Effective: December 11^th, 2025

Our mission is to provide high-quality business education and advisory services to our customers. We are committed to maintaining a professional, respectful, and safe learning environment for all participants in the Empire Builder Academy and Empire Builder the Course.

Service Provider may remove or edit inappropriate content or activity identified by or reported to Service Provider. Service Provider may suspend, disable, or terminate your access to all or part of the Course for violations of this Agreement or community guidelines.

1. You are prohibited from using our Services to share content that:

• Contains illegal content or promotes illegal activities with the intent to commit such activities. Content that is inappropriate or offensive is not permitted.
• Contains credible threats or organizes acts of real-world violence. We don’t allow content that creates a genuine risk of physical injury or property damage, credibly threatens people or public safety, or organizes or encourages harm.
• Harasses others. Abusive or otherwise inappropriate content directed at private individuals is not allowed.
• Violates intellectual property, privacy, or other rights. Do not share content that you do not have the right to share, claim content that you did not create as your own, or otherwise infringe or misappropriate someone else’s intellectual property or other rights. Always attribute materials used or quoted by you to the original copyright owner.
• Spams others. Do not share irrelevant or inappropriate advertising, promotional, or solicitation content.
• Otherwise violates this Agreement.

Please note that specific Course offerings may have additional rules and requirements.

2. You also aren’t allowed to:

• Do anything that violates local, state, national, or international law or breaches any of your contractual obligations or fiduciary duties.
• Share your password, let anyone besides yourself access your Course account, or do anything that might put your account at risk.
• Attempt to access any other account.
• Reproduce, transfer, sell, resell, or otherwise misuse any content from the Course, unless specifically authorized to do so.
• Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of Service Provider’s systems, unless specifically authorized to do so.
• Break or circumvent authentication or security measures or otherwise test the vulnerability of Service Provider’s systems or networks, unless specifically authorized to do so.
• Try to reverse engineer any portion of the Course.
• Try to interfere with any user, host, or network, for example by sending a virus, overloading, spamming, or mail-bombing.
• Use the Course to distribute malware.
• Use the Course or any functionality of the Service Provider’s platform for anything other than for completing the Course or for educational purposes.
• Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity.
• Encourage or help anyone do any of the things on this list.

3. Without prior written consent from Service Provider, you also aren’t allowed to:

• Visit or use the Course for any form of content, data, or text scraping (including but not limited to screen scraping, web harvesting, or web data extracting) through manual, mechanical, or automated means including by the use of bots or other similar software.
• Use any content, data, or text in any form in the Course for text or data mining purposes, or develop or train any application, software, code, or data models including but not limited to generative artificial intelligence or other artificial intelligence and machine learning models irrespective of the purposes whether commercial or non-commercial.