Terms & conditions
Last updated: [DD Month YYYY]The conditions under which Pearly Quality publishes its free content and sells its courses and workshops. Written in plain English where the law lets us, and unambiguous where it does not.
01Who we are
Pearly Quality is operated by [Full legal name], a sole trader registered in Hungary under registration number [egyéni vállalkozó nyilvántartási szám], tax number [adószám], with a registered address at [street, postcode, city, Hungary].
Throughout these terms, "we", "us" and "Pearly Quality" all mean the same thing. "You" means the person reading this page or using anything we publish.
The easiest way to reach us is by email at info@pearlyquality.hu. We answer within a few working days.
02What these terms cover
These terms apply to everything we publish at pearlyquality.hu and on the channels we run from it — the YouTube channel, the Spotify podcast, the blog, any downloadable resources, the email newsletter, and our paid courses and workshops.
By using the site, reading the newsletter, or buying a course or workshop, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the services.
Where a specific course, workshop or downloadable resource has its own additional terms — for example a workshop registration form or a course's enrolment page — those additional terms apply alongside this document. If the two ever disagree, the more specific document wins.
03Intellectual property
Everything we publish — articles, videos, podcast episodes, slide decks, workbooks, illustrations, code samples, the brand name and the visual identity — is the intellectual property of Pearly Quality unless we say otherwise on the page itself.
You are very welcome to:
- Read, watch and listen to anything we publish for free, as many times as you like.
- Link to our pages and embed our videos and podcast episodes using the official share buttons.
- Quote short passages with attribution and a link back to the original.
You may not, without our prior written permission:
- Republish, mirror or redistribute our content in whole, or in substantial part.
- Translate, edit or repackage our content under your own name or another brand.
- Use our brand name, logo or visual identity in a way that suggests endorsement or partnership we have not given.
If you would like to reuse something beyond what is allowed above — translate an article, run an internal workshop using our materials, cite us in a book — email us. We are usually happy to say yes.
04Free resources
Free resources include the YouTube channel, the Spotify podcast, the blog, the newsletter, and any ebooks, guides, templates or checklists you can download without paying.
Free downloads are licensed to you for your own personal and internal professional use. You may share the original download link with colleagues and friends. You may not upload the file to another site, sell it, bundle it with a paid product, or strip our branding from it.
Newsletter subscriptions are handled by our email service provider, [SendPulse]. By subscribing you agree to your email address being processed by that provider on our behalf, as set out in our privacy policy. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of every email.
05Paid courses & workshops
Pricing & currency
Prices are shown on the page of the course or workshop, in [EUR / HUF], and include applicable Hungarian VAT where required. If a price is wrong by an obvious order of magnitude — a typo — we reserve the right to correct it and offer you a full refund if you have already paid.
Payment
Payments are processed by [name of payment processor]. By placing an order you agree to the payment processor's own terms. We do not see or store your full card details; we receive a confirmation that the payment cleared, plus the billing details you supply for invoicing.
Your invoice is issued in line with Hungarian tax rules and sent to the email address you provide at checkout. If you need the invoice to a company name and tax number, please enter those at checkout — we cannot reissue invoices to a different party after the fact.
What you get
The course or workshop page lists exactly what is included — total duration, the format (live, recorded, in person), any downloadable materials, and the dates if it is a live session. If anything material changes after you book (for example a workshop date moves), we will email you and offer either the new date or a full refund.
Access
Access to a paid course is granted to the named buyer for their personal use. Please do not share your access link, login or downloaded materials with people who have not paid. For team licences please contact us — we are happy to make a fair group price.
06Refund policy
The short version. Self-paced courses: 14 days to change your mind, as long as you have not accessed substantial course content. Live workshops: full refund up to [14] days before the session, no refund after that, but you can transfer your seat.
Self-paced courses & downloadable products
Under EU consumer law you normally have a 14-day right of withdrawal on digital products. We apply this fully, with one important caveat: if you have already accessed, downloaded or streamed substantial parts of the course during the 14 days, your right of withdrawal ends at that point. We will ask you to confirm this at checkout. You will see clearly when you are about to give up your right of withdrawal.
To withdraw, email us at info@pearlyquality.hu within 14 days of your purchase. We will refund you within 14 days of receiving the request, using the same payment method you used.
Live workshops (online and in person)
Live workshops are non-refundable once the cancellation window has closed, because we hold a seat for you and turn other registrants away. The window is:
- Up to [14] days before the session — full refund, no questions asked.
- Inside [14] days — the seat is non-refundable, but you may transfer it to a named colleague, free of charge, until 24 hours before the start.
- If we cancel the workshop or move the date — you choose between a full refund or the next available session.
Force majeure
If a session cannot run for reasons clearly outside anyone's control — a transport strike on the day, illness, a venue closing at short notice — we will reschedule and, if you cannot attend the new date, refund you in full.
07Acceptable use
The site, the newsletter and the courses are for human beings learning about software testing. When using them, please do not:
- Scrape the site, the podcast feed, the video transcripts or the newsletter archive in bulk.
- Use any part of our content to train, fine-tune, evaluate or ground a machine-learning or AI model, including large language models, without our prior written permission.
- Resell, sublicense or rent access to a paid course or workshop, or post the materials in a paywalled or open archive.
- Attempt to break, probe or overload the site, or interfere with other users' access to it.
- Impersonate Pearly Quality, our newsletter, or any of our trainers, in messages, posts or media.
We may, without notice, suspend access for anyone clearly in breach of these rules. For paid products, we will refund any unused portion when we do.
08Limitation of liability
Everything we publish is educational. It is informed by real experience and by the literature, but it is not professional, legal, medical or financial advice, and it is not a substitute for an audit, a security review, or a lawyer reviewing your specific situation.
You decide what to do with what you learn from us. We are not liable for decisions you make, or for outcomes in your projects, your team or your business, based on something you read, watched, heard or learned from a Pearly Quality resource.
To the extent the law allows us to limit our liability, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of a paid product is limited to what you paid us for that product in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — for example, liability for gross negligence, fraud, or death or personal injury caused by our negligence.
09Changes to these terms
We may update these terms over time — for example when we add a new product, change payment processors, or have to reflect a change in the law. The current version always lives at this URL, and the "Last updated" date at the top of the page reflects the most recent change.
If we make a change that materially affects existing customers — for example, the refund window for a course you already bought — we will email you about it. Otherwise, the version in force when you bought a product is the one that governs that purchase.
10Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of Hungary, within the framework of EU consumer and data-protection law. Any dispute we cannot settle by talking it over will be heard by the competent Hungarian courts.
If you are a consumer based elsewhere in the EU, nothing in this section takes away the protections you enjoy under the mandatory law of your home country.