Community Guidelines & Terms of Use
Welcome, and thanks for visiting Sankara Travel. By using our website, you’re agreeing to these Terms of Use. They’re here to set clear expectations, protect our community, and make sure our site is used in a respectful and responsible way.
Our work is rooted in anti-extractive education and solidarity-based travel—where communities are partners and teachers, not sites of consumption.
Our programs are educator-led, locally rooted, and designed to support meaningful learning and measurable impact—and these same values guide how we run our website.
These Community Guidelines & Terms of Use reflect how we strive to show up with care, accountability, and respect in digital spaces, classrooms, and the field. If anything here doesn’t work for you, we ask that you not use the site.
Our Community Values
Whether you are a student, an educator, a partner, or simply learning about our work, we invite you to engage with this space in ways that are grounded in curiosity, care, and accountability.
We ask everyone who visits our site to:
- Engage with our content thoughtfully and in good faith
- Respect the dignity, cultures, histories, and lived experiences of host communities
- Honor the educators, students, and local partners whose labor and knowledge make this work possible
- Use this space in ways that support learning, reflection, and shared responsibility
How We Show Up as Guests
Sankara Travel approaches travel and learning with humility. We understand ourselves as guests in the places and communities we visit. This means listening before acting, valuing local knowledge, compensating labor fairly when appropriate, and prioritizing long-term relationships over short-term outcomes.
Our programs are designed to support mutual learning and ethical partnership. We expect students, educators, and partners to carry these same values—respect, reciprocity, consent, and responsibility—both in the field and in how they engage with our digital spaces.
Using Our Website
You’re welcome to explore and share this website for personal, educational, or noncommercial purposes. We simply ask that you use it in ways that align with the values above and support a respectful, inclusive learning environment.
If someone uses the site in ways that undermine these values or cause harm to others, we may need to limit access to protect the integrity of the community.
Content and Ownership
All content on this website—text, images, graphics, logos, videos, and other materials—belongs to Sankara Travel or our partners, unless otherwise noted.
The information on this website is shared for general educational and informational purposes. While we do our best to keep things accurate and up to date, details may change over time.
Participation in Sankara Travel programs—including international and domestic travel—involves inherent risks. Specific program requirements, waivers, safety guidelines, and expectations are provided separately to participants.
Links to Other Websites
From time to time, our website may link to third-party websites. These sites are outside our control, and we’re not responsible for their content or practices. We encourage you to review their terms and privacy policies if you visit them.
A Note on Responsibility
We do our best to keep this website accurate, useful, and welcoming. At the same time, information may change, and the site is offered as a general resource rather than a guarantee of outcomes.
Using the website is a shared responsibility, and we ask visitors to engage with care and discernment.
Shared Accountability
We believe accountability is part of ethical engagement. By using this website, you agree to take responsibility for how you interact with it and to engage in ways that do not cause harm to Sankara Travel, our educators, students, partners, or the communities we work alongside.
Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. If we do, we’ll post the updated version on this page. Changes take effect as soon as they’re posted, so we encourage you to check back occasionally.
Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the state in which Sankara Travel is incorporated.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Sankara Travel
45 Prospect Street
contact@sankaratravel.org