CANCELLATION POLICY
- 24 hour advance notice is required for all cancellations and you must schedule a substitute time within the current session with the coach. Otherwise you will be charged for the missed lesson.
- Less than 24 hours notice is allowed for medical reasons only and you must schedule a substitute time within the current session with the coach. Otherwise you will be charged for the missed lesson.
- If you miss two private lessons in a row you may lose the spot in the coach’s schedule, the club is not obligated to provide a make up and you will be charged for the missed lesson.
- It is your responsibility to request a make up and you have to pay for the missed class/private lesson. Your option to schedule a make up will expire after the current session.
- There are no make-ups for free classes.
- If you miss your make up for any reason, there will be no make ups for that appointment.
- All prepaid classes must be used within the current session (if a class is missed in the last 2 weeks of a session, you may schedule make-ups within the next session.) There will be no refunds for prepaid services, except in special circumstances.
MEMBERSHIP POLICY
- Membership starts from the date you sign the Club Registration form and payment is received. Annual membership ends every August 31.
- To be considered a member, you must pay on an annual or monthly basis.
- Membership fees are non-refundable.
- Membership packages cannot be prorated. All missed classes and lessons must be rescheduled by Members per our Cancellation Policy or be forfeited.
- Additional Family Member Rate is applicable to younger family members only when oldest family member pays First Member Rate
- Strip coaching may be provided for a fee. If at least 6 fencers and a strip coach attend, the mandatory fee will be $65 for drivable events, $90 for events where coach must drive and stay overnight, $150 for Nationals/NACs. If fewer than 6 fencers attend, strip coaching can be requested and fees must be determined and agreed upon prior to the event.
- If two NYFA members are competing against each other in the same competition, they cannot be strip coached by any coach or friend from any club.
- NYFA members must represent NYFA as their primary club on their USA Fencing registration, at any USFA-sanctioned competitions, on askfred.net entries.
- NYFA members must wear NYFA uniform or NYFA patch at competitions
SAFETY POLICY
- The fencing floor is restricted to fencers only. Non-participants must stay in the observation area
- Fencing weapon must be carried with points down or in a fencing bag
- Any illness, injury, or medical problems must be reported to the instructor before lesson/practice starts, or during the stay of NYFA
- Warm up and stretches are required before a lesson or practice. Arrive 15 minutes early for it
- Rough play or dangerous actions are prohibited whether intentional or not
- Walking or standing close to the fencers when blades are raised or in motion is prohibited
- Mask, glove, fencing jacket, knickers, plastron, breast plate for female, and athletic shoes must be worn when fencing
- Any person not abiding by NYFA rules may be subject to expulsion
PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website?
When submitting a form on our site, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other details to help you with your experience.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you fill out a form or enter information on our site.
We collect information from you when you buy a Service
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a marketing communication, browse our website, leave a comment, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
• To quickly process your transactions.
• To follow up after correspondence (email, text, or phone inquiries).
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How do we protect your information?
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order, enters, submits their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.
Third-party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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