Effective Date: 09-01-2026
Last Updated: 09-12-2026

Welcome to A. Solenne Institute.

These Terms & Conditions govern your access to and use of asolenneinstitute.org, including its shop, customer accounts, publications, research materials, digital products, licensed frameworks, and related services provided through the website.

By accessing the website, creating an account, placing an order, purchasing licensed materials, or otherwise using the website, you agree to these Terms & Conditions and any additional policies or license terms applicable to your use or purchase.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you should not use the website or purchase Institute materials.

1. About A. Solenne Institute

A. Solenne Institute is an independently operated interdisciplinary research institute engaged in the development, publication, and application of research, intellectual frameworks, models, analysis, and related intellectual property concerning human functioning and related areas of inquiry.

Materials published or sold by the Institute may include research notes, publications, frameworks, models, educational materials, licensed intellectual property, digital documents, and related resources.

Nothing on this website represents that the Institute is a university, degree-granting institution, accredited educational institution, medical provider, law firm, financial advisory firm, or governmental entity unless expressly stated otherwise.

2. Eligibility and Use of the Website

You may use this website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms.

You agree not to use the website:

In violation of applicable law or regulation.
To interfere with the operation or security of the website.
To attempt unauthorized access to customer accounts, restricted materials, administrative systems, or other protected areas.
To scrape, systematically extract, reproduce, or compile Institute content without authorization.
To circumvent technological or contractual access restrictions.
To distribute malicious software, automated attacks, or other harmful material.
To impersonate another individual or organization.
To misrepresent your identity, credentials, affiliation, or authority.

The Institute may restrict access to the website or portions of it when reasonably necessary to protect its systems, intellectual property, customers, or operations.

3. Customer Accounts

Certain purchases or materials may require creation of a customer account.

You are responsible for:

Providing accurate registration information.
Maintaining current contact information.
Protecting your password and login credentials.
Restricting unauthorized access to your account.
Activities occurring through your account where those activities result from your failure to protect your credentials.

Customer accounts are intended for the registered account holder unless an applicable license expressly authorizes organizational, institutional, multi-user, or other forms of access.

Account credentials may not be sold, transferred, shared, or otherwise provided to unauthorized individuals.

If you believe your account has been compromised, you should notify A. Solenne Institute promptly.

4. Orders and Purchases

Submitting an order constitutes an offer to purchase the identified product, material, or license subject to these Terms and any terms specifically associated with that offering.

An order is not necessarily accepted merely because it has been submitted.

The Institute may decline, cancel, or investigate an order where reasonably necessary due to:

Payment failure.
Suspected fraud.
Pricing or technical errors.
Duplicate transactions.
Unauthorized transactions.
Suspected misuse of the website.
Inaccurate customer information.
Violation of these Terms or applicable licensing requirements.

If the Institute cancels an order before access or delivery because the order cannot be fulfilled, appropriate action will be taken regarding any payment already collected.

5. Prices and Payment

Prices displayed at the time of purchase apply to the applicable transaction unless otherwise stated.

A. Solenne Institute may change prices prospectively at its discretion. A later change in price does not create an entitlement to a refund, credit, price adjustment, or reimbursement for an earlier purchase.

Payments may be processed by third-party payment processors.

You authorize the applicable payment provider to process the amount presented at checkout when you submit your order.

You are responsible for providing accurate billing and payment information.

Applicable taxes may be collected where required.

6. Digital Products

Many Institute products are digital and may be delivered electronically through:

Customer accounts.
Protected download links.
Email.
Restricted website areas.
Other electronic delivery methods designated by the Institute.

Digital materials are considered delivered when access has been made available through the method associated with the applicable purchase, regardless of whether the customer immediately downloads or uses the material.

You are responsible for maintaining compatible technology necessary to access standard digital materials unless the product description specifies particular technical requirements.

7. Intellectual Property Ownership

Unless expressly stated otherwise, all original content made available through A. Solenne Institute remains the property of A. Solenne Institute and/or the applicable rights holder.

This may include:

Research publications.
Research Notes.
Frameworks.
Models.
Written methodologies.
Taxonomies.
Diagrams.
Illustrations.
Graphics.
Original terminology.
Written explanations.
Educational materials.
Assessments.
Worksheets.
Digital documents.
Website text.
Visual presentation.
Branding.
Logos.
Database organization.
Compilations.
Other original works and materials.

Purchasing, accessing, viewing, or downloading Institute material does not transfer ownership of the underlying intellectual property.

Ownership remains with A. Solenne Institute or the applicable rights holder.

8. Licensed Materials

Certain Institute materials are made available under specific licenses.

A purchase of licensed material grants only the rights expressly provided under the applicable license.

Depending upon the product, this may include licenses such as:

Personal Study.
Practitioner.
Founder / Operator.
Institutional.
Other license categories expressly designated by the Institute.

The applicable license determines what the purchaser may and may not do with the licensed material.

Purchasers are responsible for reviewing the applicable licensing terms before purchasing or using licensed materials.

Unless expressly permitted by the applicable license, purchasing Institute material does not authorize you to:

Resell it.
Redistribute it.
Republish it.
Share copies with unauthorized persons.
Upload it to public repositories.
Provide unrestricted access to others.
Sublicense it.
Claim authorship or ownership.
Remove ownership or copyright notices.
Represent Institute IP as your proprietary intellectual property.
Commercially exploit the material outside the scope of the purchased license.
Create unauthorized derivative commercial offerings from protected Institute content.

9. Relationship Between These Terms and Product Licenses

These Terms govern the general use of the website, customer accounts, transactions, digital delivery, and relationship between website users and A. Solenne Institute.

Individual licenses govern the authorized use of specific licensed intellectual property.

If a provision in an applicable product license specifically addresses use of licensed intellectual property, the applicable license controls that issue.

These Terms do not expand the rights granted by an individual license.

10. Research and Informational Materials

A. Solenne Institute publishes interdisciplinary research, conceptual analysis, models, frameworks, commentary, and other intellectual materials.

Institute materials are provided for research, educational, analytical, professional-development, intellectual, or other stated purposes.

Unless expressly identified otherwise, Institute publications should not be interpreted as individualized:

Medical advice.
Mental-health treatment.
Psychological diagnosis.
Legal advice.
Tax advice.
Investment advice.
Financial advice.

Research discussion may include theories, propositions, conceptual models, interdisciplinary analysis, emerging ideas, and areas requiring further investigation.

Readers are responsible for evaluating the suitability of Institute materials for their own circumstances and professional responsibilities.

11. No Guarantee of Particular Outcomes

A. Solenne Institute does not guarantee that use of its frameworks, publications, research, models, or other materials will produce a particular personal, professional, organizational, financial, psychological, behavioral, or commercial outcome.

Human behavior and organizational outcomes depend upon numerous variables outside the Institute’s control.

Examples, applications, interpretations, or discussions of potential outcomes should not be understood as guarantees.

12. Refunds, Returns and Cancellations

Purchases made through the Institute shop are subject to the Institute’s separate Refund, Returns & Cancellation Policy.

Except where otherwise required by applicable law, digital products and licensed intellectual property are generally:

Non-refundable.
Non-returnable.
Non-exchangeable.

Customers should review the applicable product description, license, price, and access conditions before completing a purchase.

The full Refund, Returns & Cancellation Policy forms part of these Terms.

13. Technical Access Issues

A technical access issue does not automatically create an entitlement to a refund.

If a valid purchaser cannot access purchased materials because of a verified technical problem with the Institute’s delivery system, the Institute will make reasonable efforts to:

Restore access.
Correct the delivery issue.
Provide a replacement download.
Provide another reasonable method of accessing the purchased material.

Technical support does not include changing a customer’s license, providing unauthorized formats, or modifying products to accommodate uses not represented in the original offering.

14. Account and Download Records

For products involving controlled or licensed access, A. Solenne Institute may maintain records associated with:

Customer identity.
Customer accounts.
Purchases.
Order numbers.
Applicable licenses.
Download activity.
Access activity.
Dates and times.
IP addresses.
Relevant security information.

Such information may be used for legitimate purposes including customer support, licensing administration, fraud prevention, transaction documentation, website security, intellectual-property protection, and investigation of suspected unauthorized use.

Personal information is handled in accordance with the Institute’s Privacy Policy.

15. Unauthorized Distribution and Misuse

Institute intellectual property may not be distributed outside the scope permitted by the applicable license.

Suspected misuse may include, depending on the applicable license:

Unauthorized copying.
Credential sharing.
Public posting of restricted materials.
File sharing.
Unauthorized commercial use.
Unauthorized distribution.
Misrepresentation of authorship.
Removal of ownership notices.
Making licensed materials available through shared drives, repositories, membership libraries, AI datasets, databases, or other systems without authorization.
Use beyond the number or type of users permitted by the applicable license.

The Institute may investigate reasonably suspected misuse of protected materials.

16. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Systems

Unless expressly authorized by the applicable license, access to Institute materials does not grant permission to systematically reproduce, ingest, upload, or incorporate substantial protected Institute materials into:

Public artificial intelligence systems.
Machine-learning datasets.
Training datasets.
Public knowledge bases.
Automated content-generation systems.
Publicly accessible retrieval systems.
Similar technologies designed to reproduce or distribute the protected material.

Use of limited portions of material through ordinary personal software tools does not itself transfer ownership or expand the rights provided under the applicable license.

17. Suspension or Termination of Access

A. Solenne Institute may restrict or suspend an account when reasonably necessary to address:

Fraud.
Security threats.
Unauthorized access.
Material violation of these Terms.
Material violation of an applicable license.
Unauthorized distribution of protected content.
Abuse of website systems.
Chargeback-related investigation.
Other material misuse of the Institute’s services or intellectual property.

Where appropriate, the Institute may contact the account holder regarding the issue before or after access is restricted.

Termination of account access does not transfer ownership of Institute intellectual property or eliminate restrictions that continue under an applicable license or law.

18. Payment Disputes and Chargebacks

Customers should contact A. Solenne Institute regarding legitimate billing or technical concerns before initiating a payment dispute whenever reasonably possible.

When responding to a payment dispute, the Institute may provide relevant records to the applicable payment provider, bank, or financial institution, including:

Order information.
Transaction records.
Customer account records.
Product descriptions.
Applicable refund policies.
Relevant licensing information.
Digital-delivery records.
Download or access records.

Initiating a chargeback does not grant additional rights to Institute intellectual property.

19. Third-Party Services

The website may rely upon third-party providers for services including:

Website hosting.
Payment processing.
Email delivery.
Analytics.
Security.
Content delivery.
Customer-account functionality.
Ecommerce functionality.

The Institute is not responsible for independent acts, policies, service interruptions, or systems controlled exclusively by third-party providers.

Use of third-party services may also be subject to the respective provider’s own terms and privacy practices.

20. External Links

The Institute website may contain links to third-party websites or resources.

A link does not necessarily constitute endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, or responsibility for the external website.

A. Solenne Institute is not responsible for the accuracy, availability, privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites.

21. Website Availability

The Institute does not guarantee uninterrupted availability of the website.

Temporary interruptions may occur because of:

Maintenance.
Software updates.
Hosting issues.
Security measures.
Technical failures.
Third-party service interruptions.
Events outside the Institute’s reasonable control.

The Institute may modify, maintain, reorganize, or discontinue portions of the website as operationally necessary.

22. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the website and its materials are provided on an “as available” and “as is” basis except where an express written warranty has been provided.

A. Solenne Institute does not make warranties that are not expressly stated regarding:

Uninterrupted website operation.
Error-free operation.
Compatibility with every device or software system.
Particular outcomes from using Institute materials.
Suitability of generalized research or intellectual materials for every individual’s circumstances.

Nothing in this section excludes warranties or rights that cannot legally be excluded.

23. Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, A. Solenne Institute will not be responsible for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or similar losses arising solely from use of the website or Institute materials where such liability may lawfully be limited.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

24. User Responsibility

You remain responsible for decisions you make based upon information obtained from the website or Institute materials.

Purchasing access to research, frameworks, models, or intellectual materials does not transfer responsibility for professional judgment, organizational decisions, business decisions, personal decisions, or implementation choices to A. Solenne Institute.

25. Privacy

Use of the website is also subject to the A. Solenne Institute Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy explains how personal information may be collected, used, retained, and otherwise processed in connection with website use, account registration, purchases, licensing, and access.

The Privacy Policy should be read together with these Terms.

26. Copyright and Intellectual-Property Concerns

A. Solenne Institute respects legitimate intellectual-property rights.

Questions regarding Institute intellectual property, licensing permissions, attribution, or suspected misuse of Institute materials may be directed to the Institute using the contact information provided below.

If you believe content appearing on the website infringes intellectual-property rights that you own or are authorized to represent, you may contact the Institute with sufficient information to identify the material and explain the basis of your concern.

27. Changes to These Terms

A. Solenne Institute may update these Terms as its website, offerings, technology, policies, or legal obligations evolve.

The Last Updated date at the top of this page identifies the latest revision.

Changes apply prospectively from the applicable effective date unless otherwise required by law.

Material changes to the general website Terms do not retroactively expand or reduce rights granted under a specific license unless the applicable license itself permits such modification.

28. Severability

If a provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, that determination does not necessarily invalidate the remaining provisions.

The remaining provisions should continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.

29. No Waiver

Failure by A. Solenne Institute to enforce a provision of these Terms on one occasion does not automatically constitute a permanent waiver of that provision or of the Institute’s ability to enforce it in another appropriate circumstance.

30. Entire Website Agreement

These Terms, together with the Institute’s:

Privacy Policy;
Refund, Returns & Cancellation Policy;
applicable product descriptions;
applicable licensing agreements; and
any additional terms expressly incorporated into a transaction

constitute the terms governing the applicable website use or transaction.

An individual license remains the controlling document concerning the scope of authorized use of the specific intellectual property covered by that license.

31. Governing Law

These Terms will be governed by the laws of:

Albuquerque, New Mexico

without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except to the extent another jurisdiction’s mandatory laws apply and cannot lawfully be excluded.

Any jurisdiction or venue provision adopted by the Institute should be interpreted subject to rights that cannot legally be waived.

32. Contact Information

Questions regarding these Terms & Conditions may be directed to:

A. Solenne Institute
Website: asolenneinstitute.org
Email: support@asolenneinstitute.org