Please read the International Volunteer HQ Limited's (IVHQ’s) Terms and Conditions carefully before submitting your online booking form. By clicking on the box besides the words 'I have read and agree to the IVHQ legal terms and conditions' and agreeing to them in the online booking application form, you agree to the following terms and conditions. 

Travel
The volunteer is solely responsible for arranging and paying for their own travel, specifically including all airfares or other transport costs to and from the host country as well as any local transport costs. It is the responsibility of the volunteer to carry all necessary documents when travelling abroad. While IVHQ may advise the volunteer on required travel documentation, IVHQ are not responsible for any supporting documents necessary for the volunteer's travel needs or other purposes.

Insurance
IVHQ does not provide the volunteer with insurance of any kind. While travel insurance is not mandatory to volunteer with IVHQ, it is highly recommended. The volunteer is solely responsible for evaluating and determining the type, extent and levels of any insurance coverage they need or desire for their planned volunteer travel period.

Refund Policy
Compared to similar companies that provide comparable comprehensive volunteer service opportunities, IVHQ’s registration and program fees are significantly less than the fees charged by other such companies and volunteers are encouraged to compare IVHQ’s fees to the fees charged by other similar companies. As a consequence, IVHQ operates on a much smaller profit margin and is therefore unable to provide and does not provide a total refund policy.

Registration Fees
Details of our registration fees are set out on our website. The registration fee is refundable up to sixty days before the start of the volunteer’s placement in the host country. All refunds will be made less the costs incurred in processing the refund such as bank and transaction fees and an IVHQ processing fee (US$20). If the volunteer changes their start date, the date used for refund purposes will be the earliest dates the volunteer has indicated they wish to start, unless IVHQ agrees otherwise.

Requests for registration fee refunds must be posted to IVHQ (hard copy is required) with the signature of the volunteer and received by IVHQ sixty days before the start of volunteer's placement. Phone calls and e-mails are unacceptable. Once the volunteer’s refund request had been received by IVHQ, the volunteer will be notified immediately via email. If the volunteer does not receive such an email, the assumption should be made that the request has not been received.

If a volunteer registers and requests a verification email, they cannot then receive a refund for their registration fee should they withdraw from the program. Only 10% of registrations for that period in each country can be refunded.

IVHQ reserves the right to revise the registration fee at any time. All registration fee revisions will be made via the IVHQ website with seven days advanced notice given before they take affect. Registration fee revisions are not applicable to volunteers who have already submitted their online booking before the revisions are due to take affect.  A volunteer’s placement on a program cannot be confirmed until registration fee has been paid in full.

Program Fees
Details of the program fees are set out on our website. Because Program fees are paid to our partner organizations (either directly or through IVHQ and not to IVHQ) they are not refundable by IVHQ.  Program fees paid through IVHQ by means of online payment, bank or wire transfer will need to have transaction costs covered by the volunteer. All program fee revisions will be made via the IVHQ website with seven days advanced notice given before they take effect. Program fee revisions are not applicable to volunteers who have already paid their registration fee before the revisions take effect. Program fees are due 60 days prior to the beginning of the volunteer’s program placement. Failure to make this payment can result in a loss of volunteer placement with no refund of registration fee.

Registration fees and program fees are not transferrable to other persons.

Personal Risks
The volunteer acknowledges and accepts the responsibilities and risks associated with their agreement to travel to, temporarily live in and provide volunteer services in a developing country. Such travel and volunteer work can be often hazardous and involves a certain degree of risk, inherently dangerous activities and personal perils to the volunteer, both foreseen and unforeseen, all of which are fully accepted by and solely assumed by the volunteer. Therefore, IVHQ including any and all of its employees, managers, directors, shareholders, host families and host country partner organizations are not liable, to the maximum extent of the law, for any loss or harm the volunteer or associates may suffer, including but not limited to loss caused directly or indirectly by:
- Personal injury;
- Emotional injury;
- Death;
- Illness or disease;
- Damage to or loss of property;
- Hostage situations; or
- War or terrorism.

Indemnity
The volunteer agrees to indemnify IVHQ against any and all liability which IVHQ incurs arising directly or indirectly out of, or in connection (in any way) with, the volunteer's travel to, living in and providing services in the volunteer's nominated country.

Drug and Alcohol Use
The volunteer must abide by the rules put in place by IVHQ’s partner organization, volunteer placement institution and host family in regards to alcohol consumption. Drug use (unless prescribed by a doctor) is strictly prohibited and will result in instant dismissal from the program with no refund.

Miscellaneous
The volunteer agrees to comply with the partner organization's code of conduct.

IVHQ reserves the right to use feedback and images provided by volunteers for website materials such as testimonials.

IVHQ provides a service connecting volunteers to partner organizations.  You agree that IVHQ is not liable for any actions or omissions of any partner organization.

To the full extent permissible at law, all representations, terms, warranties, guarantees, or conditions whether implied by statute, common law or custom of the trade or otherwise, including, but not limited to, implied warranties and guarantees, are excluded.

Notwithstanding anything else contained in any agreement, the liability of IVHQ to the volunteer shall not in aggregate exceed the amount of the registration fee paid by the volunteer.

This website is presented solely for the purpose of promoting IVHQ services and those of IVHQ’s partner organizations. This site is controlled and operated by IVHQ from its offices in New Zealand. IVHQ makes no representation that materials in the site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible to the extent local law is applicable.

IVHQ does not warrant or make any representations regarding the correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise of the materials in this site or the result of their use.

IVHQ and its partner organizations reserve the right to remove the volunteer from the program.

Force Majeure
IVHQ has no liability for any lack of performance, unavailability or failure of the services or its website, or for any failure of IVHQ to comply with these terms and conditions, where the same arises from any cause reasonably beyond the control of IVHQ.

Governing Law
These terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand.