The Equestrian Notice Board –
Terms & Conditions of use
This document (together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy) sets out the terms and conditions of joining The Equestrian Notice Board. These Terms and Conditions give you information about us and are the legal Terms and Conditions (Terms) upon which we have agreed to provide you with a subscription or account to The Equestrian Notice Board which includes, but is not limited to, access, browsing, posting advertisements, the ability to view animals, vehicles, goods and/ or services for sale by The Equestrian Notice Board Account holders and these Terms govern your use of The Equestrian Notice Board and the products, features, services, technologies and software that we offer (The Equestrian Notice Board products) provided through our website, (including our website emails, The Equestrian Notice Board Facebook page and The Equestrian Notice Board Instagram page to you.)
These Terms will apply to you and govern the account application / contract made between you and The Equestrian Notice Board by which you subscribe for membership access to the membership only content of The Equestrian Notice Board or account application so that you can post an advertisement on The Equestrian Notice Board. Please read these Terms carefully and make sure that you understand them.
On occasion these Terms will be amended and the latest version of these Terms are available to view at any time on The Equestrian Notice Board in the Terms & Conditions tab on the website. Please regularly check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms which will apply at the time.
Information about us
- The website theequestriannoticeboard.com is operated by The Equestrian Notice Board Limited. This company is registered in England and Wales with the following details: The Equestrian Notice Board Limited – Company Number 11460427 and with our registered office at Park Farm, Grotto Lane, Over Peover, Knutsford, Cheshire WA169HJ.
- You may contact us by e-mailing us at
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2) Services
1) Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you will have access to The Equestrian Notice Board.
2)Please be aware that we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the products provided by our website. You recognise that this website is delivered to you by means of the internet and that it is well known to be an unreliable medium, that we should therefore not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
3)It is entirely your responsibility to ensure that information on our site which is provided by you is correct. We do not audit or check any member posted content/advertisement on our site for reliability and accuracy. Therefore we cannot make any representation or give any guarantee or warranty as to the completeness or accuracy of the information contained in any member posted content/advertisement (whether it be posted by you on our website and/or re-posted by us to our membership / potential membership via our website emails, The Equestrian Notice Board Facebook page or The Equestrian Notice Board Instagram page) or accept any responsibility for this as we are merely providing access to such information to you.
4)Our site is directed at people living in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or though our site is appropriate or available in other locations. If you choose to access our site from outside the United Kingdom, you do so at your own risk.
5)You may not mirror/ frame/copy any material from our site and you agree not to cause, nor knowingly allow others to cause, any nuisance, annoyance or inconvenience whether to us or any members by any means including the use of our site for continually sending unsolicited communications (also known as ‘spamming‘).
6) You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our sites are stored nor any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
7)The Equestrian Notice Board is an open website and the content is available for anyone to view, apart from the Trail Hunting News Section which is for subscribed Members only. The content, posts, advertising and comments on The Equestrian Notice Board are created by the membership for the membership. Opinions and views expressed on The Equestrian Notice Board are only the opinion / view of the individual member and The Equestrian Notice Board is not liable for any personal opinion / view expressed on The Equestrian Notice Board by a member.
3) Your Membership and the use of our Product
1)The Account Application form on this site will guide you through the process of applying for an account. Please make sure that you read and check the details of your application at each stage of the application process.
2)After you complete and submit your Account Application form you will be able to post advertisements on The Equestrian Notice Board, for which you will need to pay before they are published.
3)We may refuse applications for Accounts, or cease to provide the Services at our sole discretion.
4) You must treat your account details, including your username and password, as confidential, and not disclose them to any third party.
5) If you know or suspect that anyone knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at
6) You are responsible for any activities that appear under your membership/ profile. We shall not be liable to you or any third party for any loss or damage which may arise as a result of any failure by you to keep your password or account confidential.
7) Our site may only be used for lawful purposes. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of our site or using it to obtain products or services not properly ordered and fully paid for.
8) You may not interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of our site in any way or send unsolicited email messages (‘Spam’) to or through our site or otherwise harass the site owner, the site Admins, provider or other users.
9) We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, wether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our sole opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.
10) By using The Equestrian Notice Board you will be connected to other account holders who offer animals for sale, products both new and second hand, services and advice which may be of interest to you. If you purchase any animal, product or take any advice or assistance from an account holder of The Equestrian Notice Board this will be an arrangement only between yourself and the other party. The Equestrian Notice Board does not act as agent to introduce services and does not accept any liability for products/ animals sold or for advice or assistance given by one website user to another on any matter whatsoever. If users of The Equestrian Notice Board choose to purchase animals/ products / take advice or assistance or attend an equestrian or fundraising event from another member/ members the arrangement is strictly between the member and the service provider/ vendor/ event organisers.
11)The purpose of The Equestrian Notice Board is to put the online equestrian community residing in the United Kingdom in touch with each other so that they can Buy/ Sell/ Find equestrian related items from each other and they can publicise equestrian events.
12) The Equestrian Notice Board is about all things equestrian / equestrian related only. Account holders who post up / advertise information which is not related to this equestrian world in any way at all will have these advertisements removed by The Equestrian Notice Board Admin team and they may, on occasion if they are a repeat offender, be removed from holding an account on the site by The Equestrian Notice Board Admin team and their annual subscription fee, if it has been paid, will NOT be refunded.
13)The Equestrian Notice Board experience will vary from member to member. There are various ways to put across your point of view / your item for sale or publicising your event on The Equestrian Notice Board from posting photographs and videos, sharing stories and posts from social media that you use, your description of the item for sale. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that information on our site which is provided by you is correct. We do not monitor any user posted content on our site for reliability and accuracy, including when we re-post member advertisements to the membership via website emails or posts on The Equestrian Notice Board Facebook page or posts on The Equestrian Notice Board Instagram page. Therefore we cannot make any representation or give any guarantee or warranty as to the completeness of the information contained in any user posted content or accept any responsibility for this as we are merely providing access to such information to you.
14)Tackling harmful conduct and Anti- Hunting, Anti-Equestrian sentiments / individuals so that we can protect and support The Equestrian Notice Board community. Feeling safe in a website community is an important way of building community. Harmful, rude, aggressive conduct towards other users of The Equestrian Notice Board is not acceptable and will result in the offending user being removed from The Equestrian Notice Board account holders / subscribers by The Equestrian Notice Board Admin team and the offender’s annual subscription fee will NOT be refunded. We ask that all members of The Equestrian Notice Board contact The Admin Team at The Equestrian Notice Board to report such behaviour or to report suspected Anti-hunting / Anti-Equestrian Members. Members who post up views/ advertisements of a sexual, racist, violent, fraudulent, un-lawful, misleading, discriminatory, fraudulent or anti-hunting nature will be removed from The Equestrian Notice Board, their advetisement will be taken down and The Equestrian Notice Board is not liable in any way for their advertisement and the sentiments expressed - ownership and liability for the view expressed/ advertisement lies entirely with the account holder who posted it. Any account holder who is reported as being unsupportive of hunting / the equestrian world will be immediately removed from holding an account by The Equestrian Notice Board Admin team and their annual membership fee will NOT be refunded.
15) Members’ Commitments to The Equestrian Notice Board and our community. We provide these services to you and other website users. In return we need you to make the following commitments: –
i)Use the same name that you use in everyday life.
ii)Provide accurate information about yourself.
iii)Create only one account for yourself (your own) and one separate account (if required) for your business.
>Never share your password to The Equestrian Notice Board, or give access to your The Equestrian Notice Board account to anyone else or transfer your account to anyone else.
16) By submitting an account application form online, you are deemed to have signed the application. The Equestrian Notice Board reserves the right to refuse any application for an account on The Equestrian Notice Board.
17) You may resign from The Equestrian Notice Board at any time by using the unsubscribe button on The Equestrian Notice Board website emails or by emailing
18) How The Equestrian Notice Board communicates with you - when you apply to join The Equestrian Notice Board you provide us with your personal details, including your email. By giving us this information you are agreeing that The Equestrian Notice Board can contact you by email with information related to horses for sale, services, products, posts and events.
You may, at any time, update and amend your preferred method(s) of communication, opt out of receiving communications from The Equestrian Notice Board by unsubscribing from our emails or change your contact details by emailing
4) Post / Advert Content, Authority and Agreement
1)To apply for an account and be eligible to use our product you must (i) have full legal capacity to enter into a contract; (ii) if you are an individual, be at least 18 years old. You further represent and warrant to us that you have authority to bind any business on whose behalf you use our site or otherwise access the services.
2)These Terms and any document expressly referred to in them constitute the entire agreement between you and us and supplant and revoke all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between us, whether written or oral, relating to it’s subject matter.
3) You acknowledge that in activating your account you do not rely on any statement, representation, assurance or warranty (wether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these Terms or any document expressly referred to in them.
4) You and we agree that neither of us shall have any claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation or negligent misstatement based on any statement in these Terms.
5)On activating your account to our site you agree to the following:
1)By publishing material on our site you warrant that:
a) you have all the required consents, licenses or permission to use the material;
b) the material complies with all applicable laws and regulations in the UK and in any country from which it is posted;
c)the material is not:
i)defamatory, obscene, offensive, threatening, hateful, abusive or inflammatory;
ii)made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
iii)does not infringe any intellectual property rights of any other person or entity.
iv)promoting discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
v)false, fraudulent, misleading or inaccurate, including giving the impression they emanate from us (or any other person or company), if this is not the case;
d) you either own or are legally entitled to sell each item listed and that the sale of such item is legal in the jurisdiction in which the buyer is resident and such item is not counterfeit or stolen;
2)whilst we do not monitor the site in order to ascertain wether or not you have acted in accordance with the above obligations if we ascertain that you are in breach of any of the terms of this 5.1, we may, in our absolute discretion, take any such action as we deem appropriate, including (but not limited to): removing any content uploaded by you to our site; issuing a formal warning to you; suspending or terminating you access to our site; reporting your actions to the appropriate authorities; or taking legal action against you. For the avoidance of doubt YOU MUST OWN OR HAVE A LICENSE TO USE ANY AND ALL IMAGES THAT YOU USE WITHIN YOUR ADVERTS AND POSTS.
3)we are not responsible for verifying the identity of any users nor are we responsible for the purchase of any products, services, animals or vehicles and you accept that any purchase is at your own risk and are responsible for obtaining any appropriate professional advice required prior to purchasing;
4) in the event that you have any right, claim or action against any other user/ member arising from that member’s use of our site, you agree to pursue such right, claim or action independently of and without recourse to us, and you release us from all claims, liability, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including legal fees, known and unknown, arising from or in any way connected with such right, claim or action;
5)and you shall indemnify us in full against all liabilities, costs, expenses, damages and losses (included but not limited to any direct, indirect or consequential losses, loss of profit, loss of reputation and all interest, penalties and legal costs (calculated on a full indemnity basis)and all other professional costs and expenses) suffered or incurred by us arising out of or in connection with and breach of 5.1 – 5.4 above.
6) License and Intellectual Property
1) Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-propriety.
2)You retain all of your ownership rights in your content.
3)We have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy.
4) The Equestrian Notice Board Limited, our logo, web address and company name shall not be used without our prior written consent.
5)All intellectual property rights, and all other rights including goodwill, whether now known or created in the future, in the content provided through our product is our property and shall vest in us.
6) If you breach the terms of this clause 6, we may, in our absolute discretion, terminate your account and your right to use our site immediately and in any event you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made and your annual sunscription fee will not be refunded.
7) Other Sites
1)When you visit or purchase from a website affiliated with us or linked to The Equestrian Notice Board, your use of such other site is at your own risk and you will be subject to the terms and conditions of use of that other site (including, without limitation, such website’s privacy policy).We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and in no way make any endorsement, warranty, or representation relating to, the content of any other such website, and will not be responsible or assume any liability for the actions, products, services or content of any such other site or its related businesses.
8) Other Important Terms
1)This contract is between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms, whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.
2)Each of the clauses of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining clauses will remain in full force and effect.
3) If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
4) If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
5) In the event that The Equestrian Notice Board goes into liquidation, annual membership fees and advertising payments will not be refunded.
We collect and use your personal data in order to provide the services described above. You can read in detail about how we collect and use your personal information in our Privacy Policy. Please click here to read our Privacy Policy.
By using The Equestrian Notice Board’s website, you consent to and agree to comply with the Terms outlined above.