Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography – Workshops and Other Educational Activities

Registering for the Workshop/Course/Educational Activity
To ensure a place at the workshop/course, payment must be made in full before the workshop/course. Registrations are accepted in the order they are received. Early registration is strongly recommended since there are limited spaces available and they fill out quickly. Full payment is due upon registration. Further info about payments at info@juliaannagospodarou.com . Payment of the workshop or other educational activity constitutes agreement with these terms and conditions.

Workshop/Course Cancellation or Modification
The workshop/course may be canceled in the unlikely event the minimum number of participants is not met or if reasons beyond our control might create unsafe or undesirable travel conditions for the participants. In such case, a full refund will be issued. However, the financial liability of Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography shall be limited to the amount paid for the workshop/activity only and shall not be extended to cover any other associated travel costs that you may have incurred (e.g. non-refundable air tickets, change fees, visa fees if applicable, clothing, equipment, miscellaneous transportation costs, medical expenses, travel insurance premiums, etc.).

No refunds will be made in case of circumstances arising beyond Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography control.

Cancellation and Refund Policy
We STRONGLY recommend that you purchase a cancellation insurance, that will refund you if you have to cancel your trip or participation. Travelguard.com and Worldnomads.com are good choices for this purpose or compare plans at www.quotewright.com. There are very reasonably priced options for travel & cancellation insurance, so please make sure you have an insurance before attending the workshop.
We are not responsible for cancellations due to medical emergencies or unforeseen circumstances. Please make sure that possible last-minute emergencies are covered by your travel insurance policy.
A commitment fee of 30% of the value of the workshop/course/event fee is NON-REFUNDABLE. This fee is meant to cover the preliminary organizing and administrative costs.
In the case of a cancellation, the request must be made in writing at info@juliaannagospodarou.com . Refunds will be in full, (less the 30% commitment fee) if cancellation is made up to 90 days prior to the start of the workshop. NO REFUND will be made for cancellations made after the 90 days limit, unless you can find a replacement student for your spot who will purchase the spot from you. The workshop/course fee is event-related and CANNOT be transferred to another workshop or course.

Not Included in the Fee
Transportation, transfer fees, airfare, car rental and any other form of paid transport is not included unless otherwise noted in the itinerary; activities noted as optional in the itinerary; all gratuities, unless otherwise noted in the itinerary; passport and visa expenses; medical expenses and immunizations; baggage/accident/cancellation insurance; personal expenses, such as telephone calls, meals (except as indicated in the itinerary) alcoholic beverages; and any other items not specifically noted as included.

Travel Documentation
Each student traveling across any international boundary is solely responsible for obtaining all necessary travel documents and immunizations, including any required visas, and for complying with the laws of each country flown from (the departure country), through (any transit country) and into (the destination country). Valid passports are required for international travel.

Travel Insurance
We STRONGLY recommend that you purchase travel insurance unless you’re already covered by an existing policy, to cover for losses suffered in the event of trip cancellation or interruption, travel delay, loss of baggage and travel documents, baggage delay, medical emergencies and accidental death. We do not assume any obligations or liabilities in connection with travel insurance. It is your responsibility to purchase travel insurance if you determine that you need it and since there are many reasonably-priced options available we recommend that you make a travel & cancellation insurance before attending our events.

Liability Waiver
By attending a Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography workshop, tour, classes (private or group instruction), or other educational activity you acknowledge that you are accepting certain risks. Your application shall serve as a release of our liability. You assume complete responsibility for all risks by you and your heirs, next of kin, beneficiaries, administrators, executors, and successors now and in the future. You are acknowledging that you are aware that traveling involves some inherent risk of injury, illness, death, loss, or damage to personal property, which may be caused by acts of nature, negligence or actions of others. As part of the payment for your participation in our workshops or any other activity, you are voluntarily releasing Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography, their employees, agents, representatives, or anyone involved thereof, from any damages, liabilities, costs, injuries whether mental or physical, known or unknown, and by participation you agree to assume all risks whether known or unknown.

By attending a Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography educational activity you agree to act in a considerate manner toward all group members and with respect for the destination country’s customs.

While we carefully plan all of our itineraries, we cannot guarantee the schedule 100%. All participants must allow for flexibility and changes deemed necessary by the workshop leader. The organizer has the right to change the routes, program or any other activity at any time, if considered necessary or in the cases where it is impossible to follow the initial program due to external causes or any other reasons that might obstruct it, either acts of nature, climatic changes, geographic, physical, or governmental restrictions. Understanding this, you further agree that there will be no discounts or refunds for activities curtailed or otherwise modified by such circumstances.

You acknowledge that you are assuming the responsibility to attend an activity that matches your physical abilities and interests. You are personally responsible for being in sufficiently good health to undertake said activity. By participating to the workshop or other activity, you certify that you do not have any physical or other considerations of health that would create a risk for you or other participants.

You will be responsible for reviewing and understanding all pre-workshop/activity information; for bringing all equipment, personal items, and appropriate clothing; and for acting in a manner considerate of fellow participants, staff, locations and environments. We reserve the right to cancel any activity and to accept or reject any person as a participant in any activity.

Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography shall not be responsible or liable for any participant who commits an illegal or unlawful act, or the consequences of such an illegal act. The participant may in such circumstances be excluded from the workshop without a refund, at the sole discretion of Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography.

Use of Likeness
We reserve the right to take photographs or videos during a workshop/activity and to use them for promotional purposes, including, but not limited to: educational, informational, advertising and publicity promoting Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography workshops and educational activities, both in print and electronic media. By attending our workshops/activities, the participants agree to allow their photograph, likeness or voice to be used by Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography without compensation to the participant. If the participant prefers that their likeness not be used, they must notify Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography in writing prior to the beginning of the workshop.

Course material use and confidentiality clause

Related to our work together and the material provided in the Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art courses and especially the copyrighted ideas and study material, as my book,  my processing workflow methods and tutorials, the content of the assignments and the ideas I share with you during this course, in general, what I share with you privately and is not public content as blog articles or YouTube videos, please keep this material for personal use and do not distribute it publicly or share it with others online or offline.

Please be aware that a number of concepts and ideas we will be studying during our work together, like (en)Visionography™, Photography Drawing™, PhtD™, Architectural Street Photography™ and other specific concepts we will discuss about, are original concepts and ideas and they are considered copyrighted intellectual property of their author, Julia Anna Gospodarou, and supposed to be used as such. Also, the layout and structure of the course are subject to the same copyrights and confidentiality agreement between us and are meant for your individual use and not to be shared with thirds or publicly, or redistributed in the same form or modified.

Also, please do not record video with any means, professional or even phone, without my specific agreement, of our live interactions/lessons/demonstrations, practical or theoretical, either online or offline.

Your respecting this confidentiality clause makes it possible for me to freely share with you, without withholding anything, everything I know, and that I have developed in years of study and practice, since I will have the certainty that it will be used for your own growth as an artist and photographer and not to be redistributed.

If any confidential material or information shared during the course will be redistributed without our explicit agreement given in writing, or if it will be used in teaching similar courses, we reserve the right to take legal action against the infringing party.

By attending any Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art course, you agree with these conditions and confidentiality clause and commit to respecting them, as an official agreement bound by international law, between me, the educator, and you, the student. 

Disclaimer

The information provided in the Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art courses, also by me personally through my feedback to the student’s work is based on my personal opinions and teaching methods and cannot be considered universal photography method that would cover every need a photographer/student might have. I do my best to give the most useful tuition to my students but if my methods don’t bring the results the student hopes for, I cannot be held responsible for this. The learning process has to do with many factors among which the commitment of the student and the time he invests in his learning process, also the desire to become better and how much the photography style I am teaching suits his personal style and if he wants to learn it. Therefore, I cannot be held responsible if the images the student creates after the course are not the ones he expected before starting. This situation hasn’t happened before, on the contrary, most students I have worked with have won awards and distinctions with their photography after working with me, but I have to mention this, also as a piece of advice for the student to work hard to realize his goals in photography.

By signing up/paying for a Julia Anna Gospodarou Fine Art Photography workshop/course/activity you agree with the terms and conditions in this document.

The present terms and conditions may be subject to change without notice.