Terms of service

These terms are the agreement between you and Airfare Beacon ("we", "us") for using Airfare Beacon. By creating an account or using the site you accept them. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

What Airfare Beacon is

We watch airfares and tell you when a price from your home airport drops well below what it usually costs. We are not a travel agent, an airline or a ticket seller. Our alerts link to Google Flights or the airline, where you book directly with them, under their terms.

Fares change: please read this

• Prices and seats change by the minute. A deal may be gone, or cost more, by the time you look.
• The "normal" price we show is our estimate, based on fares we have seen for that route.
• Mistake fares can be cancelled by the airline. Wait until your ticket is confirmed before making plans you cannot undo.
• Always check the final price, baggage fees, dates and entry requirements before you pay.

We do not guarantee that any fare is available or accurate, and we are not responsible for your bookings or for anything that happens with your travel.

Your account

• You must be at least 16 to have an account, and 18 or older to buy Premium.
• Use an email address that is yours, and keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account; tell us straight away if you think someone else is using it.
• An account is for one person.

The free plan and Premium

• Free: the 2 best deals from your home airport each week, sent about 24 hours after Premium members get them.
• Premium: every deal that matches your settings as soon as we find it, more than one home airport, filters for where you want to go, and optional text alerts.

We may change what each plan includes. If a change takes something meaningful away from Premium, we will tell paying members before it happens.

Paying for Premium

• Premium costs $7 a month or $59 a year, in US dollars, plus tax where it applies. You pay in advance, through Stripe.
• The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial, once per account. You enter a card to start it. Cancel within those 7 days and you pay nothing. If you do not cancel, your card is charged $59 when the trial ends, for one year of Premium. We email you when the trial starts and again before it ends.
• Your plan renews automatically at the end of each month or year until you cancel. We email yearly members before each renewal.
• You can cancel at any time in your profile, under Manage billing. Premium then continues until the end of the period you have paid for, and you are not charged again.
• Payments are not refunded for a period that has already started, except where the law requires it. If you think you were charged by mistake, write to us and we will look into it.
• Promotional codes have no cash value, cannot be combined unless we say so, and can be withdrawn.
• If we change the price, we will email you at least 30 days before the new price applies to your renewal.
• If a payment fails we may try again, and may move your account to the free plan.

Messages from us

By signing up you ask us to send you deal alerts in the ways you choose. You can turn any of them off in your profile, and every email has an unsubscribe link. If you turn on text alerts, your carrier's message and data rates may apply. We also send messages needed to run your account, such as confirming your email address, resetting your password and billing notices.

Fair use

You agree not to:

• resell or republish our alerts in bulk, or use them to run a competing service;
• collect data from the site with bots or scrapers;
• interfere with the site, overload it, or probe its security;
• use the service for anything unlawful.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. If we close a paid account for any other reason, we will refund the unused part of what you paid.

Our content

The site, its name, its text and its design belong to Airfare Beacon. You may use the service and the alerts for your own personal, non-commercial travel planning.

No warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available". We work to make it accurate and reliable, but we do not promise that every deal is correct, still available or the lowest price, or that the service will run without interruption or error.

Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Airfare Beacon is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, including missed deals, fares that change or are cancelled, and travel costs. Our total liability for any claim about the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or $50 if you paid nothing. Some places do not allow these limits; where that is so, they apply only as far as the law there permits.

Ending this agreement

You can stop using the service at any time: cancel Premium, unsubscribe, or ask us to delete your account. We may stop offering the service, or part of it, and will give paying members reasonable notice and a refund of the unused part of what they paid.

Changes to these terms

When we change these terms we update this page and the date at the top. If a change is significant we will email you at least 14 days before it takes effect. Using the service after that means you accept the new terms.

Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States. Disputes will be heard in the state or federal courts located in Florida, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim there.

Contact

Questions about these terms: deals@airfarebeacon.com. Our privacy policy explains how we handle your information.