Terms for purchase of online and taught courses

General terms for purchase of online and taught courses

This Services / Courses Agreement states the terms and conditions that govern the interactions and services provided by SIGNS PROJECT, and YOU, who agree to be bound by this Agreement.

For purchases via our website, by checking the “I have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions” checkbox you agree to the terms of this agreement which will bind you. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions you must cease to continue to purchase any Services from us.

You may contact us at contact@signsproject.com.

These terms and conditions are in addition to the MasterClass/MasterShip/ Courses disclaimer* and apply to the sale of any Online Course and/or Taught Course. Please read these terms and conditions carefully, to the end, before continuing in our Online Course and/or Taught Course and print off a copy for your records.

*MasterClass/MasterShip/Courses Disclaimer: “Disclaimer, This MasterShip is only for advanced tattoo artists. The information provided in or through this website is for educational and informational purposes only and solely as a self-help tool for your own use.

My role is to support and assist you in reaching your own goals, but your success depends primarily on your own effort, motivation, commitment, and follow-through.
I do not guarantee that you will attain a particular result, and you accept and understand that the results differ for each individual. Each individualʼs results depend on his or her unique background, dedication, desire, motivation, actions, and numerous other factors. You fully agree that there are no guarantees as to the specific outcome or results you can expect from using the information you receive on or through this website.

If there is any conflict between our Website Disclaimer, these terms and conditions and any Course Specific Terms and Conditions which might apply to a specific Online Course or Taught Course then the conflict shall be resolved by applying the following order of priority:

  1. Course Specific Terms and Conditions; 
  2. These Standard Terms for the Purchase of Online and Taught Courses;
  3. Website Disclaimer.

 

Definitions:

“Confidential Information” means information provided by one party to the other in written, graphic, recorded, machine-readable or other form concerning the business, clients, suppliers, finances and other areas of the other partyʼs business or products, including, without limitation, the Course Materials, but does not include information in the public domain other than through the default of the party disclosing the information, information required to be disclosed by any court or regulatory authority, or any information already in the possession or control of the disclosing party.

“Course Materials” means the information provided by SIGNS PROJECT to accompany a course provided as part of the Services in hard copy or electronic form.

“Fees” means the fees paid by you to SIGNS PROJECT.

“Intellectual Property Rights” means copyright, rights in or relating to databases, patent rights, performersʼ rights, designs and registered designs, trademarks, rights in or relating to Confidential Information and other intellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) throughout the world.

“Online Course” means the delivery by us of an online course/MasterClass/ Mastership pursuant to which you learn program/course materials remotely.

“Services” means the provision of the Online Program and/or the Course Materials together with such other services as agreed from time to time and purchased by you through the Website.

“Website” means www.signsproject.com “you” means the individual purchasing.

 

1. The Services

1.1. A description of the Services together with the dates on which the Services will begin and end are available on our website. We will provide the Services with reasonable care and skill in accordance with the description set out on the Website.

1.2. We reserve the right to vary or withdraw any of the Services described on the Website without notice.

1.3 We expect you to confirm that the Services you are purchasing, or enrolling-in, will meet your needs. These Online and Taught courses are made for advanced tattoo artists. We do not make any guarantee to you that you will obtain a particular result, professional qualification, or employment opportunity from your purchase and completion of any of the Services.

 

2. Ordering Services

Purchasing Services via the Website:

2.1. In order to purchase any of the Services on-line, you must register for an account with us via the Website. If you already have an account with us you can log into your account using your user name and password or you can log in using your Google account or Facebook account.

Purchasing Services via the Website

2.2. To purchase a Service on the website you need to have registered for an account with us to purchase any of the Services on the Website. Once your courses are purchased, your account will give you access to your courses online.

2.3. When you place an order for a Service via the Website, you are offering to purchase the Services on these terms and conditions. SIGNS PROJECT reserves the right to cancel or decline your order or any part of your order at any time until it has been confirmed in accordance with clause 2.5 below.

2.4. Following receipt by us of your order for Services via the Website we will contact you through email confirming receipt of your order.

2.5. A legally binding agreement between us and you shall come into existence when we have :

(a) accepted your offer to purchase Services from us by sending you an email confirming the purchase; and

(b) received payment of the relevant Fees from you in accordance with clause 4 below.

2.6. Where your order consists of multiple Online Courses, each individual course will be treated by us as a separate offer to purchase.

2.7. SIGNS PROJECT does not provide you any examination with any professional tattoo artist or skills follow-up program.

 

3. Cancellation and Refund

3.1. Subject to clause 3.2 below, where we have accepted/confirmed the Services being purchased by you and formed a legally binding agreement with you in accordance with clause 3.5 above. You are not permitted to cancel your purchase of the Services nor get a refund.

3.2. If you have purchased an Online Course and have already accessed all or part of the Online Course and/or started to use that Online Course then you shall have no right to cancel your order nor get a refund.

3.3. Notwithstanding clause 3.1 there is no other right to cancel or vary your purchase of Services and any other cancellation and/or variation of course dates will not be accepted by SIGNS PROJECT.

 

4. Fees

4.1. The Fees for the Services shall be as set out on the Website at the time you placed an order for them.

4.2. Unless otherwise specified at the time you purchase the Services the Fees are exclusive of GST or other local taxes. If any other costs have to be applied, each of these costs will be set out on the Website prior to your purchase of the Services.

4.3. Fees for the Service selected by you on the Website or purchased shall be paid by debit from your credit/debit card / other payment service providers at the time of purchase. Fees must be paid in full prior to you having access to any Online Course.

4.4. Any fees charged by your debit/credit card provider or other payment service providers in connection with your purchase of Services are for your own account and SIGNS PROJECT shall not be responsible for these.

4.5. You shall be responsible for all costs you incur in connection with your attendance at any of our Online Programs or Courses.

 

5. Liability

5.1. No part of the provision of the Services shall be deemed to be, nor is it intended to be, nor should it be taken to be, the provision of investment advice.

5.2. Although SIGNS PROJECT aims to provide the Services to the highest standards of the industry, neither it, nor its teachers artists accept any liability for (i) any inaccuracy or misleading information provided in the programs or Course Materials and any reliance by Client on any such information, (ii) any loss or corruption of data, (iii) any loss of profit, revenue or goodwill, or (iv) any indirect, special or consequential loss arising from any breach of the terms of this Agreement.

5.3. Except to the extent that they are expressly set out in these terms and conditions, no conditions, warranties, or other terms shall apply to the Services. Subject to clause 5.5 no implied conditions, warranties, or other terms apply (including any implied terms as to the satisfactory quality, tattoo results for purpose or conformance with description).

5.4. Subject to clause 5.5 below, SIGNS PROJECT total liability arising from or in connection with these terms and conditions and in relation to anything which we may have done or not done in connection with these terms and conditions and the delivery of the Service (and whether the liability arises because of breach of contract, negligence or for any other reason) shall be limited to the Fees received by us in connection with the relevant Online Program or Course in relation to which a dispute has arisen.

5.5. No claim may be brought more than 1 month after the last date on which the Services concerned have finished or ceased to be provided by us.

 

6. Intellectual Property

6.1. All Intellectual Property Rights in the Course Materials, Online Courses and the discourses made by our teachers tattoo artists in the Course Programs are, and remain, the intellectual property of SIGNS PROJECT or its licensors.

6.2. You are not authorized to:

(i) copy, modify, reproduce, re-publish, sub-license, sell, upload, broadcast, post, transmit or distribute any of the Course Materials. Your ID (email) and your IP address will be displayed on the entire course in a Watermark form. It is forbidden to remove it;

(ii) record on video, screen recorder or audiotape, relay by videophone or other means the Online Program or Course given;

(iii) use the Course Materials in the provision of any other course or teaching whether given by us or any third-party teacher tattoo artist;

(iv) remove any copyright or other notice of SIGNS PROJECT on the Course Materials;

(v) modify, adapt, merge, translate, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer (save to the extent permitted by law) any software forming part of the Online Program.

Breach by you of this clause 6.2 shall allow us to immediately terminate these terms and conditions with you and cease to provide you with any Services, including limiting to you the access to the Online Programs or Courses. And legal proceedings will then be initiated between you and SIGNS PROJECT. All rights are reserved.

6.3. In consideration of the Fees paid by you, we grant to you a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use the Course Materials and Services in respect of the Online Program or Course for the sole purpose of completing your own knowledge/techniques.

 

7. Confidentiality

7.1. Each party shall keep the other partyʼs Confidential Information strictly confidential and not use it otherwise than for the purposes of these terms and conditions.

7.2. Either party may disclose Confidential Information to its legal and other advisors for the purposes of obtaining advice from them.

7.3. This clause shall continue notwithstanding termination of these terms and conditions.

 

8. Termination

8.1. We shall be entitled to terminate these terms and conditions and cease to provide you with any Services with immediate effect in the event that you:

  • fail to pay when due your Fees;
  • act in an aggressive, bullying, offensive, threatening, or harassing manner towards any employee of SIGNS PROJECT, any SIGNS PROJECT official team member/employees or teacher tattoo artist who provides the support in our Services or Courses;
  • steal or act in a fraudulent or deceitful manner towards us or our employees or any other students who may be signed up to our Services or Courses;
  • intentionally or recklessly damage our reputation or the property of our employees;
  • commit any criminal offense committed on our premises or where the victim is our employee;
  • are in breach of these terms and conditions.

8.2. On termination clause 5 (liability), 6 (intellectual property rights) and 7 (confidentiality) shall continue notwithstanding such termination.

 

9. Assignment

Any Services provided by us under these terms and conditions are personal to you and cannot be transferred or assigned to any other person.

We shall be entitled to assign these terms and conditions to any other company without prior notice to you.

 

10. Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions, together with the Website Disclaimer and Course Specific Terms and Conditions are the entire agreement between the parties and supersede any prior agreements and arrangements, whether written or oral. You confirm that you have not relied on any representations in entering into these and any other terms and conditions with us. Nothing in this clause or terms and conditions shall limit liability for any fraudulent misrepresentation.

 

11. Force Majeure
SIGNS PROJECT shall not be liable to you for any breach of its obligations or termination under these terms and conditions arising from causes beyond its reasonable control, including, but not limited to, fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and other Acts of God, terrorism, strikes, delay caused by transport disputes, failure to provide a course caused by a death in the teacher tattoo artist family or SIGNS PROJECT team member/employee family, illness of the teacher tattoo artist or SIGNS PROJECT team member/employee, Government edict or regulation.

 

12. Assignment

We may assign, transfer, sub-contract any of our rights or obligations to any third party at our discretion.

 

13. Data Protection

13.1 The nature of the Services provided by us means that we will obtain, use and disclose (together “Use”) certain information about you (“Data”). This statement sets out the principles governing our Use of Data. By purchasing the Services you agree to this Use.

13.2 When you register with us you will need to provide certain Data such as your contact details and demographic information, as per our requirements. We will store this Data and use it to contact you, provide you with details of the Services you have purchased and otherwise as required during the normal provision of the course.

13.3 We may also use the above Data, and similar Data you provide us in response to surveys, to aggregate user profiles and, unless you click on the relevant button on the Registration Form, provide you with communications. We will not pass any personal data onto anyone outside of SIGNS PROJECT.

13.4 To enable us to monitor and improve our Services, we gather certain aggregated information about you, including details of your operating system, browser version, domain name, and IP address, the URL you came from and go to, and the parts of the Website you visit.

13.5. We use information such as your User ID, session identifiers, and password to enable us to identify whether you are using our services, assist with the provision of services, and ensure that you have access to relevant products.

We will only read cookies from your cookie file placed there through your web browserʼs interaction with the Website.

13.6. Our products may link to third-party websites and we are not responsible for their data policies or procedures or their content.

13.7. SIGNS PROJECT endeavors to take all reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data including the use of encryption technology, but cannot guarantee the security of any Data you disclose. You accept the inherent security implications of being and transacting on-line over the internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security.

13.8. SIGNS PROJECT may supplement the information that you provide with information we only receive from you.

13.9. If you wish to change or update the data we hold about you, please Emails us: contact@signsproject.com.

 

14. Law and Jurisdiction

This Agreement is subject to Canadian Law and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Canadian courts in connection with any dispute hereunder.

 

15. Anti-Bullying

SIGNS PROJECT holds a zero-tolerance policy for bullying.

If bullying or intimidation is communicated to us on any Social Media platform, Email, Post by a participant in our Services / Courses, s/he will have the option of changing his/her attitude right away or he/she will be forced to have to be banned from our Services / Courses. All comments are reviewed and monitored, and should a comment be inappropriate we have the liberty to remove it. If disciplinary action is required, we will bring it up with the person and request the style of communication to stop and offer strategies to repair. SIGNS PROJECT reserves the right to remove someone should their comments be inappropriate after a brave discussion and only one warning provided. We take this very seriously.

 

16. Disclaimer

The materials on the SIGNS PROJECT website are provided ‘as isʼ, ‘where isʼ, and without representation or warranty. To be clear, SIGNS PROJECT makes no warranties, expressed or implied about its training, products viability or the business opportunity and hereby disclaims and negates all warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights.

Further, SIGNS PROJECT does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, income ability, or reliability of the use of the materials on its website or otherwise relating to such training, materials, or on any sites linked to this site.

SIGNS PROJECT DOES NOT HOLD ITSELF OUT AS A POST SECONDARY SCHOOL AND PROVIDES NO EDUCATIONAL STATE CREDITS NOR ANY STATE AUTHORISED DEGREES OR CERTIFICATES THAT COULD BE USED FOR POST SECONDARY SCHOOL BENEFITS OR ALTERNATIVES OF ANY KIND. MOREOVER, THE SERVICES TRAINING AND PRODUCTS ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU MONEY AND YOU CANNOT RELY TO THE CONTRARY.

THE USE OF THE TERM ‘MASTERCLASS / COURSESʼ THROUGHOUT THE TRAINING COURSES SHALL MEAN MERELY A TRAINING PROGRAM AND NOT A ‘SCHOOLʼ. ADDITIONALLY, SIGNS PROJECT IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OR ALL TATTOOING UNDERTAKEN WITH OR WITHOUT PROPER LICENCES OR KNOWLEDGE.

UPON REVIEW AND READING OF THESE TERMS YOU INDIVIDUALLY AND AS A MEMBER IN ANY CAPACITY WILL BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREOF. YOU SHOULD SEEK YOUR OWN LEGAL COUNSEL BEFORE BECOMING A MEMBER OR PURCHASING ANY PRODUCT FROM SIGNS PROJECT OR ITS RELATED ENTITIES.

 

17. Notices

You can contact us by any of the following methods:

Email: contact@signsproject.com

 

The SIGNS PROJECT Services / Courses and all content is copyrighted and registered as assets of SIGNS PROJECT. We will be supporting the community with encouragement.