Online Academy Terms, Participation Agreement & Liability Waiver

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Agreement and Operator

These Online Academy Terms, Participation Agreement, and Liability Waiver constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Alan Baker Consultations, Inc., a Georgia corporation, referred to throughout this Agreement as the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our.”

The Company owns or operates the online academies, courses, memberships, training libraries, digital products, instructional programs, and related content made available through SifuAlanBaker.com and associated websites or platforms. These offerings are collectively referred to as the “Academies.”

References to the Company include, where applicable, Alan Baker, the Capability Academy, participating academies and associations, instructors, guest instructors, employees, contractors, officers, directors, representatives, content providers, successors, and permitted assigns.

By purchasing a membership, creating an account, checking the acceptance box, accessing Academy content, or participating in training presented through the Academies, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and voluntarily agreed to this Agreement.

If you do not agree to every provision of this Agreement, do not create an account, purchase a membership, access the Academy content, or participate in the training.

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Eligibility and Participation by Minors

Participants 18 and Older

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding agreement to create an Academy account independently.

Participants Ages 13 Through 17

An individual between 13 and 17 years old may participate only through an account established, purchased, and supervised by a parent or legal guardian.

The parent or legal guardian must accept this Agreement on behalf of both the parent or guardian and the minor participant. The parent or guardian accepts responsibility for determining whether the material is appropriate for the minor, supervising all training, selecting appropriate exercises, providing a safe training environment, and preventing access to inappropriate or dangerous equipment.

By enrolling a minor, the parent or guardian represents that they possess the legal authority to provide consent for that minor and voluntarily assumes the risks associated with the minor’s participation.

Children Under 13

Children under 13 may not create an account, purchase a membership, or submit personal information through the website. Academy content is not directed to children under 13.

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Nature of the Training

Academy content may include martial arts, self-defense, defensive tactics, grappling, striking, physical culture, strength and conditioning, mobility, breathing practices, preparedness, situational awareness, edged-weapon concepts, impact-weapon concepts, firearms-related concepts, scenario training, and other educational material.

Some material may involve strenuous movement, physical contact, falls, joint manipulation, choking or compression concepts, impact, resistance, training equipment, or simulated weapons.

Online instruction has inherent limitations. The Company cannot directly observe your physical condition, experience, equipment, training partner, surroundings, or execution of the material. You are responsible for deciding whether an exercise, drill, technique, or training method is appropriate for you.

Online content is not a substitute for qualified, in-person instruction, supervision, professional medical care, or individualized evaluation.

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Medical and Physical Readiness

You are responsible for determining whether you are physically and medically able to participate. Consult a qualified physician or healthcare professional before beginning any new physical-training program, particularly if you have an injury, disability, medical condition, balance issue, cardiovascular concern, respiratory condition, pregnancy, or history of loss of consciousness.

By participating, you represent that:

• You are physically and medically capable of participating safely.
• You will train within your current level of ability and experience.
• You will not participate while impaired by alcohol, drugs, medication, fatigue, or illness.
• You will stop immediately if you experience pain, dizziness, confusion, breathing difficulty, loss of balance, numbness, or unusual discomfort.
• You will seek appropriate medical attention when circumstances require it.

The Company does not diagnose medical conditions or determine whether you are medically fit to participate.

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Training Environment and General Safety

Before beginning any exercise or drill, inspect and prepare your training environment. You agree to:

• Use a clear area free from furniture, obstacles, pets, children, traffic, and other hazards.
• Use appropriate flooring, mats, protective equipment, and safety equipment.
• Confirm that all equipment is suitable, properly maintained, and free from defects.
• Begin slowly and without unnecessary speed, power, impact, or resistance.
• Progress only after establishing control, understanding, and safe execution.
• Avoid drills that exceed your experience, conditioning, mobility, or available supervision.
• Follow all warnings, safety instructions, and equipment-manufacturer directions.
• Stop any activity that becomes uncontrolled or unsafe.

Do not attempt acrobatics, uncontrolled throws, high-impact takedowns, dangerous falls, or other advanced material without suitable mats and qualified in-person supervision.

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Partner Training

Any person participating as a training partner must knowingly and voluntarily agree to participate. You are responsible for communicating the nature of the drill, establishing boundaries, and confirming that your partner understands the activity.

When training with another person, you agree to:

• Use a cooperative progression before adding resistance.
• Establish and respect verbal and physical stop signals.
• Release pressure immediately when your partner taps, signals, or asks to stop.
• Avoid uncontrolled impact, twisting, compression, or force.
• Never intentionally render a training partner unconscious.
• Stop immediately if control, communication, or trust is lost.
• Use qualified in-person supervision for drills requiring specialized safety knowledge.

You accept responsibility for your conduct toward training partners and for any injury or damage resulting from your unsafe, reckless, unauthorized, or unlawful actions.

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Weapons and Firearms Safety

Weapons-related Academy content is provided for educational, defensive, and training purposes. It does not authorize unsafe, unlawful, or unsupervised use of any weapon.

Any live-fire practice must occur at a lawful and appropriate shooting facility, under applicable range rules and qualified on-site supervision. Online video content is not a substitute for competent in-person firearms instruction.

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Lawful and Responsible Use

You are solely responsible for understanding and following the laws applicable to you, including laws concerning self-defense, defense of others, use of force, weapons, firearms, carry, possession, transportation, training, and prohibited locations.

Laws vary by country, state, territory, municipality, and individual circumstance. Nothing in the Academies should be interpreted as permission or instruction to violate any law.

You agree that you will not use Academy material:

• To threaten, intimidate, assault, abuse, harass, or unlawfully harm another person.
• To plan or facilitate criminal, reckless, or malicious conduct.
• While acting outside the limits of applicable law.
• In a manner inconsistent with responsible self-protection and the avoidance of unnecessary violence.

The Company may suspend or terminate access when it reasonably believes that a member is misusing Academy material or presenting a safety risk.

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Voluntary Assumption of Risk

You understand that participation in martial arts, self-defense, physical conditioning, partner drills, and weapons-related training involves known and unknown risks that cannot be completely eliminated.

These risks include, without limitation:

• Muscle strains, sprains, bruises, cuts, and abrasions.
• Falls, collisions, and impact injuries.
• Joint, ligament, tendon, spinal, head, eye, dental, and internal injuries.
• Concussion, loss of consciousness, impaired breathing, or cardiovascular events.
• Injuries caused by equipment, weapons, training partners, environmental conditions, or improper execution.
• Aggravation of existing medical conditions or injuries.
• Permanent disability, paralysis, or death.
• Property damage and injury to third parties.

You voluntarily choose to participate with full knowledge of these risks. You knowingly and voluntarily accept and assume all risks arising from or related to your access to and use of Academy content, whether known or unknown, foreseeable or unforeseeable, and whether caused by your actions, the actions of others, the conditions of your training environment, or ordinary negligence, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

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No Medical, Legal, or Professional Advice

Academy content is provided for general educational and informational purposes. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, rehabilitation, physical therapy, legal advice, mental-health treatment, or individualized professional guidance.

Consult an appropriately qualified medical, legal, firearms, or other professional regarding questions specific to your condition, circumstances, equipment, or jurisdiction.

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No Guarantees of Skill, Safety, or Results

The Company does not guarantee that viewing or practicing Academy content will produce any particular physical, professional, tactical, competitive, financial, or self-protection result.

Completion of online content does not guarantee competence, certification, instructor status, legal authority, safety during a confrontation, or success in any real-world situation.

Individual results depend upon numerous factors, including experience, judgment, physical condition, consistency, quality of practice, environment, supervision, and circumstances beyond the Company’s control.

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Accounts and Access

Academy access is personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, and non-transferable. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your account credentials.

You may not:

• Share your account or login credentials with another person.
• Allow unauthorized individuals to access paid Academy content.
• Attempt to bypass access controls or security measures.
• Use automated systems to copy, scrape, download, or distribute content.
• Misrepresent your identity, age, qualifications, or authority.

Notify the Company promptly if you believe your account has been compromised or accessed without authorization.

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Intellectual Property and Authorized Use

Academy videos, courses, written materials, photographs, graphics, systems, frameworks, terminology, manuals, downloads, trademarks, logos, and other content are owned by or licensed to the Company and are protected by intellectual-property laws.

Your membership provides a limited license to access the content for your personal, noncommercial study and training. No ownership rights are transferred to you.

Without prior written authorization, you may not:

• Copy, reproduce, record, download, republish, or distribute Academy content.
• Upload Academy content to another website, platform, file-sharing service, or social-media account.
• Sell, sublicense, rent, or commercially exploit Academy content.
• Use Academy content to create competing courses, manuals, memberships, or derivative products.
• Present yourself as an authorized instructor, representative, affiliate, or certifying authority.
• Teach proprietary programs or issue certifications unless authorized through a separate written instructor or licensing agreement.

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Payments, Renewals, Cancellation, and Refunds

The applicable price, billing interval, renewal terms, and any trial or introductory terms will be displayed during registration or checkout. Those purchase-specific terms are incorporated into this Agreement.

Recurring Memberships

If you purchase a recurring membership, you authorize the Company and its payment processor to charge the payment method you provide at the stated interval until you cancel the membership.

Your membership will renew automatically unless it is canceled before the next scheduled billing date. No additional cancellation fee will be charged.

Cancellation

You may cancel a recurring membership through the cancellation controls in your online account. If an online cancellation option is unavailable, contact [email protected].

Cancellation prevents future renewal charges. Unless otherwise stated at the time of purchase, access will ordinarily continue through the end of the paid billing period. Cancellation does not automatically refund charges already processed.

Refunds

Except when required by applicable law or expressly stated in a written offer at the time of purchase, fees already paid are nonrefundable and are not prorated for partially used billing periods.

If a specific refund guarantee or policy displayed at checkout provides more favorable terms, that purchase-specific policy will control.

You are responsible for keeping your payment and contact information current. Failure to use or access the content does not automatically cancel a membership.

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Conduct, Suspension, and Termination

The Company may suspend or terminate access when a member violates this Agreement, shares protected content, misuses training material, threatens others, engages in unlawful conduct, compromises platform security, fails to pay applicable fees, or creates a safety or reputational risk.

Termination for a serious violation does not require the Company to provide a refund, except when required by law.

Provisions concerning risk, liability, intellectual property, payment obligations, dispute resolution, and other provisions that logically survive termination will remain effective after access ends.

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Privacy and Electronic Communications

Information collected through registration, payment, account administration, and website use is governed by the website’s Privacy Policy.

By creating an account, you consent to receiving transactional communications concerning purchases, billing, account security, access, material changes, and administration of your membership.

Consent to receive promotional marketing should be obtained separately where required and is not a condition of accepting this Agreement.

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Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Academy content and platform access are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The Company does not warrant that the platform will always be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or compatible with every device or system.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages, including loss of income, opportunity, data, business, or reputation.

Where applicable law does not permit a complete exclusion of liability, the Company’s total liability arising from the Academy or this Agreement will not exceed the amount you paid to the Company for the applicable Academy during the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in this section excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.

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Responsibility for Misuse and Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company and the other released parties from third-party claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable expenses arising from your:

• Unlawful, reckless, or unauthorized use of Academy material.
• Violation of this Agreement.
• Injury to a training partner or third party caused by your conduct.
• Infringement or unauthorized distribution of intellectual property.
• Misrepresentation of your training, certification, affiliation, or authority.

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Governing Law and Disputes

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable consumer law requires otherwise.

Before filing a legal claim, you agree to provide written notice describing the dispute to [email protected] and allow the Company 30 days to attempt an informal resolution.

Subject to applicable law, legal proceedings arising from this Agreement or the Academies will be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction located in Georgia.

If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or modified to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will continue in effect.

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Changes to This Agreement

The Company may update this Agreement to reflect changes in its programs, technology, safety requirements, business practices, or legal obligations.

The effective date and version number will be updated when changes are made. Material changes may require members to affirmatively accept the revised Agreement before continuing to access Academy content.

The Company will retain prior versions and acceptance records as reasonably necessary for business and legal purposes.

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Contact Information

Questions, cancellation requests, or legal notices concerning this Agreement may be directed to: