Brakeaway.bike Limited Liability Disclosure

Last Updated: December 1, 2025

By using Brakeaway.bike ("Brakeaway," "we," "our," or "the Service"), you acknowledge and agree to the following Limited Liability Disclosure:

1. Age Requirement

The Brakeaway service is intended only for individuals 18 years of age or older.
By accessing or using the Service, you confirm that you are at least 18.

2. No Guarantee of Safety

Brakeaway provides route analysis, safety insights, and recommendations based on public, historical, and third-party data. These insights are estimates only and do not reflect real-time conditions.

Brakeaway cannot guarantee:

that any route is safe,
that any route is free of hazards,
that traffic conditions will be predictable,
or that use of the Service will prevent accidents, injuries, or death.

3. Cycling Involves Serious Risk

Cycling inherently involves significant dangers, including but not limited to:

collisions with vehicles, cyclists, or pedestrians,
road defects, debris, potholes, construction zones,
limited visibility, weather hazards, equipment failure,
loss of control, falls, and impact injuries.

These risks can result in severe injury, permanent disability, or death.

By using Brakeaway, you voluntarily assume all risks associated with cycling, whether or not identified by the Service.

4. User Responsibility

You agree that you alone are responsible for:

choosing your routes,
judging safety conditions,
following traffic laws and local regulations,
wearing proper protective equipment,
riding carefully and attentively.

Brakeaway is a reference tool—not a navigation system—and should not be your sole source of safety or routing decisions.

5. No Professional or Safety Advice

Information provided by Brakeaway does not constitute professional safety advice, engineering recommendations, legal guidance, or traffic instruction.

The Service provides informational data only. You are responsible for using independent judgment in all cycling decisions.

6. Limitations of Data

Brakeaway may rely on:

public datasets,
third-party mapping APIs,
user-submitted routes,
historical or non-real-time information.

These data sources may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or unavailable. Brakeaway does not control or guarantee the accuracy of third-party data.

7. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Brakeaway, its owners, creators, partners, and contributors are not liable for:

injuries, accidents, damages, losses, or death,
direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages,
property damage or equipment loss,
reliance on route safety scores, recommendations, or analysis.

Your use of the Service is entirely at your own risk.

8. Agreement

By using Brakeaway, you acknowledge that:

you have read and understood this Limited Liability Disclosure,
you accept all associated risks of cycling,
you release Brakeaway and its affiliates from liability to the fullest extent allowed by law.

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