Terms & policies
Terms of Use
These terms explain how learners, instructors, and partners may use EDA Academy, purchase or access offerings, publish content, and interact with the platform.
Last updated: June 3, 2026
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Marketplace & website
Agreement
Welcome to EDA Academy. By accessing or using our website, account tools, courses, resources, trainings, certifications, memberships, or related services, you agree to follow these Terms of Use.
If you do not agree with these terms, do not create an account, enroll in an offering, publish instructor content, or use the platform.
Marketplace & website
Accounts
You may need an account to enroll in offerings, access paid materials, manage memberships, publish instructor content, or use account-specific features.
- Provide accurate and current registration, billing, profile, and role information.
- Keep your login credentials confidential and do not share account access with other people.
- You are responsible for activity that occurs through your account unless the activity results from a platform security issue.
- Instructor accounts may require additional verification, payout, tax, or content-review information.
Marketplace & website
Learning access
EDA Academy offers self-paced courses, live or instructor-led trainings, downloadable resources, memberships, bundles, and certification programs for the VLSI and semiconductor learning community.
- Enrollment gives you a limited, non-transferable license to access the relevant learning materials for personal or internal educational use.
- Access may depend on the purchase type, membership status, certification rules, content availability, and account standing.
- Certificates or completion records reflect platform activity and program requirements; they do not guarantee employment, admission, licensing, or exam outcomes.
- We may update, replace, retire, or restrict content when needed for quality, security, legal, or operational reasons.
Marketplace & website
Payments
Prices, promotions, taxes, currencies, and purchase availability may vary by region, product, and sales channel. Payment processing may be handled by third-party providers.
- You agree to pay all charges shown at checkout, including applicable taxes and recurring membership fees.
- Memberships renew automatically unless canceled before the next billing period.
- Canceling a membership stops future renewal charges but does not automatically refund prior charges.
- Third-party payment processors may apply their own payment, security, dispute, and refund procedures.
Marketplace & website
Refunds
Except where expressly stated at the time of purchase or required by applicable law, all payments are final and non-refundable once access to the purchased content, membership benefit, course, resource, training, certification, or related digital service has been granted.
- Canceling a membership or subscription will stop future billing but will not refund, credit, or prorate fees already charged for prior or current billing periods.
- Promotions, bundles, partner offers, institutional programs, certifications, or other special purchases may be subject to additional refund terms disclosed at checkout or in the applicable program terms.
- If a purchase is processed through a third-party payment provider, marketplace, partner, or reseller, any refund request may also be subject to that third party's policies and procedures.
- Nothing in this refund section limits any non-waivable rights you may have under applicable consumer protection laws.
Platform rules
Instructor terms
Instructors are responsible for the accuracy, quality, legality, and ownership status of the materials they submit or publish through EDA Academy.
Ownership of instructor content
You retain ownership of the original content you create and submit, subject to any rights held by third parties or materials you incorporate into your content.
Rights, permissions, and responsibility
- By submitting, uploading, or publishing instructor content, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, permissions, releases, and consents needed for EDA Academy to host, reproduce, store, process, display, stream, transmit, market, promote, distribute, sell access to, support, and otherwise operate that content through the platform and related services.
- You are solely responsible for your instructor content and for any third-party materials, code, datasets, images, diagrams, videos, audio, trademarks, confidential information, personal data, or other protected materials included in it, including obtaining and maintaining all required permissions and paying any required royalties or fees.
- To the extent permitted by law, you are responsible for claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses arising from allegations that your instructor content infringes, misappropriates, or violates any copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other third-party right.
License granted to EDA Academy
- You grant EDA Academy a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to use your instructor content for the purposes of operating, improving, securing, supporting, marketing, and providing EDA Academy and its related services.
- This license includes the right to make technical copies, format changes, thumbnails, previews, excerpts, backups, accessibility versions, and other operational modifications needed to deliver or promote the content.
Unpublishing, retention, and review
- Removing or unpublishing instructor content may stop future availability, but EDA Academy may retain copies where reasonably necessary for legal compliance, payment records, dispute handling, learner support, audit logs, security, backup systems, or previously granted learner access.
- We may review, reject, unpublish, or remove instructor content that does not meet platform quality, safety, legal, or intellectual property standards.
Commercial programs and partner terms
Instructor compensation, promotions, platform fees, payout timing, and tax handling may be governed by separate instructor, revenue share, or partner terms.
- A member plan is a membership, subscription, or member-access program that may allow eligible members to access selected offerings or bundles at no additional per-offering charge, at a discounted price, or on other preferred access terms. Selecting "Include this offering in the membership plan" constitutes the instructor's affirmative election and authorization for EDA Academy to make that offering eligible for such programs. Subject to applicable law and any separate written agreement, EDA Academy may administer member plan eligibility, access rules, checkout treatment, pricing display, revenue allocation, reporting, suspension, removal, and related operational treatment under its then-current membership, revenue share, and platform policies.
- A promotion plan is an EDA Academy-operated marketing or promotional program, including platform campaigns, discounts, coupons, partner offers, audience-specific offers, time-limited offers, or other promotional arrangements affecting the price, display, availability, positioning, or marketing treatment of eligible offerings or bundles. Selecting "I want to join the Platform Marketing Program" constitutes the instructor's affirmative election and authorization for EDA Academy to review, consider, market, discount, display, package, and otherwise promote that offering through such programs. Eligibility does not guarantee selection, timing, duration, discount level, sales volume, placement, exposure, or any other promotional outcome, and EDA Academy may determine, modify, suspend, or end promotions in its discretion, subject to applicable law and any separate written agreement.
- Bundle eligibility, bundle promotion treatment, and bundle-related merchandising are administered under EDA Academy's then-current platform, membership, promotion, revenue share, and bundle allocation policies. Offerings or bundles may be considered for bundle-related promotion or merchandising only when the applicable offering and any active bundle child offerings satisfy the relevant program eligibility rules, including Platform Marketing Program and membership-plan eligibility where those programs apply. EDA Academy may create, price, discount, display, modify, suspend, retire, or remove bundles under those policies, subject to applicable law and any separate written agreement.
- Instructor compensation, if any, for member plan access, promotion plan activity, bundle sales, refunds, chargebacks, taxes, platform fees, payment processing fees, partner or affiliate fees, currency conversion, and similar adjustments will be calculated and allocated under EDA Academy's then-current revenue share, bundle allocation, payout, refund, tax, and platform fee policies, unless a separate written agreement expressly provides otherwise. Nothing in these terms limits any non-waivable rights or obligations that apply under applicable law.
Platform rules
Content rights
EDA Academy, instructors, and licensors retain ownership of their respective intellectual property. Your use of learning content is limited to the access rights granted by your enrollment, purchase, or membership.
- Do not copy, scrape, record, resell, redistribute, publish, sublicense, or publicly share platform content without permission.
- Do not remove copyright notices, watermarks, attribution, technical controls, or access restrictions.
- The EDA Academy platform name, logo, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, and other brand assets, together with those of its parent company and affiliates, may not be used without prior written permission unless expressly allowed by approved brand guidelines or written authorization.
- Do not use any EDA Academy, parent company, or affiliate brand asset in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement, partnership, certification, employment, agency, or official status unless that relationship has been expressly authorized in writing.
- You retain ownership of content you submit, but you grant EDA Academy the operational rights needed to provide, protect, market, and improve the service.
- We may remove or restrict content that appears to infringe intellectual property, privacy, security, or platform policy requirements.
Platform rules
Acceptable use
Use EDA Academy for lawful learning, teaching, collaboration, and platform-supported commerce only.
- Do not compromise, disrupt, reverse engineer, overload, scan, or bypass platform systems or access controls.
- Do not misrepresent your identity, credentials, organization, instructor status, or affiliation.
- Do not upload unlawful, infringing, deceptive, harmful, defamatory, or privacy-invasive materials.
- Do not share paid content, download links, private account credentials, certificates, or learner records without authorization.
- Do not use automated scraping, credential stuffing, spam, malware, or misleading promotional activity.
Platform rules
Suspension and termination
You may stop using the platform or request account closure through available account or support channels. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access when needed to protect learners, instructors, partners, the platform, or legal compliance.
After termination, access to content, account features, certificates, instructor tools, or pending benefits may end, subject to applicable law and any separate written agreement.
Legal
Disclaimers
EDA Academy provides the platform and content on an as-is and as-available basis. We aim to maintain a reliable learning experience, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free content, specific technical outcomes, career results, exam results, or business results.
Legal
Liability limits
To the extent permitted by law, EDA Academy and its affiliates are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or lost-profit damages arising from platform use, content access, purchases, instructor materials, technical interruptions, or account restrictions.
Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
Legal
Updates to these terms
We may update these terms to reflect product changes, payment flows, content rules, legal requirements, or platform operations. Material updates may be communicated through the website, account notices, email, or checkout flows.
Legal
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Australia unless applicable law requires otherwise. Some users may have mandatory local consumer, privacy, or dispute rights that cannot be limited by these terms.
Legal
Contact
For questions about these terms, purchases, refunds, account access, or legal notices, contact EDA Academy Support at support@eda-academy.com.