The Competitive Rider website will provide you with an ever-growing variety of information products and information sharing tools, including educational content, articles, assessment tools, forums and other services designed to help people achieve more from equestrian sport.

All of these services are subject to these terms of use. Additionally, we reserve the right to discontinue or change any service, program or aspect of our website without liability or prior notice. We also reserve the right to impose limits or restrict access to parts of or all of the website without prior notice or liability.

Intellectual Property Ownership and License

All Competitive Rider website and product content is the property of Competitive Rider and no property rights are granted to you except as set forth in these terms of use or expressly granted to you in writing by Competitive Rider. Competitive Rider grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and our products. The license does not include any commercial use of this site or our products, or their contents, and no content may be reproduced, copied, distributed, sold or otherwise exploited without the express written consent of Competitive Rider.

Acceptable Use

You agree to use the Competitive Rider website and our products in the spirit of our mission, which is to help riders develop more successful, fulfilling careers.

Specifically, you will not use the Competitive Rider website to:

• Upload, post, communicate or otherwise make available any content, information or statement that is false, misleading, defamatory, disparaging, threatening, abusive, offensive, obscene, profane, or otherwise objectionable in our sole discretion;
• Upload, post, communicate or otherwise make available any unsolicited advertising, promotional material or other form of solicitation;
• Upload, post, communicate or otherwise make available any content or information that is illegal, plagiarizes or otherwise infringes on the rights of others;
• Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your relationship with any person or entity;
• Try to use another person’s account without permission;
• Stalk, abuse, exploit or harass another user;
• Upload any material that damages our website, its functioning or our ability to fulfill our mission.

Information You Submit

The Competitive Rider website will be increasingly interactive and you may submit information, particularly in the form of survey responses and forum posts. When you upload information to our website, you irrevocably grant to Competitive Rider a royalty-free license containing, without limitation, all right, title and interest in your uploaded information.

We also reserve the right to delete, move or edit content you post in our user forums or place on our website. Furthermore, you are responsible for all content, information and statements you upload, post or otherwise make available on our website. Competitive Rider assumes no liability for its accuracy or any loss or damages incurred as a result of its use.
Disclaimer of Warranties

The Competitive Rider website is made available “as is”, “as available” and “with all faults”. Competitive Rider makes no warranties whatsoever about the website, its content, its functions, messages and information sent to and from the website, any products or services offered through the website or security associated with the transmission of private information and its storage on the website. Competitive Rider does not warrant that the website is free of defects or that the servers that make it available are free of harmful components.

Furthermore, the information and advice provided at this website do not in any way constitute an alternative to professional psychological advice. You assume full responsibility for the application of the self-analysis and developmental practices described in Competitive Rider’s products and services. Competitive Rider shall not be liable for any damages related to your use of its materials and cannot be held responsible if, for any reason whatsoever, you don’t get the results you want or expect.

Limitation of Liability

Under no circumstances will Competitive Rider, its owners, officers, instructors or representatives be liable to you for any loss or damages of any kind related to our website and products, their use, their content, downloaded documents, your upload information or your ability or inability to use the website.

Links to Other Websites

Competitive Rider is not responsible for any content provided on linked websites. We provide links to such sites as a convenience and do not warrant their content as legal or accurate.
Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Competitive Rider, its officers and its representatives with respect to any and all costs, claims, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs and expenses, including attorney’s fees, arising out of or in connection with your use of the Competitive Rider website and its content.
Governing Law

These terms of use shall be governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut.

Termination

Competitive Rider reserves the right to terminate your account and deny access to all or part of this site at its sole discretion without liability or notice of any kind.

Acceptance of Terms of Use

Your use of the Competitive Rider website constitutes your acceptance of our current terms of use as described here. These terms of use may change without notice.