Best Educators LLC

Best Educators LLC dba Gunzel Family Brands

Terms and Conditions

Effective Date: September 29, 2015 (Last Updated: August 23, 2024)

Hello and welcome to Gunzel Family Brands, brought to you by Best Educators, LLC!

We’ve put a lot of effort into making this site useful, informative, helpful, honest and fun.  

Hopefully we’ve accomplished that — and would ask that you let us know if you’d like to see improvements or changes that would make it even easier for you to find the information you need and want.

We hope you find what you’re looking for here — and maybe even discover something new along the way.

By using our site, you’re agreeing to the following Terms and Conditions, so please take a moment to read them.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By continuing to use our site or interacting with our business in any way, you’re agreeing to these Terms and Conditions.

If something doesn’t sit right with you, we understand if you choose not to use the site.

We do reserve the right to make changes to these terms at any time, so please check back occasionally.

By staying with us, you’re agreeing to any changes we’ve made.

2. Use of Online Materials

We’ve poured a lot into creating the content you see here — All Online Materials on the site, including, without limitation, text, software, names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade names, images, photos, illustrations, audio clips, video clips, and music are copyrighted  intellectual property of Best Educators, LLC, and we’re proud of it!

All usage rights are owned and controlled by Best Educators, LLC dba Gunzel Family Brands.

You’re welcome to download materials for your personal, non-commercial use as long as you:

  • Keep all the copyright and proprietary notices intact.
  • Don’t make any changes to what you download.
  • Avoid using our materials in ways that might imply we endorse something we haven’t.
  • Don’t store, redistribute, or share our content for commercial purposes without our explicit written permission.

You may NOT, however, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute Online Materials in any way or for any other purpose unless you get our written permission first.

Neither may you add, delete, distort or misrepresent any content on the site.

Any attempts to modify any Online Material, or to defeat or circumvent our security features is prohibited.

Everything you download, any software, plus all files, all images incorporated in or generated by the software, and all data accompanying it, is considered licensed to you by or third-party licencors for your personal, non-commercial home use only.

We do not transfer title of the software to you.

That means that we retain full and complete title to the software and to all of the associated intellectual-property rights.

You’re not allowed to redistribute or sell the material or to reverse-engineer, disassemble or otherwise convert it to any other form that people can use.

3. Submissions

Got a great idea? We love hearing from you!

Just know that when you send us suggestions, ideas, graphics, comments, or other information through our site, it becomes ours to keep and use however we see fit.

All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, comments, or other information that you send to through our site (other than information we promise to protect under our privacy policy) becomes and remains our property, even if this agreement is later terminated.

We won’t be able to treat these submissions as confidential, and we won’t owe you anything for using them.

You can’t sue us for using ideas you submit. If we use them, or anything like them, we don’t have to pay you or anyone else for them.

We will have the exclusive ownership of all present and future rights to submissions of any kind.

We can use them for any purpose we deem appropriate to our mission, without compensating you or anyone else for them.

You acknowledge that you are responsible for any submission you make.

That said, you (and not we) have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.

4. Limitation of Liability

We hope your experience on our site is smooth sailing, but just in case something goes wrong, here’s what you need to know:

Best Educators, LLC dba Gunzel Family Brands will not be liable for any damages or injuries that accompany or result from your use of this site.

These include (but aren’t limited to) damages or injuries caused by:

  • Your use of (or inability to use) the site.
  • Your use of (or inability to use) any site to which you hyperlink from our site.
  • The failure of our site to perform in the way you expected or desired.
  • Errors, omissions, or defects on our site.
  • Delay in operation or transmission of our site, or the site being taken off-line for ANY reason.
  • Interruptions or delays in availability.
  • Viruses, bugs, or other issues transmitted through our site.
  • Any other unforeseen circumstances that might arise from using our site.

This includes, but is not limited to, direct, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages—even if we’ve been negligent or advised of the possibility of such damages.

Please note we are NOT liable for any damages, including: 

  • Damages intended to compensate someone directly for a loss or injury.
  • Damages reasonably expected to result from a loss or injury (known in legal terms as "consequential damages")
  • Other miscellaneous damages and expenses resulting directly from a loss or injury (known in legal terms as "incidental damages")
  • We are not liable even if we've been negligent or if our authorized representative had been advised of the possiblity of such damages or both.

Exceptions: Certain state laws may not allow us to limit or exclude liability for incidental or consequential damages.

If you live in such a state, our liability to you for all losses, damages, injuries, and claims of any kind will never exceed the amount you paid, if anything, to access our site.

HOWEVER, IN ANY EVENT, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL LOSSES, DAMAGES, INJURIES, AND CLAIMS OF ANY AND EVERY KIND (WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARE CLAIMED UNDER THE TERMS OF A CONTRACT, OR CLAIMED TO BE CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER WRONGFUL CONDUCT, OR THEY’RE CLAIMED UNDER ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY) WILL NOT BE GREATER THAN THE AMOUNT YOU PAID, IF ANYTHING, TO ACCESS OUR SITE.

5. Links to Third-Party Sites

We sometimes include links to other sites we think you might find useful or interesting. (some of these links may be affiliate links where we are able to make a small amount of money by sharing a useful resource with you if you make a purchase on the affiliate site)

Just so you know, these links don’t mean we endorse or are responsible for anything on those sites.

We recommend that you check the URL to be sure you’re still within the Gunzel Family Brands site if that’s where you want to be.

If in doubt, always check the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address provided in your WWW browser to see if you are still in a "Gunzel Family Brands"-operated site or have moved to another site.

Best Educators, LLC is not responsible for the content or practices of third party sites that may be linked to our site.

When Gunzel Family Brands provides links or references to other Web sites, no inference or assumption should be made and no representation should be inferred that is connected with, operates or controls these Web sites.

Any approved link must not represent in any way, either explicitly or by implication, that you have received the endorsement, sponsorship or support of any site or endorsement, sponsorship or support of, including its respective employees, agents or directors.

6. Termination

This agreement is effective until terminated by either of us.

You can end it anytime by stopping your use of the site and deleting any materials you’ve downloaded.

We may terminate this agreement at any time without notice if we believe you’ve breached any terms.

If that happens, we’ll ask you to delete any materials you’ve obtained from us.

In addition, by providing material on our Web site, we do not in any way promise that the materials will remain available to you.

And is entitled to terminate all or any part of any of its Web site without notice to you.

7. Refunds

Refunds are handled according to our Refund Policy, which you can find at https://www.besteducators.com/earnings-disclaimer.

In Summary: 

We give you a 30-day 100% satisfaction guarantee on our digital products valued under $101 and a 3 day right to cancel on our coaching programs. 

If you are not happy for any reason with the quality of our training, just ask for your money back within those guidelines.

As always, all deposits and monies paid for live events and retreats are 100% NON-Refundable after the standard 3 day right to cancel.

8. Jurisdiction and Dispute Resolution

We’re based in Missouri, and these Terms and Conditions are governed by Missouri law.

If you use our site from locations outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.

We're a family business and we want to maintain great relationships whenever possible. 

Step one of any problem should be to contact us using the information at the bottom of the page and talk with us to attempt to come to a resolution

If a dispute arises, we’ll first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in Springfield, MO.

Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each of party (you and Best Educators) 

If mediation doesn’t work, we’ll move to binding arbitration in Kansas City, MO, under Missouri’s rules for Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Uniform Arbitration Act.

These Terms of Use shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Missouri, as it is applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within such jurisdiction.

To the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate and/or its affiliates’ intellectual property rights, and/or its affiliates may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the State of Missouri, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

9. Modification of Terms

We may modify these Terms of Use, and the agreement they create, at any time, simply by updating this posting and without notice to you.

Whenever you use the site, it means you’re okay with the most current version even if the Terms have changed since you started using the site.

This is the ENTIRE agreement regarding all the matters that have been discussed.

​Originally Published and Effective September 29, 2015 and edited as necessary - All Rights Reserved.

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