1. Agreement of contract: The contract for participation in a Little Music Makers® course is agreed when Little Music Makers® has confirmed the registration by email.
2. Payment: The tuition fee has to be paid by bank transfer in the given time frame as announced by email. Otherwise a reservation cannot be guaranteed. We cannot accept cash or credit card payment. Course materials will be handed out when payment has been made.
3. Refunds: For cancellations more than 3 days before the first lesson of the course starts, the course fee will be refunded less a 25 € administration fee. For cancellations made less than 3 whole days before the first lesson of the course starts no refund of the course fee is possible. The transfer of a booked course spot to another family or credits to another semester are not possible.
4. Make-up classes: During the Corona period, make-up lessons (replacement for missed lessons) are offered exclusively as online lessons via Zoom. Each family may schedule up to two make-up lessons per semester, space permitting. Make-ups are not guaranteed but can almost always be accommodated. Make-ups cannot be transferred to another semester.Make-ups have to be reserved by the participant online through our make-up scheduler. It is not possible to book or cancel a make-up lesson by phone or email. If it is not possible to take part in a booked make-up lesson, it must be cancelled online at least 24 hours before the lesson starts via the make-up scheduler. Make-ups that are cancelled less than 24 hours in advance will be forfeited. It is not possible to bring a guest child along to make-ups in our classroom courses.
5. Cancellations:
   Corona regulation:
   During the time of Corona we reserve the right to change our courses from classroom courses to online courses during the current semester – if such a measure should be necessary due to the current Corona situation or due to imposed requirements of the Potsdam Senate (e.g. in case of a lockdown). If the teacher himself/herself shows symptoms of illness and no substitute can be organised, the classroom lesson will be replaced by an online Zoom lesson if necessary.Lessons may be cancelled or postponed by Little Music Makers® or may be held by a teacher other than the teacher designated to the class. In case of extreme weather conditions please contact us or check out our website www.littlemusicmakers-potsdam.de for more information on cancellations.

   In case a lesson has to be cancelled on very short notice Little Music Makers® will contact each family by phone (SMS or WhatsApp) and/or email. If a lesson is cancelled it will either be held at the end of the semester – or if that should not be possible – it will be refunded or credited (proportionally to the number of classes cancelled). There will be no refund of the class materials (songbook and CD). In general a teacher is designated to a particular class. However, in the case that the teacher is prevented from attending for any reason, either another teacher from our team will hold the lesson or it will take place at a later date.

6. Liability: Little Music Makers® can neither be held liable for any accidents, infections with the Coronavirus, injuries of all kinds nor for theft, personal injury or physical damage happening to a participant during or after a course lesson. Insurance coverage has to be solely provided by the course participant.
7. Safety: We reserve the right to send families with cold symptoms back home in order not to endanger other families. The safety of all children has first priority. The person accompanying the child is responsible and liable for the child’s behaviour. He or she has to be prepared to act, if the child endangers itself or other children or if the child persistently disturbs the class. If it is not possible to stop the behaviour of a child, we reserve the right to ban the family from the course. We will then refund the remaining class lessons. There will be no refund of the class materials (songbook and CD).
8. Guests and siblings: In times of the Coronavirus it is not possible to bring guest children to the classroom courses. Once we switch back to our normal course mode (without Corona regulations), you are welcome to bring guest children along into a classroom course. We would appreciate it if you could let us know in advance. The cost is 10 € per class/child. Siblings who are not registered for the course can be brought the first time for free. After that we charge 10 € per class.
9. Tuition fee: The tuition fee for classroom courses for one child is as follows: Course fee for 10 weeks 120 €; course material: CD 15 €, songbook 15 € amounting to a total of 150 €. Each additional child (age of 8 months and older at start date of the course) costs 80 € tuition fee/course.The tuition fee for online courses is as follows: Course fee for 10 weeks 110 €; course material: CD 15 €, songbook 15 € amounting to a total of 140 €. There will be no additional charge for siblings in online courses.
10. Illness: In order to protect all course participants in times of the Coronavirus, participation with symptoms of illness is not permitted – even with the slightest signs of infection.
11. Rules of hygiene: The rules of hygiene in the course rooms must be strictly observed to protect the health of all course participants.
12. Filming and photographing: Filming and photographing during the course is not permitted for data protection reasons.
13. Severability clause: Should any provision of this Contract be or become invalid, ineffective or unenforceable as a whole or in part, the validity, effectiveness and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected thereby. Any such invalid, ineffective or unenforceable provision shall be deemed replaced by such valid, effective and enforceable provision as comes closest to the original meaning and the purpose of such invalid, ineffective or unenforceable provision. The law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply. The place of jurisdiction is Berlin. There are no additional agreements. Any supplementary agreements or amendments to these Terms and Conditions must be made in writing in order to be valid.

Date: 2 December 2020