Lights

The legal bits. Only read when you’ve finished the other fun bits.


01. Use

This website (https://escapecollective.com) is for your own personal use unless otherwise previously approved by the Escape Collective. Whether or not you decide to register for an account (either free or paid), you can not (without our prior express written permission):

  • Attempt to restrict or stop other website users from using or enjoying the Escape Collective;
  • Disassemble, reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract or use the source code of this website
  • Post a user comment that contains any advertising or any other commercial content unless prior approval by the Escape Collective is granted
  • Post a user comment or any other material or content to the website, or otherwise use the website in any way that is dishonest, misleading, fraudulent or unlawful or is otherwise vulgar, threatening, harassing, abusive, defamatory, violent, invasive of privacy, offensive, obscene, profane or objectionable
  • Attempt to access data or any part of this website that is not intended for you, or which you are not allowed to access, or attempt to obtain goods or services to which you are not otherwise entitled
  • Impose an unreasonable load on any of our networks or systems
  • Distribute, modify, copy, publish, transmit, display, reproduce, or license any of the material on this website
  • Attempt to use any of the material published on this website to create any other publication, website, social media post, or other
  • Transfer or sell any of the information, products, functionality, or the services made available on the website, or suggest that you are entitled to do so
  • Pretend that you someone else, or that you represent someone else, company, brand, or organisation
  • Scan, probe, or test our website or any related system or network for the purpose of breaching security or authentication measures
  • Track or monitor any of our content, users, or our website functionality

By using this site you acknowledge that we do not verify or review the content of any individual user comment. We reserve the right to amend or remove a user comment at any stage using

02. Account Management

To use certain components and functionality of the Escape Collective website you may be required to create an account (free or paid). You are fully responsible for your own use of the website, and you must not give your account details or password to anyone else. If another person accesses our website using your account details, then you are personally responsible for use of the website by that individual.

You may also access certain areas of the website by logging in using a third-party platform (such as Google or Facebook) or alternatively by using your email address. If you log in via a third-party platform, you confirm that you are the owner of the account. The Escape Collective may collect certain personal information via your account (such as your email address, your public profile name).

If you believe your account has been accessed by an unauthorised user you must immediately update your account details and notify us of any fraudulent activity or security breach. We will not be liable for any loss you suffer as a result of unauthorised use of your account. You will be liable for any loss we suffer (except where the unauthorised use or access was outside your reasonable control).

03. Subscriptions and memberships

You will be required to subscribe or become a member to access certain aspects of the website, or to access certain offers, benefits and/or functionality. You will have to create an account to access a subscription or membership package. Subscription and membership packages are available for purchase at any time via the website. You may not sublicense, deliver, transfer or assign your subscription or membership to any other person.

The subscription or membership period may at the Escape Collective's discretion be:

- An ongoing or continuously renewing period in which payment fees may be applicable only to specific transactions made by you within that period (ongoing subscription or membership);
- Limited to a trial period, and/or limited in functionality during that period, which is not capable of being renewed on the same terms (a trial subscription or membership).

Further details of subscription and membership tiers and inclusions are set out on the Escape Collective website. We may restrict the functionality of our website or your access to certain parts of the website, based on your subscription or membership tier.

You must pay your subscription or membership fees in accordance with the applicable subscription terms and must provide the Escape Collective with all the necessary information to enable us to receive such payment. It is your responsibility to ensure that such stored information in your account is current and correct at all times.

If the Escape Collective website is provided on an periodic or ongoing subscription or membership basis, the subscription or membership will continue for such time as all applicable subscription fees are paid to the Escape Collective unless it has been terminated earlier.

The Escape Collective may change your subscription or membership fees in respect of use of the website at any time by notice to you, and those fees will apply to any future subsequent transaction (for ongoing subscriptions or memberships) or subscription period (for any periodic subscriptions). If you do not accept the change your subscription will expire at the end of the then-current subscription period.

04. Classifieds

1. Introduction

Welcome to the Escape Collective Classifieds. These terms and conditions govern your use of our website. By accessing or using our site, you agree to abide by these terms. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, you may not use our site.

2. User Accounts

a. In order to access certain features of our site, you may be required to create an account. You agree to provide accurate and complete information when creating your account.

b. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account.

c. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security.

3. User Content

a. Our site allows users to post, link, store, share, and otherwise make available certain information, text, graphics, videos, or other material ("User Content"). You are solely responsible for the User Content that you post on our site.

b. By posting User Content on our site, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, and display such User Content on our site and on any other platforms operated by us.

c. You represent and warrant that you have the right to post User Content on our site and to grant the licenses described above. You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims arising out of your User Content.

4. Prohibited Activities

a. You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities:

i. Posting or transmitting any User Content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.

ii. Posting or transmitting any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, or any other form of solicitation.

iii. Interfering with or disrupting the operation of our site or any servers or networks connected to our site.

iv. Attempting to gain unauthorized access to our site, user accounts, computer systems, or networks connected to our site.

5. Intellectual Property

a. Our site and its original content, features, and functionality are owned by us and are protected by international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

b. You agree not to reproduce, modify, distribute, display, perform, or create derivative works of any part of our site without our prior written consent.

6. Limitation of Liability

a. In no event shall we be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of our site.

b. We shall not be liable for any damages arising from the conduct of any third party on our site, including without limitation, defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct.

7. Governing Law

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Australia, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

8. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these terms and conditions at any time. If a revision is material, we will try to provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

9. For Buyers

We accept advertisements from Sellers in good faith. Advertisements on the Site for Products are prepared by Sellers who are unrelated to us. We take no responsibility for the accuracy of price information or specifications of any Products advertised and/or sold. We take all reasonable precautions to only host accurate information on the Site, but we are not responsible for information uploaded or created by such third parties. You should verify such information yourself.

All other information on the Site and Products acquired through the Site are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind by us. We do not warrant or represent that the Products advertised on the Site will be suitable for any purpose, or that a Seller has any particular skill, knowledge, qualification or is legally entitled to carry on a particular business. It is your responsibility to verify any information on the Site and to investigate for yourself the condition, quality and suitability of any Products advertised on the Site.

10. For Sellers

All advertisements must relate to cycling and fall within the Site’s search criteria. We may reject advertisements that are not relevant to these areas of interest and reserve the right to cancel/and/or amend such advertisements, without notice and without refund.

We may withdraw or alter the advertisement or material you send us if it is deemed to be inappropriate, incorrect or not in keeping with the Site’s style standards and tone.

Advertisements on the Site may only include text descriptions, graphics, pictures and other content relevant to the sale of that particular Product.

Sellers must not use this Site to promote any products not permitted to be sold via the Site nor advertise hyperlinks directing Buyers to other websites.

No Seller shall be entitled to claim any loss or damage against us for the use, publication, republication, producing, reproducing, modifying, deleting, adapting or publishing any of the information provided by a Seller to us.

05. Fantasy Competition - Prize Giveaway

1. Eligibility

1.1. The prize giveaway is open to all individuals 18 years of age or older at the time of entry.

1.2. Employees, officers, and directors of Escape Collective, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and advertising and promotion agencies, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) and household members of each such employee, officer, and director are not eligible to participate in the prize giveaway.

2. Entry Period

2.1. The prize giveaway begins on 5 July, 2025 and ends on 27 July, 2025 (the “Entry Period”). Entries submitted after the Entry Period will not be eligible.

3. How to Enter

3.1. Entrants must sign up to the Escape Collective Fantasy Competition, and actively participate in the competition to be eligible.

3.2. Limit one (1) entry per person. Multiple entries by the same person will be disqualified.

4. Prize

4.1. The prizes are described in detail on the prize giveaway announcement page.

4.2. The prize is non-transferable and no substitution or cash equivalent is permitted, except by Escape Collective, who reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value.

5. Winner Selection

5.1. A Hammerhead Karoo bundle pack will be awarded to the entrant with the most points at the end of the entry period.

5.2. The odds of winning the Hammerhead Karoo bundle pack prize depend on the number of eligible entries received. The winner is determined by a game of skill.

5.3. The winner will be notified by email within 5 days of the drawing.

6. Cheating and Disqualification

6.1. Cheating is prohibited. Yes we had to put that in writing. Any attempt to manipulate the entry process or interfere with the giveaway will result in disqualification.

6.2. If Escape Collective suspects any form of cheating, we reserve the right to disqualify any entrant at our discretion without prior notice.

7. Disputes

7.1. Escape Collective reserves the right to make all final decisions regarding any disputes that arise in relation to the prize giveaway.

7.2. Any decision made by Escape Collective regarding the prize giveaway is final and binding in all respects.

8. Limitation of Liability

8.1. By participating in the prize giveaway, entrants agree to release and hold harmless Escape Collective, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising from or in connection with the prize giveaway or the acceptance, possession, or use of any prize.

9. Publicity

9.1. By entering the prize giveaway, entrants consent to the use of their name, likeness, and entry for promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.

10. Governing Law

10.1. The prize giveaway and these Terms and Conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Victoria, Australia, without giving effect to any conflict of law principles.

11. Privacy

11.1. Information collected from entrants is subject to Escape Collective’s privacy policy, which can be found at https://escapecollective.com/privacy-policy.

12. Sponsor

12.1. The prize giveaway is sponsored by Escape Collective, POC, and Zwift.

13. Shipping, Duties, and Taxes

13.1. Any costs associated with shipping, duties, and taxes for the prize are the sole responsibility of the winner.

13.2. The winner will be required to provide accurate shipping information and be responsible for any additional fees, duties, and taxes incurred during the delivery process.

14. Availability

14.1. The prize is subject to availability in terms of size, model, colour, and region.

14.2. Escape Collective will make reasonable efforts to accommodate the winner’s preferences, but reserves the right to substitute a prize of similar value if the specified prize is unavailable.

By participating in the prize giveaway, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.

06. Escape Collective Community Forum

These terms do not, but might one day, govern use of the Internet forum at https://discourse.escapecollective.com. In that event, to use the forum, you must agree to these terms with Escape Collective, the company that runs the forum.

The company may offer other products and services, under different terms. These terms apply only to use of the forum.

1. Important Terms

These terms include a number of important provisions that affect your rights and responsibilities, such as the disclaimers in Disclaimers, limits on the company’s liability to you in Limits on Liability, your agreement to cover the company for damages caused by your misuse of the forum in Responsibility for Your Use, and an agreement to arbitrate disputes in Disputes.

2. Your Permission to Use the Forum

Subject to these terms, the company gives you permission to use the forum. Everyone needs to agree to these terms to use the forum.

3. Conditions for Use of the Forum

Your permission to use the forum is subject to the following conditions:

  1. You must be at least thirteen years old.
  2. You may no longer use the forum if the company contacts you directly to say that you may not.
  3. You must use the forum in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards.

4. Acceptable Use

  1. You may not break the law using the forum.
  2. You may not use or try to use another’s account on the forum without their specific permission.
  3. You may not buy, sell, or otherwise trade in user names or other unique identifiers on the forum.
  4. You may not send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the forum, or use the forum to gather addresses or other personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.
  5. You may not automate access to the forum, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.
  6. You may not use the forum to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.
  7. You may not falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by the company.
  8. You may not hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the forum on other webpages.
  9. You may not remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the forum.
  10. You may not show any part of the forum on other websites with <iframe>.
  11. You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the forum.
  12. You may not strain infrastructure of the forum with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the forum.
  13. You may not impersonate others through the forum.
  14. You may not encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.

5. Content Standards

  1. You may not submit content to the forum that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, abusive, or hateful conduct.
  2. You may not submit content to the forum that violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
  3. You may not submit content to the forum containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.
  4. You may not submit content to the forum as a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, user name, or other unique identifier.
  5. You may not use the forum to disclose information that you don’t have the right to disclose, like others’ confidential or personal information.

6. Enforcement

The company may investigate and prosecute violations of these terms to the fullest legal extent. The company may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms.

The company reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the forum in violation of these terms, contact us immediately.

7. Your Account

You must create and log into an account to use some features of the forum.

To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid e-mail address, and to keep that address up-to-date. You may close your account at any time by e-mailing [email protected].

You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you either close your account or notify the company that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify the company immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.

The company may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the forum according to its policy for handling copyright-related takedown requests, or if the company reasonably believes that you’ve broken any rule in these terms.

8. Your Content

Nothing in these terms gives the company any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the forum, such as your account information, posts, or other content you submit to the forum. Nothing in these terms gives you any ownership rights in the company’s intellectual property, either.

Between you and the company, you remain solely responsible for content you submit to the forum. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the forum is sponsored or approved by the company. These terms do not obligate the company to store, maintain, or provide copies of content you submit, and to change it, according to these terms.

By posting, uploading, or otherwise submitting content to the Escape Collective Community forum, you retain ownership of any intellectual property rights you hold in that content. However, you grant Escape Collective a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicencable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such content in any media or distribution methods now known or later developed. This license allows Escape Collective to:

  • Display your content publicly on the forum and affiliated platforms;
  • Reformat or adapt your content for technical requirements or promotional purposes;
  • Use your content for the operation, improvement, and promotion of the forum and related services.

You represent and warrant that you have the necessary rights to grant this license for any content you submit and that your content does not violate any applicable laws or infringe the rights of others.

When content you submit is removed from the forum, whether by you or by the company, the company’s special license ends when the last copy disappears from the company’s backups, caches, and other systems. Other licenses you apply to content you submit, such as Creative Commons licenses, may continue after your content is removed. Those licenses may give others, or the company itself, the right to share your content through the forum again.

Others who receive content you submit to the forum may violate the terms on which you license your content. You agree that the company will not be liable to you for those violations or their consequences.

9. Your Responsibility

You agree to indemnify the company from legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account on the forum. Both you and the company agree to notify the other side of any legal claims for which you might have to indemnify the company as soon as possible. If the company fails to notify you of a legal claim promptly, you won’t have to indemnify the company for damages that you could have defended against or mitigated with prompt notice. You agree to allow the company to control investigation, defense, and settlement of legal claims for which you would have to indemnify the company, and to cooperate with those efforts. The company agrees not to agree to any settlement that admits fault for you or imposes obligations on you without your prior agreement.

10. Disclaimers

You accept all risk of using the forum and content on the forum. As far as the law allows, the company and its suppliers provide the forum as is, without any warranty whatsoever.

The forum may hyperlink to and integrate forums and services run by others. The company does not make any warranty about services run by others, or content they may provide. Use of services run by others may be governed by other terms between you and the one running service.

11. Limits on Liability

Neither the company nor its suppliers will be liable to you for breach-of-contract damages their personnel could not have reasonably foreseen when you agreed to these terms.

As far as the law allows, the total liability to you for claims of any kind that are related to the forum or content on the forum will be limited to $50.

12. Feedback

The company welcomes your feedback and suggestions for the forum. See the Contact section below for ways to get in touch with us.

You agree that the company will be free to act on feedback and suggestions you provide, and that the company won’t have to notify you that your feedback was used, get your permission to use it, or pay you. You agree not to submit feedback or suggestions that you believe might be confidential or proprietary, to you or others.

13. Termination

Either you or the company may end the agreement written out in these terms at any time. When our agreement ends, your permission to use the forum also ends.

The following provisions survive the end of our agreement: Your Content, Feedback, Your Responsibility, Disclaimers, Limits on Liability, and General Terms.

14. Disputes

Australian law will govern any dispute related to these terms or your use of the forum.

You and the company agree to seek injunctions related to these terms only in state or federal court in Victoria. Neither you nor the company will object to jurisdiction, forum, or venue in those courts.

Other than to seek an injunction or for claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, you and the company will resolve any dispute by binding American Arbitration Association arbitration. Arbitration will follow the AAA’s Commercial Arbitration Rules and Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes. Arbitration will happen in city_for_disputes. You will settle any dispute as an individual, and not as part of a class action or other representative proceeding, whether as the plaintiff or a class member. No arbitrator will consolidate any dispute with any other arbitration without the company’s permission.

Any arbitration award will include costs of the arbitration, reasonable attorneys’ fees, and reasonable costs for witnesses. You and the company may enter arbitration awards in any court with jurisdiction.

15. General Terms

If a provision of these terms is unenforceable as written, but could be changed to make it enforceable, that provision should be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. Otherwise, that provision should be removed.

You may not assign your agreement with the company. The company may assign your agreement to any affiliate of the company, any other company that obtains control of the company, or any other company that buys assets of the company related to the forum. Any attempted assignment against these terms has no legal effect.

Neither the exercise of any right under this Agreement, nor waiver of any breach of this Agreement, waives any other breach of this Agreement.

These terms embody all the terms of agreement between you and the company about use of the forum. These terms entirely replace any other agreements about your use of the forum, written or not.

16. Contact

You may notify the company under these terms, and send questions to the company, at [email protected].

The company may notify you under these terms using the e-mail address you provide for your account on the forum, or by posting a message to the homepage of the forum or your account page.

17. Changes

The company last updated these terms on the 1st July 2025, and may update these terms again. The company will post all updates to the forum. For updates that contain substantial changes, the company agrees to e-mail you, if you’ve created an account and provided a valid e-mail address. The company may also announce updates with special messages or alerts on the forum.

Once you get notice of an update to these terms, you must agree to the new terms in order to keep using the forum.