Terms & Conditions
Learn with Halx
We want you to enjoy our site and learn . We give you permission to use the site and the content in exchange for accepting our terms and complying with them.
Content that is available on our site may be either free or require that you pay for the right to access. Whether the content is free or purchased, we give you the right to use it in the following ways (in legal speak we give you a revocable, non-exclusive license to do the following things). You can:
use the effects and techniques demonstrated in the content, and the knowledge you learn, for personal or commercial purposes, without needing to say where you learned it (attribution);
use, modify and manipulate assets made available like source files but only for your own personal, educational purposes and without redistributing them.
Take a look at the rest of these terms for some details on source files and things you can’t do under your license to the content.
If you’d like to arrange for bulk access to purchased content for your organization, please contact us.
Helping to Keep Our Free Content Free
We don’t charge you to access the free content, but we do use some common strategies to help us pay our contributors to create such great educational resources—these might include affiliate programs, sponsored posts, advertising and so on.
Some of these relationships, such as affiliate programs, might mean that we receive a commission if a purchase is made from a site we link to. It is up to you to make sure that products and services of other site we link to meet your needs, as we don’t formally endorse any products or services of these other site. We don’t have control over anyone else’s site so we can’t be responsible for them. But of course, we only suggest something if we think it is worthy. If you have feedback on an affiliate, let us know.
Purchased Content
This section will help you understand how to access purchased content and what you get when you “buy” purchased content.
- Purchased content includes things like buying individual courses, or taking out a subscription. The first time you buy purchased content you will need to create an account.
- You pay for the purchased content you’ve selected via our pricing page. All prices on our site are in US dollars (USD). You are responsible for meeting all costs of currency conversion from your local currency to USD. These currency conversion costs are imposed by your financial institution and not controlled by us.
- When you want to view purchased content you will need to access your account. Purchased content sits in your account and most of it is viewed online.
Fair Use
You may be able to download some types of content to your computer but all content is subject to a ‘fair use’ policy. Our ‘fair use’ policy requires that your use of the site, especially content accessed by subscription, must be fair, genuine and reasonable. For example, the total amount of content you download must be reasonable in light of your actual education and learning needs, and the time needed to genuinely engage with that content. We will use our reasonable discretion to decide whether you have met our ‘fair use’ policy.
Your Halx Account
This section will help you understand how you’re responsible for access to your account and what you can expect from us.
- You must not share your account username and password with anyone else or allow anyone else to access your account and purchased content. You are responsible for every use of the site and purchased content that occurs in conjunction with use of your username and password.
- You are responsible for keeping your username and password confidential and must use reasonable efforts to do so. You must notify us as soon as possible if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your username, password, account or purchased content.
- We’ll try to provide you with long-term access to your purchased content that will usually be available for at least 3 years. However, if you’ve taken out a subscription to content, you’ll only have access to the content as long as your subscription is current. In any case, we can remove purchased content at our discretion, for example if it becomes out of date or obsolete, or if we need to for legal or business reasons. We will take reasonable steps to tell you if we are removing any purchased content, but this might not always be possible depending on the reason for or urgency of the removal.
Please contact us if you ever have a problem accessing your account or any of your purchased content.
Restricting Access
This section will help you understand when we might restrict your access.
- We may restrict, suspend or terminate your access to your account at any time at our discretion if we decide you’ve breached these terms or any law that applies. We’ll be reasonable in exercising our discretion and making such a decision.
- Your access to purchased content will be suspended or terminated if payment is reversed by the payment agent (which is out of our control) or if a refund is granted. If there’s a reversal or a refund on a subscription that entitled you to credit on another Halx service, that credit (or transactions made with that credit) will be reversed.
Refunds
This section will help you understand how we process requests for a refund.
- It’s hard to think of when you might need a refund given that once you’ve seen purchased content you can’t ‘un-see’ it and we give you information about purchased content before you buy it. We do not generally offer refunds unless required under Australian consumer law or other relevant consumer protection laws. If you think you’ve got a genuine claim please let us know your reasons. We will assess your request on its merits, with regard to the digital nature of the content and previews available before purchase.
- There is no obligation to provide a refund in situations like the following:
- you have changed your mind;
- you bought purchased content by mistake;
- you do not have sufficient expertise to use the purchased content;
or
you ask for goodwill.
Refunds will be paid using the same manner of purchase. When a refund is granted your license for the purchased content is cancelled and we will remove from your account the purchased content that was refunded.
Ownership and Use
We, or our instructors, own or have licensed the rights in the content. We also own the rights in the design, compilation and look and feel of the site. This includes intellectual property rights like copyright.
What you can’t do with content
Our business, and that of our instructors, is based on intellectual property (IP) including copyright. We need to protect our IP so we can keep giving you access to awesome content.
You agree that you won’t redistribute, frame, repurpose or copy content (unless specifically allowed in these terms), and you won’t use content for any purpose that we have not expressly stated. If you love our content, please send others to the site rather than send the content to them!
The trademarks and logos on the site belong to Halx or to others, and you must not use these without the approval of the owner.
Source Files
As a part of your learning with us, we may provide you with access to source files like source code or media files that have their own licenses. This means that for those source files with separate licenses you may be able to use them for things broader than what we’ve outlined above like for commercial use or redistribution. Read the individual license for those source files to find out what you can do. You’ll need to decide for yourself whether your use of these sources files is covered under each individual license, which are available with the source file download.
Your Content
Effects and Techniques: As we’ve said, you may use the effects and techniques demonstrated in the content, and the knowledge you learn, for personal or commercial purposes. You own the rights in the things you create when you apply your knowledge independently of using assets like source files.
Privacy
This section will help you understand our rules to guard your personal information.
We respect your privacy and process your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we deal with your information.
Intellectual Property Concerns
We respect the IP rights of others, including those who have been nice enough to let us use any of their material or assets on our site. Please contact us if you believe that your intellectual property or other rights are being affected by anything on the site.
If you are specifically making a copyright-based claim about content, please send the following information to Hello@Halx.com:
your address, telephone number, and email address;
description of the location of the alleged infringing material;
a description of the copyright work that has been allegedly infringed;
a statement by you that you warrant that the information given in your claim is accurate and that you are either the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and
your physical or valid electronic signature.
Things You Can’t Do on Our site
In using the site you agree that you will not:
use a false email address, impersonate others, or misrepresent your affiliation with others;
attempt to gain unauthorized access to computer systems or materials through Halx;
engage in automatic gathering of information from or through Halx (such as “spidering”, “screen scraping”, “database scraping” or harvesting of e-mail addresses);
attempt to interrupt or alter Halx’ operation in any way (for example through sending mass unsolicited messages, “flooding” servers, or introducing a virus, time bomb, trojan horse, worm, cancelbot or other computer routine);
use Halx or any of the content in a way that violates applicable law, that violates the intellectual property or other rights of us or others, or that is fraudulent, obscene, offensive, misleading, or defamatory;
use scripts to automatically mass download content;
insert advertising, branding or other promotional content into the site or content;
except as allowed in these terms, copy, distribute, transmit, modify or otherwise exploit content, data or code on the site.
Legal Housekeeping
Liability and Disclaimer:
There may be consumer laws where you live. We don’t purport to exclude or modify them if they apply. We call these non-excludable consumer laws.
Except as required by a non-excludable consumer law:
we are only bound by the express promises we make in these terms. We’re not bound by implied terms;
we don't promise that the content or your access to the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any defects will be corrected, or that the site or content are free of viruses or any other harmful components;
we don’t make any promises about (and we’re not liable for) your access to or reliance on the site or content in terms of correctness, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, reliability or otherwise;
we’re not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, loss or revenue or loss of profits which result from any use of or access to, or any inability to use or access, the site or content; and
to the fullest extent permitted by law, our liability for breach of any warranty or condition which cannot be excluded is limited, at our option, to either replacement or paying the cost of replacement.
Access and Availability: We’ll try to make sure that you have 24/7 access and we’ll try to keep any downtime to a minimum. We may need to interrupt or suspend your access to the site or the provision of the site’s services and content, for maintenance, technical or other reasons but we’ll try to be quick.
Taxes, Fees and Charges: You are responsible for paying all fees and taxes associated with your use of the site wherever levied (including withholding tax, if applicable).
Changes to Terms: We can change terms at any time but we’ll do our best to post information about this on the site. If you continue to use the site after the terms change, you will be accepting the new or revised terms.
Interpretation: Words like ‘include’ and ‘including’ are not words of limitation and where anything is within our discretion we mean our sole discretion (unless these terms say otherwise).
Applicable Laws: We control and operate the site from our offices. The laws of US apply, these terms— you and Halx submit to the jurisdiction of the courts there.
Definitions
account - your account is your personal portal that is accessed with a username and password and gives you access to purchased content.
content - all types of content available on the site including things like tutorials, courses, descriptions, eBooks, user forum content, assets or materials owned by others.
payment agent - the financial institution or payment gateway you can use to pay for purchased content.
personal use - your own self-education and personal purposes excluding any group access.
purchased content - content that we have made available for you to buy on our site or that you have paid us for.
terms - the legally binding contract you enter with us which includes these terms and conditions, the Privacy Policy and other policies, instructions and rules made available on our site.
Halx site, Halx, or site - the site, and other in our Halx branded network. You’ll know from the Halx name that a site, or service is in our network and covered by these terms (unless we make clear on a site that other terms apply).
You or your means any users of the site (including those browsing or accessing an account and purchased content).