Terms of service
SUNSHINE FIELDS
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The following terms and conditions have been developed to ensure your visit/booking run smoothly and safely. By making payment to Sunshine Fields for general entry or private field hire, you will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions of entry. Please refer to these terms to ensure you are aware of your responsibilities while at Sunshine Fields Sunflower Farm.
Visitors have a responsibility to take care that their actions don’t put themselves or others at risk. ALL VISITORS must comply with the health and safety guidelines set by Sunshine Fields to ensure the health and safety of everyone here at the sunflower fields. This is part of a working farm, and you enter at your own risk. Please be aware of moving farm machinery in other parts of the farm, so please do not go out of the designated area.
GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR ALL VISITORS
1. You may pick sunflowers during your visit, these are charged at $3.50 a stem. Please see a staff member at the entrance to pay for these after your visit in the field. Alternatively, you can buy pre cut flowers before or at the end of your visit. Please bring cash or a card for this. You will be charged per stem if you are found breaking any in the field without reason, or cutting and dropping/dumping flowers. Please only pick what you intend to use or keep.
2. Secateurs (strong cutters) are available to hire from staff at the entrance to the fields if you want to cut your own sunflowers but forgot your cutters. These can be hired for $20, and $15 will be refunded upon the return of the cutters in good working order.
3. Any person found to be posing a threat to their own safety or others, damaging property, venturing into taped off farm areas or littering at Sunshine Fields may be asked to leave and charged for damages. A cleaning fee of $50 will be charged to the visitor/s if the site is not left as found (ie rubbish, cigarette butts etc). Any visitors found damaging property in anyway will be required to pay for the full repair/replacement.
4. Visitors accept and understand the possible risks of visiting Sunshine Fields, such as but not limited to, injury, uneven terrain, inclement weather, other farm users. Sunshine Fields is not responsible for the loss or damage to any of the visitors property in or around the fields.
5. Sunshine Fields will have a first aid kit available at the entrance area, and cream for bee stings. Please consider refraining from visiting Sunshine Fields if you have a severe allergy to bees.
6. Whilst all care and attention is given to keep you safe, Sunshine Fields, and its staff will not assume or accept any liability or responsibility for any claim, loss, damage, personal injury, loss or damage to any personal equipment, inconvenience, costs and expenses, delays or irregularities of any nature occasioned by any circumstances.
7. Visitors must ensure there is a designated caregiver who is at least 18 years of age, responsible for all children 10 and under, and that children are supervised at all times.
8. All visitors must not undertake any illegal activities on the farm, and refrain from using drugs or consuming excessive alcohol at Sunshine Fields. All visitors understand that the fields at Sunshine Fields are unlicensed premises. Smoking/Vaping must be done off the farm property.
9. No animals are permitted at Sunshine Fields Sunflower Farm, other than guide dogs for visually impaired individuals. Horses and Dogs reside at Sunshine Fields, please do not open the gates and let them out, or lean over the fence to pat them - there is an electric fence and you will get a shock!
10. Parking: Please ensure you do not block the entrance and exit to the parking area in the paddock. During busy periods, you will be instructed by a staff member where to park.
11. Sunshine Fields reserves the right to close the fields for any reason at any time. These may include but are not limited to - Covid lockdowns, emergency situations and adverse weather conditions or damage cause by weather.
PRIVACY POLICY
12. Consent to be photographed or recorded: Visitors to Sunshine Fields may be photographed or videotaped by one of our employees, or a professional photographer. Your entry onto Sunshine Fields serves as your permission for the use of your image by Sunshine Fields. Sunshine Fields may use them on our social media, website, or advertising, including, but not limited to: print publications, video streaming on our websites and/or social media, and broadcast media.
MID WEEK PRIVATE HIRE BOOKINGS/VISITORS
BOOKING POLICY
We understand that plans may change due to illness, injury or people simply changing their minds. In turn, we ask our guests to understand that we may have turned away a number of keen people for those reserved bookings on our farm and may have incurred staffing and booking expenses.
13. All prices quoted are in $NZD.
14. Your booking will be confirmed after completing the online booking form, and once full payment has been made. All midweek visitors to Sunshine Fields must have booked, paid and confirmed their session before arriving at Sunshine Fields. No payment = no confirmed booking.
15. It is the booked visitor/s responsibltiy to make themselves familiar with Sunshine Fields and the requirements of visiting. This includes field layout (Block A and B) cleaning requirements, parking etc. The booked visitor/s must use only the area that has been booked and allocated to them.
16. You must arrive on time for midweek booked sessions. You are welcome and encouraged to arrive early and prepare in the carpark. Please be mindful that sessions can be booked back to back, and if you are late, that cuts into your session time. Please be respectful of staff and other visitors and arrive on time/early and leave on time.
17. You are welcome to bring props, food, ladders etc to your booked session. Please ensure you take home everything with you, and use only your allocated time to pack up and pack down these items.
18. Noise - Noise/music levels must be kept at an acceptable level out of respect for our neighbours. Failure to do so may result in the booking being stopped early.
CANCELLATION POLICY
19. We understand that sometimes life happens, and that bookings need to be cancelled or rescheduled. Sunshine Fields requires cancellations or rescheduling notifications 48 hours prior to your booking for a refund. The flower fields are in high demand, and late notification means others miss out unnecessarily. Where a booking is cancelled within 48 hours, NO REFUND will be given. 'No-shows' who fail to notify cancellation will not receive a refund or reschedule.
20. Sunshine Fields reserve the right to cancel or amend any booking for any reason within or beyond our control. In the case that Sunshine Fields cancels a booking, customers will be offered a full refund, or rescheduling of their booking.
21. Any cancellations by Sunshine Fields (due to rain, or weather events that damage the fields) will result in a full refund. Any rescheduling by Sunshine Fields for the same reason will ensure a full refund or transferred credit.
22. For Wedding Venue/Photos please be aware that we cannot guarantee the weather and quantity or quality of the blooms on any specified dates. By booking and paying you agree to accept that this is an outdoor venue subject to constant change by nature and Sunshine Fields will not be held liable for any costs incurred due to this.
23. Sunshine Fields Sunflower Farm will operate while the sunflowers are blooming as long as reasonably possible. If Sunshine Fields deems the sunflowers are not in good enough condition for booked clients (ie bloomed fast are all old) a full refund will be given.
BY BOOKING, AND PAYING FOR YOUR SESSION/VISIT, YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY AGREEING TO ALL THE ABOVE TERMS & CONDITIONS.