TERMS & CONDITIONS of the Tom Putt Photographic Workshops

Fees

The workshop cost includes the tuition fee only (unless stated otherwise).  All other expenses are the responsibility of the participants.  Not included are any airfares, airport taxes, transportation to and from the location, or items of a personal nature.  Price also excludes any insurance coverage for trip cancellation/interruption, travel accident, travel delay, baggage delay or baggage theft (we recommend you obtain coverage for these items), medical or hospitalization expenses.

Travel

All participants are responsible for making there own way to the stated meeting point for the workshops.  Where transport isn't provided, some travel to photographic locations is required during the workshops where participants will be encouraged to car pool where possible.

Accommodation

Where possible, we stay in shared accommodation so we can conduct our discussion sessions in a common environment.  This also allows us to spend our ‘down’ time talking with fellow passionate photographers and the opportunity to learn from others.  We do not believe in roughing it.  In fact, we look to make the workshops as comfortable as possible.  We encourage you to take advantage of the accommodation offered to maximize your enjoyment (and learning experiences).

Your Leaders

We look to source the best photographic leaders available for our workshops.  However, things do pop up from time to time that mean that an intended leader may not be able to attend the workshop.  In this case we will do our best to replace that person.  Guest leaders are only affordable if projected participants numbers are met.

Refund Policy

To secure your booking, we require full payment at the time of booking.  If for any reason you need to cancel your participation in a workshop, please notify us at least 90 days before the start of your workshop.  At that time, we will refund your deposit, less a $50 cancellation/administration fee.  If notification of cancellation is made less than 90 days before the start of a workshop, we will retain the workshop fee (unless the vacant spot can be filled). The Tom Putt Photographic Workshops reserve the right to cancel any workshop with inadequate enrollment up to 14 days beforehand.  In the event that a workshop is cancelled due to inadequate enrollment, all fees and deposits paid are refunded in full or transferred to an alternative workshop within 12 months of the transfer.

Cancelled trips

Although Tom Putt Photographic Workshops has never cancelled workshops, we reserve the right to cancel any workshop for any reason whatsoever, including too few participants or logistical problems such as strikes, wars, acts of God, or any other circumstances, which may make operation of the workshop inadvisable.  All workshop payments, which were received, will be promptly refunded.  This refund will be the limit of Tom Putt Photographic Workshops liability.  Tom Putt Photographic Workshops is not responsible for any expenses or damages incurred by workshop members as a consequence of any cancellation, such as costs expended in preparing for the trip (including non-refundable or penalty-carrying airline tickets), special clothing, lost income, or any other trip-related losses or expenses.

Trip Insurance

We recommend that you have personal health insurance and purchase emergency medical evacuation insurance and emergency medical expense coverage, and trip cancellation insurance, which would reimburse you for nonrefundable airfare and trip cancellation fees should you have to cancel the trip due to personal or family illness.  Life insurance, baggage loss and baggage delay reimbursement plus other coverage is available.

Physical Fitness

This workshop may be taken by anyone in good physical condition.  As you will have to go up and down stairways, walk over irregular terrain, and carry equipment, you are encouraged to get in shape by exercising regularly.  Please call us if you have any questions about your ability to do a particular trip.  Once a trip has started and it is necessary for you to leave the trip because it is beyond your physical level, please note that there will be no refunds for any unused portion of the trip.

Medical

You must be in generally good health and it is vital that persons with medical problems make them known to us well before the workshop begins.  It is understood that Tom Putt Photographic Workshops is not a medical facility and therefore has no expertise or responsibility regarding what medications or inoculations you and your private physician should decide necessary for your safe participation on the workshop.  Tom Putt Photographic Workshops assumes no liability regarding provision of medical care.  Trip members are urged to check their coverage to be sure it is adequate.

Limitation of Liability of Tom Putt Photographic Workshops

This section defines our responsibility with respect to all of our workshops.  PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.  Payment of your reservation deposit(s) represents your acceptance of all terms and conditions outlined anywhere within this brochure.  The workshop application on which your signature appears will further represent your acceptance of the following terms and conditions.

Tom Putt Photographic Workshops shall have no liability for any damages, losses, or expenses of whatever cause or nature, including those resulting directly or indirectly from acts of God, detention, annoyance, weather, quarantines, strikes, civil disturbance, theft or criminal activity of any kind, government regulations, etc., over which it has no control.

Without limiting the above paragraph, Tom Putt Photographic Workshops shall have no responsibility for additional expenses due to unforeseen delays caused by weather, theft or criminal activity of any kind, political disputes, acts of terrorism, strikes, sickness, failure of flights or other transportation to arrive or depart on time, and other causes beyond our control.  Tom Putt Photographic Workshops is not responsible for additional hotel nights not specified in the workshop itineraries which may be required en route, prior to or following a trip, caused by airline scheduling or schedule changes, or by individual clients’ travel arrangements or by other factors.  Tom Putt Photographic Workshops cannot assume any responsibility for loss or damage to baggage or personal property.

IN NO EVENT SHALL TOM PUTT PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOPS HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, HOWEVER CHARACTERIZED.

Tom Putt Photographic Workshops reserves the right to substitute hotels, conference facilities, and to alter the itinerary when deemed necessary or advisable.  The right is also reserved to cancel any workshop prior to departure upon the refund of all payments received, which shall release Tom Putt Photographic Workshops from further liability.  Tom Putt Photographic Workshops is not responsible for additional expenses incurred by trip members in preparing for the trip (i.e. nonrefundable advance-purchase air tickets, equipment, etc.)

Tom Putt Photographic Workshops reserves the right to decline to accept or retain any person or member of any trip should such person’s actions or general deportment impede the operation of the trip or the rights or welfare or enjoyment of other members of the trip, and it is agreed that no refunds will be given in such circumstances.

Tom Putt Photographic Workshops reserves the right to take photographic or film records of any of our trips, and may use any such records for promotional and/or commercial purposes.