Terms & Conditions

Terms of Service

Please read this Terms of Service (“Terms”, “Terms of Service”) carefully before using the https://www.empoweredbusinessnetworking.com website (the “Website”) operated by Duet Vocal Academy, Inc., d/b/a The Empowered Voice a(n) S Corp formed in Maryland, United States (“us”, “we”, “our”) as this Terms of Service contains important information regarding limitations of our liability. Your access to and use of this Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to everyone, including but not limited to visitors, users and others, who wish to access and use the Website.

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the Terms, then you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.

Our offers and pricing

We offer services on this Website.

The price of these services can be found listed on the Website. This price does not include taxes or other fees that you may be charged.

Purchases

When you make a purchase on the Website, you will be using a third party payment processor, Stripe, that will collect your payment information and process your payment. We are not responsible for the collection, use, sharing or security of your billing information by Stripe. The following payment method(s) are accepted by the third party payment processor: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa.

You hereby represent and warrant that you have the legal right to use the payment method(s) in connection with any purchase and that the information that you supply to us and to the third party payment processor is true, correct and complete.

Cancellation policy

We do not offer you the ability to cancel any purchases that you have made of the services offered on our Website. We do not reserve the right to cancel your purchase.

Refund policy

We do not offer refunds on any purchases made of the services offered on our Website.

NO WARRANTY ON PURCHASES

THE ITEMS OR SERVICES DISPLAYED OR SOLD ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS”. NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED (INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE) SHALL APPLY TO ANY ITEMS OR SERVICES DISPLAYED OR SOLD ON THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER ARISING BY LAW, COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, USAGE OF TRADE OR OTHERWISE.

Remedies

You agree that the remedy for breach of this Terms of Service as it relates to your purchase shall be to pursue dispute resolution as provided in the “governing law, severability, dispute resolution, venue and class action waiver” section below. This remedy is intended to be your sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of this Terms of Service as it relates to your purchase.

Prohibited uses

You agree that you will use this Website in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and these Terms at all times. The following is a non-exhaustive list of prohibited uses of this Website. You agree that you will not perform any of the following prohibited uses:

  1. Impersonating or attempting to impersonate Duet Vocal Academy, Inc. d/b/a The Empowered Voice or its employees, representatives, subsidiaries or divisions;

  2. Misrepresenting your identity or affiliation with any person or entity;

  3. Sending or attempting to send any advertising or promotional material, including but not limited to spam, junk mail, chain mail or any similar material;

  4. Engaging in any conduct that restricts or inhibits any person’s use or enjoyment of the Website, or which, as determined in our sole discretion, may harm us or the users of this Website or expose us or other users to liability;

  5. Using the Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage or impair the Website or interfere with another party’s use of the Website;

  6. Using any robot, spider or other similar automatic technology, process or means to access or use the Website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on this Website;

  7. Using any manual process or means to monitor or copy any of the material on this Website or for any other unauthorized purpose;

  8. Using any device, software, means or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website, including but not limited to viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other such materials;

  9. Attempting to gain unauthorized access to, interfering with, damaging or disrupting any parts of the Website, the server(s) on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Website;

  10. Attempting to attack or attacking the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack;

  11. Otherwise attempting to interfere with the proper working of the Website;

  12. Using the Website in any way that violates any applicable federal, state or local laws, rules or regulations.

NO WARRANTY ON WEBSITE

THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”. NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED (INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE) SHALL APPLY TO THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER ARISING BY LAW, COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, USAGE OF TRADE OR OTHERWISE.

Availability, errors and inaccuracies

We assume no liability for the availability, errors or inaccuracies of the information, products or services provided on this Website. We may experience delays in updating information on this Website and in our advertising on other websites. The information, products and services found on the Website may contain errors or inaccuracies or may not be complete or current. Products or services may be incorrectly priced or unavailable. We expressly reserve the right to correct any pricing errors on our Website. The inclusion or offering of any product or service on this Website does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of such product or service by us.

DAMAGES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT SHALL DUET VOCAL ACADEMY, INC. BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF, RELATING TO OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR ACCESS TO, DISPLAY OF OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO ACCESS, DISPLAY OR USE THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO YOUR RELIANCE UPON OPINIONS OR INFORMATION APPEARING ON THIS WEBSITE; ANY COMPUTER VIRUSES, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, LINKED WEBSITES OPERATED BY THIRD PARTIES, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON A THEORY OF NEGLIGENCE, CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, CONSUMER PROTECTION STATUTES OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF DUET VOCAL ACADEMY, INC. HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF DUET VOCAL ACADEMY, INC. ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF FEES ACTUALLY RECEIVED BY DUET VOCAL ACADEMY, INC. FROM YOU.

THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY REFLECTS THE ALLOCATION OF RISK BETWEEN YOU AND US. THE LIMITATIONS SPECIFIED IN THIS SECTION WILL SURVIVE AND APPLY EVEN IF ANY LIMITED REMEDY SPECIFIED IN THESE TERMS OF USE IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY PROVIDED IN THESE TERMS OF USE INURE TO THE BENEFIT OF DUET VOCAL ACADEMY, INC.

IF, DESPITE THE LIMITATION ABOVE, DUET VOCAL ACADEMY, INC. IS FOUND LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH ARISES OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY OF THE OCCURRENCES DESCRIBED ABOVE, THEN THE LIABILITY OF DUET VOCAL ACADEMY, INC. WILL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE SERVICE FEES YOU PAID TO DUET VOCAL ACADEMY, INC. IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH TRANSACTION(S) ON THIS WEBSITE.

Links to third party websites

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties and not by us. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. Further, it is your responsibility to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you click on or software that you download, whether from this Website or other websites or applications, is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.

Intellectual property and DMCA notice and procedure for intellectual property infringement claims

All contents of this Website are © 2011 - 2025 Duet Vocal Academy, Inc. or third parties. All rights reserved. Unless specified otherwise, this Website and all content and other materials on this Website including but not limited to all logos, designs, text, graphics, pictures, information, data, software, sound files and arrangement thereof (collectively, “Content”) are the proprietary property of Duet Vocal Academy, Inc. and are either registered trademarks, trademarks or otherwise protected intellectual property of Duet Vocal Academy, Inc. or third parties in the United States and/or other countries.

If you are aware of a potential infringement of our intellectual property, please contact Stephanie Bonte-Lebair at [email protected].

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. It is our policy to respond to any claim that Content posted on the Website infringes on the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity.

If you believe in good faith that the Content infringes on your intellectual property rights, you or your agent may send us a written notice of such infringement titled “Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights - DMCA.” Your notice to us must include the following information:

  1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the intellectual property right’s interest;

  2. A description of the work that you claim has been infringed, including the URL (i.e., web page address) of the location where the work exists or a copy of the work;

  3. Your name, email, address and telephone number; and

  4. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the owner of the work, its agent or the law.

Please note that we will not process your complaint if it is not properly filled out or is incomplete. You may be held accountable for damages, including but not limited to costs and attorneys’ fees for any misrepresentation or bad faith claims regarding the infringement of your intellectual property rights by the Content on this Website.

You may submit your claim to us by contacting us at:

Duet Vocal Academy, Inc.
Stephanie Bonte-Lebair
[email protected]
917-251-7866
2 Michele Ct., Gaithersburg, MD 20878
United States

Governing law, severability, dispute resolution, venue and class action waiver

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Maryland, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. THESE TERMS SHALL NOT BE GOVERNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE SALE OF INTERNATIONAL GOODS, THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, NOR INCOTERMS.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of that right or provision. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding our Website, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have had with you regarding the Website.

Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms including but not limited to the interpretation or breach thereof shall be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction in Montgomery County, Maryland.

YOU AND DUET VOCAL ACADEMY, INC. AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.

Changes to Terms of Service

We reserve the right to make changes to these Terms of Service at any time. We will not provide you with any notice when we make changes to this Terms of Service.

Questions

If you have any questions about our Terms of Service, please contact us at [email protected].

Privacy Policy

We value your privacy very highly. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the https://empoweredbusinessnetworking.com (the “Website”) operated by Duet Vocal Academy, Inc., d/b/a The Empowered Voice a(n) S Corp formed in Maryland, United States (“us, we, our”) as this Privacy Policy contains important information regarding your privacy and how we may use the information we collect about you.

Your access to or use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to everyone, including but not limited to visitors, users and others, who wish to access or use the Website.

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy, you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.

What information we collect and store

We collect and store any and all information that you enter on this Website. We collect and store the following information about you:

Identifying information - Name

Identifying information - Phone number

Identifying information - IP address

Identifying information - Email address

Identifying information - Device identifier

Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interaction with our website or application

We are not required to collect this information by a law, court order, nor by a tribunal order. We combine or link the personal information that we hold about you.

With whom we share your personal information

We share the personal information below with the following categories of third parties for the following reasons:

Identifying information - Name

Identifying information - Phone number

Identifying information - IP address

Identifying information - Email address

Identifying information - Device identifier

Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interaction with our website or application

Please note that these third parties will store your personal information that has been provided to them.

How we protect your personal information

We have implemented the following measures to protect and safeguard your personal information:

Using SSL encryption or other secure technologies when receiving or sending personal information beyond internal networks

Maintaining up-to-date software and safeguards

Sale of your information

We do not sell your personal information. Please see the “Your Rights” section below for more information about exercising your privacy rights regarding sales of your personal information.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on your device by your browser. This Website collects cookies. Please visit our Cookie Policy to learn more about what cookies we collect, why we collect them, and how to change your cookie settings.

Children's privacy

This Website is intended for use by a general audience and does not offer services to children. Should a child whom we know to be under 18 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond to that child to inform them that they cannot use this Website.

Analytics programs

This Website uses Google Analytics to collect information about you and your behaviors. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Information retention

We retain all of the information that we collect until we no longer need to contact you.

Direct marketing

We use the information that we collect about you for direct marketing purposes. Direct marketing is the act of selling products or services directly to consumers rather than through retailers. Please see the “Your rights” section below for more information regarding exercising your privacy rights related to direct marketing.

Your rights

Depending upon where you reside‚ you may have the following rights with regard to your personal information:

The right to access the personal information that we hold about you.

The right to receive the personal information that we hold about you in a portable and, to the extent feasible, a readily usable format that allows you to transmit this information to another entity.

The right to ask us to transmit your personal information that we have collected on you to another provider, where technically feasible.

The right to request that we amend any of the information that we have collected about you.

The right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information.

The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

The right to request that we delete some or all of the personal information that we have collected about you.

The right to lodge a complaint regarding our collection, sharing, and processing of your personal information with competent authorities in the proper jurisdiction.

The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for purposes of direct marketing.

The right to opt out of sales of your personal information.

The right to not have to identify yourself, or of using a pseudonym in certain circumstances.

The right to opt out of tracking of your location.

The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for the purposes of profiling in furtherance of decisions that could produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for automated decision making purposes.

Exercising your rights

You may exercise the rights specified above by submitting a consumer request to:

Stephanie Bonte-Lebair
Owner
[email protected]
917-251-7866
2 Michele Ct., Gaithersburg, MD 20878
United States
https://www.empoweredbusinessnetworking.com

We will need to verify your identity prior to effectuating your request. To verify your identity, you will need to provide us with the following information with your request:

Name

IP address

Email address

Please note that we may be unable to process your request if you do not provide us with the above information.

We will respond to most consumer requests within 30 days of receipt. However, some requests may take longer. We will notify you in writing if we need more time to respond. We have the ability to deny your request(s) if certain exceptions in the law apply. If we do deny your request, we will provide you with the reasons for such denial.

Complaints

You have the right to lodge a complaint regarding our collection, use and sharing of your personal information by contacting us at the following contact information:

Stephanie Bonte-Lebair
Owner
917-251-7866
[email protected]
2 Michele Ct., Gaithersburg, MD 20878
United States

Any such complaints must first be addressed to us in writing as required by Australia Privacy Act 1988 S 40(1A). We will respond to all complaints within a reasonable time (usually 30 days). If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you may then lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by following the steps on this Lodge a Privacy Complaint (Australia) page.

Accountability

The following person is accountable and responsible for our privacy practices and procedures:

Stephanie Bonte-Lebair
Owner
917-251-7866
[email protected]
2 Michele Ct., Gaithersburg, MD 20878
United States

You may lodge a complaint with us by contacting the person accountable and responsible for our privacy practices and procedures at the contact information above. Residents of Canada may also lodge a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada by visiting this File a Privacy Complaint (Canada) page or calling 1-800-282-1376.Residents of Quebec may also lodge a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Quebec by filling out this Quebec Privacy Commission page or calling 1-888-528-7741.

Location of data processing

All data processing activities undertaken by us take place in United States.

Third-party websites

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than us. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. It is up to you to read and fully understand their Privacy Policies. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a preference you can set on your browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. We do not support DNT. You can either enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your browser.

Transferring data

We may transfer your personal information for processing to United States. This means that your information may be processed outside of your country of residence and it may be accessible to law enforcement and national security authorities of that country and jurisdiction. Please note that we use standard contractual clauses, additional safeguards, and adequacy decisions to transfer data.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the updated Privacy Policy to this website.

Questions

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].