Read Hearts and Bones Pilates' policies about privacy, cancellation and refunds, intellectual property, and harassment.
Hearts and Bones Pilates is committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use personal information you provide for the purpose for which it was provided. We will keep your information secure and will not disclose it to any third party.
Please contact us immediately if you have any concerns about the personal information we hold or if you wish to review or correct your information.
We have the following refund policies if you cancel.
Students shall not:
In order to ensure all our staff and students feel comfortable raising any concerns they have regarding harassment, we have created a detailed harassment policy. We hope that the policy will be read by all staff and students and referred to, should any concerns arise. If you have any questions or require any clarifications regarding our harassment policy, please speak to Tania Huddart. Harassment occurs when a person engages in unwanted conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating your dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for you.
Harassment is also defined as unwanted conduct related to relevant protected characteristics that have the purpose or effect of violating your dignity, or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for you.
The relevant protected characteristics are:
Sexual harassment is a particular type of discrimination which is typically defined as unwelcome sexual advances or other verbal, physical or non-physical conduct of a sexual nature in the workplace. This could be used as a factor in decisions affecting some aspect of employment or substantially interferes with an individual’s employment by creating an intimidating or hostile work environment. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours and other verbal, physical or non-physical conduct of a sexual nature that could constitute sexual harassment when:
In addition, “romantic” or “consensual” relationships, dating or even isolated sexual encounters between staff and students may constitute or lead to sexual harassment because the junior person involved may not be a willing participant notwithstanding the perception of the senior person or statements of the junior person.
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) defines bullying as offensive, malicious or insulting behaviour. It is an abuse or misuse of power through means intended to undermine, humiliate, denigrate or injure you. Bullying tactics can include hostile verbal or nonverbal communication, sabotage, exclusion, manipulation, and psychological or physical abuse.
Examples of harassment behaviours include:
Your responsibility
Everyone is responsible for their own behaviour. You must:
If you believe that discrimination is taking place, whether, against you or a colleague, it is important that you bring it to the course directors attention immediately.
Hearts and Bones is committed to this policy.
If you use this policy to raise a concern, we give you our assurance that you will not suffer any form of retribution or detrimental treatment. We will treat your concern seriously and act according to this harassment policy. If you ask for a matter to be treated in confidence we will respect your request and only make disclosures to third parties, partners, or other staff with your consent. This assurance applies regardless of whether the subject matter of your concern, report or disclosure relates to this company, a client or third party.
If you are concerned about any form of malpractice covered by this policy, you should raise the issue with the course director.
Concerns can be raised orally or in writing. When raising the concern, you may choose to either include your identity or remain anonymous. Remember that once you have raised your concern, in the interests of everyone involved, this is a confidential process.
After an employee has raised a concern, we will record that concern in our central Report Register which is maintained by Tania Huddart.
We will then decide how to respond in a responsible and appropriate manner under this policy. This will usually involve making internal enquiries first, but it may be necessary to carry out an investigation at a later stage. This may be formal or informal, depending on the nature of the concern raised. We will endeavour to complete investigations within a reasonable time. We will keep you informed of the progress of the investigation carried out and when it is completed. Please note that we will not be able to inform you of any matters that would infringe the duty of confidentiality owed to others.
The purpose of this policy is to give staff and students the opportunity and protection they need to raise concerns internally. We expect that in almost all cases, raising concerns internally would be the most appropriate action for you to take.
Those using the procedure outlined in this policy to raise a concern are assured that they will not suffer any form of retribution or detrimental treatment. To ensure the protection of all our employees and students, those who maliciously make a false allegation will be liable to disciplinary action.
Hearts and Bones will regularly monitor the effectiveness of this policy at least annually to ensure it is working in practice. We will provide information and/or training on any changes that are made.
Any student who feels s/he has been subject to harassment should take the following actions:
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