Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of these terms

These Terms of Service constitute an agreement between you and Chief Executive Alliance, LLC (“the Company”, “we” or “us”) governing your access to and use of chiefexecutivealliance.com (“the Site”). By accessing or using the Site you agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not accept them, please discontinue use of the Site.

2. The Site

The Site is a publication. It comprises interviews, articles, coaching materials, and information concerning the Company’s programs, advisory services and speaking engagements. It is made available for general informational purposes.

3. No professional advice

The materials on the Site are provided for general information and do not constitute professional advice addressed to your circumstances. Nothing on the Site constitutes legal, tax, accounting, medical or psychological advice, nor does it constitute investment advice, an offer, or a solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security or other financial instrument. Companies are discussed throughout as the subjects of interviews and as clients; no such reference constitutes a view on that company’s securities. You should obtain advice from a suitably qualified professional familiar with your circumstances before acting on any material published here.

4. The episode assistant

Certain episode pages permit visitors to submit questions to an assistant that responds using the transcript of the relevant episode. Responses are generated by an artificial intelligence model. They may be inaccurate or incomplete, and they do not represent the statements or opinions of Mark C. Thompson, of any interview participant, or of the Company. Responses should be treated as an aid to locating material within the episode and not as a statement of fact. Confidential information should not be submitted to the assistant; questions and responses are retained as described in the Privacy Policy.

5. Enquiries do not create an engagement

Submission of the contact form, a keynote booking enquiry or a program registration initiates a discussion only. It does not confirm a booking, reserve a date, or create any obligation on the part of either party. Fees indicated on the Site are indicative and subject to change. An engagement arises only upon execution of a written agreement, and the terms of that agreement, rather than these terms, will govern it.

6. Intellectual property

All text, video, photography, design and code comprising the Site are owned by the Company or used under license, and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may access and read the materials, link to them, and quote from them in reasonable extent with attribution. You may not republish or reproduce substantial portions, distribute or sell the materials, use them to train or fine-tune any machine learning model, or extract them by automated means, without our prior written consent.

Company names, trade marks and logos displayed on the Site are the property of their respective owners. They are displayed to identify organizations with which Mark C. Thompson has worked or which are the subject of published material, and do not indicate endorsement, sponsorship or affiliation on the part of those organizations.

Endorsements, quotations and biographical statements are reproduced as provided and remain the statements of the individuals to whom they are attributed.

7. Material you submit

You retain ownership of material you submit through the Site’s forms or the episode assistant. You grant the Company a non-exclusive license to receive, store and act upon that material for the purposes of responding to you and operating the Site. You should not submit confidential or privileged material, or material that you do not have the right to disclose. Our handling of submitted material is described in the Privacy Policy.

8. Acceptable use

You agree that you will not:

• interfere with the operation of the Site, impose an unreasonable load upon it, or attempt to access areas of it that are not publicly available;
• scrape, crawl beyond ordinary search-engine indexing, or otherwise extract the Site’s contents by automated means;
• use the forms or the episode assistant to transmit unlawful, defamatory, abusive or misleading material, or to impersonate any person;
• use any part of the Site to develop a competing product or service, or to assemble a training corpus.

9. Third-party links and embedded content

The Site links to third-party websites and embeds media players provided by YouTube and Spotify. Those services operate under their own terms and privacy practices. The Company does not control them and accepts no responsibility for them. The Cookie Policy describes what each service does and how to prevent it from loading.

10. Availability and disclaimer of warranties

The Site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Site will be available without interruption, that its contents will be current, or that it will be free from error. We may modify, relocate or withdraw any part of the Site at any time.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data or business, arising out of or in connection with your use of the Site. The Company’s aggregate liability in respect of any claim arising out of or in connection with the Site shall not exceed one hundred United States dollars (US$100). Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are not affected.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify the Company against any claim, liability, loss or reasonable expense arising from your breach of these terms or your unlawful use of the Site.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles, and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Florida. If you are a consumer resident in another jurisdiction, this provision does not deprive you of the protection afforded by the mandatory law of that jurisdiction.

14. Amendments

The Company may revise these terms from time to time. The effective date shown above indicates when they were last revised, and the version in force is that published at the time of your use of the Site.

15. General

If any provision of these terms is held to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect. A failure to enforce any provision does not constitute a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company in respect of the Site.

16. Contact

Chief Executive Alliance, LLC · Publishing@ChiefExecutiveAlliance.com