GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Article Index

10. PARTICIPANT’S DUTIES

Participants have to travel with their individual passport or other document valid and health certificates, if requested. They must observe rules of prudence, diligence and all those norms and laws taking effect in the countries where the tour/holiday takes place. All participants must besides obey to all the information provided by Sun Events, such as rules, administrative and legislative dispositions concerning the travel package/tourist services. Participants will be held responsible for all the damages Sun Events may suffer owing to their non-fulfilment of the obligations examined above.

Participants have to provide themselves for  adequate medical and travel insurance cover.
The customer shall provide Sun Events with all the documents, information and all the elements he owns, which are useful to exercise the right of substitution towards a third party liable of the damage and he is responsible to the Organiser for the damage made to the right of substitution.
The customer will also communicate in writing to the Organiser, at the moment of the booking, particular personal requests which may lead to specific agreements on travel modalities, provided that their accomplishment is possible.

11. HOTEL GRADING

The hotel official classification is provided in the catalogue or in the other informative material only on the basis of expressed and formal indication of the competent country authorities where the service is given. In the absence of official classifications recognised by the competent public authorities of the countries Sun Events reserves the faculty to provide in the catalogue or in the brochure his own hotel description, which could allow the customers to evaluate the suggestion and, later, to confirm it.

12.  RESPONSABILITIES

Sun Events is liable for damages caused to the customer in case of total or partial non-fulfilment of the services settled by the contract, in case these are performed by himself or by other service suppliers, unless he is able to prove that the event is due to the consumer’s behaviour (including independent initiatives taken by the traveller during the holiday), to circumstances extraneous to the supply of the services prescribed in the contract, to fortuitous case, adverse weather conditions, circumstances beyond the Organiser’s control or that Sun Events could not reasonably foreseen nor solve.

13. LIMITATIONS ON CLAIMS FOR REFUND

The compensation for damages to the person can never be superior to the limits established by International Conventions, in which Italy  participates, with reference to the services whose non-fulfilment has determined responsibility. In any case the compensation can never exceed the amount of 50.000 Germinal gold Francs for damages to people, 2.000 Germinal gold Francs for damages to things and 5000 Germinal gold Francs for any other damage (article 13 n° 2 Contratto Collettivo Viaggio).

14. DUTY OF ASSISTANCE

Sun Events has the duty to assist the customer, as established by the professional diligence criteria, with exclusive reference to her own duties, according to the law or contract. Sun Events is exempted from her individual responsibilities (articles 13 and 14 of these General Terms and Conditions) in the event that failure to fulfil or inaccurate fulfilment of the Contract are attributable to the customer, to an unforeseeable and unavoidable third party, or due to circumstances beyond Sun Events’s control and fortuitous

15. COURT OF JURISDICTION

The customer can sue Sun Events only at his office


16. GUARANTEE FUND  

The Directorate General of Tourism of the Productive Activities Ministry has created the Guarantee National Fund. The User can apply to the Fund (in accordance with the article 100 Cod. Consumo), in case of insolvency or declared bankruptcy of the Seller or Organiser, to protect the following requirements:

a)    refund of the fees already paid
b)    repatriation costs in case of trips abroad
The Fund shall also provide an immediate amount of money for possible forced return of the User  from non-EU countries in case of emergency due or not due to the Organiser’s behaviour.
The Fund’s intervention modalities are established by Prime Minister’s Decree n° 349 of 23/07/99 and G.U. n° 249 of 12/10/1999.

ADDENDUM
GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SALE CONTRACT FOR SINGLE TOURISTIC SERVICES


A) LAW PROVISIONS  
Contracts regarding the sale of single services (accommodation, transport, etc.) cannot be intended as organized travel packages and they are therefore governed by the following dispositions of the Collective Travel Contract (“Contratto Collettivo Viaggio”): article n°1, n° 3 and n° 6; from 17 to 23 and from 24 to 3, concerning estimations which are different from those regarding the organisation contract as well as from other agreements specifically referred to the sale of the single service object of the contract.

B) CONTRACT CONDITIONS
The following clauses of the general terms and conditions for travel package sale contract listed above are also applicable to these contracts: article 4, 1st paragraph; article 5; article 7; article 8; article 9; article 10, 1st paragraph; article 11; article 15; article 17. The application of these clauses does not determine at all the configuration of the concerned contracts as, in the case in point, travel package. The terminology of the quoted clauses concerning the travel package (Organiser, travel, etc.) must be intended with reference to the correspondent figures of the sale contract of the single touristic services (Seller, accommodation, etc.)

Technical organisation: Sintur
Insurance: Europ Assistance S.p.A. n° 19396

Compulsory communication in accordance with the article 16 of the law 269 of 3/10/98. The Italian law punishes with imprisonment crimes concerning prostitution and child pornography, even if they have been committed abroad.

INFORMATIVA ex art. 13 D. Lgs. 196/03
(protection personal data)
The treatment of personal data, whose submittal is necessary to conclude and execute the contract, is carried out in accordance with D. Lgs. 196/2003 in both digital and printed format. Data will be transmitted only to the suppliers of the services included in the travel package. The client will be able to exercise the rights  ex art. 7 D. Lgs. 196/03, by contacting Sun Events srl, travel organization, [email protected], treatment holder.