Terms and Conditions

1. Agreement to these terms

By visiting or using Alpaca Travels, you agree to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree, do not use the site. These terms apply to all visitors, account holders, contributors, and administrators.

2. Travel information only

Alpaca Travels provides travel journals, city guides, itineraries, estimated budgets, photos, and planning information for general informational and inspirational purposes. We do not provide legal, medical, safety, immigration, visa, insurance, financial, or professional travel advice.

Travel conditions change. Prices, schedules, laws, visa rules, safety conditions, accessibility, opening hours, weather, and transportation may change without notice. You are responsible for verifying current information with official sources before traveling or spending money.

3. Your responsibility and assumption of risk

You are responsible for your own travel decisions, safety, documents, insurance, health, belongings, purchases, and conduct. Travel involves risk, including injury, illness, theft, delays, cancellations, unexpected costs, and changing local conditions. You use this site and any itinerary at your own risk.

4. Accounts and admin access

You must provide accurate information when creating or using an account. You are responsible for keeping login information confidential and for activity under your account. We may restrict, suspend, or remove accounts or content if we believe there is misuse, unauthorized access, spam, security risk, or violation of these terms.

5. User submissions and uploaded content

If you submit journals, images, text, or other content, you confirm that you have the right to submit it and that it does not violate another person's privacy, copyright, trademark, publicity rights, or other rights. Do not upload unlawful, harmful, misleading, abusive, or infringing content.

You keep ownership of your content, but you grant Alpaca Travels a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, store, display, reproduce, edit for formatting, and publish that content in connection with the site. We may remove or edit submissions at any time for moderation, security, legal, or quality reasons.

6. Downloadable PDFs and guides

Downloadable guides and PDFs are provided for convenience only. They may include estimates, suggested timing, route ideas, and budget planning ranges, but they are not guarantees. Always confirm current prices, reservations, restrictions, and local conditions before relying on a guide.

7. Third-party links and services

The site may link to maps, booking platforms, restaurants, attractions, transportation providers, social platforms, payment services, or other third-party websites. We do not control third-party services and are not responsible for their content, pricing, security, availability, policies, or actions.

8. Affiliate, sponsored, or commercial content

If Alpaca Travels uses affiliate links, sponsored content, free travel, gifted products, or paid partnerships, we will aim to disclose that relationship clearly near the relevant content. We may earn compensation from qualifying purchases or referrals, but recommendations should still reflect honest editorial judgment.

9. Intellectual property

The site design, branding, text, guides, code, layouts, and other materials are owned by Alpaca Travels or its licensors, unless otherwise stated. You may use the site for personal, non-commercial travel planning. You may not copy, scrape, resell, republish, or exploit substantial site content without written permission.

10. No warranties

The site is provided "as is" and "as available." We do not promise that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, complete, or suitable for your specific trip. To the fullest extent allowed by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Alpaca Travels and its owners, contributors, administrators, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for travel losses, personal injury, property loss, missed bookings, lost data, lost profits, or reliance on site content.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend and hold Alpaca Travels harmless from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses arising from your use of the site, your submissions, your travel decisions, your violation of these terms, or your violation of another person's rights.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new date. Continued use of the site after updates means you accept the revised terms.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to info@alpacatravels.com.