Terms of Service

Last updated: November 10, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Ricky ("we", "us" or "our") about your use of rickyshoffner.com and its pages (the "Site"), our free Discord community, our videos and content, application and strategy calls, and the emails, calls and text messages we send (together, the "Services"). By using the Services or submitting a form, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Services.

1. Who can use the Services

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding agreement to use the Services. You agree that the information you give us is true and that the phone number and email you enter are your own.

2. What we offer

• Free content and community: our videos, pages and free Discord community are free. Joining them does not require any purchase.
• Applications and calls: you may apply for, and book a call about, our paid 1-on-1 mentorship. A call is not a promise that you will be accepted or offered a place.
• Paid programs: our paid mentorship is a separate purchase with its own written agreement, which sets out the price, what is included, payment terms, and any refund, guarantee or cancellation terms. Any guarantee applies only as written in that signed agreement, including its conditions. If that agreement conflicts with these Terms, that agreement controls for the paid program.

3. No guarantee of results; not professional advice

Everything we share is for educational and informational purposes only. Results mentioned anywhere in the Services, including Ricky's own results, are not typical and are not a promise or prediction of what you will earn. Your results depend on many things outside our control, including your effort, skills, experience, budget, the products you choose, the platforms you use, competition and market conditions.

Starting an e-commerce or dropshipping business involves real financial risk, including spending on products, samples, software, ads and fees; refunds, chargebacks and returns; supplier and shipping problems; changes to platform rules or algorithms; account suspensions; and taxes. You may lose money. You are solely responsible for your business decisions and for following all laws, platform rules, and tax obligations that apply to you.

Nothing in the Services is financial, investment, legal, tax or accounting advice. Talk to a qualified professional before making decisions in those areas.

4. Emails, calls and text messages

Submitting one of our forms is your consent. When you submit a form with your email and phone number, you agree that Ricky and people working with Ricky may contact you at that email and number by email, phone call and text message (SMS/MMS), including messages sent using automated technology, about the free Discord, your application and call, our content, and our free and paid programs. This is how we deliver your free Discord invite and call details, so if you do not want to receive these messages, please do not submit the form. Consent is not a condition of buying anything, and you can withdraw it at any time as described below.

Text message program

• Program: Ricky's text messages: your Discord invite, call confirmations and reminders, and information about Ricky's free and paid programs.
• Frequency: message frequency varies.
• Stop: reply STOP at any time to stop receiving texts. You will get one message confirming you are unsubscribed. You can also email us to opt out.
• Help: reply HELP for help, or email ricky@ytd.rickyshoffner.com.
• We handle your mobile information as described in our Privacy Policy. We never share your mobile number or text-message consent with third parties for their marketing.

Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link. If you change or give up your phone number, please tell us so we do not text the next owner of that number.

5. Our free Discord community

Please be respectful. Do not spam, sell, promote other programs, share other members' information, post anything illegal, hateful, harassing or misleading, or make income claims to other members. We may remove messages and remove or ban anyone from the community at any time. Discord's own terms and rules also apply. What other members post is their own view, not ours, and we do not check or endorse it.

6. Our content

The Site, videos, trainings, documents and other materials are owned by Ricky or used with permission, and are protected by copyright and other laws. You may use them for your own personal, non-commercial learning. You may not copy, record, resell, share, publish or make your own versions of them without our written permission.

7. What you send us

You keep ownership of what you send us. You give us permission to use it to provide the Services. We will only use your name, image, words or results in our marketing with your separate permission, and we will clearly disclose any payment or other benefit given for a testimonial.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to: break any law; give false information or use someone else's contact details; interfere with the Site's security or operation; use bots or scrapers on it; or use the Services to harass anyone or to send spam.

9. Third-party platforms and links

The Services refer to and link to third-party platforms and tools such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Shopify, Discord and suppliers. We do not control them, are not responsible for them, and they may change their rules or features at any time. Your use of them is governed by their own terms. This Site is not part of the Facebook, Instagram or YouTube websites, or of Meta Platforms, Inc. or Google LLC, and is not endorsed by them in any way. Facebook and Instagram are trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, to the fullest extent allowed by law. We do not promise that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free or that any information is complete or current.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Ricky and the people working with Ricky will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or business opportunities, arising from or related to the Services, even if we were told they were possible. Our total liability for any claim about the free Services is limited to one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100). Some places do not allow some of these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

12. Indemnity

You agree to defend and hold harmless Ricky and the people working with Ricky from claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Services, or the business you run.

13. Disputes

If you have a problem, please email us first at ricky@ytd.rickyshoffner.com so we can try to resolve it informally within 30 days before either of us takes any other action.

14. Changes and ending

We may update these Terms from time to time; the "Last updated" date shows the latest version, and continuing to use the Services means you accept it. We may suspend or end your access to the free Services at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive (for example sections 3, 6 and 9 to 13) survive.

15. Everything else

These Terms, our Privacy Policy, our Earnings Disclaimer and any written agreement for a paid program are the whole agreement between us about the Services. If any part of these Terms cannot be enforced, the rest stays in effect. If we do not enforce a part right away, we have not given up the right to do so later. You may not transfer these Terms; we may transfer them as part of a business change.

16. Contact

ricky@ytd.rickyshoffner.com
Ricky · rickyshoffner.com