The company BAO Solutions is a limited liability company whose head office is located at 1-9, rue de Rémusat- 75016 Paris, registered at the Registry of Trade and Companies of Paris under the n°B 479 163 289.

Acting in the name of and for the account of various partners - hotel providers - BAO Solutions proposes, under the mark AsiaPodo (hereafter called AsiaPodo ), on the site www.asiapodo.com and the satellite sites (list of satellite sites available at http://www.asiapodo.net/index.aspx?fn=12005_10_18_15_40_32.html;162 (hereafter called the "Site") travel services, in particular the booking for hotel services.

The current edition of general conditions is valid as from January 13, 2006. This edition cancels and replaces the former versions.

These data are those which you will have voluntarily recorded at the time of your answers to questionnaires, or at the time of requests for information. No personal information concerning you is yielded to third parties or is used for non-envisaged purposes.

Article 1: Definitions and fields of application

1.1 Definitions

The definitions below have an identical significance whether they are used in the singular or plural forms.

"User" designates any user of the Site who browses, books, orders and/or buys one or more Services offered on the Site.

"Partner" designates all the suppliers of Services including, in particular, the hotels. "Service" indicates any provision of services proposed on the Site, in particular the sale of services of lodging.

"Service" indicates any service offered on the Site, in particular the sale of hotel services.

1.2 Fields of application

The present general conditions of sale and use (hereafter “General Conditions") govern the offer and the supply of the Services.

The order of Services is reserved only to the Users having taken beforehand knowledge of the General Conditions in their entirety and having accepted them without reserve, by ticking the box or by clicking on the hypertext link used for this purpose. Without this acceptance, the continuation of the order process of order is technically impossible.

Are also applicable to the offer and the supply of the Services, according to methods' identical to the General Conditions, the specific conditions of the Partners (hereafter "Specific Conditions"). The acceptance of the Specific Conditions by the User will intervene at the time of the placing of the effective order.

The General Conditions can be modified constantly, without notice, being understood that such modifications will be inapplicable to the orders of Services which had been accepted before by AsiaPodo in the name of and for the account of concerned Partners. It is thus imperative that the User consults and accepts the General Conditions at the time when he carries out his order, in particular in order to ensure the clauses in effect.

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2.1 Capacity - Use of the site

The Site has a function to assist the User in the search for Services in relation to the travel and tourism, and to carry out some bookings, as well as to concluding any transaction with the Partners. The User must be at least 18 years old, to be able juridical to contract and use this Site in accordance with the General Conditions.

Except for the case of fraud that he must show the proof, the User is responsible financially for his actions on the Site, in particular for his user name and password. This also guarantees the veracity and the exactitude of the information relating to him provided on the Site.

Any use of the Site which would be fraudulent, or which would contravene the present General Conditions, will justify that the User will be refused, at any moment, the access to the Services offered by the Partners or other functionalities of the Site.

2.2 Making and cancellation of orders

The User can order via the Site only after having accepted the present General Conditions as well as the possibly applicable Specific Conditions of the Partners.

The confirmation of the order, which takes again the essential elements of them, such as the identification of the ordered Service(s) and the price, will be transmitted to the User, by electronic mail, within one day maximum following the date of order.

All the conditions of cancellation, of possible modification of the orders and/or refunding are accessible directly on the booking Site, and if necessary mentioned on the order confirmation or in the Specific Conditions.

Any cancellation or requests for modification must be sent by electronic mail to support@asiapodo.com

Except for particular clauses in the Specific Conditions, any modification (change of departure or return date, schedules) or any cancellation coming from the User, involves the generation of an expenses of 100 % of the price of the service.

Moreover, in case of a new booking in accordance with a cancellation or with a modification from the User, it is specified that the price of the new booking can be higher than that of the first booking.

In case of refunding granted to the User, the beforehand versed sums will be re-credited to the account corresponding to the bank card used during the ordering.

In any event, the expenses of file (of management and bank charges for the transactions) are not refundable.

2.3 Convocation and withdrawal of the travel documents

The travel documents issued under a Service ordered via the Site are sent to the electronic address of delivery mentioned by the User at the time of his order, according to the clauses under the Specific Conditions.

The delivery periods indicated during the ordering are average times corresponding to the processing and to the delivery of the electronic mails and does not exceed 24H.

If the delivery of the travel documents were made impossible by an error of the User in entering his information, neither the concerned Partner(s) nor AsiaPodo could be held responsible.

2.4 Proof

It is explicitly agreed that, except for error made by the Partners or AsiaPodo that the User would report the proof, the data kept in the information system of AsiaPodo and/or its Partners have evidential force as for the orders placed by the User. The data on computer or electronic media constitute valid evidence and as such, are admissible under the same conditions and with the same evidential force as any document which would be drawn up, received or kept by writing.

AsiaPodo acts exclusively in the name of and on behalf of the Partners concerning the offer and the supply of all the Services.

The object of this article is to propose a detail of the Services in the name of and on behalf of the Partners, this, in a preoccupation with the information of the User. This detail is not exhaustive and does not replace the Specific Conditions.

Except contrary legal clauses, this detail can by no means be a responsibility or engagement for AsiaPodo .

3.1 Hotel services

These Services are proposed in hotel services only.

Possession of the rooms

It is reminded that, most often, the rooms are available to only start from 2 p.m. and that they must be released before 12 noon, that is the hour of arrival or departure of the means of transport used.
The individual rooms generally include a bed for one person. These rooms often have a supplement. The double rooms include, either with two beds, or, more rarely, with a double bed.

Classification

The indication of level of comfort allotted to the hotels appearing in the consultable description on the Site corresponds to a classification established in reference to local standards of the host country, and which can thus differ from the French standards. It is provided only as an indication. It can indeed occur that, for technical reasons, in cases of absolute necessity or because of a third party, is substituted for the hotel initially booked, another hotel of the same category proposing equivalent services.

Taxes

The User is drawn attention to the fact that certain additional taxes can be imposed by the local authorities of certain States (tourist tax, stay tax...) and are to be regulated on the premises. These additional taxes, when exist, will be on the charge of the User.

Cancellation and modification

Any request for cancellation or modification of booking by the User must be sent by electronic mail by using the links used for this purpose in the e-mail of confirmation received by the User after making a booking. It is also possible for the User to send his requests for cancellation and/or modifications to the address: support@asiapodo.com These requests will not be treated if it misses one of following information:

• The number of booking
• The email address provided by the user at the time of the booking

In case of cancellation or modification of the travel by the User, the expenses of cancellation can vary according to Partners. Depending on the particular mentions in the policy of cancellation of the concerned hotel the scale below will be applied:

Any request for cancellation or modification formulated by the User and accepted by AsiaPodo and its Partners will lead to the refunding within a reasonable time of the sums paid by this latter under deduction of those remaining due under the terms of the table above.

The best efforts are made to provide photographs and illustrations giving to the User an overview of offered Services. These photographs and illustrations aim at showing the User the category of room or the degree of comfort and cannot imply any engagement beyond this object.

No insurance is included in the prices displayed on the Site. Consequently, the User is recommended to subscribe an insurance contract covering the consequences of certain cases of cancellation and an assistance contract covering certain particular risks in particular the expenses of repatriation in the event of accident or disease.

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Except contrary clauses found in the Specific Conditions of the Partners, the payments carried out on the Site by bank card (the cards of Carte Bleue, Visa, Eurocard/Mastercard are accepted) by the intermediary of a secured payment system.

In no case, AsiaPodo will not be responsible for the direct or indirect and/or immaterial, foreseeable or unforeseeable damage (including the loss of profits or a chance...) arising from the supply and/or the use or total or partial impossibility to use the functionalities of the Site. Lastly, AsiaPodo cannot be held responsible for the contents of the sites on which the User is returned via hypertexts link whose only purpose is to facilitate the research of the User.

In any case, the User states to understand the characteristics and the limits of the Internet, in particular its technical performances, the response time for questioning or transferring data and the risks related to the security of communications.

Except contrary legal provisions, the user recognizes that acting as an intermediary only, in any case, AsiaPodo is not responsible for committing to relate with the contracts for Services which the user will have concluded with one or more Partners.

8.1. Generalities

The Site, its contents and all the elements, are creations for which AsiaPodo and/or, if necessary, the Partners, are holders of all of the rights of intellectual ownership and/or of the rights of exploitation, in particular with the copyright, of the right of databases, of the right of trade-marks, and of the right of drawings and models.

The Site, as well as the software, databases, texts, information, analyses, images, photographs, graphics, logos, sounds or all other data contained on the Site remain the exclusive property of companies of AsiaPodo and/or the Partners or, if necessary, their respective owners with whom the latter have signed the agreements of use.

It is granted with the User a right of non-exclusive use, non-transferable and in a private framework, of the Site and data contained on the Site. The right thus granted consists of (i) a right to consult online the data and information contained on the Site and (ii) a reproduction right consisting of printing and/or a backup of the consulted data and information. This right of use is only for one strictly private use.

Any other use of the Site, in particular commercial, on behalf of the User is prohibited. The User is prohibited in particular, in a non-exhaustive way, to reproduce and/or represent for a use other than private, to sell, distribute, emit, translate, adapt, diffuse and communicate completely or partially in some form whether it is an element, information or data of the Site.

Moreover, the User is prohibited introducing, by any means, of the data likely to modify or affect the contents or the presentation of the Site.

Any hypertext link of the Site, whatever the type it is, must obtain a preliminary authorization from AsiaPodo, acting in the name of and on behalf of the holder of the concerned right, on paper or electronic media.

8.2. Software

The use of any software downloaded on the Site making it possible to access certain Services or functionalities is governed by the terms of the license accompanying it. The User commits himself not to install, copy or use this software before having agreed under the terms of the aforementioned license.

For any software not accompanied by a license, it is conferred to the User a right of temporary, private, personal, non-transmissible and non-exclusive use on this software in order to be able, other than any other use, to access the Service and functionalities which make the use of this software necessary. By installing, or using the software, the User commits himself observing this condition.

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The Site was regularly declared at the CNIL in France, under the number: the 1117074 The information communicated by the User on the Site makes it possible to process and carry out his orders.

Except opposition from the User, AsiaPodo can communicate this optional information concerning the User to the companies of its group.

AsiaPodo may send to the User the information enabling him to better know and better use the sites, to allow him profit from the promotional offers on these sites and to propose him offers of its Partners, in the strict respect of the provisions of the law "for confidence in the digital economy" and of the modified law "computer and freedoms", subject to the preliminary assent or opposition of the User, according to cases in the Charter of confidentiality displayed on the site.

The occurrence of an unpaid with the reason for a fraudulent use of a bank card will involve the inscription of the data in connection with the ordering of the User who is at the origin of this unpaid within a file of incidental payment put into effect by the insurer and placed under his responsibility.
In accordance with the Law on Data-processing and Freedoms of January 6th, 1978 modified, the User has, at any moment, of a right of access, of modification, of correction and removal of the data which relate to him. He can exert it by sending an electronic mail to unsubscribe@asiapodo.com

The General Conditions are subjected to the French law. Any litigation relative to their interpretation and/or their execution concerns the French Courts.

The fact that AsiaPodo does not prevail, at a given time, of one of the clauses of the General Conditions could not be interpreted as a renunciation by itself to prevail later on one of these clauses.

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