Terms & Conditions

1. Scope and eligibility

These Terms apply to online courses and on-demand content; in-person and live online training; workshops; certification programs; coaching and consulting; videos and presentations; manuals, PDFs, templates, forms, checklists, and other downloads; and any other educational product or service offered by the Academy (collectively, the “Program”).

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into this agreement. Our programs provide private education and professional development. They do not provide state-approved continuing-education credit unless a specific course expressly states otherwise.

2. Enrollment and registration

By enrolling, you confirm that all registration, contact, billing, payment, and professional information you provide is accurate and complete. Enrollment is confirmed after payment has been successfully submitted and accepted.

Enrollment, course access, and login credentials are issued to the individual purchaser only and may not be transferred, shared, resold, or assigned without our prior written authorization.

3. Certification, licensure, and professional responsibility

Students who complete the applicable course requirements and assessment may receive a certificate issued by NIKA Head Spa Academy. The certificate confirms completion of the Academy’s educational curriculum only.

The certificate is not a state-issued professional or occupational license, does not replace a cosmetology, esthetics, massage therapy, medical, or other professional license, does not expand the scope of an existing license, and does not independently authorize the holder to perform any service prohibited by law.

We do not guarantee that any government agency, licensing board, employer, insurer, school, association, or other third party will recognize or accept the certificate. Unless expressly stated for a particular course, NIKA certification does not constitute state-approved continuing-education credit.

You are solely responsible for verifying and complying with the licensing laws, scope-of-practice rules, regulations, professional-board requirements, facility requirements, insurance requirements, and other legal requirements that apply in every jurisdiction where you practice.

4. Educational, medical, and safety disclaimer

The Program provides professional education only. It is not legal, medical, regulatory, or licensing advice and is not a substitute for medical diagnosis, treatment, or consultation with a qualified healthcare professional.

You are responsible for applying professional judgment, screening for contraindications, obtaining appropriate client consent, following product and equipment manufacturer instructions, maintaining sanitation and safety standards, carrying appropriate professional and liability insurance, and referring clients to appropriately licensed healthcare professionals when necessary.

NIKA does not diagnose medical conditions or authorize students to provide medical services or to work outside their lawful professional scope.

5. Purpose of training

The Program may teach head spa techniques, scalp-care concepts, consultation, professional protocols, practical skills, service design, client experience, business considerations, and related theory. Course information may be implemented only when appropriate, insured, and permitted by applicable law and the student’s professional scope of practice.

6. Payments, billing, prices, and taxes

All prices are stated in U.S. dollars unless expressly indicated otherwise. Purchasers are responsible for applicable taxes, duties, processing fees, or other charges disclosed at checkout. You authorize the payment method selected at checkout to be charged for the purchase and any agreed installment payments.

You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate account, contact, billing, and payment information and to update it promptly when it changes.

If you select a payment plan, you remain responsible for every scheduled installment even if you stop participating, do not complete the Program, or lose access because you violated these Terms. A failed or overdue payment may result in suspended or terminated access while the outstanding balance remains due.

We may refuse, limit, or cancel a purchase that reasonably appears fraudulent, unauthorized, made with false information, intended for resale, or otherwise inconsistent with these Terms. If we cancel an order for one of these reasons before access is provided, we will refund the amount collected for that canceled order.

Course descriptions, prices, promotions, availability, and other information may occasionally contain errors or omissions. We may correct them and update information. If a material pricing or description error affects an order, we may cancel the affected order and refund the amount paid rather than provide the Program on the erroneous terms. Price changes otherwise apply prospectively.

7. Final-sale, deposit, and transfer policy

All purchases and payments are final and non-refundable once purchased or access is granted, except where a refund is required by applicable law or expressly offered in writing at the time of purchase. This policy applies to full payments, deposits, installments, digital resources, online courses, live training, and advanced practitioner training.

Because students may receive immediate access to proprietary digital materials and intellectual property, choosing not to participate, failing to complete the Program, scheduling conflicts, or dissatisfaction after access is provided does not create a right to a refund.

In-person training deposits are non-refundable unless otherwise stated in writing. A deposit or enrollment may be transferred to another eligible training date only when the applicable offer expressly permits it and the student complies with its stated notice period. Failure to pay a remaining balance by its due date may result in forfeiture of the course placement, deposit, or access.

8. Live training, attendance, and conduct

Students participating in live or in-person training must arrive on time and prepared; participate respectfully and professionally; follow instructor directions and applicable sanitation, health, safety, and facility procedures; respect instructors, staff, models, clients, and other students; and protect the privacy and personal information of others.

Harassment, threats, hate speech, unsafe conduct, unlawful activity, serious disruption, unauthorized recording, or other inappropriate conduct may result in removal from a training, community, or Program without refund.

Unless different terms were stated at purchase, a live session may be rescheduled once when you provide at least 48 hours’ notice. Cancellation less than 48 hours before the scheduled start time, failure to attend, or arrival too late to complete the session results in forfeiture of the session and payment, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

We may reschedule a session because of instructor illness, emergencies, technical problems, or circumstances beyond our reasonable control. We will provide a replacement date; rescheduling alone does not create a right to a refund.

9. Course modifications, schedules, and instructors

We may make reasonable changes to course dates, schedules, instructors, training locations, curriculum, materials, demonstrations, technology, educational methods, features, and delivery format. Content may be updated, expanded, replaced, reorganized, or removed as practices, technology, regulations, or educational standards evolve.

Reasonable changes that preserve the Program’s essential educational purpose do not create an automatic right to a refund.

10. Online courses, accounts, and acceptable use

Digital access is intended for one registered purchaser only. You may not share credentials, provide another person with access, purchase one account for multiple users, transfer or resell enrollment, circumvent access controls, record protected lessons, upload materials to file-sharing services, or use the Program for an unlawful purpose.

You may not impersonate another person; submit false or misleading information; introduce viruses, malware, or destructive code; use bots, crawlers, scrapers, or automated tools to access or download content; collect another person’s information; interfere with the Program or its security; test vulnerabilities without permission; evade usage restrictions; or assist another person in prohibited conduct.

We may monitor account activity where reasonably necessary to protect account security and intellectual property.

11. Lifetime access

Where a course is expressly advertised as including “lifetime access,” it means access for the lifetime of the original purchaser, provided the purchaser’s account remains in good standing and these Terms are followed.

Lifetime access does not guarantee that the course will remain on the same learning platform or that every original feature, integration, or technology will remain available permanently. We may migrate the Program, require reasonable account-verification steps, update or replace outdated materials, modify delivery methods, or discontinue individual features while continuing to provide substantially equivalent access to the purchased educational content.

Temporary interruptions caused by maintenance, security, technical problems, or third-party outages do not constitute a breach of lifetime access. Lifetime access may be terminated for nonpayment, account sharing, fraud, unlawful activity, intellectual-property infringement, or another material violation of these Terms.

12. Course materials and intellectual property

The Program—including its videos, recorded lessons, narration, demonstrations, written content, manuals, workbooks, protocols, procedures, illustrations, diagrams, photographs, graphics, presentations, slide decks, forms, templates, questionnaires, checklists, downloads, website and learning-platform content, assessments, branding, course structure, and other resources—is owned by or licensed to NIKA and protected by intellectual-property laws.

We grant the purchaser a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access the materials for their own education and internal professional reference. Purchasing the Program does not transfer ownership of any intellectual property.

You may print and use forms and protocols expressly designated for practitioner or client use within your own business. You may not otherwise copy, reproduce, publish, publicly display, upload, translate for distribution, transmit, sell, sublicense, share, modify for redistribution, or commercially exploit Academy materials without prior written permission.

You may not use Academy materials to create, teach, market, or sell a competing course, workshop, certification program, manual, or educational product based substantially on NIKA’s protected materials.

13. Copyright notice

© 2026 NIKA Head Spa Academy. All rights reserved.

No publication, manual, course, workbook, presentation, video, digital resource, or educational material may be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, stored, republished, recorded, photographed, or shared without prior written permission, except for designated practitioner-use resources or limited uses permitted by applicable copyright law.

14. Assessment and certification requirements

A certificate is issued only after the student completes the required course content and successfully completes any required assessment. We may verify identity, payment status, and course completion before issuing a certificate.

15. No guarantee of results

Individual outcomes vary. We do not guarantee income, revenue, client bookings, profitability, employment, business growth, treatment or client outcomes, licensing approval, continuing-education credit, certification acceptance, or any particular professional result.

Testimonials, examples, case studies, demonstrations, business discussions, and student experiences are illustrative and are not promises that another student will achieve the same or similar result.

16. Third-party services

The Program may use or link to third-party learning, video, payment, email, scheduling, or other platforms. Their availability and practices are outside our control and may be governed by separate terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for maintenance, outages, changes, or acts of third-party providers, but we will take reasonable steps to restore or provide continued Program access when an interruption affects delivery.

17. Student application of course information

You are responsible for how you interpret, adapt, and apply course information in your professional practice. NIKA cannot supervise or control how techniques are implemented after training.

You must determine whether each technique, product, service, protocol, device, or recommendation is safe, appropriate, insured, and legally permitted within your professional practice. You remain responsible for your services, professional decisions, and client outcomes.

18. Photography, video, privacy, and confidentiality

Photography and video recording may occur during in-person trainings, workshops, or events. If you do not wish to appear in general event photographs or recordings, notify Academy staff before training begins. When identifiable material is intended for advertising, testimonials, social media, or other promotional use, we may request a separate release or other appropriate permission.

Students may not photograph, video record, audio record, screen record, livestream, or otherwise capture instructors, presentations, demonstrations, models, materials, or other students unless expressly authorized.

Students must respect the privacy of participants, models, instructors, and clients. Private information, images, recordings, discussions, or materials relating to another person may not be shared without appropriate authorization. Personal information collected by NIKA is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

19. Electronic acceptance and communications

By checking an acceptance box, completing a purchase, creating an account, accessing course materials, or otherwise electronically indicating agreement, you confirm that you have reviewed and accepted these Terms. Your electronic action constitutes your electronic signature and has the same legal effect as a handwritten signature to the extent permitted by applicable law.

We may send transactional or service-related communications necessary to administer your purchase, account, payment, course access, assessment, certification, or training. Where permitted by law, we may also send educational announcements, information about new programs and events, and promotions.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe option provided in those communications. Necessary transactional and service-related messages may still be sent.

20. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate access or participation for account sharing; unauthorized reproduction, recording, or distribution; copyright or intellectual-property violations; nonpayment; fraud; harassment or serious misconduct; unsafe conduct; unlawful activity; misuse of private information or Academy content; threats to platform security; or another material violation of these Terms.

Termination for cause does not entitle the participant to a refund unless otherwise required by law. Payment obligations and provisions concerning intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, and disputes survive termination.

21. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Program is provided “as is” and “as available.” We disclaim implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that access will always be uninterrupted, error-free, or compatible with every device or internet connection.

22. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, NIKA and its owners, instructors, employees, contractors, representatives, and affiliates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; lost revenue, profits, data, clients, or opportunities; or claims arising from participation in training, use or misuse of course information, professional services, business decisions, or third-party products, platforms, equipment, or services.

Where liability cannot legally be excluded, NIKA’s aggregate liability relating to a particular purchase will, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be limited to the amount actually paid to NIKA for the specific product or service giving rise to the claim. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.

23. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless NIKA and its owners, instructors, employees, contractors, representatives, and affiliates from third-party claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, and reasonable costs arising from your professional services, violation of law, misuse of Program materials, or breach of these Terms.

24. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where another jurisdiction’s law is required to apply. Subject to rights that cannot legally be waived, the state and federal courts located in Miami-Dade County, Florida will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from these Terms or the Program, and each party consents to those courts.

25. Changes to the Program or these Terms

We may update these Terms to reflect changes in the Program, our operations, practices, technology, or applicable law. The revised version will display a new “Last updated” date. Material changes will apply prospectively unless applicable law permits otherwise. Continued use after an update becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

26. General terms

If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain effective and the affected provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign your rights under these Terms without our written consent.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and policies or terms expressly incorporated at checkout, form the entire agreement regarding the Program and supersede prior statements on the same subject.

27. Contact

Questions about these Terms, course access, or Academy programs may be sent to nika@headspacertification.com.