Terms of Service
Company & Contact Information
- Provider: XRC LLC, a Nevada limited liability company, operating the CAIBOK certification body and the Black Belt Chef training and publishing body (“we,” “us,” “our”).
- Websites covered: caibok.org, caibok.net, blackbeltchef.com, blackbeltchef.net.
- Contact email: administration@caibok.org
- Mailing address: 848 N. Rainbow Blvd., #4152, Las Vegas, NV 89107
- Effective date: June 23, 2026
These Terms govern your relationship with us across everything we do — not only your use of our websites. They apply to our certification and assessment services, the issuance, maintenance, and verification of credentials, our training and publishing, and your relationship with us as a candidate or holder of a CAIBOK credential. By registering for an assessment, sitting an assessment, holding or using a credential, purchasing from us, or using our websites, you agree to these Terms, our published standards, and the Privacy and Cookie Policies.
1. Who we are
The provider and contact details are set out in the Company & Contact Information section above.
2. Eligibility and registration
You may register for the credential whose published eligibility requirements you meet. We do not require any particular course or provider as a condition of assessment. You must give accurate, complete, and current information. Where a credential requires evidence of experience or current practice, you will provide the required curriculum vitae, professional references, and signed attestation, and you authorize us to verify your submissions, including by contacting references and employers and auditing a sample of applications. Misrepresentation is grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation, and forfeiture of fees.
3. Minimum age and minors
You must be at least 16 to register for a CAIBOK assessment or credential. If you are 16 or 17, a parent or legal guardian must review and accept these Terms on your behalf and consent to your participation, and a parent or guardian must consent before you take any proctored assessment. We do not require biometric identity verification of minors.
4. Assessment and examination integrity
You will comply with our examination rules and the conditions stated for each assessment in our published standards. Prohibited conduct includes cheating, using unauthorized materials or assistance, impersonation or having another person sit an assessment, and copying, recording, reproducing, distributing, or disclosing examination content. Examination content is our confidential property and intellectual property. We may void any result obtained through prohibited conduct, refuse or cancel a credential, and bar a person from future assessment. Pass marks, the number of permitted attempts, and related rules are set out in our published standards.
5. Identity verification and proctoring
Senior-level assessments are proctored, with identity verification and a monitored session. By sitting a proctored assessment, you consent to verification of your identity and to monitoring and recording of the session, including capture of your image and identity document, for examination-integrity purposes. This data is handled as described in the Privacy Policy. We do not require biometric identity verification of minors.
6. Fees, payment, and refunds
Fees are set out in our published fee schedule and are payable when due. Refunds, cancellations, retakes, recertification, and reinstatement are governed by our published policies. A failed assessment does not entitle you to a refund.
7. Your credential
On meeting a credential’s requirements, we issue a verifiable digital credential. The credential and our names, logos, and certification marks (“Marks”) remain our property; you receive a limited, revocable license to display the credential truthfully while it is valid. You may state the level and credential you hold. You may not alter or misrepresent the credential, claim a level you have not earned, use the Marks except as we permit, or state or imply that we endorse your business, products, or services beyond the fact of the credential. On expiry, suspension, or revocation, your right to display the credential and the Marks ends, and you will stop representing yourself as currently certified.
8. Verification and validation of your certification
A core purpose of certification is that others can rely on it. By earning a CAIBOK credential, you authorize us to confirm and validate your certification status — including the credential you hold, its level, and whether it is currently valid — to any person who requests it, including employers, recruiters, regulators, and partners, and to display that status in our public credential-verification register. We confirm only your factual certification status and the information reasonably necessary to validate it. This authorization continues for as long as you hold, or have held, a credential, so that the integrity and verifiability of CAIBOK credentials are preserved. We handle the personal data involved in verification as described in the Privacy Policy.
9. Validity and recertification
Each credential is valid for one year and is maintained through continuing education rather than re-examination, with one exception: the annual White Belt food-safety examination, which every certificant retakes each year. A grace period follows the annual deadline, after which a lapsed credential may be reinstated through our defined process and fee. You are responsible for meeting recertification requirements and deadlines.
10. Continuing education
You complete our annual continuing-education requirement in the distribution set out in our published standards. Continuing education may be earned from any approved source; our own content is never required, and you can always meet the requirement through activities that involve no purchase from us or our affiliates. You maintain a continuing-education log with attestation, and we audit a random sample.
11. Conduct and professional ethics
Certificants uphold our Code of Professional Ethics, which is incorporated into these Terms. Conduct in breach of the Code, or that brings us or our credentials into disrepute, is grounds for discipline under Section 12.
12. Suspension and revocation
We may suspend or revoke a credential for examination misconduct, misrepresentation, breach of the Code of Professional Ethics, failure to meet recertification requirements, misuse of the credential or the Marks, or conduct materially harmful to our integrity. Decisions are made under our published criteria and procedures. On suspension or revocation you will cease using the credential and the Marks, and we may update your status in our verification register accordingly. You may appeal under Section 13.
13. Appeals and complaints
You may appeal an examination result, an eligibility determination, or a suspension or revocation, through our appeals process. An appeal is reviewed by a person not involved in the original decision, and the outcome is given in writing. We also maintain a process for receiving and resolving complaints about our certifications, our certificants, or approved content.
14. Intellectual property
All of our examinations, content, standards, materials, and Marks are our intellectual property. Any study materials you purchase are licensed for your personal, non-commercial use only; you may not reproduce or distribute them. Examination content may not be reproduced or disclosed in any form.
15. Disclaimers
A CAIBOK credential attests that you demonstrated competence against our published standards at the time of assessment. It is not a guarantee of employment, income, advancement, job placement, or competence in any particular workplace, and we make no such promise. A CAIBOK credential is not a government license and may not satisfy any food-safety, health, licensing, or regulatory requirement imposed by any jurisdiction; you are solely responsible for identifying and meeting the legal and regulatory requirements that apply where you work. Except as expressly stated, we provide our assessments, credentials, content, and services “as is,” and disclaim all warranties to the maximum extent permitted by law, including any implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.
16. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages. Our total aggregate liability arising out of your assessment, your credential, or these Terms is limited to the amount of fees you paid to us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. This section does not limit liability that cannot be limited by law.
17. Indemnification
You will indemnify us against claims and reasonable costs arising from your misuse or misrepresentation of a credential or the Marks, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of law.
18. Governing law and dispute resolution
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Except as provided below, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms is resolved by final and binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (or, where you are outside the United States, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution), before a single arbitrator, seated in Clark County, Nevada, conducted in English. To the extent permitted by law, you and we waive any right to a jury trial and any right to bring or participate in a class, collective, or representative action. We may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect our examination content, intellectual property, or Marks.
19. Changes to these Terms and the scheme
We may update our published standards, fees, and these Terms. Material changes take effect on notice; your continued participation after the effective date is acceptance.
20. General
Electronic acceptance is valid and enforceable under the U.S. E-SIGN Act, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and the EU eIDAS Regulation, as applicable. We may assign or transfer these Terms to a successor or affiliate, including any entity to which CAIBOK or Black Belt Chef is transferred or that is established for our operations within or outside the United States; you may not assign. If any provision is unenforceable, it is narrowed or severed and the rest remains in effect. These Terms, together with our published standards and the Privacy and Cookie Policies, are the entire agreement on this subject.