Testpreparations Terms and Conditions for the Purchase of Online and/or Taught Courses

These terms and conditions apply to Services provided by Testpreparations (company number 175134) of Test Preparations

4 Luttrellstown Green,
Castleknock.,
Dublin 15
D15 N52K

Phone: 01 8207449 or 0862054526

(“Testpreparations” or “we” or “us”).

You may contact us on info@testpreparations.ie  and/or Phone: 01 8207449 or 0862054526

These terms and conditions are in addition to the Website Disclaimer and apply to the sale of any Online Course and/or Taught Course.  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 or Taught Course then the conflict shall be resolved by applying the following order of priority:

1. Course Specific Terms and Conditions;
2. These Terms and Conditions for the Purchase of Online and Taught Courses;
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.

Version June 2021

“Course Materials” means the information provided by Testpreparations to accompany a course provided as part of the Services in hard copy or electronic form.
“Fees” means the fees paid by you to Testpreparations 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.
“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 and/or the Taught Course and/or the Course 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 which you
attend in person.
“Website” means www.testpreparations.ie
“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 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 first pay the course fee for said course / courses in full via the Website or by telephone.  To attend an online course you will need to login to the course using your user name and password. This will be issued two days before the start of the course, on receipt of payment of full course fee.

Purchasing Services via the Telephone
3.2. To purchase a Service over the telephone please call 01 8207449 or 0862054526

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. Testpreparations
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 :
(a)    accepted your offer to purchase Services from us by sending you an email confirming the purchase;
and

(b)   received payment of the relevant Fees from you in accordance with clause 5 below.
3.6. Where your order consists of multiple Online Courses or multiple Taught Courses , each individual course 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. Testpreparations does not and is not responsible for booking any examination with any professional body, organisation, employer or examination board.  It is your responsibility to ensure that you book prior to the relevant closing date any exam / test 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 Testpreparations.

4. Cancellation and Variation
4.1. Once you have booked onto a Taught and/or Online Course you have up to 14 days from the purchase date to cancel your booking and receive a full refund provided that the Course material has not been sent, accessed, downloaded all or in part.
14.2. After the 14 days, or if the Course material has been sent, accessed,
downloaded all or in part you will not be entitled to any refund, nor will you be able to
transfer your place to another person or onto another course.

4.3. If you fail to attend the course you are booked onto without giving prior notice to Testpreparations, we will be unable to refund the course fees nor will you be able to transfer your place to another person or onto another course.

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 VAT or other local taxes, the cost of some Course Materials and any delivery costs payable in respect of the delivery of Course Material to you.  Each of these costs will be set out in 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, organisation, employer for registration and examination entry.  These are payable by you directly to the relevant professional body or examination board and we accept no responsibility or liability for your failure to book your exam with the relevant professional body or examination.
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 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 Testpreparations 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.

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 Testpreparations 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 programmes or Course 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. Except to the extent that they are expressly set out in these terms and conditions, no conditions, warranties 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).
6.4. Subject to clause 6.5 below, Testpreparations 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 or Taught Course in relation to which a dispute has arisen.
6.5. Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit Testpreparations’ liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by negligence, (ii) fraudulent misrepresentation or (iii) any other matter which under Irish law may not be limited or excluded.
6.6. 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 Course Materials, Online Courses and the speeches made by trainers at the Taught Courses are, and remain, the intellectual property of Testpreparations 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 without prior written permission;
(ii) record on video or audio tape, relay by videophone or other means the Online Course or Taught Course given
(iii) use the Course 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 Testpreparations on the Course 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.

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.
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 software in respect of the Online Course for the sole purpose of completing the Online Course 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:
a. fail to pay when due your Fees;
b. act in an aggressive, bullying, offensive, threatening or harassing manner towards any employee of Testpreparations, any teacher or lecturer who provides the Taught Courses or any student who attends any Taught Course;
c. 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;
d. 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;
e. intentionally or recklessly damage our property or the property of our employees or other students attending our premises;
f. are intoxicated through alcohol or illegal / legal drugs while on our premises;
g. commit any criminal offence committed on our premises or where the victim is our employee or student;
h. 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
Testpreparations 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  certain information about you  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 Testpreparations ,
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 ofservices 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 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. Testpreparations 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 online over the internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security.
14.7. Testpreparations 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 info@testpreparations.ie  or contact us on + 01 8207449 or 0862054526

15. Deposit Refunds
15.1. You agree that you will not be entitled to a deposit refund if you withdraw or
cancel your place less than three days before the course start date.

16. Information, Feedback, Complaints
16.1  If you have any questions or require any further information, please contact the Testpreparations team:
Test Preparations

4 Luttrellstown Green,
Castleknock.,
Dublin 15
D15 N52K

Phone: 01 8207449 or 0862054526
E-mail: info@testpreparations.ie

16.2.  If you have any concerns about the services provided by us, you should bring it to the immediate attention of the relevant instructor at the time.
16.3. If your concern still cannot be resolved, you may make a complaint in writing within one month of the course start date addressed to the Testpreparations team.
All feedback will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence

17. Law and Jurisdiction
The terms and conditions shall for all purposes be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ireland.
Any dispute arising out of or related to the terms and conditions shall be resolved amicably.
We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions at any time. Updated terms and conditions will be uploaded to the website. You are advised to visit the website periodically to keep up to date with any changes in our terms and conditions.