TERMS & CONDITIONS

Phil's Editing and Tutoring is part of J L Foster & P D Foster, a family partnership owned and operated by Dr Philip Foster and Mrs Jessica Foster. 

I have the right to refuse work if I feel I can’t undertake it by your deadline to an excellent standard.

Editing and Proofreading: I will bill after the completion of a project. Payment terms are within 30 days.

Tutoring: For ongoing tutoring, payment is expected within a week of the completion of a session.

Payment is taken by transfer to a business account. Payment in currencies other than AU$ can be taken through payment to Wise accounts owned by J L Foster & P D Foster.

If you’re a student or academic, you must ensure that consulting an editor is allowed by your institution. I will not check this for you.

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I can’t guarantee that my work will enable your document to pass an examination or assessment, or be accepted by a journal or another publication.

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I will not rewrite academic documents, or parts of academic documents, for you. I can check if citations that appear in your text are detailed your references/bibliography section, format references/bibliographies and alert you to inconsistencies within extracts, but I cannot check the correctness of reference details, including page numbers, or the accuracy of quotes.

In Word, I make amendments and comments using Track Changes, and may produce a separate query sheet if this is appropriate.

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I also work in pdf format, using the ‘Comment’ function.

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Tutoring is conducted over Zoom.

I take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your account and to provide the products and services you have requested from me.

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When your data is entered into the Phil's Editing and Tutoring contact form it is sent to pjf.editing@gmail.com via email and stored on a Gmail server. The information will be kept for no longer than is necessary for me to answer your queries or to complete your project. 

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Once you are no longer a client, our correspondence has finished and I no longer need it for legal, tax or regulatory reasons, your data will be moved from pjf.editing@gmail.com to trash for deletion.

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I keep electronic copies of manuscripts I have recently worked on for training purposes, and store them securely on password-protected platforms. Once I no longer need them I securely dispose of them. If I would like to use a disguised version of your work for training purposes, I will contact you directly to ask for permission before doing so.