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Effective Date: July 20, 2026

Last Updated: July 20, 2026

1. General Notice

MikeDeJong.com is a public-facing brand owned and operated by High Peaks Refuge LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company.

This Disclaimer applies to:

  • MikeDeJong.com;
  • Websites, landing pages, and portals operated by High Peaks Refuge LLC;
  • Books and downloadable resources;
  • The Briefing and other email communications;
  • SMS communications;
  • Workshops, webinars, presentations, and events;
  • Consulting, advisory, and coaching services;
  • Courses, recordings, templates, assessments, and tools;
  • Social-media content;
  • Artificial-intelligence-assisted content and tools;
  • Guest-speaker content; and
  • Other educational or business-development materials we provide.

By accessing or using our content, products, or services, you acknowledge this Disclaimer, our Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, and any applicable offer-specific agreement.

2. Educational and Informational Purposes

All content and services are provided for general educational, informational, strategic, and business-development purposes.

Our content may discuss topics such as:

  • Business strategy;
  • Leadership;
  • Management;
  • Operations;
  • Systems and processes;
  • Pricing;
  • Labor;
  • Cost of goods sold;
  • Cash flow;
  • Profitability;
  • EBITDA;
  • Business valuation;
  • Franchise operations;
  • Growth;
  • Delegation;
  • Culture;
  • Succession;
  • Business sales;
  • Marketing;
  • Technology; and
  • Artificial intelligence.

The information is not a substitute for advice from qualified professionals who understand your specific facts, jurisdiction, industry, contracts, financial condition, and legal obligations.

4. No Tax Advice

Our content does not constitute tax advice.

Discussions concerning:

  • Revenue;
  • Expenses;
  • Deductions;
  • Payroll;
  • Owner compensation;
  • Entity structure;
  • Depreciation;
  • Business sales;
  • Valuation;
  • Cash flow; or
  • Financial planning

are educational examples only.

Consult a qualified tax professional regarding your particular federal, state, local, and international obligations.

5. No Accounting or Audit Services

High Peaks Refuge LLC is not acting as your certified public accountant, auditor, bookkeeper, or financial-statement preparer unless a separate written agreement expressly states otherwise and the service is lawfully provided.

Any financial worksheet, calculator, dashboard, scorecard, benchmark, forecast, or example:

  • Depends on the accuracy of the information entered;
  • May omit factors relevant to your business;
  • Is not an audit or assurance engagement;
  • Does not verify your records;
  • May use assumptions that do not apply to you; and
  • Should be reviewed with qualified accounting professionals.

6. No Financial, Investment, Securities, or Lending Advice

Nothing provided by High Peaks Refuge LLC constitutes individualized financial, investment, securities, lending, or credit advice.

We are not acting as your:

  • Investment adviser;
  • Broker-dealer;
  • Securities representative;
  • Lender;
  • Bank;
  • Credit counselor;
  • Consumer-reporting agency;
  • Insurance adviser; or
  • Fiduciary.

Discussions of:

  • Financing;
  • Installment arrangements;
  • Cash reserves;
  • Business valuation;
  • EBITDA;
  • Acquisitions;
  • Business sales;
  • Returns on investment;
  • Investment decisions; or
  • Financial readiness

are educational and should not be treated as a recommendation to buy, sell, borrow, lend, invest, or enter into a financial transaction.

7. No Franchise, Brokerage, or Business-Sale Representation

Our content may discuss franchise ownership, multi-unit operations, acquisitions, succession, or selling a business.

Unless a separate written agreement expressly provides otherwise, High Peaks Refuge LLC is not acting as:

  • A franchise broker;
  • Business broker;
  • Securities broker;
  • Merger-and-acquisition adviser;
  • Buyer’s agent;
  • Seller’s agent;
  • Valuation professional; or
  • Intermediary.

We do not guarantee:

  • Buyer availability;
  • Financing approval;
  • Sale price;
  • Closing;
  • Valuation;
  • Franchise approval;
  • Transfer approval; or
  • Transaction timing.

Consult appropriate legal, accounting, tax, financing, valuation, and brokerage professionals before entering into a transaction.

8. No Earnings or Business-Results Guarantee

We do not guarantee that you will achieve:

  • Increased revenue;
  • Increased profit;
  • Reduced expenses;
  • Improved margins;
  • Greater EBITDA;
  • Better cash flow;
  • More customers;
  • Higher valuation;
  • Operational independence;
  • Time freedom;
  • Successful delegation;
  • Financing;
  • Business growth;
  • Franchise expansion;
  • A business sale;
  • A particular sale price; or
  • Any other financial or operational outcome.

Business results vary because they depend on numerous factors outside our control, including:

  • Your skills and experience;
  • Implementation;
  • Effort;
  • Decision-making;
  • Management;
  • Employees;
  • Customer demand;
  • Market conditions;
  • Pricing;
  • Competition;
  • Capital;
  • Financing;
  • Legal restrictions;
  • Industry conditions;
  • Economic changes; and
  • Unforeseen events.

You accept responsibility for evaluating and implementing any strategy.

A refund or satisfaction guarantee addresses only the written terms of that offer. It does not guarantee business or financial results.

The FTC treats deceptive or unsupported money-making claims as unlawful, and businesses should possess adequate support for objective earnings representations before making them.

9. Examples, Illustrations, and Hypothetical Scenarios

Examples may be simplified to teach a concept.

Illustrations involving:

  • Revenue;
  • Pricing;
  • Labor;
  • Cost of goods sold;
  • Profit;
  • Cash flow;
  • EBITDA;
  • Valuation;
  • Growth;
  • Savings; or
  • Return on investment

may be hypothetical, rounded, anonymized, or based on selected assumptions.

They are not predictions or representations that the same outcome is typical, expected, or available to every user.

You should independently verify all calculations and assumptions before making a decision.

10. Testimonials and Case Studies

Testimonials and case studies represent the experiences of the individuals or businesses described.

They do not guarantee that another customer will achieve the same or similar results.

Results may vary based on:

  • Starting position;
  • Industry;
  • Market;
  • Implementation;
  • Capital;
  • Personnel;
  • Timing;
  • Customer base;
  • Pricing;
  • And other factors.

Where a testimonial refers to financial or operational improvement, it should be supported by information reasonably available to us and should not be presented as a typical result unless we have a reasonable basis for that representation.

Testimonials may be edited for length, spelling, grammar, formatting, or clarity, without materially changing their meaning.

Any material relationship, compensation, free access, discount, or other incentive connected with a testimonial or endorsement must be clearly disclosed where required.

FTC guidance provides that endorsements must reflect honest opinions and that material relationships should be disclosed clearly; unrepresentative testimonials can be misleading when they imply results consumers generally should expect.

11. Affiliate and Referral Disclosure

High Peaks Refuge LLC may occasionally recommend third-party products, services, software, books, venues, consultants, speakers, or other resources.

We may receive:

  • Referral fees;
  • Affiliate commissions;
  • Sponsorship payments;
  • Complimentary access;
  • Discounts;
  • Reciprocal promotion; or
  • Another material benefit.

When a material relationship exists, we will disclose it clearly and reasonably close to the applicable recommendation.

An affiliate relationship does not increase the customer’s price unless expressly stated.

Recommendations reflect our opinion at the time they are made, but you remain responsible for evaluating whether a third-party product or service is suitable.

Clear and conspicuous disclosure of a material connection is a core FTC expectation for endorsements and affiliate promotions.

12. Guest Speakers, Trainers, and Contributors

Workshops, events, webinars, courses, interviews, and content may feature guest speakers, trainers, consultants, contractors, or contributors.

Unless expressly stated in writing:

  • A guest’s opinions are their own;
  • Guest content is not necessarily endorsed by High Peaks Refuge LLC;
  • A guest is not our employee, partner, agent, or joint venturer;
  • We do not guarantee a guest’s advice, services, products, conduct, or results;
  • A purchase from a guest is a separate transaction; and
  • The guest’s own terms, privacy policy, and refund policy may apply.

You should conduct your own due diligence before relying on or purchasing from a guest or third party.

13. Consulting, Coaching, and Advisory Relationships

Consulting, coaching, and advisory services provide strategic support, education, feedback, accountability, and implementation guidance.

You remain solely responsible for:

  • Business decisions;
  • Legal compliance;
  • Hiring and termination decisions;
  • Financial commitments;
  • Pricing;
  • Contracts;
  • Customer representations;
  • Tax filings;
  • Accounting records;
  • Employment practices;
  • Financing;
  • Health and safety;
  • Regulatory obligations; and
  • Implementation.

No consulting or coaching relationship creates:

  • A fiduciary duty;
  • Partnership;
  • Joint venture;
  • Employment relationship;
  • Agency relationship;
  • Legal representation; or
  • Authority for us to make decisions on your behalf.

Advice depends on the completeness and accuracy of the information you provide.

14. Workshop and Event Disclaimer

Workshops, seminars, webinars, trainings, and events are educational experiences.

Participation does not guarantee:

  • Certification;
  • Professional licensure;
  • Regulatory approval;
  • Financing;
  • Employment;
  • Revenue;
  • Profit;
  • Customer acquisition;
  • Operational improvement;
  • Business sale; or
  • Any particular outcome.

You are responsible for determining whether a strategy is lawful and appropriate for your organization.

Attendees should not disclose trade secrets, protected personal information, customer financial data, health information, or other regulated or sensitive information in a group setting.

We cannot guarantee that other attendees will preserve information voluntarily shared in a group environment.

15. Speaking and Presentation Disclaimer

Statements made during a keynote, workshop, interview, podcast, webinar, presentation, or live discussion may:

  • Be abbreviated;
  • Depend on context;
  • Use hypothetical examples;
  • Reflect information available at that time; or
  • Be adapted for a particular audience.

A brief statement or presentation slide should not be relied upon without considering its full context.

Quotations, clips, summaries, and excerpts created by third parties may omit qualifications or alter meaning.

16. Books and Published Materials

Books and written materials reflect information, experiences, and opinions available at the time of publication.

Business, legal, regulatory, economic, and technological conditions may change after publication.

We do not represent that every example, link, service provider, law, platform feature, price, benchmark, or recommendation will remain current.

Readers should verify current information before acting.

17. Artificial Intelligence Disclaimer

We may use artificial intelligence and automation to assist with:

  • Drafting;
  • Editing;
  • Summarizing;
  • Analysis;
  • Personalization;
  • Customer-service routing;
  • Recommendations;
  • Administrative workflows;
  • Educational tools; and
  • Content creation.

AI-assisted output may be:

  • Inaccurate;
  • Incomplete;
  • Outdated;
  • Biased;
  • Inconsistent;
  • Unsuitable for your circumstances; or
  • Based on incorrect assumptions.

AI output must be independently reviewed before it is used for:

  • Contracts;
  • Financial decisions;
  • Employment decisions;
  • Tax filings;
  • Legal compliance;
  • Customer communications;
  • Lending or credit decisions;
  • Accounting records;
  • Healthcare decisions;
  • Investments;
  • Business valuations; or
  • Other significant decisions.

We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, originality, availability, or fitness of AI-assisted content.

AI tools are intended to support—not replace—human judgment and qualified professional advice.

18. AI Tools, Agents, Calculators, and Assessments

Any chatbot, AI agent, calculator, assessment, scorecard, forecast, dashboard, diagnostic, or automated recommendation is provided for educational decision support.

Results may depend on:

  • User-provided information;
  • Assumptions;
  • Third-party data;
  • Software availability;
  • Algorithmic limitations;
  • Incomplete context; or
  • Model behavior.

Do not treat automated output as a verified audit, valuation, legal opinion, tax conclusion, credit decision, accounting statement, or guaranteed recommendation.

19. Intellectual Property and Framework Notice

The concepts, frameworks, terminology, models, systems, worksheets, assessments, prompts, implementation methods, and educational materials presented through MikeDeJong.com and High Peaks Refuge LLC are proprietary or licensed educational works.

This includes materials associated with:

  • Grow Smart;
  • Freedom Formula;
  • Operator to Owner;
  • 120-Day Profit Plan;
  • Owner Operating System;
  • The Briefing;
  • High Peaks Refuge; and
  • Other programs or frameworks identified by us.

Except where expressly permitted by written license, these materials may not be:

  • Copied;
  • Republished;
  • Adapted;
  • Redistributed;
  • Resold;
  • Sublicensed;
  • Publicly uploaded;
  • Presented as another person’s work;
  • Incorporated into commercial training;
  • Used to create competing consulting products;
  • Used to train facilitators;
  • Used to build derivative courses; or
  • Commercially exploited.

The existence and scope of intellectual-property rights depend on applicable copyright, trademark, contract, trade-secret, and other law. The U.S. Copyright Office continues to evaluate copyright issues involving AI-generated content and the use of copyrighted works in generative-AI training.

20. AI Training and Model-Development Restriction

Unless High Peaks Refuge LLC provides prior written authorization, you may not use our protected content to:

  • Train or fine-tune a machine-learning model;
  • Ground a retrieval-augmented generation system;
  • Build a custom GPT, chatbot, AI agent, knowledge base, or digital coach;
  • Evaluate or benchmark an AI model;
  • Create synthetic training data;
  • Improve a public or commercial model;
  • Generate derivative commercial products;
  • Reproduce our proprietary framework structure or terminology; or
  • Develop a competing training, consulting, software, publishing, or certification product.

This restriction applies to:

  • Books;
  • PDFs;
  • Transcripts;
  • Recordings;
  • Presentation slides;
  • Worksheets;
  • Prompts;
  • Assessments;
  • Templates;
  • Web content;
  • Workshop materials;
  • Course materials; and
  • Proprietary communications.

Written authorization may include limits concerning:

  • Permitted models;
  • Permitted data;
  • Security;
  • Retention;
  • Users;
  • Territory;
  • Duration;
  • Commercial use;
  • Attribution; and
  • Licensing fees.

21. Health, Wellness, Stress, and Burnout Content

Our content may discuss:

  • Stress;
  • Burnout;
  • Habits;
  • Mindset;
  • Productivity;
  • Work-life balance;
  • Leadership pressure; or
  • Personal performance.

This content is not medical, psychiatric, psychological, therapeutic, or healthcare advice.

We do not diagnose or treat any physical or mental-health condition.

Consult an appropriately licensed healthcare professional regarding health concerns. Seek immediate emergency assistance when necessary.

22. Technology and Cybersecurity Disclaimer

We may discuss software, AI, automation, websites, systems, cybersecurity, data handling, or operational technology.

No technology system is entirely secure or error-free.

Before implementing technology, you should evaluate:

  • Security;
  • Privacy;
  • Vendor terms;
  • Backups;
  • Access controls;
  • Legal obligations;
  • Data retention;
  • Compatibility;
  • Reliability;
  • Insurance;
  • And incident-response requirements.

We do not guarantee that any recommended or referenced technology will prevent:

  • Data loss;
  • Unauthorized access;
  • Fraud;
  • Outages;
  • Cyberattacks;
  • Errors; or
  • Compliance failures.

24. Accuracy, Completeness, and Timeliness

We make reasonable efforts to provide useful information, but we do not guarantee that all content is:

  • Accurate;
  • Complete;
  • Current;
  • Error-free; or
  • Suitable for every user.

Website content may contain:

  • Typographical errors;
  • Outdated information;
  • Broken links;
  • Technical errors;
  • Incomplete explanations; or
  • References to discontinued products or services.

We may correct, update, remove, or revise content without notice.

25. Forward-Looking Statements

Content may include forward-looking statements concerning:

  • Business trends;
  • Future products;
  • Market conditions;
  • Technology;
  • Growth;
  • Strategy;
  • Planned events;
  • Services;
  • Forecasts; or
  • Anticipated results.

Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainty. Actual events or outcomes may differ materially.

Do not rely on a forward-looking statement as a promise or guarantee.

26. Personal Responsibility and Assumption of Risk

You are responsible for:

  • Conducting your own due diligence;
  • Evaluating recommendations;
  • Obtaining professional advice;
  • Confirming legal requirements;
  • Reviewing contracts;
  • Verifying calculations;
  • Considering risks;
  • And deciding whether and how to act.

By using our content or services, you accept the risks associated with business decisions and implementation.

27. No Professional-Client Relationship From Website Use

Visiting the website, downloading a resource, joining an email list, sending a message, or attending general training does not create a consulting, advisory, fiduciary, legal, accounting, or other professional-client relationship.

A consulting or advisory relationship begins only when:

  • We expressly accept the engagement; and
  • Any required agreement and payment conditions are completed.

29. Changes to This Disclaimer

We may update this Disclaimer to reflect changes in:

  • Services;
  • Technology;
  • Vendors;
  • Law;
  • Industry practices; or
  • Business operations.

Updates will be posted with a revised “Last Updated” date.

The version available when content or services are used will generally apply, subject to applicable law and transaction-specific agreements.

30. Contact Information

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