Terms of Use

The Clean Operating System is an educational and personal-development platform created by Adam Baron.

The platform provides ideas, frameworks, assessments, publications, podcasts, worksheets, and other resources intended to support reflection, learning, and sustainable personal and professional performance.

Website Operator
Adam Baron
The Clean Operating System
Geneva, Switzerland
Email: contact@cleanoperatingsystem.com

All content made available through The Clean Operating System is provided for general educational, informational, and personal-development purposes only.

The website, assessment, books, podcasts, worksheets, recommendations, and other resources do not constitute:

• Medical or psychological advice
• Diagnosis, treatment, or therapy
• Legal advice
• Financial or investment advice
• Employment or human-resources advice
• Professional consulting
• A substitute for advice from a qualified professional

You are responsible for deciding whether any information, exercise, or recommendation is appropriate for your circumstances.

You should seek advice from an appropriately qualified professional where necessary.

The Clean Operating System Assessment is a self-reflection tool designed to help users consider patterns across the Mental, Energy, Execution, and Social Systems.

Assessment results may include:

• System scores
• A suggested bottleneck
• Strengths and development areas
• An operating style
• A noise profile
• Educational recommendations

The results are generated from the answers you provide and may be influenced by your interpretation of the questions, current circumstances, mood, and self-perception.

The assessment is not:

• A clinical or psychological test
• A medical diagnosis
• A validated personality assessment
• An employment-selection tool
• A professional-performance evaluation
• An objective measurement of your abilities, health, or potential

You should not rely on the assessment as the sole basis for important personal, medical, professional, employment, or business decisions.

The Clean Operating System provides frameworks and resources intended to support reflection and improvement. However, no particular result is promised or guaranteed.

Individual outcomes may vary depending on many factors, including personal circumstances, effort, decisions, environment, and the way the materials are used.

We do not guarantee improvements in:

• Productivity
• Performance
• Health or wellbeing
• Energy
• Relationships
• Career development
• Business results
• Financial outcomes
• Personal fulfilment

You remain responsible for your actions, choices, and results.

Unless otherwise stated, all content available through The Clean Operating System is owned by or licensed to Adam Baron.

This includes, without limitation:

• The Clean Operating System name and concept
• The four-system framework
• Assessment questions and scoring methods
• Operating styles and noise profiles
• Written content
• Books and excerpts
• Podcast scripts and recordings
• Diagrams and illustrations
• Worksheets and scorecards
• Reset tools and exercises
• Reports and recommendations
• Website design elements
• Logos, icons, and visual materials
• Downloadable files and digital resources

All applicable intellectual-property rights are reserved.

Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of any intellectual property to you.

You may access, read, download, and print materials made available through the website for your own personal, private, and non-commercial use.

You may share a link to a publicly available page or resource, provided that you:

• Do not misrepresent the content
• Do not imply endorsement or partnership
• Do not remove ownership notices
• Do not present the material as your own
• Do not charge others for access

Any use beyond personal and non-commercial use requires prior written permission.

You may not, without prior written permission:

• Copy or reproduce substantial parts of the website or its materials
• Republish, distribute, sell, license, or commercially exploit any content
• Resell or redistribute downloadable resources
• Copy or recreate the assessment
• Reproduce assessment questions, profiles, or scoring methods
• Use the framework in paid training, consulting, coaching, or commercial programmes
• Modify the materials and present them as original work
• Remove copyright, attribution, or ownership notices
• Use automated tools to scrape, extract, or systematically collect content
• Use the content to develop or train competing products, services, assessments, or artificial-intelligence systems
• Circumvent technical restrictions or access controls
• Attempt to disrupt, damage, or interfere with the website
• Use the website for fraudulent, unlawful, abusive, or harmful purposes
• Impersonate The Clean Operating System, Adam Baron, or any associated person or organisation
• Suggest an official partnership, certification, licence, or endorsement where none exists

Requests for commercial use should be sent to contact@cleanoperatingsystem.com.

Certain worksheets, scorecards, reports, excerpts, and other resources may be offered free of charge.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, free resources are licensed for personal and non-commercial use only.

We may update, replace, restrict, or remove free resources at any time. We do not guarantee that any particular resource will remain permanently available.

You are responsible for maintaining your own copies of any materials you wish to retain.

When you subscribe, request a resource, complete an assessment, or register interest in a project, you may receive emails related to:

• The content you requested
• Assessment results
• Educational follow-up materials
• Newsletters
• Podcast or book updates
• New resources, publications, or programmes

You may unsubscribe from optional marketing communications at any time using the unsubscribe link in an email or by contacting contact@cleanoperatingsystem.com.

Messages necessary to deliver a requested resource or complete a requested service may still be sent where appropriate.

Use of personal data in connection with email communications is described in the Privacy Policy.

You may choose to send messages, feedback, suggestions, testimonials, ideas, or other materials.

You retain ownership of content you submit.

By submitting content, you grant us permission to receive, store, review, and use it as reasonably necessary to:

• Respond to you
• Provide support
• Improve the website and its services
• Maintain records of the communication

We will not publicly identify you or publish a testimonial attributed to you without appropriate permission.

Please do not submit:

• Confidential business information
• Trade secrets
• Sensitive personal data
• Information belonging to another person without permission
• Unlawful, abusive, defamatory, or infringing material

Submitting an idea does not create a confidential, advisory, employment, partnership, or commercial relationship.

We are not obliged to use, develop, compensate, or respond to any submitted suggestion or idea.

The website may contain links to third-party websites and services, including podcast platforms, retailers, form providers, email services, and social-media platforms.

These may include services such as:

• Amazon
• Spotify
• Apple Podcasts
• Fillout
• MailerLite
• Lovable
• Other external websites and service providers

External services are operated independently and are governed by their own terms, privacy policies, and commercial conditions.

We do not control and are not responsible for:

• Their content
• Their availability
• Their security
• Their data-processing practices
• Their prices
• Their products or services
• Their payment, delivery, cancellation, or refund procedures

A link does not necessarily imply endorsement, partnership, or responsibility.

Books, audiobooks, and other products may be sold through third-party retailers or platforms.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, The Clean Operating System does not directly process these transactions.

Purchases made through an external retailer are subject to that retailer’s terms concerning:

• Payment
• Pricing
• Taxes
• Delivery
• Digital access
• Returns
• Refunds
• Cancellations
• Customer support

Questions relating to a third-party purchase should normally be directed to the relevant retailer or platform.

We aim to keep the website and its resources available and functioning properly. However, we do not guarantee that:

• The website will always be available
• Access will be uninterrupted
• All content will be error-free
• Every feature will operate on every device or browser
• All links will remain active
• Digital resources will always be available
• Technical problems will be corrected immediately

We may suspend, restrict, modify, or discontinue any part of the website at any time.

We take reasonable care when preparing content, but information may become incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate.

We may correct, update, replace, or remove content without prior notice.

You are responsible for verifying information before relying on it for an important decision.

You must not attempt to:

• Gain unauthorised access to the website, servers, accounts, or data
• Introduce malware or harmful code
• Interfere with website operation
• Test vulnerabilities without permission
• Overload the website or its infrastructure
• Misuse forms, subscriptions, or downloadable resources

We may restrict or block access where misuse, security risks, or violations of these Terms are suspected.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, The Clean Operating System and Adam Baron will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or purely economic loss arising from or connected with:

• Use of the website or its content
• Reliance on assessment results
• Decisions made using the materials
• Inability to access the website
• Loss of data
• External websites or services
• Third-party purchases
• Technical errors, interruptions, or security incidents

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where doing so would be prohibited by applicable law.

You are responsible for your use of the website and materials.

You agree not to use the website or its content in a way that:

• Violates applicable law
• Infringes intellectual-property rights
• Harms another person
• Misrepresents the source or purpose of the materials
• Breaches these Terms

You may be responsible for losses or claims resulting from your unlawful or unauthorised use of the website or its content.

The collection and use of personal data are governed by the Privacy Policy available on this website.

By using forms, subscriptions, assessments, or other interactive services, you acknowledge that your information will be processed as described in that policy.

We may update these Terms of Use to reflect changes in:

• The website
• Available services
• Business practices
• Technology
• Legal or regulatory requirements

The updated Terms will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

Continued use of the website after an update means that the revised Terms apply to your subsequent use.

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, invalid, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply.

The affected provision will be interpreted or limited only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable where legally possible.

A failure to enforce any provision of these Terms does not waive the right to enforce it later.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Switzerland.

Subject to any mandatory rights or protections available to consumers under applicable law, disputes relating to these Terms or the website will be subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts in Geneva, Switzerland.

Questions about these Terms of Use may be sent to:

Adam Baron
The Clean Operating System
Geneva, Switzerland
Email: contact@cleanoperatingsystem.com