TERMS + CONDITIONS

The Convo Club

 

Digital Product Terms and Conditions

 

The following terms and conditions for purchases of digital products (the “Terms & Conditions") are entered into between you, our customer (referred to as "you" or "your"), and Marcode, a business located at Westhavenkade 16, 3131 AB Vlaardingen with a Dutch Chamber of Commerce of 544.912.07 (referred to as "Marcode”, "we", "our", or "us").

 

The Digital Product

Marcode provides an English learning course called The Convo Club,  which is a “Digital Product”. As a condition of purchasing and using the Digital Product, you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions.

 

Legal terms that apply to your purchase

Our Website Terms of Use, Privacy & Cookies Policy, and Refund Policy form part of these Terms & Conditions, and they also apply to your purchase and use of any products from our site.

 

If there is any inconsistency between any of those agreements and/or policies and these Terms & Conditions, these Terms & Conditions will take precedence.

 

For example, if our general refund policy is a certain number of days, and you see a different number of days in the refund policy in these Terms & Conditions, you can be sure that the refund policy you see here applies to your Digital Product purchase.

 

Minimum age for purchase

Our products are intended to be purchased by individuals over the legal age of adulthood (which happens to be 18 years old in most places in the world).

 

If you are not a legal adult, you must only make purchases from our site with the consent of a responsible adult.

 

Our relationship with you

When you purchase a Digital Product, Marcode agrees to provide you with access to the Digital Product, which is an educational and informational resource. The information contained in the Digital Product, including any interactions with the instructors, is not intended as, and shall not be understood as, professional advice.

 

Nothing in these Terms & Conditions forms any partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between you and Marcode.

 

Payment required for access

By purchasing the Digital Product, you understand and acknowledge that you are entering into a legally binding contract with Marcode, which requires you to pay the fees in full in exchange for access to the Digital Product.

 

You will only be allowed to use the Digital Product when we receive payment in full, or the first installment of your selected membership/subscription.

 

Due to the nature of online payments, your payment may appear as “pending” or a similar status for several days. As a gesture of good faith, we provide access immediately when you make a payment, but if the payment then fails, we may revoke your access immediately without notifying you.

 

By making a payment online with your credit or debit card, you give us permission to automatically charge your payment method for the amounts specified on the Digital Product purchasing page. You also give us permission to share your payment information and instructions required to complete any and all payments in the transaction with our third-party payment providers.

 

Payment Authorization

By purchasing a subscription-based Product which requires recurring payments, you agree to all of the following:

 

a) You authorize  Marcodeto charge your payment method automatically for each subsequent payment without further authorisation or notice to you (unless required by law).

b) You understand that it is your responsibility to ensure that the payment method we have on file for you is valid for the duration of the payments you have committed to in the any subscription you wish to maintain. If your payment method becomes invalid before completing all payments in the payment plan, you must provide an alternate payment method before your next payment is due by writing to us at [email protected].

 

Consequences of failed payments

In the event any payment fails or is not made by the due date, your access to the Digital Product and the Online Community will be immediately suspended, and any rights or licenses to use the Digital Product and related materials will be revoked immediately.

 

If your failure to make a payment on time results in the suspension of your access which causes you to miss out on any live calls or presentations, you will not be entitled to any reduction in the Digital Product fees or any refund.

  

By agreeing to these Terms & Conditions, you acknowledge that these are fair and reasonable consequences for failed and/or missed payments.

 

Refund Policy

We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. For this reason, we offer the following “No Fuss” refund policy.

 

If you are not satisfied with your purchase and would like to request a refund, you can email us at [email protected] within 7 business days of the purchase date, and if you have met the conditions of our refund policy, we will give you your money back.

 

Our policy is in addition to any legal rights you may have through legislation that applies to your purchase. If you believe that a law in your geographic area entitles you to a refund outside of what is permitted by this policy, please contact us at [email protected]. We will verify our legal obligations, and if required, we will provide you with a refund.

 

What is included with your Digital Product purchase

As part of the Digital Product, Marcode will provide the following:

 

Access and access instructions

You will receive an email with instructions on how to access the Digital Product shortly after your purchase.

 

You will have access to the Digital Product from a future date, as specified at the time of your purchase(the “Start Date”).

 

We will maintain your access to the Digital Product via a digital platform, and your login details will be provided in the instructions email (the “Platform”).

 

Access for a set time period

Your purchase of the Digital Product comes with access for a set time period, which is the time period specified on purchasing page at the time of your purchase.

 

If the location or method of access to the Digital Product or the Platform changes, you will be notified and be provided with instructions for how to access the Digital Product at its new location.

 

The Online Community

We will maintain an online community that you will optionally have access to as a customer of the Digital Product (the “Online Community”), which will be available to you from the Start Date.

 

The Online Community provides a forum for you to connect with other Digital Product customers and to seek guidance and support. We will seek to interact with Digital Product participants in the group, but wedo not make any guarantees about participation by us or other members.

 

You are required to abide by all rules posted in the Online Community. If you do not follow the rules, you will lose your right to participate in the Online Community, and you will not receive any discount or refund.

 

 

 

Live group call

Participating in 1 weekly live call is included with your Digital Product purchase.

 

The call will take place on the date/time specified on the checkout page.

 

The call will take place via an online platform (such as Zoom). This is a group call, and there may be other attendees besides you.

 

The call is scheduled for 1 hour. If you join the call late, it will still end at the scheduled time, meaning you’ll get less than the full allocated time. You will not receive any refund if you join late and do not benefit from the full scheduled time.

 

Rescheduling/cancelling if you cannot attend the live call

You do not have any option to reschedule the group call.

 

If you don’t attend the call, then the call will be considered used, and you will not be entitled to a replacement or refund.

 

We may reschedule the group call if we are unable to deliver it due to unforeseen circumstances. If we need to reschedule, we will do our best to let you know at least 24 in advance. However, sometimes that will not be possible, and we may reschedule on shorter notice. We will make an effort to ensure that the rescheduled date/time is at a suitable date/time for as many participants as possible.

 

 

 

Bonuses

From time to time, Marcode may offer bonuses to those who purchase a Digital Product. You are entitled to any bonuses offered to you at the time of purchase. The details of those bonuses as well as any specific requirements or conditions of use will be made clear to you on the checkout page and/or in your email confirmation.

 

Intellectual property

All content included as part of the Digital Product, in any format, and any software used in delivering the Digital Product, is the property of Marcode (or our suppliers) and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property legal protections.

 

Your purchase and use of the Digital Product does not result in a transfer of any intellectual property to you. As a condition of your use of the Digital Product, you agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other intellectual property laws.

 

You cannot use, copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, print, display, perform, or publish any of our intellectual property except as specifically allowed by these Terms & Conditions or with prior written consent from us.

 

License

You are granted a single-use, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Digital Product, including all content and resources contained within the Digital Product for your own business's use to achieve the outcomes set out on the Digital Product's purchasing page (the “Purpose”).

 

You agree that you will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, transfer, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, or any part of the content, found in the Digital Product, except to the extent required to fulfill the Purpose. You also agree that you will not use your access or any part of the content in order to compete with Marcode or to harm our business prospects or relationships.

 

Our content is not for resale. You will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your individual use or your business’s use to achieve the Purpose. You will not use the content in any other way without our specific written permission.

 

You understand that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property except as specified in these Terms & Conditions.

 

You also agree that any infringement of intellectual property rights will result in an immediate termination of the license with no refund.

 

If you violate the terms of this license, your access to the Digital Product , the Online Community, and any other related content will be terminated immediately, and you are not entitled to any refund (in part or in full).

 

Furthermore, if you violate this license by giving or selling a copy of our content to anyone other than a license holder, sharing your account with anyone other than a licenseholder, or if you imply that anyone who gets access to our content has the right to use it for his/her/its commercial purposes, we reserve the right to invoice you for the licenses you have gifted or sold to others.

 

Confidentiality

Marcode respects the privacy of its customers and will not disclose any Confidential Information you provide except as described in these Terms & Conditions.

 

“Confidential Information” is any information about a person or business which is not generally available to the public and that a reasonable person would consider to be confidential. This includes, but is not limited to:

 

a) information you share with us about yourself, your contact details, and your payment information;

b) the Digital Product materials, in whatever format they are provided;

c) information about business strategies, operations, financials, marketing plans, methods, forms, processes, templates, and future plans; and

d) information about customers, including their personal details and situations.

 

Due to the nature of the content in the Digital Product, you will be exposed to Confidential Information belonging to  both Marcode and other Digital Product customers.

 

As a condition of using in the Digital Product, you agree to protect the Confidential Information and not share it with anyone elseoutside the Online Community unless specifically allowed by these Terms & Conditions or you have our written permission to do so.

 

You also acknowledge that you may be exposed to certain sensitive personal information that must be treated with special care, security, processing procedures, and/or other legal and regulatory requirements in your jurisdiction, and you are responsible for complying with any such local legal or regulatory requirements with respect to that information.

 

Your Confidential Information may be shared with our staff, sub-contractors, and/or third party providers only to the extent necessary in order to provide the best services to you. If we do have to share your Confidential Information for this purpose, we will ensure that any person to whom it is disclosed also stores and treats the Confidential Information with the appropriate level of security and secrecy.

 

Personal Responsibility

By using the Digital Product, you accept personal responsibility for the results of your actions. You agree that Marcode has not made any guarantees about the results of taking (or choosing not to take) any action, whether recommended in the Digital Product or not. Marcode provides educational and informational resources in the Digital Product that are intended to help you. However, you recognize that your ultimate success or failure will be the result of your own efforts, your particular situation, and innumerable other circumstances beyond the control and/or knowledge of Marcode.

 

You also recognize that prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Therefore, the results obtained by others, whether they are current or past customers of the Digital Product or otherwise, do not guarantee that you or any other person or entity will be able to obtain similar results.

 

You agree to take full responsibility for any harm or damage you suffer as a result of the use, or non-use, of the information available in the Digital Product. You agree to use your judgment and conduct due diligence before taking any actions or implementing any plan or policy suggested or recommended in the Digital Product.

 

Materials & information provided by you

You own all of the information or materials (including comments, questions, feedback, suggestions, and testimonials) you may provide during use of the Digital Product or post, upload, input, or submit on any platform or social media (collectively, the “Contributions”). Marcode will never claim ownership of these Contributions which belong to you.

 

However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing, or submitting your Contributions, you are granting Marcode, our affiliated companies, and our sub-licensees permission to use your Contribution in connection with the operation of their businesses including the rights to:

 

a) copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat your Contribution (or any part of the Contribution); and

b) to publish your name, your image, and your business name and logo (if applicable) in connection with your Contribution.

 

In other words, Marcode has the right to include your Contributions – including any audio or video recordings of you participating in or contributing to the Digital Product (if applicable) – in the Digital Product, other similar Digital Products, and marketing materials going forward.

 

No compensation will be paid for the use of your Contributions in accordance with the rights granted in these Terms & Conditions. Marcode is under no obligation to post or use any Contributions you may provide and may remove any Contributions at any time at Marcode’s sole discretion.

 

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing, or submitting your Contributions you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Contributions.

 

Marcode will never use any Contributions in a way that harms your business prospects or reputation. If any Contribution includes the identifiable personal information of an individual other than you, Marcode will anonymize that portion before publishing any Contribution.

 

Technology and availability

Your use of the Digital Product and any associated services may sometimes be subject to interruption or delay.

 

Due to the nature of the Internet and electronic communications, we and our service providers cannot guarantee that our websites, platforms, emails, or any associated services will be error free, without interruption or delay, or free from defects in design.

 

We will not be held responsible if our websites, platforms, or the services supplied through them become unavailable, interrupted or delayed, or cause technical difficulties or glitches, regardless of the reason.

 

NO WARRANTIES

THE DIGITAL PRODUCT, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT AND RESOURCES CONTAINED WITHIN THE DIGITAL PRODUCT, IS PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS.”

 

To the fullest extent allowed by the law, we make no promises (aka warranties) ABOUT THE DIGITAL PRODUcT, whether express, implied, or statutory. THIS includES (but IS not limited to) WARRANTIES about: BEING MARKETABLE, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS.

 

We do not promise (aka warrant) that the DIGITAL PRODUCT will meet your specific requirements, that IT will be error-free, or that IT will always be available.

 

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU AGREE THAT MARCODE IS NOT LEGALLY OR FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LIABILITY LOSS YOU SUFFER RELATED TO ACCESSING OR USING ANY PART OF THE DIGITAL PRODUCT OR ANY INFORMATION/RESOURCES CONTAINED IN IT.

 

YOU ALSO AGREE THAT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY THE LAW, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY KIND OF DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE INCIDENTAL, FAIR, OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGES RELATED TO YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF THE DIGITAL PRODUCT  (SUCH AS LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS AS WELL AS DELAYS OR INABILITY TO USE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND RELATED GRAPHICS).

 

YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ACTS OR NON-ACTS OF THIRD PARTIES ARE OUTSIDE OF OUR CONTROL, AND WE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITY FOR SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES, EVEN IF THEY AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO ACCESS/USE THE DIGITAL PRODUCT.

 

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS OUR LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT REPRESENTATION, OR ANY OTHER LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE LIMITED OR EXCLUDED BY APPLICABLE LAW IN YOUR JURISDICTION. HOWEVER, YOU AND MARCODE BOTH ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SUCH A CIRCUMSTANCE IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE DIGITAL PRODUCT.

 

IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH THE DIGITAL PRODUCT OR ANY PORTION OF IT, YOUR ONLY OPTION IS TO STOP USING THE DIGITAL PRODUCT. IN THIS CASE, NO REFUND OR REBATE WILL BE GIVEN EXCEPT IF YOU CORRECTLY USE THE REFUND POLICY IN THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS.

 

Compensation for wrongdoing (aka indemnities)

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Marcode, its officers, directors, employees, agents, and third parties for any losses, costs, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from:

 

a)    your use of or inability to use the Digital Product and related services,

b)    any Contributions made by you,

c)    your violation of any terms of these Terms & Conditions,

d)    your violation of any rights of a third party, or

e)    your violation of any applicable laws, rules, or regulations.

 

Termination and access restriction

Marcode reserves the right to terminate your access to the Digital Product and any related services at any time if:

 

a)   you become disruptive or abusive to Marcode staff;

b)   you fail to follow the Digital Product guidelines, rules, or any other reasonable instructions from Marcode; or

c)   you otherwise violate these Terms & Conditions.

You will not be entitled to a refund of any portion of the fees if we terminate your access for any of these reasons.

 

Entire agreement

These Terms & Conditions, along with any agreements and policies incorporated by reference, contain the full agreement between you and us regarding your Digital Product purchase.

 

Any previous written or spoken agreements, promises, information, or understandings between us on this topic are not valid unless they are specifically mentioned in these Terms & Conditions.

 

A printed version of these Terms & Conditions and of any notice given in electronic form will be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings relating to these Terms & Conditions and will be treated the same as documents originally generated and maintained in printed form.

 

Interpretation

Unless the context requires otherwise, references to the singular include the plural and the masculine includes the feminine (and vice versa). Headings in these Terms & Conditions are for convenience only and do not affect their interpretation.

 

Severability

If any part of these Terms & Conditions is found by any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, then the rest of the Terms & Conditions will not be affected.

 

If this occurs, you agree to substitute the affected portion with a valid alternative that has the same effect as would have originally been achieved (to the extent possible).

 

No Waiver

If we delay or choose not to enforce or exercise any term of or any right under these Terms & Conditions, we do not waive our rights. We can enforce/exercise it later.

 

Delays/failures beyond our control

We won't face legal or financial penalties if we're delayed or unable to fulfil our legal obligations because of circumstances beyond our control (these are “Circumstances Beyond Our Control”).

 

Circumstances Beyond Our Control include, but are not limited to, acts of God, natural disasters, governmental actions, terrorist threats or acts, civil unrest, national emergency, epidemic, lock-outs, labour disputes, materials or telecommunication breakdown, and power outage.

 

Marcode is a small business with limited staff. Any illness affecting one or more of our staff members that prevents the effective day-to-day running of the business is also considered a Circumstance Beyond Our Control.

 

If a Circumstance Beyond Our Control affects our ability to meet our obligations under these Terms & Conditions, we will notify you as soon as possible. Any dates/deadlines will be extended by however long the Circumstance Beyond Our Control lasts.

 

The date this contact applies from

These Terms & Conditions will apply and be enforceable with respect to each Digital Product purchased by you from the date that you initially purchase that Digital Product.

 

Dealing with disputes

You give up any current or future claims relating to your purchase, access, and use of the Digital Product.

 

If there have any disagreement about the Digital Product or these Terms & Conditions, you and Marcode both commit to resolving it through discussion and negotiation. Legal action can only be taken if honest efforts to resolve the issue fail.

 

The laws of the Netherlands apply to interpreting and enforcing these Terms & Conditions, and any legal action must only be started in the courts of the Netherlands.

 

Changes to these Terms & Conditions

We may make changes to these Terms & Conditions without informing you. If we update, amend or make any changes to these Terms & Conditions or any documents or policies referred to in them, those changes will be posted on the website.

 

Contacting us

For any questions, comments, or concerns regarding these Terms & Conditions or any purchase, please contact us a [email protected].

Version: 27Aug2024