Legal and privacy

Access to any information on this Web Site is conditional on your acceptance of the Legal Information and statements shown below. All bookings and purchases are subject to availability and e-mail (or written) confirmation by HMC also known as cacao.travel. Booking conditions applicable to individual yacht charter arrangements and products must be read in addition to the statements below.

Important disclaimer

This website is provided by HMC on an as is basis. no warranties or representations of any kind expressed or implied are given (and if any such warranties and representations arise by operation of law or otherwise they are hereby disclaimed to the fullest extent permitted by law) in connection with this site or its content including without limitation the completeness or accuracy of any of its contents.

HMC shall not be liable for any loss or damages or expenses of any kind including without limitation compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property or claims by third parties howsoever arising in connection with the copying or use of any information or material contained in or referred to on this website or otherwise from the use of this website (including without limitation information in respect of the yachts described on this website).

Legal notices: site terms & conditions

1. References on this Web Site to "we", "our" and "us" are references to HMC Explore Partners and cacao.travel is trading names of HMC.

2. The information on this Web Site is directed to users of the internet world wide. We are a VE-US-IT registered Company. Our business and the services we offer are governed by the applicable laws of Ve. No warranties and/or representations of any kind, express or implied, are given as to the compliance of the information shown on this Web Site, the services offered by or on behalf of us, any information relating to such services and our business in any respect with any laws of any other country which do not, in any event, affect or apply to the same.

3. Our booking and purchase conditions contain limitations and exclusions of our liability to any person(s) who books and/or takes any of our charters and/or travel arrangements.

Cancellation and amendment charges are payable if a booking or other purchase is cancelled or amended after it has been confirmed.

4. Access to this Web Site is conditional on your agreement that all information contained in it and all matters which arise between you and us will be governed by Ve law. Access is further conditional on your agreement that any dispute or matter which arises between you and us will be dealt with by the Courts of Ve only to the exclusion of the Courts of any other country.

5. Nothing on this web site constitutes advice, nor does the transmission, downloading or sending of any information create any contractual relationship. No warranties, promises and/or representations of any kind, express or implied, are given as to the accuracy of any of the information contained on this Web Site or as to the nature, standard, suitability or otherwise of any services offered by us or on our behalf. We shall not be liable for any loss or damage of whatever nature (direct, indirect, consequential or other) which may arise as a result, directly or indirectly, from the use of any of the information or material contained in this Web Site and/or use of or access to any other information or material via web links from this site or any inability to access or use this Web Site. These exclusions of liability apply only to the extent permitted by law and, except for information or material accessed via Web Sites or supplied by an identified Third Party, where consistent with our applicable booking conditions. If any of these exclusions, in whole or part, is found to be unlawful, void or for any other reason unenforceable, that exclusion or part of the exclusion shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the other exclusion(s) or part(s) of the exclusion(s) in question.

6. Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, we are entitled to the benefit of any applicable exclusions and/or limitations of liability permitted by the laws of any country found to be applicable to the information shown on this Web Site and/or any services offered by us or on our behalf.

7. The information and/or prices shown on this Web Site are updated from time to time and therefore may have changed by the time you come to book your charter or travel arrangements. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of all such information and prices, regrettably errors do occasionally occur. You must therefore ensure you check all details of your chosen holiday or travel arrangements (including the price) at the time of booking.

8. The prices and discounts shown on this site are applicable to interyachtcharter.com and may vary from HMC retail and telephone direct businesses.

9. The copyright in the material contained on this site belongs to us or its Licensors. The material may only be used for that person's own personal use for non commercial purposes.

10. Disputes You and IYC Limited agree that any disputes arising from your use of this web site will be subject to VE law and the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Ve courts.

11. HMC reserves the right to change or amend these web site terms and conditions without prior notice.

12. HMC is not responsible for content being reproduced on this website or information being published by third persons or material sent to us or updated automatically by online users or members of the Explore Partners community under the open source regulations.

13. HMC have no responsibility for text or photos being published by users and yacht providers of the web 2.0 interface.

Legal notices: Privacy Policy

At HMC, we recognize the sensitive nature of your personal and business information. For your protection, all information transmitted by you to us while visiting this website is secured using the latest technology in software encryption and security.

HMC provides this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to Internet privacy and to make you aware of our privacy practices, and of the choices you can make about the way your personal and business information is collected and used by HMC.

What information does this site and HMC monitor

When you browse the site, we do not collect personal information about you. The only way we will get any kind of personal information is if you give it to us. The company requires that consumers supply personal information, including e-mail addresses and Telephone Numbers, during the booking process. On occasion the company also collects additional personal information from subscribers in an optional e-mail subscription form. Demographic information provided by a subscriber may be combined with site usage reports to profile, in aggregate form, users and their preferences in site content and advertising. The company employs cookies to measure site usage and related information. If you are making a booking we may also use cookies to keep track of the transaction from one page to the next. We use third-party advertising companies (such as www.google.com) to serve ads on other web sites. These companies may use cookie-based information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to measure advertising effectiveness. We may also collect information about your visit to our web site, based on your browsing (click stream) activities. This information may include the pages you browse and products and services viewed or booked for example. This helps us to better manage and develop our offers and to provide you with better products and services tailored to your individual interests and needs.

What does HMC do with the information it gathers

We may use this information to measure the entry and exit points of visitors to the site and respective numbers of visitors to various pages and sections of the site and details of searches performed. We may also use this information to measure the usage of advertising banners, other click troughs from the site. We may disclose information of this nature in aggregate form to third parties, personal information on individual visitors will not be passed on to any third party. Users who have subscribed to our e-mail service or visitors purchasing products on the site that have not opted out; will receive promotional mailings and e-mails from HMC. Your personal details will not be passed to any other third parties except where necessary to process your booking or enquiry. Your details may be passed to countries outside of the European Economic Area in order to process and arrange for the products and services you request. When you submit your booking or request to us you agree that we may use and transfer your personal information in this manner. HMC will provide a summary of any personal information held upon request. This information will only be sent to the e-mail address on file for the subscriber name associated with it.

To obtain information summary please e-mail: mail@cacao.travel.

Links to other sites HMC, its contractors, travel agents, owners, and employees are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of web sites to which it may link.

Legal notices: security statement This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users information. When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their information is protected both online and off-line.

Legal notices: Community information