My question involves a consumer law issue in the State of: New York
I'm from Poland and I'm licenced instructor of Masala Bhangra Workout. I recently realised that during training and before registration to MBW Ambassador Network I wasn't able to read licence agreement (it wasn't provided and was unavailable online). I had to do ti to keep the licence. By signing on the website and paying yearly fee I needed to accept that agreement without possibility to read it. I know - it was silly from my side. So now after I realised my mistake I asked head office for this document (it wasn't available after logging in, I could get it after few days of fighting via mails). So they provided all instructors old version from January 2011, while after another mail from me the admit that it's has changed few times. Is it legal to keep document like this secret?
In the old version I got there is section that this agreement is prepared accordance to law of United States and State of New York. I think this is still effective.
I asked master trainers who taught me about it and they didn't know the text of the agreemend either. They were not provided it also, and they were working for this program for over 2 years. Office claims that text of agreement is in the training manual, but it's not mentioned in table of contents, also page numbers are correct (there were insinuations that trainers altered the manual).
The website now has changed and I don't remember seeing licence agreement on the previous one (after logging in). But the thing is... To sign up to network Ambassador of program needs to log in to the page and pay yearly fee via PayPal. Then it gets access to profile page and licence. So by registering and paying the one confirms reading and accepting the terms of the agreement. So the one needs to pay $180 for membership and then can read the licence (it was like this when I registered, since the date I did that there is third version of website) and if there is no acceptance - the one can quit. But when something like this happenes there is penalty fee $5 for each month left (according to old text)...
And my email requests for PDF file with the text of agreement were ignored or head office tried to prove my that I'm an idiot.
And instead of solving the case - they moved it to their lawyer who tries to prove that I'm wrong.
In my opinion this is illegal practice to avoid like this. Am I right or wrong?
I'm from Poland and I'm licenced instructor of Masala Bhangra Workout. I recently realised that during training and before registration to MBW Ambassador Network I wasn't able to read licence agreement (it wasn't provided and was unavailable online). I had to do ti to keep the licence. By signing on the website and paying yearly fee I needed to accept that agreement without possibility to read it. I know - it was silly from my side. So now after I realised my mistake I asked head office for this document (it wasn't available after logging in, I could get it after few days of fighting via mails). So they provided all instructors old version from January 2011, while after another mail from me the admit that it's has changed few times. Is it legal to keep document like this secret?
In the old version I got there is section that this agreement is prepared accordance to law of United States and State of New York. I think this is still effective.
I asked master trainers who taught me about it and they didn't know the text of the agreemend either. They were not provided it also, and they were working for this program for over 2 years. Office claims that text of agreement is in the training manual, but it's not mentioned in table of contents, also page numbers are correct (there were insinuations that trainers altered the manual).
The website now has changed and I don't remember seeing licence agreement on the previous one (after logging in). But the thing is... To sign up to network Ambassador of program needs to log in to the page and pay yearly fee via PayPal. Then it gets access to profile page and licence. So by registering and paying the one confirms reading and accepting the terms of the agreement. So the one needs to pay $180 for membership and then can read the licence (it was like this when I registered, since the date I did that there is third version of website) and if there is no acceptance - the one can quit. But when something like this happenes there is penalty fee $5 for each month left (according to old text)...
And my email requests for PDF file with the text of agreement were ignored or head office tried to prove my that I'm an idiot.
And instead of solving the case - they moved it to their lawyer who tries to prove that I'm wrong.
In my opinion this is illegal practice to avoid like this. Am I right or wrong?
Consumer Law Issues: Is It Normal to Not to Provide Licence Agreement?
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