Terms of Use

Gentle Path Press, Gentlepath.com and its’ affiliates (“IITAP”,
“International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals”, “we” or “us”) provide a variety of website features at Gentlepath.com (“Website”), similar services on other websites and applications, and other products owned and maintained by IITAP (collectively, the “Services”). By accessing the Website or by using the Services, you are agreeing to these Terms of Use (“Terms”), our  Privacy Policy (“Policy”) and all other applicable terms posted on our Website such as our Gift Card and Rewards Program policies (collectively referred to as, “Entire Agreement”). The Entire Agreement is a legally binding agreement between You (referred to hereinafter as, “you,” or “user,” or “your”, or “visitor”) and us. Please read the Entire Agreement carefully. If these terms are inconsistent with any other written policies, terms, and agreements relating to any Service or our Website, the written guidelines, policy, terms, and agreements relating to the specific service will govern.

We may from time to time amend or modify these Terms in our sole discretion by posting the amended Terms to the Website or by emailing you to the email address you provided to us. If you do not agree or consent to our amended or modified Terms, you should not use the Services. Your continued use of the Services will be considered your acceptance of any amended or modified Terms.

Nothing in these Terms will be deemed to confer any third-party rights or benefits. Additional terms may apply to certain Services, and those additional terms will become part of your agreement with us if you use those Services.

If you do not agree to the Entire Agreement, you should not use the Website and/or our Services. If you have any questions or concerns about these Terms, please feel free to contact us at info@gentlepath.com

Use of the Services

You may use our Services only if you are above the age of 18 and have the legal authority to enter into a binding contract. INDIVIDUALS BELOW THE AGE OF 18 (“MINORS”) ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF A LEGAL GUARDIAN OR PARENT. IF YOU BECOME AWARE THAT WE HAVE COLLECTED PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM A MINOR WITHOUT PARENTAL OR LEGAL GUARDIAN CONSENT, PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING US AT  Info@gentlepath.com , SO WE CAN TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION. In no event is the use of the Services permitted by those under the age of 13. If you are using the Services on behalf of any entity, then you are agreeing to the Terms on behalf of that entity and will be liable for all actions taken under that account. IITAP reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at their sole discretion.

Types of Users

There are three types of users that can use the Services: Visitors to the Website, Guests, and Account Holders (collectively referred to as, “User(s)”).

Visitors

Visitors are those who browse our Website (“Visitors”). You are not required to make an account with us in order to be a Visitor. However, these Terms will still govern your visit to our Website. We may collect certain online behavioral and navigational information from your visit to our Website. For more information on the data we may collect from a Visitor, please review our Privacy Policy.

Guests

Guests are those who visit our Website or an affiliate website and use our Services without creating an Account (“Guests”). You are not required to provide certain personal information to us if you are using our Service as a Guest. However, you may still be required to provide us with some personal information, such as payment information, billing information, shipping information, names, and addresses. For more information on the personal information we need in order to process orders with us, please view our Privacy Policy

Account Holders

Account Holders are those who sign up and create an account with us on our Website and use our Services. In order to become an Account Holder, you must sign up and create an Account on our Website and provide us with data as outlined in our Privacy Policy. Personal information may be required in order to use the Services, and we will only use personal information and user information according to our Privacy Policy.

Registration and Account Creation

By using the Services, you agree to the following: When you register to create an account and use the Services, you agree: (a) to submit a valid e-mail address and password, along with your first and last name to create your account (“Account”); (b) to submit accurate information, including but not limited to your location, phone number, billing and shipping address, and other useful content, on your account; (c) to keep confidential, all aspects of your Account including Your user name and password, and content associated with and within it; (d) that you are responsible for any and all uses of your Account, whether or not you’ve authorized such use; (e) to keep confidential all aspects of other Users’ Account information that You may have authorized access to; (f) to immediately notify us in writing of any unauthorized use of your Account; and (g) that you will not use the Services for any unlawful or otherwise prohibited activity. The information required to create an Account may vary depending on the country, region, or type of User.

Communications

In connection with your use of the Services, you agree that we may send you service announcements, administrative messages, notifications, offers, promotions, affiliate information, and other important information. You may opt out of some of those communications by clicking the “unsubscribe” button on the bottom of all emails sent from us to you, or by altering your communication preferences by logging into your Account and choosing the email communications you want to receive via the Email Preferences menu. However, there are certain material transactional or data privacy emails you may not opt out of. Additionally, you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. If you choose to delete your data with us, pursuant to the CCPA, we will continue to communicate with you in order to complete the deletion request, if possible, and to confirm completion of the request, if possible and applicable. For further information on deletion requests and communication, please review our Privacy Policy.

Comments, Communications, and Other User-Submitted Content

You may submit comments, photos, testimonials, questions, suggestions, or other information (“User Content”) to GentlePath.com but such content cannot be objectionable, illegal, obscene, defamatory, infringing of intellectual property rights, an invasion of privacy, or otherwise harmful to others or “spam.” If you submit a posting, you must use a real email address and you may not pretend to be any other person. IITAP reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content, nor does it endorse, promote, or guarantee the accuracy or relevancy of the content. By transmitting or submitting any User Content while using the Services, you affirm, represent, guarantee and warrant that such transmission or submission is (a) accurate and up to date; (b) not in violation of any applicable laws, contractual restrictions or other third party rights, and that you have permission from any third party whose personal information or intellectual property is comprised in the User Content; (c) free of viruses, adware, spyware, worms, or other malicious code; and (d) you acknowledge and agree that any of your personal information within such User Content will at all times be processed by us in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You have the right to change, modify, and/or delete your User Content, and can do so by accessing your account or through the methods outlined in our Privacy Policy.

When submitting information and User Content to your Account or the Website, you retain all intellectual property rights and ownership to your User Content. No transfer of ownership, interest, or title is created between you and us, for your User Content or vice versa. However, so that we can operate the Services effectively, you grant us, by submitting your User Content to the Website or Services, a perpetual and irrevocable, worldwide, fully paid-up and royalty-free, non-exclusive, unlimited license, including the right to sublicense and assign to third parties, and right to copy, reproduce, fix, adapt, modify, improve, translate, reformat, create derivative works from, manufacture, introduce into circulation, commercialize, publish, distribute, sell, license, sublicense, transfer, rent, lease, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, or provide access to electronically, broadcast, communicate to the public by telecommunication, display, perform, enter into computer memory, and use and practice, in any way now known or in the future discovered, your User Content as well as all modified and derivative works thereof in connection with Services (“User Content License”). To the extent permitted by applicable laws, you hereby covenant not to assert against us any moral rights you may have in any of your User Content. The rights you grant in the User Content License are for the purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new services and/or products. You must have the necessary rights to grant us this User Content License for any User Content that you provide to us both directly and indirectly. You can find more information about how we collect, use, and store content in our Privacy Policy. If you request to delete a portion of or all of your data, including User Content, then we will no longer have rights to the particular deleted data pursuant to the User Content License granted herein.

You hereby represent and warrant that you will indemnify and hold IITAP LLC or Gentle Path Press harmless against all claims, actions, allegations, fines, damages, or loss resulting from or arising out of the User Content you provide to us or upload to the Website or Services. IITAP LLC or Gentle Path Press takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.  We will only delete the personal information in our internal systems, services, and with third-party processing.

Restrictions on User Content

We reserve the right to cancel a User Account at any time for any reason in our sole discretion. User Accounts may be cancelled for several reasons, including but not limited to:

1. Submitting any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, bigoted, racially offensive, obscene, or otherwise objectionable User Content or content that violates our policies;
2. Any sexually explicit User Content;
3. Language or User conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law or regulation;
4. Posting any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, “spam,” or junk mail, including “chain letters” and “pyramid schemes”;
5. Submitting any User Content that is alleged to infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary right;
6. Uploading a virus or User Content designed to disrupt, limit, or damage any functionality of any computer software, hardware or server;
7. If we in Our judgment and sole discretion deem it appropriate; or
8. Upon a verified data deletion request.

Prohibited Activities

Unless you have our express written consent, you cannot, and will not attempt to:

1. Use the Services to submit, store, transmit, or process malicious code, worms or viruses;
2. Use the Services to submit, store, transmit, or process User Content that is or may be: (a) threatening, harassing, degrading, hateful or intimidating; (b) libelous or defamatory; (c) fraudulent, tortious, or unlawful; (d) obscene, indecent, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable; or (e) infringing of any person’s rights, any applicable laws, or your obligations to any third party;
3. Use the Services to submit, store, transmit, or process User Content that would give rise to criminal or civil liability or that encourages unlawful activity;
4. Use the Services for retail arbitrage or any other commercial and/or reselling purposes; bulk purchasing is available solely for non-profit groups, foundations, and charities who do not re-sell items.
5. Gain unauthorized access to the Services, or to our systems or networks;
6. Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services, or third-party content contained therein;
7. Impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity in connection with the Services;
8. Reverse engineer, disassemble, or decompile the Services or apply any other process or procedure to derive the source code of any software included in the Services; or
9. Unless otherwise provided, remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notice from the Services.

Removal of User Content and Requests

We take the rights of others very seriously. If you have any concerns that User Content is improper or infringing, please contact us at info@gentlepath.comand if you would like the User Content removed, please provide us with:

1. A detailed description of the objectionable content, including where it is located;
2. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the poster does not have permission to use the said objectionable content;
3. A statement that you are the owner, or exclusive agent of the owner, of the objectionable content;
4. Your contact information, including telephone number and physical address, and;
5. A signed and sworn statement, under penalty of perjury, that your statements above are true to your knowledge.

We will try our best to remove any infringing User Content, but we are under no obligation or responsibility to do so.

Cancellation, Removal or Suspension of Account

1. Without limiting or waiving any of our other rights under these Terms, we may limit, suspend, terminate, modify, or delete your Account or access to the Services if you are, or we suspect that you are, failing to comply with any of these Terms for any actual or suspected illegal or improper use of the Services, with or without notice to you. Additionally, we may limit, suspend, terminate, modify, or delete your Account or access to the Services if we believe that you are infringing our intellectual property rights or third parties’, or are acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of our Terms or any published policies. Data will be removed from all applicable devices when your Account is terminated or deleted, but only as technically feasible and in compliance with applicable laws.
2. At any time, you may cancel your Account with us by emailing us at info@gentlepath.com or by accessing your Account preferences.
3. At all times, you have the right to remove or change your User Content and some personal information by editing or specifically deleting it through your account. You can edit, modify, and delete your contact information, address, email address, payment information, and date of birth within your account. However, in certain instances, some of your removed or edited User Content or data may not be completely removed, and copies of your User Content or data may continue to exist on the system or Site’s server, and other locations belonging to us, including records indicating your deletion request as allowed by applicable data privacy laws. Copies, or meta copies, of User Content and information is solely used for purposes associated with the Services. We are not responsible or liable for the removal or deletion of (or the failure to remove or delete) any of your User Content at any time, or any other content that you have made available online, including comments, photos, testimonials, reviews, videos, and ratings.

Fees and Payment Information

1. When using the Services or placing an order with us, you may be required to pay a purchase price associated with the item(s), along with applicable fees and taxes (“Fees”).
2. We use third-party payment gateways (“Third-Party Payment Gateways”), such as Visa, PayPal, and Mastercard to process any applicable order fees, taxes, and/or payments. By using the Services, you hereby agree to the terms of use and privacy policy of the then-current Third-Party Payment Gateway. We are not liable for any issues arising from or related to your breach of any Third-Party Payment Gateway’s policies. We may, from time-to-time, change our Third-Party Payment Gateway, and will provide you with written notice of such change. All information collected through our Third-Party Payment Gateway, such as credit card information, names, and addresses, may be accessible to us but will not be used, sold, or stored by us. We are not liable for any data breach or security incident, or compromised personal information that is caused, directly or indirectly, by the Third-Party Payment Gateway. You are responsible for any data or personal information that you directly provide to any Third-Party Payment Gateway.
3. If you choose to delete certain data or personal information with us, or if you opt-out-of-sale, we may not be able to process payments, fees, refunds, orders, credits, promotions, or offers with our Third-Party Payment Gateway.

Intellectual Property and License

Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in our Services or the content you access. Except in the context of browsing or accessing our Services in accordance with these Terms, you may not use content from our Services unless you obtain written permission from its owner or are otherwise permitted by law. These Terms do not grant you the right to use any branding or logos used in our Services. Do not remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with our Services.

1. Copyright Protection. All content included in any Service, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Gentle Path Press or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site and included in any Service is the exclusive property of Gentle Path Press and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site and included in any Service is the property of Gentle Path Press or its software suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws.
2. Trademark Protection. Gentle Path Press, Gentlepath.com, IITAP LLC, IITAP, iitap.com, and other Services graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade dress of IITAP LLC  in the U.S. and other countries. IITAP LLC trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not owned by IITAP LLC, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits IITAP LLC. All other trademarks not owned by IITAP LLC that appear in connection with Services are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by IITAP LLC.
3. License and Site Access. IITAP LLC grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of the Services and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of IITAP LLC. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of Services’ content; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of Services’ content; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. Services’ content or any portion of such content may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, assigned, sub-licensed visited, or otherwise exploited for any purpose, including commercial purposes, without the express written consent of IITAP LLC. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Gentle Path Press without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing the Gentle Path Press’ name or trademarks without the express written consent of IITAP LLC. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by IITAP LLC. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of Gentle Path Press  so long as the link does not portray Gentle Path Press, or its products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Gentle Path Press logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission. Violation of this section will constitute a material breach of these Terms and may be grounds for immediate termination and/or cancellation of your Account.

Gentle Path Press attempts to be as accurate as possible. However, Gentle Path Press does not warrant that product descriptions or other content provided through Services is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If a product offered by Gentle Path Press itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it, exchange the item, or receive store credit, to be determined by our sole discretion.

At Gentle Path Press, we believe in our mission to offer customers a wide assortment of books at everyday low prices and to empower our readers to read more and to spend less doing so. We strive to provide high quality books, but we do not dictate what our customers should read, nor do we censor ideas. Instead, we respect our customers’ ability to choose from books that espouse a wide range of ideas and viewpoints.

We believe in fostering a dialogue with and among our customers as to the state of the literary world as it stands, and not as we might wish it to be. We also believe our readers should have the ability to inform themselves, particularly as to viewpoints they or we may disagree with, including those that are unorthodox, unpopular, or considered dangerous by some. We believe our customers will exercise critical judgment and choose to accept the good and reject the bad, and we believe the only answer to a “bad book” is a good one.

With those beliefs in mind, we encourage our customers to voice their concerns and to strive to counter any damage that may be caused by the acceptance of viewpoints and content they find objectionable. But it is not our chosen role to decide whether the content-specific concerns of any particular group of our customers are merited.

We reserve the right to choose to include or not include any books in our inventory, and we intend not to include books in our inventory that are libelous or otherwise violate the law, that incite violence or terrorism, or that promote abuse or exploitation, particularly of children. We also may not include other books in our inventory for any reason in our sole discretion.

We aim to error on the side of free expression and will not remove any books from our inventory because the viewpoints they may espouse are objectionable to some of our readers. Instead, we will strive to deliver our promise to customers to provide high quality books at everyday low prices, regardless of their content.

Copyright Permission

Permission to quote from Gentle Path Press copyrighted works

In order to protect the copyright and message integrity of works produced by Gentle Path Press, we require that you obtain formal permission in advance if you wish to copy or excerpt from our materials.

In order to request permission, submit our Permission to Reprint Form. Please allow 3 weeks for a response.

General Permission Guidelines

• We cannot grant anyone permission to reproduce the majority of a publication.
• Consideration is weighed given the size of the excerpt within the totality of the requestor’s work.
• We generally approve requests for the right to reproduce a short excerpt from work (a couple of paragraphs or less) if it is used in a free publication and full attribution is given to Gentle Path Press.
• Excepts to be used in works that are not free may be subject to a fee.

Copyright Complaints and Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Notice of Copyright Infringement

Counter-Notices

If you believe that a notice of copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against you, the DMCA permits you to send us a counter-notice. Counter-notices must include the following information:

1. Your name, address, and telephone number;
2. A description of the source of the content that was removed;
3. A representation under penalty of perjury that you believe that the content was removed in error;
4. A representation that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district that IITAP LLC chooses, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original complaint; and
5. Your signature (physical or electronic is acceptable).
6. Updated Requirements

Notices and counter-notices with respect to the Services must meet the then-current statutory requirements imposed by the DMCA and should be sent to IITAP LLCs’ designated agent through the address listed below. Please be aware that there can be penalties for false claims under the DMCA.

ATTN: DMCA Designated Agent – Director of Operations
IITAP LLC
P.O. Box 2112
Carefree, AZ 85377

Risk of Loss

All items purchased from IITAP LLC  are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items passes to you upon our delivery to the carrier.

Product Descriptions and Content Guidelines

Gentle Path Press attempts to be as accurate as possible. However, Gentle Path Press does not warrant that product descriptions or other content provided through Services is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If a product offered by Gentle Path Press itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it, exchange the item, or receive store credit, to be determined by our sole discretion.

At Gentle Path Press, we believe in our mission to offer customers a wide assortment of books at everyday low prices and to empower our readers to read more and to spend less doing so. We strive to provide high quality books, but we do not dictate what our customers should read, nor do we censor ideas. Instead, we respect our customers’ ability to choose from books that espouse a wide range of ideas and viewpoints.

We believe in fostering a dialogue with and among our customers as to the state of the literary world as it stands, and not as we might wish it to be. We also believe our readers should have the ability to inform themselves, particularly as to viewpoints they or we may disagree with, including those that are unorthodox, unpopular, or considered dangerous by some. We believe our customers will exercise critical judgment and choose to accept the good and reject the bad, and we believe the only answer to a “bad book” is a good one.

With those beliefs in mind, we encourage our customers to voice their concerns and to strive to counter any damage that may be caused by the acceptance of viewpoints and content they find objectionable. But it is not our chosen role to decide whether the content-specific concerns of any particular group of our customers are merited.

We reserve the right to choose to include or not include any books in our inventory, and we intend not to include books in our inventory that are libelous or otherwise violate the law, that incite violence or terrorism, or that promote abuse or exploitation, particularly of children. We also may not include other books in our inventory for any reason in our sole discretion.

We aim to err on the side of free expression and will not remove any books from our inventory because the viewpoints they may espouse are objectionable to some of our readers. Instead, we will strive to deliver our promise to customers to provide high quality books at everyday low prices, regardless of their content.