These Terms of Use govern access to TourDeFrance.online. By using the website, you agree to use it lawfully and in accordance with these terms. If you do not agree, you should not use the service.
This is a launch draft and should be legally reviewed before publication.
The service
TourDeFrance.online provides independent sports information, guides, analysis and historical reference content relating to the Tour de France and professional cycling.
The site is not the official Tour de France website and does not control the race, teams, governing bodies, broadcasters, local authorities or third-party services discussed in its content.
Intellectual property
Original articles, original graphics, site design, original databases and other material created for TourDeFrance.online may be protected by copyright and other laws.
You may link to publicly accessible pages and may quote limited portions where permitted by law, provided appropriate attribution is given. You may not republish substantial articles, reproduce the site as a competing database, remove ownership notices or systematically copy original material without permission.
Third-party trademarks, race marks, team names, logos, photographs and other protected material remain the property of their respective owners.
Acceptable use
You must not use the website to:
- attempt unauthorized access to the website or its infrastructure;
- introduce malicious code;
- deliberately interfere with site availability;
- impersonate another person or organization;
- use the site for unlawful activity;
- scrape or automate requests at a level that materially harms site performance;
- bypass technical measures intended to protect the service.
Ordinary linking and reasonable search-engine crawling are not prohibited, subject to published robots directives and applicable law.
Accuracy and availability
We aim to keep editorial information accurate, but cycling is a live sport and details can change. Routes, riders, schedules and results can be updated. The website is provided on an informational basis and no promise is made that every page will always be complete, current or error-free.
The operator may update, reorganize, suspend or remove content as the site evolves. Major evergreen URLs should be preserved where practical, but no particular article or feature is guaranteed to remain available indefinitely.
Third-party links and services
The website may link to broadcasters, event organizers, ticket/hospitality providers, transport services and other third parties. Those services are operated independently and have their own terms, privacy policies and commercial conditions.
TourDeFrance.online is not a party to a third-party purchase merely because a link appears on the site.
Commercial links
If affiliate links or sponsored placements are introduced, they should be disclosed where required and should not change factual race coverage.
A commercial relationship does not make a third-party product “official” unless the rights holder or organizer actually recognizes it as such.
User submissions
If the website later allows comments, account content or other public submissions, these terms should be updated before that feature launches. The current site plan is primarily editorial and does not rely on public user-generated content.
Messages sent through a contact form should be lawful and should not include malicious files, threats or content that infringes another person's rights.
Automated access and data extraction
The site may use robots directives, rate limits or other technical measures to protect availability. Automated systems should respect those controls and should not send requests at a volume that degrades the service for normal visitors.
Permission to crawl a public page does not automatically grant permission to republish the site's original editorial text, graphics or compiled databases. Uses allowed by applicable law remain unaffected.
Account features in the future
The initial site does not require reader accounts. If accounts, paid memberships, comments, competitions or user profiles are introduced later, these terms and the privacy policy should be reviewed before launch of those features so users receive terms that describe the service they are actually using.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operator is not responsible for indirect or consequential losses arising from use of the site, reliance on information that has changed, third-party services or events outside the operator's reasonable control.
Nothing in these terms limits a liability or consumer right that cannot lawfully be limited.
Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated when the service changes.
Contact
Contact: Contact@tourdefrance.online