Terms & conditions

Updated: Jan 2023.

 

All volunteers are required to read Terms & Conditions (T&C) in details before submitting application form. After you submit us the booking form, volunteer acknowledges and accepts following T&C, responsibilities & risks.

Should you have any queries about these Terms, please email us at Debbie@gracefultours.org before you submit your form.

 

Travel

Volunteer is solely responsible for arranging following & at own cost:-

  • Insurance coverage for 100% planned travel period; prior travel

  • Air flight

  • VALID Travel documents

  • Vaccinations

  • Airline check in, Airline transit, luggage & Custom clearance formalities

  • Local transportation

  • Criminal background check

Preparation prior travel

Collect Local information: Weather forecast, Traffic, News

Risk & Safety

Volunteers must abide by local laws & own safety.

Volunteer travelling to / from and volunteering in a foreign country will bear own risks. Volunteer accepts responsibilities and acknowledge potential risks of program applied.  GT, related staff & partners is not liable and disclaims all liabilities, including but not limited to loss caused directly or indirectly by:

  • body & mental Injury;

  • Illness or disease;

  • Death;

  • Damage to or loss of property;

  • Natural disasters;

  • Hostage

  • War

  • terrorism.

We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions of use at any time. It is the responsibility of the user to check these Terms to ensure that you agree to them, before using our Website.

Your use of this website indicates your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

We also have a Privacy Policy. This relates to your use of our Website, and should be read as a part of these Terms and Conditions of use, before using the Website.

Content

All material on this Website either belongs to or is appropriately licensed by us (Graceful Tours Volunteering) and should be treated as if belonging to us. Material on this Website must not be copied, reproduced, published or republished, posted, uploaded, distributed or transmitted, modified, manipulated or reverse engineered. Any use of the material on this site must be for personal, non-commercial use only.

You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any Graceful Tours content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of this Website’s content requires our prior written permission.

Unauthorized use of material on this Website as detailed above constitutes a breach of copyright and associated intellectual property rights.

Competitions featured both on our website and on air are subject to our Competition Terms and Conditions.

User content

Where the Website requires you to register, you must provide accurate and complete information. It is your responsibility to ensure that such information is up to date, and we accept no liability in the case of out-of-date information. You must not divulge your password to anyone. Each registration is for one user only. If you have reason to believe that the security of your account has been affected, please contact us immediately. We reserve the right to contact you by email, as provided at the time of registration, regarding your use of any forums and other interactive areas of the Website.

We have no control over the information and material posted on our forums/social media, but we reserve the right to edit, move and remove posts as necessary to keep the forums/social media safe for other users.

Users are required not to:

  • use posts in the forums to advertise goods or services;

  • make posts or comments that are libelous, indecent, abusive, threatening, or infringe the copyright or other rights of third parties;

  • post messages which contain illegal or otherwise unlawful material;

  • post messages which contain viruses or code which may cause damage to another user’s computer software or equipment, or impair the functionality of the Website;

  • impersonate or misrepresent any third parties.

We cannot guarantee the reliability, accuracy or impartiality of any messages posted, and so we request that you do not rely in any way on anything posted on our forums/social media, and that you accept all risk associated with use of these forums/social media. Users should not rely upon any of the content of this Website as constituting advice, recommendations or agreements.

We reserve the right to remove your registration if you do not comply with the above guidelines, in order to keep our Website safe and reliable for other users.

Third Party content

The Website includes certain material and content from third parties. Ownership of this third party content may or may not be obvious to the user, and accordingly users should treat all content on this website as if it were the intellectual property of Graceful Tours.

Graceful Tours has no responsibility for the content and material from third parties.

Users are asked to note that certain areas of our site are operated by third parties, and separate terms and conditions of use and privacy policies may apply to such sections. Please look out for these separate terms and policies.

Liabilities, warranties and indemnities

The Website is provided on an ‘as is’ and an ‘is available’ basis, without any express or implied warranty of any kind. We do not warrant that the Website will be error-free, or that any of the material therein is complete or accurate. We do not warrant that functions contained in any content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

We provide no warranty in respect of our site, our content, our software or our services; we disclaim all liability connected with use of this Website to the fullest extent permitted at law. Your use of this Website constitutes your acceptance to indemnify us against anything that arises out of a breach by you of these Terms of Use.

Under no circumstances will Graceful Tours or any group or any associated company be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of this Website regardless of the form of action. We cannot be responsible for errors in any advertising or promotional material that appears on our Website, although we would be grateful if you would notify us, should you notice any errors in any such material.

To the extent permitted by law, volunteer agree to release and release forever GT from any cost, expenses, loss, claims and damages.

The volunteer agree that GT or related parties cannot accept any liability or responsibility for any losses or liability and you agree to indemnify GT and related parties for any liability they may suffer due to volunteer’s participation of the program including but not limit to volunteer’s travelling, accommodation, volunteering activities, etc.

No rights can be derived from any misprints or typing errors in the price list 

GT tried our best to provide most accurate and updated information.  However, we accepts no responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of any information provided

General Legal Terms

Should any part of these Terms and Conditions of use be found to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable at law, then that part shall be severed from the Terms and Conditions of use to the extent that it is invalid or unenforceable, and its severance shall not affect the rest of these Terms and Conditions of use, which shall remain enforceable at law. 

These Terms and Conditions of use are governed by Hong Kong (SAR law), and all disputes arising from them shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of Hong Kong courts.

In the event of any of these Terms or part there of being found to be illegal and/or unenforceable, that finding shall not affect the enforceability of the remainder of the Terms.

Note: “GT” - Graceful Tours & its associated company