Student T­­­­­erms and Policies

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

WHAT’S IN THESE TERMS?

These terms tell you the rules for using this website www.appliednovaacademy.org and our terms of business

WHO WE ARE

This website is operated by Applied Nova Academy LTD, hereinafter referred to as (“We, Our, Us, Company, Applied Nova Academy LTD”).

AUTOMATIC ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS AT ANYTIME 

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on October 9, 2023.

WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO OUR SITE

We may update and make changes to our site from time to time regarding our services, our users’ needs or for other reasons.

WE MAY SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW OUR SITE

Our site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

HOW YOU MAY USE MATERIAL ON OUR SITE

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

DO NOT RELY ON INFORMATION ON THIS SITE

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU

Whether you are a consumer or a business user: -

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user: -

We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.

We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: -

use of, or inability to use, our site; or

use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

In particular, we will not be liable for: -

loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

business interruption;

loss of anticipated savings;

loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

 If you are a consumer user: -

Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

HOW WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We agree to only use your personal information as per our privacy policy outlined herein.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES AND YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE THEM

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

RULES ABOUT LINKING TO OUR SITE

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it and provided always that you have obtained our prior written approval.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you. Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

WHICH COUNTRY’S LAWS APPLY TO ANY DISPUTES?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Modifying this Agreement

We may modify this agreement, for example, to reflect changes to our terms for legal, regulatory, or security reasons. We will provide reasonable advance notice of any material modifications to this agreement and the opportunity to review these changes. However, changes addressing newly available features of the Service or changes made for legal reasons may be effective immediately. Changes will only apply going forward. If you do not agree to the modified terms, you should discontinue use of any of our email accounts associated with this domain.

NOTICE: During the pandemic updates to this site maybe irregular and information will not be accurate. Users are encouraged to confirm accuracy of website data before using website as we assume no responsibility due to the pandemic. 

Severance

If it turns out that a particular term of this agreement is not enforceable for any reason, this will not affect any other terms.

Assignment

We may transfer all or part of this agreement to an affiliate or, if we are sold, to a third party.

No Waiver

If you do not comply with this agreement and we do not take action immediately, this doesn’t mean that we are giving up any rights that we may have (such as the right to take action in the future).

Governing Law

If you live in the United Kingdom this agreement, and your relationship with us under this agreement will be governed by the laws of your country of residence, and legal proceedings may be brought in your local courts

Content ownership 

You agree that the content of this website is owned by the company named at the bottom of the home page of this website. Your use of this site is subject to the following terms and conditions, in addition to others outlined in other parts of this site which would be deemed to have automatically been accepted by you each time you use this website. Icons, pictures or photos are not owned by SSG but by their respective registrants. 

Site ownership and management

You agree that the management company responsible for managing this website, for example, adding or deleting pages, adding news blogs, changing images, adding or removing events, adding new staff profiles, creating new functionality, adding video content, and adding/changing forms is indicated on the bottom right side of each web page as “powered by”.

Interruptions and omissions in service 

You understand that we attempt to ensure that the standard of our website remains highest. However, the internet is not by design a stable medium, and errors, omissions, interruptions of service and delays may occur at any time and from time to time. We do not accept any liability whatsoever arising from any such errors, omissions, interruptions or delays or any ongoing obligation or responsibility to operate this website (or any particular part of it) or to provide the service offered on this website in any particular way or standard irrespective of how caused. We receive the right to vary the specifications of this site from time to time without notice to anyone. 

Links to other sites 

You understand that on this site you will be offered automatic links to other sites which we hope will be of interest to you. We do not accept any responsibility or liability in respect to content of those sites, the owners of which do not have any connection or relationship, commercial or otherwise, with us. If you use any of the automatic links in this site to gain access to the sites they lead to you, do so at your own risk. 

We disavow any connection, association or connection with any other entity. We are independently owned and operated. We have no branches or operate no divisions anywhere else in the world. 

Information on this site 

You understand that while we make every effort to ensure that the information on our site is accurate and complete, be aware that some of the information may have been supplied to us by third parties and we are not always able to check the accuracy or completeness of such information. Therefore, we do not accept any liability arising from any inaccuracy or omission of any of the information on this site or any liability in respect of information on this site supplied by you, any other site user or any other person anywhere in the world. 

Your use of this site 

You agree to only use this site for lawful purposes when seeking employment or help with your career or when hiring employees. You must not under any circumstances seek to undermine the security of the site or any information submitted to or available through it. In particular, but without limitation, you must not seek to access, alter or delete any information to which you do not have authorized access or seek to overload the system via spamming or flooding, take any action or use any device, routine or software to crash, delay, damage or otherwise interfere with the operation of this Site or attempt to decipher, disassemble or modify any of the software, coding or information comprised in the site. 

You agree that you are solely responsible for any information submitted by you to this site. You are responsible for ensuring that all information supplied by you is true, accurate, up-to-date and not misleading or likely to mislead or deceive and that it is not discriminatory, obscene, offensive, defamatory or otherwise illegal, unlawful or in breach of any applicable legislation, regulations, guidelines or codes of practice or the copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights of any person in any jurisdiction worldwide. You are also responsible for ensuring that all information, data and files are free of viruses or other routines or engines that may damage or interfere with any system or data prior to being submitted to this site. We reserve the right to remove any information supplied by you from the website at our sole discretion, at any time and for any reason without being required to give any explanation without prejudice.

Information submitted by you 

You are aware and consent to our use of information supplied by you (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) to aid the recruitment process and associated administrative functions. This involves us among other things, processing and storing information (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) and passing or making available online such information to prospective employers and clients, information about vacancies and placements will be passed to candidates and may be posted directly onto the website. We use third parties to help us process your information as part of the recruitment process. We may collect and aggregate data from the information supplied by you to help us to understand our users as a group so that we can provide you with a better service. We may also share aggregate information with selected third parties, without disclosing individual names or identifying information. You consent to us using information provided by you (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) in each of these ways. 

You are aware that we will process any data which you provide in completing the online registration or application forms and any further forms, assessments or personal details which you complete or provide to us when using this site in accordance with UK data protection legislation and the data protection acts of any country. We explain more about your personal data in our privacy policy. 

Transfer outside the EEA

You agree that your personal information comprising your CV may be accessed through our database by third parties outside the Economic European Area ("EEA"). This could happen for instance if you apply for a vacancy where the employer is based outside the EEA, or due to your request that we process your application for employment, or for a franchise purchase, or if you order services from us which require processing which have to be conducted at one of our processing offices located in Canada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, or in the United States of America. By registering and using this site, you consent to this transfer.

Standard terms of business 

You agree that each employment assignment or placement arising as a result of an introduction made by us will be subject to our standard terms of business as they are applicable in the circumstances and amended from time to time. All prospective employers and clients for whom we arrange assignments or placements will be provided with a copy of our terms of business applicable to them upon request at or following registration. Separate terms and conditions also apply to the use of our recruiter site. 

Content rights 

You agree that the rights in material on this site are protected by international copyright, software and trademark laws, and you agree to use this site in a way which does not infringe these rights. You agree that you to copy material on this site only for your own private or domestic purposes. Copying, or reproducing for any commercial or business purposes is strictly prohibited. 

Payments for courses involving an employment sponsor must be made within 60 minutes of an invoice being sent to you.

Cancellation for full refund will be less a £25.00 registration admin fee will be deducted from fee total if course is cancelled within 14 days but only if course material is not accessed, retained, transferred to another email, copied, duplicated, or saved electronically. You lose your right to cancel if the 14 day period elapses, or if you retain, save, transfer, or use course merchandise. 

Upon receipt of your notice to cancel, we will send you a merchandise return authorization form, after which you must email merchandise back to us along with an e-signed non-retention of intellectual property (NRIP) affidavit.

Once payment is made course materials will be dispatched to you within 24 hours

You will be allowed up to 12 months to complete all course modules

You may submit modules to us for marking at any rate you wish, however we will only agree to mark one module per week.

You must achieve 60% to pass the course

All courses are preparatory in nature. To achieve certification, you must complete all course modules of the course. 

Once modules are successfully completed, you will be scheduled to attend an instructive webinar after which you will be required to write an essay on a selected topic for single unit accreditation. The full qualification is awarded when all 7 units are completed.

All topics are aligned with the Associate Level of the CIPD Profession Map so you can be sure that everything you learn will be useful, relevant, and respected at work. It consists of 3 core units, 3 specialist units (below) plus 1 optional unit, as shown below: -

Core Units

Unit one - Talent Management and Workforce Planning

Unit two - Organisational Performance and Culture in Practice

     Unit three - Evidence-Based Practice

  Unit four - Employment Relationship Management

  Unit five - Professionals Behaviours and Valuing People

  Unit six- Reward for Performance and Contribution

Elective Units 

Specialist Employment Law

Diversity and Inclusion

People Management in an International Context

Leadership and Management Development

Wellbeing at Work

Advances in Digital Learning and Development

It is assumed that you have read and are fully in agreement of these terms once you receive a payment invoice with a link to these terms.  

Disclaimer: -Applied Nova Academy LTD is not affiliated with either the ISO or CIPD organizations. Coursers of training are only preparatory in nature and for personal development only. Each respective organization has its own separate set of qualification requirements which must be satisfied by you independent of Applied Nova Academy LTD training.