Welcome to WAMI! WAMI Tickets Incorporated (“WAMI”) is an Illinois based entertainment website. We are a ticketing and registration platform dedicated to bringing the world together through live experiences. Through our platform, mobile website and apps as they become available, and select services, we enable people in Chicago and soon all over the world to create, discover, share and register for events.
WAMI’s websites and domains, including wamitickets.com, and all of the webpages, subdomains, country level domain variants and subparts of those websites (collectively, our “Site”), all of the services available on or through the Site or otherwise provided by us (including our application programming interfaces), WAMI Tickets, and all of our free mobile applications, including without limitation, any applications provided (“Applications”) are offered, maintained and provided by WAMI. We refer to any booking and events WAMI Tickets hosts or coordinates as our “Services.”
If you have any questions or concerns at any time, please do not hesitate to contact us at the address above or by contacting us.
Through the Services, WAMI provides a simple and quick means for registered users who are event organizers, planners and charitable organizations (“Organizers” or “you”) to create event registration, speaker profile, organizer profile, fundraising and other webpages related to their events, to promote those pages and those events and to sell tickets and registrations (or issue free registrations), solicit donations and sell merchandise related to those events to users who wish to make purchases, registrations or donations from or to such events (including to free events) (“Attendees”).
As a marketplace of events of all shapes and sizes, WAMI understands the importance of providing a clean, well-lit platform where Attendees have full disclosure of the terms of their purchase and where those terms meet certain minimum requirements. For that reason, WAMI has created the following terms and conditions governing refund policies of Organizers of paid events on the Services (the “Attendee Refund Policy Requirements”). By accepting the Terms of Service, you agree to the terms of these Attendee Refund Policy Requirements without modification and enter into a binding contract with WAMI, which will be applicable when and if you use the Services to create, promote and/or collect sales proceeds for a paid event.
These Attendee Refund Policy Requirements and the rights and obligations contained in these Attendee Refund Policy Requirements are in addition to and are incorporated into the Terms of Service by reference. Nothing in these Attendee Refund Policy Requirements shall be deemed to modify, waive, amend or rescind any other term of the Terms of Service.
We understand that refund policies vary depending on the type of event and the Organizer. Because of that, we provide flexibility for Organizers to post their own policies with respect to their events, so long as they meet the following minimum requirements:
(a) No refund policies are a standard among our platform(s) unless the event is canceled, or the service is not provided. However, organizers can also set their own refund policy, but this policy must be posted on the applicable event page. Please see above.
(b) “No refund” policies are permissible but must be clearly identified as such and must otherwise comply with these minimum requirements.
(c) Refund policies (including “no refund” policies) must provide for a refund or other make good for complete failure to provide the advertised goods and services (e.g., event cancellation).
(d) Refund policies must be in accordance with all applicable local, state, provincial, national and other laws, rules and regulations, including all requirements imposed by Card Schemes or Alternative Form of Payment Frameworks (each as defined in the Merchant Agreement).
(e) Refund policies must include specific instructions on how to obtain a refund, including how, when and where to direct a refund request.
(f) Refund policies may not be changed with respect to purchases made prior to the date of such change and its posting to the applicable event page.
(g) Refund policies must set out a specific time frame within which refund requests will be responded to, which should not exceed five (5) business days for a first response; and
(h) Refund policies must otherwise be fair and reasonable.
(i) Refunds will not include website fee’s unless provided by the organizer.
If a refund policy is not posted or does not meet these minimum requirements set forth above, WAMI may (but has no obligation to) modify such refund policy such that it meets these minimum requirements. Such modification may take the form of prospectively making changes to the actual refund policy on the applicable event page or retroactively applying such changes at the time of a dispute, chargeback and/or refund request.
In order to initiate a refund request, an Attendee should contact an Organizer directly as set forth in the applicable refund policy. If no contact information is listed, the Attendee should use the contact the organizer button on the event page, or such other information posted on the event page. Organizer agrees to administer its refund policy in accordance with the terms set forth on the applicable event page and the minimum requirements set forth in Section 3.1 above.
In the event that Organizer fails to honor a refund that an Attendee believes is due under the applicable refund policy and/or the minimum requirements set forth above, that Attendee may request that WAMI initiate a refund by contacting us. WAMI will review the facts and circumstances and determine whether or not a refund is due in accordance with the applicable refund policy and the minimum requirements set forth above. WAMI will endeavor to complete its review within thirty (30) days of being contacted by Attendee. Attendees should note that if an Organizer has selected a facilitated payment method such as PayPal® for an event, WAMI will not have control of the funds and WAMI will need the provider of the facilitated payment method to cooperate in order to obtain a refund, which may not happen. All determinations of WAMI with respect to these Attendee Refund Policy Requirements, including without limitation the orders to be refunded and the size of any refund, shall be final and binding on both Organizer and Attendee.
These Attendee Refund Policy Requirements are not intended to be and do not constitute an offer to ensure the performance of or to guarantee the performance of any Organizer and are not a guarantee that refunds will be issued in any given situation.