General terms & conditions KeepAliveTours
Here you can check KeepAliveTours:
– general conditions
– its guarantee to you even in case of KeepAliveTours’ bankruptcy or insolvence: STO
– its membership of travel organization VvKR, including a company liability insurance
By booking a tour or any other service via KeepAliveTours, you accept these following…
Terms & Conditions – KeepAliveTours
1) Identification of the Parties
The present Terms and Conditions that apply to the services offered at the URL www.keepalivetours.com are accepted by:
on the one hand, by KeepAliveTours (hereafter referred to as “KeepAliveTours”), with VAT number NL001623632B47 and corporate address at J.H. Knobboutstraat 7, 4112 LP Beusichem, The Netherlands, registered at the Chamber of Commerce in Den Haag, The Netherlands with number 27193158. And on the other hand, by the “Client” or person in whose name the reservation is realized.
2) Definition and interpretation of these Terms & Conditions
The present Terms and Conditions are subject to Dutch law and binding both parties, by its acceptance,to its fulfillment. These Terms and Conditions can be saved and printed by the Client and is recommended to do so. KeepAliveTours will not proceed to logical filing of the booking forms of the Clients in accessible media, therefore it´s recommended for Clients to save a copy to their system of the filled out enrollment form sent to KeepAliveTours to finalize their reservation. Modification or correction of the data by the Client must be notified immediately to KeepAliveTours by email
to: info@keepalivetours.com.
3) Inscription and Payment
The Client can book by filling out the Form on our website or by sending an e-mail to KeepAliveTours:
info@keepalivetours.com.
KeepAliveTours, after verifying availability, will communicate the result and by means of confirmation will insert the client´s data in the site of the guaranntee fund STO Garant, that will ask for a downpayment, payment of which will confirm participation by the client. This message sent via STO Garant includes details for the transfers to make to STO Garant by the client. If the booking is received by KeepAliveTours later than 28 days before the starting date, the Client must fulfill 100% of the amount of the itinerary in a single payment; whereas when the booking is received 28 days or more before the starting date of the chosen itinerary, payment can be made in 2 installments: the first 20% during the next 5 days and the final 80% 28 days before the starting date.
Once first payment is received (20% or immediately 100%), it means that the contract between KeepAliveTours and the Client is definitively established and KeepAliveTours.
If the first payment or final payment isn´t fulfilled before the deadline indicated by KeepAliveTours, the company reserves the right to cancel the Client´s booking (the Client will have no right on any refund and will lose the total amount paid up until then) and charge him/her for the cancellation fees as stipulated in point 6 of these Terms and Conditions. As an alternative, KeepAliveTours reserves the right to maintain the enrollment as valid charging an administration fee of 75 Euros for delayed payments.
4) A guarantee is in place: STO Garant.
In order to meet its statutory obligation to provide a guarantee, Keep Alive Tours uses STO Garant, a guarantee scheme recognised by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). You can check that this is the case by visiting STO Garant’s website and verifying that the organisation is listed as a participant (www.sto-garant.nl/en/members). You can find all information relating to STO Garant at www.sto-garant.nl/en.
Whether STO Garant’s guarantee applies to a particular (travel) offer made by Keep Alive Tours is specified for that offer. The Guarantee Scheme specifies what the guarantee covers and which conditions apply. You can find the Guarantee Scheme on STO Garant’s website (www.sto-garant.nl/en/downloads).
How it works
If STO Garant’s guarantee applies to your booking, you do not pay the booking amount to Keep Alive Tours but instead into the escrow account belonging to Stichting Derdengelden Certo Escrow, a payment services provider registered with De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). This trust account holds your payment in reserve until the trip booked has come to an end. The booking amount is then released to Keep Alive Tours on the day after your trip ends. If Keep Alive Tours should become financially insolvent before the end of your trip, STO Garant will implement the guarantee. The Guarantee Scheme details how you can make a claim under the guarantee in such cases
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In case KeepAliveTours would be declared insolvent before the end of your journey, then the amount you paid will be transferred from Escrow to STO. This way creditors cannot access your money.
If you have not departed yet, you will receive a full refund. In case you are already traveling, STO will make sure that either you are refunded the corresponding part of the amount paid, or that you can complete your journey as planned, or that you can be sent home.
The STO is not an arbitration committee.
Important: The Client is responsible to make sure that KeepAliveTours will receive the total amount, without including bank costs (all bank costs must be paid by the Client).
5) Program
KeepAliveTours will do its best to ensure the Client will receive all services exactly as specified in the itinerary. However, KeepAliveTours cannot be held responsible by the Client for modifications of the program of the itinerary for organizational reasons (like for example reasons involving time-management and management of the specific group dynamics and characteristics), unforeseen reasons (including illness of Keep Alive Tours or the coach that co-creates the booked week) or reasons beyond her control, force majeure (like for example, involving accommodation providers or providers of other services, adverse weather conditions or natural disasters, strikes, terrorist attacks, etc.). The activities or excursions missed due to any of the above-mentioned reasons will not be made up nor refunded. Also every responsability for life consequences – for instance changing partner or changing work – following participation to the booked week is entirely taken by the Client,
The Client can only realize the itinerary/ activity/ accommodation, presenting himself on the official starting date as booked. Exceptions are possible, but only and exclusively on request and prior authorization by KeepAliveTours.
KeepAliveTours group tours
Important: For any KeepAliveTours group tour a minimum of 4 Clients is required to form a group and have the itinerary take place on the scheduled dates. In case there is no group of minimum 4 participants formed for the chosen starting dates of the Client, KeepAliveTours will notify the Client minimum 5 days in advance. In case of any KeepAliveTours group tour, it is possible that some scheduled elements are missed due to force majeure/ unforeseen events beyond control of KeepAliveTours. Scheduled elements missed for those reasons will not be made up nor refunded. There will be no refund in case the Client is delayed or does not attend excursions. If the Client has bought airline tickets and the group tour won’t be held due to not reaching the minimum amount of four people, all consequences will be taken by the Client. Keep Alive Tours does not buy airline tickets. We advise you to purchase refundable or changeable flight tickets, because unexpected things can happen, also cancellation due to not enough participants. Keep Alive Tourts is not accountable for the cost of those flight and/or other transportation tickets, nor is it responsible for any other consequences – for instance concerning the time that you organised around this particular week, so you purchsse your flight and other transportation tickets completely at your own risk. What Keep Alive Tours can do in those cases: giving you tips and advice for our stay during the particular week. For your own protection in case of your cancellation due to personal life-events, your travel insurance & travel cancellation insurance are mandatory to join. Without accepting this requirement on the preliminary form, the form cannot be sent. In case on the preliminary form you tick the box concerning the travel insurance and travel cancellation insurance and it turns out you do not have them while you are on the tour, you take full responsibility for the consequences.
6) Cancelation by the Client
If the Client wishes to cancel his booking after having done a (down) payment, the following conditions
apply:
The cancelation must be sent in written by e-mail to: info@keepalivetours.com. The date when KeepAliveTours receives this cancellation e-mail will be the official cancellation date, and the following
conditions apply:
All cancelations incur the loss of 20% of the total amount of the itinerary booked. Furthermore, the Client will be charged with the following cancellations fees:
• Cancelation up until 28 days before the starting date of the itinerary: cancellation fee of 20% of the total amount;
• Cancelation between 27 and 21 days before the starting date of the itinerary: cancellation fee of 50% of the total amount;
• Cancelation as from 20 days before the starting date of the itinerary: cancellation fee of 100% of the total amount.
In case of No-Show or cancellation after the starting date of the itinerary, there will be no refund.
Change of dates as booked and indicated on the Booking Confirmation Form will not be admitted.
7) Travel, transfers and visa
The Client should organize his own travel preparations and make sure to have all necessary documents, like valid passport and visa (when necessary).
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KeepAliveTours will provide the necessary documents to those Clients who need a visa, but will not be held responsible for the decision of the Consulate in case a visa is not issued. It is the Client´s
responsibility to assure enough time to obtain a visa and to verify with the Consulate who much time is needed.
If the Client needs KeepAliveTours to send documentation for the visa by courier/ express mail (not by email or normal mail), he will be charged an amount of 120€.
If the Client cancels the itinerary booked with KeepAliveTours because he did not obtain a visa, KeepAliveTours will refund all payments made, except the amount for having sent the visa documentation plus 100€ administration fee; on the condition that the Client can demonstrate that the visa had not been issued for reasons beyond his control (it is considered to be the Client´s responsibility to make sure enough time is taken to be able to process the visa application, to have a valid passport and to make sure the application is correct and complete) and notifies KeepAliveTours in written at least 4 weeks before the starting date of the itinerary booked. Otherwise, the Client will be charged the cancelation fees as indicated in the previous point 6.
Airport Transfers
The Client can book an airport transfer with KeepAliveTours. However, if KeepAliveTours does not receive the flight details at least 7 days before the departure date, KeepAliveTours will not be held
responsible for the Client´s pick up at the airport, and the amount paid for the transfer will not be refunded.
Cancellation during the program
There will be no refund in case the Client will interrupt or leave the program before the end date. In any case, the Client is required to inform KeepAliveTours in written by e-mail at: info@keepalivetours.com before his departure from the program.
Special requests
The Client must notify KeepAliveTours in written of any special request required, when sending the booking. If not, KeepAliveTours reserves the right to cancel the booking at any moment, in case a hotel or other provider cannot provide the planned services. Furthermore, the Client will be subject to the charges according to the cancellation conditions as specified in point 6 of these Terms and Conditions.
Our expectations
The Client is expected to behave in a courteous manner and to respect his fellow-participants as well as the personnel that directly or indirectly work for KeepAliveTours. Use of drugs, abuse of alcohol or any inconsiderate or offensive behavior will not be accepted and will be sufficient motive to expel the Client immediately from the KeepAliveTours programs with no right to any refund and the Client will be held fully responsible for all damage caused.
8) Photo and Video material
By enrolling in the programs of KeepAliveTours the Client accepts the fact that promotional material may be created from photo and/ or video material retrieved during the tours/ activities/ etc. If a Client wishes not to appear on any promotional material and or social media, he is required to specifically express this wish in writing and send a signed note before the start of his journey to
info@keepalivetours.com.
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9) Accurateness of facilitated information
Despite the efforts taken to ensure the information in our PDF documents and website is accurate, KeepAliveTours cannot be held responsible for printing or translation errors or omissions.
The information in the PDF documents of KeepAliveTours and its website: www.keepalivetours.com is to be considered subordinate to the content of the present Terms and Conditions, which in case of any conflict will prevail.
10) Complaints
At the beginning of the trip the guide will present himself and make sure the Client has his contact details so that he can be reached during the trip. If there would arise any complaints during the stay of the Client, the guide should be immediately informed, as he is on the spot and therefore able to find the quickest solution. If this wouldn´t work out, KeepAliveTours headquarters should be informed so we are able to find a solution together with the client.
Complaints with respect to a KeepAliveTours booking, resp. with respect to KeepAliveTours’ advices and information, can be filed no later than 1 month after the journey, or if the journey didn´t take place no later than 1 month after the original starting date as stated in the Travel Documents.
11) Language of the present Terms and Conditions
The present Terms and Conditions have been drawn up in Dutch. In case there exist any differences between the original version and the present Terms and Conditions, only the original version
will be valid, meaning the version in Dutch.
12) Legislation applicable and Legal Jurisdiction
KeepAliveTours is registered at the Chamber of Commerce Den Haag with number 27193158. On these Terms & Conditions and all other agreements and contracts made by and with KeepAliveTours Dutch law applies. For any divergence that arises from this contract, both sides expressly agree, renouncing their own legislation area, to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Courts and Tribunals of the city of Den Haag.