Terms of Use

Terms of USE

By accessing any part of this website, its interactive properties, or associated applications, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions described below.  If you do not agree to any of these terms, you should not use the website or any associated applications.

We may, at our sole discretion, modify these Terms of Use at any time. By accessing the website and related services at any time after such modifications, you are agreeing to such modifications.  These Terms were last modified on December 17, 2020.

For details regarding our processing of personal data of our members, see our Privacy Policy.

Accounts

To view, comment, and interact in any way with material posted to the site or to enroll in programs, you will need to create an account.  The community pages are available to registered users only. 

The following terms apply to your use of website and associated applications and any account that you may open or attempt to open:

• You represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age. If you are under age 18, you may not, under any circumstances or for any reason, use the website or associated applications.
• You must be a human to open an account. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.
• You must provide accurate and complete information. Fake accounts will be deleted, and the user banned from the site.
• You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. We view any actions taken by your account as taken by you.  Jerne LLC will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.

Inactive accounts may be closed after 6 months of inactivity.  Course data will be deleted meaning you could lose access to purchased programs.  In the event that a user dies, the account will be closed upon notification.

Members can terminate their account by requesting it be closed and the data deleted through support services by writing to [email protected]

Use of the Site

Anyone can use the website to create and publish courses and events.  We enable instructors, guides, and members to interact for teaching and learning, and interacting in interest groups and discussions. Like other platforms where people can post content and interact, some things can go wrong, and you use this website at your own risk.

Our marketplace model means we do not review or edit the courses for legal issues, and we are not in a position to determine the legality of course content. We do not guarantee the reliability, validity, accuracy, or truthfulness of the programs. If you enroll in a program, you rely on any information provided by an instructor or guide at your own risk.

By using this website, you may be exposed to content that you consider offensive, indecent, or objectionable. Jerne LLC has no responsibility to keep such content from you and no liability for your access or enrollment in any course or event, to the extent permissible under applicable law. This also applies to any programs relating to health, wellness, and physical exercise. You acknowledge the inherent risks and dangers in the strenuous nature of these types of programs, and by enrolling in such programs you choose to assume those risks voluntarily, including risk of illness, bodily injury, disability, or death. You assume full responsibility for the choices you make before, during, and after your enrollment in a course or event.

When you interact directly with a member, instructor, or guide, you must be careful about the personal information that you share. While we restrict member information shared with instructors and guides to that you share with the community on the website, we do not control what members, instructors, and guides do with the information they obtain from other users on the platform. You should not share your email or other personal information about you for your safety.

We do not hire or employ instructors or guides nor are we responsible or liable for any interactions involved between instructors, guides, and members. We are not liable for disputes, claims, losses, injuries, or damage of any kind that might arise out of or relate to the conduct of instructors, guides, or members.

When you use our website, you will find links to other websites that we don’t own or control. We are not responsible for the content or any other aspect of these third-party sites, including their collection of information about you. You should also read their terms and conditions and privacy policies.

 

Content

The website should not be used or relied upon for storage of your photographs, images, videos, sounds or any other content you uploaded, and you are directed to retain your own copies of all content posted on the website.

You’re responsible for all the content that you post on our website. You should keep the reviews, questions, posts, programs, and other content you upload in line with our community standards, policies, and the law, and respect the intellectual property rights of others.  If you think someone is infringing your copyright on our platform, contact us at [email protected].

You agree not to upload any content or technology (including information on encryption) whose export is specially controlled under the Export Administration Regulations or other applicable regulations.

If we are put on notice that your posted content violates the law or the rights of others (for example, if it is established that it violates intellectual property or image rights of others, or is about an illegal activity), if we discover that your content or behavior violates our community standards or policies, or if we believe your content or behavior is unlawful, inappropriate, or objectionable (for example if you impersonate someone else), we may remove your content from our platform, terminate or suspend your permission to use our website at our sole discretion.

Upon any such termination we may delete your account and content, and we may prevent you from further access to the website and use of our services. Your content may still be available on the platforms even if your account is terminated or suspended. You agree that we will have no liability to you or any third party for termination of your account, removal of your content, or blocking of your access to our platforms and services.

The content you post as a member, instructor, or guide remains yours. By posting programs and other content, you allow Jerne LLC to reuse and share it but you do not lose any ownership rights you may have over your content. If you are an instructor or guide, be sure to understand the licensing terms that are detailed in the Terms of Service for Instructors and Guides.

Conduct

Focus on educational, creative, and cultural topics.  Keep it positive and fun.  Celebrate differences as much as similarities while respecting individual sovereignty.  Additionally, while we respect everyone’s right to have political views, spiritual, and religious beliefs, this is not a forum for expressing or advancing them.  The exception being where they are an integral component of an educational program or cultural exchange.

Posts and course content that is reported as derogatory, discriminatory, obscene, pornographic, or in violation of copyright laws will be reviewed and may without notice be deleted.  This can also lead to suspension of your access to the site or being permanently banned.

Enrollment

When you enroll in a course, you get a license from us to view it via our website and no other use. You agree not to transfer or resell courses in any way. We grant you access for the duration listed in the specific course, except when we must disable the course because of legal or policy reasons.

Jerne LLC grants enrolled members a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and view the course and associated content for which you have paid all required fees, solely for your personal, non-commercial, educational purposes through the website, in accordance with these Terms and any conditions or restrictions associated with a particular courses or feature of our services. All other uses are expressly prohibited. You may not reproduce, redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, create derivative works of, sublicense, or otherwise transfer or use any Jərnē unless we give you explicit permission to do so in a written agreement signed by a Jerne LLC authorized representative.

We generally grant 30-day access to custom courses and lifetime access to standard courses, where lifetime refers to the lifetime of the course on the website.  However, this duration may be adjusted to accommodate variance in course design and instructor requests.  The access as listed in the course description at the time of enrollment defines the duration.

Instructors and guides may not grant licenses to their courses to members directly, and any such direct license shall be null and void and a violation of these Terms.

Payments

You agree to pay the fees for programs that you enroll in.  This includes courses, online lessons, events, and subscription groups.  You authorize us to charge your debit or credit card or process other means of payment for those fees. Jerne LLC works with third party payment processing partners to offer you payment methods in your country and to keep your payment information secure. Check out our Privacy Policy for more details.

When you enroll in a program, you agree not to use an invalid or unauthorized payment method. If your payment method fails and you still get access to the course you are enrolling in, you agree to pay us the corresponding fees within ten (10) days of notification from us. We reserve the right to disable access to any prog for which we have not received adequate payment.

Refunds

You can request a refund until fourteen days after purchase.  We follow these refund policies:

• We only allow one refund per member.
• Refunds for Interactive Courses and Online Lessons are pro-rated based on the percentage of the course or lesson completed.
• We do not offer refunds for subscription services, pilot programs, or special offers.

To request a refund, contact us at [email protected].  Provide your full name as registered on the website, your email address used on the website, the name of the course, and the date you purchased it with a clear statement requesting a refund. 

No refund is due to you if your request is received after the fourteen-day time limit has passed.

We reserve the right to apply your refund as a refund credit or a refund to your original payment method, at our discretion.

Jerne LLC’s Rights

You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the website and associated services:

• access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the platform (including content storage), Jərnē‘s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Jərnē’s service providers.
• disable, interfere with, or try to circumvent any of the features of the platforms related to security or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any of our systems.
• copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble, or otherwise attempt to discover any source code of or content on the Jərnē platform or services.
• access or search or attempt to access or search our platform by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available search functionalities that are provided via our website. You may not scrape, spider, use a robot, or use other automated means of any kind to access the services.
• in any way use the services to send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information (such as sending email communications falsely appearing as Jərnē); or interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the platforms or services, or in any other manner interfering with or creating an undue burden on the services.

Binding Agreement

You agree that by registering, accessing, or using our website, you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with Jərnē. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not register, access, or otherwise use any of our services.

If you are an instructor or guide accepting these Terms and using our services on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so.

Any version of these Terms in a language other than English is provided for convenience and you understand and agree that the English language version is the source of record if there is any conflict.

These Terms (including any agreements and policies linked from these Terms) constitute the entire agreement between you and us (which include, if you are an instructor or guide, the Terms of Service for Instructors and Guides).

If any part of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable by applicable law, then that provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of these Terms will continue in effect.

Even if we are delayed in exercising our rights or fail to exercise a right in one case, it doesn’t mean we waive our rights under these Terms, and we may decide to enforce them in the future. If we decide to waive any of our rights in a particular instance, it doesn’t mean we waive our rights generally or in the future.

Disclaimers

The website, its services, and content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We (and our affiliates, suppliers, partners, and agents) make no representations or warranties about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, security, lack of errors, or accuracy of the services or their content, and expressly disclaim any warranties or conditions (express or implied), including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We (and our affiliates, suppliers, partners, and agents) make no warranty that you will obtain specific results from use of the services. Your use of the services (including any content) is entirely at your own risk.

We may decide to cease making available certain features of the services at any time and for any reason. Under no circumstances will Jərnē or its affiliates, suppliers, partners or agents be held liable for any damages due to such interruptions or lack of availability of such features.

We are not responsible for delay or failure of our performance of any of the services caused by events beyond our reasonable control, like an act of war, hostility, or sabotage; natural disaster; electrical, internet, or telecommunication outage; or government restrictions.

Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages (including loss of data, revenue, profits, or business opportunities, or personal injury or death), whether arising in contract, warranty, tort, product liability, or otherwise, and even if we’ve been advised of the possibility of damages in advance. Our liability to you or any third parties under any circumstance is limited to the greater of one hundred dollars ($100) or the amount you have paid us in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to your claims.

Translations

Any version of these Terms of Use in a language other than English is provided for convenience.  You understand and agree that the English language version will be the record of source if there is a conflict.

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Privacy Policy

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our Site https://jerne.co, including any information you may provide through our Site when you use our services.

Data we collect and why we collect it

To provide our services, we must process information about you. The types of information we collect depend on how you use our services.  When you sign up with us, we collect your name, email address, telephone number. We collect the content, communications, and other information you provide when you use our social network, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content, and message or communicate with others.

We collect information about your usage of our Services, such as the types of content you view or engage with, the features you use; the actions you take; the people or accounts you interact with; and the time, frequency, and duration of your activities. 

Information collected automatically when you use browse through our Website. We may collect certain information concerning your use of our Website to produce aggregated and anonymous reports concerning the use of our services. These reports may not personally identify you.

We may collect data about:

1. your device’s IP address, browser type, and version
2. Your usage by access time, frequency, and location.
3. Webpage you were visiting before you came to our Website
4. Pages of our Website that you visit

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

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What we do with your data

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. The most common uses of your personal data are:

• Provide, personalize, and improve our Service
• Communicate with you.
• Keep and update our database and your accounts with us
• To ask for ratings and reviews of our services
• To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)

Transferring Your Data For the European Union

Because we are in the United States, We process and store your information in the United States and our service providers may process and store it elsewhere.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, We transfer data to the United States for processing, and our service providers may process data in the United States and elsewhere. These countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to the United States, we will protect it as described in this Privacy Policy.

When we transfer Personal Information from territories in the EEA or with similar laws to our affiliates or service providers in the United States and elsewhere outside the EEA, we rely on approved data transfer mechanisms, including standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and the Privacy Shield.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented.

We may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer if We deem it appropriate. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

Please email us at [email protected] if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

Billing and Payment

We use WooCommerce to process payment through PayPal. Correspondingly, all transactions are secured as our partners-payment providers use SSL encryption protection. All payment information is stored encrypted and securely by the payment services. We do not store your payment information on our servers.

Affiliates

We may disclose information about you to our affiliates to be able to offer you related or additional services. Any information relating to you that we provide to our affiliates will be treated by those affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Third Party Links

This Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every Website you visit.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our Website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our Website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Disclosure of Data to Legal Authorities

We may share your Personal Data with law enforcement, data protection authorities, government officials, and other authorities when:

• Compelled by court order, or other legal procedure;
• Disclosure is necessary to report suspected illegal activity;
• Disclosure is necessary to investigate violations of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly market or collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register on our Site. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us. No one under age 13 can provide any Personal Information to us. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us by emailing us at [email protected]

How long we retain your data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements  

By law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers.

In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data. In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request the correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request the transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at [email protected]

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We are committed to the security of your personal information provided by you to us. We have a variety of electronic and procedural actions implemented that are designed to safeguard your personal information. As there is always some element of risk when transmitting data electronically, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases. We do, however, use systems that are designed to minimize this risk.

Cookie Policy

What is Cookie?

A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that Website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyze traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.

• Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to track your use of our Website. This enables us to understand how you use the Site and track any patterns with regards to how you are using our Website. This helps us to develop and improve our Website as well as products and/or services in response to what you might need or want.

Cookies are either:

• Session cookies: These are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page, but they do not collect any personal data from your computer
• Persistent cookies: A persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer, and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the Website that created it when you visit that Website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.

Cookies can also be categorized as follows:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the Website effectively, such as when buying a product and/or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our Website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
• Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our Website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources, and see which parts of the Site are most popular.
• Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember the choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested, such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.

California Consumer Privacy Act Statement

If you are a California resident, the information below may apply to you in addition to our Privacy Policy. This Statement uses certain terms that have the meanings given to them by the California Consumer Privacy Act.

1. Categories of personal information collected – The personal information that We collect, or has collected from consumers in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act, depending on which Our Service is used:
   • identifiers such as your name, address, phone numbers, or IP address;
   • geolocation data, such as the location of your device or computer;
   • inference data, such as information about your usage preference
2. Categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose – The personal information that We disclosed about consumers for a business purpose in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act, depending on which Our Service is used:

• identifiers such as your name, address, phone numbers, or IP address,
• personal information, for third-party payment processor;

1. Right to Request Access to or Deletion of Personal Information: You may have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act to request information about the collection of your personal information by Us, or access to or deletion of your personal information. If you wish to do any of these things, please contact us at [email protected]. Depending on your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable.
2. No sale of personal information. In the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, We have not sold any personal information of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
3. No Discrimination. We will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Consent

By using this Site, you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Updates and changes to this policy

We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Policy to reflect changes in our Privacy Policy. We shall post any such changes on the Site in a conspicuous area. You may then choose whether you wish to accept said policy changes or discontinue using the Site. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately after posting on the Site. It is your responsibility to review this Policy from time to time to ensure that you continue to agree with all its terms.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Policy or practices related to this Site, please feel contact us by emailing us at [email protected]

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