Terms of Use

Cyclinghub.scot Terms of Use

Summary of this page

This page explains the terms and conditions for using cyclinghub.scot. It covers your rights and responsibilities, account use, data handling, and our liability.

For privacy information, please visit Cycling Scotland’s Privacy Policy pages.

Definitions

• Site: This refers to www.cyclinghub.scot, an online database with course booking and certification functionality.
• Supplier: This refers to Cycling Scotland, who owns www.cyclinghub.scot
• User: This refers to all users of the site who hold and manage a personal account.   It includes users who are booking to attend, or have attended a course on the site, and users who have registered and delivered courses on the site.
• Provider: This refers to the organisation or individual responsible for listing and delivering a course registered on the site.  
• Candidate: This refers to users who are booking spaces for, or participated in, courses listed on the site.

Last updated: May 2026

The website www.cyclinghub.scot is a training database and class registration service provided by Cycling Scotland, a Scottish Charity, SC029760, regulated by the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) with registered office address at 160 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2HG.

By using or accessing www.cyclinghub.scot (the "Site"), users of the Site agree to and are subject to the following terms and conditions (the "Terms") as well as our Privacy Policy.

Please read these Terms carefully. If you do not agree to these Terms, you are not authorised to access or use the Site. The Terms constitute a formal agreement between you ("you" or "your") and Cycling Scotland ("Supplier", "we", "us" or "our"). You are not authorised to use the services offered via the Site unless you are 16 or over.

1. The Site, the service and our role

The site is a database that enables course providers, including tutors, instructors and training coordinators, to schedule and list their classes, and for candidates to register and keep record of their certificates.

At times, Cycling Scotland acts as the Provider, and will manage and list classes for which we directly organise and commission.  

For classes delivered by other providers, listed on cyclinghub.scot, Cycling Scotland is not involved in communication between providers and candidates, even though we may provide tools that relate to a booking and certification processes.

The accuracy of the class information listed on the cyclinghub.scot is solely the responsibility of the delivery provider and the class candidate, and it is the provider’s responsibility to verify this information.

Cycling Scotland is not responsible for the content and materials posted by the other providers using the site.

2.  Access to the Site

We reserve the right in our sole discretion to deny any user access to the Site and its services without prior notice and to remove any listings or other content that do not comply with these Terms or that, in our judgment, are not suitable for the Site.

3.  Our role in operation and management

Providers are responsible for the classes they list on the site, including the facilities they use. We provide a platform to connect Providers with candidates for the booking of classes at identified facilities. As such, the responsibility for the operation and management of the classes rests with the specific Provider.

4.  Provider responsibilities for compliance

Providers are solely responsible for ensuring their compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines. This includes, but not limited to, ensuring that they meet health and safety standards, possess the necessary certifications; and have appropriate operating procedures, to deliver classes listed on the Site.  Providers should be aware that any course listed on the site may be subject to external quality assurance by Cycling Scotland, with prior notice given. Cycling Scotland is not responsible for the courses listed on this site by other providers.

5.  Unauthorised uses of the Site

Permission to use the Site does not include any right of collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Site without our prior written permission.

This restriction does not apply to registered Providers accessing and downloading their operational data as permitted by the Site's functionalities.

6.  Unauthorised uses of the Site

Unauthorised uses of the Site also include, without limitation, those listed below. You agree not to do any of the following, unless otherwise previously authorised by Cycling Scotland in writing:

6.1. Make any commercial use (other than by registered Providers) of the Site or any of the content on the Site.

6.2. Use the Site to post or transmit information that is in any way false, fraudulent, or misleading, including making any booking or inquiry under false pretences, or taking any action that may be considered phishing or that would give rise to criminal or civil liability.

6.3.  Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, insulting or indecent material.

6.4.  Use any third-party material or content without that third party’s consent or otherwise plagiarise or infringe the rights of Cycling Scotland or a third party including, without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, moral right or any other personal or proprietary right.

6.5.  Do anything on the Site in any way that, in our sole discretion, adversely affects or could adversely affect the performance or function of the Site or any other system used by us or the Site.

7.  Our Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is available at cycling.scot/privacy-policy

7.1. Your privacy and personal information are important to us. Any personal information that you provide to us will be dealt with in line with our Privacy Policy, which explains what personal information we collect from you, and how and why we collect, store, use and share such information. It also details your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a query or complaint about the use of your personal information.

7.2.  When candidates sign up to a class, relevant data from their user profile will be shared with the provider of that class for the purposes of communication and certification.  Users have direct access to edit the information they provide as part of their user profile.

7.3.  Providers must only use the information relating to candidates in their classes for the specific purposes of communicating relevant class information, and for updating awards and certificates.

7.4.  Candidates and Providers shall always comply with all Data Protection Laws in connection with the exercise and performance of its respective rights and obligations under these Terms and the processing of the Shared Personal Data.

7.5. Cycling Scotland reserves the right to disable any user identification, code or password at any time if, in our opinion, you have failed to comply with any provision of these Terms.

8. Responsibility for user-contributed content

8.1 We do not approve content posted on the Site by Providers or other users (collectively, "user-contributed content") and we are not responsible for user-contributed content.

We do, however, reserve the right to decline to permit the posting on the Site, or to remove anything from the Site that is in breach of these Terms.

Finally, we reserve the right (but do not assume the obligation) to edit a Provider's content to ensure the content complies with the Site’s formatting requirements.

8.2 All class listings are submitted by the Provider and are the sole responsibility of the Provider. Providers are solely responsible for keeping their information up-to-date on the Site.

8.3 Cycling Scotland will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of the Site.

8.4 Cycling Scotland reserves the right to disclose any information as permitted by prevailing laws to satisfy any law, regulation or government request if we determine, in our sole discretion, that we are required to respond to, or if it would be in our interests, to respond to such request.

9. Links to third-party sites

9.1. This Site may contain links and signposting to other internet sites and resources. Links to and from the Site to other third-party sites, maintained by third party, do not constitute an endorsement by us of any third party, the third-party sites, or the contents thereof.

We are not responsible for such third-party sites or resources and your use of such sites and resources will not be governed by these Terms.

10. Changes to the Site or these Terms and conditions:

10.1.  Cycling Scotland may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Site at any time, including the availability of any Site features, database, or content, where we have legal, commercial or technical reasons to do so. We may also impose limits on certain features or services or restrict your access to all or any part of the Site without notice or liability for similar reasons.

We will use reasonable endeavours to notify you in advance whenever possible.

In cases where immediate changes are required for compliance or urgent technical reasons, we will notify you as soon as possible, providing details of the change and the reasons for the expedited implementation.

10.2. Variations to these Terms: We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to amend these Terms, in whole or in part, at any time. Notification of any amendment will be posted on the Site and will be effective immediately.

If you disagree with any amendment to these Terms, you can choose to edit or delete your account.

10.3. Entire agreement: These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the use of the Site, and supersede any prior agreement between us and you regarding your use of the Site.

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