Riding Places - Terms of Service (United States)

Effective Date: to be set upon US launch.

Welcome to Riding Places, a platform operated by Biomotion LLC (the "Company"), a Wisconsin-based limited liability company ("the Company", "we", "us", or "our").

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of our website, mobile applications, and services (collectively, the "Platform"). By accessing or using Riding Places, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use our Platform.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. THEY INCLUDE (A) AN EXPRESS ASSUMPTION OF THE RISKS OF CYCLING AND A RELEASE OF CLAIMS (SECTION 12), (B) DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATIONS OF OUR LIABILITY (SECTIONS 13 AND 14), AND (C) A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER THAT AFFECT HOW DISPUTES ARE RESOLVED (SECTION 17).

Acceptance of These Terms

By checking the "I agree" box when you create an account, or by otherwise accessing or using the Platform, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of a company or organization (such as a Group), you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, and "you" refers to that entity. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Platform. Your continued use of the Platform after any changes to these Terms take effect (see Section 18) constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms, except that a material change to Section 17 (Dispute Resolution) or Sections 13 and 14 (Warranty Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability) requires your affirmative re-acceptance through a click-through step before it applies to you.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use Riding Places. If you are using the Platform on behalf of a company or organization (such as a Group), you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms.

2. Accounts

You must provide accurate and complete information when creating an account and keep it updated. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account. Notify us promptly at support@riding-places.com if you suspect unauthorized use of your account.

3. Use of the Platform

You agree to use the Platform only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You must not misuse the Platform, attempt unauthorized access, or interfere with other users' experiences. Without limiting the foregoing, you must not upload false, manipulated, or fabricated ride data (including GPS data) to earn points or rewards; impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with a Group; reverse engineer, scrape, or use automated means to access the Platform except as permitted by law; or upload content that is unlawful, infringing, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

4. User Content

You retain rights to any content you submit on Riding Places (for example, profile photos, group images and banners, route names and descriptions). However, by submitting content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, display, and distribute that content in connection with the Platform. You may request deletion of your submitted content at any time (see our Privacy Policy for details).

You represent that you own or have the necessary rights to the content you submit and that it does not infringe the rights of any third party.

5. Copyright Complaints (DMCA)

We respect intellectual property rights and respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. sec. 512.

If you believe content on the Platform infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to our designated agent containing: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (c) identification of the allegedly infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to locate it; (d) your contact information; (e) a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Designated Copyright Agent: Biomotion LLC (the "Company"), Attn: Copyright Agent, 25 W Main St Suite 800, Madison, WI 53703 USA. Email: support@riding-places.com.

We will respond to valid notices, which may include removing or disabling access to the material. We may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. If you believe your content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notification meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. sec. 512(g).

6. Privacy and Your Data Rights

Your use of the Platform is governed by our Privacy Policy, which describes how we collect, use, and protect your personal information, including precise geolocation data from GPS ride tracking, fitness and activity data, and, if you connect Strava, activity data imported from Strava.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under applicable US state privacy laws (such as the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended, and similar laws in other states), including rights to access, correct, delete, and obtain a copy of your personal information. If you are a resident of Washington or Nevada, additional rights and protections apply to your consumer health data under Washington's My Health My Data Act and Nevada's consumer health data law, described in our Privacy Policy and in the separate consumer health data notice referenced there. For full details on your rights and how to exercise them, please see our Privacy Policy.

7. Payments, Subscriptions, and Automatic Renewal

Some features of Riding Places require a paid subscription. Group subscriptions are billed monthly in US dollars (USD) based on the number of active users (members who have logged in within the past 60 days). Because billing is per active user, your total monthly charge rises or falls automatically as your active-user count changes, independent of any change to our pricing; these adjustments are prorated. Pricing tiers and rates will be clearly disclosed before purchase.

Payments are processed securely through Stripe. We do not store your full payment card details.

Automatic renewal. By subscribing, you authorize us to charge your chosen payment method on a recurring monthly basis until you cancel. Your subscription will automatically renew each billing period at the then-current rate unless you cancel. We will notify you in advance of any material change to pricing, and the change will take effect no earlier than your next billing period.

Cancellation. You may cancel your subscription at any time through your account settings, which opens the Stripe billing portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; your subscription remains active until then. We do not provide partial-month refunds on cancellation.

8. Rambles and Rewards

Groups use Riding Places to run "Rambles", which are group riding programs for their members. Some Rambles offer rewards. Where a Ramble offers a reward, the Group that created it is the promoter and sponsor and is solely responsible for that reward, including its rules, eligibility, the supply and delivery of any prize, and the handling of any related questions or disputes.

Riding Places provides the tools that support these Rambles, such as recording qualifying rides and tracking completions. Riding Places is a neutral platform: we do not provide any reward or prize, and we are not a promoter, co-promoter, or sponsor of any Group reward.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Riding Places is not responsible or liable for any Group-run reward, including the availability, value, or delivery of any prize, or any dispute between a rider and a Group.

9. Intellectual Property

All rights, title, and interest in the Platform, including trademarks, logos, and proprietary technology, are owned by the Company. You may not use our intellectual property without prior written consent.

10. Third-Party Services

Riding Places integrates with third-party services to provide certain features. Your use of any third-party service is subject to their separate terms and privacy policies. Key integrations include Strava, for optional import of your ride data into Riding Places, with data flowing one-way from Strava to Riding Places only; Stripe, for secure payment processing, with full payment card details not stored by us; Cloudinary, for storage and delivery of user-uploaded images; SendGrid, for delivery of transactional and marketing emails, with your consent for marketing where consent is required; MapTiler, for map tiles and geocoding, with tile requests made from your browser that may include your IP address; Stadia Maps, for bicycle route calculation using the Valhalla routing engine, with route waypoint coordinates sent for routing; Open Topo Data and Open Elevation, for elevation lookups, with route and ride coordinates sent; Google and Apple, for optional social login, each authenticating you and returning basic identity claims such as your email and a stable account identifier; and Vercel Analytics and Usercentrics, for performance and analytics telemetry and cookie-consent management, respectively. Our Privacy Policy describes in more detail how your precise location and fitness and activity data, some of which is treated as sensitive personal information and, for Washington and Nevada residents, as consumer health data, is used and shared through these integrations.

11. Data Retention and Account Deletion

How you delete your account depends on your account type:

Riders. You can delete your account at any time from your account settings, after a confirmation step. Deletion takes effect immediately: your personal data is erased from our live systems right away, and there is no post-deletion recovery period through the app.

Groups. A Group owner can delete the Group account at any time from Group settings, after a confirmation step (you type the Group's name to confirm). Deleting a Group ends its Rambles, cancels its subscription, and erases the personal data of the Group and its account owner from our live systems. Individual members keep their own accounts, ride history, and statistics.

When we delete an account, we also revoke our access to any connected Strava account and delete the account's uploaded images from our media host. Some data is not erased instantly: residual copies may remain in our routine encrypted backups for up to 30 days before they are overwritten, and our payment processor retains billing and subscription records under its own retention terms. We retain financial and billing records we are legally required to keep for up to seven years. Anonymized or aggregated data that cannot identify you may be retained for analytics purposes.

For full details on data retention, please see our Privacy Policy.

12. Assumption of Risk; Release; No Medical Advice

CYCLING IS A PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THAT INVOLVES INHERENT AND SIGNIFICANT RISKS, INCLUDING RISKS OF PROPERTY DAMAGE, SERIOUS BODILY INJURY, PARALYSIS, AND DEATH. THESE RISKS INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION, COLLISIONS WITH VEHICLES, OBJECTS, TERRAIN, OR OTHER PEOPLE; FALLS; ROAD, PATH, AND TRAIL CONDITIONS; WEATHER; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; AND THE ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF OTHER RIDERS AND THIRD PARTIES. BY USING THE PLATFORM, INCLUDING ANY ROUTE, MAP, NAVIGATION FEATURE, OR RAMBLE, YOU KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY ASSUME ALL KNOWN AND UNKNOWN RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR CYCLING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES, WHETHER OR NOT DESCRIBED IN THESE TERMS.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU RELEASE AND FOREVER DISCHARGE THE COMPANY AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING FROM ORDINARY NEGLIGENCE IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM AND YOUR CYCLING ACTIVITIES. THIS RELEASE DOES NOT APPLY TO GROSS NEGLIGENCE, RECKLESSNESS, OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, AND DOES NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT A PARTICULAR STATE'S LAW DOES NOT PERMIT A RELEASE OF THIS KIND, IN WHICH CASE THIS RELEASE WILL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THAT STATE'S LAW ALLOWS.

You are solely responsible for your own safety, including deciding whether, where, when, and how to ride; wearing appropriate safety equipment (including a helmet); obeying traffic laws; and riding within your own abilities and the limits of your equipment.

No medical advice. The Platform is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Points, statistics, CO2-avoided estimates, and other outputs are for general informational and motivational purposes only. Consult a physician before beginning any exercise program, and stop and seek medical attention if you experience symptoms such as chest pain, dizziness, or shortness of breath while riding. Never make health decisions based on information from the Platform.

Estimates. CO2-avoided figures, distance, elevation, and similar metrics are estimates derived from GPS data and standardized assumptions, and may be inaccurate.

13. Disclaimers of Warranties

THE PLATFORM AND ALL CONTENT AND SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH IT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE, OR THAT ANY CONTENT, ROUTE, OR DATA IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR RELIABLE.

Route and Navigation Disclaimer: Routes, maps, and navigation data provided through the Platform are generated using third-party sources, including OpenStreetMap data (used via the Valhalla routing engine hosted by Stadia Maps, and via MapTiler map tiles) and other mapping providers. We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of any route, road, path, or trail information. Conditions may change without notice due to construction, closures, weather, seasonal restrictions, or other factors. You are solely responsible for verifying that any route is safe, legal, and appropriate for your skill level and equipment; checking current road and trail conditions before and during your ride; complying with all local laws, regulations, and access restrictions; and using your own judgment about weather and environmental conditions.

GPS tracking and location data may be inaccurate due to device limitations, signal interference, or environmental factors. Do not rely solely on the Platform for navigation in unfamiliar or hazardous terrain.

SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.

14. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COMPANY AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, USE, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) THE PLATFORM, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IN NO EVENT WILL OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE PLATFORM EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US (IF ANY) TO USE THE PLATFORM IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS (USD $100).

SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its officers, directors, members, employees, and agents from any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your violation of these Terms, your misuse of the Platform, your User Content, or your violation of any law or the rights of any third party. If you are a Group, this includes claims arising from any reward you run.

16. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. Subject to Section 17, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Platform shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Dane County, Wisconsin, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts, in each case to the extent enforceable under applicable law.

17. Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Class Action Waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT REQUIRES YOU TO ARBITRATE DISPUTES WITH US ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.

Agreement to arbitrate. You and the Company agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the Platform (collectively, "Disputes") will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, rather than in court, except as set out in subsection (c). This agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.
Arbitration procedure. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (or, for Groups, its Commercial Arbitration Rules) then in effect, as modified by this Section. The arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator, in English. For claims of $25,000 or less, the arbitration will be conducted on the basis of documents only unless the arbitrator decides a hearing is necessary; any hearing may be held by videoconference unless either party requests an in-person hearing, which will be held in the county where you live or another mutually agreed location. Payment of filing, administration, and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA's rules; if your claim is for less than $10,000 and is not frivolous, we will pay the arbitration fees other than your initial filing fee. The arbitrator may award the same relief a court could award to the individual party, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Exceptions. Either party may (i) bring an individual claim in small claims court, and (ii) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect its intellectual property rights or to stop unauthorized use of the Platform.
Class action waiver. YOU AND THE COMPANY EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. Disputes may be arbitrated only on an individual basis, and the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims. If this class action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular Dispute, then that Dispute (and only that Dispute) shall proceed in court, and the waiver shall remain enforceable as to all other Disputes.
30-day right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing support@riding-places.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, with your name, account email, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other provision of these Terms.
Mass arbitration batching. If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against the Company by or on behalf of similarly represented claimants within a 60-day period, raising substantially similar claims and represented by the same or coordinated counsel, those demands will be treated as a batch, resolved through a coordinated process using bellwether proceedings and mediation before individual arbitration fees and proceedings resume, as further set out in the AAA's mass arbitration procedures, to preserve the efficiency this arbitration agreement is intended to provide.
Severability. If any part of this Section 17 (other than the class action waiver in subsection (d)) is found unenforceable, the remainder shall still apply. An amendment to this Section 17 does not apply retroactively to a Dispute that arose, or to conduct that occurred, before the amendment's effective date; the version of this Section 17 in effect at the time of the conduct giving rise to a Dispute governs that Dispute.

18. Changes to Terms

We may modify these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by email or through the Platform at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use of the Platform after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms, except that a material change to Section 17 or to Sections 13 and 14 requires your affirmative re-acceptance through a click-through step, as described above, before it applies to you. If you do not agree to the changes, you should stop using the Platform and may delete your account.

19. Termination and Suspension

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Platform, or any part of it, at any time and with or without notice, if (a) we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms or any applicable law; (b) your conduct may harm us, other users, or third parties, or expose us to liability; (c) we are required to do so by law; or (d) we cease to offer the Platform. We may also remove or disable content that violates these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the Platform ceases immediately. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (including the User Content license, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law, and the dispute-resolution agreement in Section 17) will survive. You may stop using the Platform and delete your account at any time as described in Section 11.

20. Force Majeure

We will not be liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations under these Terms to the extent caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, epidemics or pandemics, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, labor disputes, power or telecommunications failures, and failures or disruptions of third-party services or infrastructure on which the Platform depends.

21. Miscellaneous

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Platform. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, including the planned conversion of the Company to a Wisconsin corporation, upon which these Terms bind the successor entity. The entity name and form referenced throughout these Terms reflect Biomotion LLC as currently organized; once the Wisconsin conversion to a corporation is filed, the entity name and form will be updated in a single coordinated pass across these Terms and the Privacy Policy, and not before. By using the Platform you consent to receive communications from us electronically, and you agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that communications be in writing.

22. Apple App Store and Google Play Additional Terms

These additional terms apply if you download or use the Riding Places application from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. In the event of any conflict between these terms and the rest of the Terms, these terms govern with respect to your use of the applicable application:

These Terms are between you and the Company only, and not with Apple Inc. ("Apple") or Google LLC ("Google"). The Company, not Apple or Google, is solely responsible for the application and its content. Apple and Google have no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the application. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple and Google have no warranty obligation with respect to the application; in the event of any failure of the iOS application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) you paid for the application, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation with respect to the application. Neither Apple nor Google is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the application or your possession and/or use of it, including product-liability claims, any claim that the application fails to conform to any legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer-protection, privacy, or similar legislation. Neither Apple nor Google is responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, or discharge of any third-party claim that the application or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights. You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo or that has been designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the application, including Apple's and Google's respective app store terms. Apple and its subsidiaries, and Google and its subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple and Google will each have the right (and will each be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

23. Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:

Email: support@riding-places.com Mailing Address: Biomotion LLC, 25 W Main St Suite 800, Madison, WI 53703 USA