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Shielders® Terms & Conditions
Effective Date: [May 8, 2026]
Welcome to the Shielders.com website. This website is associated with the Shielders® Company (“Shielders®,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your use of our Website, courses, services and activities. When you visit our site and participate in our courses and other Shielders® related activities (both on this site and externally), you agree to be bound by these Terms.
1. INTRODUCTION
The Shielders.com website provides courses that primarily teach the Shield Method, a personal control method developed by Dr. Deborah Hill, D.C. This method utilizes advanced cognitive techniques for enhanced personal control. Our primary course is the Shield Method Weight Loss Course.
2. EXPECTED BENEFITS & SIDE EFFECTS
The intended benefits of the Shield Method Weight Loss Course include improved eating control and resulting mental and physical benefits. We are not aware of any negative side effects resulting from increased self-control. However, individual results will vary, and we make no guarantees regarding specific outcomes.
3. USER OBLIGATIONS AND CONDUCT
By using this Website and enrolling in our courses, you agree to the following codes of conduct:
- Good Behavior: We ask that you maintain a standard of good behavior. Impoliteness, profanity, harassment, or bullying will not be tolerated.
- Honesty: It’s very important for you to provide truthful answers to all questions and evaluations so that our results and published reports will be accurate.
- Accurate Identification: Your accurate identity is essential to maintain the integrity of our research and records.
- Maintain Your Contact Information: We need to be able to email you to inform you when your next lesson is available for you to take, and for other purposes. If you opt out of these communications, we may not be able to deliver the course to you, contact you for things you have requested, etc. So please be sure to keep your current email on file with us. If you find that you are not receiving our communications, check your spam box.
- Platform Integrity: Do not damage, disable, or overburden the Website.
- No Solicitation or Mining: You may not market products to, or mine the data of, other website or Shielders® -related participants.
4. OUR RIGHTS AND CONTENT USAGE
To maintain the platform and promote the Shield Method, you grant us the following rights:
- License to Use Your Content: By submitting test responses, answers, comments, and uploading videos or images, you grant us an unrestricted, perpetual, worldwide, and royalty-free license to use that content for any purpose we choose, including marketing and publishing (unless other written agreements are made in advance, such as for Celebrity endorsements).
- Publishing Results: We reserve the right to publish test and evaluation results and share media gathered from our events. (See our Privacy Policy for steps we take to protect your privacy.)
- Content and Account Control: We reserve the right to remove any comment, media, or user account at any time, for any reason, without notice.
- Data Exclusion: We may exclude the evaluation or test results of those who are auditing our courses.
- Incentives: We may offer incentives for feedback, uploads, and continued participation in our courses.
- Legal Action: We reserve the right to pursue legal action and sue for damages against any user who causes harm to the Website or our business.
5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND USAGE LICENSE
- Usage License: Materials provided on this website are for personal use only. Sharing, selling, or reproducing them is prohibited.
- Copyright Protection: All courses, including lessons, tests, illustrations, videos, charts and media materials are copyrighted and owned by the owners of the Shielders® Company (see end of document).
- AI illustrations: To get the Shield Method Weight Loss Course to those who could benefit from it as soon as possible, some illustrations in this course were created by Artificial Intelligence. These are also the property of the owners of the owners of the Shielders® Company and may not be copied or used.
6. CERTIFICATES OF COMPLETION
Those who successfully complete the Shield Method Weight Loss Course and are in good standing with the Shielders® Company may download a registered Certificate of Completion. Authenticity of Certificates may currently be verified through the Certificate Verifier menu from the Home Page of this site. We reserve the right to decline to issue or to revoke any certificate for any reason, at our sole discretion, such as if we receive reports or information of misuse, damage to the Shielders® Company, false representations or impolite or unethical behavior.
7. MEDICAL AND PROFESSIONAL DISCLAIMERS
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY.
- Clinical Studies: Our highly documented, extensively video taped and audited clinical studies (which included some MD’s and psychologists) have shown that the Shield Method Weight Loss Course can help individuals gain much more reliable and consistent personal control of their eating behaviors, which can have a beneficial effect on their mental and physical health. However, results of past participants do not guarantee that future participants will obtain the same results. Your results may vary.
- Dr. Deborah Hill, D.C.: Dr. Hill is a licensed, board-certified chiropractor. She is not a Medical Doctor (MD), nor does she hold any degree in the fields of psychology or mental health. Statements made in the lessons and content of this website are Dr. Hill’s own ideas, theories and opinions. The Shield Method is an original method developed by Dr. Hill designed to give people greater personal control. It is not related to the chiropractic field in any way.
- No Medical Advice: We do not claim to diagnose, advise, treat, or cure any medical or psychological condition, nor do we provide medical advice. The content on this Website and in our courses is for educational and self-improvement purposes only.
- Consult Your Physician: Always consult with your doctor about any weight loss method you are considering. You are solely responsible for consulting with your own physician or qualified health professional regarding any physical or mental medical conditions you may have or experience before, during or after your participation in this website. We are not responsible for any damages or health complications that may result from your participation.
- Not a Patient/Doctor Relationship: Registering for a course on our website, or participating in any Shielders® activity, does not create a doctor-patient relationship
8. ACCESS & REFUND POLICIES FOR THE WEIGHT LOSS COURSE
- Refund Policy: Paying participants may take up to 4 (of 20) lessons and receive a full refund, for any reason, as long as they do not proceed to Lesson 5. Lessons 5 through 20 are reserved exclusively for fully-paid students. (If you request a refund and we see that you have not opened Lesson 5, we will gladly issue it. But if we see that you have opened it, you will no longer be eligible for a refund.) However, in the event that you do not wish to continue to Lesson 5, we encourage you to go ahead and take the Baseline Evaluation, which is after Lesson 4, but before Lesson 5, as this can give you a glimpse of the ways in which Shielders typically change. Refunds are ordinarily remitted within 20 days of notifying us, via the same payment method that was used for the purchase.
- Course Access: Enrolling in the Shield Method Weight Loss Course gives you license to the course while you are taking the lessons. Once you complete the lessons, your access will end. However, after you complete the course, if you choose to continue to share your progress with us (by periodically uploading pictures, videos, comments, stories, etc. to us), and by taking a yearly evaluation (so that we can document your long-term results), you will be rewarded with access to the Sterling Shielders section of the website, an online newsletter, which is reserved exclusively for graduates, and you may call yourself a “Sterling Shielder.” Our online newsletter includes many features of interest to graduates: pictures and videos of other Sterling Shielders demonstrating the techniques and sharing their tips, comments and stories; postings by Dr. Hill; a “lesson of the month” to re-read (very popular); announcements; contests; recipes; opportunities for jobs with us; etc.
- Closing Your Account: You may opt out of data sharing by closing your account. Notify us through the Upload Portal (located at the bottom of our Home Page). Once closed, you will no longer have access to your account, courses and restricted areas of the website.
9. LIST OF DOCTORS (AND OTHERS) WHO HAVE TAKEN OUR COURSES
We may include on the shielders.com website a list of doctors (and perhaps other professionals) who have taken one or more of our courses, to make it easier for people who are interested to find them. However, caution should be taken, as the Shielders® Company is not responsible to vet or verify the credentials of any individual on this list, and does not accept any responsibility for injuries or damages that may result from any and all contact with them, directly or indirectly.
We reserve the exclusive right to allow or disallow inclusion on any of our lists and to remove any individual, for any reason, at our sole discretion. And we encourage users to inform us and the proper authorities of incorrect information and negative experiences with those on our list.
10. OTHER DISCLAIMERS
- General Disclaimer: The Shielders® Company cannot be held responsible for verifying the identity of any participant; nor do we accept any responsibility for the fraudulent or illicit actions of any person, group, agency, organization or company acting to interfere with or harm any participant of this website or Shielders® -related activities.
- Intended Age Group: The learning materials and activities represented on this site are designed for the use of adults, with appropriate discretion, only. We do not accept any responsibility for verifying the age of any participant, or for any alleged adverse effects that any Shielders® -related course, product or activity may have on them
- Prices and promotional offers: These are subject to change at any time, without notice.
11. NO WARRANTY
The Shielders.com website is provided to the User “as is” with all its inherent flaws and the Shielders® Company makes no express or implied warranties of any kind related to this website or its contents. In order to get the Weight Loss Course to those who could benefit from it as soon as possible, some of the described functionality of this website may not yet be available or complete.
12. INDEMNIFICATION
The User hereby indemnifies to the fullest extent the Shielders® Company, its creator, operators, officers, directors, management company, licensor(s) or employees from and against any and all liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages and expenses, including attorney’s fees, which arise from or as a result of using this website or User breach of these or other Terms & Conditions published on the Shielders.com website. Users agree to resolve all legal issues, controversies, and other conflicts through appropriate forms of arbitration.
13. SEVERABILITY
If any provision included in the Terms & Conditions of Terms of Use on the Shielders.com website is or becomes unenforceable or invalid under any state or federal law, such shall not invalidate them or imply any automatic removal from the Shielders website unless that use has become prohibited by law. The full contents of the Shielders.com website Terms & Conditions and Terms of Use remain on this website at the sole discretion of the Shielders® Company, which reserves sole rights to remove or change any of their provisions at any time without diminishing those that remain.
14. USER ACCEPTANCE AND VARIATION OF TERMS
By visiting or using this Shielders® website, you are actively accepting our Terms and Conditions, as here expressed. Continued use of the Shielders® website is implicit consent to this Terms and Conditions Agreement.
Users should regularly review the terms, conditions, and all other content in our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy pages, as important changes may be made to them, without notice.
15. ASSIGNMENT
Users may not assign, transfer, or subcontract any rights of access or other rights or obligations to any third party. The Shielders® Company is solely permitted to assign, transfer, and subcontract user rights and obligations without any notification or consent of any user or third-party.
16. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
These Terms & Conditions, the Terms of Use elsewhere on this Shielders.com website, any other legal notices and disclaimers also contained on the Shielders.com website comprise the entire agreement between the Shielders® Company and its Shielders.com website Users and supersede all prior agreements and previous understandings explicitly agreed upon by the User(s) and their use of the Shielders.com website.
17. INQUIRIES & OTHER COMMUNICATIONS
The Shielders® Company is operated by Underscore Management, Inc., DBA Shielders®. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the state of Nevada, USA. For any legal or business questions regarding this document, please direct all correspondence to:
Underscore Management, Inc., DBA Shielders®
3225 McLeod Drive, Suite 100
Las Vegas, Nevada 89121
