What it costs, how long it lasts and what you can undo · Boxglaz
Orientation · 6 min of reading and practice
What it costs, how long it lasts and what you can undo
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A reference sheet with six boxes: the four the rule requires before enrollment, and two that are ours. With a date and a version.
One day you are going to pay for a course, this one or another, and you will be asked to accept some terms. Before you go on: write down which facts you would demand to see on screen before you hand over your card, and how many they are.
By the end you will be able to
Confirm that the six boxes on this fact sheet are answered and dated before you pay for a course.
The first thing is to separate what the rule requires from what is ours. The Federal Trade Commission has a short section on sales practices: 16 CFR 254.7. It has three paragraphs, and between them they add up to four facts that have to be disclosed before enrollment.
Paragraph (a) says it is deceptive to advertise in a way that makes it look like a job is being offered, under headings of the "Help Wanted" or "Business Opportunities" kind. Paragraph (b) requires disclosing, before enrollment, the total price of the programme and the refund policy if the student does not finish it. Paragraph (c) requires disclosing every requirement for finishing it and the circumstances that would lead to canceling an enrollment early.
Our fact sheet has six boxes: the four from the rule, plus the date and version of the notice, plus what the programme does not entitle you to. The last two are ours and nobody requires them. We say so, so that you always know which is which.
See it worked through first
We are going to fill in this programme's fact sheet, today, with the date on it. If something changes, the version changes, and the old acknowledgment still says which text you said yes to.
What this lesson does NOT qualify you to do
This fact sheet is not a contract and it gives you no rights against another school. It gathers what this programme declares today, with its date, plus the four disclosures that 16 CFR 254.7 requires before enrollment; two of the six boxes are ours and no rule requires them. And it is not legal advice about consumer law: if you believe a school deceived you, an attorney is the one who weighs that.
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Total price of the programme: zero. Today there is nothing to buy and there is no payment button.
2Refund policy if you do not finish it: not applicable, because nothing is charged. The moment there is a price, this box can no longer say "not applicable".
3Requirements for finishing it: complete the published lessons of each level and pass its tests, according to what each level declares on its own page.
4Grounds for canceling an enrollment early: today, only fraud on a test. Any other ground would have to be written here before it is applied to anyone.
5Date and version of this notice: it is the box that makes the other five worth something. Without a date, a notice cannot be compared with last week's.
6What it does not entitle you to: you have it below, on this same fact sheet, and also at the foot of every lesson.
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And one that is a rule, not a guide. Part 465 of title 16 was published on August 22, 2024. It is titled "Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials". It reaches fake reviews, bought reviews, undisclosed insider reviews, and the suppression of legitimate ones. In the Career Step case, part of the problem was giving away weeks of the course in exchange for reviews.
In your state · CA
In California the price decides whether a school has to register. Education Code 94801.5(c)(2) leaves outside registration an institution that grants no degrees and charges two thousand five hundred dollars or less for the whole programme. With one further condition: that none of that charge comes from state or federal financial aid. That is why the price of a course is not just a commercial number.