Community Guidelines

Version: 1.1
Effective date: 7/28/26
Operator: DirtDaisy LLC
Contact: crystal@dirtdaisy.com

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DirtDaisy exists to inspire women, girls, and adventurous souls to find confidence, connection, and freedom through the trail.

The Collective is where that happens between rides --- where you find the people, ask the questions you didn't want to ask at the trailhead, and figure out who you're riding with Saturday.

These are our community conduct rules. The Terms of Service contain the legal terms governing use of the Collective, and the separate activity waiver addresses riding risk. These Guidelines work alongside those documents and are incorporated into the Terms.

This document is about how we treat each other.

It's short on purpose. If you ride the way you'd want a new rider to be ridden with, you'll never need most of it.

Who this community is for

DirtDaisy Collective centers women and girls in mountain biking.

That's the point of the whole thing --- a place where you're not the only one, where nobody explains your own bike to you, and where showing up new isn't something you have to apologize for.

We welcome people who genuinely support that mission and follow these guidelines. We don't ask anyone to prove or document their gender, and we won't. But joining a community built for women and girls means showing up in support of it. People who treat the Collective as a place to hunt, sell, or condescend will be removed.

We build campfires, not stages

Community before competition. That's the first of our core values and it's the one everything else hangs on.

A campfire is something you make room around. A stage is something you perform on. When you post, comment, or show up to a ride, ask which one you're building.

In practice:

• Answer the beginner question like you remember being the beginner.
• Celebrate someone's first root section as loudly as someone's first black diamond.
• If you know the trail, share what you know. If you don't, say so.
• Nobody is required to have a training plan, a goal, or a reason. "I just like being out there" is a complete answer.

We speak human

Talk to people the way you'd talk at a trailhead, not the way people talk online.

Not allowed, anywhere in the Collective:

• harassment, bullying, intimidation, or threats
• stalking, or persistently contacting someone who has asked you to stop
• discrimination or slurs based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, body size, or any similar characteristic
• sexual harassment, unwanted sexual attention, or sexual comments about another member
• deliberately humiliating someone, publicly or privately
• posting to provoke, bait, or stir up conflict

Disagreement is fine. Strong opinions about tire pressure are practically the point. Contempt is not.

If someone asks you to drop it, drop it. If someone asks you to stop contacting them, stop --- that includes finding another way to reach them.

No rider gets shamed

Every one of us was slow once. Most of us still are on something.

Don't:

• Pace shame. "We'll wait for you" said the wrong way is a punishment.
• Skill shame. Walking a feature is a decision, not a failure. So is walking the same feature you cleaned last month.
• Body shame. Any comment on anyone's body, including compliments that come with conditions.
• Equipment shame. A twelve-year-old hardtail that gets someone to the trailhead beats a dream bike in the garage.
• Gatekeep. No "real riders," no "that doesn't count," no quizzing someone on components to see if they belong.
• Make beginners feel like a burden. If a beginner slows your ride down, that was the ride. Choose different rides if you want a different pace --- don't make her pay for showing up.

The flip side: if you're the one struggling, you're not ruining anyone's day. Say what you need. That's the whole practice.

Consent and boundaries matter

Photos and Ride Memories

Get permission before you post a photo where someone is identifiable. Every time, not just when it seems sensitive.

• Ask at the ride, not after you've posted.
• "I'd rather not" is a complete answer and doesn't need a reason.
• If someone asks you to take a photo down, take it down. Don't negotiate.
• Never post a photo of a minor without their parent or legal guardian's permission.
• DirtDaisy does not use identifiable images of children under 16 in advertising, merchandise, or promotion, and does not offer a media license covering a child under 16. If you have accepted the Community Media License, it covers you --- not your kids.
• Don't post a photo that shows someone crashing, injured, upset, or in a state they wouldn't choose --- even if they laughed about it at the time.
• Don't tag a location that reveals where someone lives or regularly rides alone.

Posting a photo in the Collective doesn't give DirtDaisy permission to use it in advertising or merchandise. That's the separate Community Media License, which is voluntary and always optional. You can participate fully without ever accepting it.

Private information

Don't post anyone's home address, phone number, workplace, school, real-time location, emergency information, or screenshots of private messages without their permission. That applies to members and non-members alike.

Private messages

A directory listing is not an invitation to a DM. Subject to the youth protections below, you may send another adult member one respectful introduction. If she doesn't reply, that's the answer --- don't send a second one.

Never use private messages to sell, recruit, pitch, or proposition.

Protecting the young riders

This part isn't flexible and there's no version of it we'll bend on.

• Ride Hosts must be 18 or older.
• Nobody under 16 has an account. Younger kids don't register with DirtDaisy at all --- a parent or legal guardian may bring their own child and remains responsible for that child throughout the ride.
• If you bring your child, you stay with your child. The whole ride. No drop-offs, no handing your kid to a Ride Host or another rider, and no taking on someone else's kid. If you fall behind or turn around, your child comes with you.
• You may bring only a child for whom you are the parent or legal guardian. Not a friend's kid, not a neighbor's kid, and you can't sign anything on another family's behalf.
• Adults do not privately message teen members. Ride questions go in the ride thread where everyone can see them. If an adult needs to reach a teen member about a ride, that conversation happens in the open or through the approving guardian.
• No adult may use the Collective to pursue a private relationship with a minor --- romantic, sexual, or the kind that starts with "don't tell your mom."
• No secrets between an adult and someone else's kid. Nothing an adult says to a minor here should be something a parent couldn't read.

If you see something that worries you about an adult's behavior toward a minor, report it. You don't need to be certain. You don't need proof. Report it and let us look.

Behavior that sexualizes, grooms, or exploits a minor results in immediate permanent removal and, where appropriate, a report to law enforcement.

Honest ride listings

If you post a ride, the listing is a promise about what the ride actually is.

Describe accurately:

• pace, in words a stranger can calibrate against
• distance and elevation
• trail difficulty, using the local trail system's rating
• technical features people will encounter, especially mandatory ones
• how long you expect to be out
• whether the ride suits beginners --- and say so plainly either way
• whether teens may join
• whether it's family-friendly --- meaning you've planned a pace and terrain where a parent could bring their own kid
• anything unusual: a shuttle, a long drive, no cell service, a river crossing, a gate that closes at dusk

"Chill" and "mellow" mean different things to different people. Give numbers where you can.

Don't:

• undersell difficulty to get more riders to come
• describe a ride as beginner-friendly because you'd like it to be
• claim coaching credentials, first-aid certifications, or professional qualifications you don't hold
• promise anyone a ride will be safe

If your plan changes --- different trail, harder route, faster group --- update the listing or tell people at the trailhead before you roll out. Someone made a decision based on what you wrote.

Hosts support the ride; every rider owns her decisions

What a Ride Host is: a member who volunteers to pick a time and a trailhead and help people find each other.

What a Ride Host is not: a guide, a coach, a medical provider, a mechanic, an equipment inspector, a childcare provider, a chaperone, or anyone's guarantee of safety. Hosts don't get paid, aren't trained by us, and aren't responsible for anyone's outcome.

Ride Hosts may not request, collect, or retain participant health, medical, disability, or accessibility information. DirtDaisy does not provide that information to Hosts. If information becomes reasonably necessary during an incident or emergency, share it directly with the appropriate emergency responder whenever possible.

Every rider owns her own decisions. You decide whether the trail, the feature, the weather, the pace, or the group is right for you today. Nobody else can make that call and nobody else is making it for you.

Which means:

• Ride your own ride. Session what you want, walk what you want.
• Never pressure anyone to try a feature, hold a pace, or keep going. Encouragement is offered once. After that it's pressure.
• "I'm done" is a complete sentence. So is "I'm turning around."

Group ride basics

• Helmet on, every ride, the whole ride. No exceptions and no discussion.
• Follow trail rules, closures, and land-manager requirements wherever you're riding. Rules vary by state, park, and trail system.
• Don't ride closed or wet trails. Leave it better.
• Arrive prepared --- working bike, water, whatever the ride description said to bring.
• Don't ride impaired. No alcohol, cannabis, or anything else that affects your riding before or during a Collective ride. If a group goes out afterward, that's your business and not a Collective activity.
• Never bring alcohol or cannabis to a family-friendly ride or any ride open to teens.
• Tell someone if you leave. Not the trail --- the group. Riders have been searched for because someone drove home without saying anything.
• Respect regrouping. Wait at junctions. Wait where the person behind you can see you.
• Yield and communicate with other trail users. We're guests everywhere we ride.
• Weapons: follow the law and the land manager's rules wherever you are. Don't display or handle a weapon at a Collective ride, and don't bring one to a family-friendly ride or a ride open to teens.

No Rider Left Behind

This is how we try to ride. It's a practice, not a promise.

It means we wait, we check in, we don't drop someone on a descent she doesn't know, and we notice when the group has thinned out. It's one of the best things about riding with this community.

It does not mean DirtDaisy or a Ride Host guarantees anyone's safety, monitors any ride, or is responsible for anyone getting back. Groups split. People flat. Phones die. Plan your own ride and carry what you'd need if you ended up alone.

Commercial activity

You can be a coach, a shop owner, a guide, or an ambassador and be a member here. What you can't do is treat the Collective as a customer list.

Fine:

• having your work in your profile
• answering a question in your area of expertise, including saying you do that professionally
• mentioning your shop's event when it's genuinely relevant to what's being discussed
• posting in a space we've set up for that purpose, if we set one up

Not fine:

• unsolicited promotion in ride comments, Ride Memories, or general discussion
• DMing members to pitch services, products, or coaching
• posting a ride that's actually a paid clinic
• charging for a Collective ride, or collecting a "suggested donation," without our written approval
• using member information to build a mailing list
• affiliate links dropped into ordinary conversation

Disclose. If you're paid, sponsored, given free product, or otherwise have a financial relationship with something you're recommending, say so in the same post. Not in a bio, not in a reply three comments down. "I'm sponsored by them" costs you nothing and buys you every bit of credibility you have here.

Report harm --- don't create a pile-on

When something goes wrong, tell us. Don't organize.

Report --- to safety@dirtdaisy.com or through the reporting tools --- when you see harassment, unsafe conduct, dishonest listings, anything involving a minor, or behavior that makes the Collective feel less safe. Send privacy requests to privacy@dirtdaisy.com and requests to remove a photo or other content to removal@dirtdaisy.com.

Don't:

• post call-outs, screenshots, or "just so everyone knows" threads
• rally other members against someone
• take a private conflict public to win it
• retaliate against someone for reporting a concern

No retaliation, ever. If you punish someone --- publicly or quietly, in the Collective or at a trailhead --- for reporting something in good faith, that's its own violation and we treat it as a serious one. It's separate from whatever the original report was about, and it stands even if the original report turned out to be mistaken.

Reporting in bad faith to harass someone is also a violation. Being wrong is not bad faith. Being wrong is fine.

What happens when someone breaks these rules

We'd rather have a conversation than remove someone. Most problems here are a bad day, not a bad person, and we'll usually start with a note.

Depending on what happened and what's happened before, we may:

• talk with you about it
• remove content
• take down or cancel a ride listing
• limit features --- posting, messaging, hosting, photos
• remove Ride Host privileges
• suspend an account temporarily
• permanently remove a member

What we weigh: how serious it was, whether anyone was hurt or put at risk, whether it involved a minor, whether it looks deliberate, whether it's happened before, and whether you've taken responsibility.

Some things skip the conversation. Credible threats, violence, stalking, sexual misconduct, anything involving the exploitation of a minor, or evading a suspension will get you removed immediately.

We may report serious situations to emergency services, law enforcement, or a land manager. If we reasonably believe someone is in danger, we'll act on that belief.

Moderation takes judgment, and we won't catch everything. We're not able to pre-screen every post, every listing, or every member. Tell us when we've missed something.

If you think we got it wrong

We might. Email crystal@dirtdaisy.com with the subject line Account Review, tell us what happened and what you'd like us to reconsider, and a person will look at it again.

This isn't a court. There's no hearing, no cross-examination, and no guaranteed outcome. What you get is a real second look by someone who wasn't the one who made the first call, where that's possible.

We may not be able to share details about a report involving someone else's safety or privacy. That's not evasion --- it's the same protection you'd want if you'd been the one to report.

Serious safety decisions, particularly anything involving a minor, are unlikely to be reversed.

The short version

Ride together. Tell the truth about your rides. Ask before you post her face. Leave the trail and the person behind you better than you found them. Nobody gets shamed. Kids are protected without exception. When something's wrong, tell us instead of the internet.

Everything else is detail.

Questions: crystal@dirtdaisy.com