Terms & Conditions

Please read the following terms and conditions under which we offer our services. By making a booking or using any of our services (eg attending a class or event) you agree to accept and abide by these terms.

Missed Classes

We are unable to give refunds for, or carry over to a future booking, any class sessions that you do not attend.

However, if prior notice is given (24-48 hours), then at the discretion of the class leader, and depending on availability and prevailing guidelines on mixing established groups it may be possible for you to make up the missed class by attending one of our other classes. This should be during the current block of classes you have paid for and may not be carried over to subsequent blocks. Please check with your class leader before attending a different class.

If a class is cancelled by the class leader you will be informed of the options available to you to make up the class.

In circumstances where venue-based classes are not possible and the cancellation of a face to face class is due to factors beyond our control, in particular, but not limited to, coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions, for example a local lockdown or requirement for isolation, or in the case of extreme weather, we reserve the right to substitute online classes for face to face sessions. Unfortunately, we are unable to refund or carry over any classes in these circumstances.

Safety Information

Your baby (or babies) is your responsibility during the class. Please supervise them closely during the session and particularly during the use of equipment. Listen for the class leaders safety advice and keep sensory equipment out of your child's reach when it is not in use.

At all times please follow the instructions and guidelines of your class leader, including those relating to guidelines imposed by the venue or other authorities.

Please no food or drinks during the session (apart from breast/bottle/tube feeding for infants).

In order to help prevent the risk of the spread of infectious diseases, such as, but not limited to, coronavirus (COVID-19) there may be measures in place for those attending classes which you will be asked to adhere to. These could include washing or sanitising hands, keeping a certain distance from others not from your household, following directional signage in relation to the venue, or other similar measures. Please ensure to follow these guidelines as given by your class leader and for the venue.

No liability can be accepted for any incident that occurs due to this guidance not being followed.

While Blossom Babies makes every effort to ensure the safety and comfort of you and your child during the sessions, participation in our activities, and the use of our equipment is at your own risk. Your class fees include insurance cover for your child.

Infection Control

Infection control policies, such as cleaning regimes and hand washing/sanitising protocols following prevailing Government guidelines have been developed for our class sessions and events and will be carried out by your class leader as required.

Healthy Children and Adults

Please bring only healthy children to class. You and your child should remain at home if he, she or you have had a fever, vomited, or had diarrhoea within the past 48 hours or are exhibiting contagious cold symptoms (usually during the first few days of a cold) or any symptoms of COVID-19. If you see another child with a runny nose or cough, do not automatically assume the child is contagious. Allergy symptoms can resemble cold symptoms.

We reserve the right to refuse admittance to the class if we feel that the child or adult is too ill to participate, or has coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms, such as a raised temperature, a new continuous cough, or a loss or change to their sense of smell or taste.

Clothing

Parents and children should wear comfortable play clothes. Our classes are a shoe free zone! Please bring a blanket or mat for your child to sit/lie on. Children should either have bare feet or non slip socks. Adults should always wear socks.

Photography and Video

From time to time we may request to take photographs or shoot video during classes to use for marketing and promotional purposes, which may include, but is not limited to use on social media, promotional materials or our website.

You will be asked at or prior to the first class where this takes place and whether or not you consent to being included in these images or footage. Where images are used in this way no additional personal information or names will be linked to them, unless specific additional permission is sought from the individuals involved.

Blossom Babies are happy for you to take photographs of your own child during classes. If you wish for another child to be in the picture please seek permission from the adult accompanying that child before taking pictures.

Class Behaviour

In order for the children to be able to focus on the group activities and to develop their listening skills, we ask that chatting between adults is kept to the free play section of classes.

What If My Child does not want to participate?

At Blossom Babies we let the child be the guide. At this early age, not participating in an activity is entirely appropriate. As with anything new it often takes a few weeks for children to settle in to the classes, and it is not expected that they will want to join in with everything straight away, or be able to concentrate for the full session to begin with. After all, part of the reason for coming to the classes is to develop these, as well as many other skills, and this does take time. Our group activities are encouraged but we never want to force a child to participate, rather we feel that each child should be able to join the activities at his or her own pace.

Children learn in different ways, some will participate, some will learn by watching and others by listening. We often hear from parents that a child who seemed not to be participating will repeat the songs and activities later at home. It is worth noting, though, that the more enthusiastic you are about the activities, the more likely your child is to want to join in, and the quicker they will feel at home.

It can also be seen that children progress much more quickly in the skills that the classes promote when Blossom Babies becomes part of their weekly routine, rather than something that they attend now and then. Once they settle in and become used to the classes most people find that the child’s enjoyment of the sessions and their level of development increases enormously.

Additional Services

We have a number of play resources and sensory items available to purchase.

Ask your class leader about provision of party services and nursery sessions in your area.

Data Protection and Your Privacy

Data Protection Legislation means (i) the Data Protection Act 1998, until the effective date of its repeal (ii) the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR) and any national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation, for so long as the GDPR is effective in the UK, and (iii) any successor legislation to the Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR, in particular the Data Protection Bill 2017-2019, once it becomes law.

Any personal information provided by you to us will be held and processed in accordance with the data protection principles set out in the Data Protection Legislation for the purposes of meeting the legitimate business interests of Blossom Babies and adhering to the rights of the individual.

Class4Kids is an online booking platform (www.classforkids.co.uk). Where you submit your details via this booking system, the data is available to Blossom Babies, Class4Kids and with whom you make your booking for the particular class or service you have chosen. In this instance each of these parties are joint Data Controllers for the data you provide.

Information you submit via other methods in relation to Blossom Babies including, but not limited to Blossom Babies branded social media accounts, messaging apps, email or telephone will also be jointly controlled by Blossom Babies and the individual class leader who may be party to those communications.

You have the following rights under the Data Protection Legislation

• The right to be informed

• The right of access

• The right to rectification

• The right to erasure (also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’)

• The right to restrict processing

• The right to data portability

• The right to object and

• Rights with respect to automated decision-making and profiling

Should you wish to know what information Blossom Babies holds on you, please send a request including your 

Name, Address and Date of Birth to

info@blossombabies.co.uk

We Can’t Wait to Welcome You

Above all we hope you and especially your child(ren) enjoy Blossom Babies. Please ensure you have read and understood the above terms and conditions before registering.

If you have any queries, comments or suggestions regarding the classes, please speak to your class leader or contact us either by telephone on 07794451386 or via email info@blossombabies.co.uk

COVID- 19 DISCLAIMER AND ACCEPTANCE OF RISK

Online Classes

Any participation in online classes still requires safety measures to be taken. All activities require Adult Supervision, and care must be taken that the area to be used at home is clear and there are no hazards or other issues that could cause injury whilst participating in the online sessions. You must also ensure that any equipment you are using for any session is suitable for the activity being demonstrated/participated in. By taking part in any Blossom Babies online activities you acknowledge and accept that you do so at you own risk, and should take appropriate steps to ensure that participation can be carried out without injury either by participation or by and hazards or equipment used.

Physical Classes

While class sessions will be adapted as far as possible to allow for social distancing guidelines to be adhered to, we recognise that when working with mobile babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers it may not be possible to keep them at the required distance from each other at all times. We have balanced the potential risk of this with the further measures taken, such as hand washing/sanitising and reducing or eliminating the sharing of equipment. By attending classes however, you accept that there may be the occasion that children do not remain at the specified distance from each other and choose to attend classes with this knowledge. The safety measures that have been introduced are intended to minimise the risk of contracting the Covid-19 virus, but this risk cannot be completely eradicated. Therefore by attending any of our classes or events you acknowledge that you do so at your own risk.