Effective Date: June 15, 2025
Welcome to BikeInReview! These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the website located at www.bikeinreview.com (the “Website”), operated by www.bikeinreview.com.
By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the Website.
1. Acceptance of Terms: By accessing and using our Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms, as well as any additional terms and conditions that are referenced herein or that may apply to specific sections of the Website, or products and services available through the Website.
2. Changes to Terms: We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will provide at least 30 days’ notice before any new terms take effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion. By continuing to access or use our Website after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms.
3. Use of the Website
- Eligibility: You must be at least 13 years old or the age of legal consent in your area to use this Website. By using this Website, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract.
- Permitted Use: You agree to use the Website only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict, or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the Website. Prohibited behavior includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any other user, transmitting obscene or offensive content, or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within our Website.
- User Accounts: If certain features of the Website require you to create an account, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password.
- Content: The content on this Website is for informational and entertainment purposes related to the joy of riding bicycles. While we strive for accuracy, we do not warrant the completeness, reliability, or accuracy of any information.
4. Intellectual Property
- Our Content: All content on the Website, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, images, audio clips, video clips, data compilations, and software, is the property of www.bikeinreview.com or its content suppliers and is protected by international copyright laws.
- Trademarks: BikeInReview.com and other marks indicated on our Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of www.bikeinreview.com. Our trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not ours, in any manner that is likely to confuse customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits us.
- Limited License: We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and make personal, non-commercial use of the Website. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of the Website or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this Website or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
5. User-Generated Content: If the Website allows users to post content (e.g., comments, forum posts, photos):
- Responsibility: You are solely responsible for any content that you post, upload, publish, display, or transmit on or through the Website.
- License to Us: By submitting content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.
- Content Standards: You agree not to post any content that is:
- Unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.
- Infringing on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party.
- Contains unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation.
- Contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or telecommunications equipment.
- Monitoring: We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to monitor, edit, or remove any user-generated content for any reason, without notice.
6. Disclaimer of Warranties: The Website and all content, materials, information, products, and services included on or otherwise made available to you through the Website are provided by us on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied. We do not warrant that the Website will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of viruses or other harmful components.
7. Limitation of Liability: To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall www.bikeinreview.com, its affiliates, directors, employees, agents, or licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (i) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Website; (ii) any conduct or content of any third party on the Website; (iii) any content obtained from the Website; and (iv) unauthorized access, use or alteration of your transmissions or content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence) or any other legal theory, whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of such damage, and even if a remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose.
8. Indemnification: You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless www.bikeinreview.com and its licensees and licensors, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers, and directors, from and against any claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees), resulting from or arising out of a) your use and access of the Website, by you or any person using your account and password; b) a breach of these Terms; or c) content posted by you on the Website.
9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction: These Terms shall be governed and construed under the laws of the State of Vermont, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Vermont to resolve any dispute or claim arising from these Terms or the Website.
10. Severability: If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect.
11. Entire Agreement: These Terms and our Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Website and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have had between us regarding the Website.
12. Contact Us: If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:
info@bikeinreview.com