Terms & Conditions
BOOKING A COURSE
You will be asked whether you consent to be contacted by Your Hypnobirthing Midwives when you sign up to a course with us. You also agree with the following terms and conditions before booking a place on a Your Hypnobirthing Midwives Course.
1. Availability if courses
Courses must be booked in advance.
2. Orders
A booking does not constitute the creation of a contract and Your Hypnobirthing Midwives reserves the right to decline to process a booking for any reason whatsoever. If the booking is not able to be fulfilled Your Hypnobirthing Midwives will promptly refund all monies.
3. VAT
VAT is not applicable.
4. Participant cancellation and exchange
The fee will be repaid promptly and in full if your baby arrives before the course starts, or in the very unlikely event of the course being cancelled. These are the only circumstances under which a refund will be made. – In the event that an individual session is missed, please contact Your Hypnobirthing Midwives to see if you can catch up via a phone session or a paid private face-to-face session. – It is possible to exchange a group course for an earlier course (e.g. from May to April) if there is availability. – It is possible to exchange a course for a later course (e.g. from April to May) if 30 days notice is given before the start of the original course booked.
5. Course amendment or cancellation
Course dates and times may be changed in exceptional circumstances. If the new time and date is not convenient to you, Your Hypnobirthing Midwives will try to offer an alternative course but if one is not available you will be given a refund for the session or sessions changed. – Any session cancelled will be rescheduled if possible. If this is not possible or if alternative dates cannot be agreed, all monies paid by the client for sessions not yet taken will be refunded and no further payments will be owed to Your Hypnobirthing Midwives. The price refunded per session not yet taken will be calculated as half the full course fee. No refund will be made for sessions already taken. In the event that your normal hypnobirthing teacher is unexpectedly unavailable to teach all or part of the course a suitably trained and qualified hypnobirthing instructor will be provided, and in such circumstances a refund will NOT be given.
6. Intellectual property
Any recording or written material included as part of this course and all rights worldwide (including Intellectual Property Rights) relating thereto respectively are the sole property of Katherine Graves, and or Your Hypnobirthing Midwives or others from whom such rights may be derived (whether or not protected by trademark and copyright laws) and may not be used other than for the personal use of the participant without obtaining prior written permission. The participant agrees not to record the course or any part thereof. The participant also agrees that, from time to time, Your Hypnobirthing Midwives may take photos for sales, marketing, promotional or quality control purposes. By attending the event, the participant consents to this for the duration of the event and agree that Your Hypnobirthing Midwives shall retain all Intellectual Property Rights arising from any resulting media.
7. Data protection
The participant also agrees that Katharine Graves and Your Hypnobirthing Midwives shall hold your details on file and on computer and, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, you are able to view your individual file by giving not less than seven days’ written notice.
8. Disclaimer
Using Hypnobirthing techniques is not a substitute for the advice of or the presence during birth or any part of pregnancy or labour of a qualified medical practitioner, midwife or obstetrician. It does not represent in fact or otherwise an alternative to appropriate medical care or for professional medical advice in any way shape or form. Any questions or doubts that you have about the use of Hypnobirthing by you or any third party in any part should be discussed by you with your medical caregiver and the safety of or the appropriateness of this programme to you or any third party whom you represent be confirmed with your medical care giver prior to undertaking the programme. Katharine Graves, Your Hypnobirthing Midwives, its instructors or its representatives accept no responsibility for the inappropriate use of Hypnobirthing techniques or complications or harm to any third party resulting from the use of Hypnobirthing techniques as a substitute for medical advice. Hypnobirthing is intended solely as an ‘aid’ to ‘help’ increase the comfort of labour and birth and is not in any way a guarantee or promise of expected, imagined or actual outcome of the labour or birth in any way shape or form. Participation in Hypnobirthing classes in any part or in total by any person or third party is undertaken with the understanding by any persons or third party that no litigation or legal action whatsoever will be initiated or that no form of compensation or reimbursement or refund will be claimed or applied for at any time now or in the future against Katharine Graves, Your Hypnobirthing Midwives, its instructors, or its representatives under any circumstances whatsoever.
9. Agreement
Any booking of a Hypnobirthing class assumes full and informed compliance to and agreement with all of these terms and conditions of sale. In the event of a dispute, English law pertains.