<link href="https://app.termageddon.com/css/policy.css?v=20210506" rel="stylesheet"><article><h2>Terms of Service</h2><p class="tg-last-updated-date">Last updated: Jul 22, 2023 2:55 AM</p><p>Please read this Terms of Service ("Terms," "Terms of Service") carefully before using the www.equippedforcollege.com website (the "Website") operated by Equipped College Consulting, LLC, a(n) Limited Liability Company formed in Florida, United States  ("us," "we," "our") as this Terms of Service contains important information regarding limitations of our liability. Your access to and use of this Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to everyone, including but not limited to visitors, users and others, who wish to access and use the Website.</p>

<p>By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the Terms, then you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.</p>

<p>If you sign a contract/agreement in order to receive any services shown on this website or any services discussed in a consultation and offered by Equipped College Consulting, LLC, your services are dependent on your continued acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. 

</p><p>Due to differences in state laws, we are unable to offer College Admissions Consulting Services to clients with Illinois residency at this time. If you are an Illinois resident and interested in college admissions consulting services, you are welcome to contact us and we will do our best to refer you to another college consultant.</p>

<p>The Terms of Service detailed here are not exhaustive when it comes to our Services delivered (outside of our website). You are held to the terms as specified in the agreement or contract you sign.</p><p>PRICING AND FEES</p>

<p>Fees for Services ("fees") are provided during a consultation call prior to College Admissions Consulting and College Transition Mentoring Services and then emailed to you after the consultation call. Study Abroad Program Consulting Fees will be emailed to you after email or phone communication and after determining your interest in Study Abroad Program Consulting Services. Our fees are not published on this Website or anywhere else online in order to protect your privacy. You are not permitted to share publicly our fees, documents, or any other information we may send you via email or discuss in a confirmation call. Your privacy and the privacy of our clients is important to us. We reserve the right to change fees at any time.</p>
 
<p> Your fees are not confirmed until you sign an Agreement for Services. After fees are emailed to you, quoted fees will be valid for a minimum of 15 calendar days, subject to availability. (We make no guarantee that we will have space to accept you as a client at any time.)</p>

<p>We know that planning ahead financially is important to all families, and to that end we will make every effort to inform you at a consultation if Service Fees will be increasing in the near future. However, we are not obligated to do so.</p><p>PURCHASES</p>

<p>The only way to purchase services is by first signing the appropriate Agreement form(s). Instructions to submit payment will be in the invoice for Services. Depending on Service selected, payments may be accepted in the form of check/money order, debit or credit card, or through Zelle. We use GoDaddy Pay Links to accept and process debit and credit card payments; we do not store any payment information.

Payment plans may be offered for some Services.</p><p>CANCELLATION OF SERVICES</p>

<p>We reserve the right to terminate Services as discussed in the signed Agreement. If you decide to terminate Services, you are held to the conditions in the Agreement you signed.</p><p>NO REFUNDS</p>

<p> Services are nonrefundable with the exception of rare conditions stated in Agreement. By requesting and signing the Agreement for Services, you are reserving our time weeks, months, and/or years into the future.</p><p>SHIPPING OF MATERIALS</p>

<p>We may occasionally ship items to our clients. We will use the address as listed on the signed Agreement form unless otherwise informed.</p>

<p>If you decide to make payments by check/money order which requires them to be sent via mail, it is your responsibility to pay for any postage, insurance, or shipping materials. We are not responsible for lost or stolen payments. Our mailbox is locked. We strongly recommend you send us an email when you have mailed your payment so we can watch for it. We will inform you when we have received it.</p><p>DEPOSITS</p>

<p>If your Services enable you to utilize a payment plan, and you have selected to use the payment plan, a $1,000 deposit will be required, to be paid immediately following receipt of invoice. Deposit payments are subject to the conditions as stated in the signed agreement and/or contract.</p>Equipped College Consulting, LLC does not currently offer any services in the form of ongoing Subscriptions. If your Service requires more than one payment, you will be informed of each payment's respective deadline in your invoice. It is your responsibility to ensure payment is received by the listed deadline. No payments are automatically pulled from any account.<h2 class="">Prohibited uses</h2>

<p>You agree that you will use this Website in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and these Terms at all times. The following is a non-exhaustive list of prohibited uses of this Website. You agree that you will not perform any of the following prohibited uses:</p>

<ol><li>Impersonating or attempting to impersonate Equipped College Consulting, LLC or its employees, representatives, subsidiaries or divisions;</li><li>Misrepresenting your identity or affiliation with any person or entity;</li><li>Sending or attempting to send any advertising or promotional material, including but not limited to spam, junk mail, chain mail or any similar material;</li><li>Engaging in any conduct that restricts or inhibits any person’s use or enjoyment of the Website, or which, as determined in our sole discretion, may harm us or the users of this Website or expose us or other users to liability;</li><li>Using the Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage or impair the Website or interfere with another party’s use of the Website;</li><li>Using any robot, spider or other similar automatic technology, process or means to access or use the Website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on this Website;</li><li>Using any manual process or means to monitor or copy any of the material on this Website or for any other unauthorized purpose;</li><li>Using any device, software, means or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website, including but not limited to viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other such materials;</li><li>Attempting to gain unauthorized access to, interfering with, damaging or disrupting any parts of the Website, the server(s) on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Website;</li><li>Attempting to attack or attacking the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack;</li><li>Otherwise attempting to interfere with the proper working of the Website;</li><li>Using the Website in any way that violates any applicable federal, state or local laws, rules or regulations.</li></ol>

<h2 class=""><span class="text-uppercase">No warranty on Website</span></h2>

<p class="text-uppercase">This Website is provided “as is,” No warranty, express or implied (including any implied warranty of merchantability, of satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose or use) shall apply to this Website, whether arising by law, course of dealing, course of performance, usage of trade or otherwise.</p>

<h2 class="">Availability, errors and inaccuracies</h2>

<p>We assume no liability for the availability, errors or inaccuracies of the information, products or services provided on this Website. We may experience delays in updating information on this Website and in our advertising on other websites. The information, products and services found on the Website may contain errors or inaccuracies or may not be complete or current. Products or services may be incorrectly priced or unavailable. We expressly reserve the right to correct any pricing errors on our Website. The inclusion or offering of any product or service on this Website does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of such product or service by us. </p>

<h2 class=""><span class="text-uppercase">Damages and limitation of liability</span></h2>

<p class="text-uppercase">In no event shall Equipped College Consulting, LLC be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of, relating to or in any way connected with your access to, display of or use of this Website or with the delay or inability to access, display or use this Website, including but not limited to your reliance upon opinions or information appearing on this Website; any computer viruses, information, software, linked websites operated by third parties, products or services obtained through this Website, whether based on a theory of negligence, contract, tort, strict liability, consumer protection statutes or otherwise, even if Equipped College Consulting, LLC has been advised of the possibility of such damages. </p><h2 class="">Links to third party websites</h2>

<p>This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties and not by us. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. Further, it is your responsibility to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you click on or software that you download, whether from this Website or other websites or applications, is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. </p>

<h2 class="">Intellectual property and DMCA notice and procedure for intellectual property infringement claims</h2>

<p>All contents of this Website are ©2023 - 2025 Equipped College Consulting, LLC or third parties. All rights reserved. Unless specified otherwise, this Website and all content and other materials on this Website including but not limited to all logos, designs, text, graphics, pictures, information, data, software, sound files and arrangement thereof (collectively, “Content”) are the proprietary property of Equipped College Consulting, LLC and are either registered trademarks, trademarks or otherwise protected intellectual property of Equipped College Consulting, LLC or third parties in the United States and/or other countries.</p>

<p>If you are aware of a potential infringement of our intellectual property, please contact Carissa Hoitenga at (info at equippedforcollege dot com). </p>

<p>We respect the intellectual property rights of others. It is our policy to respond to any claim that Content posted on the Website infringes on the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity.</p>

<p>If you believe in good faith that the Content infringes on your intellectual property rights, you or your agent may send us a written notice of such infringement titled “Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights - DMCA.” Your notice to us must include the following information:</p>

<ol><li>An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the intellectual property right’s interest;</li><li>A description of the work that you claim has been infringed, including the URL (i.e., web page address) of the location where the work exists or a copy of the work;</li><li>Your name, email, address and telephone number; and</li><li>A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the owner of the work, its agent or the law.</li></ol>

<p>Please note that we will not process your complaint if it is not properly filled out or is incomplete. You may be held accountable for damages, including but not limited to costs and attorneys’ fees for any misrepresentation or bad faith claims regarding the infringement of your intellectual property rights by the Content on this Website.</p>

<p>You may submit your claim to us by contacting us utilizing the Contact Form on the Website or at:</p>
<p>Equipped College Consulting, LLC
<br>Carissa Hoitenga
<br>Email (info at equippedforcollege dot com)</p><h2 class="">Industry or trade code of conduct</h2>

<p>We subscribe to the Independent Educational Consultants Association, which can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.iecaonline.com/quick-links/about/principles-of-good-practice/" target="_blank" aria-label="external link">https://www.iecaonline.com/quick-links/about/principles-of-good-practice/</a>.</p>

<h2 class="">Governing law, severability, dispute resolution and venue</h2>

<p>These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. <span class="text-uppercase">These terms shall not be governed by the United Nations convention on contracts for the sale of international goods, the Uniform Commercial Code, nor Incoterms</span>.</p>

<p>Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of that right or provision. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding our Website, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have had with you regarding the Website. </p>

<p>Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms including but not limited to the interpretation or breach thereof shall be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction in Alachua County, Florida.</p>

<p class="text-uppercase">You and Equipped College Consulting, LLC agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative action.</p>

<h2 class="">Changes to Terms of Service</h2>

<p>We reserve the right to make changes to these Terms of Service at any time. We will notify you immediately of making any changes to these Terms of Service via by posting the updated terms of service to this website.</p>

<h2 class="">Questions</h2><p>If you have any questions about our Terms of Service, please contact us utilizing our Contact Form on the website or send and email to: (info at equippedforcollege dot com).</p></article>