T's & C's for Online Courses inc. Wild Harvests Course and Book Content
Terms and Conditions for Online Course Purchases.
- You are buying access for one year from the date of purchase. If you need access after this, and we are able to offer access, simply email in and we can extend the course for you.
- You may not reproduce the contents of our courses as your own original content in your own teaching, whether free, face to face online or elsewhere. You may of course join our affiliate scheme and get 10% by referring your followers to our course. You can also join us as a franchisee. But please don't take our content for anything other than personal use. Any customers using our content in business use will be contacted and asked to either tag us, remove it or join us as a franchise. We have sought legal advice over this and protect our content via contract law, by adding it to the terms of your purchase - to bridge any gaps that copyright may leave.
Cancellation and Refunds:
We offer a goodwill gesture of a refund on online courses (not ebooks) if you email in to hello@wildharvest.org before the 24 hour after checking out.. please just explain the reason and use the same email that you signed up for the product with so we can match it and issue a refund.
Refunds will be to the method you used to buy the product.
We advise that upon buying an online course from us you have a quick browse from start to end immediately. We can see if you have downloaded anything.. if you are not happy with the value of the content, email us with a refund request before the 24th hour is up!
Note this is not a legal requirement for online courses where full access is available immediately upon purchase; it is a goodwill gesture.
Copyright
As mentioned above but more detail here:
It is a sad fact that when a business grows, customers often want to copy it and feel, despite often not having the years of experience living the subject; want to teach it anyway.
Whilst it is great that sustainable teaching is becoming popular, sadly this increasing phenomena isn't flattery. It's my exact business model, combination of offerings, course titles and even recipes that are being taken for the price of an ebook download. WH day courses and books are to empower women to help themselves, not help themselves to my business model that I have spent 16 years building up, and is based on even longer experience of the subjects I teach. I did this while being a single mum of three so I will fight for my content legally using contract law. I run business to business courses if your interest is to teach and my franchisees who pay for the ability to offer Wild Harvest's exact products, need protecting and going forward I need to protect our offering for new wild harvest franchisees.
It is not acceptable to take a short wild harvest. course and learn some of my own-developed recipes, methods and processes and combinations of; then (even modifying them slightly), setting up in competition to myself and my franchisees, even using the exact course name.
Included in terms and conditions for all courses going forward (and some folk are being contacted retrospectively) that the teaching of product recipes and methods; even modified, if learned on a wild harvest course or from a wild harvest book will be prohibited from being replicated for the purposes of business. This is especially but not exclusively if the word Wild is also added to the business name.
Anyone doing this will be asked to cease and receive a letter from our solicitors notifiying them of our intention to bring legal proceedings to be fined for loss of earnings from wild harvest and her franchisees by using our creations in direct teaching competition.
I think this is wholey fair, I have spent years taking a small wage to grow sustainable education to help other women, the business to business side is my reward for doing so, and I will not allow this to be jeopardised.
If you want to come to me to set up a business, I have a range of courses to suit but I am now legally protecting my general public facing teaching as am sick of seeing 'wild' this and that' offering my recipes, coupled with concepts I've taught passed off as their own and exact course titles. Like I say I am protecting our franchisees commitment to doing this ethically.
Please be aware of this before booking a course with us, the new terms and conditions will have this in them so ensure you EITHER book on a business to business course OR do not use the course contents to set up a teaching business. If you book on a foraging teaching course you are NOT buying the right to set up a course called Wild Beauty and teach my recipes, so again ensure you are choosing the exact right course for your business goals.
If you recognised yourself in reading this , my solicitor says all associations can be easily proven as all our bookings are taken online, so this is your chance to get creating your own original content and combinations of (note he says not 'variations of'), unique to your own business model and branding or come onboard and join us.
Thanking you for your understanding.
