Terms and 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 are 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.