Tie Rod Media, LLC
Website Privacy, Terms & Conditions of Use

Last Updated: September 14, 2025

1. GENERAL.

Thank you for visiting our Web Site (the “Site”). This legal statement discloses the practices for the websites hosted by Tie Rod Media, LLC and located at www.ih8mud.com, www.rockcrawler.com, www.cruiserfaq.com and all related subdomains.

Through the Site, you may access a variety of educational, entertaining, useful information and content relating to off-roading, including but not limited to blogs, forums, classified advertisements, videos and photo galleries. By using the Site, you are a User and you accept and agree to these Terms and Conditions of Use (the “Terms”). In addition to the information included herein, the Terms incorporate additional terms applicable to specific areas of the Site, located where appropriate.

Tie Rod Media, LLC, the owner of the Site (“We,” “Our” or “Us”), may make changes to these Terms at any time. Such changes shall be applicable immediately upon their being posted. Therefore, you must review these Terms on a regular basis to learn of any changes.

If you do not, now or in the future, accept and agree to all of the Terms, you may only reject them by ceasing all use of the Site. If you do not accept and agree to the Terms, any use of the Site is unauthorized. Any violation of these Terms may result in your being banned from the Site.

IH8MUD and ROCKCRAWLER (the “Marks”) are registered trademarks of Offroad Intellect, LLC. Your use of the Site and acceptance of these Terms does not authorize you to use the Marks for any purpose except as would otherwise be allowed under applicable law.

2. USE OF THE SITE.

a. Registration.

To access many features of the Site, Users must first register. During registration, Users may be asked for contact information, such as their name and a valid e-mail address. This information may be used to contact the User about the services on our Site for which they express interest. Users are given the opportunity to “opt out” of having their information used for purposes not directly related to the Site by changing their settings in their profile. Users may not maintain more than one account. It is the sole responsibility of Users to maintain the confidentiality of their password and username.

b. Content.

The Site allows Users to post their own messages, text, files, images, photos, videos, sounds or other materials (“Content”). Users are solely responsible for any Content they post or transmit through the Site. We make no representations or warranties regarding any user-generated Content. We are not responsible for any Content made available on the Site. Content on the Site may be offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading or otherwise objectionable.

You are prohibited from posting any Content that is illegal, obscene, defamatory, infringing or otherwise objectionable. We reserve the right, but are not obligated to, moderate any and all Content on the Site according to Our own standards. However, the fact that We do not moderate certain Content is not an endorsement by Us of that Content. We have the right to enforce these Terms in any manner We deem appropriate, but We are not bound by any enforcement measures We may use.

By using the Site, you agree not to use the Site or any of its features to gather data, request interviews, solicit or engage in any commercial use without Our express, written consent. You are prohibited from posting any Content on behalf of, or in the name of, another person.

You grant and assign to Us, and you warrant that you have the right to so grant and assign, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive license to copy, display, distribute or otherwise use any Content you post on the Site.

All user generated content, posts, and discussions, contained on IH8MUD.com are the intellectual property of Tie Rod Media LLC. IH8MUD.com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own internal tracking, and includes participation in affiliate marketing programs. Customized links, provided by retailers, may track referrals to their websites, and we may earn an advertising fee or commission from purchases made through these links.

c. User-to-User Interactions.

We are not parties to and have no interest in any transaction, interaction or dispute between two or more Users. Users shall indemnify and hold Us harmless from and against any third-party claim arising from your interaction with others, including the payment of any attorneys’ fees.

3. YOUR PRIVACY.

a. Your Information.

During registration, Users may be asked for contact information such as their name and an e-mail address. The registration process may also ask for other demographic information, but providing this information is up to the discretion of the User. We will never sell or give away any of your information, including your e-mail address. We may, however, disclose information about Users if required to do so by law, upon reasonable belief that disclosure is necessary to respond to a legal action, to enforce these Terms, to protect Our rights, or to respond to allegations that Content violates third-party rights.

We will take reasonable action to protect this information from being accessed by third parties. However, despite our reasonable security methods, you understand that it is impossible to have a perfectly impenetrable security system.

b. Third Party Advertising.

We rely on third-party ad servers and ad networks to serve advertisements. These third-party ad servers and ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements that appear on the site and they automatically receive Your IP Address when this happens. Such third-party ad servers may also use other technologies (such as cookies, javascript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize their advertising content.

We do not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent, unless part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in. Please note that if an advertiser asks Us to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, males age 18 to 25) or audience segment (for example, males age 18 to 25 who have participated in certain community forums) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience that they were trying to reach.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks. Our Policies do not apply to, and cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. We reserve the right the add or remove third-party ad networks or ad servers in its discretion and We may not at all times list such updated ad network or ad server partners in this Privacy Notice.

CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

Additionally, Tie Rod Media, LLC, has relationships with the following third-party ad servers/ad networks and analytics:

c. Cookies.

We use cookies in order to improve Users’ experience on the Site. Cookies are small data files that are written to your hard drive when you visit a website. Cookies cannot read data off your hard disk. Information such as User ID and password are all stored locally on the User’s computer using cookies.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

d. Log Files.

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the Site, track User’s movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate statistical use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

e. COPPA.

The Site is restricted to those who are at least thirteen (13) years of age. If We learn that a child under thirteen (13) has posted personal information on our site, We will immediately attempt to notify the child’s parents and delete the relevant Content.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing.  If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or Raptive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at gdpr@tierodmedia.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information,  click the opt out link provided in the footer of this page. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

4. DISCLAIMERS.

USERS’ ACCESS OF THE SITE IS ENTIRELY AT THEIR OWN RISK AND DISCRETION. WE MAKE NO CLAIM AS TO THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION POSTED ON THE SITE AND DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE USE OF THAT INFORMATION. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION REGARDING UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE ACCESS TO THE SITE, THE SECURITY OF THE SITE OR TO THE ABSENCE OF VIRUSES AND OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY PURPORTED LOSS, HARM OR DAMAGE RESULTING FROM ANY INTERRUPTIONS OR ERRORS ON THE SITE OR FROM ANY HARMFUL COMPONENTS PASSED THROUGH THE SITE. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INFRINGING MATERIAL, SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS OR HARMFUL CODE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO VIRUSES, WORMS AND TROJAN HORSES. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM A HACKER’S USE OF THE SITE TO LAUNCH DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS AGAINST ANY THIRD-PARTIES. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT THE CONTENT, FUNCTIONALITY AND OPERATION OF THE SITE COMPLY WITH THE LAWS OF ANY COUNTRY OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES WHICH MAY BE LINKED TO ON THE SITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THEIR SECURITY AND THE ACCURACY OF THEIR CONTENTS. WE DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THE SITE, ITS USERS AND ITS CONTENT. WE DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE FOR ANYTHING WE MAY SELL ON THE SITE.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release Us from any and all claims arising from or in any way related to your interaction with the Site and from any and all claims relating to the content access through the Site.

If you violate these Terms, you shall indemnify Us from any claims or losses resulting from the violation. You shall also indemnify Us from any liability or loss incurred as a result of unauthorized use of your account. In addition, you indemnify Us from and against any third- party claim arising out of Content you post and your reliance on any user Content. These indemnifications include the payment of attorneys’ fees.

5. COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT NOTIFICATIONS.

a. DMCA Notices.

We strive to promptly process and investigate notices of alleged copyright and intellectual property infringement and to comply with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). As such, We have designated an agent to receive notification of alleged copyright infringement occurring on the Site. If you believe that your copyrighted work or other intellectual property has been posted on the Site in an infringing manner, please notify our Agent at:

Tie Rod Media, LLC
50 Rlington Parkway, Site 201
Hurricane UT 84737

Your notice to our DMCA Agent must include the following:

  1. Identification of the work allegedly being infringed upon;
  2. Identification of the Content that is infringing your work, with sufficient detail for Us to locate the Content;
  3. A certification or statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the use of the Content is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
  4. A certification or statement that the information you provide Us is accurate and that you are either the owner of the copyrighted work or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
  5. Your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
  6. Your physical or electronic signature.

Your notice will be subject to the DMCA, and requests that do not follow these guidelines will be ignored. In appropriate circumstances, We will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

b. Counter-Notices.

If Content you have posted to the Site is taken down or otherwise removed, you may file a counter-notice including the following:

  1. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled;
  2. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material in question;
  3. Your name, address and telephone number;
  4. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for judicial district in which your address is located or, if your address is outside of the USA, for any judicial district in which Creative Commons may be found and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted a notice in compliance with the section (c)(1)(C) of the DMCA, as generally described above;
  5. Your physical or electronic signature.

6. OTHER.

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Us and supersede any previous agreements. If these Terms and other terms found on the Site conflict, these Terms shall control.

Disputes arising from or relating to the Site or these Terms shall be governed by Utah Law without regard to conflict or choice of law principles and shall be brought exclusively in Washington County, Utah. The provisions in these Terms are severable.

Binding Arbitration (“Arbitration Agreement”)

a. Applicability of Arbitration Agreement. You agree that any dispute or claim against us, or our vendors or service providers(collectively, “We” or “Us”), related in any way to your access or use of this website, to these Terms, or to any aspect of your relationship with Us, will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that (1) you may assert claims in small claims court if your claims qualify, so long as the matter remains in such court and advances only on an individual (non-class, non-representative) basis; and (2) you or We may seek equitable relief in court for infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights (such as trademarks, trade dress, domain names, trade secrets, copyrights, and patents). You agree that you must commence any arbitration or other claim within one (1) year after the dispute arises; otherwise, the claim is permanently barred, which means that you will no longer have the right to assert a claim regarding the dispute. This Arbitration Agreement will apply, without limitation, to all claims that arose or were asserted before the effective date of these Terms or any prior version of this Arbitration Agreement.

You agree in advance that you will not participate in or seek to recover monetary or other relief in any lawsuit filed against Us, alleging class, collective, and/or representative claims on your behalf. Instead, by agreeing to arbitration, you may bring your claims against any of Us in an individual arbitration proceeding (except for any Batch Arbitration, as described below). If successful on such claims, you could be awarded money or other relief by an arbitrator. You acknowledge that you have been advised that you may consult with an attorney in deciding whether to accept these Terms, including this Arbitration Agreement.

The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Arbitration Agreement.

b. Process. To begin a claim, you must first send a letter describing your claim in detail, including your name and contact information, your legal claim, the specific facts giving rise to your claim (including the date(s) and amount(s) of any relevant transaction or interaction with us), and the requested relief, to Tie Rod Media LLC, 1275 S Westfield Rd, Toquerville UT 84774. You and We agree to attempt in good faith to negotiate an informal resolution of your claim. If a resolution is not reached within thirty (30) days, you may commence an arbitration action as set forth herein. The arbitration will be conducted by JAMS, an established alternative dispute resolution provider. Disputes involving claims and counterclaims under $250,000, not inclusive of attorneys’ fees and interest, will be subject to JAMS’s most current version of the Streamlined Arbitration Rules and procedures available at http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-streamlined-arbitration/; all other claims will be subject to JAMS’s most current version of the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures, available at http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-comprehensive-arbitration/. JAMS’s rules are also available at www.jamsadr.com or by calling JAMS at 800-352-5267. If JAMS is not available to arbitrate, the parties will select an alternative arbitral forum. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted remotely, based on written submissions, or in person at a mutually agreed location. We will be entitled to make an offer of judgment in the arbitration proceeding. If the offer of judgment is not accepted, and the award is not more favorable than the unaccepted offer, you will be solely responsible for all costs incurred by Us after the offer of judgment is made to the extent permitted by applicable law. Any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

c. Fees. If the arbitrator finds that you cannot afford to pay JAMS’s filing, administrative, hearing, and/or other fees, and you cannot obtain a waiver from JAMS, we will pay them for you. If the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous, you agree to pay Us our attorneys’ fees and costs in the arbitration, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

d. Authority of Arbitrator. The arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, will have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute related to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of this Arbitration Agreement, including, but not limited to, any claim that all or any part of this Arbitration Agreement is void or voidable. The arbitration will decide the rights and liabilities, if any, of you and Us. The arbitration proceeding will not be consolidated with any other matters or joined with any other cases or parties. The arbitrator will have the authority to grant motions dispositive of all or part of any claim. The arbitrator will have the authority to award monetary damages and to grant any non-monetary remedy or relief available to an individual under applicable law, the arbitral forum’s rules, and these Terms (including the Arbitration Agreement). The arbitrator will issue a written award and statement of decision describing the essential findings and conclusions on which the award is based, including the calculation of any damages awarded. The arbitrator has the same authority to award relief on an individual basis that a judge in a court of law would have. The award of the arbitrator is final and binding upon you and Us.

e. Waiver of Jury Trial. You and We hereby waive any constitutional and statutory rights to sue in court and have a trial in front of a judge or a jury. You and We are instead electing that all claims and disputes will be resolved by arbitration under this Arbitration Agreement, except as specified in Section (a) above. An arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court and must follow this Agreement as a court would. However, there is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is subject to very limited review.

f. Waiver of Class or Consolidated Actions. Except with respect to Batch Arbitration (as defined below), all claims and disputes within the scope of this Arbitration Agreement must be arbitrated on an individual basis and not on a class basis, only individual relief is available, and claims of more than one customer or user cannot be arbitrated or consolidated with those of any other customer or user. In the event that this subparagraph is deemed invalid or unenforceable neither you nor We are entitled to arbitration and instead claims and disputes will be resolved in a court as set forth in these Terms.

g. Batch Arbitration. You and We agree that, in the event that there are fifty (50) or more individual requests for arbitration of a similar nature filed against Us within an approximately (30) thirty-day period (or otherwise in close proximity) regardless of the state(s) in which such claims are filed, JAMS will administer all such similarly situated arbitration demands on a collective basis as a single, consolidated arbitration (subject to a single set of fees, proceeding schedule, and, if required, hearing) before a single arbitrator in accordance with the requirements outlined elsewhere in this section, provided that – in the event that the arbitrator deems it impracticable or inequitable to administer all such claims collectively in a single arbitration – (s)he may group demands for arbitration into groups of not fewer than twenty (20) matters, plus a remainder group as needed (or as otherwise deemed by the arbitrator to be practicable, equitable, and in best keeping with the spirit of this provision) and arbitrate each group of matters as a single, consolidated arbitration (either structure a “Batch Arbitration”). You and We agree (1) to work with JAMS in good faith to facilitate the resolution of disputes on a Batch Arbitration basis and (2) that requests for arbitration are of a “similar nature” if they arise out of the same event, agreement, or factual scenario and raise the same or similar legal issues and seek the same or similar relief. Disagreements over the applicability of this Batch Arbitration process will be settled in a single, consolidated arbitration proceeding that includes all affected parties and is resolved by a single arbitrator subject to the requirements of this section. This Batch Arbitration provision shall in no way be interpreted as authorizing a class or collective arbitration or action of any kind, or any suit or arbitration involving joint or consolidated claims, under any circumstances other than those expressly set forth in this section.

h. Severability. If any part or parts of this Arbitration Agreement are found under the law to be invalid or unenforceable, then such specific part or parts will be of no force and effect and will be severed, and the remainder of the Arbitration Agreement will continue in full force and effect.

i. Survival. This Arbitration Agreement will survive the termination of your relationship with Us.

j. Modification. Notwithstanding any provision in these Terms to the contrary, We agree that if We make any future material change to this Arbitration Agreement, it will not apply to any individual claim(s) for which that you had already provided notice to Us.

Consent to Data Collection.  These Terms of Service incorporate our Privacy Policy, which discloses how we, our vendors, and our service providers collect and use data when you use the Site and/or mobile applications.  You hereby consent to the collection and use of data by us, our vendors, and our service providers as described in the Privacy Policy (including any links to other policies therein).  You can revoke this consent at any time by following the opt-out instructions in the Privacy Policy or clicking the provided links on the Site.  

Limitations on Liability. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE, OR OUR VENDORS OR SERVICE PROVIDERS (COLLECTIVELY, “WE” OR “US”), SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF ANY OF US EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID OR PAYABLE TO RAPTIVE BY YOU FOR THE WEBSITE DURING THE SIX-MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO THE ACT, OMISSION, OR OCCURRENCE GIVING RISE TO SUCH LIABILITY; OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100). THE LIMITATIONS OF THIS SUBSECTION SHALL APPLY TO ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, STATUTE, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PARTIES HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. 

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