Terms of Service

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

PedoOrthoAcademy LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“PedoOrthoAcademy,” “we,” “us”), operates pedoorthoacademy.com (the “Platform”) and sells access to recorded continuing-education courses for licensed dental professionals (the “Courses”). These Terms of Service (the “Terms”), together with our Privacy Policy and the Refund Policy in Section 6, govern your use of the Platform and any Course. By creating an account, enrolling in a Course, or using the Platform, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.

2. Eligibility

The Platform is intended for licensed dentists, dental specialists, dental residents, and dental students, and for their staff acting under a licensed dentist’s direction. You represent that you are at least 18 years old and, if you intend to apply anything taught in a Course to patient care, that you hold a current license to practice dentistry in the jurisdiction where you practice.

3. Educational purpose only — no clinical advice, no credential

3.1 Nature of the content. Every Course is recorded professional education. It presents the clinical opinions, techniques, and experience of the instructor, Dr. Keith Wilkerson, DDS, MS, as of the date of recording. It is offered for general educational purposes only.

3.2 Not clinical advice. Nothing on the Platform is medical, dental, or clinical advice for any particular patient, and nothing on the Platform is a recommendation that any technique is appropriate for any particular patient. No doctor–patient relationship, supervisory relationship, consulting relationship, or mentorship is created between you (or your patients) and PedoOrthoAcademy or the instructor by your use of the Platform.

3.3 No license, certification, or qualification. Completing a Course, passing an assessment, and receiving a certificate of completion do not license, certify, credential, or qualify you to perform orthodontic or any other treatment. Whether you may lawfully perform a procedure is determined solely by your state dental board and applicable law, and whether you are competent to perform it is determined solely by your own training, experience, and judgment.

3.4 Your independent judgment. You are solely responsible for every clinical decision you make, including patient selection, diagnosis, treatment planning, informed consent, treatment, follow-up, and referral. You agree to evaluate all Course content critically, to verify it against current literature and standards of care, and to obtain any additional training, supervision, or consultation that a reasonable practitioner would obtain before applying a technique in practice.

3.5 No guarantee of results. Clinical outcomes depend on many factors outside our control. We make no representation that any technique will produce any particular result for any patient, or that any case shown in a Course is representative.

3.6 Content currency. Standards of care change. We do not undertake to update recorded content, and content may not reflect developments after the recording date.

4. Your account

4.1 One person, one account. Accounts are personal to the individual who creates them. You must provide accurate information, including your legal name as it appears on your dental license, and keep it current.

4.2 Security. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for everything done through your account. Tell us immediately at hello@pedoorthoacademy.com if you believe your account has been used without authorization.

4.3 Records. To support continuing-education recordkeeping, we retain records of your enrollment, viewing activity, assessment attempts, and certificates, including after your access ends or your account is deleted. See the Privacy Policy.

5. Enrollment, access, and single-user license

5.1 What you buy. Enrollment purchases a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to stream the Course content through the Platform, for the access period stated at purchase (currently 60 days from enrollment), for your own professional education only.

5.2 What you may not do. You may not: share your login or allow anyone else to use your enrollment; download, record, capture, copy, or redistribute any video, audio, image, note, or assessment; present Course content to a group or use it to teach others; remove watermarks or identifiers; circumvent access controls, playback restrictions, device limits, or assessment integrity measures; or use any automated tool to access the Platform. Content is watermarked with your account identity; a copy that appears elsewhere will be traced to the account that produced it.

5.3 Reactivation. After your access period ends you may reactivate for the fee stated on the Platform at the time. Your progress, completions, and certificates are retained.

5.4 Termination. We may suspend or terminate your access, without refund, if you breach Section 5.2 or Section 4.1, if payment is reversed or disputed, or if we reasonably believe your account is being shared. Section 5.6 describes the remedies we will pursue for unauthorized recording or distribution.

5.5 Intellectual property. All Course content is owned by Dr. Keith Wilkerson and licensed to PedoOrthoAcademy, or owned by PedoOrthoAcademy, and is protected by copyright and other laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership to you.

5.6 Enforcement. Recording, capturing, copying, or distributing Course content without our written permission is copyright infringement and a breach of these Terms. Because Course content is watermarked with your account identity, a copy found outside the Platform will be traced to the account that produced it. If that happens, we will terminate your access and revoke any certificate issued to you, without refund, and we intend to pursue every remedy available to us. Those remedies include civil action for injunctive relief, actual or statutory damages, and attorneys’ fees under the United States Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.); referral to law enforcement where the conduct may constitute a criminal offense; and, where the conduct implicates professional-conduct rules, notification of the dental licensing board in your jurisdiction. You agree that unauthorized distribution of Course content would cause us harm that money alone cannot repair, and that we are entitled to injunctive relief to stop it without posting a bond, in addition to any other remedy.

6. Payment and refunds

6.1 Price and payment. Prices are stated in U.S. dollars on the Platform at the time of purchase. Payment is processed by Stripe; we do not store your card details. You authorize the charge for the enrollment you select. Applicable sales tax, if any, is added at checkout.

6.2 Refund policy. Because Course content is delivered digitally and is available immediately, enrollment fees are refundable only if you request a refund within seven (7) days of purchase and you have not started any lesson beyond the free preview. Once a lesson has been started, the enrollment fee is non-refundable. Reactivation fees are non-refundable. Refund requests go to hello@pedoorthoacademy.com. Nothing in this section limits rights you may have under law that cannot be waived.

6.3 Chargebacks. If you dispute a charge with your card issuer rather than contacting us, we may suspend your access while the dispute is open and terminate it if the dispute is resolved against us.

7. Assessments and certificates

7.1 Assessments. Some Courses include an assessment. Passing requires the score stated on the assessment. You must complete assessments personally, without assistance, and without sharing questions or answers.

7.2 Certificates. A certificate of completion is issued in the name on your account and is not transferable. It records that you completed the Course and passed the assessment; it is not a credential (see Section 3.3). We may revoke a certificate if it was obtained in breach of these Terms, and we will say so on the certificate’s verification page.

7.3 Continuing-education credit. Where a Course is recognized for continuing-education credit, that recognition will be stated on the Course page in the recognizing organization’s required wording. Whether any state board accepts credit is determined by that board, not by us.

Synergy Orthodontic Seminars Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. 6/1/2025 to 5/31/2029. Provider ID# 208518.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

THE PLATFORM AND ALL COURSE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT CONTENT IS CURRENT, OR THAT ANY TECHNIQUE IS SAFE, EFFECTIVE, OR APPROPRIATE FOR ANY PATIENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

9. Assumption of risk

You acknowledge that orthodontic and orthopedic treatment of growing patients carries inherent clinical risk, that the techniques taught require skill and judgment that cannot be conveyed fully by recorded instruction, and that you alone decide whether and how to apply them. You assume all risk arising from your use of Course content in your practice.

10. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PEDOORTHOACADEMY LLC, ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND THE INSTRUCTOR (TOGETHER, THE “RELEASED PARTIES”) WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE PLATFORM, ANY COURSE, OR ANY TREATMENT YOU PROVIDE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL THE RELEASED PARTIES’ TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO PEDOORTHOACADEMY IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THESE LIMITATIONS ARE A FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN AND APPLY EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Released Parties from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, proceedings, liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) any treatment, diagnosis, advice, or care you provide to any patient, including any claim by a patient or a patient’s parent or guardian, whether or not you applied anything learned from a Course; (b) your breach of these Terms, including any unauthorized sharing or reproduction of Course content; (c) your violation of any law, regulation, or professional rule, including your state dental practice act; or (d) any claim that you performed treatment outside the scope of your license, training, or competence. We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate with us.

12. Acknowledgment of clinical responsibility

Before viewing any lesson you will be asked to acknowledge, in writing on the Platform, the substance of Sections 3, 9, 10, and 11. That acknowledgment is part of these Terms, and we retain a record of it.

13. Availability and changes

We aim to keep the Platform available but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may update, re-record, reorganize, or retire Course content, and may modify the Platform. We may change these Terms; material changes will be posted on the Platform with a new effective date, and continued use after that date is acceptance. Changes do not apply retroactively to an enrollment already purchased except as required by law.

14. Governing law and disputes

14.1 Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

14.2 Venue. Any dispute arising out of these Terms or the Platform will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Bexar County, Texas, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

14.3 Time limit. Any claim must be brought within one (1) year after it arises, or it is barred, to the extent permitted by law.

15. General

If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remain in effect and the provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a sale or reorganization of the business. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the acknowledgment in Section 12 are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Platform. Notices to us: PedoOrthoAcademy LLC, 8874 Rolling Acres Trail, Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 78015, hello@pedoorthoacademy.com.

v1.1 (September 17, 2026): added Section 5.6, Enforcement.

v1.2 (September 23, 2026): added the CE provider’s statement to Section 7.3.