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1. Academic Travel Services, Inc., its employees, shareholders, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, successors, agents, and assigns (collectively, "A.T.S.") your school or other sponsor, city or town, Board of Education, chaperones, if applicable, and its and their employees, (collectively, "Sponsor" ) does not own, operate or control any person or entity which is to or does provide goods or services for your trip including, for example, lodging facilities, airline, vessel or other transportation companies, guides or guide services, local ground operators, entertainment or sightseeing operators, providers or organizers of optional excursions, food service providers, etc. All such persons and entities are independent contractors. As a result, neither A.T.S. nor your Sponsor is liable for any negligent or willful act or failure to act of any such person or entity, or of any third party.
2. Without limitation, neither A.T.S. nor your Sponsor is responsible for any injury, loss, or damage to person or property, death, delay or inconvenience in connection with the provision of any goods or services whether occasioned by or resulting from, but not limited to, acts of force majeure, war, civil unrest, insurrection, strikes or other labor activities, criminal or terrorist activities of any kind, lost or stolen belongings, overbooking or downgrading of accommodations, mechanical or other failure of airplanes or other means of transportation or for any failure of any transportation mechanism to arrive or depart timely, dangers associated with animals, sanitation problems, food poisoning, lack of or quality of medical care, illness or disease, difficulty in evacuation in case of a medical or other emergency, or for any other cause beyond the direct control of A.T.S. or your Sponsor.
3. Changes in hotels or itinerary (for example, changes in or omitting cities, visitation points, revising the order of the itinerary, etc.) may be made at the discretion of A.T.S. or your local ground operator as it or they deem necessary or desirable. A.T.S. reserves the right to take photographic or film records of any of its trips and participant agrees that A.T.S. may use any such photographic or film records for promotional and/or commercial purposes, as well as approve of such use by third parties whom A.T.S. may engage without any remuneration to participant. Participant assigns to A.T.S. all right, title, and interest in or to any and all media in which his or her name or likeness might be used.
4. A.T.S. reserves the right to decline to accept or retain any person as a member of any trip. In the event a member is expelled from a trip, no refund of any kind will be made. A.T.S. reserves the right to cancel any trip with its sole obligation to refund all monies received by it for the trip. Trip participants are solely responsible for securing their own passports, visas, medical inoculations, etc. These terms and conditions can be changed only by a writing signed by an officer of A.T.S.
5. It is recommended that each traveler purchase Trip Cancellation/ Interruption insurance.
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