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, continuing professional development ("CPD") records and certificates.
"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 Aliquot products. "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, accreditation or CPD recognition
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 CPD scheme. CPD point values shown are the Academy's own notional allocation of study effort.
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.