Terms and Conditions
By using the Essential Animals Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and to use the Site in accordance with these Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy and any additional terms and conditions that may apply to specific sections of the Site or to products and services available through the Site or from Essential Animals. Accessing the Site, in any manner, whether automated or otherwise, constitutes use of the Site and your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Service. We reserve the right to change these Terms of Service or to impose new conditions on use of the Site, from time to time, in which case we will post the revised Terms of Service on this website. By continuing to use the Site after we post any such changes, you accept the Terms of Service, as modified.
Courses
By signing up to any of our courses you agree that you have read, understood and will abide by the terms and conditions found on the Essential Animals website and also the following:
All courses are intended to support you in keeping your animals well. They are not intended to replace veterinary medicine. If your animal is unwell you are required to first of all discuss this with a qualified veterinarian. Nayana Morag or anyone she contracts to deliver courses is not liable for any harm caused by incorrect use of the information offered on this site or the health of your animal in any way.
APA Certificate course sold on this site will qualify you to advise animal guardians how to use the APA wellness system to reduce stress and support an animal’s self-healing with natural management, and how to offer aromatics for self-selection. This course does not qualify you to treat or diagnose illness or prescribe medicine, or in any way replace veterinary medicine. Please be aware that it is your responsibility to know and respect the laws of your country of residence when working with animals.
All case studies, photographs and videos submitted for the course will be added to our database and may be used in our library or on social media, unless you explicitly request to keep them private.
Any live Zoom sessions or webinars will be recorded for replay. Participation in the sessions will be taken as agreement to being recorded. If you do not want to be recorded let us know and you can keep your camera turned off.
Students enrolled in courses may be refunded 80% of course registration price within the first 7 days of the registration date, unless the PDF documents are downloaded or any topic or lesson marked complete, in which case no refund will be given. There are no refunds after 7 days of course registration.
It is the responsibility of the students enrolling to ensure they are working within the laws of their country of residence.
Payments
You agree to pay the fees for courses that you purchase, and you authorize us to charge your debit or credit card or process other means of payment (such as Boleto, SEPA, direct debit, or mobile wallet) for those fees. We work with third party payment processing partners to offer you the most convenient payment methods in your country and to keep your payment information secure. Check out our Privacy Policy for more details.
When you make a purchase, you agree not to use an invalid or unauthorized payment method. If your payment method fails we reserve the right to disable access to any course for which we have not received payment.
Students enrolled with a payment plan are responsible for paying for the course in full. Certificates will not be issued any payment is completed. Payments for payment plans are issued automatically each month.
By downloading the PDF documents within the first 7 days of enrolling, students are agreeing to pay for the course, and no cancellations of payment plans are allowed. Essential Animals will perform multiple automated attempts to collect the payment of a failed or overdue instalment to fulfil this agreement until accounts with failed payments are paid in full. If a failed or declined payment is not paid, Essential Animals reserves the right to cancel the student’s enrollment entirely and remove student access to their course, including any and all course progress and quiz records to date. In this case, students will not be refunded previous payments made towards the course. To continue with the course, students shall be required to re-enrol in the course without payment credit for past payments. All payment plans will remain active unless cancellation occurs within the first 7 days. It is however possible to pause the course on request, if you are struggling with payments please talk to us so we can help you.
Members of the Animal Wellness Community with an annual subscription or one year or more as a paying member are eligible for a 10% discount on courses purchased.
Use of site
You can only use this site for lawful purposes. You’re responsible for all the content that you post on our platform. You should keep the reviews, questions, posts, courses and other content you upload in line with the law, and respect the intellectual property rights of others. We can ban your account for repeated or major offenses. If you think someone is infringing your copyright on our platform, let us know.
Your License to Us. By posting or submitting any material (including, without limitation, comments, blog entries, Facebook postings, photos, videos) to us via the Site, internet groups, social media venues, or to any of our staff via email, text or otherwise, you are representing: (i) that you are the owner of the material, or are making your posting or submission with the express consent of the owner of the material; and (ii) that you are thirteen years of age or older.
Disclaimers
Throughout the Site, we may provide links and pointers to Internet sites maintained by third parties. Our linking to such third-party sites does not imply an endorsement or sponsorship of such sites, or the information, products or services offered on or through the sites. In addition, neither we nor affiliates operate or control in any respect any information, products or services that third parties may provide on or through the Site or on websites linked to by us on the Site. If applicable, any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers and laboratory results, are those of the respective authors or distributors, and not Essential Animals. Neither Essential Animals nor any third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content. Furthermore, Essential Animals neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy and reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made on any of the Sites
THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFERED ON OR THROUGH THE SITE AND BY Essential Animals AND ANY THIRD-PARTY SITES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE OR ANY OF ITS FUNCTIONS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY PART OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING BULLETIN BOARDS, OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE IT AVAILABLE, ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WE BELIEVE THAT THE INFORMATION WE PROVIDE, INCLUDING THAT ON OUR SITES, BROCHURES, FLYERS AND INFORMATION PACKETS, IS ACCURATE, BUT WE DO NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE SITE OR MATERIALS ON THIS SITE OR ON THIRD-PARTY SITES IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO VERIFY SUCH MATTERS INDEPENDENTLY FROM PRIMARY SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND BY TAKING SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.
You agree at all times to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Nayana Morag, Essential Animals, its affiliates, their successors, transferees, assignees and licensees and their respective parent and subsidiary companies, agents, associates, officers, directors, shareholders and employees of each from and against any and all claims, causes of action, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including legal fees and expenses, arising out of or related to your breach of any obligation, warranty, representation or covenant set forth herein.
Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://essentialanimals.com
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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
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.
How long we retain your data
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, 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) to compile data regarding user interactions as they relate to our website.
Fair Information Practices
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur: We will notify you via email within 7 business days. We will notify the users via in-site notification within 7 business days.
Email Addresses and Marketing
We collect your email address in order to:
- Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
- Send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
- Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.
We agree to the following:
- Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Honour opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can follow the instructions at the bottom of each email. We will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
Contacting Us
info@essentialanimals.com
Nayana Morag
Mte De Nossa Senhora
CP7373
Sao Martinho das Amoreiras,
7630-536
Portugal
