Terms and Conditions for Provision of Educational Courses

• These terms
  • These are the terms and conditions on which we supply Courses to you.
  • Please read these terms carefully before you purchase a Course from us. They tell you who we are, how we will provide Courses to you, how you and we may change or end the contract, what to do if there is a problem and other important information. If you think that there is a mistake in these terms, please contact us to discuss.
  • We don’t give business customers all the same rights as consumers in these terms. Where a term applies just to business customers or just to consumers, this is clearly stated. You are a business customer if you are buying products or services wholly or mainly for use in connection with your trade, business, craft or profession, even if you are an individual.
• INFORMATION ABOUT US AND HOW TO CONTACT US
  • globalbusinessacumencentre.com is operated by Global Business Acumen Centre Limited (GBAC, we, us, our), a company registered in England and Wales. Our registration number is 15198165 and our registered office is at 6th Floor 9 Appold Street, London, United Kingdom, EC2A 2AP.
  • You can contact us using the following details:

Email:            info@globalbusinessacumencentre.com

• Definitions
  • In these terms, the following definitions shall apply.

• OUR CONTRACT WITH YOU
  • All orders for Courses can be made via the Website or by email and are subject to these terms.
  • We contact you to confirm we’ve received your order for a Course. We then contact you again to confirm we’ve accepted it. A legally binding agreement shall not come into existence until we accept your order or, if earlier, we supply digital content to you.
  • Where your Order consists of multiple Courses, each Course will be treated as a separate offer to purchase and is subject to a separate acceptance.
  • We may reject an order, for example, because a Course is fully booked or has been withdrawn. When this happens, we let you know as soon as possible and refund any sums you have paid.
  • We have the right, at any time, to withdraw any Course advertised on our Website.
  • We may, at our sole discretion, allow you to cancel your Order and provide you with a full or partial refund where you provide a legitimate reason, as determined by us, for not being able to carry out the Course.
• PRICE AND PAYMENT
  • Current Course Fees are displayed on the Website. Fees are quoted, and payment shall be made, in pounds sterling or local currency, inclusive of VAT or any other applicable sales tax.
  • We charge you when you order a Course.
  • Provision of the Course and the Course Materials to you is contingent upon us having received cleared funds from you in respect of the applicable Fee. Without prejudice to our rights and remedies under these terms, until any Fee has been paid in cleared funds we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to suspend the provision to you of the relevant Course and Course Materials.
  • If you are a business customer you must pay all amounts due to us under these terms in full without any set-off, counterclaim, deduction or withholding (other than any deduction or withholding of tax as required by law).
  • If we’re unable to collect any payment you owe us we may charge interest on the overdue amount at the rate of 4% a year above the Bank of England base rate from time to time. This interest accrues on a daily basis from the due date until the date of actual payment of the overdue amount, whether before or after judgment. You pay us the interest together with any overdue amount.
• CANCELLATION RIGHTS – CONSUMERS ONLY 
  • If you are a consumer, unless one of the exceptions in clause 2 below applies, you have a legal right to change your mind about your purchase of one of our Courses within a period of 14 days after the day we confirm we have accepted your order (Cancellation Period) and to receive a refund of what you paid for it, including the delivery costs. This is subject to some conditions, as set out below.
  • Your right to cancel and obtain any refund will be lost if:
    • you start to access the Course and/or the digital Course Materials before the end of the Cancellation Period; or
    • you have given us your express consent to the Course beginning before the end of the Cancellation Period and you have acknowledged you accept you lose your cancellation rights. This consent includes ticking a box giving such consent at time of purchase.
  • If you change your mind about a Course and you have not lost your right to cancel (as set out under clause 2) you must let us know no later than 14 days after the day we confirm we have accepted your order by emailing admin@globalbusinessacumencentre.com.
  • If your product is a service, digital content or goods that haven’t been delivered, we refund you as soon as possible and within 14 days of you telling us you’ve changed your mind. We will refund you by the method you used for payment. We don’t charge a fee for the refund.
• DELAYS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL AND MINIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
  • If our provision of the Course, or part of the Course, is delayed by an event outside our control, we contact you as soon as possible to let you know and do what we can to reduce the delay. As long as we do this, we won’t compensate you for the delay, but if the delay is likely to be substantial, you can contact us to end the contract and receive a refund of any amounts paid in advance which relate to the Course, or part of the Couse, (as applicable) which you have not received.
• SUPPLY OF COURSES
  • You must be 17 or over to accept these terms and purchase a Course.
  • We will provide the Course Materials in accordance with the Course description that is set out on the Website in all material respects and using reasonable care and skill.
  • Subject to clause 4, you must complete the Course within the Course Term.
  • At our sole discretion, we may grant an extension of time for you to complete the Course, if there is, in our sole opinion, a valid reason for doing so (for example illness, family bereavement).
  • It is your responsibility to take reasonable care to verify that the Course and Course Materials will meet your needs. We do not make any representation, guarantee or commitment to you that the Course Materials will meet your needs.
  • We do not warrant that:
    • you will obtain any particular result from your use of the Course Materials;
    • you will obtain any particular qualification on completion of the Course;
    • you will reach any intended training level;
    • you will pass any exam unless otherwise stated on the Website.
  • The Course and Course Materials are provided for general educational purposes only. They do not offer advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of information obtained from the Course and/or Course Materials. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information provided by the platform, App and the Service, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that such information is accurate, complete or up to date.
  • We reserve the right to amend the services being supplied if necessary to comply with any applicable law or regulatory requirement, or if the amendment will not materially affect the nature or quality of the services, and we shall notify you in any such event.
  • All representations, warranties and/or terms and/or commitments not expressly set out in these terms (whether implied by law, conduct, and statute or otherwise) are hereby excluded to the maximum extent permissible by law.
  • Where you are required to set up a password to access the Course and/or Course Materials, you must keep your password confidential and not share it with anybody else. You must not permit anyone else to access the Course and/or Course Materials using your log in details.
  • We have a zero-tolerance policy in relation to inappropriate behaviour of learners. In particular, abusive or violent behaviour directed at our staff or other learners and unfair or dishonest practices including but not limited to cheating, will not be tolerated under any circumstances. We may, at our reasonable discretion and without liability or any obligation to refund any sums paid by you, refuse to supply any Course to you if, in our reasonable opinion, your participation in the Course is undesirable or where we consider your behaviour is or may be in breach of these terms.
  • Where a Course requires the completion of homework, tests, or similar, then it is your responsibility to ensure that such work is completed in the required timescales. Failure to complete such work may mean you are not permitted to complete the Course. We will not refund any element of the Fee in this situation.
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
  • At all times, we and/or our licensors, remain the owners of the Intellectual Property Rights in the Courses and the Course Materials.
  • In consideration of receipt by us of the Fee, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access the Course and to use the Course Materials during the Course Term, for the sole purpose of studying for the Course.
  • When accessing the Course, you must not access, store, distribute or transmit any viruses, or any material that:
    • is unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, infringing, harassing or racially or ethnically offensive;
    • facilitates illegal activity;
    • depicts sexually explicit images;
    • promotes unlawful violence;
    • is discriminatory based on race, gender, colour, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability; or
    • is otherwise illegal or causes damage or injury to any person or property;

and we reserve the right, without liability or prejudice to its other rights to you, to disable your access to any material that breach the provisions of this clause.

• You must not:
  • except as may be allowed by any applicable law which is incapable of exclusion by agreement between us and except to the extent expressly permitted under this agreement:
    • attempt to copy, modify, reproduce, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, download, make available, display, transmit, or distribute all or any portion of our software, any Course and/or Course Materials (as applicable) in any form or media or by any means; or
    • attempt to de-compile, reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of our software or the Courses; or
  • access all or any part of any Course and Course Material in order to build a product or service which competes with our services; or
  • license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, or otherwise commercially exploit, or otherwise make the Services and/or Documentation available to any third party except the Authorised Users, or
  • introduce or permit the introduction of, any virus into any Course or our network and information systems.
• Use of the Course Materials not expressly permitted in these terms is strictly prohibited and will constitute an infringement of our copyright or other Intellectual Property Rights, and/or the copyright or other Intellectual Property Rights of our licensors.
• You grant us a fully paid-up, non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable licence to copy and modify any materials provided by you to us as part of the Course for the purpose of providing the Course to you.
• We may require that you cease all use of any of the Course and the Course Materials if we reasonably believe that such use infringes the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party, or breaches any applicable law or regulation. In this instance, we may, at our option either:
  • replace or modify the Course or Course Materials so that they become non-infringing (but still meet the Course description); or
  • terminate the contract with you immediately on written notice and provide you with a pro-rata refund for the elements of the Course which have not been provided or completed, but without any other liability or obligation to pay any other additional costs to you.
• TERMINATION OF CONTRACT
  • We can end our contract with you and claim any compensation due to us if:
    • You don’t make any payment to us when it’s due;
    • You don’t, within a reasonable time of us asking for it, provide us with information, that we need to provide the Course, for example, the mandatory information in the registration or enrolment form;
    • You if you breach any of these terms in a serious way, such as any breach of clauses 8.10, 8.11 and/or 9. If what you have done can be put right we will give you a reasonable opportunity to do so.
    • You don’t complete the course within the Course Term.
  • SUSPENSION OF SERVICES
    • We can suspend the supply of services to you at any time. We may do this to resolve any unforeseen technical problems or make minor technical changes or update the service to reflect changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements. Where we suspend the services, we will use reasonable endeavours to give you notice in advance.
  • Our Liability
    • Nothing in these terms shall limit or exclude our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors (as applicable) or any other liability which cannot be lawfully limited or excluded.
    • Consumers. If you’re a consumer then we’re liable to you for potential losses you may suffer caused by us breaking this contract unless the loss is:
      • It was not obvious that it would happen and nothing you said to us before we accepted your order meant we should have expected it (so, in the law, the loss was unforeseeable).
      • Caused by a delaying event outside our control. As long as we have taken the steps set out in clause 1.
      • Something you could have avoided by taking reasonable action. For example, damage to your own digital content or device, which was caused by digital content we supplied and which you could have avoided by following our advice to apply a free update or by correctly following the installation instructions or having the minimum system requirements advised by us.
      • A business loss. Our liability for any loss you suffer in connection with your trade, business, craft or profession is limited, as described in our liability to businesses, set out below.
    • Businesses. If you’re a business, then:
      • we shall not be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, for any loss of profit, or any indirect or consequential loss arising under or in connection with any contract between us; and
      • our total liability to you for all other losses arising under or in connection with any contract between us, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall be limited to one hundred per cent (100%) of the Fees paid by you for the Course purchased under such contract.
    • USE OF PERSONAL DATA
      • How we use any personal data you give us is set out in our Privacy Policy: https://globalbusinessacumencentre.com/privacy-policy/
    • Other Important Terms
      • If you are a business customer these terms, and our Website Terms of Use [(if you purchase the Course via the Website)] constitute the entire agreement between us in relation to your purchase. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, promise, representation, assurance or warranty made or given by us or on our behalf which is not set out in these terms and that you have no claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation or negligent misstatement based on any statement in this agreement.
      • These terms are governed by English law. If you are a consumer then, wherever you live, you can bring claims against us in the English courts and if you live in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring claims against us in the courts of the country you live in. If you are a consumer we can claim against you in the courts of the country you live in. If you are a business you irrevocably agree to submit all disputes arising out of or in connection with our contract with you to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
      • We can transfer our contract with you, so that a different organisation is responsible for supplying the Course. We’ll tell you in writing if this happens and if you are a consumer we’ll ensure that the transfer won’t affect your rights under the contract. You can only transfer your contract with us to someone else if we agree to this.
      • This contract is between you and us. Nobody else can enforce it and neither of us will need to ask anybody else to sign-off on ending or changing it.
      • If a court or other authority decides that some of these terms are unlawful, the rest will continue to apply.
      • We might not immediately chase you for not doing something (like paying) or for doing something you’re not allowed to, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do it later.