VIP FarePass (“Club”) is a product of an operating partnership between Accredited Only, Inc. (“AOI”) and Carlson Travel Group, Inc. (“Carlson”). As a registered Member of VIP FarePass (“Member”), you agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions, and when ordering anything from a supplier of products or services (a "Supplier"), you agree that these Terms and Conditions shall apply to your order.

The Club offers a variety of tickets, tours, and services (“Products”) through its website, www.VIPFarePass.com (“Site”). Club benefits include, among other things, access to providers (“Suppliers”) of Member-Only Specials ("Benefit(s)"). This Membership Agreement ("Agreement") contains all the terms and conditions that apply to you becoming a registered member of the Club ("Member"). Please note that throughout this Agreement, the words "we," "us," and "our" will mean VIP FarePass, and "you," "your," and "yours" will mean you, the Member.

Unless otherwise stated, purchases made through the Site or any VIP FarePass affiliated website are subject to these Terms & Conditions. In all booking arrangements, the person making the booking shall be deemed to have accepted these conditions on behalf of the person(s) named in the booking.

As a registered Member of VIP FarePass, you agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions, and when ordering anything from Suppliers of products, services, or benefits you agree that these Terms and Conditions shall apply to your order.

1. CLUB RULES

1.a. VIP FarePass is open to legal residents of the United States, who are eighteen (18) years of age or older, have Internet access, a valid credit card, and an existing e-mail account as of the date of their enrollment and throughout Membership term. By enrolling in VIP FarePass you are certifying that you meet these eligibility requirements.

1.b. You are obligated to provide accurate and true information when you apply for a VIP FarePass Membership and your failure to do so may invalidate your Membership and any subsequent transaction(s). Your responsibility to provide accurate information is a continuing obligation and you must notify VIP FarePass in the event that any information provided by you changes by using the contact information specified in Section 11 below.

1.c. Your Membership is non-transferable. You agree that only you will use the Membership. Club benefits may not be used in conjunction with other discounts or promotions unless otherwise specifically provided. Club benefits are for Members only. Non-members are not entitled to receive such benefits except as part of a Member booking. Member name must be part of the traveling party in order for any of the benefits to apply or be used in conjunction with a particular Trip. Failure to comply with these terms and conditions may result in cancellation of your membership with no refund of fees and/or points.

1.d. Access to and use of the Members section of the Site is through a combination of user name and password and is reserved exclusively for Members. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your user name and password and you agree to notify VIP FarePass immediately by using the contact information provided in Section 11 below if you believe that there has been any breach of security (e.g. the unauthorized use of your name and password, unauthorized use of your Membership, lost or stolen Membership information). You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account and password.

1.e. Purchases on this site must be made with a credit card, and VIP FarePass has not directed this site to, and believes that this site is not appealing to children under the age of 13. Protecting your privacy and providing security is important to us. Please read our Privacy Policy for more details regarding our information collection and practices. If you are over the age of 13 but under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

1.f. All Members are bound by VIP FarePass, AOI, and Carlson Rules, Terms of Use, Travel Terms of Use, Membership Terms of Use, Terms and Conditions, and Policies.

1.g. VIP FarePass reserves the right to refuse membership to anyone for any reason.

2. MEMBERSHIP FEES, CANCELLATIONS, AND RENEWALS

2.a. The current annual Membership fee is $49.95, which is billed to your credit card annually. You will be notified of any increase in the current annual Membership fee on the Terms and Conditions page on the VIP FarePass pages of the Site. Increases will take effect upon the annual renewal of your Membership. Membership fee may vary for those eligible to pay using rewards points.

2.b. VIP FarePass reserves the right to change the annual membership fee, but will provide you with advance notice of any such change. You are responsible for compliance with all applicable restrictions, limits, and other terms of use imposed by your credit card issuing bank. By enrolling in the Club you agree to honor all charges properly assessed to your credit card account by VIP FarePass, Carlson, or AOI.

2.c. Membership is non-refundable and effective for a period of twelve months following the membership enrollment date (one year), and twelve months following the renewal date in subsequent years. By enrolling in the Club you agree to honor all charges properly assessed to your credit card account by VIP FarePass and assert that VIP FarePass is not responsible for any fees that occur as a result of insufficient funds on your credit card.

2.d. Your VIP FarePass Membership will automatically renew to another annual membership after the first 12 months unless you contact us to cancel at the address specified in section 11 below. If you do not indicate your intention to not renew, your designated credit card will be billed for the amount of the applicable annual renewal membership fee on your anniversary date.

2.e. You may cancel your VIP FarePass Membership once you have fulfilled your one year commitment to the Club by sending a letter or email to the addresses specified in section 11 below.

2.f. VIP FarePass reserves the absolute right to cancel or suspend your Membership for any reason whatsoever. If VIP FarePass cancels your Membership, it will stop billing the annual Membership fee immediately upon cancellation. No previously paid fees will be refunded.

3. MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

3.a. As a Member, you are entitled to all of the benefits set out on the Site. The descriptions of all benefits displayed have been approved by the relevant benefit Supplier.

3.b. As a registered Member, please note that Suppliers of benefits and the benefits themselves are subject to availability and VIP FarePass reserves the right to change or discontinue any benefit without notice.

3.c. Members that are within a specified trial period upon enrollment do not have full access to benefits including, but not limited to hotel vouchers and companion passes. To become a full registered member, please contact VIP FarePass using the information specified in Section 11 below.

3.c. VIP FarePass aims to ensure that benefits remain available at all times and is constantly negotiating new benefits to ensure that you receive maximum use of your Membership. If any of the benefits become unavailable, we will attempt to ensure that prior commitments are honored, but shall not be responsible for any actions of Suppliers outside the Club’s actual control.

4. VIP FAREPASS VACATRION CENTER RESERVATIONS

4.a. The total price per person, including all taxes and applicable fees, will always be displayed prior to final purchase.

4.b. Fees paid for travel arrangements that you later cancel or modify are non refundable.

4.c. E-ticket prices include the following taxes and fees along with those listed in the chart below. Please note that these fees are subject to change without notice.

i. Airport Passenger Facility Charges: up to $18.00 USD, depending on itinerary

ii. Federal Segment Fees: $3.00 USD per segment (defined as a takeoff and landing)

iii. September 11th Security Fee: $2.50 USD per flight segment, up to a maximum $10.00 per roundtrip ticket

iv. Various airline surcharges from $1.50 USD to over $50.00 USD may apply

v. International Itineraries: up to $200.00 USD for foreign and U.S. government-imposed charges, depending on routing and destination

vi. Service Fee: non-refundable fee per ticket

vii. If the traveler's itinerary requires a paper ticket, there will be an additional charge to cover printing and express delivery of the paper ticket(s)

4.e. Information regarding taxes, governmental fees, and other charges on any travel-related transactions not discussed above will be calculated and displayed to you prior to check-out. Other charges may be incurred while traveling that are not payable to us and are not included in the quoted price, such as resort fees, gratuities, telephone fees, and room service.

4.f. VIP FarePass attempts to be as accurate as possible. However, the Club does not warrant that descriptions or other content of this Site are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items may be mis-priced. If an item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation.

4.g. VIP FarePass is not responsible for errors and/or omissions. Prices and information displayed are valid for select departures at the time of downloading original document, are subject to change without notice and may be withdrawn at any time. Club responsibility and liability does not extend to any party for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions as a result of negligence, accident, or any other cause.

4.h. When booking through the Site, you are contracting with a Supplier and all reservations are subject to the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, Conditions of Carriage, and Rules of that Supplier. Separate terms and conditions may apply to your reservations, bookings, and purchases. You agree to abide by such terms and conditions imposed by any other suppliers. Please note that VIP FarePass is not an authorized travel agent or tour operator and only acts as an introductory agent on behalf of the Supplier.

4.i. VIP FarePass urges passengers to review travel prohibitions, warnings, announcements, and advisories issued by the United States Government prior to booking travel to international destinations. Information on conditions in various countries and the level of risk associated with travel to particular international destinations can be found at www.state.gov, www.tsa.gov, www.dot.gov, www.faa.gov, www.cdc.gov, www.treas.gov/ofac, and www.customs.gov.

5. LIABILITY

5.a. Your contract for the purchase of products or services is made with the relevant Supplier only. VIP FarePass acts as an agent for the Supplier and, unless expressly provided otherwise, all of your claims are with the Supplier. You agree that any contract entered into by you with any of the Suppliers is an independent contract. VIP FarePass hereby disclaims any and all liability for any act or omission of any Supplier or any loss incurred by you as a result of any act or omission of a Supplier whether or not arranged through the VIP FarePass call center or Site. VIP FarePass makes no warranties, expressed or implied, including the warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to any of the benefits or related information.

5.b. The airline, hotels, and other Suppliers whose travel or other services are offered on this Site are independent contractors, not agents, or employees of VIP FarePass. The Club is not liable for the acts of errors, omissions, representations, warranties, breaches, or negligence of these suppliers, or for any personal injuries, death, property damage, or other damages or expenses resulting therefrom. VIP FarePass has no liability for, and will make no refund in the event of, any delay, cancellation, overbooking, strike, force majeure, or other causes beyond its direct control. VIP FarePass takes no responsibility for any additional expense, omissions delays, re-routing or acts of any government or authority.

5.c. Members purchase Trips from Travel Suppliers at their own risk. Claims for personal or monetary damage, injury or loss of life must be directed solely to the applicable Travel Supplier(s), and not to VIP FarePass.

5.d. Under no circumstances will VIP FarePass or its agents, affiliates, service providers, suppliers, and/or distributors be liable for any of the following losses, costs, expenses, or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of VIPFarePass.com regardless of the form of action.

5.f. VIP FarePass shall not be liable to you or be deemed to be in breach of these Terms and Conditions by reason of any delay in performing, or any failure to perform, any of VIP FarePass’ obligations in relation to the Services, if the delay or failure was due to any cause beyond VIP FarePass’ reasonable control.

5.g. Under no circumstances shall our liability exceed your current membership fee and under no circumstances shall we be liable for your incidental or consequential damages including failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action.

5.h. VIP FarePass aims to ensure that viruses (or other programs having adverse effects) do not reside on the Site, but VIP FarePass accepts no responsibility for any virus or other malicious code that a member may acquire from the use of the Site or from any Supplier site.

5.j. VIP FarePass accepts no liability for any losses or claims arising from any inability to access the Site or any failure to complete a transaction.

5.i. VIP FarePass tries to provide accurate and timely information. This Site may contain inadvertent technical or factual inaccuracies and typographical error. We do not represent or warrant that the information accessible via this website is accurate, complete or current.

5.k. Accessing materials on this Site, by certain persons in countries may not be lawful, and VIPFarePass.com makes no representation that materials on this Site are appropriate or available for use in locations outside of the United States.

5.m. VIP FarePass makes no warranty of any kind regarding the Club, which is provided on an “as is” basis. VIP FarePass expressly disclaims any representation or warranty that its club will be error-free. VIP FarePass further disclaims any warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of any content or information distributed with respect to the club. VIP FarePass expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and those arising by statute or otherwise in law or from a course of dealing or usage of trade. Some states do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties, so this warranty disclaimer may be limited in its applicability to you.

5.n. The failure of VIP FarePass to comply with the Terms because of an act of God, war, fire, riot, terrorism, earthquake, actions of federal, state or local governmental authorities or for any other reason beyond the reasonable control VIP FarePass shall not be deemed in breach of this Agreement. If any such contingency shall last for more than sixty (60) days, VIP FarePass shall have the right to terminate this Agreement by giving notice with no further liability to any member.

5.o. This section applies only to the extent permitted by law.

6. CHANGES TO THESE CLUB RULES

6.a. VIP FarePass may vary these Terms and Conditions from time to time and will notify you of any changes in a timely manner. Notification will be by some or all of the following media:

i. The VIP FarePass newsletter

ii. The Site

iii. E-mail

iv. By Mail

6.b. Your continued use of your Membership constitutes acceptance of any altered Terms and Conditions with or without notice of these alterations.

7. COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS

7.a. VIP FarePass owns or is lawfully entitled to all of the copyrighted material in this Site. All other intellectual property rights are reserved. This Site is for your personal use only—you may not use it for commercial purposes. You may only download to your personal computer for viewing purposes and print out a number of pages of this Site for your personal use. You may not derive works from, transfer or sell any information obtained from this Site.

7.b. All trademarks, product names, and company names and logos appearing on this web site are the property of their respective owners.

8. LINKS

8.a. VIP FarePass assumes no responsibility for the contents of any other web sites to which the Site has links and shall not be held responsible or liable for any loss or damages caused or alleged to have been caused by use of or reliance on any content, products or services available on such hyperlinked sites. VIP FarePass may not have control of such web sites. The inclusion of any hyperlinks to such other web sites does not mean that VIP FarePass endorses the material on such web sites or has any association with the owner thereof.

9. GOVERNING LAW

9.a. Nothing in this Agreement is meant to supersede or override any provisions of current or future applicable laws and regulations. This Agreement and the Terms of Membership shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota without giving effect to the choice of law provisions thereof. Any dispute arising between Members and VIP FarePass will be resolved by submission to arbitration in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association then in effect. If you do not prevail in any such action, you agree that you will pay all costs incurred by VIP FarePass in defending such action, including reasonable attorneys' fees. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to negate or otherwise affect the consumer protection laws of the state in which Members reside.

10. SELLER OF TRAVEL INFORMATION

CST #2036509-50, OH SOT #87890286, WA UBI #601123743. SOT numbers pending for FL, HI and OR. (Registration as a Seller of Travel (SOT) does not constitute approval by the State of California.)

11. CONTACTING US

By Mail:
VIP Fare Pass
c/o Accredited Only, Inc.
P.O. Box 15004
Minneapolis, MN 55451
By Email:
Support@VIPFarePass.com

By Telephone:
Please call our toll free number, 1.866.503.8582. Reservations agents are available Monday-Friday from 8AM to 8PM and on Saturdays between 8AM and 4PM Central time.