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Refund Policy

This is a summarised extract from HICE adopted policy, drawn from HICE management records to provide accurate and complete information on the matter for global market. The full policy text is available on request from management@hice-group.com, and is not published publicly due to specific internal governance matters such as metrics on sustainability impacts, internal procedural rules and other commercially sensitive details. Enquiries are welcome at any time, stating the matter and the reasons for it precisely. What appears here is complete in itself and is a true, accurate extract of the exact information required for global commercial use, and this data may be relied upon accordingly. This summary has been written for clarity: to enable Users to grasp the essential information immediately, without unnecessary complexity.

HICE is a business-to-business offering, intended for companies, firms and professionals.

 

The Materials and/or tools and tools are delivered instantly, as editable, unprotected files, with full rights to use and adapt them. Given their unprecedented scale, their supply for immediate use, and the open, unprotected form in which they are provided, all sales are final: once a download has begun, the sale is complete and the files cannot be returned and/or refunded. HICE confirms each order by email.

HICE sells business-to-business. No consumer right of withdrawal applies.

Before purchase, the work can be seen. Representative examples are published in advance, so the User can judge the style, structure and suitability of the Materials and/or tools beforehand. Further, files are delivered as unprotected, editable Word documents. Once downloaded, HICE has no practical ability to track, control, or prevent misuse — adaptation, redistribution, rebranding, incorporation into other products, resale to competitors, or use across unlimited projects beyond the scope purchased. This is deliberate: the user gets full editorial freedom and the ability to own and adapt the work. Therefore, because files are unprotected, the pricing model cannot include any allowance for usage tracking or policing, license enforcement mechanisms, protection against unauthorised reproduction or resale and/or recovery of value if the work is misapplied. The price reflects this: you pay once, the work is yours to use as you see fit within the licence terms. HICE is limited to (and does not attempt to) follow the files into the world.

Also, HICE materials and tools incorporate the output of data which is unprecedented in scope and depth. HICE Editions are generic starting points developed over years of practice, distilled into patterns that would cost, literally, six figures to replicate. Each Edition encodes real experience — conflict clauses that work, reservations of rights that hold, notice structures that survive challenge. Then, HICE strategic tables are unique to HICE. Four-layer annotation, three-party governance, real mega-project detail — this is not template boilerplate. It is intellectual capital. The whole library is written to a standard. Built on methodology. Therefore: all sales are final, and refunds do not apply. The price is set knowing the files leave unprotected, and the know-how is unretrievable once shared.

You are purchasing the accumulated expertise of a contracts manager who has built this over decades. Once you have it — once you have seen the architecture, the phrasing, the structure — you cannot un-see it. Value transferred is permanent.

The Materials and/or tools are generic Editions, made to be adapted to a particular contract. The need to adapt one is not a fault, and is not a ground for refund.

If a file is genuinely wrong — faulty, corrupt, incomplete, the wrong item or materially not as described — HICE will repair, replace or refund it. That is the limit of HICE’s obligation in respect of the files, and no consumer guarantees apply.

Adopted by HICE management on 15 June 2026.