Premium and VIP membership purchase terms 1. The service and your order These terms supplement the WorldTrip Club Terms of Service. The operator and contact details are those stated in the Terms of Service. Premium and VIP are optional online club memberships, not travel bookings, insurance or a guarantee of travel benefits. Your order records the selected package, its entitlements, total price and currency from the published WorldTrip Club offer before you pay. The displayed total is the amount charged; any currency conversion charged separately by your bank is outside WTC's control. WorldTrip Club is operated by David Clarke, a sole trader in the United Kingdom. 2. One purchase, 12 calendar months Each successful purchase provides 12 calendar months. There is no subscription and no automatic renewal. An extension of the same active package follows its existing continuous period; an expired package starts from successful payment. Calendar-month calculations account for shorter months. Free membership remains free. Founding Member is not sold through this checkout; existing lifetime rights and administrative grants are preserved. 3. Activation and payment Payment takes place on Stripe Checkout. WTC activates or schedules the purchased period only after verifying successful payment. Returning to WTC, an unpaid checkout or a failed/cancelled payment does not grant membership. An exceptional mismatch is recorded for review rather than overwriting your rights. You can return to an unfinished payment from your membership panel. An explicit request to activate after confirmed payment does not waive statutory cancellation rights. An extension may have a future start date. 4. Changing packages A purchase of VIP while Premium is active replaces Premium from successful payment and provides 12 months of VIP. Unused Premium time is not credited towards VIP or automatically refunded. WTC shows the actual Premium expiry before checkout and requires confirmation of this change. You can wait until Premium ends. Premium cannot be purchased while VIP is active. The earlier Premium remains in history and does not automatically return when VIP expires normally. These rules do not restrict statutory consumer rights. 5. Withdrawal and refunds If consumer distance-contract cancellation rights apply, you can normally withdraw within 14 days after the contract is concluded, without giving a reason. Tell WTC clearly using the contact details in the Terms of Service, giving your account email, order reference and purchase date. You may use this form: 'I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my WorldTrip Club membership purchase. Order reference: ...; purchase date: ...; name: ...; account email: ...; date: ...'. A clear equivalent statement is sufficient. Where applicable law permits a proportionate charge for a service started at your express request, any such deduction must be lawful and explained; there is no automatic deduction in the WTC application. Refunds due under applicable law are processed within the required period, normally within 14 days of your withdrawal notice, to the original payment method unless otherwise lawfully agreed. This does not limit remedies for faulty or misdescribed services or other mandatory consumer rights. Beyond those rights, unused time is not automatically refunded. Requests are reviewed by the operator and refunds are executed in Stripe, not through an automatic WTC refund button. 6. Effect of a refund or dispute A confirmed full refund withdraws only the period funded by that purchase. Other valid purchases and administrative/lifetime grants are retained. Later unstarted periods in the same extension chain can move earlier, preserving order and their full 12 months. They do not start retrospectively or restart a period already running. If VIP is refunded, previously replaced Premium can return only until its original valid end date, with no extra time for time spent on VIP. Partial refunds require review rather than an automatic loss of all rights. A dispute opening does not automatically withdraw membership. A final full loss of a payment dispute withdraws that purchase using the same protection for other purchases; partial or exceptional outcomes require review. 7. Your account and communications When a paid membership ends, your account, travel data, journal and friendships remain. Account notification preferences control membership emails. Order details and the accepted terms remain available in your purchase history. Statutory rights always take precedence over conflicting wording here.