Terms and Conditions

Registration Policy:
Tuition is payable at the time of registration to hold your spot in the class. If a class is canceled, your tuition and fees will be refunded. If a class is canceled, postponed or rescheduled you will be notified approximately 2-7 days before the original starting date of the class. For withdrawals after registration, consideration will only be given for a medical or family emergency. There are no make-ups, refunds or credits for missing a regularly scheduled class. Classes not held due to bad weather or instructor absence will be rescheduled.

Limitation of Liability and Indemnification
You hereby release Brookfield Craft Center, Inc. (“BCC”), its officers, directors, members, employees, instructors and agents, from any liability, loss, damage, costs, claims and/or causes of actions, including but not limited to all bodily and personal injuries and death and property damage arising out of your participation in any course taught by anyone at BCC or arising out of your participation in or attendance at any organized event at BCC or arising out of my use of the facilities (studios) of BCC or your presence during such use by any other person. You specifically understand that said activities include the operation and use by yourself and/or others of tools and equipment, the use of which requires care and can lead to injury to the operator or others. This Release is given on behalf of yourself, your heirs, successors, executors, administrators, and assigns. Furthermore,
  1. You agree to hold harmless and indemnify BCC and its officers, directors, members, employees, instructors, and agents, from any and all loss or damage related to your participation in any such activity and/or the use of any such tools or equipment.
  2. You understand that there are inherent and other risks involved in the use of tools and equipment, and you freely and voluntarily assume and accept those risks.
  3. You hereby release BCC, its officers, directors, members, employees, instructors and agents, from any and all liability for bodily and personal injury, death or property damage to yourself or to any person or property resulting from the design, selection, installation, maintenance, adjustment, supervision or use of BCC’s facilities and/or the tools and equipment used in such activities, including but not limited to any claim based upon NEGLIGENCE, breach of warranty, contract or other legal theory.
  4. You accept and assume for yourself, your heirs and assigns, the full responsibility for any and all such damage, injury or death that may result even if due to the NEGLIGENCE of an officer, director, member, employee, instructor or agent of BCC .
  5. You acknowledge that, if eligible, you are vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus.
  6. You hereby authorize BCC to use, for promotional purposes, any photos of you and your work taken while on campus.
  7. You understand and agree that certain course materials and online courses may be intellectual property of the BCC or its instructors. You shall not reproduce, transmit, store or use the course materials and online courses in any other form without the prior written permission of the BCC and/or the instructor.

Copyright:

The entire content included in this site, including but not limited to text, graphics or code is copyrighted as a collective work under the United States and other copyright laws, and is the property of Brookfield Craft Center. The collective work includes works that are licensed to Brookfield Craft Center. Copyright 2003, Brookfield Craft Center ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission is granted to electronically copy and print hard copy portions of this site for the sole purpose of placing an order with Brookfield Craft Center or purchasing Brookfield Craft Center products. You may display and, subject to any expressly stated restrictions or limitations relating to specific material, download or print portions of the material from the different areas of the site solely for your own non-commercial use, or to place an order with Brookfield Craft Center or to purchase Brookfield Craft Center products. Any other use, including but not limited to the reproduction, distribution, display or transmission of the content of this site is strictly prohibited, unless authorized by Brookfield Craft Center. You further agree not to change or delete any proprietary notices from materials downloaded from the site.

Trademarks
All trademarks, service marks and trade names of Brookfield Craft Center used in the site are trademarks or registered trademarks of Brookfield Craft Center

Warranty Disclaimer
This site and the materials and products on this site are provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, Brookfield Craft Center disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Brookfield Craft Center does not represent or warrant that the functions contained in the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that the defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes the site available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Brookfield Craft Center does not make any warrantees or representations regarding the use of the materials in this site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, adequacy, usefulness, timeliness, reliability or otherwise. Some states do not permit limitations or exclusions on warranties, so the above limitations may not apply to you.

Limitation of Liability
Brookfield Craft Center shall not be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials on this site or the performance of the products, even if Brookfield Craft Center has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation of exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

Typographical Errors
In the event that a Brookfield Craft Center product is mistakenly listed at an incorrect price, Brookfield Craft Center reserves the right to refuse or cancel any orders placed for product listed at the incorrect price. Brookfield Craft Center reserves the right to refuse or cancel any such orders whether or not the order has been confirmed and your credit card charged. If your credit card has already been charged for the purchase and your order is cancelled, Brookfield Craft Center shall issue a credit to your credit card account in the amount of the incorrect price.

Term; Termination
These terms and conditions are applicable to you upon your accessing the site and/or completing the registration or shopping process. These terms and conditions, or any part of them, may be terminated by Brookfield Craft Center without notice at any time, for any reason. The provisions relating to Copyrights, Trademark, Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification and Miscellaneous, shall survive any termination.

Notice
Brookfield Craft Center may deliver notice to you by means of e-mail, a general notice on the site, or by other reliable method to the address you have provided to Brookfield Craft Center.

Miscellaneous
Your use of this site shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the state of California, U.S.A., without regard to choice of law provisions, and not by the 1980 U.N. Convention on contracts for the international sale of goods. You agree that jurisdiction over and venue in any legal proceeding directly or indirectly arising out of or relating to this site (including but not limited to the purchase of Brookfield Craft Center products) shall be in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California. Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to the site (including but not limited to the purchase of Brookfield Craft Center products) must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. Brookfield Craft Center’s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of these terms and conditions shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any of these terms and conditions. Brookfield Craft Center may assign its rights and duties under this Agreement to any party at any time without notice to you.

Use of Site
Harassment in any manner or form on the site, including via e-mail, chat, or by use of obscene or abusive language, is strictly forbidden. Impersonation of others, including a Brookfield Craft Center or other licensed employee, host, or representative, as well as other members or visitors on the site is prohibited. You may not upload to, distribute, or otherwise publish through the site any content which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal, or otherwise objectionable which may constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or which may otherwise give rise to liability or violate any law. You may not upload commercial content on the site or use the site to solicit others to join or become members of any other commercial online service or other organization.

Participation Disclaimer
Brookfield Craft Center does not and cannot review all communications and materials posted to or created by users accessing the site, and is not in any manner responsible for the content of these communications and materials. You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to view and distribute user-generated content on the site, Brookfield Craft Center is merely acting as a passive conduit for such distribution and is not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to any contents or activities on the site. However, Brookfield Craft Center reserves the right to block or remove communications or materials that it determines to be (a) abusive, defamatory, or obscene, (b) fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading, (c) in violation of a copyright, trademark or; other intellectual property right of another or (d) offensive or otherwise unacceptable to Brookfield Craft Center in its sole discretion.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Brookfield Craft Center, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers (collectively the “Service Providers”) from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation of these terms and conditions or any activity related to your account (including negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the site using your Internet account.

Third-Party Links
In an attempt to provide increased value to our visitors, Brookfield Craft Center may link to sites operated by third parties. However, even if the third party is affiliated with Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield Craft Center has no control over these linked sites, all of which have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of Brookfield Craft Center. These linked sites are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk. Nonetheless, Brookfield Craft Center seeks to protect the integrity of its web site and the links placed upon it and therefore requests any feedback on not only its own site, but for sites it links to as well (including if a specific link does not work).