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​Cancellation Policy - Private Lessons​

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* 100% Refund for cancellations with 24 hours or more notice from the start of the lesson

* Cancellations with less than 24 hours notice will be issued with a fully transferable full value credit note for a future booking to be used within 6 months of the original booking date.

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Class Cancellations by us 
* We reserve the right to cancel any class if there is insufficient enrolment, instructor unavailability or other unforeseen circumstances. 
* You will be offered options for a full refund or reschedule of class and will be notified via SMS, phone and/or email at least 12 hours hour before the class if it is cancelled. 

 

​Terms & Conditions

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By ticking the “I agree to and read the Terms & Conditions” box, registering your details with us, using any of our websites or social media pages/groups, including Sewit. website (sewit.com.au) (‘Site’), you accept and agree to be bound by these terms & conditions which will form a legally binding agreement between you and Sewit. and the owner of Sewit. (ABN 67 085 814 096 ) (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’, ‘Sewit.’). If you do not accept these terms & conditions, then please don’t register, access or use the Site or sign up for or attend a class.

 

Parental / Guardian Consent
1 If a lesson participant or Site user is under 18 years-old or under a legal disability and their parent or guardian signs them up or otherwise consents to them participating in a Class or using the Site then their parent or guardian represents and warrants that they:

  • are the participant’s / user’s parent or legal guardian and consents to the participant / user entering this agreement or enters this agreement on the participant / user’s behalf;

  • have read and understood this agreement and explained it to the participant / user;

  • consent to the participant / user undertaking Lessons;

  • confirm that if the participant / user is at the time of Lesson are at least 14 years; and

  • if under 16 years old, confirm that the participant / user is capable of attending Lesson and will be supervised by a parent or legal guardian;

  • confirm that IF the participant / user is 16 years or more, that they are capable of attending Lesson independently and do not require parent or guardian supervision; and

  • guarantee the participant’s / user’s compliance with this agreement and indemnifies us for any loss or damage suffered by us due to the participant’s / user’s non-compliance.

 

2 All references to ‘you’ and any rights and obligations under this agreement extend to the participant or user.
 

Lesson Booking and Participation

  • Subject to this agreement, you may access and use the Site and attend and participate in Lesson.

  • To book and register for a Lesson you must register some personal details with us and accept this agreement.

  • If you participate in a lesson, you should be aware that the information

  • You agree and acknowledge that recordings, screenshots and photos of a Lesson might be taken by us or on our behalf. You agree to us storing, disseminating, streaming, broadcasting and otherwise publishing those recordings (in part or full), screenshots or photos free of any charge or fee to you. If you do not want to be recorded, you can let us know at any time.

  • You must pay our fees in full prior to any lessons. Any other charges related to consumables, including fabrics, patterns, notions or tools, used by you during a class will be due and payable at the end of the lesson.

  • We may cancel at any time. If we or one of our instructors cancels a class then we will provide you with a refund, credit or place you in a mutually agreed alternative class

  • We will provide payment receipts and tax invoices to you and this might include via email.

  • Unless indicated otherwise, Fees are ordinarily expressed exclusive of GST and such Fees may change in future in line with regulations for implementing and collecting GST at the relevant rate.

  • You acknowledge that we will use the email address you provide as the primary method for communication.
     

Safety Policy

  • You are required to obtain, regularly service, maintain and keep in good repair any equipment you bring to a class including sewing machines, fabric/material, patterns, thread, needles, bobbins, scissors etc needed for you to participate and you will adhere to any of our required minimum specifications, safety or maintenance requirements in relation to those items. All of your items must be fully operational, and if electrical must be powered by 240 volt electricity (with Australian power plugs). We will not undertake any repairs, maintenance, servicing or trouble shooting of your items. In our sole discretion we may prohibit non-compliant items from being used.

  • Participants involving the use of a sewing machine must be at least 10 years old or as determined by us when accepting a lesson. Some lessons may not not be deemed appropriate for children younger than 14 years old and this will be specified at the time of booking. No exceptions can be made. This minimum age is determined on the basis of age appropriateness for lessons to receive, process and respond to instruction and function with an appropriate level of cooperation and independence required for operating machines and use tools safely.

  • Electrical cords may become a trip hazard. They must not be laid across the path of foot traffic. All extension cords exposed on floors will be taped down to avoid a trip hazard. Sewing machine cords must be kept under tables at all times.

  • Electrical cords pierced or severed by tools may become an electrocution hazard. Work spaces must be kept tidy and fabrics must not be laid across electrical cords. Cutting, pinning and the use of tools must be conducted away from electrical cords.

  • Machinery needles and/or blades can pierce/cut fingers. At the time of booking, participants are required to confirm their level of sewing skills appropriate for the lesson. The level of experience required is specified upon booking and participants must not fabricate level of experience to gain access.

  • Machine needles can shatter if compromised. This can occur if low quality or incorrect needles are installed in a machine or if contact is made with a metal object such as pins. Participants will be instructed to avoid sewing over pins. 

  • Long, loose hair can become entangled in sewing machine componentry. Participants may be required to tie back long hair prior to a lesson.

  • Sharp tools dislodged from work benches can pierce or injure feet. Participants are required to wear closed toe shoes.

  • Incorrect handling of sharp tools can inflict injury on the participant and participants will be instructed to exercise care and safe use of tools.

  • The use of personal devices during a lessons can impact the ability of participants to follow instructions. Personal devices must not be used or must be stored securely in silent mode.

  • Beverages and food can cause damage to projects or may become an electrocution hazard around electrical machines and tools. Participants are required to provide and use sealed containers for drinks brought to class and limit the consumption of food as advised by our instructors. Consumption of food or water must be done away from any electrical equipment.

  • Bags, trolley bags and other forms of storage used for bringing machines, tools and projects to class may become a trip hazard. All bags and containers must be stored appropriately during a lesson.

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Representations & Warranties: You represent and warrant that:

  • You are 18 years of age or over, or, if you are under 18 years of age, you have your parent’s or guardian’s consent to enter into this agreement or your parent or guardian has entered this agreement on your behalf; and All of the information you provide to us is accurate and complete.

 

Indemnity

  • You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless us and our subsidiaries, parents, and affiliates, and their and our respective directors, officers, employees, and agents, from and against all third-party complaints, demands, claims, damages, losses, costs, liabilities, and expenses, including legal fees, arising from or relating to your breach of this agreement.


Reservations

  • We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Site for any reason, without notice at any time.

  • We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

  • Verbal or written abuse of any kind (including threats of abuse or retribution) of any of our instructors, hosts, participants, customers, employees, venue officers will result in immediate expulsion and any future class attendance.

  • You waive, discharge and release us from all liability for any claim or loss that directly or indirectly results from your reliance on any lesson.

  • You agree and acknowledge that the lessons are general in nature, purely for educational purposes. You will not receive any qualifications or vocational certifications.

  • Any testimonials and examples within our Site or marketing materials are not to be taken as a guarantee that you will achieve the same or similar results.


User Conduct

  • By using the Site, our Social media pages or attending a lesson, you must not:

  • do or say anything or upload any comments, posts or things to the Site that are or are likely to be abusive, offensive, obscene, defamatory, harassing, intimidating or racist, or disseminate material that breaches any law or regulation or infringes any person’s rights (including intellectual property rights);

  • misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any organisation or person;

  • do or say anything or upload any comments, posts or things that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person’s consent;

  • promote or advertise any person, group, organisation, product, service, event or activity;

  • collect personal information or data about other users or participants;

  • use the Site or premises for any unlawful or criminal purpose;

  • use the Site in any way that causes disruption, impairment or damage to the Site, including a denial of service;

  • use the Site to send junk or spam messages or forward information to a person who has not provided consent to receiving such information; and

  • use or access any part of the Site that you are not authorised to use or access and you must not modify, translate, sell, decompile or disassemble any part of the Site.

  • By sharing, posting or otherwise publishing anything on our Social Media Pages (‘Your Content’), you:

  • Grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, licence to use, reproduce, edit and exploit Your Content in any form and for any purpose;

  • Warrant that you have the right to grant the above licences;

  • Warrant that Your Content does not breach this agreement or anyone’s intellectual property rights; and

  • Consent to any act or omission which would otherwise constitute an infringement of your moral rights (as defined in the Copyright Act 1968), and if you add any content in which any third party has moral rights, you must also ensure that the third party also consents in the same manner.

  • We reserve the right (but have no obligation) to:

  • Review, modify, reformat, reject or remove Your Content that, in our opinion, violates this agreement or otherwise has the potential to harm, endanger or violate the rights of any person; and

  • Monitor use of our Social Media Pages, and store or disclose any information that we collect, including in order to investigate compliance with the Terms & Conditions or for the purposes of any police investigation or governmental request.


Intellectual Property

  • We own the intellectual property in and to the Site and we and lesson providers own the intellectual property in and to the lessons, including all intellectual property as defined in Article 2 of the Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organisation and all copyright and future copyright and neighbouring rights (including rights in computer programs, documentation, drawings, writings and art works), all rights in relation to inventions including patents and patent applications, modifications or improvements to the same, registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks, registered and unregistered designs, rights in relation to trade secrets, know-how and other confidential information, and all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields (“Intellectual Property”).

  •  Certain lesson content might be made available for you to download, save, store and print. If so, such content remains our exclusive property.

  • Other than as set out in this agreement, you may not download, copy, reproduce, recompile, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, upload to create derivative works from, transmit, or in any other way exploit any part of the Site, including lessons.

  • You are not permitted to offer for sale or sell or distribute over any other medium any lesson or any part of them. The Site and the information contained in it may not be used to construct a database of any kind, nor may the Site be stored (in its entirety or in any part) in databases for access by you or any third party or to distribute any database websites containing all or part of the Site.

  • Modifying and terminating the Site

  • We reserve the right to modify, update or terminate the Site or any part of the Site at any time and at our absolute discretion, without notice or liability to you.

  • Any change or modification to the Site or this agreement is effective immediately upon them being posted on the Site. If any such change or modification is unacceptable to you, you may cease using the Site. If following any such change or modification you continue to use the Site or access or participate in any , then you will be deemed to have accepted those changes or modifications.


Hyperlinks

  • We have no control over and are not responsible for the content of any third-party:

  • site for which a hyperlink is provided or displayed on the Site;

  • site framed within the Site;

  • advertisements displayed on the Site; or

  • platform upon which the Site operates.

  • We expressly disclaim (and do not endorse or verify) the accuracy or reliability of content on third-party websites.

  • Hyperlinks are provided on the Site for your convenience only and may not be current or operational. Our use or inclusion of a hyperlink on the Site is not an endorsement, approval or recommendation of the linked website or its content.

  • We are not responsible for the content, cookies or privacy practices associated with third-party websites and accessing these sites you should read their terms, conditions and privacy statements. Your use of or reliance on any third-party website is at your own risk absolutely.

 

Disclaimer & Liability

  • The Site and lessons are provided ‘as is’. We assume no responsibility for any error, omission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to, or alteration of the Site or lessons.

  • We are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any equipment, software, failure of any communication before or during a lesson, received by us or able to be viewed, used, streamed or downloaded on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participants or any other person’s equipment related to or resulting from participation in lessons or uploading or downloading any materials from the Site.

We make no representation and give no warranty or undertaking (express or implied):

  • as to the currency, accuracy, completeness, effectiveness or reliability of the Site or lesson for any particular purpose; or

  • that the operation of the Site and lesson will be uninterrupted or error-free.

  • We disclaim any and all responsibility or liability for any loss, damage, injury or other claim whatsoever for any outcome arising from your reliance upon the Site, a lesson or the Site’s or lesson inability to meet your needs.

  • The use of and your reliance upon the Site or a Class is entirely at your own risk. When using the Site information will be transmitted over a medium which may be beyond our jurisdiction or control. Information and files available from the Site cannot be guaranteed to be secure, free from computer viruses or other faults or defects and you should scan and check such data accordingly. We do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any content you may transmit to or from the Site.

  • We will not be responsible for any delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with your access and use of the Site or Classes which is beyond our direct control. For the avoidance of doubt, we do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your computer system which may arise in connection with your use of the Site or Classes.

  • To the fullest extent permitted by law:

  • All conditions and warranties concerning the Site (whether as to quality, outcome, fitness, care, skill or otherwise) expressed or implied by statute, common law, equity, trade, custom or usage or otherwise are expressly excluded and in respect of those statutory warranties which cannot be excluded by us, our liability to you is limited, at our choice, to the remedies contained in section 64A of the Australian Consumer Law set out in Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) as amended or replaced from time to time, which you agree is your only remedy;

  • Subject to this Agreement, we, our officers, employees, agents, contractors, licensors, suppliers, or any other third parties mentioned on the Site or in Classes will not be liable for any loss, costs or damages (including economic or consequential loss, indirect loss, lost profits or special damages) resulting from the use of or inability to use the Site or Classes whether arising under statute or in contract, tort or any other legal doctrine, and whether or not we are or ought to have been aware of, or advised of the possibility of such loss, costs or damages;

  • Subject to this Agreement, we limit our aggregate liability to you (whether in contract, under an indemnity, in tort (including for negligence), under statute, in equity or otherwise) for all losses arising under or in connection with this Agreement to an amount equal to the Fees paid by you under this Agreement during the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the event giving rise to the first loss under consideration.

  • We are not liable to you or to any third party for any personal injury, including death, caused by access to, use or misuse of the Site or Classes; and

  • Remedies under this Agreement are exclusive and are limited to those expressly provided for in these Terms.

 

Terms last updated on 2 November 2025

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Privacy Policy

  • What type of information do we collect?

  • We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; e-mail address; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools including Google Analytics to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, communications); comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile. We DO NOT currently collect any payment credit card details. Once a booking is made, we send an invoice requesting payment via direct bank deposit.

 

How do you collect information?

  • When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, phone number and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only. We will NEVER sell your email address

  • Why do you collect such personal information?

  • We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • To provide and operate the Services;

  • To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and support;

  • To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

  • To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

  • To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

How do we store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?

  • Our business is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

  • All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

 

How can site visitors and customers withdraw their consent?

  • You can withdraw your consent for collection of personal information, make changes, remove contact permission or complete deletion of personal information at any time by contacting us and make the request

 

How do we communicate with our site visitors?

  • We may contact you to notify you regarding your booking or purchase, to troubleshoot problems, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our business or Classes, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone and text messages.

 

How do we use cookies and other tracking tools?

 

  • If you have any questions or concerns before a making a booking or before a class, please Get in Touch

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