Legal

Huachuma Works LLC is a limited liability company registered in Arizona, United States, and wholly owned by the Huachuma Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation also registered in Arizona.

Any profit Huachuma Works LLC makes is returned to the Foundation and applied to its charitable purposes.

Huachuma Works LLC, 44905 North 23rd Street, New River, AZ 85087, United States.

Write to us at [email protected].

All ceremonies take place in Peru, under Peruvian law, where this medicine has been in traditional use for around three thousand years.

No medicine is supplied, sold, shipped or administered outside Peru. Nothing crosses an international border in connection with this program, and no part of what we teach is an invitation to obtain or use this plant anywhere it is not lawful.

Participants are responsible for their own compliance with the laws of their country of residence.

Participation is subject to a health and medication review. Every applicant completes a written application and speaks with us one to one before any deposit is taken.

Some medications, including antidepressants and other serotonergic drugs, are not compatible with this medicine. Some medical and psychiatric conditions are also incompatible. We may decline an application on these grounds, and we will say so plainly and refund anything already paid.

Nothing on this website is medical advice, and nothing here is a diagnosis, a treatment or a promise of a therapeutic outcome. Decisions about your medication belong to you and your prescriber.

The program involves walking at altitude, above nine thousand feet, for several hours at a time. Please tell us about anything that affects that.

We recommend travel and medical insurance. We do not require it and we do not provide it.

Coverage that includes emergency medical treatment and evacuation is worth having at altitude, in a country your policy at home may not reach. Whatever you decide, medical and evacuation costs are yours.

A deposit of $500 confirms a place, whichever room is chosen. The balance is paid in two parts: half of what remains after the deposit is due two months before departure, and the remaining half one month before departure.

A payment plan may be agreed instead on the application call, with the balance paid in monthly installments and the last installment due one month before departure.

Paying the full amount at the time of booking stands in lieu of the deposit and reduces the total by $200. The reduction is available at booking only.

Prices are in United States dollars. Bank charges and currency conversion costs are the participant’s own.

The cancellation terms are set out in writing before any deposit is taken, and we go through them with you on the phone during the application call. Nobody is asked to pay anything before they have seen them.

If we cancel a group for any reason, everything paid is refunded in full.

If you withdraw and your place is taken by another accepted applicant, everything you have paid is refunded.

Deposits and payments are otherwise not refundable. A group of nine is booked, staffed and provisioned around the people in it, and those costs are committed well before departure.

So if illness, travel disruption or a change of circumstances means you cannot travel, contact us as early as you can. The more notice we have, the more time there is to offer the place to another accepted applicant.

Huachuma Works LLC controls the information collected here. We collect what the program needs and keep it for as long as the program needs it. We hold health information in confidence, and we do not sell your information or share it for advertising.

The same application is offered on mineralshaman.com, Hamid Jabbar's own site. An application sent from there comes to us the same way, and these terms cover it.

The application asks for your name, email and phone, your health history, your medications and supplements, and what you are hoping for. The rest arrives as you travel with us: dietary needs, emergency contacts and insurance confirmation. Server logs and traffic figures are collected automatically, and they tell us how the site is doing, not who you are.

If you join the mailing list we will email you about what Huachuma Works and the Foundation are doing. Every email has a link to unsubscribe.

What you tell us about your health and your medications is given voluntarily and held in confidence. It is read by the people running the program, it is used to decide whether this is safe and suitable for you and to look after you while you are with us, and it stays between us unless you give written permission or the law requires disclosure.

None of the information we collect is HIPAA health information, and Huachuma Works LLC is not a HIPAA covered entity, because it bills no insurance and is not a licensed healthcare provider. We still hold what you tell us to that standard.

The application form stores your answers on the server that runs our forms. Financial records last as long as tax and accounting rules require. An application from somebody we do not accept is deleted once the decision is made and told to you.

We do not sell your personal information and we do not share it for cross context advertising, as California defines those terms, and we never have.

Ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to [email protected] and we will answer within 30 days, once we have confirmed who you are. Deletion covers everything except records we are required to keep. There is no charge for asking, and asking has no effect on how your application is read.

This site is operated from Arizona and information is stored in the United States. This program is for adults, and we knowingly collect nothing from anyone under 18.

The content of this site is published for education. Links to the Huachuma Foundation and to other organizations are provided for reference, and we are not responsible for what is on sites we do not run.

Photographs on this site were taken during our own programs in Peru and are published with permission.

If you have questions about any of this, ask us before you apply. The retreat page has the prices and what is included, and the health and medication questions start on the application.