Terms and conditions

DREAM BOOK ACADEMY TERMS & CONDITIONS

Effective October 7, 2026
Last Updated October 7, 2026

By purchasing, enrolling in, accessing, or participating in any Dream Book Academy product, program, course, group offering, or private service, or by clicking “I accept all terms and conditions,” you agree to the following Terms & Conditions.

These Terms apply to offerings provided by Pia Edberg / Dream Book Academy (“Company”), including but not limited to:

• Self-paced courses and digital products
• Dream Book Academy
• Group coaching programs and group experiences
• Private 1:1 coaching and consulting
• Editing, manuscript review, publishing, launch, marketing, and related author services
• Intensives, calls, audits, and other services or programs offered by Company

Specific offers may also include additional terms, deliverables, timelines, or policies provided at the time of purchase. Those terms form part of this Agreement.

1. ALL SALES ARE FINAL

Due to the nature of digital products, intellectual property, coaching, consulting, and professional services, all sales are final and non-refundable, except where otherwise expressly stated in writing by Company or required by applicable law.

Purchasing a product or service represents your commitment to the full purchase price, regardless of whether you complete, attend, access, or fully use the product or service.

2. PAYMENT PLANS

If you select a payment plan, you are responsible for completing all payments according to the payment schedule agreed to at purchase.

A payment plan is not a subscription that may be cancelled partway through the payment period.

Failure to make a scheduled payment may result in suspension of course access, community access, coaching, consulting, services, calls, or other deliverables until the outstanding balance is paid.

All payment-plan payments are non-refundable, except where required by applicable law.

3. NO GUARANTEES

Company cannot and does not guarantee any particular result from participation in its programs or services.

Any statements concerning potential results, including but not limited to publishing outcomes, bestseller status, book sales, audience growth, visibility, income, business growth, opportunities, or personal transformation, are expressions of opinion, examples, or possibilities only.

Your results depend on many factors outside Company's control, including your actions, decisions, effort, market conditions, audience, book quality, execution, and other circumstances.

You understand and accept the risks associated with investing in your book, business, education, publishing, or marketing.

4. CLIENT RESPONSIBILITY

Company provides education, guidance, feedback, coaching, consulting, editing, strategy, and/or other services according to the offer purchased.

Unless an offer specifically states that a service is “done for you,” the Client remains responsible for implementing recommendations and completing the actions required to move their project forward.

This may include, depending on the project, communicating with and hiring third-party professionals, reviewing files, making decisions, providing materials, completing assignments, uploading files, managing publishing accounts, approving work, and meeting deadlines.

Company is not responsible for delays caused by the Client, third-party vendors, publishing platforms, printers, distributors, retailers, technology providers, or other circumstances outside Company's reasonable control.

5. 1:1 COACHING, CONSULTING & PRIVATE SERVICES

For private services, the specific scope of work, deliverables, number of calls, support period, editing services, timelines, or other inclusions are those described in the offer, proposal, invoice, checkout page, or written agreement provided to Client.

Company is only responsible for services specifically included within the purchased scope.

Requests falling outside the agreed scope may require an additional fee or separate agreement.

Private Support

Where messaging, email, voice-note, or other between-session support is included, support will be provided during the office hours communicated as part of the applicable program or service.

Response times are estimates rather than guarantees and may vary due to workload, holidays, illness, emergencies, or other reasonable circumstances.

Calls & Program Timelines

All calls, services, and included support must be used within the timeframe specified for the purchased package or service.

Unused calls, services, or support do not automatically carry forward beyond the agreed service period unless Company agrees otherwise in writing.

Any scheduling, cancellation, or rescheduling policies communicated for the applicable offer also apply.

6. GROUP PROGRAMS & GROUP COACHING

Participants in group programs acknowledge that coaching, discussion, questions, and feedback may take place in a shared environment.

You agree to respect the privacy of other participants and not share another participant's personal information, unpublished work, business information, stories, screenshots, conversations, or confidential material outside the program without their permission.

Company cannot guarantee that other participants will maintain confidentiality and is not responsible for unauthorized disclosures by another participant.

Company reserves the right to remove a participant who behaves in a way that materially disrupts the program or violates these Terms.

7. COURSES, DIGITAL PRODUCTS & DREAM BOOK ACADEMY

All course materials, videos, recordings, templates, worksheets, planners, guides, frameworks, meditations, documents, downloads, community resources, and other materials supplied by Company are protected intellectual property.

Your purchase grants you a limited, personal, non-transferable license to use those materials for your own personal or business purposes as intended by the program.

Unless Company gives express written permission, you may not:

• Copy or reproduce course materials for others
• Share your login or provide another person access
• Upload course materials to shared databases or AI systems for redistribution or replication
• Resell, sublicense, distribute, publish, or give away Company materials
• Repurpose Company materials as your own course, coaching program, template, methodology, or product
• Claim Company's intellectual property as your own

Unauthorized use may result in termination of access without refund and Company may pursue available legal remedies.

8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & CLIENT WORK

Your Intellectual Property

You retain ownership of intellectual property you bring into the relationship, including your manuscript, original writing, ideas, brand materials, and other Client-created content.

Client-Specific Deliverables

Upon full payment, Client may use the final Client-specific work created specifically for Client as part of the purchased services, including edited manuscript material and other custom deliverables, subject to any separate agreement governing those services.

Company's Existing Intellectual Property

Company retains ownership of all pre-existing and independently developed intellectual property, including but not limited to:

• Courses
• Frameworks
• Processes and methodologies
• Templates
• Worksheets
• Checklists
• Training materials
• Guides
• Systems
• Teaching materials
• Program content
• Proprietary methods and know-how

Providing these materials during a private service or incorporating Company methods into Client work does not transfer ownership of Company's underlying intellectual property to Client.

9. THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS

Company may recommend illustrators, designers, editors, formatters, printers, software, publishing platforms, contractors, or other third-party providers.

Unless specifically stated otherwise in writing, these providers are independent third parties and are not employees, agents, or representatives of Company.

Client is responsible for evaluating, selecting, contracting with, paying, and managing third-party providers.

Company is not responsible for a third party's work, pricing, conduct, delays, errors, availability, contractual obligations, or results.

10. CONFIDENTIALITY

Company may receive confidential or unpublished information from Client in connection with private services and will use reasonable care to protect that information.

Client may also receive confidential or proprietary information belonging to Company and agrees not to disclose or distribute that information without permission.

This does not apply to information that is publicly available, independently developed, lawfully received from another source, or required to be disclosed by law.

11. TESTIMONIALS & CLIENT SUCCESS

Company may share general statements about Client results or success for marketing and educational purposes.

Where personally identifiable information, direct quotations, screenshots, photographs, book covers, or other identifying materials are used as a testimonial, Company may request permission where appropriate.

Nothing in these Terms requires Company to promote a Client, their book, business, or results publicly.

12. BOOK PROMOTION BONUS

Certain Dream Book Academy programs may include eligibility for bonus promotion of a member's published book through Company's private or public platforms.

Public promotion is not guaranteed and remains subject to Company's review and discretion.

Company may decline to publicly promote a book that does not meet reasonable quality, professionalism, brand, or audience standards, including considerations such as:

• Coherence and clarity
• Professional editing and formatting
• Cover quality
• Presentation and reader experience
• Alignment with Dream Book Academy's audience, values, or brand

Bonus promotion has no standalone cash value and is not guaranteed to produce sales, reviews, rankings, visibility, or other results.

13. LIFETIME ACCESS

Where an offer includes “lifetime access,” lifetime refers to the lifetime of the applicable product or program while it continues to be offered and maintained by Company, not the lifetime of the purchaser.

Company may update, replace, restructure, migrate, rename, modify, or discontinue a product, platform, feature, resource, community, or program.

If a product or program is permanently discontinued, lifetime access to that product may also end.

14. COMMUNITY CONDUCT & ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY

Company is committed to maintaining respectful spaces for participants.

Harassment, abuse, threats, intimidation, hate speech, discriminatory attacks, unwanted communications, excessive or aggressive messaging, personal attacks, or other disruptive conduct toward Company, its representatives, contractors, or other participants will not be tolerated.

Company may remove or restrict a participant's access to a community, group, program, or communication channel where Company reasonably determines that these standards have been violated.

Serious or repeated violations may result in termination of program access without refund.

15. SCOPE OF WORK & ADDITIONAL SERVICES

Company is responsible only for the work expressly included within the Client's purchased offer.

If Client requests services outside the original scope, additional fees may apply.

Company is under no obligation to perform additional work or continue providing services after the agreed program or contract period unless an extension or additional service has been agreed to.

Any additional work should be confirmed in writing.

16. CLIENT DEADLINES & DELAYS

Client agrees to provide information, manuscripts, files, feedback, approvals, decisions, and other materials reasonably required for Company to perform the agreed services.

If Client delays providing required information or materials, corresponding project timelines may also be delayed.

Company is not responsible for missed publishing dates, launch dates, deadlines, or other consequences resulting from delays outside Company's control.

17. PUBLISHING & PLATFORM DISCLAIMER

Publishing platforms, retailers, advertising platforms, distributors, printers, software providers, and third-party services may change their rules, algorithms, pricing, specifications, policies, functionality, or availability at any time.

Company cannot guarantee approval, availability, ranking, distribution, advertising performance, retailer placement, bestseller status, or continued access through any third-party platform.

Recommendations are based on Company's knowledge and experience at the time they are provided.

18. TERMINATION OF ACCESS

Company reserves the right to suspend or terminate access to a program, service, course, community, or Company communication channel for:

• Non-payment
• Unauthorized sharing or misuse of Company intellectual property
• Harassment or abusive conduct
• Material violation of these Terms
• Fraudulent activity
• Other serious conduct that materially interferes with Company's programs, business, or participants

Where access is terminated because of Client's violation of these Terms, no refund will be provided except where required by law.

19. NON-DISPARAGEMENT

Client and Company agree not to knowingly make false or defamatory statements regarding the other.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from giving truthful feedback, making legally protected statements, reporting unlawful conduct, cooperating with legal proceedings, or exercising rights provided by applicable law.

20. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Company will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or similar damages arising from participation in Company's products, programs, coaching, consulting, or services.

Client remains responsible for their own business, financial, publishing, marketing, career, creative, and personal decisions.

Company does not provide legal, accounting, tax, medical, mental-health, investment, or other regulated professional advice unless expressly qualified and engaged to do so.

21. INDEMNIFICATION

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Client agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Company and its officers, employees, contractors, and agents from third-party claims, losses, liabilities, damages, and reasonable costs arising from Client's unlawful conduct, infringement of another person's intellectual property, misuse of Company materials, or material breach of this Agreement.

22. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

Company may update these Terms from time to time.

Changes will apply prospectively from the effective date of the updated Terms. Terms applicable to a specific purchase will remain subject to any rights required by applicable law and any separate written agreement governing that purchase.

23. GOVERNING LAW

These Terms will be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the applicable federal laws of Canada, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

24. SEVERABILITY

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.

25. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These Terms, together with the applicable sales page, checkout terms, proposal, invoice, scope of work, or other written agreement provided for a particular purchase, constitute the agreement between Client and Company regarding that purchase.

If a specific signed agreement expressly conflicts with these general Terms, the specific signed agreement will govern to the extent of that conflict.

By purchasing, accessing, or participating in a Dream Book Academy product, program, course, group experience, or private service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms & Conditions.

With gratitude,

Pia Edberg
Dream Book Academy