Table of Contents 

• 1. Accounts
• 2. Content Enrollment and Lifetime Access
• 3. Payments, Credits, and Refunds
• 4. Content and Behavior Rules
• 5. American Academy of Mental Health’s Rights to Content You Post
• 6. Using American Academy of Mental Health at Your Own Risk
• 7. American Academy of Mental Health’s Rights
• 8. Subscription Terms
• 9. Miscellaneous Legal Terms
• 10. Dispute Resolution
• 11. Updating These Terms
• 12. How to Contact Us

 

Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) were last updated on June 22, 2022.

The American Academy of Mental Health’s mission is to provide education, training, and resources to support mental health worldwide and advance the mental health profession, using competence, creativity, and evidence-based practices facilitated by mental health professionals. We enable licensed professionals to create and share educational content (instructors) and access that educational content to learn (students). We consider our marketplace model the best way to offer valuable educational content to our users. We need rules to keep our platform and services safe for you, us, and our student and instructor community. These Terms apply to all your activities on the American Academy of Mental Health website, the American Academy of Mental Health mobile applications, our TV applications, our APIs, and other related services (“Services”).

You must also agree to the Instructor Terms if you publish a course on the American Academy of Mental Health platform. We also provide details regarding our processing of the personal data of our students and instructors in our Privacy Policy. If you are using the American Academy of Mental Health as part of your employer’s American Academy of Mental Health Business learning and development program, you can consult our American Academy of Mental Health Business Privacy Statement.

If you live in the United States or Canada, by agreeing to these Terms, you agree to resolve disputes with the American Academy of Mental Health through binding arbitration (with very limited exceptions, not in court), and you waive certain rights to participate in class actions, as detailed in the Dispute Resolution section.

Table of Contents 

• 1. Accounts
• 2. Content Enrollment and Lifetime Access
• 3. Payments, Credits, and Refunds
• 4. Content and Behavior Rules
• 5. American Academy of Mental Health’s Rights to Content You Post
• 6. Using the American Academy of Mental Health at Your Own Risk
• 7. American Academy of Mental Health’s Rights
• 8. Subscription Terms
• 9. Miscellaneous Legal Terms
• 10. Dispute Resolution
• 11. Updating These Terms
• 12. How to Contact Us

1. Accounts

You need an account for most activities on our platform. Keep your password safe because you are responsible for all activity associated with your account. If you suspect someone else is using your account, let us know by contacting our Support Team. You must have reached the age of consent for online services in your country to use the American Academy of Mental Health.

You need an account for most activities on our platform, including purchasing and accessing or submitting content for publication. When setting up and maintaining your account, you must provide and continue to provide accurate and complete information, including a valid email address. You have complete responsibility for your account and everything that happens on your account, including for any harm or damage (to us or anyone else) caused by someone using your account without your permission. This means you need to be careful with your password. You may not transfer your account to someone else or use someone else’s account. If you contact us to request access to an account, we will not grant you such access unless you can provide us with the information we need to prove you are the account owner. In the event of a user’s death, that user’s account will be closed.

You may not share your account login credentials with anyone else. You are responsible for what happens with your account, and the American Academy of Mental Health will not intervene in disputes between students or instructors who have shared account login credentials. You must notify us immediately upon learning that someone else may be using your account without your permission (or if you suspect any other security breach) by contacting our Support Team. We may request some information from you to confirm that you are indeed the owner of your account.

Students and instructors must be at least 18 years of age to create an account on the American Academy of Mental Health and use the Services. If you are younger than 18 but above the required age for consent to use online services where you live (for example, 13 in the US or 16 in Ireland), you may not set up an account, but we encourage you to invite a parent or guardian to open an account and help you access content that is appropriate for you. If you are below this age of consent to online services, you may not create an American Academy of Mental Health account. If we discover that you have created an account that violates these rules, we will terminate your account. Under our Instructor Terms, you may be requested to verify your identity before you are authorized to submit content for publication on the American Academy of Mental Health platform.

You can terminate your account at any time by sending an email to support@aacademyofmh.com. Check our Privacy Policy to see what happens when you terminate your account.

2. Content Enrollment and Lifetime Access

When you enroll in a course or other content, you get a license from us to view it via the American Academy of Mental Health Services and for no other use. Do not try to transfer or resell the content in any way. We generally grant you a lifetime access license, except when we must disable the content for legal or policy reasons or for enrollment via Subscription Plans.

Under our Instructor Terms, when instructors publish content on the American Academy of Mental Health, they grant the American Academy of Mental Health a license to offer students a license to the content. This means we have the right to sublicense the content to enrolled students. As a student, when you enroll in a course or other content, whether it’s free or paid content, you are getting a license from the American Academy of Mental Health to view the content via the American Academy of Mental Health platform and Services, and American Academy of Mental Health is the licensor of record. Content is licensed and not sold to you. This license does not give you any right to resell the content in any manner (including by sharing account information with a purchaser or illegally downloading and sharing it on torrent sites).

In legal, more complete terms, the American Academy of Mental Health grants you (as a student) a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and view the content for which you have paid all required fees, solely for your personal, non-commercial, educational purposes through the Services, in accordance with these Terms and any conditions or restrictions associated with the particular content or feature of our Services. All other uses are expressly prohibited. You may not reproduce, redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, create derivative works of, sublicense, or otherwise transfer or use any content unless we give you explicit permission to do so in a written agreement signed by an American Academy of Mental Health authorized representative. This also applies to content you can access via any of our APIs.

We generally give a lifetime access license to our students when they enroll in a course or other content. However, we reserve the right to revoke any license to access and use any content at any point in time in the event where we decide or are obligated to disable access to the content due to legal or policy reasons, for example, if the course or other content you enrolled in is the object of a copyright complaint, or if we determine it violates our Trust & Safety Guidelines. This lifetime access license does not apply to enrollments via Subscription Plans or add-on features and services associated with the course or other content you enroll in. For example, instructors may decide at any time to no longer provide teaching assistance or Q&A services associated with the content. To be clear, lifetime access is to the course content but not to the instructor.

Instructors may not grant licenses to their content to students directly, and any such direct license shall be null and void and a violation of these Terms.

3. Payments, Credits, and Refunds

You agree to use a valid payment method when you make payment. The American Academy of Mental Health offers a 30-day credit for most content purchases if you aren’t happy with your content.

3.1 Pricing

The content prices on the American Academy of Mental Health are determined based on the Instructor Terms and our Promotions Policy. In some instances, the price of the content offered on the American Academy of Mental Health website may not be the same as the price offered on our mobile or TV applications due to mobile platform providers’ pricing systems and their policies around implementing sales and promotions.

We occasionally run promotions and sales for our content, during which certain content is available at discounted prices for a set period of time. The price applicable to the content will be the price at the time you complete your purchase of the content (at checkout). Any price offered for particular content may also be different when you are logged into your account from the price available to users who aren’t registered or logged in because some of our promotions are available only to new users.

If you are logged into your account, the listed currency you see is based on your location when you created your account. If you are not logged into your account, the price currency is based on the country where you are located. We do not enable users to see pricing in other currencies.

If you are a student located in a country where the use and sales tax, goods, and services tax, or value added tax is applicable to consumer sales, we are responsible for collecting and remitting that tax to the proper tax authorities. Depending on your location, the price you see may include such taxes, or tax may be added at checkout.

3.2 Payments

You agree to pay the fees for content you purchase, and you authorize us to charge your debit or credit card or process other means of payment (such as Boleto, SEPA, direct debit, or mobile wallet) for those fees. The American Academy of Mental Health works with payment service providers to offer you the most convenient payment methods in your country and to keep your payment information secure. We may update your payment methods using the information provided by our payment service providers. Check out our Privacy Policy for more details.

When you make a purchase, you agree not to use an invalid or unauthorized payment method. If your payment method fails and you still get access to the content you are enrolling in, you agree to pay us the corresponding fees within thirty (30) days of notification from us. We reserve the right to disable access to any content for which we have not received adequate payment.

3.3 Refund Credits

If the content you purchased is not what you were expecting, you can request, within 30 days of your purchase of the content, that the American Academy of Mental Health apply a refund credit to your account. This refund credit option does not apply to Subscription Plan purchases, which are covered in Section 8.4 below. No credit is due to you if you request it after the 30-day guarantee time limit has passed. However, if the content you previously purchased is disabled for legal or policy reasons, you are entitled to credit beyond this 30-day limit. The American Academy of Mental Health also reserves the right to credit students beyond the 30-day limit in suspected or confirmed account fraud cases.

To request a refund, follow the steps here. As detailed in the Instructor Terms, instructors agree that students have the right to receive these credits.

If we decide to issue refund credits to your account, they will be automatically applied towards your next content purchase on our website but can’t be used for purchases in our mobile or TV applications. Refund credits may expire if not used within the specified period and have no cash value in each case unless otherwise required by applicable law.

At our discretion, if we believe you are abusing our refund policy, such as if you have consumed a significant portion of the content that you want to refund credit or if you have previously refunded credit for the content, we reserve the right to deny your refund credit, restrict you from other future refund credits, ban your account, and/or restrict all future use of the Services. If we ban your account or disable your access to the content due to your violation of these Terms or our Trust & Safety Guidelines, you will not be eligible to receive a refund credit. Additional information on our refund policy is available here.

3.4 Gift and Promotional Codes

The American Academy of Mental Health or our partners may offer gift and promotional codes to students. Certain codes may be redeemed for a gift or promotional credits applied to your American Academy of Mental Health account, which then may be used to purchase eligible content on our platform, subject to the terms included with your codes. Other codes may be directly redeemable for specific content. Gift and promotional credits cannot be used for purchases in our mobile or TV applications.

These codes and credits and any promotional value linked to them may expire if not used within the period specified in your American Academy of Mental Health account. Gift and promotional codes offered by the American Academy of Mental Health may not be refunded for credit unless specified in the terms included with your codes or as required by applicable law. Gift and promotional codes offered by a partner are subject to that partner’s refund policies. If you have multiple saved credit amounts, the American Academy of Mental Health may determine which of your credits to apply to your purchase. For more details, check out our Support Page and any terms included with your codes.

4. Content and Behavior Rules

You can only use the American Academy of Mental Health for lawful purposes. You are responsible for all the content that you post on our platform. You should keep the reviews, questions, posts, courses, and other content you upload in line with our Trust & Safety Guidelines and the law, and respect the intellectual property rights of others. We can ban your account for repeated or major offenses. If you think someone is infringing your copyright on our platform, let us know.

You may not access or use the Services or create an account for unlawful purposes. Your use of the Services and behavior on our platform must comply with your country’s applicable local or national laws or regulations. You are solely responsible for the knowledge of and compliance with such laws and regulations that apply to you.

If you are a student, the Services enable you to ask questions to the instructors of courses or other content you are enrolled in and to post content reviews. The instructor may invite you to submit content as “homework” or tests for certain content. Do not post or submit anything that is not yours.

If you are an instructor, you can submit content for publication on the platform and communicate with students who have enrolled in your courses or other content. In both cases, you must abide by the law and respect the rights of others: you cannot post any course, question, answer, review, or other content that violates applicable local or national laws or regulations of your country. You are solely responsible for any courses, content, and actions you post or take via the platform and Services and their consequences. Make sure you understand all the copyright restrictions outlined in the Instructor Terms before you submit any content for publication on the American Academy of Mental Health platform.

If we are put on notice that your course or content violates the law or the rights of others (for example, if it is established that it violates the intellectual property or image rights of others or is about an illegal activity), if we discover that your content or behavior violates our Trust & Safety Guidelines, or if we believe your content or behavior is unlawful, inappropriate, or objectionable (for example, if you impersonate someone else), we may remove your content from our platform. The American Academy of Mental Health complies with copyright laws. Check out our Intellectual Property Policy for more details.

The American Academy of Mental Health has discretion in enforcing these Terms and our Trust & Safety Guidelines. We may restrict or terminate your permission to use our platform and Services or ban your account at any time, with or without notice, for any or no reason, including for any violation of these Terms, if you fail to pay any fees when due, for fraudulent chargeback requests, upon the request of law enforcement or government agencies, for extended periods of inactivity, for unexpected technical issues or problems, if we suspect that you engage in fraudulent or illegal activities, or for any other reason in our sole discretion. Upon any such termination, we may delete your account and content and prevent you from further access to the platforms and use of our Services. Your content may still be available on the platforms even if your account is terminated or suspended. You agree that we will have no liability to you or any third party for termination of your account, removal of your content, or blocking of your access to our platforms and services.

Please let us know if a user has published content that infringes your copyright or trademark rights. Our Instructor Terms require our instructors to follow the law and respect the intellectual property rights of others. For more details on filing a copyright or trademark infringement claim with us, see our Intellectual Property Policy.

5. American Academy of Mental Health’s Rights to Content You Post

You retain ownership of the content you post to our platform, including your courses. We are allowed to share your content with anyone through any media, including promoting it via advertising on other websites.

The content you post as a student or instructor (including courses) remains yours. By posting courses and other content, you allow the American Academy of Mental Health to reuse and share it, but you do not lose any ownership rights you may have over your content. If you are an instructor, understand the content licensing terms detailed in the Instructor Terms.

When you post content, comments, questions, and reviews, and when you submit to us ideas and suggestions for new features or improvements, you authorize the American Academy of Mental Health to use and share this content with anyone, distribute it and promote it on any platform and in any media, and to make modifications or edits to it as we see fit.

In legal language, by submitting or posting content on or through the platforms, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute your content (including your name and image) in any and all media or distribution methods (existing now or later developed). This includes making your content available to other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with the American Academy of Mental Health for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication of content on other media, as well as using your content for marketing purposes. You also waive any rights of privacy, publicity, or other rights of a similar nature applicable to all these uses, to the extent permissible under applicable law. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power, and authority necessary to authorize us to use any content you submit. You also agree to all such uses of your content with no compensation paid to you.

6. Using the American Academy of Mental Health at Your Own Risk

Anyone can use the American Academy of Mental Health to create and publish content, and we enable instructors and students to interact for teaching and learning. Like other platforms where people can post content and interact, some things can go wrong, and you use the American Academy of Mental Health at your own risk.

Our platform model means we do not review or edit the content for legal issues and are not in a position to determine the legality of content. We do not exercise any editorial control over the content that is available on the platform and, as such, do not guarantee in any manner the reliability, validity, accuracy, or truthfulness of the content. If you access content, you rely on any information provided by an instructor at your own risk.

Using the Services may expose you to content that you consider offensive, indecent, or objectionable. American Academy of Mental Health has no responsibility to keep such content from you and no liability for your access or enrollment in any course or other content to the extent permissible under applicable law. This also applies to any content relating to health, wellness, and physical exercise. You acknowledge the inherent risks and dangers in the strenuous nature of these types of content. By accessing such content, you choose to assume those risks voluntarily, including the risk of illness, bodily injury, disability, or death. You assume full responsibility for your choices before, during, and after your access to the content.

When you interact directly with a student or an instructor, you must be careful about the types of personal information that you share. While we restrict the types of information instructors may request from students, we do not control what students and instructors do with the information they obtain from other users on the platform. You should not share your email or other personal information for your safety.

We do not hire or employ instructors nor are we responsible or liable for any interactions between instructors and students. We are not liable for disputes, claims, losses, injuries, or damage of any kind that might arise out of or relate to the conduct of instructors or students.

When you use our Services, you will find links to other websites that we do not own or control. We are not responsible for the content or any other aspect of these third-party sites, including their collection of information about you. You should also read their terms and conditions and privacy policies.

7. American Academy of Mental Health’s Rights

We own the American Academy of Mental Health platform and services, including the website, present or future apps and services, and things like our logos, API, code, and content created by our employees. You can’t tamper with those or use them without authorization.

All right, title and interest in and to the American Academy of Mental Health platform and Services, including our website, our existing or future applications, our APIs, databases, and the content our employees or partners submit or provide through our Services (but excluding content provided by instructors and students) are and will remain the exclusive property of American Academy of Mental Health and its licensors. Our platforms and services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United States and foreign countries. Nothing gives you a right to use the American Academy of Mental Health name or any of the American Academy of Mental Health trademarks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features. Any feedback, comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding the American Academy of Mental Health or the Services is entirely voluntary. We will be free to use such feedback, comments, or suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.

You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the American Academy of Mental Health platform and Services:

• access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the platform (including content storage), the American Academy of Mental Health’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of the American Academy of Mental Health’s service providers.
• disable, interfere with, or try to circumvent any of the features of the platforms related to security or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any of our systems.
• copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble, or otherwise attempt to discover any source code of or content on the American Academy of Mental Health platform or Services.
• access or search or attempt to access or search our platform by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available search functionalities that are provided via our website, mobile apps, or API (and only pursuant to those API terms and conditions). You may not scrape, spider, use a robot, or use other automated means of any kind to access the Services.
• in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information (such as sending email communications falsely appearing as the American Academy of Mental Health); or interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the platforms or services, or in any other manner interfering with or creating an undue burden on the Services.

8. Subscription Terms

This section covers additional terms that apply to your use of our subscription-based collections as a student (“Subscription Plans”). By using a Subscription Plan, you agree to the additional terms in this section. Note that the use of the American Academy of Mental Health Business is not subject to these Terms but is instead governed by the agreement between the American Academy of Mental Health and the subscribing organization.

8.1 Subscription Plans

During your subscription to a Subscription Plan, you get a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license from us to access and view the content included in that Subscription Plan via the Services. With the exception of the lifetime access license grant, the terms included in the “Content Enrollment and Lifetime Access” section above apply to enrollments via Subscription Plans.

The subscription you purchase or renew determines the scope, features, and price of your access to a Subscription Plan. You may not transfer, assign, or share your subscription with anyone else.

We reserve the right to revoke any license to use the content in our Subscription Plans for legal or policy reasons at any time and at our sole discretion, such as if we no longer have the right to offer the content through a Subscription Plan. Additional information on our right to revoke is included in the “Content Enrollment and Lifetime Access” section.

8.2 Account Management

You may cancel your subscription by following the steps outlined on our Support Page. If you cancel your subscription to a Subscription Plan, your access to that Subscription Plan will automatically end on the last day of your billing period. On cancellation, you will not be entitled to receive a refund or credit of any fees already paid for your subscription unless otherwise required by applicable law. For clarity, canceling a subscription does not terminate your American Academy of Mental Health account.

8.3 Free Trials & Renewals

Your subscription may start with a free trial. The duration of the free trial period of your subscription will be specified during sign-up. The American Academy of Mental Health determines free trial eligibility at our sole discretion and may limit eligibility or duration. We reserve the right to terminate the free trial and suspend your subscription if we determine that you are not eligible.

We will charge the subscription fee for your next billing cycle at the end of the free trial period. Your subscription will automatically renew according to your subscription settings (e.g., monthly or annually) unless you cancel your subscription prior to the end of the free trial period. For more information on how to view applicable fees and dates of your free trial period, visit our Support Page.

8.4 Payments and Billing

The subscription fee will be listed at the time of your purchase. You can visit our Support Page to learn more about where to find the fees and dates applicable to your subscription. We may also be required to add taxes to your subscription fee as described in the “Payments, Credits, and Refunds” section above. Payments are non-refundable, and there are no refund credits for partially used periods unless otherwise required by applicable law. Depending on where you are located, you may qualify for a refund credit. See our Refund Policy for Subscription Plans for additional information.

To subscribe to a Subscription Plan, you must provide a payment method. By subscribing to a Subscription Plan and providing your billing information during checkout, you grant us and our payment service providers the right to process payment for the then-applicable fees via the payment method we have on record for you. At the end of each subscription term, we will automatically renew your subscription for the same length of term and process your payment method for the payment of the then-applicable fees.

In the event that we update your payment method using the information provided by our payment service providers (as described in the “Payments, Credits, and Refunds” section above), you authorize us to continue to charge the then-applicable fees to your updated payment method.

If we are unable to process payment through the payment method, we have on file for you, or if you file a chargeback disputing charges made to your payment method and the chargeback is granted, we may suspend or terminate your subscription.

We reserve the right to change our Subscription Plans or adjust pricing for our Services at our sole discretion. Any price changes or changes to your subscription will take effect following notice to you, except as otherwise required by applicable law.

8.5 Subscription Disclaimers

We make no guarantees about the availability of any specific content in any Subscription Plan or any minimum amount of content in any Subscription Plan. At any point in the future, we reserve the right to offer or cease to offer additional features to any Subscription Plan or to otherwise modify or terminate a Subscription Plan at our sole discretion. These disclaimers are in addition to those listed in the “Disclaimers” section below. 

9. Miscellaneous Legal Terms

These Terms are like any other contract; they have boring but important legal terms that protect us from the countless things that could happen and clarify the legal relationship between us and you.

9.1 Binding Agreement

By registering, accessing, or using our Services, you agree to enter into a legally binding contract with the American Academy of Mental Health. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not register, access, or otherwise use any of our Services.

If you are an instructor accepting these Terms and using our Services on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so.

Any version of these Terms in a language other than English is provided for convenience, and you understand and agree that the English language will control if there is any conflict.

These Terms (including any agreements and policies linked from these Terms) constitute the entire agreement between you and us (which include, if you are an instructor, the Instructor Terms and the Promotions Policy).

If any part of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable by applicable law, then that provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of these Terms will continue in effect.

Even if we are delayed in exercising our rights or fail to exercise a right in one case, it does not mean we waive our rights under these Terms, and we may decide to enforce them in the future. If we decide to waive any of our rights in a particular instance, it does not mean we waive our rights generally or in the future.

The following sections shall survive the expiration or termination of these Terms: Sections 2 (Content Enrollment and Lifetime Access), 5 (American Academy of Mental Health’s Rights to Content You Post), 6 (Using American Academy of Mental Health at Your Own Risk), 7 (American Academy of Mental Health’s Rights), 8.5 (Subscription Disclaimers), 9 (Miscellaneous Legal Terms), and 10 (Dispute Resolution).

9.2 Disclaimers

It may happen that our platform is down, either for planned maintenance or because something goes down with the site. It may happen that one of our instructors is making misleading statements in their content. It may also happen that we encounter security issues. These are just examples. You accept that you will not have any recourse against us in any of these types of cases where things do not work out right. In legal, more complete language, the Services, and their content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We (and our affiliates, suppliers, partners, and agents) make no representations or warranties about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, security, lack of errors, or accuracy of the Services or their content and expressly disclaim any warranties or conditions (express or implied), including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We (and our affiliates, suppliers, partners, and agents) make no warranty that you will obtain specific results from the use of the Services. Your use of the Services (including any content) is entirely at your own risk. Some jurisdictions don’t allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

We may decide to cease making certain features of the Services available at any time and for any reason. Under no circumstances will the American Academy of Mental Health or its affiliates, suppliers, partners, or agents be held liable for any damages due to such interruptions or lack of availability of such features.

We are not responsible for delay or failure of our performance of any of the Services caused by events beyond our reasonable control, like an act of war, hostility, or sabotage; natural disaster; electrical, internet, or telecommunication outage; or government restrictions.

9.3 Limitation of Liability

There are risks inherent to using our Services; for example, if you access health and wellness content like yoga, and you injure yourself. You fully accept these risks, and you agree that you will have no recourse to seek damages against even if you suffer loss or damage from using our platform and Services. In legal, more complete language, to the extent permitted by law, we (and our group companies, suppliers, partners, and agents) will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages (including loss of data, revenue, profits, or business opportunities, or personal injury or death), whether arising in contract, warranty, tort, product liability or otherwise and even if we’ve been advised of the possibility of damages in advance. Our liability (and the liability of each of our group companies, suppliers, partners, and agents) to you or any third parties under any circumstance is limited to the greater of one hundred dollars ($100) or the amount you have paid us in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to your claims. Some jurisdictions don’t allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, so some of the above may not apply to you.

9.4 Indemnification

If you behave in a way that gets us in legal trouble, we may exercise legal recourse against you. You agree to indemnify, defend (if we so request), and hold harmless the American Academy of Mental Health, our group companies, and their officers, directors, suppliers, partners, and agents from and against any third-party claims, demands, losses, damages, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) arising from (a) the content you post or submit, (b) your use of the Services (c) your violation of these Terms, or (d) your violation of any rights of a third party. Your indemnification obligation will survive the termination of these Terms and your use of the Services.

9.5 Governing Law and Jurisdiction

When these Terms mention “American Academy of Mental Health,” they refer to the American Academy of Mental Health entity you are contracting with. If you are a student, your contracting entity and governing law will generally be determined based on your location.

If you are a student or if you are accessing our Services as an instructor, you are contracting with the American Academy of Mental Health, Inc. and these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA without reference to its choice or conflicts of law principles. In cases where the “Dispute Resolution” section below does not apply to you, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of federal and state courts in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

9.6 Legal Actions and Notices

No action, regardless of form, arising out of or relating to this Agreement may be brought by either party more than one (1) year after the cause of action has accrued, except where this limitation cannot be imposed by law.

Any notice or other communication to be given hereunder will be in writing and given by registered or certified mail return receipt requested or email (by us to the email associated with your account or by you to support@aacademyofmh.com).

9.7 Relationship Between Us

You and we agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, contractor, or agency relationship exists between us.

9.8 No Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms (or the rights and licenses granted under them). For example, if you registered an account as an employee of a company, your account cannot be transferred to another employee. We may assign these Terms (or the rights and licenses granted under them) to another company or person without restriction. Nothing in these Terms confers any right, benefit, or remedy on any third-party person or entity. You agree that your account is non-transferable and that all rights to your account and other rights under these Terms terminate upon your death.

9.9 Sanctions and Export Laws

You warrant that you (as an individual or as a representative of any entity on whose behalf you use the Services) are not located in, or a resident of, any country that is subject to applicable U.S. trade sanctions or embargoes (such as Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, or the Crimea region of Ukraine). You also warrant that you are not a person or entity who is named on any U.S. government specially designated national or denied-party list.

If you become subject to such a restriction during the term of any agreement with the American Academy of Mental Health, you will notify us within 24 hours, and we will have the right to terminate any further obligations to you, effective immediately and with no further liability to you (but without prejudice to your outstanding obligations to the American Academy of Mental Health).

You may not access, use, export, re-export, divert, transfer or disclose any portion of the Services or any related technical information or materials, directly or indirectly, in violation of any United States and other applicable country export control and trade sanctions laws, rules and regulations. You agree not to upload any content or technology (including information on encryption) whose export is specifically controlled under such laws.

10. Dispute Resolution

If there is a dispute, our Support Team is happy to help resolve the issue. If that does not work and you live in the United States, your options are to go to a small claims court or bring a claim in binding arbitration; you may not bring that claim in another court or participate in a non-individual class action claim against us.

This Dispute Resolution section applies only if you live in the United States. Most disputes can be resolved, so before bringing a formal legal case, please first try contacting our Support Team.

10.1 Small Claims

Either of us can bring a claim in small claims court in Fort Worth, Texas, as long as it qualifies to be brought in that court.

10.2 Going to Arbitration

If we cannot resolve our dispute amicably, you and the American Academy of Mental Health agree to resolve any claims related to these Terms (or our other legal terms) through final and binding arbitration, regardless of the type of claim or legal theory. If one of us brings a claim in court that should be arbitrated and the other party refuses to arbitrate it, the other party can ask a court to force us both to go to arbitration (compel arbitration). Either of us can also ask a court to halt a court proceeding while an arbitration proceeding is ongoing.

10.3 The Arbitration Process

Any disputes that involve a claim of less than $10,000 USD must be resolved exclusively through binding non-appearance-based arbitration. A party electing arbitration must initiate proceedings by filing an arbitration demand with the American Arbitration Association (AAA). The arbitration proceedings shall be governed by the AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules, Consumer Due Process Protocol, and Supplementary Procedures for Resolution of Consumer-Related Disputes. You and we agree that the following rules will apply to the proceedings: (a) the arbitration will be conducted by telephone, online, or based solely on written submissions (at the choice of the party seeking relief); (b) the arbitration must not involve any personal appearance by the parties or witnesses (unless you and we agree otherwise), and (c) any judgment on the arbitrator’s rendered award may be entered in any court with competent jurisdiction. Disputes that involve a claim of more than $10,000 USD must be resolved per the AAA’s rules about whether the arbitration hearing has to be in person.

10.4 No Class Actions

We both agree that we can each only bring claims against the other on an individual basis. This means: (a) neither of us can bring a claim as a plaintiff or class member in a class action, consolidated action, or representative action; (b) an arbitrator can’t combine multiple people’s claims into a single case (or preside over any consolidated, class, or representative action); and (c) an arbitrator’s decision or award in one person’s case can only impact that user, not other users, and can’t be used to decide other users’ disputes. If a court decides that this “No class actions” clause isn’t enforceable or valid, then this “Dispute Resolution” section will be null and void, but the rest of the Terms will still apply.

10.5 Changes

Notwithstanding the “Updating these Terms” section below, if the American Academy of Mental Health changes this “Dispute Resolution” section after the date you last indicated acceptance to these Terms, you may reject any such change by providing American Academy of Mental Health written notice of such rejection by mail or hand delivery to American Academy of Mental Health, 1250 Capital of Texas Highway South, Building 3, Suite 400, Austin, Texas 78746, or by email from the email address associated with your Account to support@aacademyofmh.com, within 30 days of the date such change became effective, as indicated by the “last updated on” language above. To be effective, the notice must include your full name and clearly indicate your intent to reject changes to this “Dispute Resolution” section. By rejecting changes, you are agreeing that you will arbitrate any dispute between you and the American Academy of Mental Health in accordance with the provisions of this “Dispute Resolution” section as of the date you last indicated acceptance to these Terms.

11. Updating These Terms

From time to time, we may update these Terms to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different practices (such as when we add new features), and the American Academy of Mental Health reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify and/or make changes to these Terms at any time. If we make any material change, we will notify you using prominent means, such as by email notice sent to the email address specified in your account or by posting a notice through our Services. Modifications will become effective on the day they are posted unless stated otherwise.

Your continued use of our Services after changes become effective shall mean that you accept those changes. Any revised Terms shall supersede all previous Terms.

12. How to Contact Us

The best way to get in touch with us is to contact our Support Team at support@aacadmyofmh.com. We’d love to hear your questions, concerns, and feedback about our Services.

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