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  1. Read and agree to the Terms and Conditions on this page.
  2. Then register for the Forum.
  3. Then log in to the Forum and select the particular course you want to register for.
  4. You will be sent an email confirming your course registration has been completed.

Terms and conditions

1. PARTIES AND REGISTRATION: "Masterclassplus.co.uk" means Healthcare Productions Ltd, its subsidiary companies and associated companies and its agents and employees. "You" means the person specified as the user in the registration form. The details provided by you on the registration form are important. You must ensure they are correct and complete and inform us of any changes.

2. PAYMENT: ACCESS TO Masterclassplus.co.uk IS FREE. Premium Services (Stage 3 learning activities, tutorials and access to The Forum Plus) are available for which payment is required. Masterclassplus.co.uk will notify you in all cases if the Service you are trying to access is not free and give you the opportunity to choose to pay for the chosen facility. You agree to pay the fee for any of the Stage 3 facilities that you use. Where you have chosen to make payment, the fees are payable annually in advance by way of subscription and are non-refundable except if Masterclassplus.co.uk gives you notice to terminate without cause. Masterclassplus.co.uk may send you an email or write to you one month before the expiry date of your current annual subscription advising you of the termination date. In order to obtain higher education credits students who wish to complete Stage 3 should be aware that this stage must be completed to a satisfactory standard as adjudicated by the university or appointed assessor whose decision shall be final, within twelve months from the date of first registration of Stage 3. Masterclassplus.co.uk will take all reasonable care to ensure that your payment data is properly transmitted and kept secure. You agree that we may receive remuneration from our connected companies or other third parties in respect of transactions carried out by them on your behalf. Details of any such remuneration will not be confirmed to you in writing by such third parties, but can be made available by them to you on request.

3. AVAILABILITY OF STAGE 2: In some cases it may not be practicable to deliver Stage 2 (shared learning) to all parts of the UK. In these cases a video may be available (subject to extra charge). Masterclassplus.co.uk does not accept responsibility or liability nor does it give any warranty whatsoever that Stage 2 will be available in your area or any specific area within the UK.

4. COPYRIGHT AND YOUR RIGHTS: Copyright and all other intellectual property rights subsisting in the database accessible via the Services and each and every piece of Information provided through the Services (the "Information") is owned by Masterclassplus.co.uk or the providers of such Information ("Data Providers"). Reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than in accordance with the following permissions:

Licence to copy for personal use: You may print or download to a local hard disk pages for your personal use only.

Licence to recopy for limited purposes: You may recopy to third parties for their personal information only certain Information as may be specified from time to time by Masterclassplus.co.uk as being available for that purpose, but only if

a) you clearly and prominently acknowledge the Masterclassplus.co.uk web page as the source of the material; and

b) you inform the third party that these conditions apply to him, her or it and that he/she/it must comply with them. This licence to recopy does not permit alteration, adaptation or merging of material available on these pages.

No part of the Masterclassplus.co.uk web pages may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose. No part of the Masterclassplus.co.uk web pages may be reproduced on or transmitted to or stored by any other web site or other form of electronic retrieval system by any person or entity that operates any such web site or electronic retrieval system.

5. USERNAME AND PASSWORD: You are responsible for all use of the Services made using your username and password, whether or not the use is made by you or someone else using your username and password. You are responsible for protecting and securing your username and password from unauthorised use. If you believe there has been a breach of security of your username you should notify the administrator at Masterclassplus.co.uk at its absolute discretion, reserves the right to refuse a user permission to use any particular user name and/or password. It is not permitted to impersonate or to attempt to impersonate another user or to make use of or attempt to make use of another user's username or password and any such actions may result in legal action, including criminal prosecution.

6. YOUR INFORMATION: Masterclassplus.co.uk will respect your personal information and will comply with all applicable UK legislation currently in force. Masterclassplus.co.uk will itself collect and use information you supply to Masterclassplus.co.uk in order to operate and enhance the Services in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

7. AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION: Masterclassplus.co.uk reserves the right to change the content, presentation, performance, user facilities and availability of any part of the Services at its sole discretion. It is your responsibility to refer to the changes. They may, at Masterclass’s absolute discretion come into effect immediately on posting. Masterclassplus.co.uk does not warrant any connection, transmission over, security of or results from the use of any network connection or facilities provided (or omitted to be provided) in connection with the Services. Note that when accessing services that are stated to be "limited", you agree to the following access conditions which assign your rights to be logged off the relevant service to which you subscribe:

Masterclassplus.co.uk will at its discretion set a limit to the number of users who are able to access simultaneously those services (the "pool") and, on a rolling basis, if that number is exceeded the user who is the first in the pool will be logged off the relevant service.

8. NON-UK ACCESS: Stages 2 and 3 of each education unit are being offered strictly to residents in domicile in the United Kingdom (UK). Neither Masterclassplus.co.uk nor any of its Data Providers or affiliates make any warranties, express or implied that the Services or the availability of the Services in any particular jurisdiction outside the UK is in compliance with any applicable laws or regulations. You accept that if you are resident outside the UK, you must satisfy yourself that you are lawfully able to receive the Services in the country in which you are accessing the Services. Neither Masterclassplus.co.uk nor its Data or Information Providers or affiliates accept liability for any costs, losses or damages resulting from or related to the availability or content of the Services to persons in jurisdictions outside the UK or to persons who are, or who are nominees of or trustees for, citizens, residents or nationals of other countries.

9. ACCURACY OF INFORMATION: Neither Masterclassplus.co.uk, its employees, nor any of its Data or Information Providers or affiliates make any warranties expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, adequacy, quality or fitness for any particular purpose of the Information or the Services for a particular purpose or use and all such warranties are expressly excluded to the fullest extent that such warranties may be excluded by law. You bear all risks from any uses or results of using any Information. You are responsible for validating the integrity of any Information received over the Internet.

10. INFORMATION POSTED BY YOU: You may place Information on the Service or make it available to other users by email only where and as permitted by Masterclass Plus.co.uk from time to time. Masterclassplus.co.uk does not monitor, approve, endorse or exert editorial control over Information posted by users and does not therefore accept responsibility for or make any warranties in connection with or recommend that you or any third party rely on such Information. You agree to not post (or transmit) (i) any Information which is objectionable including, without limit, Information which is defamatory, obscene, threatening, untrue or in breach of any applicable laws. (ii) Any Information which is in breach of any person's rights (including without limit, copyright and confidentiality), (iii) any Information or software which contains a virus, cancelbot, Trojan horse, worm or is otherwise harmful or (iv) any Information which (in the opinion of Masterclassplus.co.uk) constitutes advertising or (v) any Information outside the area designated for posting. Masterclassplus.co.uk reserves the right to remove any such Information from the Services without warning and to inform and give assistance to the relevant bodies in respect of any transgressions. We accept no responsibility for and give no warranties in connection with any Information posted on our site by our users. We recommend that you do not rely on such Information. Any information posted on our web site by users has not been issued or approved by Masterclass Plus.co.uk. By placing on the Services or making available to other users any Information you hereby grant Masterclassplus.co.uk a worldwide non-exclusive licence to use copy, distribute, publish and transmit such Information in any manner Masterclassplus.co.uk wishes (including, without limit, archiving and making available such Information as part of the Services).

11. INDEMNITY: You irrevocably indemnify Masterclassplus.co.uk and its Data Providers and affiliates from and against any and all losses, damages and costs suffered or incurred by Masterclassplus.co.uk, any Data Providers or affiliates of whatsoever nature arising out of or in connection with your use, provision or distribution of Information or any part or the Services or any part or otherwise howsoever arising in relation to any breach of this Agreement by you.

12. HYPERTEXT LINKS: Masterclassplus.co.uk provides hypertext links to sites on the Internet which are operated by other people. Using an external hypertext link means that you may be leaving the Masterclassplus.co.uk site and Masterclassplus.co.uk therefore takes no responsibility for and gives no warranties, guarantees or representations in respect of linked sites.

13. LIABILITY: Due to the number of sources from which Masterclassplus.co.uk obtains content and the nature of electronic distribution via the worldwide web neither Masterclassplus.co.uk nor any of its Data Providers nor affiliates have any liability (whether in contract or tort) for any losses, costs or damages resulting from or related to use of or inability to use any Information contained in the Services or the provision of the Services to the fullest extent to which such liability may be excluded or avoided by law and in no event shall Masterclassplus.co.uk be liable to you for direct or indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages arising out of or in relation to the Services or the provision of Information. Masterclassplus.co.uk makes no warranty that the Service is year 2000 compliant or free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties.

14. TERMINATION: This agreement will continue for a period of twelve months only unless terminated in accordance with the following provisions. You may terminate this agreement by giving Masterclassplus.co.uk not less than 30 days notice and Masterclassplus.co.uk may do the same. If you (i) fail to make any payments due to Masterclassplus.co.uk, (ii) are in breach of any of the terms of this agreement (except for a trivial breach remedied within 7 days of its occurrence), or any generally accepted guidelines on Internet usage and etiquette (such as restrictions on mass mailings and mass advertisements, pirating or copying software, mail bombing or attempts to violate security), then Masterclassplus.co.uk reserves its rights to withdraw if it so wishes the Services from you, immediately and without notice or compensation and such termination shall be considered "with cause". Masterclassplus.co.uk will then be under no further obligation to you.

In order to obtain higher education credits students who wish to complete Stage 3 of an education unit should be aware that this stage must be completed to a satisfactory standard as adjudicated by the university or appointed assessor whose decision shall be final, within a twelve month period from the date of first registration of Stage 3 of that education unit.

15. SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY: Courses will be deemed to commence from the first day of the month following receipt of payment in full and final settlement for that course and will end on the last day of the 12th month following registration.

16. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: Your attention is drawn to the fact that in respect of the Services, we, a connected company or some other person connected with us may have an interest, relationship or arrangement that is material in relation to any Information supplied or could give rise to a conflict of interest and you agree that we shall not be required to disclose it to you. Our employees are required to comply with a policy of independence and disregard any such interest, relationship or arrangement in the course of carrying out their employment.

17. YOUR STATUS: You agree that in entering into this agreement you will at all times be acting as a student and not in the course of any employment, trade or profession which you may carry on. If you do not qualify as a student then contact support@masterclassplus.co.uk

18. ASSIGNMENT: This agreement and any rights of access (password and username) to any Service provided to you may not be assigned, licensed or otherwise transferred by you to any other person without the prior written consent of Masterclassplus.co.uk. You agree to keep your password confidential.

19. COMPLETE AGREEMENT: These terms and conditions together with the duly completed registration form and payment method instructions, if any, are the whole agreement between you and Masterclassplus.co.uk. You acknowledge that you have not entered into this agreement in reliance upon any warranty or representation made by Masterclassplus.co.uk. Masterclassplus.co.uk may from time to time make changes to these terms and conditions and payment rates which will be set out on Masterclass's Internet site not less than 14 days before they are intended to take effect. Unless you inform Masterclassplus.co.uk by post or email that you object to the proposed changes and wish to terminate your subscription within this 14 day period, you will be deemed to accept the proposed changes.

20. GENERAL: Any notice from Masterlassplus.co.uk to you may be delivered by email or post to you at your last known address. Evidence of posting (either electronically or otherwise) shall be taken as evidence of delivery. This agreement shall be governed by English Law. All disputes arising from or in connection with this agreement shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. If any term of this agreement is held to be illegal or unenforceable the validity and enforceability of the remainder shall continue in full force and effect. The provision in question shall be replaced by a valid and enforceable term which corresponds, so far as possible, with the original. Failure by either party to exercise any right or remedy under this agreement does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy. All disclaimers, indemnities and exclusions in this agreement shall survive termination of this agreement. Neither you nor Masterclassplus.co.uk shall be held liable for any loss or failure to perform any obligation hereunder due to causes beyond your or their respective reasonable control. This agreement replaces all terms and conditions previously applicable to the provision of the Services or any of them.



 

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