Terms
& Conditions
Booking of language holiday
Please use the from us provided application form, to
book your language tour. Your travel booking becomes
binding once you received a written confirmation of
application from Academia Columbus.
Payment
On receipt of our written enrolment confirmation, you
must pay a deposit of 10% of the total price of your
trip. The remaining 90% must be paid 3 weeks before
the start of your language course.
Should you be late with any payment, then Academia Columbus
has the right to terminate the enrolment, after sending
a written reminder, and to demand compensation.
Our liability to you
We accept responsibility for ensuring that your travel
arrangements, which you book with us, are supplied as
described in our Webster, but see also any comments
in the letter we send you confirming your booking. If
any part of your travel arrangements is not provided
as promised, we will pay you appropriate compensation
if this has affected the enjoyment of your travel arrangements.
We accept responsibility for the acts and/or omissions
of our employees except where they lead to death, injury
or illness. Our liability in all cases shall be limited
to a maximum of three times the cost of your travel
arrangements. We do not accept liability for services
provided for you by a third party, where we have acted
only as mediator.
Study Session
On holidays of the respective host country study sessions
will be dismissed without replacement. You can read
the exact dates from the pages of the respective schools.
Cancellations by you
In your own interest and in the interest of avoiding
any misunderstandings we recommend that you notify us
in writing should you decide to cancel your trip.
Should you cancel your holiday more than 4 weeks before
arrival in Quito we will charge an administrative charge
of 10% of the price of your booking. Should you cancel
your booking within 4 weeks of arrival we will charge
25% of the price of your booking. If you cancel less
than 2 weeks prior to your arrival, we will charge you
50 % of the price of your booking. Once you start a
program, you are entitled to no refund from Academia
Columbus.
You have the right to prove that the costs arising to
Academia Columbus resulting from your cancellation are
lower than the administrative charges that we charge.
Limited Liability of Organizer
The contractual legal obligation for payment of damages,
which does not include bodily harm, is limited up to
three times of travel price as long as damages of client
was neither caused deliberately nor roughly negligently
by the organizer. If individual performances are simply
mediated than Academia Columbus will only be liable
for lawful mediation of performances and not for the
performance contribution by itself.
Exclusion of Claims and Expiration
All considerable claims due to lack of performances
are to be made valid within a month after contractually
intended completion of journey to the organizer. This
should be done in the interest of the customer by writing.
After expiration, the participant can only make claims
valid, once he/she was without fault prevented of keeping
the giving time period.
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