Terms of use

Effective from 6 September 2026. Previous versions: 30 August and 7 August 2026.

These terms explain what you can expect from Paddoco, and what Paddoco expects from you. They are deliberately brief.

1. What Paddoco is

An app for riders and yards: horse care records, yard schedules, exercises, hacks and their routes, competitions, riding clinics, livery offers, listings, creator spaces and ways to connect with other riders.

The publisher is Clément Faure, a non-professional publisher (see the legal notice).

2. The service is free today

Paddoco is free and has no advertising. If this changes, you will be informed in advance through the app, and no feature you already use will become paid without giving you the choice to decline.

3. Your account

• You need a valid email address and a password.
• An account is personal. Do not share it: actions taken through your account are considered to have been taken by you.
• The information you provide must be accurate, particularly your date of birth, which determines guardianship arrangements and some prices.
• You can pause your account, export your data or delete it yourself at any time, from My account then the Leavetab. Deletion is immediate and permanent: see Delete my account.

4. Minors

A minor can have an account. One or more guardians can be linked to it and act on their behalf: manage their profile, view and pay their charges, give consent on their behalf, see their notifications and enter them in a riding clinic or competition. This does not include their private messages : nobody reads them, whether a guardian or an administrator.

The minimum age is 13, and registration checks this: no account is created below that age. Younger children can ride at a yard without an account, as they did before the app existed.

A guardian is linked by the yard, rather than through the guardian's own account: the yard administrator checks parental authority and records the guardianship. This is because guardianship grants access to the child's profile, payments and notifications. Allowing someone to link themselves would effectively grant that access to anyone who asks.

Under French law, a minor can consent independently to the processing of their data from the age of 15. Below that age, consent must be given jointly with the person holding parental authority, and the guardianship link records this arrangement. However, we do not block a minor's account while no guardian is linked, and we prefer to make this clear rather than imply that the app has a restriction it does not enforce: a minor who belongs to no yard has nobody to perform this check, and their account works. All the following restrictions still apply.

Restrictions for minors, with or without a linked guardian. These are not settings, and ticking a box cannot remove them:

• a minor never appears in the public rider directoryor friend suggestions, regardless of their settings;
• they cannot post on the platform marketplace or among livery offers open to the whole platform;
• posting a listing or offer does not give permission to message them : you can only start a conversation with a minor if they are already your friend or belong to your yard.

Guardianship ends automatically when the person reaches adulthood.

5. What you publish

You retain ownership of what you publish. Publishing only authorises us to display it to your intended audience and keep it for as long as you leave it online.

You are responsible for what you publish. In practice, this means:

• do not publish a photo of someone who does not want you to. The app includes an image consent setting; respect it;
• do not publish unlawful, hateful or violent content, or content that harms someone;
• do not publish material that does not belong to you;
• a listing or livery offer must honestly describe what it offers;
• a ride made public is public in full, including its start and finish points. The app tells you this when you publish. Do not publish a route that reveals an address you want to keep private, whether yours or someone else's;
• the person running a creator space is responsible for it: content reserved for their community remains subject to all the rules above, and anything they advertise must exist.

6. What we may do if you do not follow these rules

Reported content may be hidden while it is reviewed. Unlawful content is removed. An account that repeatedly breaks the rules may be suspended and then closed.

We will notify you and explain why, unless the law prevents us from doing so.

7. Yards

• Setting up a yard makes you its administrator and responsible for what happens there.
• An administrator can see everything within their own yard, and nothing elsewhere. This is necessary to manage it. Five things remain inaccessible to them, as they do to us: your private messages, secret ballot votes, blocked people, favourites and progress on a learning course.
• Joining a yard requires its approval, unless it has chosen to allow open entry.
• You can leave at any time, keeping your account, horses and friends.

8. Payment tracking

Paddoco does not collect payments or issue invoices. It only lets a rider report a payment and their yard confirm it. An entry in the app is not a receipt. Any dispute over an amount must be settled between the rider and their yard.

9. What Paddoco is not

• It is not veterinary advice. Feed calculations, care reminders and workload guidelines are decision aids based on public sources. Your vet and equine nutritionist remain your advisers, as the app makes clear wherever it performs calculations.
• It is not an emergency service. An emergency contact provides someone to call; it does not automatically alert anyone.
• It is not an official register. The French SIRE identification number you enter is not checked with the IFCE.

10. Availability

We do our best to keep the service running, without guaranteeing uninterrupted availability. It may be taken offline for maintenance and may experience outages. Keep vital information elsewhere too , such as paper care records and your vet's contact details.

11. Changes to these terms

We will inform you through the app. Continuing to use Paddoco after a change means accepting it. If you disagree, you can delete your account.

12. Governing law

French law applies. If you have a difficulty, first write to us at [email protected] : most issues can be resolved this way.

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