8. Our Responsibilities

The Company applies all reasonable checks to ensure that those involved in the preparation and provision of your holiday maintain the appropriate standards. The Company accepts responsibility should you suffer loss as a result of any failure by the company, its employees, agents, subcontractors or suppliers to perform its contract with you in accordance with these terms or as otherwise required by law, or improper performance of that contract. Notwithstanding the above, and save in the case of death or personal injury arising from the Company's negligence, the Company does not accept responsibility where the failure to perform or improper performance: is attributable to your own acts or omissions; is attributable to a third party unconnected with the provision of the services contracted for and is unforeseeable or unavoidable; is due to Force Majeure; is due to unusual and unforeseeable circumstances beyond the control of the Company the consequences of which could not have been avoided even if all due care had been exercised; or is due to an event which the Company, its employees, agents, suppliers and subcontractors could not, even with all due care, have foreseen or forestalled. Where legal action against any party (other than the Company) connected with your holiday is contemplated by you, you must notify us in writing of such intention prior to the commencement of proceedings.

All responsibilities and obligations in respect of carriage by air and sea are limited in the manner provided in the relevant International Conventions. Copies of the relevant International Conventions and the Conditions of Carriage are available on request from this office.  Except to the extent that these terms expressly provide to the contrary, any other liability under this clause or in respect of the contract or the holiday generally, other than in relation to fraud or death or personal injury caused by the Company's negligence shall be limited to the lesser of the actual loss suffered by the relevant person or the amount of insurance cover effected by the Company (if any) which is actually available to the Company to meet the claim or the price paid by the affected person for his/her holiday.  For the avoidance of doubt, if there is no insurance available to meet the claim the Company's liability shall be the lesser of the relevant person's actual loss or the price paid by the affected person for his or her holiday.