Privacy Policy

1. An overview of data protection

General information

The following information will provide you with an easy to navigate overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit our website. The term “personal data” comprises all data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information about the subject matter of data protection, please consult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recording on our website

Who is the responsible party for the recording of data on this website (i.e. the “controller”)?

The data on this website is processed by the operator of the website, whose contact information is available under section “Information Required by Law” on this website.

How do we record your data?

We collect your data as a result of your sharing of your data with us. This may, for instance be information you enter into our contact form.

Our IT systems automatically record other data when you visit our website. This data comprises primarily technical information (e.g. web browser, operating system or time the site was accessed). This information is recorded automatically when you access our website.

What are the purposes we use your data for?

A portion of the information is generated to guarantee the error free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user patterns.

What rights do you have as far as your information is concerned?

You have the right to receive information about the source, recipients and purposes of your archived personal data at any time without having to pay a fee for such disclosures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rectified, blocked or eradicated. Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time under the address disclosed in section “Information Required by Law” on this website if you have questions about this or any other data protection related issues. You also have the right to log a complaint with the competent supervising agency.

Moreover, under certain circumstances, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data. For details, please consult the Data Protection Declaration under section “Right to Restriction of Data Processing.”

Analysis tools and tools provided by third parties

There is a possibility that your browsing patterns will be statistically analysed when your visit our website. Such analyses are performed primarily with cookies and with what we refer to as analysis programmes. As a rule, the analyses of your browsing patterns are conducted anonymously; i.e. the browsing patterns cannot be traced back to you. You have the option to object to such analyses or you can prevent their performance by not using certain tools. For detailed information about this, please consult our Data Protection Declaration below.

You do have the option to object to such analyses. We will brief you on the objection options in this Data Protection Declaration.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website and its pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confidential information and in compliance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Data Protection Declaration.

Whenever you use this website, a variety of personal information will be collected. Personal data comprises data that can be used to personally identify you. This Data Protection Declaration explains which data we collect as well as the purposes we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which purpose the information is collected.

We herewith advise you that the transmission of data via the Internet (i.e. through e-mail communications) may be prone to security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data against third party access.

Information about the responsible party (referred to as the “controller” in the GDPR)

The data processing controller on this website is:

Kite-Events
Raik Richter
Tschöpperlistrasse 8a
CH-4147 Aesch BL

Phone: +41 (0) 78 888 83 90
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The controller is the natural person or legal entity that single-handedly or jointly with others makes decisions as to the purposes of and resources for the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Revocation of your consent to the processing of data

A wide range of data processing transactions are possible only subject to your express consent. You can also revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal notification via e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation.

Right to object to the collection of data in special cases; right to object to direct advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

In the event that data are processed on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you have the right to at any time object to the processing of your personal data based on grounds arising from your unique situation. This also applies to any profiling based on these provisions. To determine the legal basis, on which any processing of data is based, please consult this Data Protection Declaration. If you log an objection, we will no longer process your affected personal data, unless we are in a position to present compelling protection worthy grounds for the processing of your data, that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or if the purpose of the processing is the claiming, exercising or defence of legal entitlements (objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR).

If your personal data is being processed in order to engage in direct advertising, you have the right to at any time object to the processing of your affected personal data for the purposes of such advertising. This also applies to profiling to the extent that it is affiliated with such direct advertising. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for direct advertising purposes (objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 2 GDPR).

Right to log a complaint with the competent supervisory agency

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects are entitled to log a complaint with a supervisory agency, in particular in the member state where they usually maintain their domicile, place of work or at the place where the alleged violation occurred. The right to log a complaint is in effect regardless of any other administrative or court proceedings available as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we automatically process on the basis of your consent or in order to fulfil a contract be handed over to you or a third party in a commonly used, machine readable format. If you should demand the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will be done only if it is technically feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as purchase orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption programme. You can recognise an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line.

If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information about, blockage, rectification and eradication of data

Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right to at any time demand information about your archived personal data, their source and recipients as well as the purpose of the processing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data rectified, blocked or eradicated. If you have questions about this subject matter or any other questions about personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time at the address provided in section “Information Required by Law.”

Right to demand processing restrictions

You have the right to demand the imposition of restrictions as far as the processing of your personal data is concerned. To do so, you may contact us at any time at the address provided in section “Information Required by Law.” The right to demand restriction of processing applies in the following cases:

In the event that you should dispute the correctness of your data archived by us, we will usually need some time to verify this claim. During the time that this investigation is ongoing, you have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
If the processing of your personal data was/is conducted in an unlawful manner, you have the option to demand the restriction of the processing of your data in lieu of demanding the eradication of this data.
If we do not need your personal data any longer and you need it to exercise, defend or claim legal entitlements, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of its eradication.
If you have raised an objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each other. As long as it has not been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to demand a restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data – with the exception of their archiving – may be processed only subject to your consent or to claim, exercise or defend legal entitlements or to protect the rights of other natural persons or legal entities or for important public interest reasons cited by the European Union or a member state of the EU.

Rejection of unsolicited e-mails

We herewith object to the use of contact information published in conjunction with the mandatory information to be provided in section “Information Required by Law” to send us promotional and information material that we have not expressly requested. The operators of this website and its pages reserve the express right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of promotional information, for instance via SPAM messages.

3. Recording of data on our website

Cookies

In some instances, our website and its pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. The purpose of cookies is to make our website more user friendly, effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after your leave our site. Other cookies will remain archived on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser the next time you visit our website.

You can adjust the settings of your browser to make sure that you are notified every time cookies are placed and to enable you to accept cookies only in specific cases or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific situations or in general and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functions of this website may be limited.

Cookies that are required for the performance of the electronic communications transaction or to provide certain functions you want to use (e.g. the shopping cart function), are stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error free and optimised provision of the operator’s services. If other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your browsing patterns) should be stored, they are addressed separately in this Data Protection Declaration.

Server log files

The provider of this website and its pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser communicates to us automatically. The information comprises:

The type and version of browser used
The used operating system
Referrer URL
The hostname of the accessing computer
The time of the server inquiry
The IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and the optimization of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded.

Contact form

If you submit inquiries to us via our contact form, the information provided in the contact form as well as any contact information provided therein will be stored by us in order to handle your inquiry and in the event that we have further questions. We will not share this information without your consent.

Hence, the processing of the data entered into the contact form occurs exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal notification via e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation.

The information you have entered into the contact form shall remain with us until you ask us to eradicate the data, revoke your consent to the archiving of data or if the purpose for which the information is being archived no longer exists (e.g. after we have concluded our response to your inquiry). This shall be without prejudice to any mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods.

Request by e-mail, telephone or fax

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or fax, your request, including all resulting personal data (name, request) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass these data on without your consent.

The processing of these data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, if your request is related to the execution of a contract or if it is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on your consent (Article 6 (1) a GDPR) and/or on our legitimate interests (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR), since we have a legitimate interest in the effective processing of requests addressed to us.

The data sent by you to us via contact requests remain with us until you request us to delete, revoke your consent to the storage or the purpose for the data storage lapses (e.g. after completion of your request). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular statutory retention periods - remain unaffected.

Processing of data (customer and contract data)

We collect, process and use personal data only to the extent necessary for the establishment, content organization or change of the legal relationship (data inventory). These actions are taken on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual actions. We collect, process and use personal data concerning the use of our website (usage data) only to the extent that this is necessary to make it possible for users to utilize the services and to bill for them.

The collected customer data shall be eradicated upon completion of the order or the termination of the business relationship. This shall be without prejudice to any statutory retention mandates.

4. Social media

Facebook plug-ins (Like & Share button)

We have integrated plug-ins of the social network Facebook, provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, on our website. You will be able to recognise Facebook plug-ins by the Facebook logo or the "Like" button on our website. An overview of the Facebook plug-ins is available under the following link: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

Whenever you visit our website and its pages, the plug-in will establish a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. As a result, Facebook will receive the information that you have visited our website with your plug-in. However, if you click the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our website and its pages with your Facebook profile. As a result, Facebook will be able to allocate the visit to our website and its pages to your Facebook user account. We have to point out, that we as the provider of the website do not have any knowledge of the transferred data and its use by Facebook. For more detailed information, please consult the Data Privacy Declaration of Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to allocate your visit to our website and its pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook account while you are on our website.

The use of the Facebook plug-in is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in being as visible as possible on social media.

Twitter plug-in

We have integrated functions of the social media platform Twitter into our website. These functions are provided by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. While you use Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function, websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and disclosed to other users. During this process, data are transferred to Twitter as well. We must point out, that we, the providers of the website and its pages do not know anything about the content of the data transferred and the use of this information by Twitter. For more details, please consult Twitter’s Data Privacy Declaration at: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.

The use of Twitter plug-ins is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in being as visible as possible on social media.

You have the option to reset your data protection settings on Twitter under the account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

5. Newsletter

Newsletter data

If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter offered on this website, we will need from you an e-mail address as well as information that allow us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and consent to the receipt of the newsletter. No further data shall be collected or shall be collected only on a voluntary basis. We shall use such data only for the sending of the requested information and shall not share such data with any third parties.

The processing of the information entered into the newsletter subscription form shall occur exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You may revoke the consent you have given to the archiving of data, the e-mail address and the use of this information for the sending of the newsletter at any time, for instance by clicking on the "Unsubscribe" link in the newsletter. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data processing transactions that have taken place to date.

The data you archive with us for the purpose of the newsletter subscription shall be archived by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Once you cancel your subscription to the newsletter, the data shall be deleted. This shall not affect data we have been archiving for other purposes.

6. Plug-ins and Tools

Google Maps

Via an API, this website uses the mapping service Google Maps. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To enable the use of the Google Maps features, your IP address must be stored. As a rule, this information is transferred to one of Google’s servers in the United States, where it is archived. The operator of this website has no control over the data transfer.

We use Google Maps to present our online content in an appealing manner and to make the locations disclosed on our website easy to find. This constitutes a legitimate interest as defined in Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For more information on the handling of user data, please review Google’s Data Privacy Declaration under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Kite Shop AGB

Spezielle Hinweise zum Versand ins Ausland:
Bei Lieferungen in das Ausland können Zölle, Steuern und Gebühren anfallen, die im angezeigten Gesamtpreis nicht enthalten sind.

Terms of Service

The present Terms of Service are an integrated part of the contract concluded between the traveller and Kite-Events, Raik Richter, Tschöpperlistrasse 8a, 4147 Aesch, later in here referred to as Kite-Events. By booking an activity offered by Kite-Events the traveller accepts these Terms of Service.

1. Registration, Booking
Registration takes place with Kite-Events in writing, by telephone, by E-mail or in person.

The traveller is bound to his registration for 5 work days.

If the traveller registers further participants, he/she is liable for the participant's contractual duties as well as for his/her own, in particular concerning the payment of the travel price.

First names and surnames are to be registered on the form according to the used personal ID cards.

The contract is concluded by confirmation through Kite-Events.

2. Subject of contract
Kite-Events agree to perform the services as booked by the traveller. The services are contractually agreed upon according to the service description (displayed in catalogues, flyer and internet for example) and the specifications in the confirmation related to that. The travel agent is entitled to change the service description priory to the conclusion of the contract at any time. However, the traveller will be informed about such change before placing the booking.

The performance duty of Kite-Events is restricted to the services contractually agreed upon, such as transport, accommodation, sports equipment. The performance duty of Kite-Events does not include weather conditions and other circumstances necessary to exercise sportive activities.

Accommodation takes place in a double room.

The journeys and services advertised on the website of Kite-Events are non-binding offers. Kite-Events explicitly reserve the right to change the advertisements at any time.

3. Prices
Price for travellers with permanent residence in Switzerland is to be paid in Swiss Francs. Travellers with a permanent residence in other countries pay in Euro. The services included in the prices result from the advertisements and the service description. Changes of prices are reserved. Possible price changes will be communicated on placing the booking.

4. Terms of payment
An advanced payment if 30 % of the total price, at least 250.00 CHF, 200.00 EUR respectively, is due immediately after issuance of the booking confirmation. The remaining amount is due latest 30 days before the departure. On short-term booking of less than 31 days before departure, the complete journey price is due immediately.

On default of punctual advanced or complete payment, Kite-Events is entitled to refuse to perform the services, to withdraw from the contract and to charge cancellation fees according to No. 6 of this agreement after fruitless expiry of a reminder granting a short payment term.

5. Requirements for participation and co-operational duties
A good physical condition is required for all activities. All travellers are obligated to announce obvious health problems to Kite-Events when placing the booking. If health problems or other problems should occur during the event, Kite-Events or the respective travel guide are to be informed immediately.

Every participant is solely responsible for the actual conduct of the booked sportive activity.

The participants are expected to be considerate concerning other participants and to integrate themselves actively into the travel group. Every participant agrees to take part in the evening cooking according to the program. The accommodation is a non-smoking accommodation. Smoking is prohibited in the entire premises.

Orders of Kite-Events, the travel guide/service performer respectively, are to be followed.

6. Withdrawal, changes by the traveller

6.1. Withdrawal, changes by the traveller
Cancellation and rebookings are to be made by e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or by letter. The calculation of cancellation fees is subject to the date – common office hours - on which the cancellation or modification request is submitted. If the request is handed in on Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays (according to holiday regulation of the canton Baselland, Switzerland), the following work day is basis for the calculation. This regulation also applies to electronically submitted requests.

6.2. Cancellation and rebooking fees
• up to 40 days before departure 30 % of the total travel price
• 39-30 days before departure 50 % of the total travel price
• 29-14 days before departure 75 % of the total travel price
• 13-3 days before departure 95 % of the total travel price
• 2 days before departure/non-arrival 100 % of the total travel price

6.3. Rebooking
6.3.1. Journey (ferry & accommodation)
Rebookings are only possible for other advertised travel dates. If the booking is confirmed by Kite-Events, the rebooking fee up to 40 days before departure is 25 CHF, 20 EUR respectively. Rebookings less than 40 days before departure will be considered as cancellations with new registration. The cancellation fees of No. 6.2. apply.

6.3.2. Substitute participants
The participant may appoint a substitute participant who will take part instead according to the agreed conditions. The substitute participant must fulfil the travel conditions and must be solvent. The original participant will be released from the contract as soon as the substitute participant has taken over the contractual position and has paid the price contractually agreed upon. The original participant is charged a rebooking fee of 25 CHF, 20 EUR respectively, by Kite-Events. The substitute participant may be appointed up to 10 days before departure. Kite-Events take 5 days to assess the substitute participant and to modify the booking. If the substitute participant is appointed less than 10 days before departure, the journey will be considered as cancellation with new registration (cancellation fees acc. to 6.2.)

7. Minimum number of participants, withdrawal, modification by Kite-Events after contract conclusion
7.1. Minimum number of participants
For all journeys the minimum number of participants is 8. If the minimum number of 8 participants is not reached, Kite-Events is entitled to withdraw from the contract up to 4 weeks before departure. The participants will be informed about the withdrawal immediately. Further going claims are excluded.

7.2. Modifications and cancellation by Kite-Events
In the interest of the participants, Kite-Events reserve the right to modify single services or the entire itinerary if unforeseeable or inevitable circumstances require doing so. Kite-Event will inform about those modifications and their effect on the travel price as quickly as possible.

If there should be a significant modification of an essential contractual aspect, the participant has the right to accept this modification or to withdraw from the contract.

If Kite-Events draw the conclusion that the journey or single activities are significantly jeopardised, complicated or impossible to be conducted due to unstable weather conditions or environmental circumstances, force majeure, authority measures, political unrest or strikes etc., Kite-Events may cancel those at any time. The participants will be informed about the withdrawal immediately; already paid sums will be refunded. Further going claims are excluded.

7.3. Exclusion of participants due to participant's fault
Kite-Events are entitled to exclude participants from the journey if his/her actions or omission give reason to do so. In that case the travel price is still due and will not be refunded.

8. Price increase
Kite-Events reserve the right to increase price after conclusion of the contract if transport cost, fees for certain services or the currency exchange rate increase.

Kite-Events will inform about possible price increases up to 3 weeks before departure. In case of price increases of more than 10%, the participant is entitled to withdraw from the contract. Participants are to send their withdrawal declaration to Kite-Events within 5 days after being informed about the price increase. In that case Kite-Events will refund the paid travel price immediately under exclusion of further going claims.

9. Arrival, non-obtained services, abortion of the journey through the participant
The participant is responsible for the punctual arrival at the place where the journey begins. On late arrival, the participant bears all additional costs. Non-obtained services will not be refunded.

If the participants cannot take advantage of all services due to being late, e.g. meals, those will not be refunded.

If the participant aborts the journey, non-obtained services cannot be refunded. The participant bears possible costs for the return travel etc.

10. Program changes after the beginning of the journey, abortion of the journey/activity through Kite-Events
Kite-Events is entitled to change or abort single parts or the entire activity or journey at any time if weather or environmental conditions, force majeure, official decrees or other unforeseeable or inevitable conditions jeopardise, complicate or make the conduct of the activity impossible.

Kite-Events, the travel guide respectively, are entitled to exclude participants from single activities or the entire journey if they endanger themselves, other participants, parts of the journey or the entire journey by their behaviour.

11. Cancellation costs, insurance for baggage, theft, accidents and health insurance
The journeys do not include cancellation costs, insurance for baggage, theft, accidents and health insurance. The participants are solely responsible for sufficient insurance coverage. Therefore participants are advised to check if their baggage-, accident- or health insurances have sufficient coverage. The health costs abroad may be significantly higher as in Switzerland or the country of residence.

In addition, we recommend to contract a travel cancellation insurance (Travelsafe, Elvira or Mobiliar etc.). Such insurances may also be contracted via Kite-Events.

12. Liability of the event participant
The event participants are to carefully treat the provided rental and test material according to Kite-Events' or the service performer's instructions. The participants are liable for damages caused on rental and test material.

The accommodation is to be treated carefully and the house rules are to be complied with. The participant is liable for damages caused to the accommodation or the furniture, respectively.

During the activities the participants are to follow Kite-Events' or the travel guide's instructions. They are to be considerate of other participants. If a participant causes damage to another participant or in another way, he/she is liable for the damage caused. If Kite-Events are prosecuted in such cases, Kite-Events may completely take regress and claim the damage as well as all costs from the participant who caused the damage.

13. Liability of Kite-Events
13.1. General information
Kite-Events compensates the participant for the non-performance of agreed services as far as Kite-Events or the travel guide fail to offer comparable services at once and so causing an impaired value of the journey, whereat Kite-Events' service duties do not consider weather and non-influenceable conditions relevant for the exercise of sports or other agreed activities. Kite-Events are not liable for the non-exercise or only partly exercise of sports activities due to weather conditions etc. 13.2. Exclusion of Kite-Events' liability
Kite-Events are not liable in case of damages caused:
● by failures of the participant priory or during the activity, especially if he/she overestimates or wrongly estimates his/her own abilities or does not follow Kite-Events' or the travel guides instructions;
● by unforeseeable or inevitable failures of third parties not involved in performing the service
● by force majeure or by incidents which Kite-Events or the travel guide could not foresee or avert despite all due diligence

In these cases any duties to compensate damages are excluded.

13.3. Limitation of liability for material and financial damages etc.
For other than physical damages resulting from the non-fulfilment or undue fulfilment of the contract, the liability of Kite-Events is limited to the maximum of the double travel price/person per participant, unless the damage is caused by intention or gross negligence; alternative regulations according to these Terms of Service are reserved as well as

13.4. Limitations and exclusions of liability according to international treaties and national laws
further going limitations and exclusions of liability according to applicable international treaties, laws based on international treaties and national laws that overrule these contractual regulations.

13.5. Flight and ship baggage
13.5.1. Flight baggage
Damages to flight baggage or its delayed delivery are to be reported immediately to the responsible airline by a notice of loss (P.I.R.). Airlines usually reject any damage claim if such notice of loss is not handed in or handed in too late.
If baggage damages are not reported within 7 days, damages due to delayed delivery not within 21 days after the handing-over of the baggage, all rights of the participant are forfeit.

13.5.2. Ship baggage
If cabin baggage should be damaged during the transport, the damage is to be reported to the carrier in writing latest on disembarkment. Damages on other pieces of baggage are to be reported on handing-over. Non-obvious damages or the loss of the baggage are to be reported within 15 days after disembarkment or handing-over, respectively.

13.6. Non-contractual (tortious) liability of Kite-Events
Non-contractual liability is based on the respective legal regulations and international treaties. For other damages than physical damages, the liability is limited to the maximum of the double travel price/person per participant in any case, unless international treaties, laws based on international treaties, national laws or these Terms of Service set further going limitations and exclusion of liability.

14. Services of third-party enterprises
Under certain circumstances it is possible to book services or to take part in events of third-party enterprises (external services) on-site. In these cases the participant directly concludes a contract with the third-party enterprise (external service provider). The third-party enterprise performs according to its own contractual and liability conditions.

Kite-Events are not liable for third-party enterprises (external services).

15. Objections, complaints, temporal limitation of liability
If a participant has reason to object during the journey or activity or suffers damage, he/she is to report to Kite-Events or the travel guide immediately has his/her objection to be confirmed. The travel guide or Kite-Events are anxious to rectify the defect and the damage during the activity. All claims against Kite-Events are to be asserted within 30 days after the contractual end of the journey under enclosure of the written confirmation of the event guide.

All rights of the participant are considered to be forfeit if the defect, the damage respectively, is not reported immediately during the journey to the travel guide or Kite-Events or if claims against Kite-Events are not asserted within 30 days after the contractual end of the journey (forfeit of rights).

All claims against Kite-Events expire one year after the contractual end of the journey. Shorter forfeiture terms, expiry terms respectively, are subject to legal regulations. This regulation is subject to mandatory, contractually not changeable longer legal expiry terms.

Alternative regulations concerning flight baggage (No. 13.5.1) and ship baggage (13.5.2.) are reserved.

16. Data protection
Kite-Events are bound to the Swiss Data Protection Act and process participant's personal data according to these regulations. If necessary for the fulfilment of the contract, Kite-Events will pass on the participant's personal data to service performers. Those may be located abroad. The service performers and Kite-Events may be obligated to pass on or to make personal data accessible to authorities if required by law or by official decree.

17. Entry, Visa and health regulations, baggage regulations
17.1. Entry regulations
In the journey advertisement details concerning passport and entry regulations are published. These regulations apply to citizens of Switzerland and Germany. Kite-Events pre-assume that no peculiarities, such as dual citizenship or statelessness, are existent.

17.2. Citizens of states of the Schengen Area
If the participant, as a citizen of a state of the Schengen Area, is travelling from one Schengen state to another Schengen state, no systematic controls of travel documents take place, yet the participant has to be in possession of mandatory travel documents and has to carry the mandatory personal ID Card with him/her at any time.

17.3. Travel documents
The participant alone is responsible if travel documents have to be issued or extended etc. If a travel document is not available or issued too late and the journey has to be cancelled or postponed, the cancellation regulations apply. 17.5. Compliance with entry requirements
The participant is responsible for the compliance with entry, health and exchange control regulations. The participant is to check priory to departure if all necessary documents are available and at hand.

17.6. Baggage regulations
Some airlines charge additional fees for baggage, which are not included in the travel price. Also for excess baggage, skiing equipment etc., extra baggage fees may be charged. Under certain circumstances those pieces of baggage are transported only on prior registration. For this registration the participant alone is responsible.

18. Applicable law, place of jurisdiction
18.1. Swiss law exclusively applies to the relationship between the participant (and other legally entitled claimants) and Kite-Events.

18.2. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for contractual as well as non-contractual claims is Aesch, Switzerland.

18.3. The choice of law (No. 18.1.) and the place of jurisdiction (No. 18.2.) are subject to mandatory applicable, contractually non-changeable regulations of mandatory applicable international treaties and national laws.

19. Changes or amendments to advertisements and these Terms of Service
Kite-Events may change advertisements, prices or these Terms of Service at any time