Singletrackworld.com is intended to be a friendly place where all mountain bikers, both experienced and not so experienced can visit and chat, joke, debate, ask questions and generally hang out.
Rule One
Generally the visitors to the website are adults but there are no age restrictions. That freedom demands a level of self moderation from its users. Please remember that bad language and discussion of certain topics can and does cause offence. Essentially if you post anything that is intended to cause offence then expect to have it deleted and possibly have your account suspended.
In short, think twice about posting anything that you wouldn’t be prepared to say face to face.
Please have respect for other forum users and refrain from bad language and abusive postings.
Rule One is simple and easy to remember and follow. Don’t be a dick!
What topics are suitable for discussion?
We have two main discussion forums.
- Topics on the Bike forum should be restricted to discussion about bikes. A non exhaustive list of allowed topics include, bikes, components, rides, biking holidays, travel, mags…. Without stating the bleeding obvious we will assume you get the idea.
- Topics on the Chat Forum can be about anything that doesn’t belong on the Bike Forum. Politics, general chat, current affairs, latest movies, big brother, the price of fish.. Again, we think you get the idea.
- The forum can be used for getting rides and friends together, but is not a personal message board. Please don’t clog it up with personal messages that can be sent by email or via the inbuilt private messaging system.
- If you think a post is a deliberate troll, abusive, offensive or otherwise a bit naughty then don’t hesitate to email us at moderator@singletrackworld.com and we’ll have a look. We can’t guarantee we’ll agree with you but at least we’ll be aware of any infringements to other members’ sensibilities.
- If you notice that a post has been moderated and after reading this page you are still unclear as to why, then please email us directly and we will try to explain our decision. DO NOT post your request for a reason on the forum as we have found that this just provokes needless argument. Any such requests posted on the forum will be removed without comment.
Copyright Notice
By posting to our forum, we (Gofar Enterprises Ltd) could be considered to have published your comments, even though strictly, you are the publisher of your own comments and we (Gofar Enterprises ltd) are merely the platform you use to publish to. That’s why we sometimes choose to remove posts that could cause potential legal problems. Please don’t be offended if this happens to you, but please also note that you could also be held personally liable for your comments. As the publisher we reserve the right to reproduce, quote, reference or use any comments posted on our forums or elsewhere on the website, in any way we see fit to promote the business of Singletrack Magazine and it’s websites. After all you may write some words of genius that we want to share with all our readers. We will ensure that if we do use your posts in this way that we use them as so far as is possible within the context that they were intended by the poster. In other words we won’t deliberately use them to misrepresent you or the opinion that you have expressed.
You have the opportunity to edit your posts up to 15 minutes after you have posted them. After this time all posts are recorded as part of the historical record/archive of the site and we reserve the right to retain them as such or to use them in anyway we choose subject to the assurances we have given above. This constitutes a non-exclusive universal right to store and reproduce your posts along with your username in the context of the author of those posts.
User submitted content
Visitors may post reviews, comments, and other content: and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening or personally abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of spam. The following types of content are expressly and specifically prohibited: Terrorism, Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA), Grooming, Image-based Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), CSAM and CSEA URLs, Encouraging or assisting suicide, Hate, Harassment, stalking, threats and abuse, Controlling or coercive behaviour, Drugs and psychoactive substances, Firearms, knives or other weapons, Human trafficking, Unlawful immigration, Sexual exploitation of adults, Extreme pornography, Intimate image abuse, Proceeds of crime, Fraud and financial offences, Foreign interference, Animal cruelty. You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead. Gofar Enterprises Ltd reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content at its sole discretion and without notification, but does not regularly review posted content. If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Gofar Enterprises Ltd and its associates a nonexclusive, royalty-free right to use the content on our sites. We may modify, collate or adapt the content for further use, for example in round-up articles. You grant Gofar Enterprises Ltd and its associates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post: that the content is accurate: that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity: and that you will indemnify Gofar Enterprises Ltd or its associates for all claims resulting from content you supply. Gofar Enterprises Ltd has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. Gofar Enterprises Ltd takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.
Image Uploading
Full members (Paying members) have access to our image upload function which allows users to upload images from your device for display in our forum. Any registered user can hotlink to an image stored elsewhere on the internet in order that a users browser will render out the image within the users post/reply.
The principal function of this service is to allow users to upload images that they own the rights to. For example images they have taken. By and large any images that a user has not taken themselves is unlikely to pass the copyright test. Images taken from other websites will in the majority of cases breach the copyright of the image owner and as the uploader you run the risk of being held liable for any subsequent claims by the copyright holder.
By using this service you must take full responsibility for the files you choose to upload and you agree to indemnify Gofar Enterprises Ltd against any action taken by copyright holders in the event of a copyright claim. You must not upload any images that you do not have the rights to use. By uploading an image file a copy of that file is stored on our server. If you upload any images subject to copyright we reserve the right to remove them and any other images we may suspect of such a breach within a reasonable time following those images being reported to us.
If you spot an image that belongs to you posted by a forum user to our forum then report the post using the report this post function and our moderators will act to remove the image swiftly. If you do not have an account you can report any suspected breaches of copyright directly using the address moderator@singletrackworld.com and including a link to the post that contains your image.
Gofar Enterprises ltd will always act to respect copyright where it exists and we will act to remove any copyright material posted by a registered user to our platform in a reasonable amount of time. Normally this will be a matter of hours at most although this may take longer at weekends or unsocial times of the day.
We reserve the right to ban accounts that post copyright material and we reserve the right to remove any images that we suspect may breach copyright of the image owner, irrespective of any reports received. We also reserve the right to pass on contact details to any genuine third party copyright holder in the event of a copyright breach subject to their lawful request for those details.
If you aren’t sure if you have the right to upload any image then you most likely do not have that right. Play it safe and upload only those images you have taken.
Rules
In addition to the above guidelines we have a limited number of hard and fast rules that you should familiarise yourself with before posting on any of our forums.
- No posts of a sexual nature, including images of a sexual nature or intended to provoke a sexual response.
- No Trade or business advertising – except bona fide retailers may respond to genuine enquiries from potential customers by replying to an existing post. Trade accounts must NOT start a new topic to respond to any genuine enquiries from bona fide users. If we suspect astroturfing we will delete first and ask questions later.
- Usernames or names displayed in forum threads or story comments may not be used to criticise individuals or companies and are subject to the same rules as for any other post or comment on the site. Where a username is in breach of this rule the account will be deleted or the username altered by a moderator.
- No posts which, in the Moderators opinion, are likely to cause offence to either an individual, or group, whatever their gender, sexual inclination or ethnicity.
- No posts, including links to other sites that are deemed to be of a sexual or distasteful nature, incite racial or sexist behaviour or are in any way discriminatory and/or offensive towards individuals or minority groups.
- No abusive or foul language – There is a swear filter on the site that will capture what we consider to be the most offensive vocabulary but any attempt to evade this swear filter will result in that post or thread being deleted. Repeat offenders will be banned. Our swear filter is not exhaustive and the moderators reserve the right to moderate any language regardless of its inclusion or otherwise in the swear filter library.
- No posting of referral links and codes where the poster will benefit financially or otherwise
- No ‘Paging…’ threads. They only gum up the forum. If a user wants to be contacted their email address will be on their profile page.
- No posts which in the opinion of the moderators are solely intended to, or are likely to provoke or abuse any individual or group.
- No impersonation of any other poster, or use of another poster’s identity, including letting a banned user post via your account.
- Placing images on the forum requires you to link to the site where the image originated from. Read forum help for details on how to achieve this.
- Multiple accounts are not allowed. One member – One account. Users who are found to own more than one account may have ALL accounts deleted. At the very least the extra accounts will be deleted and the user’s remaining account will be suspended for at least 48 hours.
- The consequences of infringing these rules and guidelines are entirely at our discretion but will generally start with a 48 hour suspension from posting on the forum for which we may or may not give warnings or notify the user of their ban. In addition moderators may suspend any account for any reason they see fit at any time.
- Users must have a current and valid email address registered on their account.
Full Member Accounts (Paying subscribers)
Access to the forum is free upon registration. Forum use and access to any of our forums is not part of the paid for membership products. Full members must abide by the rules just like any other user and no refunds of membership will be offered to any user who falls foul of the rules and is sanctioned by the moderators.
Negative use of the forum
It is our aim that the forum should have an overall positive effect on the mountain bikers that use it. Experience has shown us that certain individuals like to contribute simply to cause trouble. Technically these people are known as Trolls but like all negative elements in society they learn the rules and are quite cunning in their ability to stay just within the letter of the law and yet still manage to cause irritation to other users. So, to try and combat these negative forum users we reserve the right to suspend the accounts or remove the posts of anyone we consider to be a predominantly negative contributor to the forum.
For example…
- If your posts are persistently argumentative we will consider that a negative use of our forum.
- If you resort to abuse of other forum users we will consider that a negative use of our forum.
- If you post irrelevant posts to the topic in discussion we will consider this negative use of the forum.
- If in our opinion your contributions to the forum are predominantly off topic we will consider this negative use of the forum.
- In all these cases and in others we have not mentioned, we reserve the right to ban you for an unspecified time from the forum.
- Any attempt to circumvent any suspension by re-registering or using the account of another forum user could result in a lifetime ban from the forum.
Basically, if you respect the forum and your fellow mountain bikers who make use of it then you have nothing to fear.
Sanctions we may impose on rule breakers.
- We may just give you a warning via the topic you have posted on.
- We may contact you directly by email* and ask you to behave
- We may suspend your account. This suspension will be for a limited period of time.
- For serious or persistent rule breakers we may ban you from posting to our website for an unlimited period of time.
*You must maintain a current and valid email address in your account. If you use a false or invalid email we reserve the right to deactivate your account permanently.
Our policy on Ad Blocking
Singletrackworld is an ad supported website. As a guest or registered user only (Free Member) you are accepting that the displaying of ads in your browser is the cost of being a registered user and you agree that you will not block these ads. If you block the ads we reserve the right to suspend your account and/or block our content from displaying in your browser. In addition you agree not to promote the use of ad blocking on our site in either story comments or forum posts.
The ads in a very real sense do allow you to use this site without having to hand over cash for the content. If the ads were not there earning us money for the time we spend keeping this site running and filling it with content then we simply would not bother with a website at all or we would severely strip it back to just being a promotion site for the mag. It simply would not be economically viable without the ads there.
What does ‘Ad Free’ mean?
Full members can view the site ‘Ad free’ when logged in to their accounts. Ad Free in the context of full members’ account benefits means they can view the site free from the display ads that are supplied through our third party ad provider – at this time that is Planet Sport. Technically this means that full members requests will bypass the Planet Sport system and no programmatic ads will be injected into their browser.
However, ad free in the context of full membership does not exclude all forms of marketing. Forms of marketing that as a full member you could see during a user session may include sponsorship of certain areas of the website, affiliate marketing links or widgets that we may insert into our web pages. It does not include marketing or ads for services that we provide ourselves (Gofar Enterprises Ltd) such as ads and promotions for memberships, merchandise or other services we may provide.
It does not include sponsored content articles that we may publish from time to time that appear in our content categories – although this type of marketing will be labelled clearly as sponsored content using a variety of labels.
Appropriate account details
Use of what we consider to be disposable email addresses or anonymous IP addresses may result in your account being blocked.
Rights of use
Legally anything you write on our forum is deemed to have been ‘published’ by Gofar Enterprises Ltd. That’s why we sometimes have to remove posts that could cause us potential legal problems. Please don’t be offended if this happens to you, but please also note that you could also be held personally liable for your comments. However, by posting on our forum you agree to allow us to reproduce your comments in any form at any time. After all you may write some words of genius that we want to share with all our readers. This amounts to a non-exclusive universal right to reproduce, use, exploit as we see fit any content posted to our website by you the user.
Licence Access and Use Of Website
Gofar Enterprises ltd grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of its sites and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of Gofar Enterprises Ltd. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of any site or its contents: any collation and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices: any derivative use of any site 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. No portion of any site may be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of Gofar Enterprises Ltd. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Gofar Enterprises Ltd and our associates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing Gofar Enterprises Ltd’s name or trademarks without the express written consent of Gofar Enterprises Ltd. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Gofar Enterprises Ltd. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create hyperlinks to sites owned by Gofar Enterprises Ltd so long as the link does not portray Gofar Enterprises Ltd, its associates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Gofar Enterprises Ltd logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.
Search Only Terms Contract
These terms of use refer and incorporate the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our sites:
Our Search Only Terms Contract: for Access and Use of Website (available at the version-controlled URL published by MOW, currently being the following link: https://m4ow.uk/socw/2.txt) governs crawling, indexing and other automated or programmatic access to the Website and its content.
If there is an inconsistency between any of the provisions of these terms of use and the provisions of Our Search Only Terms Contract as linked above, the provisions of the Search Only Terms Contract: for Access and Use of Website, the version hosted at the referenced MOW URL shall prevail.
Clause 14 (Cost of Breach) Override
Clause 14 of the Contract (relating to fixed sums, minimum amounts or deemed charges for unauthorised or unlicensed access) continues to expressly apply for the purposes of this website except for only the sum to be claimed for breach of the terms by Unlicensed Access by an Unlicenced User which is to be replaced by the amount £500 being [five hundred] GBP per instance of unauthorised or unlicensed access, as set out in the incorporated Binding Search Only Contract for Access and Use of Website.
For the avoidance of doubt, all other provisions of the Contract continue to apply without modification.
Personal Data
Personal data of registered users stored on our servers consists of a username (fixed at time of account creation), a password and an email address. It is a condition of use that your email address be valid so that we may, as the need arises, contact you directly with regard to the running of your account (eg. if you are naughty and the moderators need to tell you to stop). Your email address will never be passed on to third parties without your permission and we won’t add you to our editorial mailing lists unless you give us permission. It’s a condition of free registration that we add you to our editorial newsletter – you can unsubscribe from this at anytime by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email newsletter you receive. However, we may from time to time contact you with information about your account or changes to the functionality of your account and the website – these are what are termed transactional emails and as such are exempt from GDPR rules as they are deemed necessary for the correct function of our website and your use of it.
The posts or comments you may post on our site do not constitute personal data and become part of the historical archive of the website after the 15 minute edit period. Your username, once you have posted on our site, also does not constitute your personal data. This is why it is always vital that you are happy that what you post on our site will remain in the public domain along with your username indefinitely.
You can request that we remove your data from our servers by contacting us directly at tech@singletrackworld.com giving your username and the email address you have registered in your account. We will then remove your email address from your account. We will not remove your posts or comments from our servers or your username that is attributed to those posts and comments. Your password is encrypted on our servers and even we cannot access it. We can ‘destroy’ it by changing it to something random at your request and we can prevent any future logins – in effect removing your email address and password and closing down your account permanently.
We retain your username after your account has been deleted for your security as well as ours in order to prevent any future individual from re-registering your username and potentially causing identity confusion or even fraud.
Other information that is displayed in your profile includes but is not restricted to ‘About me’, ‘Website’, ‘Location’. This information and any other user editable fields we may include is user created and can be edited or deleted by you at any time via your account. We recommend that you delete this information before you request your account be deactivated.
Customer information relating to orders you have placed in our shop, including subscriptions and memberships, is retained securely in line with current account legislation for a period of 6 years.
The approval of your account and it’s subsequent maintenance by us is conditional on you agreeing to abide by these rules and guidelines.
In addition to these rules and terms & conditions you must also agree to the use of your personal data as laid down in our Privacy Policy. Click the link below to read our privacy policy.
From time to time we may update these terms and conditions. Accepting them is a condition of using this site and it is recommended that you check this page for updates regularly. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.
Applicable Law
By visiting Gofar Enterprises Ltd, you agree that UK law, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Gofar Enterprises Ltd or its associates.
