Withdrawal from a seminar, live, guided learning or virtual classroom course is required in writing to the CFTEA office. A student may withdraw from a class with no fees assessed up to ten business days before the start of the class. Refunds will deduct a $25.00 cancellation fee, cost of materials, and postage/handling. To avoid a cancellation fee, the course may be transferred to another student for $50 before the start date. Once a class begins, no refund is issued for a withdrawal.
Instructor-Led Online 8-16 week classes……….$130 Cancellation Charge
Instructor-Led Online short classes……………….$ 75 Cancellation Charge
Self-paced, Ascensus, MindEdge, OnCourse classes……………………..No refunds
Any student who registers for a class who does not inform the CFTEA office of withdrawal and does not attend the class will be charged the full tuition rate.
Guided Learning ………………………………………….$50 Transfer Fee
CFTEA Workplace Self Paced………………………..$25 Transfer Fee (if course not originally accessed by student)
Winter weather can be volatile and unpredictable. Because of this CFTEA will expect payment for any enrollment cancellation due to anticipated bad weather after the deadline requirements in the Withdrawal Policy. At the discretion of CFTEA, except for classes held at a high school, college, or university, should bad weather become a deterrent for any student(s) to attend a class on the day/evening of the program, there will be no charge for the enrollment. The decision to cancel any evening class will be made by 2:00 PM. Daytime classes will be canceled by 3:00 PM the day before the class The CFTEA office will contact a student enrolled in a canceled class.
NOTE: Classes being held at a high school, college or university will be canceled when the school decides to close for bad weather. Please listen to radio stations in your area that would have information about school closings for inclement weather.
A smoke-free environment is maintained at all CFTEA classes, seminars and workshops, and social events. In most cases, smoking areas are available at class and seminar locations. Your instructors will be aware of the smoking areas. This includes the use of all e-cigarettes.
Student attendance and class participation are critical to successful learning objectives and the integrity of CFTEA’s reputation in the learning community.
CFTEA appreciates being a preferred educational partner and provides work setting up OnDemand or In-House live programs for the benefit of organizations. At times changes or situations may occur that impact a course running. It is important to communicate with the CFTEA office if there is any change that impacts an agreed-upon course to run. If a course cannot be rescheduled, the following cancellation policy is applicable.
Cancellation of the program within:
The Center for Financial Training and Education Alliance (CFTEA) recognizes that it takes more than quality education and a commitment to the students that it serves to be successful in accomplishing our mission. We rely heavily on our solid reputation for honesty, fairness, and ethical conduct to attract our students, recruit quality instructors, and retain a high level of organizational support and respect.
Our reputation ultimately rests on the good judgment and personal integrity of everyone – staff, volunteer leaders, students, instructors, and all other individuals and organizations – involved with CFTEA.
Those associated with CFTEA in any capacity shall commit themselves to:
CFTEA strongly supports the concept of academic integrity and seeks to foster sound moral behavior in its students and faculty. Academic dishonesty can take many forms, including cheating on examinations, plagiarism, aiding others to commit dishonest acts, etc., and must never be tolerated. Students engaging in academic dishonesty are subject to serious consequences. Instructors who observe or suspect an incident of academic dishonesty shall bring it to the attention of an appropriate center official immediately for prompt investigation, review, and action.
Student files are maintained at the CFTEA office. A file is begun for a student when his/her first enrollment form for any class arrives at the CFTEA office. Student records are maintained by the last four digits of the student’s social security number. Should you desire not to provide us with this information, we will assign a student identification number to the enrollment listed on the enrollment form.
If a student changes their name or place of employment, please contact the CFTEA office with corrections as soon as possible at 888.366.3242 or [email protected].
The American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE Credit) has evaluated and recommended college credit for several Instructor-Led online classes listed in this catalog and the credit recommendation is listed in the indicated column.
The American Council on Education, the major coordinating body for the nation’s higher education institutions, seeks to provide leadership and a unifying voice on key higher education issues and to influence public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives. ACE CREDIT connects workplace learning with colleges and universities by helping adults gain access to academic credit at colleges and universities for formal courses and examinations taken in the workplace or other settings outside traditional higher education.
These recommendations do not guarantee you will receive college credit for these classes. The decision is made independently by each college or university. The ACE website lists the Colleges and Universities that have agreed to accept the credit recommendations when appropriate.
Before enrolling into a course specifically to transfer the credits to the college or university, you are attending please confirm directly with the school that they will accept the credits upon successful completion of the class.
In-class: Grade reports will be sent to students as soon as possible after the grades have been received from the instructor. Grade reports to the financial institutions will be sent in bulk at the end of the semester – in January and in July. A student may request in writing that a grade report be sent to his/her human resource department sooner than at the end of the semester if the grade is necessary for a promotion, salary increase, etc.
Online and Self Study: Grades are sent to students upon CFTEA’s receipt of the final grade from the instructor or completion of the self-paced programs.
CFTEA uses an official letter grading system for courses eligible the or credit but does not include pluses (+) or minuses (-).
Letter grades are as follows:
A class showing an incomplete grade must be completed within three months of the end date of the class for the grade to be changed to a letter grade. Otherwise, the incomplete grade will remain as a permanent record on the transcript.
An unofficial transcript of a student’s classes may be requested by the student in writing. An official transcript may be sent to a college or other educational facility. There is a $25.00 fee for an official transcript which must be paid at the time of the request.
When ordering, please include in the request your name, the last four digits of your social security number or your student ID number, your telephone number, and the address to which the transcript should be sent, along with the $25.00 fee payable to CFTEA.
All CFTEA records are maintained under the last four digits of a student’s social security number. If this information was not supplied to the CFTEA office during registration for a course, it may cause any transfer request to be incomplete.
To save students time and added expense, please first contact the CFTEA office at 888.366.3242 or [email protected] for assistance to complete the appropriate paperwork.
Credit for completed college courses may be transferred to a student’s CFTEA transcript. Classes must be completed at an accredited post-secondary institution. The credits must be accompanied by grades of “C” or better to be eligible for transfer.
To transfer credits from a college to CFTEA, the CFTEA office must be sent an official transcript of the student’s credits and grades from the college as well as course descriptions for the classes intended to be transferred. A fee of $40.00 is assessed for the evaluation of transfer credit which must accompany the request.
Tuition rates for all learning formats may be found on the pages listing the programs.
In–House Course Tuition:
Transfers from Vendor Programs (outside enrollment):
Transfers from College Programs:
Students may enroll in any CFTEA course by paying at registration or with the approval of their supervisor, learning and development department, or Human Resources.
Enrollments not directly paid by a student are billed to an organization throughout the month and are based on the guidelines found in the policies section of this catalog.
Extensions are granted upon request before the original due date. Extensions begin from the original completion date.
Extensions are available for Self Paced courses through CFTEA Workplace.
Extensions are available for Guided Learning courses.
CFTEA courses found within the CFTEA Workplace portal receive two assessment attempts for Guided Learning and CFTEA self-paced content. An additional two attempts may be purchased for $25.
CFTEA reaffirms its standing policy of nondiscrimination in employment and all programs and activities concerning race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age, religion, ethnic or national origin, handicap, or veteran status.
Textbooks purchased through the CFTEA office for a live or in-house course will be billed to the organization.
Any special print runs for textbooks or workbooks that are extras for an organization are not eligible for return and credit from CFTEA.
Any current edition textbook used through CFTEA’s Guided Learning program are eligible for return within 30 days of the last class date. Textbooks will be examined by the CFTEA office for acceptable condition. Any textbook in acceptable condition will generate a credit for the organization.
Questions? Check with the CFTEA office.
CFTEA does not pay for student parking at locations where free parking is not available. In most cases, a student’s financial institutions also do not pay for student parking. Please inquire within your financial institution before submitting for payment through your organization.
CFTEA will invoice organizations for payment or accept payment at the time of registration MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express credit cards are also accepted.
All updated course descriptions are located under the Courses section of our website.
Last updated: April 08, 2021
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information by this Privacy Policy.
The words in which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.
For this Privacy Policy:
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Usage Data has collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies: What Are Cookies?.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
CFTEA may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
CFTEA will retain Your Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
CFTEA will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a short period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for long periods.
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at CFTEA’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
CFTEA will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
If CFTEA is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Under certain circumstances, CFTEA may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
CFTEA may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.
We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information contained in Our Privacy Policy and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of personal information which we may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.
Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected by Us, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected. For example, certain categories of personal information would only be collected if You provided such personal information directly to Us.
Under CCPA, personal information does not include:
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
We may use or disclose personal information We collect for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” (as defined under the CCPA), which may include the following examples:
Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive. For more details on how we use this information, please refer to the “Use of Your Personal Data” section.
If We decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information We collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes We will update this Privacy Policy.
We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:
Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact disclosed, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been disclosed.
When we disclose personal information for a business purpose or a commercial purpose, We enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
As defined in the CCPA, “sell” and “sale” mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to a third party for valuable consideration. This means that We may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing personal information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit.
Please note that the categories listed below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact sold, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been shared for value in return.
We may sell and may have sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information:
We may share Your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16 through our Service, although certain third party websites that we link to may do so. These third-party websites have their own terms of use and privacy policies and we encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and instruct their children to never provide information on other websites without their permission.
We do not sell the personal information of Consumers We actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless We receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to the sale of personal information may opt-out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, You (or Your authorized representative) may submit a request to Us by contacting Us.
If You have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided Us with personal information, please contact Us with sufficient detail to enable Us to delete that information.
The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:
In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us:
Only You, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that You authorize to act on Your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to Your personal information.
Your request to Us must:
We cannot respond to Your request or provide You with the required information if we cannot:
We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonable necessary and with prior notice.
Any disclosures We provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request’s receipt.
For data portability requests, We will select a format to provide Your personal information that is readily useable and should allow You to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of Your personal information. Once We receive and confirm a verifiable consumer request from You, we will stop selling Your personal information. To exercise Your right to opt-out, please contact Us.
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
However, some third party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.
Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.
California Business and Professions Code section 22581 allow California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.
To request removal of such data, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with Your account.
Be aware that Your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us: