Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of these Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Blueprint Growth Partners, LLC, an Arizona limited liability company ("The Blueprint," "we," "us," or "our"), governing your access to and use of joinblueprintaccelerator.com, the free Deal Calculator, our weekly email, videos, content, calls, and any other services we offer through the Site (together, the "Services").

By subscribing to our email, booking a call, using the Deal Calculator, or otherwise accessing or using the Services, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. The Earnings and Results Disclaimer in Section 11 is part of these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Services. If you use the Services on behalf of a company, you represent that you have authority to bind that company, and "you" includes it.

2. Definitions

"Content" means everything made available through the Services, in any form, including text, videos, audio, deal breakdowns, images, photographs, graphics, logos, templates, the Deal Calculator and its code, interfaces, inputs, and outputs, success stories, testimonials, reviews, designs, and "look and feel," whether created by us, our students, or with the assistance of artificial intelligence.

"User Content" means content you submit to us, including testimonials, results, photos, videos, messages, and anything you send us.

"Student Materials" means Content relating to identifiable students, including their names, photos, likenesses, stories, testimonials, results, and deal details.

3. What the Services are, and what they are not

The Blueprint is an educational business. We teach people how to source, evaluate, structure, finance, buy, and operate small businesses, including how SBA loans, seller financing, and business credit work, through content, tools, coaching, and calls. To be completely clear about what we are not:

• We are not a bank, lender, loan broker, business broker, investment adviser, broker dealer, law firm, accounting firm, tax adviser, or fiduciary. Nothing in the Services creates any advisory, fiduciary, attorney client, or professional relationship with you.
• Nothing in the Services is financial, investment, legal, tax, accounting, or lending advice, or a recommendation to buy any particular business or security. Educational content is general in nature and is not tailored to your circumstances.
• We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) or any lender. References to SBA programs describe publicly available government loan programs.
• We do not guarantee that you will find a business, qualify for financing, close a deal, make money, or achieve any outcome. Buying a business involves substantial risk, including the risk of losing your investment and being personally liable on guaranteed loans. Read Section 11.

Before acting on anything you learn from us, consult your own licensed attorney, CPA, and lender about your specific situation. You are solely responsible for your decisions.

4. Your license to use the Services

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non exclusive, non transferable license to access and use the Services and Content for your own personal, noncommercial education.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved. This license terminates automatically if you breach these Terms.

5. Intellectual property

The Services and all Content (excluding your User Content) are owned by The Blueprint or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, trade dress, and other intellectual property laws. "The Blueprint," "Blueprint Accelerator," our logos, and our program names are our trademarks. You may not use them without our prior written consent, including in domain names, advertising, metatags, search keywords, or in any way that suggests affiliation or endorsement.

Some Content is created with the assistance of AI tools. Regardless of how any element of the Content was created, all Content is made available subject to these Terms, and the restrictions in Section 6 apply to all of it by contract.

6. Prohibited uses, including scraping and AI training

Access to the Services is offered on the condition that you accept these restrictions. They protect our work and, just as importantly, our students, whose stories and results appear on this Site with their permission, for use by us alone.

Except with our prior written consent, you agree that you will not, directly or indirectly, and will not enable or assist any third party to:

• Copy or republish Content. Reproduce, distribute, republish, publicly display, sell, license, frame, mirror, or create derivative works from any Content, except for the limited personal license in Section 4 and ordinary social sharing of links to our public pages.
• Use Student Materials. Use, copy, download, publish, or exploit any Student Materials, student names, photographs, likenesses, stories, testimonials, results, or deal details, for any purpose, including in your own marketing, content, products, datasets, or AI systems.
• Scrape or harvest. Access the Services using any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, headless browser, or other automated means, or systematically retrieve, extract, or compile Content or data from the Services, whether or not for commercial purposes.
• Train AI. Use any Content, in whole or in part, directly or through a third party dataset, to train, fine tune, ground, evaluate, or otherwise develop any machine learning model, large language model, generative AI system, or other artificial intelligence technology.
• Circumvent protections. Bypass or disable any technical measure controlling access to the Services.
• Interfere or attack. Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services, introduce malware, overload or disrupt the Services, or reverse engineer any part of them.
• Break the law or harm others. Use the Services to violate any law, infringe any third party's rights, harass or defame any student or team member, send spam, or post false or misleading content.
• Compete unfairly. Use the Services or Content to build, market, or improve a competing product, course, dataset, or service.

Reservation of rights for text and data mining. We expressly reserve all rights in the Services and Content for the purposes of Article 4(3) of EU Directive 2019/790 and all analogous laws worldwide. Text and data mining, web scraping, and any use of Content for AI or machine learning development are prohibited without a written license from us.

Enforcement. Violations of this Section 6 cause harm that is difficult to quantify. In addition to all other remedies, including injunctive relief, you agree that we may suspend or terminate your access immediately.

7. User Content and testimonials

Your ownership. You retain ownership of your User Content.

Your license to us. By submitting User Content (including testimonials, reviews, results, photos, and videos, and anything you share with us in calls, emails, or messages), you grant The Blueprint a non exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, edit, excerpt, publish, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform that User Content, in any media now known or later developed, for operating, promoting, and improving the Services, including in our advertising and marketing, together with the right to use your name, likeness, voice, and biographical information in connection with it. For students featured in success stories, we may additionally ask you to sign a separate written release. Where you have signed one, its terms control for the uses it covers.

If you would rather not be featured, tell us at rick@joinblueprintaccelerator.com. We will not feature a student's story in new marketing over their objection, and we honor removal requests for featured stories going forward.

Your promises about User Content. You represent that you own or control the rights to your User Content; that it is truthful and reflects your genuine experience (testimonials on this Site must be real); that it does not infringe anyone's rights or violate any law; and that anyone identifiable in photos or videos you submit has consented to their use.

Feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them without restriction or compensation.

8. Calls, recordings, and communications

Strategy calls, coaching calls, and onboarding sessions may be recorded and transcribed, including with AI note taking tools, for quality, training, note taking, and delivering the Services. We will tell you before or at the start of any recorded call. By remaining on a recorded call after notice, you consent to the recording. If you prefer not to be recorded, tell us and we will accommodate you. Recordings and transcripts are handled as described in our Privacy Policy and are not used to train AI models.

By providing your phone number or email, you agree we may contact you about the Services as described in the Privacy Policy. Consent to marketing messages is never a condition of purchase, and you can opt out at any time. For texts, reply STOP.

9. The Deal Calculator and other free tools

The free Deal Calculator on this Site exists to help you learn how lenders look at a deal. Use it with a clear understanding of what it is:

• Estimates for education, not answers. Calculator outputs are hypothetical illustrations generated from the numbers you enter and simplified assumptions, including assumed interest rates for SBA 7(a) loans, seller notes, and combined structures that may not reflect current market rates or the terms any lender would offer you. They are not loan quotes, prequalifications, appraisals, valuations, projections of your results, or predictions of what any lender, seller, or market will do.
• Real deals are more complex. Actual transactions involve rates, fees, working capital, taxes, underwriting standards, seller terms, and facts that no calculator can fully capture.
• No responsibility for decisions. You alone are responsible for any decision, offer, purchase, loan, or transaction you make. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for reliance on any tool output or piece of content.

Verify any number that matters with your lender, CPA, or attorney before relying on it.

10. Purchases and paid programs

We do not sell programs, memberships, or subscriptions through this website. There is no checkout, paid area, or account login here. Our paid mentorship and acquisition programs are enrolled in and paid for separately, under a written agreement you sign at that time. That agreement governs pricing, payment, refunds, cancellation, scope of services, and dispute resolution for those programs, and it controls over these Terms in the event of any conflict.

11. Earnings and results disclaimer

This Section is part of these Terms and applies to everything on the Site, in our emails, on our social channels, and on our calls.

• Results shown are not typical and are not guaranteed. Any student results, success stories, deal figures, cash flow numbers, timelines, and testimonials on the Site are shared for illustrative purposes only. They reflect the experience of specific individuals and are not a promise or prediction of what you will achieve.
• Student outcomes are self reported and, unless otherwise stated, have not been independently verified.
• We do not track typical results. Because we cannot know how much effort, capital, or skill any given person brings, we make no representation about the average or typical outcome of anyone who uses our content or joins a program.
• Your results depend entirely on you. Your effort, decisions, financing, credit, market, experience, and circumstances will determine your outcome. Most people who do not do the work will see no results at all.
• This is not a get rich quick opportunity. Buying a business requires significant work, capital, time, and commitment, and involves substantial risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment and personal liability on guaranteed loans.
• Loan approval is never guaranteed. References to "zero down," "$0 out of pocket," or similar structures describe deal structures that some students have used. They are not available in every deal, depend on the seller and lender, and are never guaranteed.
• Our own results are not a promise. Statements about our own acquisitions, businesses, and private equity firm describe our experience, not a guarantee that you will replicate it.

12. Copyright complaints (DMCA)

We respect intellectual property rights and expect the same of our users. If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, send a notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to rick@joinblueprintaccelerator.com with the subject line "DMCA Notice." Your notice must include: (1) your physical or electronic signature; (2) identification of the copyrighted work; (3) identification and location of the allegedly infringing material; (4) your contact information; (5) a statement of good faith belief that the use is unauthorized; and (6) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and you are authorized to act for the owner.

13. Third party services and links

The Services reference and link to third party websites, platforms, tools, lenders, brokers, and resources, including Calendly, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and lender or listing sites. We do not control them, do not endorse them (a link is not an endorsement), and are not responsible for their content, products, terms, or privacy practices. Your dealings with any third party, including any lender, broker, or seller, are solely between you and them.

14. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICES AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND COMPLETENESS. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE; THAT ANY CONTENT, CALCULATOR OUTPUT, OR ESTIMATE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT; OR THAT ANY EDUCATIONAL OUTCOME, FINANCING, ACQUISITION, OR FINANCIAL RESULT WILL BE ACHIEVED. YOU USE THE SERVICES AT YOUR OWN RISK. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

15. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) THE BLUEPRINT AND ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, COACHES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, AND AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST SAVINGS, LOST DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS, INCLUDING ANY BUSINESS DECISION, OFFER, ACQUISITION, LOAN, OR TRANSACTION YOU MAKE OR ATTEMPT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY, AND REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY; (B) OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (i) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (ii) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100); AND (C) FOR FREE SERVICES, INCLUDING THE DEAL CALCULATOR, CONTENT, AND EMAILS, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100). SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED BY LAW.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless The Blueprint and its owners, officers, members, employees, coaches, contractors, agents, and affiliates from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your User Content; (b) your breach of these Terms, including the restrictions in Section 6; (c) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party; or (d) your business and acquisition activities, including any offer, transaction, loan, or dispute with any seller, lender, broker, or other party.

17. Governing law and venue

These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict of laws rules. You and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona, except that we may seek injunctive relief for violations of Section 6 in any court of competent jurisdiction. Nothing in these Terms waives rights you cannot waive under the law of your state of residence.

Our paid programs are provided under a separate written agreement that contains its own dispute resolution terms, which control for those programs.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will provide notice, such as a prominent notice on the Site or an email to subscribers, and we will update the "Last updated" date above. Changes apply prospectively only. Your continued use of the Services after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to updated Terms, stop using the Services.

19. Termination and survival

You may stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Services if you violate these Terms, immediately where the violation is serious (including violations of Section 6, testimonial dishonesty, or harassment), or if we discontinue the Services. Sections that by their nature should survive do survive, including Sections 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, and 14 through 21.

20. Electronic communications

You consent to receive agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications from us electronically, by email, text (where you have consented), or posting on the Site, and agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement of a writing.

21. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Services, superseding prior agreements on that subject. A separate written program agreement governs paid programs.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the rest remains in effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Headings are for convenience only.

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