Terms, Conditions, Clinical Disclaimers and Scope and Claims Acknowledgement

1. Parties, definitions and scope of this agreement

This agreement is made between Compound Skin Academy ("the Academy", "we", "us") and the individual who signs it ("you", "the Learner"). It governs your access to and use of the Academy platform, including all course materials, product training modules, the actives library, knowledge checks, learning records and certificates of completion.

"Course materials" means all written lessons, summaries, references, quizzes, protocol templates, product training modules and downloadable documents made available through the platform. "Product training" means modules that describe specific compounded or manufactured skincare products, including compounded formulations supplied through partner pharmacies. "Professional practice" means any service, consultation, recommendation, treatment or dispensing activity you carry out for a client or patient.

By signing this agreement electronically you confirm that you have read it in full, that you understand it, and that you accept every clause. If you do not accept these terms you must not access the course materials.

2. Eligibility and truthful representation

The Academy publishes advanced clinical content intended for licensed skincare professionals, estheticians, nurses, pharmacists, prescribers and students enrolled in a recognised programme under supervision. By signing you represent that the professional details you provide are accurate and current.

• You are at least 18 years of age.
• You hold a current licence, registration or student enrolment relevant to skincare or clinical practice, or you are accessing the material for personal education only and will not act on it professionally.
• The name, registration or licence number, issuing body and jurisdiction you enter are true and belong to you.
• You will update your details if your registration status changes, lapses, is suspended or is subject to conditions.
• You accept that knowingly providing false professional details is a material breach and may result in immediate termination of access and withdrawal of any certificate issued.

3. Educational purpose only — no clinical, medical or legal advice

All course materials are provided strictly for education and professional development. Nothing on the platform constitutes medical advice, diagnosis, prescription, pharmaceutical advice, legal advice or regulatory clearance, and nothing creates a practitioner–patient or practitioner–client relationship between the Academy and you or any third party.

The Academy does not know your clients, their medical histories, their concurrent medications, their skin phototypes, their pregnancy status or their local regulatory environment. Content is generalised and cannot substitute for individual clinical assessment by a suitably qualified professional.

Where lessons cite published literature, regulatory monographs or manufacturer documentation, those citations are provided so you can read the primary source yourself. Citation of a source is not an endorsement of any product, protocol, concentration or off-label application, and the Academy does not warrant that a cited source remains current.

4. Scope of practice, prescribing and compounding

You are solely responsible for practising within the scope permitted by your licence, registration and the law of the jurisdiction in which you practise. Scope of practice differs materially between countries, states and provinces, and it changes over time.

• You must not perform, delegate or advise on any procedure that your licence does not permit, including deeper chemical peeling, injectables, prescribing, dispensing or compounding, where those acts are restricted in your jurisdiction.
• Compounding of medicines and the supply of prescription-only actives are regulated activities. The Academy's compounding content is descriptive education about how such preparations are formulated, handled and discussed — it is not authorisation, instruction or a licence to compound, dispense or supply.
• Retinoid, hydroquinone, corticosteroid, antibiotic and other prescription-status ingredients described in lessons must only be used, recommended or supplied under the authority of a person lawfully entitled to do so.
• Where a lesson references a concentration, pH, contact time, layering sequence or discard date, those figures describe the product or study being discussed. They are not clinical directions for your client and must be reconciled with the current manufacturer leaflet, your protocols and your supervising prescriber.
• You must obtain informed consent, take a full history, patch test where indicated, document your reasoning and maintain professional indemnity insurance appropriate to your services.

5. Product training, manufacturer information and reformulation

Product modules summarise information available at the time of writing, including consumer information leaflets. Manufacturers may reformulate, relabel, change pH or concentration, alter storage and discard instructions, withdraw a product or update cautions without notice to the Academy.

The manufacturer's current leaflet, label and safety data sheet always take precedence over any Academy lesson. Before using or recommending a product you must read the version of the leaflet supplied with the batch in your hand. The Academy is not the manufacturer, importer or supplier of any product described and gives no warranty as to its quality, safety, efficacy, availability or regulatory status.

6. No guarantee of outcome or accreditation

The Academy makes no representation that completing a course will improve clinical outcomes, satisfy an employer requirement, satisfy a regulator, or be recognised by any licensing board, association or training scheme. Certificates record completion of the Academy's own material only.

It is your responsibility to confirm, before relying on a certificate, whether your regulator or professional body accepts self-directed learning of this kind and in what quantity. Certificates evidence completion of Academy material only, are personal to you, are not transferable, and may be withdrawn if obtained through misrepresentation or by circumventing knowledge checks.

7. Assumption of risk, limitation of liability and indemnity

You accept full professional and legal responsibility for every decision you make in your own practice, including any decision informed by Academy material. You assume the risk of applying, adapting or relying on that material.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Academy, its officers, contributors, instructors and licensors exclude all liability for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, and for any loss of profit, goodwill, income or opportunity, however arising. Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with this agreement is limited to the amount you paid for access in the twelve months preceding the claim, or one hundred Australian dollars, whichever is greater.

You agree to indemnify and hold the Academy harmless against any claim, demand, complaint, regulatory action, cost or expense brought by a client, employer, insurer or authority arising from your professional practice, your breach of these terms, or your practice outside your lawful scope.

Nothing in this agreement excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee or statutory right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

8. Account, licence to use content and acceptable conduct

The Academy grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to access the course materials for your own professional development. All intellectual property in the materials remains with the Academy or its licensors.

• You must not share your account, sign in on behalf of another person, or sign this agreement in another person's name.
• You must not copy, republish, resell, screen-record, bulk-download, scrape or use the materials to train a machine-learning model.
• You must not present Academy material as your own, or as an accreditation, certification or clearance issued to a product or clinic.
• You must not misuse the platform, attempt to defeat access controls, or interfere with other learners.
• We may suspend or terminate access, with or without notice, for breach of this clause, and may withdraw affected certificates.

9. Electronic signature, records and audit trail

You consent to signing this agreement electronically and agree that your typed full name together with your drawn signature has the same legal effect as a handwritten signature on paper. You agree that neither party will contest the validity of this agreement solely because it was signed electronically.

When you sign, we record your account identifier, your typed name, your drawn signature image, the professional details you entered, each clause you affirmed, the version of this document, the date and time of signing, and the browser user-agent string. This record is retained as evidence of acceptance for as long as we are required to keep it, and you may download a signed PDF copy at any time.

If the document is materially updated, its version identifier changes and you will be asked to review and sign the new version before course access continues. Your previous signed records are retained unchanged.

10. Privacy and data handling

We collect only the account and signing information described above, plus your learning progress. We do not ask for, and you must not enter, any client or patient identifiable information anywhere on the platform. Signed records are stored in our secured backend and are accessible only to you and to authorised Academy administrators.

You may request a copy of your data or ask us to close your account. We may retain signed acceptance records after closure where necessary to establish or defend a legal claim.

11. Term, changes, governing law and severability

This agreement takes effect when you sign it and continues until your access ends. We may amend it by publishing a new version; continued access after a version change requires a new signature.

This agreement is governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia, and each party submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state. If any clause is found unenforceable it is severed to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder continues in force. A failure to enforce a clause is not a waiver of it.

Scope and Claims Acknowledgement

The following acknowledgement forms part of this agreement. By signing you accept each item below in addition to the terms above. It records the boundaries of your role in relation to scope, contraindications and referral, claims and advertising, and privacy and records.

Part A · Scope

I acknowledge and agree that:

• I do not diagnose, assess or offer an opinion on any skin condition, lesion or disease.
• I do not prescribe, supply or advise on prescription-only products, and I do not advise any person to start, stop or change a prescribed medication.
• Where my workplace uses an assessment tool or protocol to generate recommendations, I work within it rather than substituting a regimen of my own.
• Where a medical practitioner has set a regimen or given a direction, that direction governs.
• Completing this programme confers no qualification to assess, diagnose or treat, and does not alter the training, registration or insurance requirements applying to my own occupation.
• I hold professional indemnity insurance appropriate to my occupation, or I understand that I do not and accept the consequences of practising without it.

Part B · Contraindications and referral

I acknowledge and agree that:

• Before any recommendation I will ask about pregnancy or breastfeeding, current medications, and any cosmetic or medical skin treatment in the preceding four weeks.
• I will supply no retinoid — including retinyl palmitate — to any person who is pregnant, trying to conceive or breastfeeding, and will refer rather than substitute.
• I will supply no exfoliating acid, retinoid or physical exfoliation to any person taking isotretinoin or within six months of finishing it.
• I will supply no active onto active skin disease, infection, broken or weeping skin, or sunburn.
• Where I observe any lesion that is new, changing, asymmetric, irregularly bordered, colour-variegated, bleeding, itching, crusting or non-healing — or anything I am unsure about — I will refer, and I will not name it, estimate it, offer reassurance about it, or supply any product onto it.
• I will never state or imply that a lesion is likely to be harmless.
• I will refer any presentation that does not settle, any suspected adverse reaction, and any matter beyond my scope.

Part C · Claims and advertising

I acknowledge and agree that:

• I understand that in Australia the regulatory status of a product as a cosmetic or a therapeutic good is determined substantially by the claims made about it, and that a claim I make may alter the status of a product I supply.
• I will describe products by composition, declared concentration where available, and suitability, and I will not state or imply that any product treats, cures, heals, prevents, repairs or regenerates any condition.
• I will not use the terms medical grade, pharmaceutical grade, clinically proven or equivalent in relation to any cosmetic product.
• I will not use, publish, share, repost or forward any testimonial, review, endorsement or before-and-after image relating to a regulated health service, in any medium, including private messages and stories.
• In relation to sunscreen, I will state only the SPF value, broad-spectrum claim and water-resistance period appearing on the approved product label, without extrapolation or paraphrase.
• I will not represent myself as a medical practitioner or nurse, or as acting under medical supervision where I am not, and I will not use any practitioner's name or credentials in my own advertising without written permission.

Part D · Privacy and records

I acknowledge and agree that:

• Client photographs, intake responses and any information disclosed to me are confidential and will not be captured on a personal device or shared in any form.
• I will not identify or discuss any client in any identifiable way, including with colleagues, in group messaging, or on social media.
• For each interaction I will record my observations, what was recommended or supplied, the answers to the three questions in Part B item 1, and any referral made.

Part E · Declaration

I have read and understood the Compound Skin Academy programme material, in particular the modules covering contraindications, red flags and referral, and scope, claims and what I may say. I understand the boundaries of my role and I will operate within them.

I understand that operating outside these boundaries may expose me to regulatory action in my own right, and I confirm that the information I have given is true.