These are the terms that apply when you read BrakeTireGuide. We have kept them readable, because terms nobody can get through protect nobody: you should finish this page knowing exactly where you stand.
Ownership
We wrote the car brake and tire maintenance content here and we keep the rights to it. Personal use is the point of publishing; lifting an entire page for another site is not personal use. A quoted sentence with attribution is fine.
Availability
The site is offered as it is. There is no uptime guarantee, no promise that a given article will stay online, and no commitment to keep any page unchanged. Articles get corrected, rewritten and occasionally withdrawn, and that is a feature of maintaining a site rather than a breach of anything.
Data
Data handling is dealt with elsewhere: the privacy policy and the cookie policy apply alongside these terms.
Permitted use
- You may read it, print it, and link to it, without asking.
- You may not harvest it in bulk, by hand or by script, for use elsewhere.
- You may not republish it under another name or in another language.
- You may not probe, overload or otherwise attack the site.
Brand names
Any trademark referred to remains the property of its owner. Naming a product is how you write usefully about it; it does not mean the maker endorses us or we represent them.
The limits of what you read here
This is a publication, not a consultation. What you read is researched and written in good faith, but it is general by nature and no substitute for someone assessing your own case.
How reliable the numbers are
We verify before publishing and we still cannot certify that a value transfers to your setup unchanged. Read every number as a place to start.
Your contributions
Comments, where enabled, remain your words. Posting one gives us leave to publish it on the page. Moderation is not a negotiation: spam, abuse and self-promotion go.
Liability
Our liability is limited as far as the law permits, and no further. Acting on general information published for a general audience carries a risk that stays with the reader, but statutory rights are untouched by that.
External sites
We link to outside sites when they are worth reading. We do not control them and we are not responsible for what they publish.
How the site is funded
How the site pays for itself, advertising and affiliate links, is set out in full on the affiliate disclosure page rather than summarised here.
Which law applies
Disputes are governed by United States law. Severability applies: one invalid clause leaves the rest intact. Where consumer law grants a right that cannot be contracted away, it prevails over this page.
The whole agreement
This page and the two policies it references are the full agreement between us. There is no side arrangement, and no conversation elsewhere alters what is written here.
If these terms change
If these terms are updated, the text on this page is the one in force from that moment. Using the site afterwards is taken as acceptance, and the date at the top tells you when the last revision happened.
Getting in touch
Anything unclear? Use the contact page.