Terms & Conditions – Training, Mentoring, Coaching & Workshops – Angela Gallo

Parties to this agreement

1. These Terms and Conditions form a legally binding agreement between you (“you”, “your”, the “User”) and Angela Gallo  (“we”, “our”, “us” or similar) which governs your use of our services such as training, consulting services, workshops.

 

1. This Agreement governs the terms by which you interact with us and our content.

 

1. Our contact details are angela@angelagallo.com

Acceptance

1. Please note that by agreeing to these terms, you are entering into a legally binding contract.

 

1. If you do not accept all the Terms and Conditions, you must not enroll in Angela Gallo’s Dynamo Doula Training Program, use or access our content or attend any session offered by us.

Limitation

1. This course is for your education as a Doula only.
1. You may not share or modify any of the videos provided in this course with any other person, whether they be someone training to be a Doula or a client.  
2. You may ONLY share the written course material provided in this course with any other person, IF that material is provided to you as part of the downloadable course documents. You may share such material on social media, or on your own website or by printing a copy for your clients. You may NOT commercialise these materials (ie you may not sell the materials) but you may give out these documents to your clients if they are paying you for your Doula services. You may not modify these documents in any way, unless they contain specific areas for modification, for example, a checklist may be modified by ticking the boxes, or a plan what to take to hospital may be modified to add extra items not already on the list; as these documents are provided as a guide and modification to each individual circumstance is appropriate. If a document contains a step-by-step guide to breast-feeding, for example, and  you hand that out, that is not a plan or document that should be modified. All documents shared in any way whatsoever must retain their copyright notices and must be attributed to us. For example, “Image Credit : Dynamo Doula course”. Care should be taken not to breach the Code of Conduct when sharing documents, for example, nothing should be shared in a way to bring us or our course into disrepute.
3. Any course material that is not provided in downloadable document format, may NOT be copied, modified or shared in any way whatsoever, with any way with any person whether they are a client, someone training to be a Doula or any other person whatsoever.

Your Responsibility To Determine Your Country’s Certification Requirements

1. Our main expertise in Doula work is in the USA and in Australia, with the content being relevant to users from all over the world. No certification is required in the USA or Australia for someone to conduct Doula work.

 

1. As far as we are aware, at the time of creating this course, there is no certification requirement anywhere in the world for someone to conduct Doula work. Doula work appears to be unregulated in every country that we have done research in.

 

1. Our fully comprehensive course does provide you with a Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula certification (see section below for more information).

1. Laws and regulations do change from time to time and it is simply impossible for us to keep up with the requirements of the Doula industry for every country in the world. It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to find out if certification is a requirement in your country. If it is, please let us know and we will attempt to have our certification officially recognised in your country by the official Doula regulatory body. If your country does not have a certification requirement (which is the situation in every country we are aware of at the time of creating this course), then you can simply rely on our certification without having to do anything else.

 

11. 11. It is important to be proactive as a professional and strive to self-regulate before relying on a regulatory body to impose parameters or policy on you. Our training teaches you to operate in full integrity alongside the certification provided.

 

Certification & Professional Development

1. Our course provides three options:
1. A fully comprehensive course, recommended for you if you are intending to work as a Doula (this is our only course that offers certification, the other two only provide a “certificate of completion”), or
2. A professional development course, for those who work alongside Doulas such as midwives and paramedics (although many of these companion industry workers prefer the full certification course because the professional development course is mainly automated and less comprehensive), or
3. 5-day Doula crash courses in person in major cities around the world (see website for details of when the next crash-course is coming to a city near you). This is an abbreviated version of the online course.

 

1. To achieve certification under our fully comprehensive course, you must complete the following within 24 months of starting the course.

12.1 For certification you must:

• Complete each module thoroughly with intent, as well as detailed and thought out answers
• pass each module quiz
• watch all of the required videos
• listen to all of the required audio
• Read ANY 4 books out of your recommended reading list
• participate in group calls
• You must receive the green light from a member of the DDT team in order to begin sourcing clients and attending births
• Support 3 clients/families through pregnancy, labour & birth
  Support 3 clients/families through the postpartum period
  
• Receive and submit client feedback from each of the clients you have supported
• Submit business plan to be assessed
• Debrief them with a member of the DDT team
• Write a detailed assessment on current birth culture in your community

 

1. The business plan is not a “test”, but rather to help ensure that you are fully ready to step into your business as a Doula. Guidance will be provided for you for all of the above including how to find your first three clients. We recommend that these should preferably be paid clients. These must be clients you have obtained after starting this course.
2. You have 24 months to certify from date of enrollment.
3. You will be allowed to start scouting for certifying births and attending births when you've received the green light from a member of the DDT team. Why the green light? Because not everyone will be ready to attend births confidently or competently at the same time - so these will be assessed on a case by case basis dependent on a variety of factors. You are representing my brand and Doulas as a whole - I want you to FEEL and BE ready before you assume any liability as a professional student Doula.
4.  If you are already a Doula, you will still be required to get the green light from a member of the DDT team before attending births and postpartum clients. This is because we want to ensure that you are able to put into practice the techniques taught in this course, rather than doing what you have been taught elsewhere.
5. You will not be told what to charge as a professional Doula and graduated student but you will be encouraged to charge a fee that is aligned to sustainability, profitability and thriveability..
6. You agree to be bound by our Code of Conduct, which sets high ethical and practical expectations. This Code may reasonably be updated from time to time. Once you are certified you will continue to adhere to the code in order to maintain your certification. The Code is necessary so that Doulas with our Certification become known as having the highest standards in the Doula industry world-wide. You understand and agree that you may be stripped of your Certification should you breach our Code of Conduct after you have certified.

 

Your Commitment and What Angela teaches

1. By entering into this agreement, you are committing time and effort to learn and practice the methods and processes that we teach. We do not claim that our methods are the only methods, and in fact, we help you discover your own unique Doula style. But to get the best out of this course and to succeed both as a Doula, and in running a Doula business, we strongly recommend following our teachings, unless you find a way that works better for you in a particular situation, in which case we urge you to brainstorm about this with our Master Doula Educators, peers and in our Facebook group.
2. Being a Doula is emotionally, physically and psychologically challenging. You must be prepared to work hard and put time, effort and energy into learning our methods and running your Doula business.
3. We will teach you processes and tools that have worked in Angela Gallo’s own business and the businesses of her clients. Other Doula business owners and philanthropists have had very good success with these tools, also. It is important to remember that if you skip steps that we teach or do not follow the processes, you may only have partial success. To get the best results, we recommend that you follow our entire system. Results will vary depending on how closely you follow our systems, how much you interact with our group (online and in person), and the state of the industry in your particular country. One thing is sure: women and birthing people will continue to have babies. Our systems should work anywhere in the world, provided you are putting in the energy required.
4. You agree to abide by the highest standard of good ethical conduct when using the processes we teach you, including not using the processes or information taught to cause harm or injury or for any illegal purpose (including breach of relevant privacy laws and surrogacy laws).
5. You agree not to sell, give away, publish, post or modify any of our content or give anyone access to your user account.
6. If you make any content available through or in connection with this course, for example, via our group Facebook page, you hereby grant us a royalty-free, irrevocable perpetual right to use such content in any way we see fit.

 

No Guarantees

1. We cannot offer a guarantee that you will achieve a certain level of engagement, success or profit. A lot depends on how much time and effort you put into following the system that we teach you. Of course, engagement, success and profit level also depends on your local situation.
2. We can say that the processes we teach have been successful in our founder’s own business and in the Doula businesses of clients she has mentored.

Course Coverage

 

1. Our course is a comprehensive Doula course which will cover the topics required to ensure that you are an effective Doula. Course content may change and be updated from time to time.

 

Intellectual Property & Goodwill

1. Our intellectual property is everything that we teach, all methods, plans, charts, materials (electronic or otherwise), videos, workbooks, slides, graphics, blogs, trade marks (whether registered in your country or not) and anything else we produce or provide to you in relation to the services that we offer.
2. We are generous with sharing our intellectual property. Please understand that this information is my intellectual property and shared with you only for your own use in creating and operating your own Doula business. Our intellectual property may only be shared as specifically allowed in clause 6 above, and the use of our intellectual property is further limited by clause 30 below.
3. Our intellectual property may not be shared with anyone other than as stated in clause 6 above or used for any other purpose other than promoting or building your Doula business. Teaching these methods (other than your birth clients or their supporters, for the purpose of assisting the pre-natal, birth, and post-natal period for your birth client) to others without paying us a royalty or licence fee (which we are open to negotiating on a case-by-case basis, but will only be valid once agreed in writing and signed by both you and me). In particular, you may not use the material in this course to create your own Doula Training course or to generate an income to teach others how to be a Doula, or to teach anyone who you you know or reasonably suspect will be using these skills or materials to teach others the techniques included in this course. This is a material term of this agreement and you agree that if you break this term, we will be entitled to an amount of liquidated damages of USD 500 000 for each breach, for breach of trust and loss of confidentiality, plus any further damages as may be assessed.
4. Anyone breaking this rule or making plans with anyone else to break this rule will be immediately removed from our social media group/s and online course access without notice and without any refund.
5. Our intellectual property is licensed to you under the terms of this agreement. No intellectual property will be transferred to you as a result of attending our course.
6. You agree you may not (i) copy, modify, or create derivative works based on our intellectual property (ii) distribute, transfer, sublicense, lease, lend, or rent our intellectual property to any third party; (iii) modify, decompile, or disassemble our intellectual property.
7. All rights in and to our content, including, without limitation, all copyright and other intellectual property rights, are retained by us.
8. Copyright in the wording of this agreement belongs to Acacia Law. You may not use it, or any part of it without their written permission and payment of a licence fee. For details please email contracts@acacialaw.com
9. The intellectual property provisions provide ongoing obligations which will survive the termination of this agreement.
10. You acknowledge that if you create or attempt to create a course which is in competition with this course or with our business anywhere in the world, we will cancel your membership of our site and groups, remove your access to our site and groups, and you will receive no refund in such an event. If you have not yet attained certification, no certification will be provided in such circumstances. In addition, you agree that at a minimum, you will be liable to us for an amount of USD 500 000 liquidated damages for breach of trust, being our estimated investment in the creation of this course, in financial outlay as well as unpaid time expended by the course creators. In addition, we reserve the right to an injunction to stop you from offering such a course and also reserve the right to recover from you damages and/or an account of profits.
11. You agree that clause 37 is fair and reasonable, given:

 

1. This course is a world-wide first,
2. It has a unique approach and unique content,
3. A significant amount of original thought and effort, time and money has been invested in creating this course. Costs (including unpaid time of the creator are estimated at around USD 500 000 or more), such costs having been incurred on a speculative basis with no guarantee of return on investment.

Confidentiality and Respect

1. We recognise that anything that you share with us is regarded as confidential, whether it is business or personal information. We undertake not to, at any time, either directly or indirectly use or disclose any information that you share with us, unless we are required to do so by law, or when seeking legal advice, or if you give us permission to share such information. We may share what we talk about in a way that does not reveal your identity.

1. While we do ask attendees of our groups to be mindful of confidentiality of any business information revealed during workshops or group sessions, we do ask that you do not reveal anything you are not comfortable having repeated, because sometimes people do forget about the confidentiality requirements, and we cannot guarantee that people in our groups will keep any shared information confidential.

Social Media

1. FACEBOOK / MEETUP / LINKED IN GROUPS / OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPS - All members need to follow our group rules which we may change from time to time. These will be shown on the relevant social media group page. These would say things like you need to treat other members with respect, even after you or they leave the group.
2. Also, please note that social media platform rules change from time to time. Sometimes these changes may mean that a technique we have taught you that is affected by the rule change is no longer (as) effective. Naturally, we have no control over such changes, and will not be responsible for any losses arising from such changes.
3. Anyone trying to convince people not to attend our course will also be removed from our social media groups without notice and will be pursued legally. We reserve full legal rights in respect of such comments, should they occur.
4. Breach of these material terms (and our intellectual property terms) means that you forfeit your membership to our group/s and online content, no matter what membership plan you have entered the group under and even if you have paid for such membership (and no refund will be given if such payment has been made).
5. Please remember that social media can be a wild place and people may create false or misleading profiles. Sensible caution should be taken when doing business (or having personal contact) with anyone you meet via social media.
6. While we make every effort to ensure that we know members of our social media groups personally or at least by online reputation, we give no guarantee of any sort about anyone you meet via social media including via our group/s.

 

Cancellations & Replacements

1. Given the extent of information available through our online portal (which is accessible as soon as you make your first payment), we do not accept cancellations or offer refunds. Naturally, you may elect not to complete all the course requirements. No refunds are given under any circumstances.
2. We reserve the right to cancel or postpone any, workshop, seminar or webinar event, or 1:1 session should exceptional circumstances require us to do so. If this happens, we will work with you to book you into a different event, on a date that suits you. No refunds will be given and the payment plan agreed to will still need to be complied with, if this happens. While Angela Gallo will present most face-to-face sessions and attend most 1:1 sessions personally, she reserves the right to engage a suitably trained replacement person at no notice to you.

 

Payment

1. Costs are available on request and may differ depending on the course, workshop, webinar or similar;  which you sign up for.

Installation Payments

1. If we have agreed that you may pay by instalment, you must pay each instalment to us in full by the instalment payment date.
2. If you miss an instalment payment, then you agree that all amounts under this agreement become due and owing and must be paid to us immediately, without off-set, counterclaim or delay. If any payment dates are not met, we reserve the right to cancel this agreement and no refund or credit will be given and you will still be responsible for the full payment amount. This may result in loss of access to group/s and/or online material.
3. If you miss an instalment payment and the amount owing is not paid to us immediately, you understand a third party collection service will be engaged to retrieve balance owing until it is the amount is paid in full.

 

Force Majeure

1. If any services under this agreement need to be postponed due to an “act of God” or an act of nature or other circumstances beyond our control, such as strikes or cancellation of flights or internet outages, we will notify you as soon as we can of the postponement and the alternative dates.

Insurance

1. Our in-person workshops are held in locations that we trust, but please make sure that you have your own insurance to cover you in the unlikely event of damage or loss of property or personal injury when attending our events, as we will not be responsible for any such damage or costs.

 

Your Indemnity

1. To the fullest extent allowable by law, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold us, our people, our affiliates, our content providers and their respective directors, officers, employees, shareholders, partners and agents harmless from and against any and all claims, liability, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees on a solicitor and client basis) as a result of any services you provide after being trained by us or in connection with our training, this agreement, the performance or alleged or actual breach of it.

General Provisions

1. To the extent permitted by law, we and our people shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses whatsoever arising as a result of attending our training or using our training or materials.
2. Should any liability attach, despite the clauses above, to the extent permitted by law, our liability and the liability of our people under this agreement shall not exceed the total aggregate amount you have paid to us for our services.
3. Any failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right for any later instance of performance or enforcement.
4. This Agreement is not assignable by you without our prior written consent. We may assign this Agreement without your consent to any other party so long as such party agrees to be bound by its terms.
5. Where we reasonably believe that content provided under our training is being used outside of the scope of the license granted under this Agreement, you agree to, at our request, provide a certificate of compliance signed by you, in a form to be approved by us. In particular, our intellectual property is licensed for your use within your own Doula business and not licensed for you to teach it to others.
6. If any provision of this Agreement is wholly or partially unenforceable, the parties or, in the event the parties are unable to agree, a court of competent jurisdiction, shall put in place of such whole or part provision of an enforceable provision or provisions, that as closely as possible reflects the terms of the unenforceable whole or part provision but makes them enforceable.
7. Unless prohibited by operation of law, this Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Queensland and the federal laws of Australia.
8. Neither party will be liable for performance delays nor non-performance due to causes beyond its reasonable control, except for payment obligations.
9. We do not make any guarantees as to the accuracy or quality of any third party information or services provided to you on our platforms or during our course, or linked to our platforms / courses / sites / pages. You agree that we will not be liable or responsible for any loss, damage, refunds, costs or any other matters of any sort as a result of dealing with such third party information or services.

Acknowledgement

1. You acknowledge that you have read this agreement, understand it, and have had an opportunity to seek independent legal advice before agreeing to it. In consideration of us agreeing to provide the content, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement.
2. By signing up for our services, attending one of our workshops or webinars or coaching sessions, accessing our online content, or making any payment to us, you agree that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
3. By ticking a tick box agreeing to these terms and conditions or otherwise agreeing to these terms and conditions or by the act of using our content or registration as a user of our website, you agree that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
4. You warrant that you have full legal capacity to enter into this agreement.
5. Should any clause or sub-clause be deemed unenforceable, the remainder of this agreement will be enforceable so as to give effect to the remainder of this agreement, with an interpretation as near as possible to the unenforceable provision, as is enforceable.
6. Should any liquidated damages amount in this agreement be considered inappropriate or unenforceable by a court, a different amount may be substituted by a court, being an amount as close as possible to the amount stated in this agreement, as allowed by the court.
7. This agreement is governed by the laws of Australia and you agree that any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent court nominated by us at the time a dispute arises.
8. This is an important legal agreement and we recommend you seek legal advice before entering into it and agreeing to your obligations in it.

© 2018 Acacia Law  – copyright in these terms and conditions is owned by Acacia Law, law@acacialaw.com, with a perpetual royalty free license to use them belonging to us. These terms may not be copied, modified in any way or used, in whole or part, without express written permission from Acacia Law. Each legal situation is unique, and these terms have been specifically created for Angela Gallo and may not be appropriate for other legal situations.