Terms and Conditions for Cycling & Outdoors Post Submissions

These are the terms and conditions for submitting cycling and outdoors to this website. You can submit such posts here or on the FAQ page.

What type of content can I submit to the Cycling & Outdoors section?

We wanted to make a distinct area on the site for cycling posts but felt that other outdoor activities also belonged in this section rather than the main posts section. Please observe the following when submitting a cycling or outdoor activities post.

Submitting to this section is appropriate for:

• Articles about cycling, including cycling fitness, bike ride reports, reviews of bikes or bike gear, etc.
• Likewise, with articles about hiking, paddling, etc.

This section is not for:

• Articles about PNW Nature, such as birds, etc. For those types of articles, please use the main post form, or if you want to write about a specific bird, please post a glossary term instead.
• Routes that have a GPX track. If you want to submit that, please use the routes form to submit your track. HOWEVER, you may add a route there, and then we can add it to your post so that the route is visible on your ride report.

Terms for submitting photography articles:

Cycling & Outdoors articles are subject to most of the same terms as main posts but with a few differences.

• We have the right to decline any post for any reason. Generally, when we notify you of our decision not to publish a post, it’s via an automated response that does not give a reason. Most often, the reason that we reject an off-topic post is the writing or the subject. While we will consider posting a range of subject matter, we shy away from potentially inflammatory subjects.
• Unless the post is sponsored and we’ve reached an agreement or unless you are in the partner program and eligible for potential post payment, we will not pay you for posts and will not receive payment.
• We have the right to remove content at any time. You can request to have your posts removed, but the final decision will be up to us. We often do a lot of work on editing a post pre-publication and don’t like to remove content once it’s posted. We will not remove posts that have had funds paid out in the partner program and will not pay out any funds if you request to remove your post before it has generated enough funds for payment.
• It is up to us whether we “nofollow” or “dofollow” links. If it’s a sponsored post, we will always mark sponsored links with a rel=”sponsored” tag and disclose that the post is sponsored. If you add affiliate links to your guest post, we’ll also add that tag if it doesn’t already exist for those links. We reserve the right to change the link tags for (unpaid) guest posts if we suspect that dofollowing links is causing SEO issues.
• You may be able to add your affiliate links to your post if it does not break the terms of those affiliate agreements. Such links will be marked as sponsored. You can only add affiliate links if your post provides value in another way. For instance, you’re writing an awesome review of your favorite bike bags (Hey! But we’re going to do this!) that could help someone decide. And you don’t work for the bike bag company. You might add affiliate links linking to the bike bags you mention, and we might accept this. It’s a post-to-post decision. If your post is in the partner program, we will replace any affiliate links that we can in your post with our own links and then revenue share with you as explained in the partner terms.
• Unless it is sponsored, ads will be shown alongside your post. We use contextual advertising and do not have granular control over which ads appear on our site.
• Visitors will be able to comment on your post and leave ratings. We would appreciate it if you could respond to people who leave comments on your post.
• We may or may not post photography on social media. It depends on the topic and images, in general, and we’ll decide on a case-by-case basis. You are always welcome to share your post on your own channels!
• If you submit a ride report with (for instance) a Ride With GPS route, we may post it or add it to our routes section. If you have a route with a GPX track, we’d love it if you could also use the routes form to add your route to our database.