Terms And Conditions (T&C)

Other T&C Pages To Consider:

Workshops:
https://thewormman.com.au/workshops-worm-farming-composting-lessons-terms-conditions/

Worms DELIVERED:
Worms For Sale By Delivery: https://thewormman.com.au/mailing-worms/

GST / Prices

Prices listed on this website INCLUDE GST.

Information Level/Intention:

Information supplied is intended for home worm farming & or composting.
For that reason, some information is simplified or is not scientifically complete or correct, as to supply that level of service would involve some question and answer time etc, which would be costed out per below.
Commercial level discussions or information are only given when paying for that level of service:
For commercial or scientific help/information, please see www.TheWormMan.com.au/hourly

General Data Protection Regulation

General Data Protection Regulation

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In 2018 this regulation takes effect concerning information or “data” kept by businesses and how it is used.

Information that is held:

In the case of subscribing to my website for updates:
The details YOU fill in such as Name & Email address.

In the case of ordering worms for delivery:
The details YOU fill in are kept in the system as orders. It can be deleted upon request.

In the case of downloading my e-books:
The information that you fill in is kept in the Gumroad platform system. It can be deleted upon request.

Cookies:
Cookies may be used on this website and are for anonymous website traffic purposes. No personal information is collected or used in any manner with these cookies (eg I use Google Analytics for website traffic reports)

Who the information is shared with: The data is never shared with another party by me.

Deletion of personal data on request:
Upon receiving a written request by email listing your identification details and what system you have been dealing with (eg Gumroad for e-book downloads, website for worm deliveries, website subscription) – I will delete your information.

If you have ANY questions regarding this please email me
[email protected]

For Consulting / Training / Education:

• All information being given is copyright to me, Brian Donaldson.
• You may not share this information with other entities unless given permission to do so.  The information is for the use of yourself and your company only, at one site, unless agreed otherwise.
• All care has been taken in assembling the information. It has been assembled from my own experience with a particular system or systems and/or information I have gathered over time.
• No responsibility is taken for any of the following: the information supplied; the operation of the intended systems by you or your staff; the use of the resulting vermicompost or worm farm products by your staff; any regulations pursuant to your business regarding waste handling etc; or any other facet of your project.
• I have an implied right to take pictures and videos during the project, to use for my own future marketing. These include but are not restricted to: the training; the setup and operation of the systems; aerial photography of the layout of the site of the project (No identifying names or features of participants, or the clients business will be published, unless prior permission is given to me.)
• All information is general only
• Information is prepared to the best of Brian’s ability
• Information given may be prepared without taking into account the clients countries laws; or their personal or business circumstances, their financial objectives, situations or needs
• Information is given on the basis of the information collected by Brian or given to Brian as a starting position
• All care but no responsibility is taken by Brian for any information given
• Clients should undertake to research the laws in their own country and state to do with running a business and vermiculture/vermicomposting operations
• If any legal challenge is made, all parties agree to have the case heard in a Queensland, Australia court, pursuant to Australian law
• All payments are final, no refunds will be made
• The client agrees that Brian’s decision on time keeping is final and binding
• Brian takes no responsibility for how you or your employees or volunteers operate your business or your worm farms
• Brian takes no responsibility for the safety or quality of products from the worm farm which may be used by you or sold to others
• Brian, at his discretion, may direct the client to research materials for themselves, including referring them to use other memberships they may hold, buy and read E-Books or where Brian believes they may be best served, he may direct them to talk to other people in the community that hold a specialty in a certain area
• All care but no responsibility is taken for information given by Brian.
• Brian makes no warranties or representations about the information given.
• Every effort has been taken to ensure information is accurate.
• At times Brian will give information that he has learned through experience, either his own experiences or via others, but may not be able to give links to peer reviewed articles on same
• Brian does not give any warranty to the reliability or accuracy of information given.
• The employer agrees to indemnify Brian for any and all actions resulting from the project, including but not limited to, the operation of the project by the employees of the project or any other interested parties and the product of the project.
• The employer agrees that Brian is not responsible for any direct, indirect or consequential damages from the project and indemnifies Brian fully in all regards.
• Before making any decision, the employer should consider the relevant Australian Standards and peer reviewed scientific articles.

Specials

From time to time Brian will run specials on products. These are always limited time offers or only while stocks last.

Price Lists

Price lists do not include shipping fees unless it is stated that they do so.
Shipping is quoted in the products info in the website shop.

The BLOG And Subscribing To The Blog

• Information given in the BLOG is the opinion of Brian Donaldson. I have been farming worms for 20 years, 5 years commercially. I do not have a formal science background and I generally do not seek to cite scientific articles to support my opinion. I encourage you to go do your own fact checking and not to believe what I say explicitly. Use my information to start your own search for the truth as you would have it. Take responsibility for yourself and your own practices. Check out my qualifications and experience on my site here:
  https://thewormman.com.au/about-me/
• as a courtesy to you and as an anti spam feature, you have to confirm your subscription by clicking on a link sent to you in an email (check your spam/junk folder). This is known as a double-opt-in, which ensure only YOU can subscribe you to the blog.
• from time to time I may send emails out to subscribers telling them of cool things that I have published, or items I think you may be interested in.
• at any time you may remove yourself from the list (if you have trouble doing this, contact me at [email protected] for help unsubscribing – just send an email titled UNSUBSCRIBE from your email address which you want removed from the list)

***** CAUTION Re Using VC Or Aerated Castings Tea On Edible Plants – Re PATHOGENS *****

As A Precaution against pathogens:

Basically, do not apply on leafy greens/ vegetables youre going to harvest to eat

The caution is that if there are pathogens in the VC, especially from un-composted animal manure inputs, or uneaten foods, that there could be pathogens in the VC. This is especially so if using the VC to make ACT

– Do NOT Use As A Foliar Spray On Edible Leaf Plants

– Do NOT broadcast VC onto these plants

– Carefully place the VC on the soil only

– Or use ACT only on the ground as a drench

– Use only correctly aged VC

– Observe a suitable “with holding period” between using VC or ACT and harvesting the plant for food

Aerated teas should not be applied to the leaves of edible plants – my recommendations is DO NOT APPLY to these AT ALL – but at least a 120 day with holding period is wise.

LEACHATE

For LEACHATE info and precautions, please check the leachate info sheet available at www.TheWormMan.com.ay/help

Breeding ANC Worms For Bait – Or Any Worms Commercially:

I will not freely  teach others how to breed ANC worms for bait, nor to breed ANY worms in a commercial fashion.
The info I freely give out concerns home worm farming with composting worms only.
Breeding ANC for bait is a very involved process (not totally dissimilar to growing compost worms in general – but there are enough pitfalls in doing it, that it has taken me 2 years of work, trial and error, and study to develop my system).
My business is selling worms for bait, and teaching people about how to have a composting worm farm at home.
I will not teach others the nitty gritty of how to breed ANC for bait, as I am unwilling to have my business torn apart by a local competitor that has learned from me.
I will happily sell bait size ANC to anyone who wants them – and even worm bedding – but the help, unfortunately has to stop there.
For this reason I will not sell “bedrun” ANC worms – I only sell bait sized ANC.
How I like to compare it is “You wouldn’t call a plumber and ask him to teach you how to fix your own pipes – nor after trying to fix them yourself, would you ring and ask advice on how to fix something you did wrong – you’d just employ the plumber if you wanted his expertise.”
Thanks for your understanding.

(Except for education/workshops conducted, in which case, see conditions/T&C of the workshop, see www.TheWormMan.com.au/workshop)

All Payments Made To Brian Donaldson Are Final

Any and all payments made to Brian Donaldson are final.
No refunds or partial refunds will be entered into.
This business does not refund for reasons of change of mind or circumstances – or for ANY reason.
Monies will not be returned if over payments are made (which can be a common scam that we all need to be aware of).
After money is suitably cleared by the banking system, a coupon code for the over payment may be provided to the customer, for their use in a future order.
Prices are displayed clearly and detailed sufficiently that customers should be able to order the correct product and therefore pay the correct money.

Assumption Of Risk:

Should you come to my house, it is at your own risk.

You are responsible for yourself and anyone else you bring, including, but not limited to, your possessions, and your vehicle/s.

I am not responsible for any decision you make with regard to the use of vermi compost or aerated teas upon edible plants. You must do your own research on the with holding period for these plants.

Aerated teas should not be applied to the leaves of edible plants – my recommendations is DO NOT APPLY to these AT ALL – but at least a 120 day with holding period is wise.

Brian does not accept any responsibility for actions of the customer, or any injury to them or any other party, by whatever fashion, or damage to equipment or property, nor any financial loss. There is no warranty or guarantee of any kind with the information on this web site. All care but no responsibility for any part of the information will be taken by Brian.

By using this information the customer agrees that they alone are personally responsible for all decisions made.

Worms are shown healthy:

Worms that are sold, are shown to you before you take them. They are alive and well – they are harvested fresh for you. It is your responsibility to transport and care for them. Note the instructions that I have provided, they show care tips. If destined for a worm farm, the bedding should be prepared in advance (preferably for 3 to 7 days). The worms should be added as soon as you get home. I can take no responsibility for you killing your worms.

Pricing & Special Offers & Special Pricing

From time to time I will run special pricing; or for instance offer to sell Euros for African prices etc.
These specials and special pricing are for a limited time and will have no notice of ceasing.
I reserve the right to price my product as I wish and change my pricing when I wish.
I will honor any price that I publish on the day that you see it advertised.
Mail orders, once paid for, will be fixed with the pricing at time of sale.
Different advertising mediums may have slightly different pricing.
In case of complaints, please tell me where you saw the price to get that price.

Complete worm farms:

I know that the farms that I sell work for farming worms, as I use them myself. Even though I supply full instructions, videos, complete farms with bedding, and the worms – there is still some level of skill, experience and understanding that goes into farming worms. Should you kill off your population, please talk to me – I may be able to pinpoint where you went wrong. But I take no responsibility for any inability on your part to be able to farm worms. Sometimes it takes a couple of goes to get all the processes down. Again, I take no responsibility – it is up to you to keep your worms alive.

The term “castings”:

If used at any time by me, is a reference to what is more accurately known as “Vermicompost” or “VC”

What IS Vermicompost – and why isn’t “Worm Castings” completely accurate:

VC consists of the manure OF worms – “castings” (or “worm poo”); and any other material that may not have actually been EATEN by the worms, but has decomposed WITH the castings of the worms. This unfinished material could be some fine leaf or bedding, or some unprocessed food.

You would need to examine each piece under a microscope to call it ALL “castings”

How Do I Make Money From You Tube, Plans, Books Etc

Full Disclosure: I make money from some of these plans and videos and other peoples E-books.
I will never advise buying something that I do not believe in.
You can see all of the stuff from other people is limited to a few pieces from each author, for instance – and the people that sell them are well known to me, to be selling a great product and they are happy to back it up if you have problems.

The ones I make money from selling for myself are obvious – they are the ones that cost money up front.
“Free” denotes no upfront payment needs to be made, but I may make money from things like You Tube advertising etc. While you watch a YouTube videos, ads may pop up or be on a 5 second leader when starting a video. If you click on the ads in a video, I make tiny fractions of a cent from that.

Some worm farms or plans are sold by those I choose to support. From SOME of these I may make a commission – but that’s taken from the sellers profit, not added to your payment.

Some plans or information products are completely my own – I will make 100 % on those ones – but they have also taken MANY hundreds of hours to MAKE them available, not counting the many hours of work and research behind them to start with.

But PLEASE rest assured – I would not recommend ANY item to you if I didn’t believe in them first.

Sometimes I will endorse a product or person, and after some time, they will offer to pay me some commission on their product sales that come from me. I make no apologies for that, but I wish to be fully honest with customers.

You get good advice and help from me – and I make a little from the sellers of good products, not from you. Good for everyone 🙂

There is no need to buy ANYTHING from or through me, if you don’t WISH to – grab some free info, its what it is there for 🙂