GRIFFOX Consulting Terms of Use
Effective Date: March 1, 2025
Last Updated: September 4, 2026
1. Acceptance of These Terms
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of https://griffoxconsulting.com/ (the “Website”), which is operated by GRIFFOX Consulting (“GRIFFOX,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). By accessing or using the Website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Website.
2. Purpose of the Website
The Website provides general information about GRIFFOX Consulting, our services, experience, publications, and the GRIFFOX Layered Cake Model™ (GLCM). Website content is provided for general informational and educational purposes. It is not a substitute for advice tailored to your organization, circumstances, laws, regulations, contracts, workforce, or operating environment.
Using the Website, downloading a document, or contacting us does not create a consultant-client relationship, fiduciary relationship, partnership, joint venture, employment relationship, or other professional relationship. A consulting engagement begins only through a separate written agreement signed by the appropriate parties.
3. Consulting Engagements
Descriptions of services, engagement formats, timelines, deliverables, outcomes, or pricing on the Website are illustrative and do not constitute a binding offer. The scope, responsibilities, fees, schedule, confidentiality obligations, intellectual-property rights, data-handling requirements, and other terms of any paid engagement will be established in a separate contract, proposal, statement of work, or similar written agreement.
If a signed agreement conflicts with these Terms regarding a consulting engagement, the signed agreement controls for that engagement.
4. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the Website and its original content—including text, graphics, diagrams, page designs, photographs, videos, publications, downloads, frameworks, and other materials—are owned by or licensed to GRIFFOX Consulting and are protected by applicable copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws.
GRIFFOX Consulting, the GRIFFOX name and logo, GRIFFOX Layered Cake Model™, GLCM, and related names, visual expressions, and identifiers may be trademarks or service marks of GRIFFOX Consulting. Nothing on the Website grants a license to use any GRIFFOX mark, branding, diagram, or protected material except as expressly permitted in these Terms or in a separate written agreement.
The Website presents selected public descriptions of the GLCM and related architecture. Publication of these summaries does not grant permission to reproduce GRIFFOX materials, remove attribution, create derivative training or consulting products from protected content, or represent the GLCM as your own work. Nothing in these Terms claims ownership of general ideas, facts, or third-party methods that are not protectable under applicable law.
5. Permitted Use
You may access and use the Website for lawful informational, educational, procurement-review, and internal business-evaluation purposes. You may print or download a reasonable number of copies of publicly available materials for your own internal, noncommercial evaluation, provided that you retain all copyright, trademark, and attribution notices and do not modify or misrepresent the materials.
You may link to a public page on the Website in a fair and lawful manner that does not damage our reputation or falsely suggest association, approval, sponsorship, or endorsement.
6. Prohibited Use
Except as permitted by applicable law or with our prior written authorization, you may not:
- Copy, republish, distribute, sell, sublicense, or commercially exploit protected Website content.
- Use GRIFFOX content, diagrams, frameworks, or downloads to create or market a competing product, training program, certification, publication, or consulting methodology.
- Remove or alter copyright, trademark, attribution, or proprietary-rights notices.
- Use automated tools to scrape, harvest, reproduce, or systematically extract Website content, except for ordinary indexing by general-purpose search engines that follow applicable technical instructions.
- Use Website content to train, fine-tune, develop, evaluate, or improve an artificial-intelligence or machine-learning system without our prior written permission.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, its server, accounts, systems, or data, or interfere with Website availability, security, or performance.
- Upload or transmit malicious code, conduct fraudulent activity, impersonate another person or organization, or use the Website in violation of law or another party’s rights.
7. Contact Forms and Communications
When you contact us, you agree to provide accurate information and to communicate lawfully. We use information submitted through the Website as described in our Privacy Policy.
We treat inquiries with appropriate care, but a general Website inquiry does not by itself create an attorney-client privilege, consultant-client relationship, nondisclosure agreement, or other legally protected confidential relationship. Please do not submit confidential, regulated, health, financial, or other sensitive personal information through the general contact form. Any formal confidentiality obligations must be established in an appropriate written agreement.
8. Client Examples, Testimonials, and Results
Client examples, testimonials, metrics, scenarios, and descriptions of past work are provided to illustrate experience and possible applications. They do not guarantee that another organization will achieve the same or similar results. Outcomes depend on many factors, including organizational context, leadership decisions, participation, capacity, available resources, implementation quality, and conditions outside our control.
Unless expressly identified as an actual engagement, scenarios and examples may be illustrative, simplified, anonymized, or combined to explain a concept while protecting confidentiality.
9. Third-Party Content and Links
The Website may reference or link to third-party websites, publications, tools, frameworks, standards, or services. Links and references are provided for convenience and context and do not necessarily constitute endorsement. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party content, availability, security, accuracy, or privacy practices. Your use of a third-party site or service is governed by that provider’s terms and policies.
10. Website Availability and Changes
We may update, correct, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Website at any time. We do not guarantee that the Website or any content will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, current, or free from errors. We may restrict access when reasonably necessary to protect the Website, users, GRIFFOX Consulting, or third parties.
11. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Website and its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, noninfringement, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.
We make reasonable efforts to provide useful and accurate information, but we do not warrant that Website content is complete, current, error-free, or appropriate for every organization or situation. You are responsible for evaluating information before relying on it and for obtaining appropriate professional advice for your circumstances.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, GRIFFOX Consulting and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and representatives will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising from or related to your access to, use of, reliance on, or inability to use the Website or third-party content linked from it.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions or limitations of liability. In those jurisdictions, these provisions apply only to the extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.
13. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.
14. Severability and No Waiver
If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed only to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect. A failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
15. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms as the Website, our services, or legal requirements change. The revised Terms will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of the Website after revised Terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.
16. Entire Agreement
These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the agreement between you and GRIFFOX Consulting regarding use of the Website. They do not replace or modify a separate written agreement governing consulting services or another business relationship.
17. Contact Us
If you have questions about these Terms, please contact:
GRIFFOX Consulting
5657 Guinevere Lane
Milton, Florida, USA
Email: info@griffoxconsulting.com
Telephone: +1 (850) 376-7843