1. About these terms

These Terms and Conditions apply when you use the Fovea website, take part in a Fovea Programme or small group, access material or personal support through our secure online space, or receive selected Fovea articles, resources or other material through a direct link. By registering for a Programme, accepting access to our secure online space or continuing to use that space, you agree to these terms.

Where we agree separate terms with you for one-to-one work, couples work, organisational work or any paid service, those separate terms will also apply. If there is any difference between them and these terms, the separately agreed terms will take priority for that work. Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights.

2. About Fovea

Fovea is operated by Gary Borland Limited, trading as Fovea. Gary Borland Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 10323961, with its registered office at:

4 Latimer Street, Romsey, England, SO51 8DG

Our VAT registration number is 329 1082 14. You can contact us at info@fovea.community.

3. Fovea Community and our secure online space

Fovea Community is the name we use for Fovea and the wider group of people who have connected with our work. We use a secure online space provided through Circle.so to support our work. Depending on what you are taking part in, this may give you access to Programme material, video, audio and written resources, personal support and communication during a Programme, information relating to sessions or activities, and selected material that we believe may be relevant to you. 

4. Eligibility and registration

Our Programmes and secure online space are intended for people aged 18 or over unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing. When registering or being given access, you must provide accurate and current information.

Your account and login details are personal to you. You must not allow another person to use your account, share your password, give anyone access to restricted material, or share a personal access link unless we have given you permission. Please tell us promptly if you believe someone else has accessed your account or login details.

5. Programmes and small groups

The content, structure and duration of each Programme or small group will be explained before or when it begins. Our Programmes may combine in-person meetings, video calls, individual or group conversations, material in your secure online space and personal support connected with the Programme. The precise combination will vary according to the Programme and the circumstances of those taking part.

Where a Programme is described as free, no participation fee will be charged. Any fees for other work will be agreed with you separately before that work begins. We may occasionally need to change a session, activity or element of a Programme. Where reasonably possible, we will discuss significant changes with you and give you appropriate notice.

6. Personal support during a Programme

Where personal support forms part of your Programme, it will be provided in the way described or agreed for that Programme. This support is available during the agreed Programme period and does not continue indefinitely simply because you retain access to your Programme material afterwards.

We will explain any particular arrangements concerning confidentiality, contact and the boundaries of personal support where these are relevant to the work being undertaken.

7. Access after a Programme

When you complete a Programme, you will normally continue to have access to your Programme material for a further six months. This period begins on the agreed completion date unless we tell you otherwise in writing.

Post-Programme access allows you to revisit the material and continue building on what you have explored. Unless separately agreed, it does not include ongoing personal support. At the end of the six-month period, your access to the Programme area and its material will normally be removed automatically.

You are responsible for keeping any personal notes or reflections you wish to retain. You may download Fovea material only where a download option has been provided or we have given you permission.

8. Access through individual links

We may occasionally give you a direct link to a Fovea article, resource or piece of material that we believe may be particularly relevant or helpful to you. Some linked material may be held within our secure online space and can be accessed directly through the link we provide.

A link may be intended specifically for you. You must not forward a restricted or personal link to another person unless we have said that you may do so. We may update, replace or withdraw linked material where reasonably necessary.

9. Using Fovea material

Unless we state otherwise, all material provided through the website, a Programme, a small group, a direct link or our secure online space belongs to Gary Borland Limited or is used by us with the permission of the relevant owner. This includes text, graphics, images, video, audio, worksheets, exercises, Programme materials, page designs and downloadable documents.

You may view and use this material for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. Without our written permission, you must not:

• copy or reproduce it other than for your permitted personal use;

• distribute it to other people;

• publish or upload it elsewhere;

• adapt it to create your own product, Programme or service;

• sell it or use it commercially;

• remove copyright or ownership information; or

• record a session, video call or conversation.

Your own notes, reflections and original contributions remain yours.

10. Contributions and communication

Some Programme areas may allow you to post comments, respond to questions or communicate with Fovea or other participants. You remain responsible for anything you contribute and must not submit material that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, discriminatory or defamatory; invades another person’s privacy; contains information about someone that you do not have permission to share; infringes copyright or another person’s rights; contains harmful software; promotes an unrelated business, product or service; or disrupts the Programme or another person’s participation.

By posting something within a Programme area, you give us permission to display and use it as necessary to provide and administer that Programme. You do not transfer ownership of your contribution to us. We may remove material or restrict access where we reasonably believe this is necessary to protect participants, maintain the purpose of the space or comply with the law.

11. Respecting confidentiality

Personal experiences may be shared during Programmes, small groups or conversations. You must treat information shared by other participants as confidential and must not repeat another participant’s personal information outside the Programme, take screenshots or recordings of conversations, copy or forward another person’s contribution, or identify another participant publicly without their permission.

We ask every participant to respect these expectations. However, we cannot guarantee that another participant will always comply with them, so you should make your own decisions about what you choose to share in a group setting.

12. Appropriate use

You must not use our website or secure online space unlawfully or fraudulently, to harass, threaten or harm another person, in a way that interferes with someone else’s use of it, to gain unauthorised access to an account, system or material, to introduce viruses or other harmful code, or for commercial purposes without our written agreement.

13. The nature of Fovea’s work

Fovea provides opportunities for personal exploration, learning and development. Our Programmes, conversations and resources are intended to help you consider your experiences, relationships, choices and possibilities. They are not medical or emergency services and are not a substitute for professional medical, psychiatric, psychological, legal or financial advice.

You remain responsible for the choices and decisions you make, and we do not promise a particular personal, relationship or professional outcome. If you believe that you or another person is in immediate danger, you should contact the appropriate emergency service rather than relying on the Fovea website or secure online space.

14. Third-party platforms and links

We use Circle.so and may use other third-party services to provide our secure online space, video calls, communications or linked resources. Your use of a third-party service may also be governed by that provider’s own terms and privacy information.

Our website and resources may contain links to websites operated by other organisations. A link does not necessarily mean that we endorse everything on that website, and we are not responsible for the content, security or availability of third-party websites or services that are outside our reasonable control.

15. Privacy and personal information

We use personal information to administer our website, Programmes, secure online space, communications and other work with you. Information about what we collect, why we use it, who it may be shared with, how long we retain it and your data protection rights is set out in our Privacy Policy.

Ending your access to the secure online space does not necessarily mean that every record relating to you will be deleted immediately. Information will be retained or deleted in accordance with our Privacy Policy and any legal or legitimate administrative requirements.

16. Availability and changes

We will take reasonable care in providing our website, Programmes and secure online space, but we cannot promise that online access will always be uninterrupted or free from every technical problem. Maintenance, security work, internet failures or problems affecting a third-party platform may occasionally interrupt access.

We may update, correct, replace or remove website and resource content. Where a significant change directly affects an active Programme or access we have specifically agreed with you, we will take reasonable steps to explain the change.

17. Suspending or ending access

You may ask us to close your online account by contacting info@fovea.community. We may suspend or remove access where the agreed access period has ended, you ask us to close your account, we reasonably believe your account is being misused, there is a security risk, you seriously or repeatedly breach these terms, your behaviour places another participant at risk, or we are required to do so by law.

Where appropriate and reasonably possible, we will explain the reason and give you an opportunity to address the issue before permanently ending access. Sections concerning intellectual property, confidentiality, liability and the use of material continue to apply after access ends.

18. Our responsibility to you

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. We are responsible for losses that are a foreseeable result of our breach of these terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill.

We are not responsible for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable when access or participation was agreed, loss caused by inaccurate or incomplete information supplied by you, disruption caused by events outside our reasonable control, or business losses arising where our services or material are used for personal purposes. Nothing in this section affects your statutory rights.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms to reflect changes to Fovea, our secure online space, the law or the way our services are provided. The latest version will be published on this page with the date it was last updated.

New terms will apply to future use from the date stated. We will take reasonable steps to notify active participants of any material change that directly affects their existing Programme or agreed access. We will not retrospectively remove rights already agreed with you unless a change is reasonably required for legal, regulatory or security reasons.

20. Complaints

Please contact us if you are unhappy with any aspect of our website, a Programme, our secure online space or the way we have worked with you. We will take your concern seriously and try to resolve it directly with you.

You can contact us at info@fovea.community.

21. General terms

If any part of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms will continue to apply. A delay in enforcing a term does not mean that either you or we have waived the right to enforce it later.

You may not transfer your rights under these terms to another person without our agreement. No person other than you and Gary Borland Limited has any right to enforce these terms.

22. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. Any dispute will be dealt with by the courts that have jurisdiction under applicable law.

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Last updated: 28 July 2026