Applicable version from August 5, 2024
1. Introduction
1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website and attending our battlefield tours.
1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
1.3 If you request tickets for one of our battlefield tours you will have to agree to these terms and conditions with a legal binding digital signature through DocuSign when making your purchase.
1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.
2. Copyright notice
2.1 Copyright © 2023 - We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC
2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:
(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and
(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
3. Permission to use website
3.1 You may:
(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;
(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser; and
(c) use our website services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
3.3 You may only use our website for information and ticket requests; you must not use our website for any other purposes.
3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website); (b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
(c) show any material from our website in public;
(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
(e) redistribute material from our website.
3.6 You may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.
3.7 We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or
bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.
4. Misuse of website
4.1 You must not:
(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;
(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
(c) hack or otherwise tamper with our website;
(d) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;
(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;
(f) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
(g) impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);
(h) decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;
(i) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
(j) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
(k) use our website except by means of our public interfaces;
(l) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;
(m) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or
(n) do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.
4.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
4.3 If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our website, or any material or activity that breaches this notice, please let us know. You can let us know about any such material or activity by email us at info@gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com
4.4 We take the protection of our copyright very seriously. If we discover that you have used our copyright materials in contravention of the licence set out in this notice, we may bring legal proceedings against you, seeking monetary damages and/or an injunction to stop you using those materials. You could also be ordered to pay legal costs.
4.5 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
5. Payment Methods, Products, Ticket Requests & Deposit, Discounts, Deliveries, Refunds & Cancellation Fees, Ticket Transfer
5.1 Payment Methods
5.1.1 International payments are processed by credit card – only for U.S. residents payment by credit card or check is available.
5.1.2 Requesting tickets through the form on our website, we will take your credit card details by phone. For international buyers outside of the U.S. we offer phone calls through WhatsApp to avoid costs on our customer´s end. Once you have requested tickets for one of our battlefield tours through the form on our website, we will get back to you with further information including payment details by email. To effect your payment you will have to call us during the museum´s opening hours indicated on our website.
5.1.3 Requesting tickets by phone within the U.S., we will take your credit card details for payment during the call or will give you further details on how to submit a payment check to us. Phone calls will be answered during the museum´s opening hours which are indicated on our website.
5.1.4 Requesting tickets in person at the Gettysburg Museum of History, we will take your credit card payment or check on site.
5.2 Products (Battlefield Tour Tickets)
5.2.1 The advertising of products on our website or on site at the Gettysburg Museum of History or in any other printed format constitutes an "invitation to treat" rather than a contractual offer.
5.2.2 We may periodically change the products available on our website, at the Gettysburg Museum of History or in any other printed format and we do not undertake to continue to supply any particular product or type of product.
5.2.3 Prices stated on our website, at the Gettysburg Museum of History or in any other printed format may be stated incorrectly.
5.2.4 The sale and purchase of products through our website, at the Gettysburg Museum of History or by phone will be subject to terms and conditions of sale, and you will have to agree to these terms & conditions each time you request tickets through our website, at the Gettysburg Museum of History or by phone.
5.2.5 The prices of all products on the website, at the Gettysburg Museum of History or in our brochures are indicated in $ USD (US Dollars). Depending on the product and your location, additional exchange fees may apply based on your credit card provder´s regulations. These fees are at the customer´s responsability and not included in the product prices unless stated otherwise.
5.2.6 We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC reserves the right to modify its prices at any time. Products are billed on the basis of the rates in effect at the time the order is placed.
5.2.7 Any product reviews that you submit for publication on our website shall be subject to the terms of Section 11 and Section 13.
5.3 Ticket Requests & Deposit Payment
5.3.1 To submit a ticket request, you must provide your contact details including full name, valid email address and phone number. The information requested is mandatory and essential for the management of the contract, the customer relationship and the provision of our products.
5.3.2 Product sales will only be considered final after successful payment of the full price of any products.
5.3.3 Tickets are limited in quantity and therefore a ticket request can not be confirmed by We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC once the amount of available tickets has sold out. We do not give any guarantee that tickets will still be available at the time of your ticket request. Once tickets have sold out it will be communicated on our website.
5.3.4 Deposit payments are available for selected battlefield tours only. When deposit payments are enabled for one of our tours, a payment of 50% based on your total purchase amount is required to guarantee your booking. Deposit payments are available for a limited time only depending on the dates on which an advertised battlefield tour will take place. We reserve the right to change, modify or cancel the availability of a deposit payment. In such case only full payments will be accepted and you have no right to request a deposit payment. Should deposit payments be available it will be indicated in the ticket description on our website.
5.4 Discounts
5.4.1 Discounts for battlefield tours are only available for selected tours and only if you pay your order in full. When available, discounts are valid for a limited time only and indicated in US Dollars for each individual tour on the ticket description. Please see the ticket description of each battlefield tour to be aware of when a discount is offered and when the discount period will end.
5.4.2 We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC reserves the right to modify, withdraw or end its offers on discounts for battlefield tours at any time and you have no right to request a discount.
5.5 Deliveries
5.5.1 This section shall not create legally enforceable rights and obligations; rather, our usual practice in relation to the delivery of products is indicated in these terms and conditions.
5.5.2 No physical tickets for our battlefield tours will be sent out. Once the payment of the full amount of your purchase has been submitted to us, your ticket confirmation is your valid ticket. You must have your ticket confirmation in printed or digital format with you when doing the tour check-in on site.
5.6 Refunds & Cancellation Fees
5.6.1 Refunds for any purchase made through our website, on site at the Gettyburg Museum of History or by phone are subject to a cancellation fee. In case that you have to cancel your attendance, a 50% cancellation fee of the full ticket amount applies. No currency exchange or payment fees that you might have had will be refunded. Due to our cancellation policy we recommend that you purchase a travel cancellation insurance as this might be your only source of full reimbursement. We do not offer travel cancellation insurance ourselves.
5.6.2 Any tickets to our battlefield tours are excluded from a full refund. In the unlikely event of a cancellation of the entire battlefield tour, the event will be postponed to new dates and your tickets will remain valid for those dates. Additional individual fees such as ticketing costs, currency exchange fees, travel or accommodation costs or any other costs of any kind that may have incurred will not be refunded to you.
5.6 Ticket Transfer
5.6.3 Tickets are transferable in written form only. Please use the ticket form on our website to request a ticket transfer to another person. You must transmit your personal information provided to us when you booked your tickets. With your message in the form you will have to submit the full name of the new ticket holder including a valid email address and phone number. It will be mandatory for the new ticket holder to agree to our terms and conditions. By requesting and completing a ticket transfer you will loose your right to attend the battlefield tour you initially have purchased tickets for.
6. Battlefield Tours, International Travel, Luggage Allowance, Travel Insurance, Health & Mobility Concerns
6.1 Battlefield Tours
6.1.1 Tickets for our battlefield tours are personalised and available to purchase by a request through our website, on site at the Gettysburg Museum of History or by phone.
6.1.2 Once a ticket request has been completed and paid in full, you will receive a ticket confirmation. No physical tickets will be sent out.
6.1.3 Minors are allowed to participate in our tours when accompanied by a legal guardian or authorized person.
6.1.4 Your ticket confirmation has to be provided on the day of the event either in printed format or as digital format on your phone.
6.1.5 Special guest appearances might be subject to change due to professional reasons. In the event of a guest cancellation a replacement guest will be arranged if available. A guest cancellation does not entitle for a ticket refund.
6.1.6 Travel expenses as well as costs for accomodation and catering are only included according to the ticket description of each battlefield tour. The tour itinerary might be subject to change and can be modified at any time if needed.
6.1.7 We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC may take photographs or video recordings during the battlefield tour on which you might be identifiable. By purchasing a ticket to attend any of our battlefield tours, you authorize We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours LLC to take photos or video recodings on which you could appear. We could use these images or recordings for advertising or commercial purposes as part of the promotion of its activity on websites, social media, advertising or exhibition, but not limited to. You declare that you are of legal age and have all the capacity and powers to grant said authorization. The legal representatives purchasing tickets for the benefit of their minor children declare that they are of legal age and authorize the recording on photo or video of their minor child or children, by accepting these terms and conditions.
6.1.8 The resale of tickets for our battlefield tours is prohibited.
6.1.9 You do not have the right of withdrawal, with regard to the provision of services relating to leisure activities which must be provided on a date or a period determined. The contract is therefore definitively concluded upon placing the order in accordance with the terms specified in these terms and conditions.
6.1.10 We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC can not be held responsible for the theft or loss of your property, or for any injury or damage suffered by a participant during the event.
6.1.11 The involved parties cannot be held responsible, nor break their commitment, if the non-performance or delay in the performance of any of their obligations, as described herein, results from a case of force majeure. A case of force majeure is understood to mean any event beyond the control of the debtor, which could not be reasonably foreseen when the contract was concluded and the effects of which cannot be avoided by appropriate measures, which event prevents the performance of its obligation by the debtor. The ban on public reception decided by government authorities for a determined period for health reasons will also be considered as a case of force majeure.
6.1.12 Should We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC be forced to postpone an event due to a case of force majeure, the event will be postponed to a later date and tickets will be automatically postponed to the new date, without giving rise to a refund. If you cannot attend the event by this date, you are invited to contact us at info@gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com
6.2 International Travel
6.2.1 Before booking your ticket, please familiarize yourself with the entry requirements of the countries involved in the tour you wish to purchase tickets for. You must be in the possession of a valid passport. Your passport must also be subject to your local entry and exit regulations and valid for at least the duration of your trip or according to your local regulations.
6.3 Luggage Allowance
6.3.1 Luggage will be limited to one (1) medium suitcase with a maximum weight of 20 kg / 44 lbs and one (1) carry-on per person to ensure that there is enough space on the tour coach for all passenger luggage. Your luggage must be clearly labeled. Please check your airline weight and size restrictions on international flights.
6.3.2 We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours is not responsible for loss or damage to luggage or any other personal items during air travel, hotel stays, ferry transfers or coach travels.
6.3.3 We recommend that you hand carry travel documents such as passports, tour tickets, medications and valuables. These items are the full responsibility of the tour attendee at all times.
6.4 Travel Insurance
6.4.1 Travel insurance is not included in any ticket purchase. Each tour attendee must conclude his individual travel insurance based on his / her needs to cover any unforseen circumstances.
6.4.2 We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC does not provide travel insurance.
6.5 Health & Mobility Concerns
6.5.1 If you have not already informed us of health and / or mobility concerns with your ticket request, that may effect your enjoyment of the tour, please inform us by email as soon as possible after your ticket purchase by sending an email to info@gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com
6.5.2 In case of not providing We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC with your health or mobility concerns in advance, we can not guarantee to take these into account for the tour you have purchased tickets for.
7. Registration and accounts
7.1 We do not provide user accounts on our website at this time.
8. Our rights to use your content
8.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.
8.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media.
8.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 8.2.
8.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 8.2.
8.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
8.6 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
9. Rules about your content
9.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.
9.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).
9.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:
(a) be libellous or maliciously false;
(b) be obscene or indecent;
(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right; (d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;
(g) be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order;
(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
(i) be blasphemous;
(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;
(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
(p) constitute spam;
(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or
(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.
10. Report abuse
10.1 If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our website, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.
10.2 You can let us know about any such material or activity by sending an email to info@gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com
11. Limited warranties
11.1 We do not warrant or represent:
(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
(b) that the material on the website is up to date;
(c) that the website will operate without fault; or
(d) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
11.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
11.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.
12. Limitations and exclusions of liability
12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
12.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
(a) are subject to Section 12.1; and
(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.
12.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
12.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
12.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
12.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
12.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
12.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
13. Breaches of these terms and conditions
13.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:
(a) send you one or more formal warnings; (b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;
(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;
(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;
(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;
(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.
14. Third party websites
14.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.
14.2 We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 12.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
15. Trade marks
15.1 We Happy Few Gettysburg Museum Tours, LLC, our logos and our other registered and unregistered trade marks are trade marks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.
15.2 The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.
16. Variation
16.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
16.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.
17. Assignment
17.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
17.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
18. Severability
18.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
18.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
19. Third party rights
19.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
19.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
20. Entire agreement
20.1 Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and participation of events and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website and participation of events.
21. Law and jurisdiction
21.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with U.S. law.
21.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United States of America.
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