By using any Natural Wellness Academy (“NWA”) websites, hence forth collectively referred to as “Websites”, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”). This agreement is personal to you; it cannot be assigned or transferred. If any provision of this agreement is invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

1. Your Acceptance

By using and/or visiting any Natural Wellness Academy Websites you signify your agreement to:

1. These terms and conditions (the “Terms of Use”);
2. The NWA Privacy Policy;
3. The NWA Student General Agreement;
4. The NWA Affiliate Terms and Conditions; and
5. The NWA Affiliate Non-Disclosure Agreement.

If you do not agree to any of these terms, or the privacy policy, please do not use these Websites. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to confer any third-party rights or benefits.

2. Websites

These Terms of Use apply to all users of the Websites, including users who are contributors of content and other materials or services on the Websites. The term Websites shall be understood to include all aspects and services of the NWA websites, including but not limited to all products, software and services offered via any website such as the blogs, groups, clubs, directories, discussion boards, messaging, social and professional networking, photo and video uploading, commenting, mailing lists, and other applications.

The Websites electronically publish news and information that may include facts, views, opinions and recommendations of individuals and organizations deemed of interest to Users. NWA does not review, monitor, verify or guarantee the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of or otherwise endorse information provided by any organization or individual, give advice or advocate the purchase or sale of any product or service not directly offered by NWA or its affiliates.

The Websites may include unmoderated forums containing the personal opinions and other expressions of the persons who post entries on a wide range of topics. The text and other materials on these Websites are the opinion of the specific author and are not statements of advice, opinion, or information of NWA.

The Websites may contain links to third-party websites that are not owned by, affiliated with or controlled by NWA. NWA has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites not directly affiliated with NWA. In addition, the Websites will not and cannot censor or edit the content of any non-affiliated third-party site. By using the Websites, you expressly release NWA from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website.

3. Your Account

In order to access some features of the Websites, you will have to register your account. By registering an account you agree to these Terms of Use and thereby agree to use of the Websites in a manner consistent with all applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the policies and guidelines outlined here. Please note that you will be referred to as “User” from time to time in this Agreement. You may never use another’s account. Your User account may not be shared, transferred, or sold to other parties. When registering your account, you must provide accurate and complete information. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your account, and you must keep your account password secure. You must notify NWA immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. Although NWA will not be liable for your losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account, you may be liable for the losses of NWA or others due to such unauthorized use.

ADDITIONAL USER RESTRICTIONS

If you are under 18, you may purchase products or services or register for an event only through a parent or guardian. If you are under 13, you may not create an account on the Websites or access features that require you to have an account.

4. Rules for Online Conduct

You agree to use the Websites in accordance with all applicable laws. You agree that you will use all of the services or information provided on the Websites in accordance with the rules of conduct set forth below. This includes interactions with other users by email, web post, postal mail, or phone.

Prohibited conduct:

• Posting content that defames or threatens others
• Posting statements that are bigoted, hateful or racially offensive
• Posting content that infringes another’s intellectual property, including, but not limited to, copyrights, trademarks or trade secrets. When quoting copyrighted material, please adhere to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fair Use Guidelines
• Posting material that contains obscene language or images
• Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation
• Scraping student information for the purposes of creating mailing lists

Statements or postings which violate the above terms will be deleted from the Websites upon discovery. Copyrighted material, including without limitation software, graphics, text, photographs, sound, video and musical recordings, may not be placed on the Websites without the express permission of the owner of the copyright of the material, or other legal entitlement to use the material. Any person posting material protected by copyright for the benefit of any third-party represents and warrants consent or permission has been obtained to post such materials. Although NWA does not screen or monitor content posted by users to the Websites, NWA reserves the right to remove content that violates the above rules of which it becomes aware.

You may not attempt to use or distribute tools designed for compromising security or take any action to compromise the security of this site. Examples of these tools include but are not limited to password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools. You may not “flood” or disrupt the Websites through any means or process.

You agree that you will not access or attempt to access any other user’s account, or misrepresent or attempt to misrepresent your identity while using the Websites.

5. Online Communication Services

Communication services provided through the Websites, such as discussion boards, are a part of the Websites designed for communication between Users. NWA will not monitor these communications, but reserves the right to take action against any User who defames or harasses another User through any of the services offered through the Websites, if it comes to NWA’s attention.

6. Disclaimer of Warranty / Limitation of Liability

NWA does not warrant that the Websites will operate in an uninterrupted or error-free manner or that the Websites are free of viruses or other harmful components. Use of information obtained from or through these Websites is at your own risk.

YOU AGREE THAT NWA WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES, EITHER ACTUAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OF USE, OR TO YOUR (OR ANY THIRD PARTY’S) USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITES, OR TO YOUR PLACEMENT OF CONTENT ON THE WEBSITES, OR TO YOUR RELIANCE UPON INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM OR THROUGH THE WEBSITES. IN PARTICULAR, NWA WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, WHETHER FORESEEABLE OR UNFORESEEABLE, (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, CLAIMS FOR DEFAMATION, ERRORS, MISUSE OF EMAIL OR OTHER SERVICES, LOSS OF DATA, OR INTERRUPTION IN AVAILABILITY OF DATA), ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE A WEBSITE, OR ANY PURCHASES ON THE WEBSITES, OR YOUR PLACEMENT OF CONTENT ON A WEBSITE, OR YOUR RELIANCE UPON INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM OR THROUGH A WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTORY OR OTHER LAW, EXCEPT ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT APPLICABLE LAW REQUIRES SUCH LIABILITY.

NWA makes no representation regarding your ability to transmit and receive information from or through the Websites and you agree and acknowledge that your ability to access the Websites may be impaired. NWA disclaims any and all liability resulting from or related to such events.

7. Medical Disclaimer

The information on NWA websites is provided as an information resource only, and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. The information on this website is NOT intended to replace the relationship with your qualified healthcare provider; serve as medical advice or patient education; or diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition. NWA expressly disclaims responsibility, and shall have no liability, for any damages, loss, injury, or liability whatsoever suffered as a result of your reliance on the information contained in this site. NWA does not endorse specifically any test, treatment, or procedure mentioned on NWA Websites. Please consult your health care provider before making any healthcare decisions or for guidance about a specific medical condition and before beginning any nutritional or exercise program.

8. No Endorsement

The information hosted on our website is provided for informational purposes and does not imply or constitute endorsement. NWA does not give any representation regarding the quality, safety, suitability, or reliability of any specific wellness professional or facility. NWA expressly disclaims responsibility, and shall have no liability, for any damages, loss, injury, or liability whatsoever suffered as a result of your reliance on the information contained in this site.

9. No Guarantee of Employment

NWA makes no claim or guarantee regarding employment or income opportunities as a result of enrollment in or graduation from any NWA program or course.

10. Prohibition of Unlawful or Unlicensed Activities

Programs and courses offered by the NWA are not designed to meet any licensing requirements for any jurisdiction. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that he or she obtains all relevant licenses and permits required for the activities he or she wishes to perform and to confirm whether or not Academy programs meet any licensing requirements in his or her jurisdictions. NWA expressly prohibits students from engaging or encouraging others to engage in unlicensed or unlawful activities. NWA expressly prohibits students and graduates from offering or engaging in the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or provision of advice on any medical, health, mental, cognitive, behavioral or emotional disorder or concern, unless he or she is qualified and appropriately licensed to do so.

11. Choice of Law/Forum Selection

NWA is registered and operated in the State of Florida, although NWA Websites may be hosted on servers owned by our web host located in other States. You agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use or any content posted to a Website, including copies and republication thereof, whether based in contract, tort, statutory or other law, will be governed by the laws of the State of Florida, excluding its conflicts of law provisions. You further consent to the personal jurisdiction of and exclusive venue in the federal and state courts located in and serving Hillsborough County, Florida, as the legal forum for any such dispute.

12. Notice

NWA may, in its sole discretion, modify or revise these Terms of Use and policies at any time. Notice of any such change or addition will be made within approved interfaces to the Websites and/or by email. By using the Websites after any change or addition is announced, you agree to be bound by all such changes or additions.

If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your NWA User account, you agree to notify NWA by telephone at (813) 333-2626, email at support@naturalwellness.org or in writing at the address below:

7853 Gunn Hwy. Suite 371
Tampa, FL 33626

13. Termination of Service

User may terminate this Agreement by cancelling his or her account. To do this the user must contact NWA through phone or mail as listed above.

NWA may terminate your account or access rights to the Websites at any time, without notice, for conduct that NWA believes violates this Agreement or other policies or guidelines that NWA has posted. NWA may terminate your account or your access rights to the Websites for online conduct that NWA believes is harmful to other Users, to NWA’s business, or to other information providers.

14. Trademarks

The logo, name and all graphics on the Websites or their affiliates are trademarks of NWA or its affiliates. Use, reproduction, copying or redistribution of trademarks without the written permission of NWA or its affiliates is prohibited. All other trademarks or service marks appearing on the Websites are the marks of their respective owners.

15. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold NWA, its trustees, officers, employees and agents harmless from any claims, losses or damages, including legal fees, resulting from your violation of these Terms of Use, your use of the Websites or your placement of any content onto the Websites, and to fully cooperate in NWA’s defense against any such claims.

16. Copyright License & Complaints

Owner of posted materials grants NWA a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to reproduce and distribute any content posted on the Websites.

NWA respects the intellectual property rights of others and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe your copyright has been violated on the Websites, please provide the following information to the contact information listed under the notice section of this document.

• The name, address, and physical or electronic signature of the complaining party
• Identification of the infringing materials and their Internet location, or if the service provider is an “information location tool” such as a search engine, the reference or link to the infringing materials
• Sufficient information to identify the copyrighted works
• A statement by the copyright holder of a good faith belief that there is no legal basis for the use complained of
• A statement of the accuracy of the notice and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on the behalf of the copyright holder

Our Privacy Policy was last updated on 18 November 2022. It governs the privacy terms of our website, located at NaturalWellnessAcademy.org, and the tools we provide you (the “Website” or the “Service”). Your privacy is important to us, and it is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and otherwise make use of personal information.

The information we collect is used to fulfill orders, provide customer support, manage our online newsletter, or develop aggregated website usage statistics. We do not display targeted advertising. We do not sell your information other companies. Third-party providers that our website uses are: Google Analytics, WordPress.com Stats, MailChimp, and Siteground. Payment processors we use are Stripe. Please read the entire Privacy Policy for additional information. We have outlined our privacy policy below.

• We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
• Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
• We will collect and use personal information solely for fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other ancillary purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
• Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
• We will protect personal information by using reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
• We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.
• We will only retain personal information for as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.

We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.

Your Privacy

Our Website follows all legal requirements to protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy is a legal statement that explains how we may collect information from you, how we may share your information, and how you can limit our sharing of your information. You will see terms in our Privacy Policy that are capitalized. These terms have meanings as described in the Definitions section below.

Definitions

• Personal Data: Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
• Usage Data: Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Cookies: Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a User’s device.
• Data Controller: Data Controller means a natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your data.
• Data Processors (or Service Providers): Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
• Data Subject: Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.
• User: The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

• Personal Data. While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Email address, Name, Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City, Cookies and Usage Data.We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by emailing support@naturalwellnessacademy.org.
• Usage Data. We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
• Tracking & Cookies Data. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Examples of Cookies we use: session cookies (we use these cookies to operate our Service) and preference cookies (we use these cookies to remember your preferences and various settings).

Use of Data

We use the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service
• To fulfill orders
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
• To provide customer support
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
• To monitor the usage of our Service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

Retention of Data

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Disclosure Of Data

• Business Transaction. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
• Disclosure for Law Enforcement. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

NaturalWellnessAcademy.org may process your Personal Data because:

• We need to perform a contract with you
• You have given us permission to do so
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights
• For payment processing purposes
• To comply with the law

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. NaturalWellnessAcademy.org aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
• The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
• The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
• The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of your Personal Data in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
• The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where NaturalWellnessAcademy.org relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

• Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
• WordPress.com Stats. WordPress.com Stats is a web analytics service offered by Automattic that tracks and reports website traffic. Data used are your IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. NaturalWellnessAcademy.org does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, NaturalWellnessAcademy.org can see that a specific post has 285 views, but cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs, which contain visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available), are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature. Activity tracker are post and page views, outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. For more information on the privacy practices of Automattic, please visit their privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/

Hosting

We may use third-party Service Providers to host our website. This means that Personal Data that you save on our website will be stored on a third-party server.

• Siteground. We host our websites through Siteground.com, a hosting company based in the United States. Siteground has indicated that they are GDPR compliant. For more information on the privacy practices of Siteground, please ready their privacy policy: https://www.siteground.com/privacy.htm

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

• PayPal or Braintree. Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
• Square. Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://squareup.com/legal/privacy-no-account
• Stripe. Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/privacy

Mailing Lists

We may use third-party Service Providers to manage our online newsletter. This means that Personal Data that you provide when subscribing to our newsletter will be stored on a third-party server.

• MailChimp. We manage our newsletters through MailChimp, a company based in the United States. MailChimp has indicated that they are GDPR compliant. For more information on the privacy practices of MailChimp, please ready their privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Terms of Use

Our Terms of Use are available here.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

Natural Wellness Academy
7853 Gunn Hwy. Suite 371
Tampa, FL 33626

Phone: 1-813-962-4901
Fax: 1-813-962-4564
Email: support@naturalwellness.org