Policy

User agreement & policy

This page is maintained by E BUDDY to explain the rules every rider agrees to when they create an account and use the app. By checking the agreement box on sign-up, you confirm that you have read, understood, and accepted this agreement.

1. Who can use E BUDDY

• You are at least 16 years old, or you have permission from a parent or legal guardian who has read this agreement with you.
• You will provide accurate information when creating your account and keep it up to date.
• You are responsible for anything that happens under your account, including keeping your password private.
• One person per account. Don’t share logins or impersonate anyone else.

2. Ride at your own risk

E BUDDY is a tool for tracking rides, planning trails, and sharing routes. It is not a substitute for skill, judgment, or local knowledge. Riding an electric dirt bike, e-bike, or e-moto carries real risk of injury or death.

• You ride at your own risk and take full responsibility for your own safety and the safety of others around you.
• You will wear a helmet and the protective gear required by your local law.
• You will follow all federal, state, provincial, and local laws, including licensing, insurance, registration, speed limits, and land-use rules.
• You will respect posted trail rules, land-manager restrictions, private property, and other trail users.
• You will not ride while impaired by alcohol, drugs, or medication that affects your ability to operate a vehicle.

3. Acceptable use

When using E BUDDY, you agree not to:

• Submit trails, photos, or comments that are illegal, harassing, hateful, sexual, threatening, or that reveal someone else’s private information.
• Post trails that cross private property without the owner’s permission, or that violate closures on public land.
• Deliberately falsify ride data, leaderboard results, or trail conditions.
• Scrape, reverse-engineer, resell, or automate access to the app or its data without written permission.
• Attempt to break, probe, or bypass the app’s security, rate limits, or authentication.
• Use the app to promote unsafe or illegal riding, including racing on public roads or trespassing.

We may remove content, suspend accounts, or ban users who break these rules — with or without notice.

4. Your content

• You keep ownership of the rides, trails, photos, and comments you submit.
• You grant E BUDDY a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display, and share that content inside the app and on public pages you choose to make public (such as the leaderboard or a public rider profile).
• You confirm you have the right to share what you upload and that it does not violate anyone else’s rights.
• You can delete your content or your account at any time from settings; some copies may remain in backups for a limited period.

5. Location data

The core of E BUDDY is GPS tracking. When you use ride tracking, we collect precise location data from your device, tie it to your account, and store it so you can review, edit, and share your rides.

• Location data is private by default. It becomes visible to other users only when you opt in (public profile, shared trail, leaderboard).
• You can stop tracking, delete individual rides, and remove your rider profile from public listings at any time.
• Never rely on the app for emergency location services. If you need help, call your local emergency number.

6. Privacy summary

• We store the email address you sign up with, any profile info you add, your rides, and app usage data needed to keep the service running.
• We do not sell your personal data.
• Authentication is handled through our backend provider. Passwords are never stored in plain text.
• You can request deletion of your account and personal data by using in-app settings or contacting us.

7. Third parties

E BUDDY relies on third-party services (for example map tiles, authentication, hosting, and analytics). Their terms apply to the parts of the app they power. Links to third-party sites, guides, or products are provided for convenience — we don’t control or endorse what happens on those sites.

8. Disclaimers

E BUDDY is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent allowed by law, E BUDDY disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of trail data, availability of GPS, and non-infringement.

Trails, rules, and legal summaries in the app and its guides are general information, not legal advice. Confirm current rules with your local authorities and the land manager for the area you plan to ride.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent allowed by law, E BUDDY and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses arising from your use of the app, your reliance on trail or legal information, or any ride you take.

You agree to indemnify and hold E BUDDY harmless from any claim arising out of your riding, your content, or your breach of this agreement.

10. Suspension & termination

We may suspend or terminate your account at any time if you break this agreement or use the app in a way that puts other riders, landowners, or the service at risk. You can close your account at any time from settings.

11. Changes to this agreement

We may update this agreement as the app grows or laws change. When we make meaningful changes, we’ll update the version and “last updated” date at the top of this page and, when appropriate, ask you to re-accept before continuing to use the app. Continuing to use E BUDDY after an update means you accept the new version.

12. Canadian guide disclaimer & subscription privacy

The Canadian e-bike & e-moto rules guide is a plain-language summary of federal Motor Vehicle Safety Act categories (Power-Assisted Bicycle, Limited-Speed Motorcycle, Motorcycle) and the provincial rules that apply on top. It is general information only, not legal advice, and not a substitute for the current text of federal, provincial, or municipal regulations.

• Rules change frequently. Confirm helmet, age, licence, insurance, and trail-access rules with your province and municipality before you ride.
• Where a manufacturer’s spec (power, top assisted speed, throttle behaviour) puts a bike outside the PAB class in your province, treat it as a motorcycle and comply accordingly.
• Federal land (national parks) and Indigenous land often have their own rules that override provincial summaries.
• Nothing in the guide creates a lawyer-client relationship or authorises any specific ride.

If you subscribe to Canadian guide updates:

• We store the email address you enter and the province you select so we can send you notifications when the guide is meaningfully revised.
• Subscription emails are used only for guide-update notifications — not marketing, not sold, not shared with third parties for advertising.
• You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any update email, or by contacting us through in-app support.
• If you delete your E BUDDY account, we also remove any guide subscriptions tied to your email on request.

13. Contact

Questions, deletion requests, or reports of abuse: reach us through the in-app support link. We aim to respond within a reasonable time.