Enrolling in any courses offered by or through the Certified Emerging Company Analyst or The Business Development Academy or any of their affiliates is no guarantee of growth or success in your career. Your career growth and professional opportunities are a function of many factors such as strength of the economy, your commitment to hard work, opportunities in your company and clients' willingness to pay for services you offer. The foregoing holds true for pursuing and / or attaining the Certified Emerging Company Analyst designation.

By taking our courses and pursuing the Certified Emerging Company Analyst designation you understand and agree that the valuations and/or reports that you produce may be challenged by superiors; business associates; institutional investors and retail investors, providers of capital, counterparts in corporate transactions; and, in litigation. You further agree that you will hold the Certified Emerging Company Analyst or The Business Development Academy or any of their affiliates and all of the instructors and principals involved in delivering the courses harmless in the event that your valuations and/or reports are challenged. You understand that neither the Certified Emerging Company Analyst nor The Business Development Academy nor any of their affiliates nor any of the instructors or principals involved in delivering the courses will be responsible in anyway whatsoever for any costs, liabilities or inconveniences that you incur should the valuations and/or reports that you produce be challenged.

In the event that the Certified Emerging Company Analyst or The Business Development Academy or any of their affiliates enters into a corporate combination or is required as a function of law or dispute with a third party, is required to change its designation from Certified Emerging Company Analyst to something else, you agree to hold Certified Emerging Company Analyst or The Business Development Academy or any of their affiliates and principals harmless for any costs or inconveniences that you incur should it be necessary to change the title of the Certified Emerging Company Analyst designation or change the letters "CECA".

Any infringement of intellectual property or proprietary material owned by the Certified Emerging Company Analyst designation, The Business Development Academy or their affiliates will result in a life-long loss of the rights to use the Certified Emerging Company Analyst designation or any other designation granted by The Business Development Academy or their affiliates. We reserve the right to take all legal remedies to seek redress from anyone who infringes our intellectual property or proprietary materials.