TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT AND
LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

These E-Course Terms of Use Agreement and Liability Disclaimer and conditions apply to Services provided by The Bench Advisory Group Limited of the Trillium Executive Centre, East Tower, 675 Cochrane Drive, Markham, Ontario L3R 0B8.

You may contact us at [email protected] or phone number 1 855 353 4333.

These terms and conditions are in addition to the Website Disclaimer and apply to the sale or use of any Online Course, Taught Course and/or Mentoring Program. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before purchasing an Online Course and/or Taught Course and print off a copy for your records.

If there is any conflict between our Website Disclaimer, these terms and conditions and any Course Specific Terms and Conditions which might apply to a specific Online Course,  Taught Course or Mentoring Program then the conflict shall be resolved by applying the following order of priority:

1. Course Specific Terms and Conditions;
2. These Standard Terms for the Purchase of Online, Taught Courses and Mentoring Programs;
3. Website Disclaimer.

For purchases via our website, by clicking on the “Accept” button you agree to the terms of this agreement which will bind you. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions you must cease to continue to purchase any Services from us. 

1. Definitions

“Confidential Information” means information provided by one party to the other in written, graphic, recorded, machine readable or other form concerning the business, clients, suppliers, finances and other areas of the other party’s business or products, including, without limitation, the Course Materials, but does not include information in the public domain other than through the default of the party disclosing the information, information required to be disclosed by any court or regulatory authority, or any information already in the possession or control of the disclosing party.

“Course Materials” means the information provided by The Bench Advisory Group to accompany a course provided as part of the Services in hard copy or electronic form.

“Fees” means the fees paid by you to The Bench Advisory Group for the Services.

“Intellectual Property Rights” means copyright, rights in or relating to databases, patent rights, performers’ rights, designs and registered designs, trademarks, rights in or relating to Confidential Information and other intellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) throughout the world.

“Mentoring Program” means the delivery by us of a scheduled mentoring program provided by us in a classroom or online setting which you attend in person or remotely.

“Mentoring Program Materials” means the information provided by the Bench Advisory Group to accompany a Mentoring Program provided as part of the Services in hard copy or electronic form.

“Online Course” means the delivery by us of an online course pursuant to which you learn course materials remotely.

“Services” means the provision of the Online Course,  the Taught Course,  the Course Materials, the Mentoring Program and/or any Mentoring Program Materials together with such other services as agreed from time to time and purchased by you through the Website or by telephone.

“Taught Course” means a course taught by us in a classroom setting to which you attend in person.

“Website” means www.thebenchadvisorygroup.com “you” means the individual purchasing the Services.

2. The Services

2.1. A description of the Services together with the dates on which the Services will begin are available on our Website. We will provide the Services with reasonable care and skill in accordance with the description set out on the Website.

2.2. We reserve the right to vary or withdraw any of the Services described on the Website without notice.

2.3 We expect you to confirm that the Services you are purchasing will meet your needs. We do not make any guarantee to you that you will obtain a particular result, professional qualification or employment opportunity from your purchase and completion of any of the Services.

3. Ordering Services

Purchasing Services via the Website

3.1. In order to purchase any of the Services on-line you must register for an account with us via the Website. If you already have an account with us, you can log into your account using your username and password.

Purchasing Services via the Telephone

3.2. To purchase a Service over the telephone please call 1 855 353 4333. You do not need to have registered for an account with us to purchase any of the Services over the telephone. You must, however, register for an account with us to access your course on-line.

3.3. When you place an order for a Service via the Website, or telephone you are offering to purchase the Services on these terms and conditions. The Bench Advisory Group reserves the right to cancel or decline your order or any part of your order at any time until it has been confirmed in accordance with clause 3.5 below.

3.4. Following receipt by us of your order for Services via the Website or on the telephone we will contact you confirming receipt of your order. 

3.5. A legally binding agreement between us and you shall come into existence when we have:

I. accepted your offer to purchase Services from us by sending you an email confirming the purchase; and

II. received payment of the relevant Fees from you in accordance with clause 5 below. 

3.6. Where your order consists of multiple Online Courses, multiple Taught Courses or multiple Mentoring Programs , each individual course or program will be treated by us as a separate offer to purchase. Acceptance of your offer to buy one or more courses will not be acceptance by us of your offer to purchase any other courses which make up your order.

3.7. The Bench Advisory Group does not and is not responsible for booking any examination with any professional body or examination board if required by your profession. It is your responsibility to ensure that you book prior to the relevant closing date any exam necessary that you wish to take, and which may or may not be associated with the subject matter of the Services provided to you by The Bench Advisory Group, INC.

4. Cancellation and Variation

4.1. Subject to clause 4.2 below, where we have accepted / confirmed the Services being purchased by you and formed a legally binding agreement with you in accordance with clause 3.5 above, then you are permitted within 7 working days starting on the day after the date we have concluded our agreement in accordance with clause 3.4, to cancel your purchase of the Services. 

4.2. If you have purchased an Online Course and have already accessed, downloaded all or part of the Online Course and/or started to use that Online Course then you shall have no right to cancel your order.

4.3. Notwithstanding clause 4.1 there is no other right to cancel or vary your purchase of Services and any other cancellation and / or variation of course dates will be at the entire discretion of The Bench Advisory Group, INC.

5. Fees

5.1. The Fees for the Services shall be as set out on the Website or as told to you over the telephone at the time you placed an order for them. 

5.2. Unless otherwise specified at the time you purchase the Services the Fees are exclusive of any local taxes, the cost of some Course Materials and Mentoring Program Materials and any delivery costs payable in respect of the delivery of Course Material or Mentoring Program Materials to you. Each of these costs will be set out on the Website or told to you over the telephone prior to your purchase the Services.

5.3. Save where specifically stated otherwise on the Website, all Fees shall be exclusive of any amounts payable to any professional body for registration or examination entry.

5.4. Fees for the Service selected by you on the Website or purchased over the telephone shall be debited from your credit / debit card at the time of purchase. Fees must be paid in full prior to you attending any Taught Course, Mentoring Program or accessing any Online Course.

5.5. Any fees charged by your debit or credit card provider in connection with your purchase of Services are for your own account and The Bench Advisory Group shall not be responsible for these.

5.6. You shall be responsible for all costs you incur in connection with your attendance at any Taught Courses or your access onto any Online Course or any Mentoring Program.

6. Liability

6.1. No part of the provision of the Services shall be deemed to be, nor is it intended to be, nor should it be taken to be, the provision of investment advice.

6.2. Although The Bench Advisory Group aims to provide the Services to the highest standards of the industry, neither it, nor its trainers accept any liability for (i) any inaccuracy or misleading information provided in the programs or Course Materials or Mentoring Program Materials and any reliance by Client on any such information, (ii) any loss or corruption of data, (iii) any loss of profit, revenue or goodwill, or (iv) any indirect, special or consequential loss arising from any breach of the terms of this Agreement.

6.3. Neither the Bench Advisory Group, nor any officer, director, employee, or contractor of the Bench Advisory Group performing the Services will have any liability to any person, including a participant of any Online Course, Taught Course or Mentoring Program, for any action taken or omitted to be taken, or any losses, costs or expenses incurred by such person or participant as a result of or arising from:

I. their participation, attendance or possession of such related Online Course, Taught Course, Mentoring Program, Course Materials or Mentoring Program Materials therefrom;

II. any absence of desired outcomes or results, or where any outcomes or results from the Services provided are not achieved.

6.4 Except to the extent that they are expressly set out in these terms and conditions, no conditions, warranties, results or other terms shall apply to the Services. Subject to clause 6.5 no implied conditions, warranties or other terms apply (including any implied terms as to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose or conformance with description).

6.5. Subject to clause 6.6 below, The Bench Advisory Group’s total liability arising from or in connection with these terms and conditions and in relation to anything which we may have done or not done in connection with these terms and conditions and the delivery of the Service (and whether the liability arises because of breach of contract, negligence or for any other reason) shall be limited to the Fees received by us in connection with the relevant Online Course, Taught Course or Mentoring Program in relation to which a dispute has arisen.

6.6. Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit The Bench Advisory Group’s liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by negligence, (ii) fraudulent misrepresentation or (iii) any other matter which under English law may not be limited or excluded.

6.7. No claim may be brought more than six months after the last date on which the Services concerned have finished or ceased to be provided by us.

7. Intellectual Property

7.1. All Intellectual Property Rights in the Taught Courses, Online Courses, Mentoring Programs, Course Materials, Mentoring Program Materials and the speeches, lectures and presentations  made by trainers at the Bench Advisory Group are, and remain, the intellectual property of The Bench Advisory Group or its licensors, whether adapted, written for or customised for the Client or not.

7.2. You are not authorised to:-

I. copy, modify, reproduce, re-publish, sub-licence, sell, upload, broadcast, post, transmit or distribute any of the Course Materials or Mentoring Program Materials without prior written permission;

II. record on video or audio tape, relay by videophone or other means the Online Course or Taught Course or Mentoring Program provided

III. use the Course Materials or Mentoring Program Materials in the provision of any other course or training whether given by us or any third-party trainer;

IV. remove any copyright or other notice of The Bench Advisory Group on the Course Materials or Mentoring Program Materials;

V. modify, adapt, merge, translate, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer (save to the extent permitted by law) any software forming part of the Online Courses or the Mentoring Programs.

Breach by you of this clause 7.2 shall allow us to immediately terminate these terms and conditions with you and cease to provide you with any Services, including but not limited to access to the Online Courses and the Mentoring Programs.

7.3. In consideration of the Fees paid by you, we grant to you a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use the Course Materials and the Mentoring Program Materials and the products in respect of the Online Course and the Mentoring Program for the sole purpose of completing the Online Course, the Mentoring Program, and / or attending the Taught Course.

8. Confidentiality

8.1. Each party shall keep the other party’s Confidential Information strictly confidential and not use it otherwise than for the purposes of these terms and conditions and shall return it on demand and not retain copies of it.

8.2. Either party may disclose Confidential Information to its legal and other advisors for the purposes of obtaining advice from them.

8.3. This clause shall continue notwithstanding termination of these terms and conditions.

9. Termination

9.1. We shall be entitled to terminate these terms and conditions and cease to provide you with any Services with immediate effect in the event that you:

I. fail to pay when due your Fees;

II. act in an aggressive, bullying, offensive, threatening or harassing manner towards any employee of The Bench Advisory Group, any teacher or lecturer who provides the Taught Courses or Mentoring Program or any student who attends any Taught Course or Mentoring Program;

III. cheat or plagiarise any work which you are required to prepare or submit in connection with the Services or during any examination taken in connection with the Services;

IV. steal or act in fraudulent or deceitful manner towards us or our employees or any other students who may be on our premises or attending our Taught Courses or Mentoring Programs;

V. intentionally or recklessly damage our property or the property of our employees or other students attending our premises;

VI. are intoxicated through alcohol or illegal drugs while on our premises;

VII. commit any criminal offence committed on our premises or where the victim is our employee or student;

VIII. are in breach of these terms and conditions.

9.2. On termination clause 6 (liability), 7 (intellectual property rights), 8 (confidentiality) and 10 (restrictions) shall continue notwithstanding such termination.

10. Assignment

Any Services provided by us under these terms and conditions are personal to you and cannot be transferred or assigned to any other person.

We shall be entitled to assign these terms and conditions to any other company without prior notice to you.

11. Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions, together with the Website Disclaimer and Course Specific Terms and Conditions are the entire agreement between the parties and supersede any prior agreements and arrangements, whether written or oral. You confirm that you have not relied on any representations in entering into these and any other terms and conditions with us. Nothing in this clause or terms and conditions shall limit liability for any fraudulent misrepresentation.

12. Force Majeure

The Bench Advisory Group shall not be liable to you for any breach of its obligations or termination under these terms and conditions arising from causes beyond its reasonable control, including, but not limited to, fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and other Acts of God, terrorism, strikes, delay caused by transport disputes, failure to provide a course caused by a death in the trainer’s family, illness of the trainer, Government edict or regulation.

13. Assignment

We may assign, transfer, sub-contract any of our rights or obligations to any third party at our discretion.

14. Data Protection

14.1 The nature of the Services provided by us means that we will obtain, use and disclose (together “Use”) certain information about you (“Data”). This statement sets out the principles governing our Use of Data. By purchasing the Services, you agree to this Use.

14.2 When you register with us you will need to provide certain Data such as your contact details and demographic information. We will store this Data and use it to contact you, provide you with details of the Services you have purchased and otherwise as required during the normal provision of the course.

14.3 We may also use the above Data, and similar Data you provide us in response to surveys, to aggregate user profiles and, unless you click on the relevant button on the Registration Form, provide you with communications. We will not pass any personal data onto anyone outside of The Bench Advisory Group, INC,

14.3 To enable us to monitor and improve our Services, we gather certain aggregated information about you, including details of your operating system, browser version, domain name and IP address, the URL you came from and go to and the parts of the Website you visit.

14.4. We use information such as your User ID, session identifiers and password to enable us to identify whether you are using our services, assist with the provision of services and to ensure that you have access to relevant products. We will only read cookies from your cookie file placed there through your web browser’s interaction with the Website.

14.5. Our products may link to third party websites, and we are not responsible for their data policies or procedures or their content.

14.6. The Bench Advisory Group endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal Data including the use of encryption technology but cannot guarantee the security of any Data you disclose. You accept the inherent security implications of being and transacting on-line over the internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security.

14.7. The Bench Advisory Group may supplement the information that you provide with information we receive from third parties, such as exam registration bodies or your employer.

14.8. If you wish to change or update the data we hold about you, please e-mail [email protected] or contact us on 1 855 353 4333.

15. Law and Jurisdiction

This Agreement is subject to English law and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in connection with any dispute hereunder.

16. Notices

You can contact us by any of the following methods:

Email: [email protected]

The Bench Advisory Group 

Trillium Executive Centre, 

East Tower, 675 Cochrane Drive, 

Markham, Ontario L3R 0B8

Telephone: 1 855 353 4333

WEBSITE DISCLAIMER

* By entering this web site, you have consented to the Privacy Statement of The Bench Advisory Group which outlines the use and processing of personal data and cookies.

* Your use of the Bench Advisory Group web site is of your own choice and The Bench Advisory Group accepts no responsibility for your experience within.

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* The Bench Advisory Group accepts no liability for any loss or damage howsoever arising as a result of use or reliance on this information, use of our web site, or for any computer errors which may arise.

* The Bench Advisory Group does not guarantee that the site will be continuously available or that site usage will be uninterrupted and error free.

* Through this website, you are able to link to other web pages which are not under the control of The Bench Advisory Group. The Bench Advisory Group has no control over the content and availability of these sites. The inclusion of any link does not necessarily apply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within.