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BeachCorps Partnership
As stated on the BeachCorps website: “The BeachCorps model is a partnership with great nonprofits
and great private sector partners. Our model ensures everyone does what they do best: the
nonprofit(s) designs a safe and fun project with BeachCorps advice to empower their cause(s); the
excursion provider ensures smooth and safe transportation and other support; and the hotel supports
the project and provides a great hotel experience–and BeachCorps pulls the whole team together.”
To increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of all BeachCorps projects, our volunteer
vacation is carried about three private companies and a local nonprofit cause or causes. The three
private companies are:
1) BeachCorps LLC (herein “BeachCorps”) is a Washington, DC based Limited Liability Company,
receives payments and coordinates with the two local implementation partners in the Dominican
Republic (herein “BeachCorps partners). BeachCorps has provided consultation services and
organizational support to Runners Adventures and the nonprofit cause or causes you are supporting
in your volunteer vacation. Your commercial agreement is with BeachCorps LLC.
2) Runners Adventures is the excursion provider in the Dominican Republic with its principal place
of operations in Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic. Luna Tours is a registered Destination
Management Company in the Dominican Republic and the sister company of Runners Adventures.
Runners Adventures provides transportation to and from the volunteer site and other duties not
directly related to the volunteer project. BeachCorps has selected Runners Adventures in part
because of it high favorable reviews on Trip Advisor.
3) BeachCorps SRL is the local company in the Dominican Republic that executes your BeachCorps
trip with personnel hired in the Dominican Republic.
Agreement and Cancellation Agreement
BeachCorps will refund all excursion and BeachCorps payments requested more than 30 days
before your project minus processing fees. Any request made less than 30 days from the project
date will be handled at the sole discretion of BeachCorps. Unless the nonprofit cause has cancelled
the project, your contribution to the nonprofit cause will not be returned. BeachCorps can request
that a nonprofit cause return your donation, but cannot ensure that they will do so. BeachCorps
seeks to provide an outstanding service travel experience and will always issue a refund, at its sole
discretion, when BeachCorps feels that a service travel experience has fallen short of BeachCorps
standards. You understand that all problems with your BeachCorps vacation should be brought to
the attention of a BeachCorps employee. In the unlikely event of a hurricane or other natural
disaster requiring the cancellation of the project, BeachCorps will return to clients all excursion and
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fee payments made to BeachCorps, while the receiving nonprofit will be able to keep any donations
made with the understanding that they should seek to use available funds for disaster relief, recovery
and development.
Photography and Videos
BeachCorps uses the photography and videos of volunteer projects to empower great causes, and
even provides free photography and videos of projects. By joining a BeachCorps program you
acknowledge that you may appear in photography and video that BeachCorps uses to promote
BeachCorps volunteer vacations and the causes that BeachCorps supports. If you do NOT want to
appear in photos or video, you should email info@beachcorps.com and BeachCorps will make best
efforts, with no guarantees, to avoid having you appear in photos or videos.
Responsibilities
You confirm that you qualify to take the tour given the tour limitations stated for each tour. You also
acknowledge that the nonprofit cause in your itinerary is responsible for the overall volunteer
program and the safety and security of program participants while on the volunteer program site.
You also agree not liable for any act or omission of any BeachCorps partner and agree to hold
BeachCorps and Runners Adventures and BeachCorps SRL harmless from any damages arising
from any acts or omissions of the nonprofit partner or one of the other nonprofit partners or the
other nonprofit partners’ employees. You agree to hold BeachCorps harmless from any damages
arising from any acts or omissions of the properties resulting in death/personal injury to the clients
of BeachCorps outside of BeachCorps’s (or its employees) direct control. You are further agreeing
not to hold BeachCorps liable for any personal injury, property damage, or other loss, accident,
delay, inconvenience, or irregularity which may be caused by: (1) any defaults, wrongful or
negligent acts, or omissions of BeachCorps partners, other travel Suppliers (including hotels) in
your itinerary or the nonprofit organization in your itinerary, (2) any defect in or failure of any
vehicle, craft, equipment, or instrumentality owned, operated, or otherwise used or provided by
BeachCorps partners, other travel Suppliers in your itinerary or the nonprofit organization in your
itinerary. Runners Adventures will provide meals during some BeachCorps trips, while you assume
the risk of consuming local food, including food prepared by nonprofit causes.
BeachCorps has no special knowledge regarding the financial condition of the travel suppliers or
Runners Adventures or the nonprofit organization in your itinerary, unsafe conditions, health
hazards, weather hazards, or climate extremes at locations to which you may travel. For information
about travel to the Dominican Republic, go to: https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/country/
dominican-republic.html. For a worldwide terrorism alert, go to:
http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings/worldwide-caution.html.
For other information concerning possible dangers at destinations, BeachCorps recommends
contacting the Travel Warnings Section of the U.S. State Department at (202) 647-5225 or
www.travel.state.gov. For medical information, BeachCorps recommends contacting the Centers for
Disease Control at (877) FYI-TRIP or www.cdc.gov/travel. You assume full and complete
responsibility for checking and verifying any and all passport, visa, vaccination, or other entry
requirements of your destination(s), and all conditions regarding health, safety, security, political
stability, and labor or civil unrest at such destination(s). You hereby release BeachCorps from all
claims arising out of any problem covered in this paragraph. You agree that the courts in
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Washington, DC will be the exclusive jurisdiction for all claims brought by you or BeachCorps, and
you hereby submit to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.
BeachCorps urges all customers who book their hotel through BeachCorps to get travel insurance.
For your protection, we strongly recommend that you purchase trip cancellation insurance.
However, no representation or description of the insurance made by our staff constitutes a binding
assurance or promise about the insurance. We also strongly recommend that you use a credit card for
your purchase, so that you can exercise your rights under the Fair Credit Billing Act if you do not
receive the services you purchased.
All persons taking BeachCorps trips must agree to these terms and conditions.