Terms of Use
The agreement between you and us when you use the RunSimpler courses. Written to be read, not skimmed past.
1. Who you are agreeing with
RunSimpler is a brand of Moonbound Consulting, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company. The courses are at learn.runsimpler.com. The company you are agreeing with is Moonbound Consulting, LLC. Those are two names for one business.
In these terms, "RunSimpler," "we," "us" and "our" mean Moonbound Consulting, LLC. "You" means the person using the courses. Our registered address is 333 W. Wacker Drive, Suite 2600, Chicago, IL 60606.
- Email: tony@runsimpler.com
- Mailing address: 333 W. Wacker Drive, Suite 2600, Chicago, IL 60606
2. The short version
The courses are free. You can use what is in them for your own work, including copying the templates and filling them in for your own business. You cannot resell them or republish them as your own. Nothing here is legal, financial, tax or other professional advice.
3. What the courses are
The RunSimpler courses are free courses: video lessons organized into modules, with worksheets, templates, decks and other assets, and a certificate you can claim when you finish a course. There is no fee and no paywall.
These terms cover the courses. They do not cover our consulting services. Work we do for a client is governed by a separate signed agreement, and the terms for runsimpler.com, the main website, are separate and are published there.
4. Accepting these terms
You accept these terms when you press the accept button on the screen that appears after you verify your sign-in code. We record which version you accepted and when. If we change the terms in a way that matters, we will say so and ask you to accept again. Continuing to use the courses after a change means you accept the current version.
If you do not agree with these terms, do not accept them. The courses are behind sign-in, so not accepting means not taking them. This page, the privacy page and the public certificate verification pages stay readable without an account.
5. Your account
You need an email address you control. There is no password. You sign in with a six-digit code we email you each time, so whoever can read that inbox can reach your account. Keep it secure and tell us if you think someone else has got into it.
Email from us. Signing up for a course also adds your email address to our email list, for free tools and invitations to free workshops. You can unsubscribe with the link in any of those emails. Unsubscribing does not affect your account or your access to the courses. The privacy policy has the details.
The account is for one person and is not transferable. You must be 18 or older to use the courses.
6. Acceptable use
While using the courses, do not:
- share your account, use somebody else's, or claim a certificate for work you did not do;
- scrape, bulk download, mirror or automate your way through the course materials, or work around the rate limits and access checks that are there;
- use the courses or anything in them to train a machine learning model, build a competing dataset, or generate derivative commercial content, without our written permission;
- probe, attack or try to get into any part of the product or another person's account or page;
- impersonate any person or company, including us.
7. The course materials and what you may do with them
The lessons, videos, worksheets, templates, decks, code and written material in the courses belong to us or to our licensors, and so do the RunSimpler name and marks.
What you may do. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the materials for your own business or work. That expressly includes taking the templates, copying them, filling them in with your own information and using the result as your own documents. That is what they are for.
What you may not do. Resell, sublicense or distribute the materials as they are, republish them as your own course or product, use them to run a competing course, or strip our marks off something and present it as yours. You may not use our name or marks to suggest we endorse you or your business.
We can end this license if you break these terms, and it ends if you stop using the courses. Work you have already produced with the templates stays yours.
Course materials may include open source software, fonts, stock media or third-party documents that carry their own licenses. Those licenses continue to apply to those parts.
8. Certificates
When you finish a course you can claim a certificate. It states that you completed the lessons in that course. That is all it states.
It is not an accreditation, a professional qualification, a license, or an endorsement of you, your work or your business by us. Do not present it as one.
You choose whether it is public and what name appears on it. You can change that name and you can revoke a public certificate at any time. We can revoke a certificate that was obtained by sharing an account, by automating your way through the lessons, or in any other way that breaks these terms.
Sharing and the Agent Kit. Some courses offer a free bonus kit, called the Agent Kit. You get it by sharing the course or your certificate. When you share, you post in your own words and your post is yours. You must keep a clear statement in the post that RunSimpler gives you a free bonus kit for sharing, wherever the post says anything about the course. We do not require you to say anything positive, and we do not check what your post says to give you the kit. We may remove access to the kit if the post breaks a platform's rules. We may read posts you send us and may reshare some by using the platform's repost button; we will not quote or copy your words elsewhere without asking you.
Using the Agent Kit. You may use the Agent Kit with an AI assistant of your choice to draft posts for your own business. Section 6 does not prohibit this.
9. Third-party services
The courses use services we do not control. Lesson videos play through YouTube, and some templates open in Google Docs and Google Sheets. Our strategy call link opens a booking page run by Calendly. When you follow one of those, that company's terms and privacy policy apply to what happens there. We are not responsible for third-party services or for anything they host.
10. Information, not advice
Everything in the courses is published for general education. None of it is legal, financial, tax, accounting or other professional advice, and none of it is a recommendation to take a particular action in your business. If you need advice about your situation, engage someone to advise you on your situation.
Examples and results we describe are what happened in those cases, with those inputs. They are not a forecast of what will happen for you. We do not promise any business outcome, including a number of leads, a search ranking, a conversion rate, a revenue figure or a return on spend.
AI systems make errors confidently. Where you will use anything from the courses in a setting with legal, medical, financial or safety consequences, have it reviewed by someone qualified in that field first.
11. Availability and changes to the product
The courses are free, and we can change, suspend or discontinue any part of them, including taking them offline entirely. If we retire something that holds your work, we will give you notice we think is reasonable and a way to take a copy first.
12. Ending your use
You can stop using the courses at any time. Email us to have your account and data deleted, which is covered in the privacy policy.
We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. Where it is proportionate we will tell you what the problem is first. When an account closes, the certificate it holds stops verifying.
13. Disclaimer of warranties
The courses are provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the courses will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, that the materials are accurate or complete, or that they will produce any particular result for you.
14. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost business or loss of goodwill, arising out of your use of the courses, whatever the legal theory and even if we were told the risk existed.
To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for all claims relating to the courses is limited to one hundred US dollars ($100).
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence, for willful misconduct, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Some places do not allow some of these exclusions or limits. Where that is true of the law that applies to you, they apply to you only as far as that law permits.
15. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your breach of these terms, or from your use of the course materials in a way these terms do not allow.
16. Governing law and where disputes go
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. The courts located in Cook County, Illinois have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and both of us submit to that jurisdiction.
Before either of us starts proceedings, we will each make a genuine attempt to resolve the dispute by discussion between people with authority to settle it. This does not stop either of us seeking urgent injunctive relief.
If the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim somewhere else, these terms do not take that away. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
17. Changes to these terms
We can update these terms. When we do, we post the new version here and move the effective date at the top. A change that materially affects your rights will be flagged to you and will need your acceptance before you continue.
18. General
- Entire agreement. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the courses.
- Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
- No waiver. If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.
- Assignment. We can assign these terms as part of a sale or reorganization of the business. You cannot assign them without our written agreement.
- Events outside our control. Neither of us is liable for failure to perform caused by events outside our reasonable control, including outages of third-party platforms and infrastructure we depend on.
- No partnership. Nothing here makes either of us the other's partner, agent, employee or joint venturer.
- No third-party beneficiaries. No one other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.
19. Notices and contact
Legal notices to us go to tony@runsimpler.com, marked for the attention of Anthony Drummond, President. Where written notice by post is required, send it to Moonbound Consulting, LLC, Attn: Anthony Drummond, President, 333 W. Wacker Drive, Suite 2600, Chicago, IL 60606. Notices to you go to the email address on your account.
Questions about these terms or about how the courses work go to tony@runsimpler.com. What we collect and how to have it deleted is on the privacy page.