The following terms (“Terms of Use”) constitute an agreement between Real Balanced LLC (“Company”), and you that governs your use of this website and all of its associated services, content, and functionality. This policy applies to the website administered by Company (“Website”), located at realbalanced.com.
Your use of the Website constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to, the following Terms of Use. Company reserves the right to modify, alter, amend or update its Website, policies, and these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use are subject to change without notice. If you do not agree with or do not accept any part of these Terms of Use, you must not use the Website.
CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
Company reserves the right to modify, alter, amend or update its Website, the Company Content, its policies, and these Terms. These Terms are subject to change without notice. All changes are effective immediately upon posting. If you do not agree with or do not accept any part of these Terms, you must not use the Website or interact with the Company Content.
Your continued use of the Website or Company Content following any changes to the Terms means that you accept and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page periodically, so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.
ADDITIONAL POLICIES INCORPORATE INTO THESE TERMS
Any additional policies or terms adopted by Company may be incorporated into these terms by reference. This includes:
- Privacy Policy defines Company’s practices related to consumer privacy and data usage.
- Disclaimer which reviews Company’s liability for aspects of the Company Content
PERMITTED USERS
This Website is meant for users over 16 years or older. By using this Website, you represent and warrant that you meet this eligibility requirement. If you do not meet this requirement, you must not access or use the Website or Company Content.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY IN USING THE WEBSITE
The Website was developed strictly for informational purposes. You understand and agree that you are fully responsible for your use of the information provided on the Website. Company makes no representations, warranties, or guarantees. You understand that results may vary from person to person. Company assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions that may appear in the Website.
USE OF THE WEBSITE
Unless otherwise stated, Company owns the intellectual property and rights to all content and material on the Website. Subject to the license below, all intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download (for caching purposes only), and print pages for your personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms of Use.
Unless it is specifically and expressly made available for such purpose, the following uses are not permitted:
- Republication, redistribution, sale, rental, or sub-licensing of content from the Website;
- Reproduction or duplication of any content on the Website for commercial purposes;
- Modification of any content on the Website;
You are permitted to share a link to content on social media channels, as long as you provide a link to the Website on the channel where the content is being shared.
Users are permitted to share one image from the Website on digital channels, as long as the image is credited to the Company, with a link to the Website. For example, if you own a website and wish to feature a piece of Company’s content, you may insert one image from the Website onto your website, as long as you provide credit and a dofollow link back to the Website, more specifically the page where the image was taken.
From time to time, the Website will utilize various plugins or widgets to allow sharing of content via social media channels, email, or other methods. Use of these plugins or widgets does not constitute any waiver of Company’s intellectual property rights. Such use is a limited license to republish the content on the approved social media channels only, with full credit to Company.
USE OF FREE COMPANY CONTENT
At times you may be offered a free download or printable, as a gift or opt-in offer, in exchange for your name and email address. If you choose to download or print this material, you understand this is to be used for your personal, non-commercial use only, and is not to be copied, edited, distributed, or otherwise shared in any way other than in its original form.
PROHIBITED USES OF THE WEBSITE
You must not use the Website in a way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Website or impair the availability of access to the Website. You must not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Website, except to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law. You must not use the Website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish, or distribute any material that consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit, and/or other harmful code or malicious software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities, including, but not limited to, scraping, data mining, data extraction, or data harvesting on or in relation to the Website without Company’s express written permission.
You must not use the Website to transmit or send any unsolicited commercial communications, including, but not limited to, spam comments.
You must not use the Website for any third-party marketing without Company’s express written permission.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The owner of this website does not consent to the content on this website being used or downloaded by any third parties for the purposes of developing, training or operating artificial intelligence or other machine learning systems (“Artificial Intelligence Purposes”), except as authorized by the owner in writing (including written electronic communication). Absent such consent, users of this website, including any third parties accessing the website through automated systems, are prohibited from using any of the content on the website for Artificial Intelligence Purposes. Users or automated systems that fail to respect these choices will be considered to have breached these Terms of Use.
CONSENT TO DATA COLLECTION
As stated above, these Terms incorporate Company’s Privacy Policy, which you may find at https://realbalanced.com/privacy-policy/. As is more fully described in our Privacy Policy (including any links to policies provided by our vendors and service providers), the Website engages in data collection, either directly or through vendors or service providers, which may include behavior-tracking technology. By using the Website, you are expressly consenting to Company’s data collection, whether collected directly by Company or through vendors or services provider. If you wish to revoke your consent, the Privacy Policy contains information on how to do so.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
COPYRIGHT
Unless otherwise noted, the design, content, and all components of the Website are copyrights owned by Company or third parties and are protected by United States and international copyright laws and should not be reused or republished without express written permission.
TRADEMARKS
Company’s trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Company’s, in any manner likely to cause confusion among consumers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Company or its owners.
From time to time, the Website will legally utilize trademarks owned by third parties. These trademarks are the respective property of their owners and Company makes no claim of ownership.
CONTENT CONTRIBUTED TO THE WEBSITE
In limited circumstances, you may contribute content to the Website, including, but not limited to, comments, posts, or submissions. Any content you contribute to the site, including, but not limited to text, images, audio material, comments, video material, and audio-visual material, must not be illegal or unlawful, may not infringe on any third-party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you, Company, or a third party.
Company reserves the right to edit or remove: (i) any material submitted to the Website; (ii) stored on Company’s servers; or, (iii) hosted or published on the Website. Company takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.
Notwithstanding Company’s rights under the Terms of Use, Company does not undertake to monitor the submission of all content to, or the publication of such content on, the Website.
GRANT OF RIGHTS
You grant Company a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute any content you contribute to the Website. This includes, but is not limited to, text, images, audio material, comments, video material, and audio-visual material. This license extends to all known and future media. You also grant Company the right to sub-license these rights and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
CONTRIBUTION POLICY
COMMENT POLICY
The Website offers the ability for users to leave reviews through comments and ratings. Pursuant to the FTC’s rules, Company has enacted the following policies related to consumer reviews.
The Website does not knowingly include false reviews or testimonials. To the best of Company’s knowledge, all comments were left by individuals who have experience with Company Content. The Website does not pay for comments or reviews.
The Website does not suppress negative reviews, such as comments or ratings. Per the FTC, a negative review is not considered suppressed if Company applies the same criteria for withholding reviews to all submissions. Company adopts the following policies related to any submissions.
- Company reasonably believes the review, including any star ratings or written text, is fake.
- The review is not related to the products or services for which it was made.
- The review contains content in violation of Company’s policies, which prohibit: inclusion of trade secrets or confidential information; defamatory, harassing, abusive, obscene, vulgar, or sexually explicit content; the personal information or likeness of another individual; content that is discriminatory with respect to race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or other intrinsic characteristic; or, the content is clearly false or misleading.
Any reviews in violation will be promptly deleted and no further explanation will be due to you if your contribution was determined to be in violation of this policy.
AFFILIATE MARKETING
From time to time, the Website may engage in affiliate marketing. This means that if you use an affiliate link to make a purchase, the Website will receive a commission on that purchase. All efforts are made to ensure that affiliate links are disclosed in accordance with the FTC.
Real Balanced LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and link to Amazon.com.
FTC DISCLOSURE
From time to time, the Website may post sponsored content from an advertiser. This means that an advertiser, which may be a brand, agency, or influencer network, will contract with Company to create content featuring certain messages or product placement. Pursuant to the FTC’s requirements, all such advertisements on the Website are clearly and conspicuously disclosed.
Even though compensation (e.g., cash, free product, or services) is received in exchange for this sponsored content placement, Company gives its honest opinion, findings, beliefs, or experiences in such content. All views expressed on the Website are those of the content creator. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.
TAKEDOWN REQUESTS
From time to time, the Website will publish posts with images from other third-party websites. Any such use is considered fair use under copyright laws and is fully attributed to the owner. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been used on the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and falls outside of fair use, please send a request to sara@realbalanced.com and we will remove the image within 2 to 5 business days.
COMMUNICATION
If you send Company an email, register to use the Website, or provide your email to Company in any other way, you consent to receive communications from Company electronically. You agree that all legal notices provided via electronic means from Company satisfy any requirement for written notice.
MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT
Company has the right to:
- remove or refuse to post any contribution for any reason, in Company’s sole discretion.
- Take any action, including deletion, with respect to any contribution made to the Website.
- Disclose your identity (if known) or other information regarding your usage of the Website to any third party who claims that any contribution you make to the Website violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or right to privacy.
- Take appropriate legal action for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.
Company does not, however, review all contributions to the Website prior to posting and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable contributions. Company assumes no liability for any action or inaction regarding contributions from a third party.
TERMINATION
The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to immediately terminate your access to the Website and Company Content without notice to you.
LINKS FROM THE WEBSITE
Any links on the Website are provided for your convenience only. This includes links in advertisements or sponsored content. Company is not responsible for the content on any pages linked on the Website and accepts no responsibility for your use of such links.
THIRD PARTIES
The Website may contain links to third-party websites that are not governed or controlled by Company. You represent and warrant that you have read and agree to be bound by all applicable Terms of Use and policies for any third-party website that relate to your use of the Website. Company assumes no control or liability over the content of any third-party sites. You expressly hold Company harmless from any and all liability related to your use of a third-party website.
Prior to engaging in any events or commercial transactions with any third parties discovered through or linked on the Website, you must complete any necessary investigation or due diligence. If there is a dispute for any events or commercial transactions with a third party discovered through or linked on the Website, you expressly hold Company harmless from any and all liability in any dispute.
NO WARRANTIES
The Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Company makes no representations or warranties in relation to the Website or the information and materials provided therein.
Company makes no warranty the Website will meet your requirements; will be available uninterrupted; timely and free of viruses or bugs; or represents the full functionality, accuracy, and reliability of the Website. Company is not responsible to you for the loss of any content or material uploaded or transmitted through the Website. The Website is written in English and makes no warranty regarding translation or interpretation of content in any language.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
COMPANY, IN ADDITION TO COMPANY’S VENDORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS, WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, HOWEVER CAUSED, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR USE, INCURRED BY YOU, WHETHER UNDER THEORY OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF THE OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF COMPANY, ITS VENDORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS, EXCEED $100.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
INDEMNITY
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Company, its members, employees, officers, directors, managers, and agents harmless from and against any and all losses, claims, suits, actions, liabilities, obligations, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) which Company suffers as a result of third-party claims based on: (i) your negligence or intentional misconduct, (ii) your breach of any provision of the Terms of Use (including representation or warranty); (iii) materials prepared or provided by you including, but not limited to, any claims of infringement, or misappropriation of copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property or proprietary right, infringement of the rights of privacy or publicity, or defamation or libel; or (iv) death, personal injury, or property damage arising out of, or relating to, your obligations hereunder.
RELEASE OF CLAIMS
You agree that under no circumstances will Company be liable to any party for any type of damages resulting or claiming to result from any use of or reliance on our Company Content, and you hereby release us from any and all claims whether known now or discovered in the future.
ARBITRATION
The Terms of Use will be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Wisconsin. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the Terms of Use, or the breach thereof, shall be settled by arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The place of any such arbitration shall be in or near Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. The parties also agree that the AAA Optional Rules for Emergency Measures of Protection shall apply to the proceedings.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
If there is any controversy, claim, action, or dispute arising out of or related to your use of the Company Content or the breach, enforcement, interpretation, or validity of these Terms or any part of them (“Dispute”), you and Company agree to resolve the Dispute through the dispute resolution procedures set forth herein, even if the Dispute arose prior to the Effective Date of these Terms.
Informal Negotiation
In the event of a Dispute, you agree to first attempt to negotiate with Company by sending Company a written notice outlining the nature of the Dispute. Company will respond within 45 days so the parties may engage in an informal negotiation related to the Dispute. If, within 90 days, the Parties are unable to reach a resolution, arbitration is required, as described below. This informal negotiation period is a condition precedent that must be satisfied prior to filing any arbitration claim.
Individual Arbitration
YOU AND COMPANY AGREE THAT, IF ANY DISPUTE CANNOT BE RESOLVED BY THE INFORMAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEDURE OUTLINED ABOVE, SUCH DISPUTE SHALL BE DECIDED BY BINDING ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS MEANS THAT YOU AND COMPANY WILL NOT HAVE, AND WILL EACH WAIVE, THE RIGHT TO HAVE A JUDGE OR JURY DECIDE THE CLAIMS, AND THAT NEITHER PARTY IS PERMITTED TO PROCEED IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY. Other rights that the parties would otherwise have in court will not be available or will be more limited in arbitration, including discovery and appeal rights.
Any such controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the Terms, or the breach thereof, shall be settled by arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The place of any such arbitration shall be in or near Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. The parties also agree that the AAA Optional Rules for Emergency Measures of Protection shall apply to the proceedings.
Mass Arbitration
This Section on Mass Arbitrations (defined below) supersedes any provision to the contrary in these Terms.
If you or Company files a demand for Arbitration that is one of fifty (50) or more similar demands for Arbitration filed against the other party (i.e., against you or Company, as applicable) by parties represented by the same law firm or law firms acting in coordination (“Mass Arbitration”), the arbitration of the Dispute, and all other Disputes constituting the Mass Arbitration, shall be conducted in accordance with the American Arbitration Association’s Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules.
In the event of a Mass Arbitration, any issues arising under or relating to (a) the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of these Terms, including any claim that all or any part of these Terms are void or voidable or (b) the jurisdiction of the arbitrator, including any objections with respect to the existence, scope, or validity of this Section or the arbitrability of any claim or counterclaim, shall be decided by a court of competent jurisdiction.
CHOICE OF LAW AND FORUM
The Terms shall be governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin. You agree to personal jurisdiction therein.
To the extent that any Dispute is not governed by the Arbitration provision above, you agree that the courts of Wisconsin will have jurisdiction. You agree that any claims will be brought and maintained on an individual basis and not as part of any class, consolidated, collective, or representative capacity, and that you waive the right to a jury trial.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
If any provision(s) of the Terms of Use is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall be severable and enforceable. If a provision is excessively broad, such a provision shall be limited or reduced in scope so as to be enforceable.
The Terms of Use may not be assigned by you without Company’s prior written consent; however, the Terms of Use may be assigned by Company in its sole discretion.
The Terms of Use are the final, complete, and exclusive agreement of the parties with respect to the Website offered by Company.
All notices with respect to the Terms of Use must be in writing and may be via email to sara@realbalanced.com for Company and to your email address.
UPDATED: October 21, 2025.
