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EMPOWERED PARENTS TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF WEBSITE USE AND SERVICES

By accessing or using https://empoweredparents.co/ its related blogs, websites, or platforms (collectively, “the Website) owned and operated by Tanja Mcllroy (as a sole proprietor) or any of its Services, you agree that you have read, understood and agree to be bound to the terms and conditions contained herein (“Terms”), in conjunction with any additional terms particularly applicable to you and the Services you utilise. All rights in and to the content of the Website remain at all times expressly reserved by Empowered Parents.

Please see Empowered Parents’ distinct sections on Intellectual Property, and Disclaimers & Indemnities.

Please pay specific attention to the BOLD paragraphs of the Empowered Parents Terms. These paragraphs limit the risk or liability of Empowered Parents, constitutes an assumption of risk or liability by you, impose an obligation by you to indemnify Empowered Parents or is an acknowledgement of any fact by you.

Please read these terms carefully before accessing or using the Website or Services. Empowered Parents will assume you have read and understood these terms should you continue to access or make use of the Website.

It is important to note the following:

  • The terms “user“, “you” and “your” are used interchangeably in these Terms and refer to all persons accessing the Website or using the Services for any reason whatsoever. Accordingly, the terms “us”, “our” or “we” refers to Empowered Parents or its possession.
  • Not all terms are necessarily defined in order.
  • These terms were last updated on 20 April 2022.
  1. INTRODUCTION TO THE WEBSITE AND SERVICES

    1.1. Empowered Parents provides online and offline content on child development and learning through play in early childhood years. The Website offers digital products, play programmes, printable activities for parents and teachers, as well as online courses (collectively, the “Services”).

    1.2. These Terms explain the conditions applicable to how users must make use of the Website and the core provisions applicable to a user’s use of any Services derived from Empowered Parents.

    1.3. In return for using some of the Services available, the user may have to pay a fee to Empowered Parents or another third party (“Fee”), but same Fee will be detailed to you on the Website before you incur such a Fee. Please see our Website for a description of the Fees.

    1.4. The Website and these Terms are subject to change without notice. These Terms are updated or amended from time to time and will be effective upon Empowered Parents uploading the amended Terms to the Website. Your continued access or use of the Website constitutes your acceptance to be bound by the Terms, as amended. It is your responsibility to read these Terms periodically to ensure you are aware of any changes.

    1.5. Unauthorised use of the Website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.
  1. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND REGULATORY OVERSIGHT

    2.1. For all Services provided, Empowered Parents does not have an agent, intermediary, advisory or representative relationship with any user. Your use of the Website or the Services is entirely at your own risk and based on your own volition and expertise.

    2.2. Empowered Parents does not provide any regulated educational, psychological, medical, financial, advisor or payment services. As such, the Services are not subject to oversight or regulation by any regulatory authority in South Africa, other than those concerning general consumer rights.

    2.3. Any information provided by Empowered Parents is
  1. THE SERVICES

    3.1. For further and exact information on the various Services currently offered by Empowered Parents, or those specific to you, please consult the relevant pages on the Website or please contact tanja@empoweredparents.co for further assistance.

    3.2. For general information purposes, and subject to further information relating to these Services made available by Empowered Parents on the Website or elsewhere, the following details some of the exciting offerings which constitute our Services available to users:

    3.2.1. Browsing our online child development content:
    3.2.1.1. Users can browse our various online child development content using the Learning Through Play and School Readiness pages on our Website.
    3.2.1.2. All guidance provided in this regard is for information and informal education purposes only, where the user must still use their own volition and expertise when using any such information/guidance for their own unique learning purposes.

    3.2.2. Purchase content from our online store:
    3.2.2.1. Users can purchase activity packs and printable activities and worksheets from our Website via the Activity Packs page.
    3.2.2.2. All activity packs and printables are hosted using our authorised third-party providers which ensures we offer users safe online purchases.

    3.2.3. Access our blog and other multimedia content:
    3.2.3.1. Users can access our blog via our Website.
    3.2.3.2. We will also communicate with users by means of our email notices.

    3.2.4. Engaging with our Social Media platforms:
    3.2.4.1. Follow our Facebook page and Pinterest boards to engage with our blog posts and various uploaded pins.

    3.3. You agree and understand that any information, guidance, or training provided to any user on the Website or as part of the Services, is general in nature and is not intended to replace that of any professional in the field of early childhood development, such as occupational therapists, speech therapists, physiotherapists, play therapists, educational psychologists, remedial therapists, or any other professional. None of the information provided is specific to any particular user or their child for any specific developmental need of that user or their child unless otherwise specified. A user is at all times responsible for their own decisions and actions relating to the Website and Services, where any such information provided by Empowered Parents is only ever general, opinion and experienced based in nature.
  1. PAYMENT FOR EMPOWERED PARENTS SERVICES

    4.1. For the use of the Website and some of the Services, there is no Fee charged to the user, but the purchase of online courses, activity packs and printables does attract a Fee to be paid by the user to Empowered Parents. Empowered Parents will charge the Fee to the user on the following basis:

    4.1.1. Free access to the Services:
    4.1.1.1. Users can browse, gain access to, and use the content and features included in the Learning Through Play and School Readiness sections of the Website for absolutely free for their learning and understanding.

    4.1.2. Once off payment for Activity Packs or Empowered Parents Printables:
    4.1.2.1. Users can purchase an Online course, Activity Pack or any number of our printable activities and games from our Website by heading to the Activity Packs page on our Website.
    4.1.2.2. All purchases on our Website are hosted by one of our recognised third party providers to ensure a safe and secure online shopping experience.
    4.1.2.3. Please see below for further conditions relating to the purchase of courses, activity packs or printables from us.

    4.2. Invoices will be emailed to the email address which is provided when you undertake the purchase.

    4.3. Empowered Parents is committed to providing secure online payment facilities for the payment of any Fee to us. All transactions are hosted through one of our trusted third-party providers, Teachable or E-junkie, and encrypted using appropriate encryption technology as operated by authenticated payment service provider, PayPal.

    4.3.1. Users understand that when using Teachable, E-junkie or PayPal to action a payment linked to the Website, you will be using their private and independent services not linked to Empowered Parents in any way. As such, you may be subject to either website’s own terms of service and will be liable to them for any actions performed with their services.

    4.4. All advertised prices for Services and Fees shall be exclusive of Value Added Tax (“VAT”) and any other applicable taxes/fees unless otherwise stated and required by law. Any such additional charges and VAT which will apply to a particular transaction will be clearly indicated to you upon checking out.

    4.5. You may contact Empowered Parents via email at tanja@empoweredparents.co to obtain a full record of your transactions with Empowered Parents.
  1. REFUNDS AND RETURNS (FOR ACTIVITY PACKS OR PRINTABLES)

    5.1. Empowered Parents has a 30 (thirty) day refund policy for any Fee which has been paid by a user for the Learning Through Play Activity pack and the Teach Your Preschooler Bundle available from the Website.

    5.2. Users may email Empowered Parents at tanja@empoweredparents.co in order to request a refund. Empowered Parents will then action the refund and return any Fee to the user within 30 days. Once a user has requested a refund from Empowered Parents their account with Teachable (for the purchase of an activity pack) will then be removed. Users will have to reinstate their profile on either platform using the Website in order to purchase
  1. USER RESPONSIBILITIES AND WARRANTIES

    6.1. By using the Website and/or the Services, you warrant that:

    6.1.1. you have read and agreed to these Terms and will use the Website and Services in accordance with them;

    6.1.2. you understand and agree that Empowered Parents is not a regulated advisory, educational or payments service provider and you take all responsibility for the decisions you make via or from the Website and/or Services;

    6.1.3. you have not made any misrepresentations and the information provided in the registration process about you, your company and/or your status is true, accurate and complete in every aspect;

    6.1.4. you are above the age of 18 (eighteen) years old and have the legal capacity to understand, agree with and be bound with these Terms;

    6.1.5. you lawfully possess and submit all information to the Website, Empowered Parents and/or our authorised third party affiliates for the use of it or the Services;

    6.1.6. you will not post, upload, replicate or transmit any abusive content on the Website that is or could reasonably be considered to be threatening, harassing, defamatory, abusive, racist, sexist, discriminatory, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or restrict any user in any way from properly using the Website;

    6.1.7. you will not send any unsolicited electronic messages or use any software, routine or device to interfere or attempt to interfere electronically or manually with the operation or functionality of the Website including but not limited to uploading or making available files containing corrupt data or viruses via whatever means or deface, alter or interfere with the front end ‘look and feel’ of the Website or the underlying software code;

    6.1.8. you will not rely solely on any information provided by the Website/Empowered Parents, and will acquire further independent specialist advice for any decision you may make pursuant to information you have attained from Empowered Parents, the Services and/or the Website;

    6.1.9. you will not infringe the intellectual property or other rights of any third party or the Website or transmit content that the user does not own or does not have the right to publish or distribute;

    6.1.10. you will not use the Website platform for any commercial purpose other than as expressly provided for by Empowered Parents herein;

    6.1.11. you will not use the Website to breach any applicable law or regulation or perform or encourage any illegal activity including (without limitation) promoting or facilitating money laundering or financial crimes; and/or

    6.1.12. you will not facilitate or assist any third party to do any of the above,
    failing which, such action will automatically and immediately be deemed to be a material breach of these Terms, allowing Empowered Parents to manifest all of its rights in the case of breach, including but not limited to denying you access to the Website/Services, reporting your actions to an applicable authority, demanding specific performance and/or suing you for damages.

    6.2. The Website is only available on compatible devices connected to the internet. It is your responsibility to obtain these devices and any data network access necessary to utilise the Website. The network’s data and messaging rates and fees may apply if you use the Website and you shall be responsible for such rates and fees.

    6.3. Without prejudice to any of Empowered Parents’ other rights (whether at law or otherwise), Empowered Parents reserves the right to deny you access to the Website or the Services where Empowered Parents believes (in its reasonable discretion) that you are in breach of any of these Terms.

    6.4. Empowered Parents does not guarantee that the Website, or any portion thereof, will function on any particular hardware or device.
  1. KYC AND AML REQUIREMENTS

    7.1. A user’s ability to make use of various parts of the Website or particular Services, may be regulated by applicable know-your-customer (“KYC”) and/or anti-money laundering (“AML”) laws and the respective rules and regulations.

    7.2. Empowered Parents may, at various times and depending on a range of factors in its sole discretion, including the amount of a transaction actioned and/or the exact nature of the user, require that a user submit certain information to Empowered Parents in order for the user to be verified as not infringing any of Empowered Parents’ KYC and/or AML requirements and/or local or foreign laws. This information may include identity documents, passport documents and/or bank account information. Empowered Parents reserves the right to limit or terminate a user’s access and use of the Services should the user fail to adhere to these requirements to the standard required by Empowered Parents. Empowered Parents also reserves the right to share this information with any legal authority when required under applicable laws.

    7.3. Empowered Parents may restrict user transactions that may violate laws or Empowered Parents’ internal KYC or AML conditions herein and as updated from time to time.

    7.4. As a minimum, the following rules are applied:

    7.4.1. Should we receive a payment from you above R10 000 (ex VAT) (ten thousand Rand), we may ask you for a copy of your ID or passport.
  1. RECEIPT AND TRANSMISSION OF DATA MESSAGES

    8.1. Data messages, including email messages, sent by you to Empowered Parents will be considered to be received only when acknowledged or responded to.

    8.2. Data messages sent by Empowered Parents to you will be regarded as received when the complete data message enters an information system designated or used for that purpose by the recipient and is capable of being retrieved and processed by the recipient.

    8.3. Empowered Parents reserves the right not to respond to any email or other data message which contains obscene, threatening, defamatory or otherwise illegal, unlawful, or inappropriate content, and to take appropriate action against the sender of such email or data message where necessary.

    8.4. Messages sent over the internet cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure as they can be intercepted, lost, or corrupted. Empowered Parents is therefore not responsible for the accuracy or safety of any message sent by email or automated systems over the internet, whether from Empowered Parents to a user, between users or from a user to Empowered Parents.
  1. HYPERLINKS, DEEP LINKS, FRAMING

    9.1. The Website may include links to other internet sites (“the other sites”). Empowered Parents does not own or endorse the other sites and is not responsible for the information, material, products, or services contained on or accessible through the other sites. Any such hyperlinks do not imply any endorsement, agreement on or support of the content or products of such target sites.

    9.2. Empowered Parents does not purport to own the content on other sites which may be shown on the Website. Should the owner of any content showcased on the Website want the content to be removed, please write to tanja@empoweredparents.co to request the removal of such content.

    9.3. Empowered Parents may include affiliate links on the Website for products that Empowered Parents recommends to users. If a user purchases any product through the affiliate link Empowered Parents may earn a commission from the qualifying purchase at no additional cost to the user. Empowered Parents has not been given any free products or services by these affiliate companies in exchange for recommending any product on the Website. The only consideration is in the form of affiliate commissions. The use of an affiliate link remains solely at the user’s own risk and Empowered Parents shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused through the use and/or purchase made through an affiliate link.

    9.4. The user’s access and use of the other sites remain solely at the user’s own risk and on the terms set by the relevant third-party operator of the other sites.
  1. ADVERTISING AND SPONSORSHIP

    10.1. The Website may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Website complies with all applicable laws and regulations.

    10.2. Empowered Parents, its partners, affiliates, and agents accordingly exclude, to the maximum extent permitted in law, any responsibility or liability for any error or inaccuracy appearing in advertising or sponsorship material.
  1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

    11.1. All Website layout, Website content, activity packs, printables and games, material, information, data, software, icons, text, graphics, layouts, images, sound clips, advertisements, video clips, user interface design and layout, trade names, logos, trademarks, content framework and interdependencies, designs, copyright and/or service marks, together with the underlying software code and everything submitted by Empowered Parents in use of the Services, (“the intellectual property”) are owned (or co-owned or licenced, as the case may be) by Empowered Parents whether directly or indirectly, and as such, are protected from infringement by domestic and international legislation and treaties.

    11.2. Subject to the rights afforded to you in these Terms, all other rights to all intellectual property on the Website are expressly reserved. You may not copy, download, print, modify, alter, publish, broadcast, distribute, sell, or transfer any intellectual property, editorial content, graphics or other material on the Website or the underlying software code whether in whole or in part, without the written consent of Empowered Parents first being granted, which consent may be refused at the discretion of Empowered Parents. No modification of any intellectual property or editorial content or graphics is permitted. Should you breach these provisions, Empowered Parents and/or the rightful intellectual property rights owner may launch legal proceedings against you for a breach of contract, resulting in a claim of damages against you.

    11.3. Empowered Parents reserves the right to make improvements or changes to the intellectual property, information, videos, activity packs, printables, artwork, graphics, and other materials on the Website or to suspend or terminate the Website, at any time without notice; provided that any transactions or functions already concluded through the Website, will not be affected by such suspension or termination (as the case may be).

    11.4. Where any of the Website intellectual property has been licensed to Empowered Parents or belongs to any third party, other than that which has been submitted by a user to the Website in the use of the Services, all rights of use will also be subject to any terms and conditions which that licensor or third party imposes from time to time and you agree to comply with such third party terms and conditions.

    11.5. Subject to adherence to the Terms, Empowered Parents grants to users a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable license to use and display all content and information contained on the Website on any machine which the user is the primary user. However, nothing contained on the Website or in these Terms should be construed as granting any licence or right to use any intellectual property without the prior written permission of Empowered Parents.

    11.6. Any enquiries regarding any of the above relating to intellectual property must be directed to Empowered Parents at tanja@empoweredparents.co.
  1. DISCLAIMERS AND WARRANTIES

    12.1. The Website and Services, including any learning materials and intellectual property appearing therein, are provided “as is” and “as available”. Empowered Parents makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties as to the accuracy, correctness, or suitability of either the Website, the Services or the information contained in it.

    12.2. All information or opinions of users made available on the Website in relation to any of the Services are those of the authors and not Empowered Parents. While Empowered Parents makes every reasonable effort to present such information accurately and reliably on the Website, Empowered Parents does not endorse, approve, or certify such information, nor guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such information on the Website.

    12.3. Empowered Parents and its partners, accept no liability whatsoever for any loss, whether direct or indirect, consequential or arising from information made available on (or by means of) the Website and/or transactions or actions resulting therefrom or from the Services offered.

    12.4. Empowered Parents, its partners, and affiliates, accept no liability whatsoever for any costs, expenses, fines, or damages, including but not limited to direct or indirect loss or damages, including any economic loss, consequential loss, loss of profits or any form of punitive damages, resulting from the facilitation and offering of the Services, and access to, or use of, the Website in any manner.

    12.5. Empowered Parents takes reasonable security measures to ensure the safety and integrity of the Website and products sold and to exclude viruses, unlawful monitoring and/or access from the Website or products. However, Empowered Parents does not warrant or represent that your access to the Website will be uninterrupted or error-free or that any information, data, content, software, or other material accessible through the Website will be free of bugs, viruses, worms, trojan horses or other harmful components. The user’s access to and use of the Website remains solely at the user’s own risk and the user should take their own precautions accordingly.
  1. INDEMNITIES

    13.1. The user indemnifies and holds harmless Empowered Parents from any demand, action or application or other proceedings, including for attorneys’ fees and related costs such as tracing fees, made by any third party and arising out of or in connection with the user’s use of the Website and/or Services offered or concluded through the Website in any way.

    13.2. The user agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold Empowered Parents harmless from any direct or indirect liability, loss, claim and expense (including reasonable legal fees) related to the user’s breach of these Terms.

    13.3. This clause will survive termination of this agreement.
  1. COMPANY INFORMATION

    14.1. Site owner: Tanja Mcllroy
    14.2. Legal status: Sole Proprietor
    14.3. Description of main business: Online child development content
    14.4. Email address: tanja@empoweredparents.co
    14.5. Website address: www.empoweredparents.co
    14.6. Physical address: 20B Ithafa Close, Izinga Ridge, Umhlanga Rocks, KZN, 4021
    14.7. Postal address: 20B Ithafa Close, Izinga Ridge, Umhlanga Rocks, KZN, 4021
    14.8. Membership of any Association: N/A
  1. DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND GOVERNING LAW

    15.1. The user’s access and/or use of the Website and/or Services, any downloaded material from it and the operation of these Terms (including any transaction concluded pursuant thereto) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa only.

    15.2. Should any dispute, disagreement or claim arise between a user and Empowered Parents concerning the use of the Website or the Services, these parties shall endeavour to resolve the dispute amicably, by negotiation, and with the best interests of both parties in mind.

    15.3. Should these parties fail to resolve such dispute in the aforesaid manner or within such further period as the parties may agree to in their negotiation, the parties will approach an independent industry expert who shall mediate the discussions between them in order to find a mutually beneficial solution.

    15.4. If the dispute is still not resolved after such mediation, the parties will commence and be party to binding and confidential arbitration in terms of the expedited rules of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (“AFSA”), with an arbitrator selected by Empowered Parents. Arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in Durban in English.

    15.5. Notwithstanding the above, both parties consent to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa, even in the event where the quantum in the dispute may be less than the monetary jurisdiction of that court. Either party may also always use the dispute resolution services of any applicable legislative tribunal or ombud, as provided for in applicable legislation.

    15.6. The parties both agree that in no circumstance will either party publicize the dispute on any social media or other public platform. The parties understand that any publicity of this nature can cause serious damage to the other party, which damage may result in a financial claim against the infringing party.
  1. TERMINATION OF USE OF WEBSITE OR SERVICES

    16.1. IN ADDITION TO ITS OTHER RIGHTS HEREIN, EMPOWERED PARENTS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND/OR SERVICES IF YOU BREACH ANY OF THE TERMS, OR FOR ANY OTHER REASON IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION PROVIDED THAT EMPOWERED PARENTS GIVES REASONABLE NOTICE TO YOU.

    16.2. If you wish to terminate your agreement with Empowered Parents and these Terms, or end your use of the Services, you may do so by discontinuing your use of the Website. Such discontinuation of use of the Website will however not have any effect on the continued and comprehensive functioning or legitimacy of any lawful rights which the parties may have at the time of said termination with the Website.
  1. NOTICES AND SERVICE ADDRESS

    17.1. Each of the parties chooses their service address for the purposes of the giving of any notice, the serving of any process and for any other purposes arising from these Terms as being:

    17.1.1. in the case of Empowered Parents, at tanja@empoweredparents.co; or

    17.1.2. in the case of the user, at the e-mail and addresses provided by the user to Empowered Parents via the Website.

    17.2. Each of the parties will be entitled from time to time, by written notice to the other to vary its service address to any other address which is not a post office box or poste restante, provided that the change will become effective only 14 (fourteen) days after service of the notice in question.

    17.3. Notwithstanding the above, any notice given in writing in English, and actually received by the party to whom the notice is addressed, will be deemed to have been properly given and received, notwithstanding that such notice has not been given in accordance with this clause.
  1. GENERAL

    18.1. This document contains the entire agreement between the parties in relation to the subject matter hereof. Save as contemplated in clause 1.5 above, no alteration, cancellation, variation of, or addition hereto will be of any force or effect unless reduced to writing and signed by all the parties to these Terms or their duly authorised representatives.

    18.2. No indulgence, leniency or extension of time granted by Empowered Parents shall constitute a waiver of any of Empowered Parents’ rights under these Terms and, accordingly, Empowered Parents shall not be precluded as a consequence of having granted such indulgence, from exercising any rights against the user which may have arisen in the past or which might arise in the future.

    18.3. Words importing the singular will include the plural and vice versa. Words importing one gender will include the other genders, and words importing persons will include partnerships, trusts and bodies corporate, and vice versa.

    18.4. The headings to the paragraphs in the Terms are inserted for reference purposes only and will not affect the interpretation of any of the provisions to which they relate.

    18.5. The user’s access and/or use of the Website and/or the Services, any downloaded material from it and the operation of these Terms (including any transaction concluded pursuant thereto) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa.

    18.6. Should you have any complaints or queries, kindly address an email to Empowered Parents at tanja@empoweredparents.co.

    18.7. In the event of the user failing to pay any amount timeously or breaching these Terms, the user shall be liable for all legal costs (on the scale as between attorney and client) (including collection commission) which may be incurred by Empowered Parents in relation to the payment failure or breach.

    18.8. Each sentence, paragraph, term, clause and provision of these Terms and any portion thereof shall be considered severable and if, for any reason, any such sentence, paragraph, term, clause or provision is held to be invalid, contrary to, or in conflict with any applicable present or future law or regulation or in terms of a final, binding judgment issued by any court, it shall to that extent be deemed not to form part hereof and shall not impair the operation of, or have any effect upon such other sentence, paragraph, term, clause or provision hereof as may otherwise remain valid or intelligible, which shall continue to be given full force and effect and bind the parties hereto.

    18.9. No term or condition of these Terms is intended to breach any peremptory provisions of any consumer protection legislation and any regulations thereto (“Prohibited Provision“). Any breach of any such Prohibited Provision shall be governed by the provisions of clause 18.8.

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