Terms and Conditions

These Terms of Use and Community Guidelines apply to all websites ("Sites") operated by Scott Inc, L.L.C. including without limitation, scottsoutdoors.com and facebook.com/scottsoutdoorssports.

Scotts Outdoors provides various online social and community destinations for the outdoor enthusiast as a source for outdoor services and information presented in a positive and interesting environment. These online destinations give the user a way to connect with Scotts Outdoors and other outdoor enthusiast, share stories, give and get advice, learn new techniques from Pros and Peers, hear about the hottest outdoor gear, be an outdoor conservation advocate.

By accessing or using these Sites, you are deemed to have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and Community Guidelines regardless of whether you are a visitor to these Sites or a registered member. These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the services offered by Scott's Outdoors to the extent of any conflict between Scotts Outdoors Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, these Terms of Use shall control.

Please note Visitors and Members shall collectively be referred to as "User(s)". The right to use these Sites or any product or service offered by them, is personal to you and is not transferable to any other person or entity. We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use and Community Guidelines at any time, and you agree to be bound by any such changes. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features or functionality that augment or enhance these Sites shall be subject to these Terms of Use and Community Guidelines conditions. Your use of these Sites constitutes your agreement to these Terms of Use and Community Guidelines.

Scotts Outdoors moderators will not look at every post, photo, video, or comment made on these Sites nor do we guarantee the integrity of every member on the Site. These Sites are not responsible if information made available on these Sites is not accurate, complete or current. We reserve the right to modify the contents of these Sites at any time (including removing postings, lock postings, warn members, suspend accounts, and/or cancel accounts without prior notice), but we have no obligation to update any information on these Sites.

Our Sites and the Community Areas including such content as text, videos, pictures, audio, graphics, music and sound is protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under the copyright laws of the United States and other countries and we have all rights therein. Each third party content provider owns the copyright in content original to it. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law all individual articles, blogs, videos, content and other elements comprising our Sites are also copyrighted works, and we (subject to the rights of our licensors and licensees under applicable agreements, understandings and arrangements) have all rights therein. We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, these Sites with or without notice.

You shall be solely responsible for your own submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. You hereby grant to these Sites and its affiliates the worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any message posted in the Community Areas.

You are solely responsible for reading and complying with any supplemental terms and/or rules, including, without limitation, those for any contests, sweepstakes, promotions or other additional features made available on the Site.

By submitting your email address in connection with content you have submitted such as rating and review, your Questions or Answer, you agree that Scotts Outdoors and its third party service providers may use your email address to contact you about the status of your review, Questions or Answers and other administrative purposes.

By submitting any content to Scotts Outdoors, you represent and warrant that:

  • you are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights thereto;
  • all "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
  • all content that you post is accurate;
  • you are at least 13 years old; and that
  • use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.

These Sites, including all of its contents, such as text, images, and the HTML or other code used ("Materials") are These Sites, including all of its contents, such as text, images, and the HTML or other code used ("Materials") are property or that of our suppliers or licensors and are protected by patent, trademark and/or copyright under United States and/or foreign laws. Except as otherwise provided herein, you may not use, download, upload, copy, print, display, perform, reproduce, publish, modify, delete, add to, license, post, transmit, or distribute any Materials from these Sites, in whole or in part, for any public or commercial purpose without our prior, specific written permission. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access our Sites and to use the information and services contained here.

In turn, you grant us a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free license to use any content you post on these Sites, or through these Sites, for any purpose, subject to the express terms of this Agreement.

By accessing the Site, you agree to the following rules of conduct. You or third parties acting on your behalf are not allowed to frame these Sites or use frames or utilize framing techniques or technology to enclose any content included on these Sites without Scott's Outdoors express written consent. Additionally, you may not utilize any site content in any meta tags or any other "hidden text" techniques or technologies without Scott's Outdoors express written consent. You agree and warrant that you shall not distribute, submit or publish any content:

  • that is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
  • that infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
  • that violates any law, statue, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);that is, or may reasonably be considered to be, illegal, obscene, sexually explicit, insulting, vulgar, defamatory, libelous, hateful, abusive, excessively violent, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;

You agree to not abuse the variety of tools Scotts Outdoors provides for member interaction for the purpose of spamming users. We look for certain user behaviors to determine whether an account is spamming and will terminate the account of the abuser.

You agree to not impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity.

You understand the Site is available for your personal, non-commercial use only, and you agree not to use the Site for commercial activities or sales. Additionally, you may not ask members for help in the form of money, gifts, or donations.

You agree to not to upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available unsolicited or unauthorized advertising. Pyramid schemes and cash gifting scams are illegal and posting information about these schemes anywhere on Scotts Outdoors sites is prohibited.

You agree to not use the Site in any unlawful manner or otherwise inconsistent with all applicable laws and regulations or in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site.
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You agree to not submit any content to the Scotts Outdoors Ratings and Reviews and the Customer Outdoor Answers for which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any third party or include any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers.

You will not attempt to interfere in any way with By accessing the Site, you agree to the following rules of conduct. You or third parties acting on your behalf are not allowed to frame these Sites or use frames or utilize framing techniques or technology to enclose any content included on these Sites without Scott's Outdoors express written consent. Additionally, you may not utilize any site content in any meta tags or any other "hidden text" techniques or technologies without Scott's Outdoors express written consent. You agree and warrant that you shall not distribute, submit or publish any content:

  • that is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
  • that infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
  • that violates any law, statue, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);that is, or may reasonably be considered to be, illegal, obscene, sexually explicit, insulting, vulgar, defamatory, libelous, hateful, abusive, excessively violent, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;

You agree to not abuse the variety of tools Scotts Outdoors provides for member interaction for the purpose of spamming users. We look for certain user behaviors to determine whether an account is spamming and will terminate the account of the abuser.

You agree to not impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity.

You understand the Site is available for your personal, non-commercial use only, and you agree not to use the Site for commercial activities or sales. Additionally, you may not ask members for help in the form of money, gifts, or donations.

You agree to not to upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available unsolicited or unauthorized advertising. Pyramid schemes and cash gifting scams are illegal and posting information about these schemes anywhere on Scotts Outdoors sites is prohibited.

You agree to not use the Site in any unlawful manner or otherwise inconsistent with all applicable laws and regulations or in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site.

You agree to not submit any content to the Scotts Outdoors Ratings and Reviews and the Customer Outdoor Answers for which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any third party or include any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers.

You will not attempt to interfere in any way with By accessing the Site, you agree to the following rules of conduct. You or third parties acting on your behalf are not allowed to frame these Sites or use frames or utilize framing techniques or technology to enclose any content included on these Sites without Scotts Outdoors express written consent. Additionally, you may not utilize any site content in any meta tags or any other "hidden text" techniques or technologies without Scotts Outdoors express written consent. You agree and warrant that you shall not distribute, submit or publish any content:

  • that is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
  • that infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
  • that violates any law, statue, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);that is, or may reasonably be considered to be, illegal, obscene, sexually explicit, insulting, vulgar, defamatory, libelous, hateful, abusive, excessively violent, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;

You will not engage in conduct constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense giving rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any city, state, national or international law or regulation or which fails to comply with accepted Internet protocol.

Scotts Outdoors reserves the right to immediately terminate your account without further notice in the event that, in its judgment, you violate these Terms of Use and Community Guidelines. Accounts that are inactive for more than one year may be removed without further notice.

Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Scotts Outdoors will investigate occurrences and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting the user or users who are involved in such violations. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the App, including, without limitation, the following:

  1. Accessing data not intended for such user or logging into a server or account which user is not authorized to access;
  2. Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;
  3. Attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to Scott's Outdoors sites, overloading, "flooding", "mailbombing" or "crashing"; or sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services;
  4. Reverse engineering, reconstructing, copying, preparing derivative works or otherwise imitating the App.
  5. Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting; or
  6. Attempting to obtain information or account access from or about any user, host or network via any means including, without limitation, impersonation, false representations, "phishing" or "pharming" or misrepresentation.
  7. We are not responsible for the content users post on these Sites. You accept sole responsibility for any material you may submit via the Site including photos, messages, text, information, videos, User profiles (such as your name and User profile image or avatar), and any other content that you upload, share, publish or display on or through the Site. You may not upload to, post, transmit, distribute or share User Generated Content or "UGC" on this Site that you did not create or that you do not have permission to share. You may not post or upload to these Sites any content that (i) is confidential, proprietary, false, fraudulent, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasion of privacy or publicity rights, infringing on intellectual property rights, illegal or otherwise objectionable; (ii) may constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or otherwise create liability or violate any law; or (iii) may contain software viruses, political campaigns, mass mailings, chain letters, or spam. You warrant that any UGC you post, transmit, or share is owned by you or you have obtained permission for its use. The UGC does not reflect our opinions or views and under no circumstances are we liable in any way for UGC, including, but not limited to, errors or omissions or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of or reliance on any UGC. You understand and agree we have the right, but no obligation to archive or to not publish, or make Forum discussion "Read Only", or to modify or remove Site Content or UGC (without notice or liability) if we, in our discretion, consider the UGC to be in violation of these Terms of Use and Community Guidelines or otherwise harmful to these Sites.
  8. By posting UGC to these Sites, you understand and agree you grant Scott's Outdoors and its affiliates an unrestricted, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, translate and distribute such UGC for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, throughout the world in any media. Scotts Outdoors does not assert any ownership over your UGC. You understand and agree your UGC is as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to the Site in these Terms, you retain full ownership of all your UGC and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your UGC. By using these Sites, you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all the rights to the content, and that you will be responsible for paying all royalties and other fees that might be due to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Scotts Outdoors for all claims resulting from content you supply. You are not entitled to any compensation for UGC you post on these Sites unless otherwise agreed upon. Scotts Outdoors does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Scott's Outdoors to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Scotts Outdoors reserves the right to remove or tor refuse to post any submission for any reason.
  9. As between you and Scotts Outdoors, (or other company whose marks appear on or via these Sites). Scotts Outdoors (or the respective company) is the owner and/or authorized user of any trademark, registered trademark and/or service mark appearing on these Sites, and is the copyright owner or licensee of the Content and/or information on these Sites, unless otherwise indicated.
  10. Except as otherwise provide herein, use of these Sites does not grant you a license to any Content, features or materials you may access on these Sites and you may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works of such Content, features or materials, in whole or in part. Any commercial use of these Sites is strictly prohibited, except as allowed herein or otherwise approved by us.
  11. You may not download or save a copy of any of the Content or screens for any purpose except as otherwise provided by Scotts Outdoors. If you make use of these Sites, other than as provided herein, in doing so you may violate copyright and other laws of the United States, other countries, as well as applicable state laws and may be subject to liability for such unauthorized use. We do not grant any license or other authorization to any user of our trademarks registered trademarks, service marks, other copyrightable material or any other intellectual property by including them on these Sites.
  12. The information on these Sites including, without limitation, all design, text, graphics, interfaces, and the selection and arrangements is protected by law including copyright law.
  13. Product names, logos, designs, titles, words or phrases may be protected under law as the trademarks, service mark or trade names of Scotts Outdoors or other entities. Such trademarks, service marks and trade names may be registered in the United States and internationality.
  14. The Scotts Outdoors logos and service names are trademarks of Scotts Outdoors (the "Scotts Outdoors"). Without Scotts Outdoors prior permission, you agree not to display or use Scotts Outdoors in any manner. Nothing on these Sites should be construed to grant any license or right to use any Scotts Outdoors without our prior written consent.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Scotts Outdoors, its directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates, joint ventures, and third-party service providers, harmless from any and all claims, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, in any way arising from, related to our in connection with you use of these Sites, your violation of the Terms or the posting or transmission of any materials on or through these Sites by you, including, but not limited to, any third party claim that any information or materials you provide infringes any third party proprietary right.

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

THESE SITES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL CONTENT, FUNCTION, MATERIALS AND SERVICES IS PROVIDED "AS IS". WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION, DATA, DATA PROCESSING SERVICES OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS. ANY WARRANTIES CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, USEFULNESS, OR CONTENT OF INFORMATION AND ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SCOTTS OUTDOORS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THESE SITES OR THE FUNCTION, CONTENT OR SERVICES MADE AVAILABLE THEREBY WILL BE TIMELY, SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. SCOTTS OUTDOORS MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THESE SITES WILL MEET USERS EXPECTATIONS OR REQUIREMENTS. NO ADVICE, RESULTS OR INFORMATION, OR MATERIALS WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THESE SITES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THESE SITES, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THEM.

ANY MATERIAL, UPLOADED TO, DOWNLOADED FROM OR OTHERWISE OBRAINED THRUGH THE UE OF THESE SIES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT RESULTS FROM THE UPLOAD OR DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.

SCOTTS OUTDOORS DOES NOT ENDORSE, SUPPORT, WARRANT OR GUARANTEE THE COMPLETENESS, TRUTHFULNESS, ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY CONTENT POSTED TO OR THROUGH THE USE OF THESES SITES OR ENDORSE ANY OPINIONS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED OR PROVIDED BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE THIRD PARTIES ON OR THROUUGH THESE SITES. SCOTTS OUTDOORS IS NOT A PARTY TO, AND DOES NOT MONITOR ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN USERS AND THIRD PARTIES WITHOUT THE DIRECT INVOLVEMENT OF SCOTTS OUTDOORS .

IN NO EVENT SHALL SCOTTS OUTDOORS, ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPOYEES, AGENTS, OR CONTENT OR SERVICE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY RELATED TO THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR THE CONTENT, MATERIALS AND FUNCTION RELATED THERETO, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE, OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS, OR LOST BUSINESS, DATA OR SALES, OR COST OF SUBTITUTE SERVICES, EVEN IF SCOTT'S OUTDOORS OR ITS REPRESENTATIVE OR SUCH INDIVIDUAL HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF SCOTT'S OUTDOORS TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING FROM THE TERMS OF YOUR USE OF THESE SITES EXCEED, IN THE AGGREGATE, $100.00.

You agree that the laws of the state of Florida excluding its conflicts-of-law rules, shall govern these Terms. Please note that your use of these Sites may be subject to other local, state, national, and international laws. You expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for resolving any claim of dispute with Scotts Outdoors or relating in any way to your use of these Sites resides in the state and federal courts located in Jay, Florida and you further agree and expressly consent to exercise of personal jurisdiction in the said state and federal courts.

By providing any personal information to or through these Sites, all users, including without limitation users in the European Union, fully understand unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in the United States.

Any inquiries concerning these Terms should be directed to: customerservice@scottsoutdoors.com

Notices to you may be made via either email or regular mail. Scotts Outdoors may also provide notices of changes to the Terms or other matters by displaying notices or links to notices to you on these Sites.

The Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Scotts Outdoors and govern your use of these Sites, superseding any prior agreements between you and Scotts Outdoors. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that are applicable to certain parts of these Sites.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between Scotts Outdoors and you as a result of this Agreement or your user of these Sites.

Any claim of cause of action you may have with respect to Scotts Outdoors or these Sites must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim of cause of action arose.

The failure of Scotts Outdoors to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties never the less agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect.

You may not assign the Terms or any of your rights or obligation under the Terms without Scotts Outdoors express written consent.

The Terms insure to the benefit of Scotts Outdoors successors, assigns and licensees. The section titles in the Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

Images Uploaded to Scott's Outdoor Questions and Answers on scottsoutdoors.com:

  • Must be in BMP, PNG, GIF or JPEG format.
  • File size must be 5 MB or less.
  • Images but be at least 60 pixels tall and 60 pixels wide.
  • If you are not the copyright holder, you may not submit copyrighted images.
  • Objectionable images will be rejected.
  • Uploaded images become the property

Prices and Payment Terms. Unless otherwise agreed, the base price quoted by Scott's Outdoors Sports is per unit. Scott's Outdoors Sports may increase the base prices as wholesale prices fluctuate. In addition, Scott's Outdoors Sports is entitled to change the base prices, if there has been such a change in circumstances as a result of which it would be reasonable for Scott's Outdoors Sports to increase/decrease the then existing base prices to reflect such change in circumstances. Applicable energy and raw material surcharges (as amended by Scott's Outdoors Sports from time to time) will be added to the base prices. The base prices and surcharges are exclusive of any tax, which will be added to the base prices and surcharges, and which will be payable by the Customer, each in accordance with the applicable legislation. Prices are in U.S. Dollars and are subject to change without notice. All orders are accepted subject to Scott's Outdoors Sports price in effect at time of order acknowledgement. Prices do not include any sales, use, value-added or other taxes, import duties, license fees or like charges (“Fees”) related to the sale, importation or use of Products or Services, and Purchaser is responsible for those Fees. Prices are only indicative and shall not be construed as fixed or set. We accept payments through Visa and MasterCard (or any other payment methods shown on our website at the time of payment). If you choose to pay with a credit card, the money is instantly withdrawn from your account upon confirmation of the payment. We do not store any information related to your card.