Scope
These terms and conditions of sale (“T&Cs”) apply to any order placed online on the Archi Mind website with the company presented in the legal notice, for the trainings offered in the shop. They complement, without replacing, the website’s terms of use.
Trainings and pricing
Each training presented in the shop states its content, terms and price at the time of viewing. Displayed prices are those in effect on the order date, expressed in euros. Archi Mind benefits from the VAT exemption for small businesses under Article 293 B of the French General Tax Code: VAT is therefore not applied to the displayed prices.
Placing an order
Ordering requires creating a customer account and follows three steps: selecting items in the cart, reviewing your information and accepting these T&Cs, then payment. A confirmation email is sent once payment is validated; it summarises the training purchased and, when the product includes it, an activation link to the Academy area.
Payment
Payment is made online, by credit card, PayPal or Revolut Pay, depending on the methods offered at the time of ordering. For vocational training purchased by an individual at their own expense, no sum is payable during the withdrawal period. Once that period has expired, a deposit of no more than 30% of the price may be paid before the training begins; the balance is spread as the training unfolds, in accordance with Article L. 6353-5 of the French Labour Code. For standalone digital materials, payment is due upon ordering.
Instalments and late payment
Where instalment payment is offered and chosen, the schedule agreed at the time of ordering sets the amount and date of each instalment. Each instalment falls due on its date. In accordance with Article L. 6353-5 of the French Labour Code, the schedule follows the training as it unfolds: it does not extend beyond the duration of the action, and instalments corresponding to services not delivered are not payable. Your attendance, however, does not condition payment: a service made available to you remains due, whether or not you followed it.
Reminders. An unpaid instalment gives rise to reminders by email. These reminders are free and carry no charge.
Suspension of access. Failing settlement within twenty days of the due date, access to the digital content is suspended. This suspension does not terminate the contract: your progress, your submitted work and your attendance records are kept as they are, and access is restored as soon as the situation is settled.
Formal notice and acceleration. Failing payment within eight days of receiving a formal notice sent by registered post with acknowledgement of receipt and by email, all remaining instalments become immediately due. The sums owed then bear interest at the legal rate, under Article 1231-6 of the French Civil Code, running from the formal notice.
What is not claimed. No fixed recovery indemnity and no contractual penalty is applied: the forty-euro indemnity provided for in Article L. 441-10 of the French Commercial Code applies only between businesses, and Article L. 6353-6 of the French Labour Code prohibits any penalty clause in an individually concluded vocational training contract.
Interruption of the training
If you stop attending the training before its end, Article L. 6353-6 of the French Labour Code applies: only the services actually delivered are due, in proportion to their value as set out in the contract. Instalments corresponding to services not delivered are not payable.
This rule is a matter of public policy: it applies whatever the contract says, and any provision to the contrary is deemed unwritten. It concerns only interruption of the training. It does not exempt you from paying for sessions already attended, and does not apply to non-payment without interruption of the course.
If the interruption results from a duly recognised case of force majeure, the contract is terminated and only the services already delivered remain due, with no further consequence.
Right of withdrawal
In accordance with Articles L. 221-18 et seq. of the French Consumer Code, you have 14 days from the order date to exercise your right of withdrawal, without giving any reason. To exercise it, simply notify Archi Mind in writing (by post or email, using the contact details given in the legal notice). Reimbursement is made using the same payment method, no later than 14 days after receipt of the request.
For vocational training, Article L. 6353-5 of the French Labour Code additionally opens a withdrawal period of ten days from the signature of the contract, during which no sum may be demanded. The more favourable period applies: you therefore have fourteen days to withdraw, and nothing is charged to you during the first ten.
Access to digital content
Where a training grants access to the Academy area, this access opens once payment has been received, via an activation link sent by email. Unless stated otherwise on the product page at the time of purchase, access is granted for an unlimited duration.
Funding
Our trainings can be funded by a third party: an OPCO, France Travail, or your employer. Contact us before enrolling so that the file can be set up — a funding arrangement is agreed before the training begins, never afterwards.
Personal training account (CPF): not available. Our trainings are not eligible for it, and no CPF funding can be accepted.
Purchases made directly in the shop are paid by the trainee herself. In that case a vocational training contract is concluded with her, under Articles L. 6353-3 et seq. of the French Labour Code, rather than a training agreement.
Liability
The trainings sold are professional training or awareness-raising services; they confer no architect, psychologist or healthcare professional qualification, and do not replace the regulated studies, diagnoses and assignments required for a project.
Introductions through the directory
The directory of practitioners certified by Archi Mind offers an introduction service: you send a request through the form on a practitioner’s page, and Archi Mind passes your message and your contact details on to her. This service is free of charge at present; should it become chargeable, the price will be stated before any request is sent and these terms will be updated.
What Archi Mind undertakes. To pass your request on to the practitioner concerned, and to inform you if it could not be delivered.
What follows is between you and her. Every practitioner listed in the directory works independently, under her own name, on her own terms and under her own professional liability. She is neither an employee nor an agent of Archi Mind, which takes no part in your discussions, sets none of the terms, receives no commission on the work and is not a party to any contract you may enter into with her. Certification by Archi Mind attests that she completed and passed a training course; it is not a guarantee of any result, availability or performance.
Archi Mind remains liable, under the ordinary law, for the introduction service it provides — that is, for the transmission itself.
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Governing law
These T&Cs are governed by French law, subject to the mandatory rules protecting consumers in their country of residence where required by law.