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Both Salutatorian and Valedictorian programs are 12-month access subscriptions and are subject to renewal.

EDUCATION PREP CENTERS TERMS OF SERVICE

Please READ carefully. By purchasing this product, the following Terms and Conditions are entered into by Education Prep Centers (“Company”, “we”, or “us”) and You (“Client” or “You”) before accessing or using Accepted Academy including any audio and/or visual presentations associated with Accepted Academy. The Company’s Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Disclaimer are hereby incorporated by reference into this agreement. Except as modified by this Agreement, each of those agreements and policies shall apply fully to your participation in the Program.

By accessing or using the programs you agree to the following terms stated herein.

YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT
YOU UNDERSTAND IT, AND,
THAT YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS.

The (Agreement”) is a legal contract between Education prep centers LLC located at 180 State Street Suite 225, Southlake Tx 76092 and the Student (“YOU”)

WHEREAS, EDUCATION PREP CENTERS is engaged in the business of college admissions consulting, and WHEREAS, YOU desire to engage EDUCATION PREP CENTERS to provide college admissions advice to YOU in the form of Webinars, Audio, Printed Materials and/or Visual Presentations, and periodic personal coaching and evaluation. NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows

Client understands Dr. Gena Lester (herein referred to as “Consultant”) and Education Prep Centers., is not an employee, agent, lawyer or financial analyst, psychotherapist or accountant. Client understands that the Consultant has not promised, shall not be obligated to and will not; (1) guarantee college admission to any college, scholarship, academic programs or specific scores for standardized test for Client; (2) perform any functions including but not limited to, accounting, tax, FASFA or investment consulting, or advice with regard thereto; Client understands that a relationship does not exist between the parties after the conclusion of this program. If the Parties wish to continue their relationship, they shall execute a separate agreement.

SECTION 1: MEMBERSHIP AND PROGRAM FEES

1.1 Education Prep Centers (herein referred to as EPC or Company) agrees to provide Program, “Accepted Academy” (herein referred to as “Program”) identified in the online commerce shopping cart. As a condition of participating in the Program, you agree to be bound by and to abide by all policies and procedures set out in this Agreement, including those incorporated by reference.

Under the terms of this Agreement, EPC agrees to provide business training services to YOU in the form of Webinars, Audio and/or Visual Presentations, and periodic personal coaching and evaluation (“Program(s)”) in exchange for a Membership Fee. Progression Membership Fees will be determined according to paragraph 1.2. below. Your access to such Programs is conditional on payment of the Membership Fee for the membership you have purchased

THE PROGRAM IS AN ONGOING MEMBERSHIP, and EPC shall provide the following to the Client:

A Password Protected Program Area: EPC shall maintain a Program Area that will include video, audio, and written lessons, templates, worksheets, checklists, slide decks, and other training and support information. You shall have access to this Program Area as long as you are a paying member. In the event that Company intends to close the Program Area, it shall provide clients with a 30-day notice and the ability to download the resources contained in the Program Area, which is what is referred to as “Yearly Access” in our marketing materials.

Program Participant Forums: EPC shall create and maintain a private Facebook group which can be accessed through the membership area for families of the Program. The Program Facebook group will remain open and accessible as long as you are a member of the program. This is a community-run group, meaning that students are encouraged to help each other. The Company employs a Community Manager, who is charged with overseeing the group and ensuring that it runs smoothly. Dr. Gena Lester will conduct live Question and Answer on a regular basis inside the Program. Upon cancelation of your membership access to the Program will cease and the Company shall automatically remove you from this group unless you renew your membership.

In consideration of Your access to the Program, you agree to pay the following fees.

You may choose between a single payment 1-time pay in full option (due immediately) or the 3- payment plan, billed on the 1^st of each month. If you opt for the payment plan, you will remain responsible for those payments. Please see EPC’s Program’s Refund Policy set forth below.. In the event that any payment is not made, the Company shall immediately suspend your access to the Program.

1.1.1. The Term of this Agreement will commence upon YOUR acceptance of this Agreement and payment of the applicable Program Fee. YOU agree and understand that upon commencement of the Term of this Agreement, you will become enrolled in the ONGOING Accepted Academy membership.

1.1.2. Termination: EPC may terminate this Agreement at any time in its discretion upon notice to YOU. EPC will not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from such termination. Paragraph 3.1. below shall survive termination of this Agreement, binding YOU to Confidentiality in perpetuity.

1.1.3. Cancellation: YOU may cancel this Agreement by giving notice to EPC. Upon such notice, your rights under this Agreement shall cease at the end of the year for which YOU have paid, and EPC reserves the right to revoke all access YOU have to the Programs at that time. If the agreement is canceled by EPC, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you at least 30 days prior to termination via the email address you provide to us. Unless stated in any Additional Terms, we may, at any time, terminate your right to use and access the services if we elect to discontinue the program, in whole or in part (such as if it becomes impractical for us to continue offering the program in your region due to change of law).

1.2. Membership Fees: By accepting the terms of this Agreement, YOU agree and understand that you are committing to pay EPC the below amounts, depending on the membership you purchase, until this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms:

The Salutatorian Program– This program is a yearly membership subscription and will continue to auto-charge on the anniversary of your initial payment and will continue to auto-Charge until a cancellation request is received.

3 PAYMENT PLAN MEMBERSHIP: $560 USD per month until paid in full. The amount shall be charged out on a monthly basis on the anniversary of the date of YOUR first purchase and YOU authorize EPC to automatically debit the monthly payment from the account provided to EPC by YOU until canceled by yourself in accordance with clause 1.1.3. Cancellation of membership shall result in removal from the Facebook group and access to all training modules at the end of the monthly billing period for which YOU have paid

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP, PAID ANNUALLY: 1500 USD per year. The amount shall be charged and shall entitle YOU to access to the Program for one year At the end of the year YOUR membership shall renew based on the anniversary of the date of YOUR first purchase and YOU authorize EPC to automatically debit the monthly payment from the account provided to EPC by YOU until canceled by yourself in accordance with clause 1.1.3. Cancellation of membership shall result in removal from the Facebook group and access to all training modules at the end of the monthly billing period for which YOU have paid

The Valedictorian Program- This program is designed for families with Rising Seniors and/or Seniors.

3 PAYMENT PLAN MEMBERSHIP: $1500 USD per month until paid in full. The amount shall be charged out on a monthly basis on the anniversary of the date of YOUR first purchase and YOU authorize EPC to automatically debit the monthly payment from the account provided to EPC by YOU until canceled by yourself in accordance with clause 1.1.3. Cancellation of membership shall result in removal from the Facebook group and access to all training modules at the end of the monthly billing period for which YOU have paid

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP, PAID ANNUALLY: 3997 USD per year. The amount shall be charged on a one-off basis and shall entitle YOU to access to the Program for one year At the end of the year YOUR membership shall be deemed to have terminated, unless YOU have purchased a further membership on or prior to this date, and shall result in removal from the Facebook group and access to all training modules.

1.2.1 Price: All prices are in American Dollars (USD) and are exclusive of GST. The price shall be increased by the amount of GST and/or other taxes and duties which may be applicable. You must pay us all applicable sales tax at the same time the Membership Fee is due for payment.

1.3. Promotional Material: By accepting the terms of this Agreement and affirmatively seeking the benefits of membership in the Program(s) offered by EPC, YOU affirmatively agree and acknowledge that EPC may at any time reproduce and/ or disseminate any testimonial(s) describing or otherwise referencing, either directly or indirectly, YOUR experience participating in such Program(s), including any specific results experienced by YOU over the course of such participation. YOU agree and acknowledge that this includes any written statements you may publish to social media accounts and online forums as well as any statements and/or images captured or otherwise recorded over the course of attendance at any event(s) related to such Program(s).

1.4 Weekly Support Calls: The weekly support calls shall be recorded and shared with existing and future EPC students. All private material shall be kept confidential should the material ever be published outside of the EPC Program.

1.5. No Refunds: EPC abides by a strict, no refund policy. By accepting the terms of this Agreement, YOU agree and understand that you are foregoing the right to claim any refund of fees paid for access and use of the Program(s) offered by EPC. YOU further acknowledge that in accepting the terms of this Agreement and affirmatively seeking the benefits of and membership in such Program(s), YOU are taking full responsibility for YOUR OWN success. Thus, YOU agree that you will not request a refund. The exception to this policy is clause 1.6 outlined below.

1.6. Moneyback Guarantee: We want you to be satisfied with your purchase, but we also want you to give your best effort to apply all of the strategies in the course. The Company provides a 7-day money-back guarantee for the Program. That money-back guarantee is governed by the following terms. You will receive a full refund for your payment upon requesting it by emailing gena@educationprepcenters.com if you are not completely satisfied with the product AND your first payment as a member was no more than seven (7) calendar days before sending your notice AND you have accessed no more than 5% of the online course component of the program.

After day 7, all payments are non-refundable and you are responsible for full payment of the fees for the program regardless of whether you complete the program.

1.7. Upon determining that you are entitled to a refund pursuant to this policy, the Company will promptly issue an instruction to its payment processor to issue a refund. The Company does not control its payment processor and will not be able to expedite any refunds.

1.8. If you receive a refund of any purchase through this money-back guarantee, that shall immediately terminate any and all licenses granted you to use the material provided to you under this Agreement and the Company’s Terms of Use. You shall immediately cease using the material and shall destroy all copies of the information provided to you, including without limitation: video recordings, audio recordings, forms, template documents, slide shows, membership areas, social media groups limited to paying members, and other resources.

1.9. All refunds are discretionary as determined by Education Prep Centers. To further clarify, we will not provide refunds for requests made after the 7th day from your date of purchase and all payments must be made on a timely basis. If payments are not made on time, you agree to pay interest on all past-due sums at a rate of 1.5% per month or the highest rate allowed by law, whichever is greater.

If you have any questions or problems, please let us know by contacting our support team directly. The support desk can be reached at gena@educationprepcenters.com.

1.10. Disputes: If either YOU or EPC have any issues or concerns about this Agreement or our wider business relationship, WE agree to set those concerns out reasonably, in an email to the other party, after which WE must use all reasonable endeavors to discuss or meet to try to resolve the issue amicably. This step must be taken before any other legal action is taken by either party, other than in respect of any monies owing by YOU to EPC, or in respect of any urgent interlocutory relief.

SECTION 2: NO WARRANTIES

2.1. Success is not Guaranteed: By accepting the terms of this Agreement, YOU agree and understand that EPC provides Program(s) related to training only and guarantees no specific results. YOU take full responsibility for YOUR own success. EPC makes no warranties or representations in respect of the Programs. YOU must satisfy YOURSELF that the Programs are fit and suitable for the purpose for which they are required. This disclaimer does not restrict or otherwise limit the application of any relevant statutes other than to the extent that such restriction or limitation is lawfully permissible.

2.2. Limited Liability: In no event will EPC be liable to YOU or any party related to you for any damages, including any indirect or consequential loss, or any loss of profits, revenue, or loss of data or other content, or other pecuniary loss, whether under a theory of contract, warranty, tort (including negligence) products liability or otherwise, even if EPC has been advised of the possibility of such damages. You agree that the Company shall not be liable to you for any type of damages, including direct, indirect, special, incidental, equitable, or consequential loss or damages for use of the Program. Limitations herein described shall be applied to the greatest extent enforceable under applicable law.

2.3. There is no guarantee that your child/children will be accepted into or receive money from any college or any specific university, scholarship program, or another academic institute. We do not guarantee specific test results on a standardized tests.

2.4. Any claims made of actual acceptances or scholarship offerings or examples of actual results can be verified upon request. Your level of success in attaining the results claimed in our materials depends on the time you devote to the program, ideas, and techniques implemented as well as your child’s academic success. Since these factors differ according to individuals, we cannot guarantee your success or acceptance. Nor are we responsible for any of your actions.

2.5. Materials in our product and our website may contain information that includes or is based upon forward-looking statements within the meaning of the securities litigation reform act of 1995. Forward-looking statements give our expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They use words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with a description of potential earnings or financial performance.

2.6. Any and all forward-looking statements here or on any of our sales material are intended to express our opinion of college and scholarship potential. Many factors will be important in determining your actual results and no guarantees are made that you will achieve results similar to ours or anybody else’s, in fact, no guarantees are made that you will achieve any results from our ideas and techniques in our material.

SECTION 3: CONFIDENTIALITY

The Company respects the privacy of its clients and will not disclose any information You provide except as set forth in this Agreement. As a condition of participating in the Program, you hereby agree to respect the privacy of other Program participants and to respect the Company’s confidential information.

3.1. Confidentiality: Only authorized users, who have duly obtained access to any Programs offered by EPC by personally agreeing to the terms of this Agreement are permitted to use and participate with such Programs. Except as expressly authorized by this Agreement, YOU shall not provide or make available any Documentation, Video, Audio, or any login member credentials to any third party, or use the Documentation, Video, Audio, or any login member credentials to teach any third party, or otherwise disclose or discuss information revealed in any portion of the Program(s) for any purpose other than exercising rights expressly granted to you by this Agreement.

3.2. Intellectual Property: YOU acknowledge that any Audio and/or Visual Presentations, Documentation, and other elements of the program are the sole Intellectual Property of EPC. YOU further acknowledge and agree that, as between YOU and EPC, EPC and its third party licensors own and shall continue to own all right, title, and interest in and to the Audio and/or Visual Presentations, Documentation, and other elements of the System, including associated intellectual property rights under copyright, trade secret, patent, or trademark laws. Except for the limited, revocable license expressly granted to you herein, this Agreement does not grant you any ownership or other right or interest in or to the Audio and/or Visual Presentations, Documentation, and other elements of the Webinar System, or any other intellectual property rights of EPC whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. Any and all trademarks or service marks that EPC uses in connection with services rendered by EPC are marks owned by EPC. This Agreement does not grant you any right, license, or interest in such marks, and you shall not assert any right, license, or interest in such marks or any words or designs that are confusingly similar to such marks.

3.3. The Company content is not for resale. Your participation in the Program does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular, you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your individual use and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of the Company and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of the Company or our licensors except as expressly authorized herein.

3.4. You are granted a single-use, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Program content and resources. You hereby agree that You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found in the Program.

3.5. You hereby agree that any infringement of the Company’s intellectual property shall result in immediate termination of the license granted hereunder. To be clear, if you violate the Company’s intellectual property rights, your access to the Program will be terminated immediately, and you shall not be entitled to a refund of any portion of the fees.

SECTION 4: MISCELLANEOUS

4.1. Non-transferability: The rights and obligations under this Agreement are personal to YOU. YOU may not assign or transfer any rights or obligations under this Agreement.

4.2. Indemnification: YOU will, at your own expense, defend, indemnify, and hold EPC its agents, and employees harmless from any and all claims, actions, liabilities, injuries, damages, losses, grants, costs, and expenses, including attorney fees, arising out of or in connection with any use of the Program(s) of this Agreement.

4.3. Integration: This Agreement, along with EPC’s privacy policy, and any additional terms and policies incorporated herein by reference, represents the entire Agreement between YOU and EPC concerning the Program, and this Agreement supersedes and replaces any prior proposal, representation, or understanding YOU may have had with EPC relating to the Program, whether oral or written.

4.4. Survival of Terms: All provisions of these terms that by their nature should survive termination of this Agreement shall survive including all limitations on liability, indemnification obligations, disclaimers, choice of law, and intellectual property protections.

4.5. Amendment of terms: EPC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to amend this Agreement from time to time by giving you at least 7 days prior notice of the changes by email and posting an updated version of the Agreement at www.digitaldistillery.com

4.6. Amendment of price: EPC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to amend the price of the Membership Fees from time to time by giving you at least 7 days prior notice of the new price and the effective date by email and by updating the price of the Membership Fees on www.educationprepcenters.com

4.7. Severance: If any of these terms are held to be invalid, unenforceable, or illegal for any reason by a competent court or tribunal, the remaining terms will continue in full force and effect.

4.8. Minimum Purchase Age: EPC Program is available only to adults over the age of eighteen (18) years. By entering into this Agreement, purchasing a membership, accessing, and using the Program, you acknowledge that you are over eighteen (18) years.

4.10 Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to create a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship. The Company is agreeing only to provide Client with access to the Program, which provides education and information.

4.11. The information, software, products, and service included or available through the Program may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information in the Program. The Company and/or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the Program at any time.

SECTION 5: FORCE MAJEURE

The Company shall not be liable or responsible to You, nor be deemed to have defaulted or breached this Agreement, for any failure or delay in fulfilling or performing any term of this Agreement when and to the extent such failure or delay is caused by or results from acts or circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Company including, without limitation, acts of God, flood, fire, earthquake, explosion, governmental actions, war, invasion, or hostilities (whether war is declared or not), terrorist threats or acts, riot, or other civil unrest, national emergency, revolution, insurrection, epidemic, lock-outs, strikes or other labor disputes (whether or not relating to either party’s workforce), or restraints or delays affecting carriers or inability or delay in obtaining supplies of adequate or suitable materials, materials or telecommunication breakdown or power outage.

SECTION 6: SEVERABILITY/WAIVER

If any term or provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other term or provision of this Agreement or invalidate or render unenforceable such term or provision in any other jurisdiction.

SECTION 7:NON_DISPARAGEMENT

The Parties agree and accept that the only venue for resolving such a dispute shall be in the venue set forth hereinbelow. The parties agree that they neither will engage in any conduct or communications with a third party, public or private, designed to disparage the other. Neither Client nor any of Client’s associates, employees or affiliates will directly or indirectly, in any capacity or manner, make, express, transmit, speak, write, verbalize or otherwise communicate in any way (or cause, further, assist, solicit, encourage, support or participate in any of the foregoing), any remark, comment, message, information, declaration, communication or other statements of any kind, whether verbal, in writing, electronically transferred or otherwise, that such termination.

BY PURCHASING, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE AFOREMENTIONED TERMS, INCLUDING THOSE RELATED TO PROGRAM FEES, AUTOMATIC MONTHLY/ANNUAL BILLING, STRICT NO REFUND POLICY, AND CONFIDENTIALITY.

Last Updated: July 1, 2020