Terms of service

These terms apply when you use Grooop. By creating an account you agree to them and to the privacy policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

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In short. Cycling is risky. You ride at your own risk, and Grooop is not responsible for accidents or for what other riders do. Rides are run by independent people, not by Grooop. You must be 18 or older. Read the sections below for the details.

Who runs Grooop

Grooop is run personally by Søren Christian Hornum, Trondheim, Norway. You can reach us at hello [at] grooop [dot] cc or through the contact form. For privacy questions, write to privacy [at] grooop [dot] cc.

What Grooop is

Grooop is a website where riders share planned group rides and sign up for rides by others. It is free to use. Grooop only brings people together. It does not organise rides, it is not a party to anything you agree with other riders, and it does not provide guides, coaching, transport or insurance.

Who can use it

You must be 18 or older. We ask for your date of birth when you sign up, but we cannot check it, so you promise it is true. If we find that an account belongs to someone under 18, we delete it, as the privacy policy explains.
Give accurate information and keep it up to date. One person, one account.
Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has used it.
You must confirm your email address before you can join or create rides.
Grooop is not available in Russia and North Korea. Rides cannot start there or follow a route through them, and the service is blocked for connections from there.

Ride at your own risk

Cycling is risky. Rides are run by independent people, not by Grooop, and other riders are not our employees or representatives. You are responsible for your own safety, your fitness, your bike and equipment, your insurance and for following traffic laws. We do not check rides, routes, riders or organisers. A route file, a pace label or a weather forecast on the site can be wrong or out of date, so use your own judgement and leave any ride that does not feel right. Read the community guidelines and Before you ride.

Responsibility

To the extent the law allows, Grooop is not responsible for accidents, injuries or losses that happen while riding, for what other riders or organisers do or do not do, for content posted by users, or for indirect losses such as lost time or lost plans. Nothing in these terms limits responsibility for intent or gross negligence, or any rights you have as a consumer that the law does not allow to be waived.

If you organise a ride

Describe the ride honestly: route, distance, average speed, whether the group waits, and where and when you meet.
You are responsible for how you run the ride and for the way you treat the riders who join. You can remove riders and cancel rides, and you must do so if there is a safety reason.
Grooop is for informal group rides between riders. Do not use it to advertise, sell products or services, or run a business without asking Grooop for permission first.
Only upload routes and descriptions you have the right to share.

What you post

You keep ownership of what you post, such as ride descriptions, routes, chat messages, bike details and your photo.
You give Grooop permission to store and show it as part of the service, to the people who can see it according to the privacy policy, for as long as it is on the site. This permission ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from the limited cases described in the privacy policy.
You are responsible for what you post. Make sure you have the right to post it, and do not post personal details of other people without their agreement.

What is not allowed

Anything unlawful, threatening, harassing, discriminating, sexual or violent, and anything that is misleading, such as a false ride or a false identity.
Swearing, slurs and other abusive language. Some strong words are blocked automatically, and anything that gets through can be reported and removed.
Spam, advertising, scams, and unwanted messages to other riders.
Collecting other people’s information from the site, scraping it, or using it for something other than riding together.
Trying to break or bypass the site’s security, limits or blocks, uploading harmful files, or putting an unreasonable load on the service.
Creating a new account to get around a suspension or a block.

Reports and moderation

You can report a ride, a chat message or a rider. We may remove content, remove or cancel rides, suspend or delete accounts and block an email address if these terms or the guidelines are broken, or if it is needed to keep riders safe. We will try to tell you why when we can, but we do not always have to, for example when the account is under 18 or the matter is serious. If you think we got it wrong, write to us and we will look at it again.

The service as it is

Grooop is free and still being developed. It is provided as it is, without promises that it will always be available, error free or kept as it looks now. Maps, weather and city search come from other services, which can fail or change. Links to other websites, such as the share buttons, lead to services we do not control, and their own terms apply there.

Ending your use

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. What happens to your data is described in the privacy policy. We may change or stop parts of Grooop, or the whole service, and we will tell you on the site or by email if that affects you in a way that matters.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we will tell you on the site or by email before it applies. If you keep using Grooop after that, the new terms apply to you. If you do not agree, you can delete your account.

Governing law

Norwegian law applies, and disputes go to the Norwegian courts. If you are a consumer in another country, you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer rules of the country where you live, and you may take a dispute to the courts there.

Last updated: 3 November 2026.