Our Product Terms & Conditions
Schedule 1: Products and Services – Pathway Accelerators
Duration: Arranged into modules of between 4-10 weeks.
Features Included:
- online learning sessions (1x for each week)
- Q&A sessions with one of the Pathway Accelerator mentors aligned with the chosen pathway (on some modules only)
- Access to our e-learning portal and lessons with accompanying resources
- Starting dates: Typically once per school term but this can vary depending on partner schools. All resources for a module can be accessed as soon as the module is purchased.
- Payment: upfront in full for each module.
1 Who We Are
1.1. We are Advance Education Ltd, a company registered in New Zealand, with company number 1754762
1.2. We provide pathway education learning programs.
1.3. Our contact details are:
- email: info@advanceeducation.nz
- Phone: +64 28 406 7042
2 Our Services
2.1. We provide the following service (“Products and Services”):
For the purpose of gaining a pathway advantage we have a range of products and services designed to provide insights, acceleration of learning, and immersion into industry specific skills and training. These T&C’s cover:
- Pathway Accelerator – Programs that work with high school students specific to industries we offer at any time, designed to focus and develop the skills needed to gain a pathway advantage, as detailed in Schedule 1 of these T&Cs.
2.2. Our Products and Services constitute “Information Only” and are supplied for informational purposes only. Our Products and Services do not constitute professional, financial or legal recommendations or advice. You are recommended to engage licensed professional advice for legal and financial needs. Advance Education is not a registered “Private Training Establishment” with NZQA, but for applicable Participants it does work with registered education providers for delivery of its programs through approved partner schools.
2.3. The Products and Services may include in-person and/or virtual meetings on pre-set dates and times (“Scheduled Events”) where you may interact with other individuals who purchased or were invited to join the same Products and Services you did (“Participants”). Where a student is enrolled with an approved partner school facilitated sessions may be held on-site and in-person. For all other students facilitated sessions will likely be held online through our elearning system.
2.4. We deliver Products and Services through elearning systems and experts we engage for the purpose of speaking to you and mentoring you (“Mentors”).
3 Our Contract with You and When These T&Cs Apply
3.1. If you wish to engage us to provide Products and Services to you, you shall send us the order/application form for the Products and Services you selected (“Order”), or purchase access through our website elearning portal.
3.2. Where our programs operate on restricted access applications, we will review your Order and notify you if we accept it. We are under no obligation to accept your Order (does not apply for elearning programs that can be accessed by anyone at anytime through our elearning portal on our website).
3.3. When we notify you that we accept the Order, or you sign up to our elearning resources online, a contract will be formed between us and you for the supply of the Products and Services included in the Order, in accordance with the Order and these T&Cs (“Contract”).
3.4. These T&Cs shall apply to the Contract and set out your and our rights and obligations in connection with the supply of the Products and Services. You must comply with these T&Cs. Therefore, you should read these T&Cs very carefully.
3.5. We may need to: (i) change a Scheduled Event, (ii) replace a Mentor or other speakers (iii) change the delivery format, or (iv) make any other change to a Scheduled Event or in the design of the program. We reserve the right to implement these changes if needed. If we do it, we will inform you about the changes as soon as possible and you shall not have the right to terminate the Contract if we do.
4 eLearning Portal, and Our Community
4.1. Our Products and Services give you access to our eLearning Portal, and may also give you access to the Private Social-Media Groups dedicated to some Products and Services you purchased (“Social-Media Groups”). This access will last for the duration of the Contract.
4.2. When the Contract is formed, we will provide you with the necessary login, passwords, and access instructions when these apply.
4.3. Your access to the eLearning Portal will be subject to the eLearning Portal Terms & Conditions of Use. Your access to the Social-Media Groups will be subject to the (i) applicable social-media platforms’ Terms and Conditions, and (ii) our Advance Education Community Guidelines. If you don’t want to comply with these terms and conditions, you should not access the eLearning Portal, the Social-Media Groups, and/or the contact details of the Community Members.
4.4. At the end of the Contract, for some programs you may be given the opportunity to extend your access through a paid monthly subscription. We will notify you of the expiry of your access to the eLearning Portal and the Social-Media Group, as well as your options to subscribe for continued access. Digital learning programs include an “all access pass” with no set expiry for access.
4.5. If you don’t subscribe to continued access to the eLearning Portal for programs this relates to, and the Social-Media Groups, your access to them will be cancelled upon termination of the Contract.
5 Other Participants and Community Members
5.1. You may enter into study arrangements and or communicate with other participants / community members. Such communications fall outside of the reasonable oversight of Advance Education.
5.2. We do not endorse any Participants or Community Members and will not be liable for any loss or damage you may suffer in connection with any participant connection.
5.3. All communications shared on our social media or community groups must be positive and otherwise contributing towards a safe online community for all Participants. We reserve the right to restrict or expel any Participant from our communities where, at our discretion, we feel they otherwise represent a risk to others.
6 Price and Payment Terms
6.1. In consideration of the supply of the Products and Services, you shall pay us the fees set out in the Order (“Fees”). The Fees do not include GST. GST will be added for New Zealand residents
6.2. You shall pay the Fees on the dates set out in the Order, or upon enrolment for digital elearning products.
6.3. You can pay the Fees with a debit or credit card.
6.4. If you elect to pay the Fees with a debit or credit card, we will obtain your card information and card authorisation. We will bill your card on the date when the Fees are due in accordance with the Order.
6.5. Where applicable, If we are unable to process your payment on the due date, we will send you an email/SMS. If it fails a second time you will get a call from our team to arrange prompt payment. If your account is more than 30 days in arrears, expect your card to be processed automatically. If your account remains unpaid or you default, your access to the program will be restricted until you are up to date. Fees unpaid for more than 60 days (with no contact) will be handed to an external collections agency at which point your full program Fee will fall due plus the costs of collection. Please note, even if you do not attend the sessions your payments will still be due.
7 Cancellations or Transfers
7.1. Our Products and Services are based on a 30 week contract and the Fees that apply to them reflect that. Therefore, you cannot cancel the Products and Services after we have accepted the Order. If you do, the Fees will continue to be due and/or no refunds (in full or part) will be provided.
7.2. The Fees will continue to be due even if you stop attending the Scheduled Events.
7.3 Purchasing access to a learning module is for that module only and cannot be swapped to a different enrolment for any other module.
8 Our Obligations
8.1. We will deliver the Products and Services with skill and care in accordance with the Order and these T&Cs. Nevertheless, we do not guarantee that by purchasing our Products and Services you or the student you have enrolled will obtain any specific results or growth and we shall not be liable if you don’t.
9 Your Commitment
9.1. The Products and Services are designed to help you develop your pathway industry skills. Therefore, the results you may get from the Products and Services depend on your commitment to attend the Scheduled Events and follow the programs, activities, and tasks set out in the Products and Services.
10 Confidentiality
10.1. You must be committed to confidentiality.
10.2. As part of the Products and Services, we, you, and the Participants may share ideas and confidential information (Including information about experimenting with business concepts and strategies). You must keep any information shared by us or any Participant confidential.
10.3. We will not, however, be liable if you share an idea and later believe another Participant or person took this idea, or you feel negatively affected by someone’s reaction to the information you choose to share.
10.4. You do not need to share personal or confidential information to fully experience the potential positive results of your participation if you do not wish to do so.
11 Intellectual property
11.1. For the purposes of these T&Cs, Intellectual Property Rights means patents, utility models, rights to inventions, copyright and related rights, trademarks and service marks, trade names and domain names, rights in get-up, goodwill, and the right to sue for passing off or unfair competition, rights in design, rights in computer software, database rights, rights to preserve the confidentiality of information (including know-how and trade secrets) and any other intellectual property rights, including applications for renewals and extensions of such rights and all similar/equivalent rights which subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.
11.2. As part of the Products and Services, Participants will receive extensive information, literature, handouts, strategies, tests, products, and other materials (“Materials”).
11.3. We own and have the license to use for the purposes of the supply of the Products and Services any and all Intellectual Property Rights in the Materials, the Products and Services, our website and in our logo and brand and we grant you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-sublicense, royalty-free, non-transferable license to use the Intellectual Property Rights in them for the sole and exclusive purpose of complying with your obligations and exercising your rights under the Contract.
11.4. The licence is granted only for your personal use in connection with the use of the Products and Services. You shall not adapt, transmit, sell, teach or licence the Materials in any way, shape or form. You can copy the Materials for the exclusive purposes of participating in the Products and Services.
11.5. Nothing in these T&Cs or the Contract shall be deemed to transfer to you the ownership of any Intellectual Property Rights in the Materials, the Products and Services, our website, and in our logo and brand.
11.6. You acknowledge and agree that we may collect data related to your use of the Products and Services and use this data in marketing analysis, to improve our Products and Services, to develop new products and services, and for other internal purposes.
12 Transfer of Products and Services
12.1. Purchasing access to our elearning resources is for one student only and are not transferable to any third parties. We may (but are not obliged to) authorise that you transfer the Products and Services or any part of them to third parties.
13 Complaints
13.1. We take all complaints seriously. If you have any complaints about the Products and Services or a Mentor, we will take every reasonable step to rectify the issue.
13.2. You shall send your complaint to: info@advanceeducation.nz.
13.3. We usually acknowledge receipt of your complaint within 48 hours after you send it. We aim to fully resolve the complaint within 14 working days after we acknowledge receipt of the complaint.
13.4. Neither you nor we will go online or escalate into a legal process without first allowing the 14 working days for investigation and resolution.
13.5. Neither you nor we will publicly complain on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc, or in any manner that otherwise tarnishes the reputation of either party or other Participants.
14 Term and Termination
14.1. The Contract shall become effective in accordance with clause 3.3 of these T&Cs and subject to this clause and clause 7 shall remain in full force and effect until the delivery of the Products and Services in accordance with its terms and conditions.
14.2. We may terminate the Contract with immediate effect if you materially breach any term of the Contract and fail to remedy the breach within 5 working days after being notified by us to do so. If we terminate the Contract in accordance with this clause, you will not be entitled to any refund of Fees that have been paid and any Fees that are outstanding will continue to be due and payable.
15 Collections
15.1. If we have to send your account to collections or pursue legal action for non-payment of Fees, we shall be entitled to recover its associated legal fees and costs.
16 Privacy and Data Protection
16.1. Whenever we or you collect, hold or process personal data as a result or in connection with the Products and Services, we or you shall collect, hold and process such personal data in compliance with applicable New Zealand laws and regulations.
From The Founder:
A Personal Thank You!
It’s our vision to drastically improve the lives of our participants by opening up a whole new world of earning and lifestyle potential. The personal growth, and opportunities that come from a pathway advantage can be a total paradigm shift in what our customers previously thought was possible.
I would like to personally thank you for trusting us to support you in making this change.
Stephen Morton-Jones
Founder – Advance Education Ltd
