices involved in targeted advertising, analytics, and tracking technologies that might have taken place on our website.

We can give some information (including IP address or technical identifiers) to advertising and analytics companies to provide tailored content or to gain insight into the performance of the site. You are entitled to bar these practices.

Your CCPA Rights

California residents have the right to their personal information, as follows when CCPA/CPRA applies:

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights:

  • The types and particular details of personal data that we have gathered about you.
  • The different sources categories in which personal information was gathered.
  • The commercial or business reasons why I may need or share your data.
  • The types of third parties your data was shared.

Correcting Inaccurate Information

You are a California resident, entitled to have any inaccurate personal information that we may possess about you corrected per the CCPA and the CPRA. In case you feel that there is any data collected by us that is either wrong or outdated, you can contact us to make a correction.

We shall make the necessary verification measures to ensure that we have ascertained your identity as well as determine the correctness of the information prior to amendments.

In the instance that we feel it is necessary to correct, we will make the necessary changes in our records and inform the concerned third parties in case they had the incorrect information, where possible.

Our company might refuse the request in some cases when we think that the data is already correct or there are some legal restrictions that do not allow us to make changes.

In any case, we will explain our action. Your request can be made through email, mail, or phone using the contacts indicated on this notice.

Deletion Request Rights

Under your rights under the CCPA and CPRA, you may make a request to delete any personal information we have about you, with exceptions. The right of deletion also makes your personal data more controllable, especially in situations when you no longer want to have it stored and used by us.

We can reject a request for deletion in the case of the need for the data:

  • Accomplishing a purchase or delivery of a service that you ordered
  • Identifying security incidents or safeguarding against fraudulent activity
  • Error tracking to know and correct faults that compromise functionality
  • Carrying out a legal duty
  • Performing internal tasks in accordance with the expectations of consumers

We respect the right to privacy, and we will process deletion requests concerning deletion in a way that supports relevant regulations and best practices. Unless our predefined legitimate grounds can justify an exemption, we will permanently delete your information as stored on our records and in those of our partners, where that applies.

How to Exercise Your Rights

In order to enforce your access, correction, deletion, or portability rights, you could address us by using one of the following methods:

Response Timing and Format

We shall respond to your request within 45 calendar days, with 10 business days acknowledgment of receipt. In the event that we need more time, we will inform you of the cause and extension of the date (up to 45 days).

It is free to make your request unless it is excessive or repetitive, in which case, there will be a fee that we will charge to deal with the request.

Do Not Sell or Share My Information

Your privacy and transparency are important to us at Farehutz.us. Although we are not selling your personal information in the traditional sense of this phrasing, certain types of sharing practices may be considered a sale or share, depending on the particular practice that is involved, under California law. This means giving out identifiers such as your IP address/ browser information to third-party service providers in order to personalize your experience or to measure performance.

You can tell us not to sell (CCPA only) or share your personal information with third parties at any time for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes, by contacting us. That is, you can decide to restrict your information sharing with advertising networks and analytics services that can use it to track you or target advertisements.

In order to discontinue, you can:

Reach out to us, upon receipt of your request, we shall act on the same as soon as possible and in most cases within the stipulated time in the law. There will be confirmation after the honoring of the opt-out. You would not be obliged to make or log in an account in order to exercise the right as well.

Whether global opt-out signals can be supported by your browser and honored by us is not guaranteed. If you use a new device or browser and do not see the effect of your request, consider resubmitting your request.

Exercising Opt-Out Rights

You can also write to us or call us and request (opt-out) to be removed from our database. Your wish will count within the stipulated time demanded legally.

NON-DISCRIMINATION

We shall never act unfavourably towards you in the case of you exercising your CCPA/CPRA rights. This means:

  • Denial of goods or services will be denied
  • There are no different prices or rates
  • There is no compromised service quality
  • There is no indication that you can face differential treatment for exercising your right

Updates to This CCPA Notice

We might change this Privacy Notice at any time because of any change in our practices, technologies, or the law. If we change the Notice, we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of the Notice and put the new version on our website.

We invite you to look through this page on a regular basis so as to have the most current information regarding our privacy practices.

CONTACT INFORMATION

You can reach out to us by the following means with any questions or concerns related to this California Privacy Notice and/or to exercise your rights under the privacy laws, in the following manner:

By Email: support@farehutz.us

By Phone: +18665038818

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