AEDP Institute Policies: Cancellations, Refunds, Make-ups, Grievances, Online Privacy

Refunds and Cancellations


Effective February 3, 2023

Program Cancellation/Changes

The AEDP Institute reserves the right to cancel a training/ program prior to its start, in which case full refunds will be issued to participants for any tuition fees paid for the program. The AEDP Institute is not responsible for participant expenses including travel, childcare, missed practice sessions, etc.

In the rare situation that the AEDP Institute makes changes to advertised presenter(s), tuition fees will not be refunded.

1) Cancellations

For registrants canceling 16+ days before a course or seminar begins

  •  Those who have paid their full course fee will be refunded 85% of their payment. 
  •  Those on payment plans who have paid more than 15% of their full course fee will be refunded whatever they have paid to date above that 15%.

For registrants canceling 1-15 days before a course / seminar begins, There are no refunds; the Institute will, however, provide these registrants with a partial credit – as described below – that may be applied to Institute- sponsored events that begin at least 4 months after the registrant’s cancellation date.

  • Registrants who paid their full course fee prior to canceling will be given an Institute credit for a value of 85% of their payment.
  • Registrants on payment plans who have paid more than 15% of their full course fee will be given an Institute credit for a value of whatever they have paid to date above that 15%. 

For Registrants canceling the day of the course or during the course, There are no refunds/ no credits.

2) Withdrawals and no shows

For registrants choosing to withdraw from a course after it begins, there will be no refunds and no credits

No shows: If a participant does not attend or otherwise participate in a part of a course for any reason there will be no refunds and / no credits.  

3) Transfers

Participants wanting to transfer from a course to a comparable course: 

  • Transfer requests made 45+ days before a course start: will be accommodated wherever possible without financial penalty
  • Transfer requests made 44 – 1 day before a course starts will be charged a 15% transfer fee (15% of their new course price)
  • Participants in multi-module Essential Skills (ES1) courses occasionally request to be transferred from one ES1 to another, for one or more modules. Transferring is highly disruptive to other participants and is rarely possible as a practical matter. In the rare and extreme circumstance that the Institute makes an exception, participants will be charged a $200 transfer fee.

Refund Policy for Institute Sponsored On Demand (recorded) Seminars

If for any reason you are unsatisfied with an Institute sponsored (recorded) On Demand Seminar, please email admin@aedpinstitute.org with an explanation of why you are dissatisfied. We will offer, one time per person, a credit for your payment, less a 15% banking and administrative fee that you may apply to a different (recorded) On Demand seminar. 

*Refund Policy for Non-Institute Sponsored Core Training

  • Non-Institute Sponsored Core Trainings
    Note that most core training are not Institute sponsored – if you register through a non-Institute sponsor – a system or person other than the Institute – please refer to the sponsor’s refund policy.

Make-up Policy

Institute Sponsored Courses Including Immersion, Essential Skills, Advanced Skill Modules, Seminars/Webinars and Institute Sponsored Core Trainings

The AEDP Institute does not offer make-ups for missed course days. In the rare case where someone joins a course late, or misses a session in the middle of a course, the hour(s) or day(s) that person misses cannot be made up. Why? Group dynamics developed during a course are essential to the course’s success; so someone coming into a course for a short period of time is – regardless of their best intentions – disruptive to other participants and the course’s overall success. The Institute will, however, provide handouts from missed hours or days but will not allow a person to make up the hours or days they miss in another course.

People who miss part of a course are not eligible to receive CE’s for that course. All questions regarding CE’s should be addressed to AEDP Institute at admin@aedpinstitute.org

AEDP Level credit: if a participant attends 80% or more of a course, the Institute will apply the course towards AEDP Level advancement.


Anonymous Suggestions or Grievances

To make an anonymous suggestion or file an anonymous grievance, please click here. Note that the system allows for you to include your email address if you want to engage with the Institute anonymously.


Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes how we treat the information you choose to provide through this site. Please take a few moments to read this privacy policy carefully. If you have any questions, please contact us.

What personal information will we collect?
We will collect information that identifies you (“personal information”) only when you voluntarily provide it to us. For example, when you decide to register online for free information or in order to purchase and pay for a course, to sign up for paid annual membership with access to the AEDP Listserve and Transformance Journal, we will ask you to provide some personal information, such as your first and last name, and email address. When we collect such information, we will make every effort to link to this privacy policy.

How will we use this information? 
We will use this personal information to fulfill your online requests. For example, if you sign up for our paid annual membership, we will use your personal information to process your request and to give you access online to the Transformance Journal. We also may use this information to notify you of special offers, new courses, and other training that might interest you. If at any time you decide that you do not wish to receive these types of communications, simply follow the unsubscribe features contained in any email from us.

We will never sell your information to anyone.

We may also use this information in aggregate form in various ways; for example, to help us evaluate and modify existing services, and to help us develop additional services and training courses that are likely to interest other therapy professionals. The AEDP Institute may do research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files, and from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users.

Under confidentiality agreements, the AEDP Institute may share this aggregated data—not your personal information—with advertisers or business partners. Also, the AEDP Institute may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

With whom will we share this information?
 We will share your email with companies that assist in fulfilling our Listserve. We allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services, such as technical maintenance, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide you with those services. Any third party that has access to our database for this purpose is bound by the terms set forth in this policy.

If you opt in on the email form, we may share your personal information that we collect online with our current or future affiliated companies and with select third parties that may email you information or special offerings about products or services that we believe may interest you. It is your choice to allow us to disclose your personal information to third parties for this purpose, and your choice will not affect the cost of your service. This free choice also applies to personal information that we collect from you offline, and you can choose not to have information shared by us with third parties for marketing by calling, writing, or emailing us.

In any event, please note that we do not hold and will not share your credit card information for any purposes purposes. Finally, we may be required to disclose personal information by law or legal process, to protect and defend the rights or property of the AEDP Institute, or to protect the personal safety of our website users and customers. We reserve the right to contact appropriate authorities when activities that are illegal or violate our policies are taking place on our website.

How do we protect this information? 
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access through the use of encryption and network firewalls. We also safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access by limiting the number of employees permitted to access such information and by having in place processes for disciplinary action where appropriate. However, as effective as these measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. We do not store credit card information in any form.

What non-personal information will we collect?
 In some instances, our site may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable, as described below.

Cookies
. We may collect certain non-personal information through the use of “cookies” — small text files placed on your hard drive that recognize repeat visitors, facilitate ongoing access to the site, and allow the site to understand how and when pages are visited and by how many people. We use cookies primarily to make improvements and updates to our site based on which areas are popular and which are not. Cookies also make web-surfing easier by saving your passwords and preferences when you visit our site. Most browsers are designed to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies; however, some parts of our site may be considerably slower if you do so.

Internet Protocol Addresses.
 An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. If you request pages from this site, our server will enter your IP address into a log. We may use this information to measure site traffic for purposes of system administration. This information generally is not linked to any personal information, but in some cases, it may be possible to contact a user through his or her IP address. Although it is not our policy to attempt such contact, and we do not to release this information to third parties, we reserve the right to use this information to identify and, when appropriate, prosecute anyone who threatens our service, site, customers, and/or others. We also may release logged information to comply with any legal process.

What about kids?
 We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.

External Links
. Our website may provide links to various websites that we do not control. When you click on one of these links, you will be transferred from our site and connected to the website of the organization or company that you selected. Even if an affiliation exists between this site and another site, we exercise no control over linked sites. Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy and data-collection policies and procedures. If you visit a website that is linked to this site, you should consult that site’s privacy policy before providing that site with any of your personal information.

Terms, Changes and Questions. 
By providing personal information through this website, you signify your agreement to the terms of our privacy policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not disclose any personal information through this site.

You will be responsible for all charges, if any, incurred while your account is being used, including payment for any goods or services.

This website service is available “as is.” We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We are not responsible for the availability or content of other services that may be linked to from this website. We do not make any warranties, express or implied with respect to this website service. We reserve the right to correct any errors or omissions. Although we take reasonable steps to prevent the introduction of viruses, worms, “Trojan horses,” or other destructive materials to this service, we do not guarantee or warrant that this service or materials that may be downloaded from this service do not contain such destructive features.

Technology on the Internet is developing at a rapid pace, and we need to maintain our flexibility in the online arena. If we need to change our policy in the future, we will post these changes as soon as they go into effect.

If you have any questions or comments about this policy or our use of personal information, please contact us. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly investigate any complaint you may have regarding our use of personal information or this website’s function.