FAQ

WHO IS THIS SITE FOR?

This site is for anyone that wants to stay in contact with other members, share thoughts on the NinjaGym Martial Arts, Winjitsu or stay updated on the latest happenings within our community.

If you are looking for information on our Live-in Martial Arts Training Camp/Program in Thailand, please click here to learn more about traveling, living and training with us in Thailand.

Frequently Asked Questions: Martial Arts Camp Thailand

This is also the current site and location for students on NinjaGym™ Home Study Program to share training videos and communicate with instructors.

We are developing new features to allow you  to:

* Post anything (text, images, video) on your profile
* Monitor the general activity of Members
* Create a unique profile
* Find and add friends
* Send private messages
* Join Groups of discussion

Welcome to the club and please feel free to let us know how we can improve our site.

Have a question about our Online or Live Martial Arts Training programs? Please CONTACT US or fill out the form at the end of the page.

If you are looking for more information for our Martial Arts and Fitness Training Camps and Programs, please click here.

WHAT SHOULD I KNOW ABOUT USER NAMES?

Please follow our rules for representing yourself on NinjaGym.  Unlike many sites where avatars and nicknames are used, we want you to use your real name and a clear photo and imagine the Web site to be just the same as a real Martial Arts School or Dojo.

When you come to class in person you don’t come as SmurfNinja wearing a Ninja Mask.  So be sure your username is your real name (last name) as that is how instructors will be able to communicate with you better.

WHY CAN’T I LOG IN?

Once you sign up, be sure to check your e-mail to verify your account – you might want to white list NinjaGym.com so it doesn’t go to spam.

DO I NEED TO BE A PAID MEMBER TO USE THIS SITE?

No, the NinjaGym.com/dojo is for all martial artists that show an interest in our training and programs to share their thoughts and communicate with each other. This club is a great way for you to be active within our organization.

I AM A HOME STUDY PROGRAM PAID MEMBER – WHERE DO I POST MY TESTS AND COMMUNICATE WITH INSTRUCTORS?

First, you will need to create a YouTube account as per our instructions (see your welcome to HSP e-mail or ask for us to send you another one). Next, you can post your video to be tested in the Home Study Group section for an Instructor to review. We also encourage you to share your video by placing it on your profile or in the NinjaGym Group area for others to see too as the Home Study Group is private and only visible by paid Members of NinjaGym.

HOW DO I BECOME AN OFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE HOME STUDY PROGRAM?

Just head over to NinjaGym.com and visit the Home Study Program page for details and sign up information.

WHAT FILE FORMATS ARE SUPPORTED FOR UPLOADING TO GROUP DOCUMENTS?

Currently the following formats are supported for uploading to the Document section of any group:

odt, rtf, txt, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pps, pptx, pdf, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, zip, tar, gz

WHAT’S UP WITH THE LINKS ON MY PROFILE TEXT?

Words or phrases in your profile can be linked to the profiles of other members that contain the same phrases. These words or phrases are chosen automatically unless you put brackets [example] around key words of your choice:

To specify which words or phrases should be linked, add square brackets: e.g. “I enjoy [Rock Climbing] and [World of Warcraft].” If you do not specify anything, phrases will be chosen automatically.

Note that adding brackets seems to cause an error with paragraph breaks (still working on a fix). Which is only an issue if you have a lot of text in your profile fields.

HOW DO I ADD VIDEO AND IMAGES TO A POST?

First, you will need an account with a service like YouTube or Flickr. Next, simply copy the URL into the post and you should be good to go. If you just copy the location of an image or video that is not from a service like YouTube – only the link will display.

To add video in our YouTube box follow these instructions:

To use the video in your posts, paste YouTube video URL with http:// Like this:

I copied “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF48QvoiZf8″ and pasted it without the quotes to get the video below:

Important: The URL should just be copied into your post normally and it will show once you click on the post button.

CAN I ADD HTML IN MY POSTS?

You may use these HTML tags and attributes:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

WHAT ARE THE TERMS OF USE FOR THIS SITE?

Important Information

You should carefully read the following Terms and Conditions. Your purchase or use of our products implies that you have read and accepted these Terms and Conditions.

Introduction

Our basic service is free, and we offer paid upgrades for advanced features such as testing and online instruction. Our service is designed to give our members as much control and ownership over what goes on in our site as possible and encourage our members to express themselves freely. However, each member must be responsible for any content they share. In particular, make sure that none of the prohibited items listed below appear on your posts or get linked to from your other web sites (things like spam, viruses, or hate content).

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the NinjaGym.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website. The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, NinjaGym Privacy Policy).

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by NinjaGym.com, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.

Ownership

You do not claim intellectual property right or exclusive ownership to any of our products, modified or unmodified. All products are property of NinjaGym. Our products are provided ‘as is’ without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event shall our company be liable for any damages including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential, or other losses arising out of the use of or inability to use our products.

Your NinjaGym Account and Profile.

If you create a profile or membership with NinjaGym, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and profile, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the profile. You must not describe or assign keywords to your account or profile in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and NinjaGym may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause NinjaGym liability. You must immediately notify NinjaGym of any unauthorized uses of your account, your profile or any other breaches of security. NinjaGym will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

Responsibility of Contributors.

If you operate a profile, comment on a website, post material to the website, post links on the website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the website (any such material, ‘Content’), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

  • the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
  • you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
  • the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
    the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
  • the Content is not obscene, libelous or defamatory, hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
  • your site is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and
  • you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by NinjaGym or otherwise.

By submitting Content to NinjaGym for inclusion on your Website, you grant NinjaGym a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your site. If you delete Content, NinjaGym will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, NinjaGym has the right (though not the obligation) to, in NinjaGym’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in NinjaGym’s reasonable opinion, violates any NinjaGym policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in NinjaGym’s sole discretion. NinjaGym will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

Fees and Payment.

Optional premium paid services such as extra storage, domain purchases or VIP hosting are available on the Website. By selecting a premium service you agree to pay NinjaGym the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated for that service. Payments will be charged on the day you sign up for a premium service and will cover the use of that service for a monthly or annual period as indicated. Premium service fees are not refundable.

Responsibility of Website Visitors.

NinjaGym has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, NinjaGym does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. NinjaGym disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

Content Posted on Other Websites.

We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and WebPages to which NinjaGym links, and that link to NinjaGym. NinjaGym does not have any control over those non- NinjaGym websites and WebPages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non- NinjaGym website or webpage, NinjaGym does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. NinjaGym disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non- NinjaGym websites and WebPages.

Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy.

As NinjaGym asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by NinjaGym violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify NinjaGym. NinjaGym will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of NinjaGym or others, NinjaGym may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination, NinjaGym will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to NinjaGym.

Intellectual Property.

This Agreement does not transfer from NinjaGym to you any NinjaGym or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with NinjaGym. NinjaGym, www.NinjaGym.com, the NinjaGym logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with NinjaGym, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of NinjaGym or NinjaGym’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any NinjaGym or third-party trademarks.

Changes.

NinjaGym reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. NinjaGym may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Termination.

NinjaGym may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your NinjaGym account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you have a VIP Services account, such account can only be terminated by NinjaGym if you materially breach this Agreement and fail to cure such breach within thirty (30) days from NinjaGym’s notice to you thereof; provided that, NinjaGym can terminate the Website immediately as part of a general shut down of our service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

Disclaimer of Warranties.

The materials on NinjaGym’s web site are provided ‘as is’. NinjaGym makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, NinjaGym does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet web site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.

Limitation of Liability.

In no event will NinjaGym, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to NinjaGym under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. NinjaGym shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

General Representation and Warranty.

You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the NinjaGym Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

Indemnification.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless NinjaGym, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to out of your violation this Agreement.

Site Terms of Use Modifications

NinjaGym may revise these terms of use for its web site at any time without notice. By using this web site you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.