Terms of Use

Please read the following terms relating to your use of this Website (as defined below) carefully.

The following TERMS OF USE (collectively, the “Agreement”) are subject to change at any time without notice to users and at the sole and absolute discretion of the Websites’ ownership, management, and/or operator. You are responsible for reviewing this Agreement upon each visit to this or any Website. By using the Website after any changes to these terms are posted, you are deemed to have accepted such changes, whether or not you have reviewed them or been notified about them. If at any time you choose not to accept these terms of use, you may not use the Websites.

Owners and Collectors of Information

This Agreement applies to your use of any and all websites now or hereafter owned or operated by Bumpus Family Trust or John Bumpus or any of John Bumpus’ subsidiaries or entities with common ownership with John Bumpus (such websites herein referred to as “Websites”). This Agreement also applies to the content of any email or written communication sent to you via your subscription to the Websites. This Agreement does not apply to your use of unaffiliated websites to which any of the Websites may link to or direct you to. You hereby release us from any damages, direct or indirect, suffered by you which is caused or alleged to be caused by your visit to any website not owned by John Bumpus or Bumpus Family Trust or any of John Bumpus’ subsidiaries or entities with common ownership with John Bumpus.

Lawful Purpose

You agree to not use the this Website for any unlawful purpose.

Restrictions

The contents of the Websites are protected by trade secret, copyright and trademark laws, and are the property of their respective owners. Unless otherwise permitted in writing, you may access and use the information and materials within the Websites solely for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not alter, change, modify, delete, display, transmit, adapt, exploit, or copy for distribution or sale any information, material, trademark, or copyright on the Websites. You must obtain prior written permission from John Bumpus or Bumpus Family Trust before you may publish, distribute, display, or commercially exploit any material from the Websites. You agree to abide by all copyright laws, notices or other posted restrictions.

Links

Other Websites may link to this website.

Submissions

Do not send us any original creative ideas, suggestions or materials. If, despite our request, you send us any idea, suggestion or material (“Submission”), it shall become our property. We will not be subject to any obligation of confidence for any Submission, and we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submission. In the case that you submit something to us and it is unsolicited, we will exclusively own all rights to the Submission worldwide, and we will be entitled to the unrestricted use of the Submission for any purpose, without compensation or notification to the provider of the Submission. Given this fact, we ask that you refrain from submitting creative projects to us, particularly those that are confidential or personal to you.

Forums

In the future, this Website may have a forum. A “forum” means any message board, membership site, chat room, user review forum or other interactive service appearing on any of the Websites and includes both public boards and private folders. You must register in accordance with instructions that you will find on the Websites in order to contribute to any forum. You may not post on any forum, or send to any other forum user or our staff, any material that is abusive, vulgar, threatening, harassing, libellous, defamatory, obscene, invades a person’s privacy, violates any intellectual or other property rights, or that would otherwise violate any law. You may not use any forum in a commercial manner. You may not post material that solicits funds, or that advertises or solicits goods or services. You may not post material known to be false. You may not post messages that contain stock touts. You may not post or transmit any information, software or other material that contains a virus or other harmful component. We are not responsible for material appearing in any forum on the Websites. We are not responsible for screening material posted by users for libel, obscenity, invasion of privacy, copyright or trademark infringement, accuracy, or for any other reason. We retain, however, the right to modify or remove messages or other material that we, in our sole discretion, consider infringing, offensive, abusive, defamatory, obscene, stale, or otherwise unacceptable. We also reserve the right to edit materials for any other reason. Whether or not we modify or remove such material, users remain solely responsible for the content of their messages or postings. By posting on the Websites, you grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) us and/or relevant affiliated companies the worldwide, perpetual, nonexclusive right to use your questions, comments, and postings, in their original or edited form, in television programs, books, articles, commentaries, or in any other medium now known or later developed. You also warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content you have posted and that the public posting and use of such content by us will not infringe the rights of any third party. Additionally, you warrant that any “moral rights” in posted materials have been waived. You are not entitled to any compensation for any materials you may post on the Websites.

Registration

We may, at our discretion, suspend or terminate the registration of any forum, membership user or general user who violates any of these terms of use of use, any of the forum member guidelines or for any other behaviour that we in our discretion believe is inappropriate.

Parental Permission

The Websites are not directed to children under the age of 13 and we will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. We strongly recommend that parents participate in their children’s exploration of the internet and any online services and use their browser’s parental controls to limit the areas of the internet to which their children have access. We may, at our discretion, require users under 18 to obtain the consent of a parent or guardian to view certain content, and we may limit access to certain content to users above a specified age. You agree to abide by any such restrictions, and not to help anyone avoid these restrictions.

Confidentiality and Non-Compete

Users of our Websites hereby understand that the tools, processes, strategies, materials and information presented on our Websites are copyrighted and proprietary, so users agrees not to record, duplicate, distribute, teach or train from our information in any manner whatsoever without our express written permission. Any unauthorized use or distribution of the proprietary concepts, materials, and intellectual property contained in the Websites by you or your representatives is prohibited and we will pursue legal action and full damages if these terms are violated in order to protect such rights.

Prohibition of Data Scraping

The following terms and conditions govern your use of this website and explicitly prohibit any unauthorized data scraping or automated data collection activities:

  1. You agree not to engage in any data scraping or data collection activities on this website without explicit permission from the website owner.

  2. "Data scraping" refers to the automated or manual extraction of data from this website, including but not limited to text, images, videos, user profiles, and any other information available on the website.

  3. Any attempt to access, retrieve, or collect data from this website through automated means, including but not limited to bots, spiders, web crawlers, or other similar tools, is strictly prohibited.

  4. You may not use any software, scripts, or algorithms that automate data extraction, copying, or scraping on this website.

  5. This prohibition extends to both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Whether you intend to use the data for personal gain, commercial purposes, research, or any other reasons, you must refrain from data scraping without explicit permission.

  6. The website owner reserves the right to employ technical measures and implement security mechanisms to detect and prevent data scraping or any unauthorized data collection activities. Any attempts to bypass or circumvent these measures are strictly prohibited.

  7. Violation of this data scraping prohibition may result in legal action, including but not limited to seeking injunctive relief, damages, or any other remedies available under applicable law.

  8. The website owner reserves the right to block, restrict, or terminate access to this website for any user or IP address suspected of engaging in data scraping or violating these terms.

By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge and agree to abide by the above prohibition of data scraping. Failure to comply with these terms may result in the suspension or termination of your access to this website.

Affiliate Disclosure

In compliance with the FTC guidelines, please assume the following about links and posts on our site:

  • Many links on our site are affiliate links of which we receive a small commission from sales of certain items. As MineralBalancing.org has grown, so have costs associated with producing, running and maintaining the free information on the site. Affiliate links are a way we can help offset costs to continue bring you high quality, free information.

  • You can trust that if we post an affiliate link to a product, it is likely something we personally use, support and would recommend without an affiliate link. John Bumpus will only provide links to the best goods and services that he can find. He has carefully researched ALL items for sale on MineralBalancing.org. They are of the highest quality that he has used or would use himself.

  • Our first priority will always be to provide you with resources to help you create positive changes in your health and life, and so we will only ever link to products or resources (affiliate or otherwise) that fit within this purpose.