Terms of Service

1. Who we are

nocothrive.com ("NoCoThrive", "we") is operated by Blockabit, Ltd., a Colorado limited liability company. By using the site you agree to these terms.

2. Using the site

You may use NoCoThrive to discover local businesses, events, and editorial content for personal, non-commercial purposes. You agree not to scrape, bulk-download, or republish the directory; interfere with the site's operation; or misrepresent your affiliation with any business.

3. Directory listings

Listings are compiled from publicly available information and from business owners. We work to keep them accurate, but hours, prices, offers, and availability change: always confirm with the business directly. Rating summaries reflect aggregated public review data, not our endorsement.

Business owners may claim their listing at no charge. By claiming a listing you confirm you are authorized to represent that business, and you're responsible for the accuracy of information you submit.

4. Content you provide

4.1 What this section covers

This section applies to anything you upload, submit, post, or otherwise provide to us. That includes photographs, images, logos, video, audio, business descriptions, service lists, hours, menus, event details, responses to questionnaires, and any other material. We call all of it "your content."

This section applies whether you provide your content through your listing dashboard, by email, through a form on our site, or by any other means, and whether your listing is free or paid.

4.2 The license you grant us

When you provide your content, you grant Blockabit, Ltd. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, publish, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute your content.

We may exercise this license in any medium now known or later developed, for any purpose connected to operating, providing, promoting, or improving our services. That includes:

• displaying your content on your listing and elsewhere on our websites
• including your content in articles, guides, roundups, newsletters, and other material we publish
• using your content in email we send, including marketing email
• using your content in social media posts and in advertising or promotional material for our services
• using your content on other websites we operate, including directories covering other cities or regions
• providing your content to service providers who help us operate our services
• cropping, resizing, compressing, color correcting, watermarking, or otherwise adapting your content so it displays correctly in our layouts

You are not paid for this license and we owe you nothing for exercising it.

To the extent permitted by law, you waive any moral rights, rights of attribution, and rights of integrity in your content, and you agree we may use your content without identifying you as its source. We may credit you, but we are not required to.

You keep ownership. This license does not transfer ownership of your content to us. It is what allows us to publish content you own (see §7).

4.3 What you promise us

By providing your content, you represent and warrant that:

(1) You own your content, or you have obtained all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to grant the license in section 4.2.

(2) If a photograph or video was taken by someone else, including a professional photographer, you have the right to license it to us for all the uses described in section 4.2. Paying a photographer does not by itself give you that right. If you are not sure, do not upload the image.

(3) Every identifiable person appearing in your content has agreed to their likeness being used for commercial and promotional purposes as described in section 4.2.

(4) If your content shows property you do not own, you have permission to use images of that property.

(5) Your content does not infringe any copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, right of publicity, right of privacy, or other right of any person or entity.

(6) Your content is accurate and not misleading, and does not contain anything defamatory, obscene, unlawful, or harmful.

(7) Your content does not contain malware or anything designed to interfere with our systems.

(8) You have authority to act for the business your listing describes, and nobody else's permission is needed for you to provide your content.

4.4 If someone brings a claim about your content

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Blockabit, Ltd. and its officers, members, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, judgment, settlement, cost, or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to:

• your content
• your breach of any representation or warranty in section 4.3
• any allegation that your content infringes or violates the rights of a third party

This section does not apply to a claim that arises solely from how we modified your content, where the unmodified content would not have given rise to the claim.

We will tell you promptly about any claim covered by this section. You may control the defense with counsel we reasonably approve, and we may take part in the defense at our own expense. You may not settle any claim in a way that imposes an obligation on us, or that admits fault on our behalf, without our written consent.

4.5 We can remove anything, at any time

We may refuse, remove, edit, or stop using any of your content at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice to you. We are not obligated to host, display, or keep any of your content.

We may also remove or change your content to comply with law, to respond to a takedown notice, to enforce these terms, or because we judge it unsuitable.

Removing your content does not waive any right we have under these terms.

4.6 If you delete your content or close your listing

You may delete your content or ask us to remove your listing at any time.

When you do, we will stop displaying the deleted material on your listing within a reasonable time, and we will make reasonable efforts to remove it from other places on our websites where it appears.

The license in section 4.2 continues for material we have already published, distributed, or included in other work. That covers articles, newsletters, email already sent, social media posts, advertising material, backups, and archived copies. We cannot practically recall that material and we are not obligated to try.

Sections 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 survive the closing of your listing and the ending of these terms.

4.7 We are not obligated to use your content

Nothing in these terms requires us to use, display, promote, or feature your content. Any decision to include your content in articles, marketing, or promotional placement is ours alone.

If you are on a paid tier, this section does not reduce anything we have specifically committed to provide on that tier.

4.8 Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback about our services, we may use them without restriction and without owing you anything. Feedback is not confidential.

4.9 Image processing

When you upload an image, we re-encode it and remove embedded location data and other metadata before publishing it. We do this to protect you and anyone shown in the image. Re-encoding may change the file's size, format, or quality.

4.10 Advertising claims, offers, and reviews

(a) Claims about your business. Any claim about your business, products, services, pricing, qualifications, licensure, certifications, awards, or guarantees must be truthful and substantiated when you make it (in your description, your offers, and your events).

(b) Offers and coupons. Any offer, coupon, discount, or promotion you publish must be genuine, honored on the terms stated, and must clearly disclose any material limitation, expiration, or condition. You alone are responsible for honoring offers you publish.

(c) Reviews and testimonials. You may not create, solicit, buy, or publish false or deceptive reviews or testimonials; write reviews of your own business or a competitor's; offer anything of value in exchange for a review with a particular sentiment; or attempt to suppress or misrepresent genuine reviews.

(d) Regulated businesses. If your business is subject to licensing or advertising rules (health care, legal services, financial services, real estate, childcare, cannabis, alcohol, and others), you are responsible for ensuring your content complies. We do not review your content for regulatory compliance.

4.11 Copyright complaints and repeat infringers

If you believe content on NoCoThrive infringes your copyright, follow the notice procedure at nocothrive.com/dmca, which sets out our designated agent's details and the elements a notice must contain under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), along with the counter-notice procedure.

Repeat infringers. We have adopted and reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts and listings of users who repeatedly infringe copyright. Repeated valid infringement notices against content you provide may result in removal of your listing and termination of your access, at our discretion.

4.12 Our rights

(a) We may edit, refuse, or remove. We may edit, decline to publish, or remove any of your content or listing, at any time, for any reason or no reason (including where we believe it breaches these Terms, is inaccurate, is likely to mislead consumers, or is otherwise unsuitable). We are under no obligation to monitor your content and do not undertake to do so.

(b) No endorsement. Publication of a listing is not an endorsement, verification, certification, or recommendation. It does not mean we have confirmed the accuracy of its content or the credentials, licensure, or quality of the business.

(c) Listing composition. We control the organization, categorization, and presentation of listings, including which category a listing appears in and what imagery appears where an owner has supplied none. Placeholder imagery is labeled as such.

(d) Suspension. We may suspend or end access to a dashboard or a claim where we believe a person is not authorized to act for the business, where a claim is disputed, or where these Terms have been breached.

4.13 Third-party content

NoCoThrive publishes information about businesses drawn from public sources as well as content submitted by business owners. We provide an interactive computer service and are not the publisher or speaker of information provided by others. Links to third-party sites are for convenience; we do not endorse and are not responsible for their content, products, services, or privacy practices.

5. Premium listings & offers

Premium and Spotlight are paid subscriptions. They renew automatically at the billing interval and price shown at checkout, until cancelled. Coupons and offers shown on the site are made by the listed business, which is solely responsible for honoring them. Subscriptions can be cancelled anytime; cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period.

6. Editorial & sponsored content

Our editorial is synthesized from factual sources. Content a partner has paid for is always labeled ("Partner Feature" or similar). Sponsored placement never changes a business's rating summary.

7. Intellectual property

The site's design, editorial content, and brand assets belong to Blockabit, Ltd. or its licensors. Business names, logos, and photos belong to their respective owners. Don't reuse either without permission. See §4 for the license you grant us in content you provide.

8. Disclaimers & liability

The site is provided "as is." To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties and are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the site or your dealings with any listed business. Our total liability for any claim arising from your use of the site will not exceed the amounts you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim.

9. Changes & termination

9.1 We may update these terms

We may change these terms and our privacy policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated version and refresh the effective date shown on the page.

9.2 How we tell you about changes

If you have claimed a listing with us, we will email you at the address on your account when we make a material change to these terms or to our privacy policy. A material change is one that meaningfully affects your rights or obligations, what we may do with your content, what we charge you, or how we handle your personal information.

We will give you as much notice as we reasonably can before the change takes effect. Where the law requires a specific period of notice, including for changes to what you pay for a subscription that renews automatically, we will meet that requirement.

We may also post a notice on the site or in your dashboard.

We will not email you separately about changes that do not affect your rights, such as corrections to typographical errors, formatting, or clarifications that do not change meaning. Those take effect when posted.

9.3 Your choices

If you do not agree to a change, you may close your listing. Continuing to use our services after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

Closing your listing does not entitle you to a refund except as described in §5, and does not affect section 4.6.

9.4 Changes apply going forward

Changes to these terms apply from their effective date onward. They do not change the terms that applied to something that already happened before that date.

9.5 Keeping your email current

We use the email address on your account for these notices. Keeping it accurate is your responsibility. If we send notice to that address, you have been notified, whether or not you read it.

9.6 Termination

We may suspend access that violates these terms.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, and disputes will be resolved in Colorado courts.

11. Contact

Blockabit, Ltd., a Colorado limited liability company

2519 S Shields St Ste 1K PMB 3002, Fort Collins, CO 80526

Questions about these terms, or anything else: our contact form.