Terms of Service

1. WHO WE ARE¶

When these terms say "we", "us", "our", "the College" or "Alvará", they mean Alvará – The College of Working Equitation Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 17384770, whose registered office is at Suite 41, 792 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester, United Kingdom, M20 6UG.

When they say "you" or "your", they mean any person who visits or uses our website.

"Our website" means alvara.com, www.alvara.com and any subdomain of them, together with all content, functionality and services offered on or through them.

2. AGREEING TO THESE TERMS¶

By accessing or using our website you agree to be bound by these terms and by our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. If you do not agree, you must not use our website.

Please read these terms carefully before using our website. We encourage you to keep a copy for your records.

3. WHAT OUR WEBSITE OFFERS AT PRESENT¶

Our website currently provides:

information about the College, its Fellows, its curriculum, its membership and its residencies;
the Library - a collection of freely readable articles about Working Equitation; and
a form through which you can register your interest in membership, and a form through which you can write to the Registrar's Office and, if you choose, ask to receive occasional updates from us.

Prototype Group memberships, offered by invitation, are sold through our website on our Prototype Group Membership Terms, which you are asked to accept before you pay.

Apart from those, no membership, subscription, product or service is currently offered for sale on our website. Any other prices, membership tiers or residencies described on our website are indicative and describe what the College intends to offer. They are not an offer capable of acceptance, and submitting the register-of-interest form does not create a membership, a booking, a place on a residency or any other contract for services. When we begin to offer other memberships for sale, separate terms will apply and will be presented to you before you commit to anything.

4. UPDATES TO THESE TERMS¶

We may update these terms from time to time. The updated terms apply from the date they are published on our website, which is shown at the foot of this page. Your continued use of our website after that date means you accept the updated terms.

5. REGISTERING YOUR INTEREST OR CONTACTING THE REGISTRAR¶

If you submit the register-of-interest and/or the Registrar Contact form you agree:

to provide true, accurate and current details;
that you are at least 16 years of age, or that a parent or guardian is submitting the form on your behalf and with their consent;
that we may contact you by email about the enquiry you have made; and
where you have ticked the box to receive updates, that we may send you occasional email updates about the College. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link in any such email or by writing to us at [email protected].

We use Google reCAPTCHA to protect both forms against automated abuse. Its use is subject to Google's privacy policy and terms.

6. AGE¶

Our website is intended for people aged 16 and over. If you are under 16 you may read the public pages of our website, but you must not submit any form or otherwise provide us with personal information except through a parent or guardian, who must supervise your use of our website.

7. ACCEPTABLE USE¶

As a condition of using our website you agree that you will not:

use our website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms;
use our website in a way that could damage, disable, overburden or impair it, or that could harm our business or interfere with any other person's use of it;
attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of our website, our servers or any system or network connected to them;
introduce any virus, malicious code or other harmful material;
use any automated means - including scrapers, crawlers, bots or any artificial-intelligence training pipeline - to copy, extract, harvest or index the content of our website, other than a search engine indexing it in the ordinary way and in accordance with our robots.txt;
use our website or any information obtained from it to build lists of contacts, to send unsolicited communications, or otherwise for lead generation for the benefit of any other business;
submit any material that is defamatory, abusive, harassing, threatening, obscene, infringing or otherwise unlawful, or that violates the rights of any person, including our Fellows and our staff; or
decompile, reverse engineer, copy or imitate our website, its design, or the content and materials on it.

We may restrict or block your access to our website if we believe you are in breach of these terms.

8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY¶

All intellectual property rights in our website and everything on it - including the College's curriculum, its texts, articles, examinations, figures, drawings, plates, animations, photographs, films, audio, design, layout, code, and the names and marks Alvará, The College of Working Equitation, the Alvará Spiral and the College's devices - are owned by Alvará – The College of Working Equitation Ltd or are used under licence. All rights are reserved.

The names of the College's Branches, Articles, Bands and its examination and register are part of a single body of work. Nothing in these terms, and nothing in your use of our website, transfers any of those rights to you.

What you may do. You may view our website and, for your own personal, non-commercial study, print or download extracts from the Library, provided you keep every copyright and proprietary notice intact and do not modify the material.

What you may not do. Except as set out above or with our prior written permission, you may not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, translate, adapt, create derivative works from, sell, or otherwise exploit any part of our website or its content, whether in whole or in part, and whether for commercial gain or otherwise. You may not use our content, or any part of it, to train, fine-tune or evaluate any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence system. You may not use our logos or marks without our written permission.

Requests for permission should be sent to [email protected].

Where our website names any other company, product, organisation or person, their names may be the trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification only. No association or endorsement is implied.

9. THE FELLOWS AND THE PUBLIC REGISTER¶

Information published on our website about the College's Fellows and, in due course, on its Public Register is published with the consent of the person concerned and for the purpose of identifying them and their standing in the College. You may not use it for any other purpose, and in particular you may not compile, extract or reuse it.

10. LINKS AND THIRD-PARTY CONTENT¶

Our website may contain links to other websites and resources. We provide these for your convenience only. We have no control over their content and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

11. DISCLAIMER¶

Our website and its content are provided for general information and education only. The College's curriculum, the Library and every other page are not a substitute for in-person instruction, and nothing on our website is professional, medical, veterinary, legal or financial advice.

Horses are unpredictable, and every activity involving them carries risk. Before applying anything you read on our website to your own riding, handling or training, you must assess whether it is suitable for you, for your horse and for your circumstances, stay within your own limits and those of your horse, and where appropriate obtain the advice of a qualified in-person instructor, veterinarian or medical practitioner. You apply the information on our website entirely at your own risk.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our website and its content are provided "as is" and "as available", and we make no warranty or representation, express or implied, as to their accuracy, completeness, reliability, suitability, timeliness or availability, or that our website will be uninterrupted, secure or free of errors.

12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY¶

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law. Nothing in these terms affects any statutory rights that you have as a consumer and that cannot be excluded by agreement.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law:

we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, our website or any content on it, or your reliance on any of that content;
we will not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss of profit, business, revenue, goodwill or data; and
because our website is currently made available to you free of charge, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or in connection with our website is limited to £100.

This section survives any termination of these terms or of your use of our website.

13. INDEMNITY¶

You agree to indemnify us against any claim, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal costs) arising out of your breach of these terms or your unlawful use of our website.

14. SUSPENSION AND WITHDRAWAL OF THE WEBSITE¶

We may suspend, withdraw or change any part of our website at any time and without notice. We will not be liable to you if our website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

15. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION¶

These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or with your use of our website, are governed by the laws of England and Wales. You agree that the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim, except that if you are a consumer resident in another country you may also be entitled to bring proceedings in your own country and to rely on the mandatory consumer-protection laws of that country.

Our website is operated from the United Kingdom. We make no representation that its content is appropriate or available for use in any other place, and access from any jurisdiction where its content is unlawful is prohibited. If you access our website from outside the United Kingdom you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

16. GENERAL¶

Nothing in these terms creates any partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship between you and us.

Our performance of these terms is subject to applicable law and legal process, and nothing in them prevents us from complying with any governmental, court or law-enforcement request or requirement relating to your use of our website.

If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be deemed replaced by a valid and enforceable provision that most closely reflects its intent, and the remainder of these terms will continue in full effect.

Our failure to enforce any provision of these terms is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

17. CONTACT¶

You may contact us about these terms at [email protected] or by post at Suite 41, 792 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester, United Kingdom, M20 6UG. We may give you notice by email or by publishing it on our website.

Version 1.0 - published 9 September 2026.