Terms of Service & Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

We collect personal information from you when you contact us, subscribe to our newsletter or become a member, including your name, email address, and information about your business.

The information we collect from you will be used in the following ways:

  • To provide you with services and benefits
  • To personalize your experience
  • To send periodic emails/newsletters

Cookies. We use essential cookies (like Cloudflare Turnstile, described below) to secure the site and prevent abuse of our tools. We also use StatCounter, a web analytics service, to understand aggregate site traffic. StatCounter may set its own cookies as part of that. You can read StatCounter’s privacy policy for more detail. We do not currently respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals.

We collect your IP address as part of both site security (Turnstile, rate-limiting on our free tools) and aggregate traffic analysis, so we can offer better site experiences and tools going forward.

Third parties we work with. We don’t sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties. We do share limited data with a small number of trusted service providers who help us run the business:

  • Stripe processes payments. Stripe receives what’s needed to bill you and never receives your GBP login credentials.
  • Cloudflare (Turnstile) helps us block bots and abuse on our forms and tools. See Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Addendum.
  • StatCounter provides aggregate site analytics.

Each of these providers only receives what they need to do their job for us, and we require them to keep it confidential. We may also release information when we believe it’s required to comply with the law, enforce our policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety.

How long we keep your data. If you’re a member, we keep your account and review-history data for as long as your membership is active, and we keep it on file (not deleted) if you cancel, so your history is there if you rejoin. If you’d rather we delete it outright, just ask, see below.

Your rights. Wherever you’re located, you can ask us to show you what we have on file for you, correct it, or delete it. Just contact us and we’ll take care of it, usually within a few business days.

Occasionally we may include or offer additional third-party products or services. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.

Terms Of Service

Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to confirm the accuracy of any information available through this website to meet your specific requirements. Any opinions or statements made by authors on this website are entirely their own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of GBP Academy and its administrators.

This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance, text and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with applicable copyright laws.

Unauthorized use or attempts to gain unauthorized access to this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

This website includes links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

From time to time this website features reviews of products and services. On some occasions the author has received a sample of the product or service at no cost for purposes of the review. In such cases, a positive review is never guaranteed in exchange for the sample.

Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of the State of Florida, USA.

These policies are subject to change and may be updated at any time without notice. The last update was on 08/10/2026.

If there are any questions regarding our policies, you may contact us.


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