In short :
 

The content published in The Carrot Post, including all articles, columns, and satirical commentary, is intended solely for entertainment and satirical purposes.

All views, opinions, and depictions presented within this publication are fictional and not those of the respective authors and contributors and are not intended to reflect or represent the views or positions of any individuals, organisations, or entities mentioned.

While every effort is made to ensure the factual accuracy and integrity of the content, The Carrot Post does not guarantee or warrant the correctness, completeness, or applicability of any information presented.
Content is satirical and may contain exaggerations or fictionalised portrayals, and readers are encouraged to exercise discretion and judgment when interpreting the material.

The Carrot Post and its contributors disclaim any and all liability for actions, damages, or consequences resulting from the interpretation, reliance upon, or use of any content provided in this publication. This includes, but is not limited to, any legal, financial, or reputational damage, and extends to all countries where the publication may be read, including but not limited to the United States and European Union member states.

The publication does not endorse or take responsibility for any third-party products, services, organisations, or individuals referenced or depicted within the content. Additionally, The Carrot Post does not claim ownership of external content provided by guest contributors, whose views and opinions are their own.
 

This website and its associated social media pages publish satirical and parody content related to equestrian sports, including but not limited to famous riders, governing bodies, competition rules, and horse welfare. All articles are fictional, exaggerated, or humorously critical and should not be interpreted as factual reporting.

No Affiliation or Endorsement
This website is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to any individuals, organizations, or governing bodies mentioned. Any similarities to real persons, events, or institutions are either purely coincidental or used in a satirical context.

Fair Use & Parody Protection
Our content falls under fair use, parody, and satire protections as recognized by freedom of speech laws in many jurisdictions. The intent is to entertain, inform, and provoke thought—not to mislead, defame, or cause harm.

AI-Generated & Stock Images
Images used on this site are either AI-generated or sourced from stock libraries and may not depict real people, events, or locations. Any resemblance to real individuals is unintentional unless used for satirical or editorial commentary.

Comment Policy
We welcome user comments but reserve the right to remove content that is defamatory, abusive, or otherwise violates platform guidelines. The views expressed in comments do not reflect those of this website or its creators.

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By reading The Carrot Post, you acknowledge and agree to the  terms and disclaimers.

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The Long version :

1. Introduction

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

1.4 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of the WIX Private Policy.

1.5 GDPR and Privacy: We don't hold any of your information on our servers, if you contact us via email, your email address will be held on our database. The Carrot Post will not sell or use your information for any other purpose other than contacting you.
1.6 The Carrot Post uses invented names in all of its stories, except in some cases where public figures/entities are being satirised. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental. The Carrot Post is not intended for readers under 13 years of age.

2. Copyright notice

2.1 Copyright (c) 2025 The Carrot Post

2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

3. Licence to use website

3.1 You may:

(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(c) print pages from our website;

(d) stream audio and video files from our website; and

(e) use [our website services] by means of a web browser,

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

3.3 You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website) unless it is published with a credit to The Carrot Post;

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c) show any material from our website in public;

(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e) redistribute material from our website.

3.6 Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may share our articles in print and electronic form on social media with a credit to The Carrot Post.

3.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

4. Acceptable use

4.1 You must not:

(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm or other malicious computer software;

(d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

(e) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means;

(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or

(g) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).

4.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

4.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

5. Your content licence

5.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you freely submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

5.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media.

5.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 5.2.

5.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 5.2.

5.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

5.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.

5.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

6. Your content: rules

6.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

6.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

6.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;

(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;

(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i) be blasphemous;

(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l) depict violence, in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;

(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p) constitute spam;

(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

7. Limited warranties

7.1 The Carrot Post is a satire website. 
We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or

(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

7.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

7.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

8. Limitations and exclusions of liability

8.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

8.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 8 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 8.1; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty.

8.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

8.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

8.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

8.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

8.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

8.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
8.9 Our site is a satirical site.  The articles are satire. All characters and other entities appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, dead or alive, or other real-life entities, past or present, is purely coincidental.
8.10 To the extent permitted under applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless The Carrot Post and its affiliates, from any and all losses, damages, expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, rights, claims, actions of any kind, and injury (including death) arising out of or relating to your use of the Service, any User Content, your connection to the Service, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of another. 

9. Breaches of these terms and conditions

9.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;

(e) contact any or all your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;

(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.

9.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

10. Variation

10.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

10.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions. / We will give you written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our website.

11. Assignment

11.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

11.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

12. Severability

12.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

12.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

13. Third party rights

13.1 These terms and conditions are for our benefit and your benefit, and these terms and conditions are not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

13.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

14. Entire agreement

14.1 These terms and conditions, together with [our privacy and cookies policy], shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

15. Law and jurisdiction

15.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

15.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

16. Our details

16.1 This website is owned and operated by The Carrot Post and hosted by WIX.com.