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Last updated: 6.29.26
Welcome to The Animal Behavior Center. These Terms of Use explain the rules for using this website, our online learning platform, free resources, classes, courses, memberships, consultations, communities, downloadable materials, and related services.
By accessing this website, signing up for a free resource, registering for a class, purchasing a course or membership, booking a consultation, joining a community, or using any content provided by The Animal Behavior Center, you agree to these Terms of Use.
If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use this website or our services.
1. Who We Are
The Animal Behavior Center provides science-based education in animal behavior, training, enrichment, and applied behavior analysis across species.
Our services may include, but are not limited to:
•Free educational resources and worksheets
•Drop-In Classes
•Online courses
•Memberships
•Live and recorded educational sessions
•Private online consultations
•Behavior, training, and enrichment guidance
•Community discussions
•Downloadable handouts, worksheets, and related materials
2. Educational Purpose Only
The information provided by The Animal Behavior Center is for educational purposes.
Our content is designed to help learners better understand animal behavior, training, enrichment, antecedent arrangement, reinforcement, cooperative care, and behavior-change strategies.
Our educational content does not replace veterinary care, medical diagnosis, emergency care, legal advice, or in-person safety assessment.
If an animal is sick, injured, in pain, showing sudden behavior changes, or presenting a safety risk to people or other animals, you should contact a qualified veterinarian or appropriate local professional.
3. No Veterinary or Medical Advice
The Animal Behavior Center does not diagnose medical conditions or provide veterinary treatment.
Behavior can be affected by health, pain, environment, learning history, stress, and many other variables. You are responsible for seeking veterinary care when needed.
Participation in a class, course, membership, consultation, or community does not create a veterinary-client-patient relationship.
4. No Guaranteed Results
Animal behavior and training outcomes vary.
Results may depend on many factors, including the animal’s health, learning history, environment, motivation, reinforcement history, consistency of implementation, safety considerations, and the actions of the people involved.
We do not guarantee specific behavior outcomes, timelines, training results, income results, professional results, or membership outcomes.
5. Safety and Responsibility
Working with animals can involve risk, including bites, scratches, falls, property damage, injury to people, injury to animals, stress, escape, or other unintended outcomes.
You are responsible for:
•Assessing whether an activity is safe for you and your animal
•Using appropriate barriers, distance, protective equipment, and management
•Stopping any activity that appears unsafe
•Seeking veterinary or in-person professional support when needed
•Following applicable laws, regulations, and facility policies
•Supervising animals and people appropriately.
Do not attempt any training exercise, handling procedure, or behavior-change plan that you believe is unsafe for you, another person, or an animal.
6. Consultations
Private consultations are designed to provide individualized education, observations, and recommendations based on the information you provide. You understand that consultation recommendations are limited by the accuracy and completeness of the information, videos, history, and observations you share. Consultations may include behavior, training, and enrichment recommendations, but they do not replace veterinary evaluation, diagnosis, emergency intervention, or in-person risk assessment.
7. Classes, Courses, Memberships, and Replays
The Animal Behavior Center may offer live and recorded educational content, including Drop-In Classes, online courses, memberships, Q&A sessions, member events, replays, and downloadable materials. Access terms may vary by product. Some materials may be available for a limited time. Some live sessions may include replay access, and some may not. The specific access details listed at the time of registration or purchase will apply. We reserve the right to update, modify, replace, pause, or remove content when necessary.
8. Account Access and Login Information
Some services may require an account or login. You are responsible for keeping your login information confidential. You may not share your username, password, course access, membership access, Zoom links, replay links, or private content with others. Your purchase or registration gives access to you only, unless a specific team, organizational, or group license has been purchased. Unauthorized sharing of access may result in removal from the platform without refund.
9. Intellectual Property
All content provided by The Animal Behavior Center is protected intellectual property. This includes, but is not limited to:
•Videos
•Replays
•Livestreams
•Course lessons
•Worksheets
•Handouts
•Slides
•Written materials
•Graphics
•Training plans•
•Membership content
•Class materials
•Audio recordings
•Downloadable files
•Website copy
•Logos and branding
You may use purchased or downloaded materials for your own personal or professional learning. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, resell, upload, teach from, modify, publish, share publicly, or create derivative products from our materials without written permission. You may not use our materials to train artificial intelligence systems, build competing products, or create your own course, membership, class, handout, or paid educational material without written permission.
10. Recordings and Live Participation
Some live sessions may be recorded. By attending a live class, course session, consultation, Q&A, or membership event, you understand that your name, voice, image, comments, chat messages, questions, or submitted materials may appear in the recording if you choose to participate. If you do not want your voice or image included, keep your camera and microphone off and use discretion when participating in chat. Private consultation recordings are intended for client use and internal service delivery. We will not intentionally use private consultation recordings for public marketing without permission.
11. Submitted Photos, Videos, Comments, and Questions
You may have the opportunity to submit photos, videos, written descriptions, comments, questions, or other materials for education, feedback, class discussion, consultation, or community participation. By submitting materials, you confirm that:
•You have the right to share them
•You have permission from any people shown or identified
•The materials do not violate another person’s rights
•The materials do not contain confidential information you are not authorized to share
You grant The Animal Behavior Center permission to view, use, display, and discuss submitted materials as needed to provide the service, class, consultation, membership, community discussion, or educational feedback you requested. We reserve the right to remove submitted content that is inappropriate, unsafe, misleading, harmful, abusive, or unrelated to the purpose of the service.
12. Community Guidelines
If you participate in a membership group, discussion area, community, comment section, live chat, or related space, you agree to communicate respectfully. You may not post or share content that is:
•Harassing, abusive, threatening, or discriminatory
•Intentionally misleading
•Spam or self-promotion without permission
•Graphic or unsafe without appropriate context
•Confidential information you do not have permission to share
•Content that encourages harm, punishment-based abuse, illegal activity, or unsafe animal handling
We reserve the right to moderate, edit, remove, or restrict access to community spaces at our discretion.
13. Payments
Prices, payment plans, and access terms are listed at the time of purchase. By purchasing a class, course, membership, consultation, or other service, you agree to provide accurate payment information and authorize payment according to the terms shown at checkout. Payment processing may be handled by third-party payment processors. We do not intentionally store full credit card information on this website.
14. Memberships and Recurring Payments
Some memberships or services may involve recurring payments. If you purchase a recurring membership or subscription, you authorize recurring billing according to the terms shown at checkout. You are responsible for managing your membership, payment method, and cancellation requests according to the instructions provided on the platform or by contacting us. Cancellation stops future billing. It does not automatically refund previous payments unless stated in the applicable Refund & Cancellation Policy or required by law.
15. Refunds and Cancellations
Refund and cancellation terms may vary depending on the product or service. Please review the Refund & Cancellation Policy or the specific terms listed at checkout before purchasing. Unless otherwise stated, digital products, live classes, replays, downloadable materials, memberships, and consultations may have limited, or no refund availability because access to educational content or reserved time may be provided immediately.
16. Email Communication
By signing up for a free resource, registering for a class, purchasing a course or membership, booking a consultation, or joining our email list, you may receive emails related to your registration, purchase, account, resource, class, course, membership, consultation, or requested content. You may also receive educational emails, updates, announcements, and offers from The Animal Behavior Center. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us. Even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may still send transactional or service-related emails about purchases, registrations, account access, consultations, memberships, or other services you requested.
17. Third-Party Platforms
We may use third-party platforms to provide services, including online course platforms, payment processors, email service providers, Zoom or other video platforms, analytics tools, social media platforms, scheduling tools, and advertising tools. Your use of those platforms may also be subject to their own terms, privacy policies, and technical requirements. We are not responsible for outages, errors, policy changes, or technical issues caused by third-party platforms.
18. Technology Requirements
You are responsible for having the technology needed to access online content, including internet access, compatible devices, current software, email access, and any required video or audio capability. We are not responsible for your inability to access content due to personal technology issues, internet outages, email filtering, spam folders, browser issues, or device incompatibility.
19. Children and Minors
This website and our services are intended for adults. You must be at least 18 years old to purchase services, create an account, book consultations, or participate in paid programs unless a parent or legal guardian is involved and consents. Our website and services are not intended for children under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.
20. Prohibited Uses
You agree not to use this website, platform, content, or services to:
•Violate any law or regulation
•Share false, misleading, or harmful information
•Copy, record, sell, distribute, or misuse our content
•Share your account access with others
•Interfere with the website or platform
•Attempt unauthorized access to systems or accounts
•Upload harmful code, spam, or malicious content
•Harass, threaten, or harm others
•Misrepresent your identity, credentials, or affiliation
•Use our materials to create competing products without permission
21. Links to Other Websites
This website may include links to third-party websites, platforms, products, services, or resources. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, policies, security, or practices of third-party websites or services.
22. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Animal Behavior Center, Lara Joseph, and any associated team members, contractors, instructors, or representatives are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of this website, content, classes, courses, memberships, consultations, recommendations, communities, or related services. This includes, but is not limited to, injury to people or animals, behavior outcomes, training results, business outcomes, loss of data, lost revenue, technical problems, platform outages, or reliance on educational content. You agree that your use of our content and services is at your own risk.
23. Indemnification
You agree to hold harmless and indemnify The Animal Behavior Center, Lara Joseph, and any associated team members, contractors, instructors, or representatives from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, or expenses arising from your use of our website, content, services, recommendations, submitted materials, community participation, or violation of these Terms.
24. Changes to Services
We may update, change, pause, discontinue, or modify any part of the website, platform, content, courses, memberships, classes, consultations, pricing, access terms, or services at any time. We will make reasonable efforts to communicate major changes that materially affect paid access.
25. Changes to These Terms We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. When we update them, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use of the website or services after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.
26. Governing Law These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, without regard to conflict of law principles.
27. Contact If you have questions about these Terms of Use, contact: The Animal Behavior Center Email: Lara@TheAnimalBehaviorCenter.com Mailing address: P.O. Box 105 Lambertville, Michigan 48144