Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated: 24 May 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the rules for using LocalRiding.com. By using the website you agree to comply with this policy together with our Terms of Use.

Permitted Use

You may use LocalRiding.com for personal, non-commercial purposes — reading our guides, sharing articles with credit, and contacting us with genuine enquiries.

Prohibited Activities

You must not:

• Use the site in any way that breaches UK law or any applicable regulation.
• Submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, abusive, threatening, obscene or hateful.
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, our servers or any connected database.
• Introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other malicious code.
• Conduct any denial-of-service or distributed denial-of-service attack.
• Scrape, crawl or otherwise extract content at a rate that disrupts service for other users.
• Republish, sell or redistribute our content without our prior written permission.
• Use the contact form to send spam, marketing material or fraudulent messages.
• Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation.
• Promote unsafe practices that endanger horse welfare or rider safety.

Content You Submit

Any content you send us (for example via the contact form) must be your own, accurate, and not infringe the rights of any third party. We reserve the right to refuse or remove any submission at our discretion.

Reporting Misuse

If you become aware of any breach of this policy, please report it to debbie@localriding.com.

Consequences of Breach

We may, at our discretion, take any action we consider appropriate in response to a breach, including issuing a warning, blocking your IP address, removing content, and reporting the matter to the relevant authorities. We may also pursue legal action where appropriate.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be published on this page.