AGREEMENT TO TERMS OF USE

THE AMITY FAMILY CURIOUS EXPERIENCES FOR TRAVELERS is delighted you have visited www.theamityfamily.com, our website. In order to improve your experience, we are continually optimizing the function and services of the website.

Please read the following agreement to terms of use so that you understand what you are agreeing to by using the website. We hope that this will help you make an informed decision about staying on the website and continuing to use it.

These terms and conditions of use (the “Terms of Use”) apply to The Amity Family website located at www.theamityfamily.com, hereinafter the “website” or the “Site”. The website is property of Time To Smile Lda. (“The Amity Family”, “TAF”, “Tour Operator”, “we” or “us”). By using the website, you agree and you adhere to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree and/or if won't adhere, do not use the website. This agreement to terms of use will apply at all times when using our website.

The Amity Family Curious Experiences For Travelers complies with applicable legislation and regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The Amity Family reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change (including adding, removing or modifying) portions of these Terms of Use, at any time and without notice to you. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes. As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, The Amity Family grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited privilege to enter and use the Website. 

This website may contain links to websites and servers maintained by other persons or organizations. These links are provided as a service to users and are not sponsored by or affiliated with The Amity Family. Information you submit at a third-party site accessible from this website is subject to the terms of that website’s privacy policy. We have no control over how your submitted information is collected, used, or otherwise handled. We do not provide any warranty about the accuracy or source of information found on any of these third-party sites or servers, or the content of any file the user might choose to download from these third parties.

The Amity Family Curious Experiences For Travelers (hereinafter referred to as the “company” or the “tour operator” or “The Amity Family” or “TAF” or “we” or “us”) is a registered trademark operated by Time To Smile – Tourism Activities, Unip. Lda., an independent company with intra-community VAT No. PT510341225, headquarters in the city of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal and operational offices in the municipalities of Nazaré and Lisbon, also in Portugal.

The company is a Tour Operator licensed by Turismo de Portugal (the portuguese tourism authority) under permit no. RNAAT 51/2013 and complies with all legal health, safety and insurance regulations. You can check the license with Turismo de Portugal at www.rnt.turismodeportugal.pt by clicking on this web address.

The company creates and operates in-destination experiences. It offers and market tourist services, individualized or bundled, including, but not limited to, excursions, trips, visits, guided tours, accommodation, entertainment and restaurant reservations, tickets for attractions and events, leisure activities, nature activities, wine and gastronomic activities, cultural discovery and others (hereinafter referred to as "services"), directly to travelers or indirectly to them through associated or partnered websites or through authorized online and offline travel agents.

The company can be contacted: by email, at the following address experiences@theamityfamily.com; or by telephone at the following number +351 9107432989 (call over the portuguese mobile network) during office hours, which are Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (UTC+0).

The Amity Family’s Privacy Policy applies to use of this Website, and its terms are made a part of these Terms of Use by this reference. This means that the use of the website implies complete and unconditional adherence to this privacy policy statement.

The Privacy Policy includes important information about your personal data and we encourage you to read it carefully. To view The Amity Family’s Privacy Policy, click on “Privacy Policy” found at the footer to the website. Additionally, by using the website, you acknowledge and agree that Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send to the website may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notice that a particular transmission (for example, credit card information) is encrypted.

The website can only be used by people aged eighteen and over. If a person aged under eighteen wishes to use the website, he should obtain the express consent of his legal representative.

All text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, artwork and computer code (collectively, “Content”), including but not limited to the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, “look and feel” and arrangement of such Content, contained on the website is owned, controlled, credited or licensed by or to The Amity Family, and is protected by trademark, trade dress, copyright and patent laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws.

Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the website and no Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, publicly displayed, posted, encoded, uploaded, transmitted, translated, or distributed in any way (including “mirroring”) to any other computer, server, website or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without The Amity Family’s express prior written consent. The Content on this website, including without limitation, prices (if any), and the infrastructure used to provide such Content, is proprietary to The Amity Family or its suppliers and providers. You may use information on The Amity Family products and services if it is purposely made available by The Amity Family for downloading from the website, provided that you, (1) make no modifications to any such information, (2) use such information only for your personal, non-commercial informational purpose and do not copy or post such information on any networked computer or broadcast it in any media, (3) not remove any proprietary notice language in all copies of such documents, and (4) not make any additional representations or warranties relating to such information or documents.

In addition, and regardless of whether or not you have a commercial purpose, you agree not to: (i) access, monitor or copy any content from this website using a robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose; (ii) bypass or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access to this website (including violating the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on this website); or (iii) deep-link to any portion of this website.

You may not probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the website or any network connected to the website, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the website or any network connected to the website. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to the website, or any other customer of The Amity Family, to its source, or exploit the website or any service or information made available or offered by or through the website, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by the website.

You agree that you will not take any action that, in The Amity Family’s sole discretion, imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the website or The Amity Family’s’ systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to the website or to The Amity Family, or otherwise overburdens the website. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the website or any transaction being conducted on the website, or with any other person’s use of the website. You may not manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send to The Amity Family on or through the website or any service offered on or through the website. You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.

You may not use the website or any Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of The Amity Family or others.

The Company reserves the right to amend, revise, erase, validate or change, in full or in part, any content contained on the website or displayed thereon. The Company can add, erase, change or amend the website and/or its content at any time, without notice. The company reserves the right to change these Terms of Use statement at any time. This Terms of Use may be updated from time to time to keep it up to date with legal requirements and the way we operate our business. You are responsible for reviewing this agreement statement periodically and informing yourself of any changes to this statement. We suggest that you check back regularly to review any changes and amendment.

The Amity Family expressly disclaims all liability for the use, reliability, or specific features of this website, or the Content or interpretation of Content contained in this website. A visitor who uses or makes decisions based on information contained on this website does so at the visitor’s own risk. In exchange for using this website, the visitor agrees to hold us and our suppliers and providers harmless against any claims for damages arising from any decisions that the visitor makes based on such information or any use that the visitor makes on such information contained on this website. While we have tried to provide accurate and timely information, this website may contain inadvertent technical or factual inaccuracies and typographical errors. We do not represent or warrant that the information accessible via this website is accurate, complete or current. We therefore reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions and to change or update information at any time without prior notice. Please note that such errors, inaccuracies, or omissions may relate to product/service description, pricing and availability.

Information on this website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall we be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use this website, nor shall we be responsible for any damages whatsoever that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, errors, defects, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance whether or not caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of god, communications line failure, theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to this website’s records, programs, or services. In no event shall our total liability for all damages, losses, and causes of action exceed one euro (EUR 1,00). Suppliers whose services might be offered on this website are independent advisors, not employees of The Amity Family. The Amity Family is not liable for the acts, errors, omissions, representations, warranties, breaches, or negligence of these suppliers, or for any personal injuries, death, property damage, or other damages or expenses resulting therefrom. The Amity Family has no liability for, and will make no refund in the event of, any delay, cancellation, overbooking, strike, force majeure or other causes beyond its direct control. The Amity Family takes no responsibility for any additional expense, omissions, delays, re-routing, or acts of any Authority. The Amity Family does not represent or warrant that its offerings for sale are undressed of risk.

If the website makes it possible, visitors may: post reviews, comments, and other content; send e-cards and other communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, false, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other content. The Amity Family reserves the right, but not the obligation, to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content. Where applicable, the above also applies when visitors make comments, ratings or reviews on other websites or platforms, whether open or not, and whether or not the Tour Operator is represented on them, such as, but not limited to, www.tripadvisor.com; www.google.com. If this is the case, the Tour Operator reserves the right and will make every effort with the website or platform to edit and/or remove the review, rating or comment. Ultimately, depending on the extent of the damage to its business or reputation, you understand and accept that the Tour Operator may even take legal action against you.

If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, either on the Tour Operator's website, or on the website of authorized agents, or on the websites for registering ratings and reviews, you grant the Tour Operator a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant the Tour Operator the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if it chooses. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this Terms and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify the Tour Operator or its third-party suppliers for all claims resulting from content you supply. The Tour Operator has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. The Tour Operator takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

By visiting The Amity Family website, you agree that the laws of the country of Portugal, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Terms of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and The Amity Family or any other supplier or provider related to the services offered for sale. 

All aspects of the booking process for the services listed on the website, including but not limited to reservations, promotions, special offers, discounts, gift cards, prices, invoicing, taxes, refunds, cancellations, claims, deposits and payments are described in our booking policy and its terms and conditions.

The Amity Family’s general Booking Terms and Conditions will be displayed and made available to you during the booking process, possibly referred as "Terms and Conditions". Completion of the booking implies that you have read, acknowledged and accepted the Booking Terms and Conditions.

This Agreement of Terms of Use may be updated from time to time to keep it up to date with legal requirements and the way we operate our business. Any changes become effective when we post the revised statement of Terms of Use on the website. You are responsible for reviewing this statement periodically and informing yourself of any changes to this agreement. We suggest that you check back regularly to review any changes and amendments. If we make significant updates or changes to this Terms of Use, we will endeavor, but are not obliged, to inform you by means of a notice on our website or by any other means. This Terms of Use was last updated on “check at the header of this statement”. We encourage you to check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of our website after we have updated or changed our Agreement of Terms of Use will be considered your consent to those updates or changes. If the user does not accept these amendments, he should not use the Website.