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Our Terms and Conditions and Policies


Please read carefully this page as it contains all legal documents related to the use of this Website as well as the details concerning your data privacy. We've packed them in a single page so it would be easier for you to find, but you can navigate to the document of interest to you using these links
1. Terms & Conditions
2. Privacy & Cookies Policy

Terms & Conditions

 

Introduction

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully, as they define the agreement between You and the Company while using the Website in any way - including but not limited to the purchase of products and services. Your access to and use of any part of this Website, its content, products, and/or services offered is conditioned on your knowledge, acceptance of, and compliance with these Terms and Conditions. If you disagree with any part of these Terms and Conditions or any other policy directly referenced here you may not access the website nor the related products and services. 

Garden of Shakti is an educational, personal development, growth-focused project of MADE TO GROW SRL. 

Definitions

In the contents of this document, the following terms used in capital letters will have, if the context does not indicate otherwise, the meanings specified below:

Abuse, Abusive Usage (of the Website) - use of the Website in any way that is not according to the law or hindering in any way to the Company or to Garden of Shakti or to any other Users or Third parties.

Account - a unique account created for You to access our Products, Services or some parts of the Website

The Company, We -  MADE TO GROW SRL for the Shakti project

Content - any content such as text, images, or other information that can be posted, uploaded, linked to, or otherwise made available on the Website regardless of the form of that content or whether it is free or paid

Device -  any device that can access the Website such as a computer, a cell phone, or a digital tablet.

gardenofshakti.com, or “Garden of Shakti”, Website - the project, including all the content, products, and services offered as a part of this project, as well as any social media pages owned by the Company in connection to Garden of Shakti

Party - You and the Company 

Product - any product listed on the Website or Our social media accounts, regardless of its format, delivery method, or price

Service - any service or content listed on the website or Our social media accounts regardless of its format, delivery method, or price

 

User-generated content - any content generated by a User in any format including but not limited to comments, replies, and any other contributions

VAT - Value Added Tax; depending on your country of residence, this may or may not be applicable; similarly, the amount may also vary depending on your country of residence

You, the User - the individual, the company or any other legal entity on behalf of which the website is accessed, regardless of the purpose including but not limited to browsing, purchase, promotion, or evaluation. 

Applicability

The conditions presented on this page are valid for this Website only. This Website may include links to other websites for which We bear no responsibility. 

Any new content, product, or service added shall also be subject to these Terms and Conditions. 

We reserve the right to update or replace any part of these Terms and Conditions by posting updates or making any kind of replacements to this page. It is Your responsibility to check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes constitutes Your acceptance of those changes.

Use of the Website

In order to use any part of Garden of Shakti You acknowledge that You are over the age of 18.  While We strive to keep our content as clean, decent, and elegant as possible, some topics or themes that We touch upon may not be suited for minors. Hence, We do not permit those under 18 to use the website.

You may not access or use this Website for any purpose that constitutes Abusive Usage.

Company information

The website gardenofshakti.com is the property of Made to Grow SRL, fiscal code 45711232/RO45827475, with headquarters in Iasi, 2, Fagului street, B1, 5th floor, ap. 38, Iasi, Romania, share capital 200 RON. 

Content

The content available on the Website provides information about the services offered, as well as other information in the field of personal development in audio, video, or text format. 

You have the obligation to respect all the applicable intellectual property rights laws and regulations.

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to, at Our sole discretion, determine whether or not any Content is appropriate and complies with these Terms, refuse or remove any User-generated content. We further reserve the right to make formatting and edits and change the manner of any Content. We can also limit or revoke the use of Our Products and Services if You post such objectionable Content. As We cannot control all content posted by Users on the Website, You agree to use the Website at Your own risk. You understand that by using the Website You may be exposed to content that You may find offensive, indecent, incorrect, or objectionable, and You agree that under no circumstances will the Company be liable in any way for any Content, including any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any Content.

Copyright

The content of this Website is protected by national and international laws concerning intellectual property rights. 

You cannot use any part of the Content of this Website other than for your personal use and in accordance with these Terms and any other related Policies linked here.
The articles published on the blog of the Website can be redistributed, and published on other pages under the condition that reference is made to the initial source of publication, respectively the author of the respective article.
You cannot use any part of this Website (content, materials, products, free or paid) for multiplication or resale without Our written consent. 

 

Limitations of responsibility

Garden of Shakti offers courses, events, coaching services, and other educational or recreational products and services. Garden of Shakti makes all necessary efforts to ensure all Content, Services, and Products - free or paid - are of the highest quality, relevance, and freshness possible. In order to accomplish this, We reserve the right to update or delete any part of the Website at any time and without prior notification to the Users. 

The prices of the Products and Services are informative and may undergo unannounced changes. The promotions presented on the Website are valid during the mentioned time period.

The Products and Services offered are exclusively the ones specified on the dedicated pages of this Website. For more details about the products and services, payment methods, length, delivery method, and others please see the descriptions for the Products or Services You are interested in.

Garden of Shakti welcomes Users from around the world, as our Products and Services are offered in digital format and/or over the internet. Due to this, We cannot assume responsibility for compliance with local laws that apply specifically to You. In using this Website, You acknowledge that is Your sole responsibility to abide by the laws and regulations applicable in Your country or region, and that Garden of Shakti cannot be held in any way responsible for Your infringement of those said laws and regulations.

Use of your personal data

Access to the Website and the Products and Services offered requires Your acceptance that Your personal data will be kept and processed by Us. The information you send Us is treated with the utmost confidentiality and exclusively for the purposes for which it was collected. Please also see our Privacy Policy as it is an integral part of this agreement. The Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your personal information when You use Garden of Shakti and informs you about your data protection rights. 

The purposes of processing Your data are: creating the user account for any purchase, delivery of the ordered products, sending complementary materials, sending commercial communications (with Your consent), and sending offers for complementary products and services.

We will not share Your personal data with any third party other than the ones explicitly mentioned in this document. 

You will be informed about the purpose of the action for which We have contacted You. If the action involves further processing of Your personal data You will be informed and Your consent will be required.

Garden of Shakti is hosted by the Wix.com platform, which allows Us to sell our Products and Services to You. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s databases and applications. All direct payment gateways used by Us adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS Standards. 

Products and Services payment and delivery; other transactions

Application

Access to some of Our Products and Services may require you to apply in order to join. This is to ensure we are a good fit for each other, that the selected Service or Product is the best option for you, and also to verify that we can collaborate - in terms of timing, schedule, and availability.

For coaching Services, We offer a free initial call that will be scheduled at a mutually agreed date after completing the short questionnaire. After the initial call, if we decide that we are a good fit, You will be invoiced for the Service or Product mutually agreed upon.

For Workshops, once your application is complete, you will receive an email confirming the availability and the invoice for the respective service, if appliccable.

Pricing and Payments

The order placed will be completed by full payment of the price of the chosen Product or Service, through online payments, using a valid debit or credit card. The order is considered confirmed when the payment has been processed. 

When You make a payment, You warrant that you have the legal right to use the card and that the payment details You have provided are correct, complete, and true. Neither We nor any Third parties can be held responsible for any loss arising from You providing inaccurate or false information.

Upon payment transaction completion, You will receive an email confirming Your purchase at the address You have specified for Your account. The contract for the supply of the Product or Service You have purchased is considered valid when the payment confirmation email has been sent to You. 

The prices displayed on Our Website are in USD and contain VAT. In accordance to the applicable laws, We are required to issue a VAT invoice for the Products and Services provided - when and where such tax is applicable. In completing a purchase, You agree to all additional costs You may incur from the payment transaction. At the time of payment, You will receive complete information about the payment amounts, including all taxes and additional costs, if applicable.

Service delivery

When You book a session, in addition to the payment confirmation, You will receive a booking confirmation by email. All our sessions are held online; You will receive the link to the session via email at least 24 hours in advance. 

Products delivery

All our products are digital. When You make a purchase on Our Website, and upon confirmation you will receive the Product in digital format including but not limited to text, voice, or video. 

Plans

Some of the Products and Services may be made available to you as part of Plans. The plans are intended to group a series of sessions and benefits together, however, we do not offer payments in installments: the full package needs to be purchased in advance. The Plans have an expiration date, meaning the date up to which You can use the benefits included in the pack. We will assist You in scheduling any session, however, it is Your responsibility to ensure You have used all the benefits before the expiration date. We are not responsible and cannot be held responsible, not reimburse You partially or fully for missed appointments nor for Your failure to use up Your benefits before the Plan expires.

Rescheduling or canceling Your booking

You can reschedule Your booking free of charge up to 48 hours in advance using the booking feature on the Website. If the session is part of a Plan, it will be added back into your plan allowance. 

 

Withdrawal from contract and reimbursements

Entering a contract with Us is conditioned by Your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. According to the applicable laws, You can withdraw from the contract within 30 days of accepting its Terms without the need to justify your choice and without incurring any additional costs. The following reimbursement policies apply:

  1. For Services purchased individually, upon canceling the booking no less than 48 hours in advance You will be fully reimbursed. You will not be reimbursed if You wish to cancel less than 48 hours in advance, if You miss the entire or part of Your appointment or if You cannot benefit from the Service due to your fault (internet connection, health issues, lack of time etc, other than the ones specified in the Force Majeure section) or after the session

  2. For Plans, You will not be reimbursed after the 30 days period or if You do not use the Plan benefits before their expiration date

  3. For Products, seeing as they are all in digital format, You will not be reimbursed after the purchase

For any issues concerning Our Products and Services, including but not limited to cancellations, payments, rescheduling, or general inquiries, you can contact Us at hello@gardenofshakti.com

Termination for non-adherence to coaching terms

When you purchase coaching Services from Us, You agree to adhere to a series of expectations specified as part of the Service, including but not limited to consistent scheduling and attendance, submitting forms required for the coaching session, completion of any exercise or activity related to the topic of Your coaching, adhering to confidentiality rules concerning the materials used during the sessions, having an involved, civil attitude during the sessions.

We reserved the right to terminate the contract and/or limit Your access to Our Products and Services without reimbursement if you do not adhere to the expectations aforementioned, if you become difficult to work with or if you fail to comply, in any way, with any terms specified here or in any other related policy or agreement that you have specifically agreed to. 

Notices and complaints

Any formal notices, complaints or requests concerning an existing contract or a purchase must be sent in writing, at hello@gardenofshakti.com. We will proceed to resolve them within a reasonable period, without exceeding 30 calendar days from their receipt.

 

Third-Party Claims

If any third party formulates claims against the Company derived from or regarding the way You use the Website, the Products, or the Services offered by Us, You will cover any damage, loss, and/or expense incurred by the Company as a result of those claims formulated towards the Company.

Impossibility to deliver Products or Services Delivery

While Garden of Shakti is compatible with most internet browsers and Devices, we cannot guarantee full compatibility with the Devices and software You use. 

We make Our best to maintain the Website so that Your access to it is constant. However, Your access may be interrupted at times. When this happens, and when We are aware of the likelihood of such an event, We will notify You as soon as possible. The Company is not liable for any interruption outside of its control or for interruptions for reasonable periods of time for maintenance purposes. You are not entitled to any reimbursements or repayments if this may occur. 

General disclaimer

The Company is not qualified to provide mental health, therapeutic, health, financial, legal, tax, or accounting advice. It is Your responsibility to secure assistance from an appropriately qualified professional if such assistance is needed. To the maximum extent permitted by the applicable law, we exclude any liability for any direct or indirect, loss or damage incurred by You or others in connection with any of the Content, Products, and Services offered by Us 

"AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" Disclaimer

Garden of Shakti is provided to You "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" and with all faults and defects without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, the Company, expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, with respect to the Website, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course of performance, usage or trade practice. The Company provides no warranty or undertaking, and makes no representation of any kind that the Website will meet Your requirements, achieve any intended results, be compatible or work with any other software, applications, systems or services, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability standards or be error free or that any errors or defects can or will be corrected.

Without limiting the foregoing, neither the Company nor any of the company's provider makes any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied: 

a) as to the operation or availability of the Website, or the information, content, and materials or products included thereon; 

b) that the Website will be uninterrupted or error-free; 

c) as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information or content provided through the Website; or

d) that the Website, its servers, the content, or e-mails sent from or on behalf of the Company are free of viruses, scripts, trojan horses, worms, malware, timebombs or other harmful components.

Applicable law

The rights and obligations of the parties established by this Agreement, as well as all the legal effects produced by this Agreement, will be interpreted and governed by Romanian law. Any dispute related to this Agreement will be brought for resolution before the competent Romanian courts.

 

Force majeure

Neither Party shall be liable for failure to perform any of their obligations of this Agreement during any period in which they cannot perform due to matters beyond their control, including (but not limited to) strike, fire, flood, pandemic, or other natural or global disaster, war embargo, or riot, cyber-attack, sickness (a “Force Majeure”). The Party which cannot perform their obligations should notify immediately, to the best of their possibilities and circumstances allowing, the other Party of such circumstances.

The terms of this clause do not exempt the Parties from their obligations, but merely suspend their duty to perform, until the Force Majeure condition ceases to exist. 

Contacting Us

You can send us Your questions, suggestions or ideas concerning the Website, its contents, Products or Services using the instant messaging tool or at hello@gardenofshakti.com. The provisions concerning Abusive Usage also apply to email and instant messaging communication. 

 

Thank you, 

Garden of Shakti

Last updated : 4th of July 2023

Privacy & Cookies Policy

 

Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.

Please also see the Terms and Conditions for using this website; your access to and use of any part of this website, its content, products, and/or services offered is conditioned on your knowledge, acceptance of, and compliance with these Terms and Conditions.

Topics:

  • What data do we collect?

  • How do we collect your data?

  • How will we use your data?

  • How do we store your data?

  • Marketing

  • What are your data protection rights?

  • What are cookies?

  • How do we use cookies?

  • What types of cookies do we use?

  • How to manage your cookies

  • Privacy policies of other websites

  • Changes to our privacy policy

  • How to contact us

  • How to contact the appropriate authorities

What data do we collect and how?

Our Company collects the following data:

  • Personal identification data, when you subscribe to our mailing list, order a product or service, by creating an account, when you apply for free coaching sessions or contact us via email or chat: name, surname, email, IP 

  • Data from comments, notes, and testimonials added in our forms, chats, and emails in order to deliver the best products and services

  • Through various third parties, like google Analytics, we collect information about your device, such as the version of the operating system, the name of the internet network, your location or your IP, as well as other data that provide us with statistics related to traffic. on the website.

  • Garden of Shakti is hosted by the Wix.com platform, which allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s databases and applications. 

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide Our Company with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

  • Subscribe to our mailing list

  • Apply for free coaching sessions

  • Create an account with or without placing an order for any of our products or services.

  • Voluntarily add notes and comments anywhere on our website, respond to challenges and surveys, and send us messages via email or chat

  • Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.

  • Through the third parties as specified above

How will we use your data?

Our Company collects your data so that we can:

  • Process your order, set up bookings, send materials you have requested (free or paid), send confirmation or reminder emails, manage your account

  • Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like.

  • Through Analytics, understand how you use our website

  • When Our Company processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.

How do we store your data?

Our Company securely stores your data using the Wix platform, its databases and general Wix applications. All data is stored on secure servers behind a firewall Our Company will keep your personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the data was collected and for the period required by the applicable law. We make regular updates so that we do not store data that is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it has been collected.

 

Marketing

Our Company would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt-out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop Our Company from contacting you for marketing purposes If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please click here.

 

What are your data protection rights?

Our Company would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request Our Company for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Our Company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: hello@gardenofshakti.com

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

 

How do we use cookies?

Our Company uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

  • Keeping you signed in

  • Understanding how you use our website

  • Providing a more relevant experience when you use our website

  • Delivering better-suited offers to your preferences

  • Better shape our offer to our clients

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

  • Essential Cookies - These cookies enable core functionality such as security, verification of identity and network management. These cookies can’t be disabled.

  • Marketing Cookies - These cookies are used to track advertising effectiveness to provide a more relevant service and deliver better ads to suit your interests.

  • Functional Cookies - These cookies collect data to remember choices users make to improve and give a more personalised experience.

  • Analytics Cookies - These cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with our website, discover errors and provide a better overall analytics.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result. In addition, you can manage your cookies preferences from the Cookies Settings widget on our Website. 

Privacy policies of other websites

Our Company website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

 

Changes to our privacy policy

Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. 

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Our Company’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: hello@gardenofshakti.com

Updates to this document

We reserve the right to modify the Data Protection Policy at any time, without prior notice, by posting the updated version on the website. You are required to read the Terms and Conditions, Data Protection Policy, and Cookie Policy whenever you access the site.

Thank you, 

Garden of Shakti

 

Last updated: 19 October 2023

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