PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE.
Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy and website disclaimer, govern CathyRolfeMeditation.com’s relationship with you in relation to your use of this website.
By using this website, you signify your acceptance of these terms and conditions of use. For the purposes of these terms and conditions, “Us”, “Our” and “We” refers to innerbusiness Pty Ltd t/a Cathy Rolfe Meditation, CathyRolfeMeditation.com and “You” and “Your” refers to you, the client, visitor, or person using our website.
AMENDMENT OF TERMS
We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms regularly prior to using our website to ensure you are aware of any changes. We will endeavour to highlight any significant or substantive changes to you where possible. If you choose to use our website then we will regard that use as conclusive evidence of your agreement and acceptance that these terms govern your and our rights and obligations to each other.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
It is an essential pre-condition to you using our website that you agree and accept that CathyRolfeMeditation.com is not legally responsible for any loss or damage you might suffer related to your use of the website, whether from errors or from omissions in our documents or information, any goods or services we may offer or from any other use of the website. This includes your use or reliance on any third party content, links, comments or advertisements. Your use of, or reliance on, any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable.
It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific, personal requirements. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT
For the purposes of Schedule 2 of the Australian Consumer Law, in particular Sections 51 to 53, 64 and 64A of Part 3-2, Division 1, Subdivision A of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), CathyRolfeMeditation.com’s liability for any breach of a term of this agreement is limited to: the supplying of the goods or services to you again; the replacement of the goods; or the payment of the cost of having the goods or services supplied to you again.
You must be over 18 years of age to use this website and to purchase any goods or services.
CONDUCT IN GROUP SESSIONS
It is important to the program and the meditation sessions that participants behave in a polite and courteous manner, and at all times conduct themselves respectfully of and to others. To gain the most out of the meditation practice, all participants must treat the other participants with respectful consideration, good moral conduct and act in a manner conducive to gentle, stress free nature of the meditation practice. Any action, activity or otherwise harmful practice will not be condoned and any instructor may remove and permanently ban the participant from all further future practice.
‘STRESS FREE PROMISE’ REFUND
Our stress-free promise to you: “Our Vedic Meditation will reduce your stress or your money back”
We want you to be satisfied with your investment so we make this simple promise: Attend the four, consecutive coaching sessions of the Vedic Meditation program, utilising the tools and techniques provided and meditate for 20 minutes, twice a day for 60 days following the program. Take advantage further of the follow up session and attend a minimum of 2 group meditation sessions within the 60 days following the program. If, after completing this course you still feel that our Vedic Meditation program does not in any way reduce your stress we will refund your program fee.
CathyRolfeMeditation.com processes all other refunds in accordance with the Australian Consumer Protection legislation.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
CathyRolfeMeditation.com may from time to time provide on its website, links to other websites, advertisements and information on those websites for your convenience. This does not necessarily imply sponsorship, endorsement, or approval or arrangement between
CathyRolfeMeditation.com and the owners of those websites.
CathyRolfeMeditation.com takes no responsibility for any of the content found on the linked websites.
Our website may contain information or advertisements provided by third parties for which CathyRolfeMeditation.com accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any information or advice provided to you directly by third parties. We are making a ‘recommendation’ only and are not providing any advice nor do we take any responsibility for any advice received in this regard.
DISCLAIMER
To the fullest extent permitted by law, CathyRolfeMeditation.com absolutely disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. CathyRolfeMeditation.com gives no warranty that the documents, goods or services will be free of errors, or that defects will be corrected, or that our website or its server is free of viruses or any other harmful components.
Whilst we, at all times endeavour to have the most accurate, reliable and up-to-date information on our website, we do not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the result of the use of any product, service, link or information in the website or as to their correctness, suitability, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise.
It is your sole responsibility to ensure that these services are appropriate for you. We make no guarantees beyond our Stress Fee Promise as you are responsible for your own progress. You are responsible for consulting your own medical professional prior to commencing our program. If at any time during any meditation or session you feel uncomfortable, unwell, ill or otherwise have concerns, you should immediately stop and consult a suitable medical professional. Our services are not a substitute for medical attention, examination, advice, treatment of existing conditions or diagnosis and is not intended to take the place of proper medical advice or treatment from a fully qualified medical practitioner.
The applicable law in your state or territory may not permit these exclusions, particularly the exclusions of some implied warranties. Some of the above may not apply to you but you must ensure you are aware of any risk you may be taking by using this website or any products or services that may be offered through it. It is your responsibility to do so.
YOUR PRIVACY
At CathyRolfeMeditation.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy. We use the information we collect about you to maximize the services that we provide to you. CathyRolfeMeditation.com respects the privacy and confidentiality of the information provided by you and adheres to the Australian Privacy Principles. Please read our separate Privacy Policy carefully.
You may change your details at any time by advising us in writing via email. All information we receive from our customers, is protected by our secure servers. CathyRolfeMeditation.com’s secure server software encrypts all customer information before it is sent to us. Furthermore, all of the customer data CathyRolfeMeditation.com collects is secured against unauthorized use or access. Credit card information is not stored by us on our servers.
THIRD PARTIES
CathyRolfeMeditation.com does not and will not sell or deal in personal or customer information. We may however use in a general sense without any reference to your name, your information to create marketing statistics, identify user demands and to assist it in meeting customer needs generally. In addition, we may use the information that you provide to improve our website and services but not for any other use.
DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
CathyRolfeMeditation.com may be required, in certain circumstances, to disclose information in good faith and where CathyRolfeMeditation.com is required to do so in the following circumstances: by law or by any court; to enforce the terms of any of our customer agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of our customers or third parties.
EXCLUSION OF COMPETITORS
If you are in the business of creating similar documents, goods or services for the purpose of providing them for a fee to users, whether they be business users or domestic users, then you are a competitor of CathyRolfeMeditation.com. CathyRolfeMeditation.com expressly excludes and does not permit you to use or access our website, to download any documents or information from its website or obtain any such documents or information through a third party. If you breach this term then CathyRolfeMeditation.com will hold you fully responsible for any loss that we may sustain and further hold you accountable for all profits that you might make from such unpermitted and improper use. CathyRolfeMeditation.com reserves the right to exclude and deny any person access to our website, services or information in our sole discretion.
COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK AND RESTRICTIONS OF USE
This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance, trademarks and graphics. You are not permitted to reproduce the documents, information or materials on the website for the purposes of sale or the use by any third party. In particular you are not permitted to republish, upload, transmit electronically or otherwise or distribute any of the materials, documents or products that may be available for download from time to time on this website.
CathyRolfeMeditation.com expressly reserves all copyright and trademark in all documents, information and materials on our website and we reserve the right to take action against you if you breach any of these terms.
Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following: you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only; and you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material.
You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.
WHOLE AGREEMENT
These terms and conditions represent the whole agreement between you and CathyRolfeMeditation.com concerning your use and access to CathyRolfeMeditation.com’s website and your use and access to the documents and information on it. No other term is to be included in this agreement except where it is required to be included by any legislation of the Commonwealth or any State or Territory. All implied terms except those implied by statute and which cannot be expressly excluded are hereby expressly excluded.
EXCLUSION OF UNENFORCEABLE TERMS
Where any clause or term above would by any applicable statute be illegal, void, or unenforceable in any State or Territory then such a clause shall not apply in that State or Territory and shall be deemed never to have been included in these terms and conditions in that State or Territory. Such a clause if legal and enforceable in any other State or Territory shall continue to be fully enforceable and part of this agreement in those other States and Territories. The deemed exclusion of any term pursuant to this paragraph shall not affect or modify the full enforceability and construction of the other clauses of these terms and conditions.
EDUCATION OR COACHING
By using our services, you agree that CathyRolfeMeditation.com is not to be held liable for any decisions you make based on any of our services or guidance and any consequences, as a result, are your own. Under no circumstances can you hold CathyRolfeMeditation.com liable for any actions you take nor can you hold us or any of our employees liable for any loss or costs incurred by you as a result of any guidance, advice, coaching, materials or techniques used or provided by CathyRolfeMeditation.com.
All our information on both the website and in consultations is intended to assist you and does not in any way, nor is it intended to substitute professional, financial or legal advice. Results are not guaranteed and CathyRolfeMeditation.com takes no responsibility for your actions, choices or decisions.
JURISDICTION
This agreement and this website are subject to the laws of NSW and Australia. If there is a dispute between you and CathyRolfeMeditation.com that results in litigation then you must submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of NSW.
Cathy Rolfe teaches Vedic Meditation and was trained to teach this form of meditation by Thom Knoles. Thom was trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation (“TM”) by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (“Maharishi”) and taught it for over 25 years with organizations affiliated with Maharishi. Since 1997, Thom has continued to teach this meditation as he learned it from Maharishi and has done so independently and separately from the TM organizations, using the terms “Vedic Meditation”. Thom Knoles trained Cathy Rolfe to teach meditation as Thom was trained to teach meditation by Maharishi. Cathy Rolfe teaches Vedic Meditation independently and separately from TM organizations and she is not affiliated with any organization that is part of the TM movement.
The form of meditation that Cathy Rolfe’s teacher, Thom Knoles, teaches, and taught for over 25 years with the TM organizations as “Transcendental Meditation,” has been the subject of hundreds of scientific studies showing a wide range of benefits from regular practice. These studies, which refer to this form of meditation using the name “Transcendental Meditation” or “TM”, support the benefits obtainable from regular practice of Vedic Meditation.