Terms of use and participation
These terms explain the risks of taking part, our safety rules and the responsibilities of participants, accompanying adults and the operator. Please read them before paying for entry, booking a party or completing your annual participation agreement. Ask staff if anything is unclear. Accepting these terms does not remove your legal rights.
Venue: Faverdale Industrial Estate, Darlington, DL3 0PP.
Operator: 4 Motion Darlington (company number 08504871), trading as 4Motion Skatepark Darlington.
Contact: info@4motiondarlington.co.uk.
Version: 26.10. Effective date: 26 October 2026 (26/10/26).
1 Who these terms apply to
“We”, “us” and “our” mean the operator identified above. “Venue” means the skatepark and its associated premises. “Participant” means a person taking part in an activity. Relevant conduct, property and privacy provisions also apply to accompanying adults and spectators.
Activities include BMX riding, stunt scootering, skateboarding, inline skating and roller skating, together with coaching, organised sessions, events, parties and equipment hire where offered. Entry or a booking covers only the activities and services described before payment. Any additional session rules will be made available before payment or participation.
2 Understanding the risks
Skatepark sports involve risks even when reasonable care is taken. These include falls, collisions with other users, ramps or obstacles, losing control, misjudging speed or manoeuvres, and equipment failure. Injuries may be serious and may include fractures, head or spinal injuries, permanent disability or death.
Protective equipment, experience and supervision reduce some risks but cannot eliminate them. Take part voluntarily, choose activities appropriate to your ability and stop if you feel unsafe. Ask staff for guidance if you are unsure.
This acknowledgement concerns the ordinary risks of the sport. It does not mean you accept negligent acts or omissions by us, or release us from our legal responsibilities. The sporting risks described here do not apply indiscriminately to café customers or spectators.
The resi ramp is a training feature and does not provide a risk-free landing. Its landing surface does not guarantee protection from injury. Risks include landing awkwardly, under- or overshooting the landing area, falling from height, and striking your equipment, the ramp or another person. Serious injury can occur even when landing on the intended landing surface.
Only use the resi ramp for activities appropriate to your ability and follow the displayed rules and staff instructions. All handlebars must have securely fitted bar end plugs, and equipment with pegs fitted must not be used on the resi ramp.
Check that the take-off, landing and exit areas are clear before starting, allow the previous user to move clear, and leave the landing area promptly when safe to do so. Ask staff for guidance before use if you are unfamiliar with the ramp or unsure how to use it.
3 Age limits
The minimum participation age is 5, except during a designated toddler session. The permitted ages, suitable activities and adult supervision arrangements for toddler sessions will be stated before payment or participation. Children under 5 must not participate in ordinary sessions.
4 Children and supervision
A parent or person with parental responsibility must complete the participation agreement for anyone under 18 and explain the relevant risks and rules in a way the child can understand. Signing gives permission to participate; it does not waive the child’s legal rights.
Participants under 10 must be accompanied and actively supervised by a responsible adult aged 18 or over throughout their visit. That adult must remain on site and help the child follow the safety rules.
Participants aged 10 to 17 may attend sessions without an accompanying adult if their parent or person with parental responsibility has authorised this and supplied an emergency contact.
Permission to attend without an adult does not, by itself, mean that individual childcare or continuous one-to-one supervision is provided. In open sessions, staff manage the venue and general safety. For coaching and other organised activities, we provide the instruction and supervision included in the session and exercise reasonable care and skill.
Any additional support or supervision needs should be discussed with us before attendance so that we can consider suitable arrangements and reasonable adjustments. Parents should provide accurate emergency contact details and remain contactable when their child attends alone.
5 Helmets and safety rules
Participants under 16 must wear a correctly fitted and fastened helmet throughout participation. We strongly recommend helmets for everyone aged 16 and over, together with suitable knee pads, elbow pads, wrist protection and appropriate footwear for the activity.
Ride or skate within your ability. Follow reasonable safety instructions and the rules displayed for each area. Check that your route and landing area are clear, take turns and give other users enough space. Do not deliberately obstruct others or enter active riding areas as a spectator.
Use ramps and equipment responsibly. Report damaged equipment, unsafe surfaces, hazards and injuries to staff promptly. Stop using anything that appears unsafe. Abusive, intimidating, reckless or deliberately dangerous behaviour is not permitted.
6 Fitness and additional needs
Do not participate while impaired by alcohol, recreational drugs or medication that affects your ability to take part safely. Consider whether a medical condition, injury, pregnancy or recent surgery could affect your participation, and seek appropriate medical advice if unsure.
Tell staff about practical support or emergency arrangements they need to know about. You do not need to disclose unrelated medical information. We will consider individual circumstances and reasonable adjustments; having a medical condition or disability does not automatically prevent participation.
We may pause or refuse participation where we reasonably identify a safety risk that cannot adequately be addressed. We will explain the reason where practicable.
7 Personal and hire equipment
Bring equipment suitable for your activity and check that it is in safe condition before use. You are responsible for maintaining your own equipment. We may refuse unsafe or unsuitable equipment. Any informal staff check does not replace your maintenance responsibilities or reduce our own duties.
We offer BMX bikes, scooters, helmets and skateboards for hire, subject to availability. We are responsible for providing hire equipment that is safe, suitable for its agreed purpose and appropriately maintained. Follow fitting and use instructions and report any fault immediately. Stop using faulty equipment and return it to staff.
Return hire equipment at the agreed time. We may recover reasonable repair or replacement costs for loss or damage caused by your deliberate actions, negligence or misuse, taking account of the item’s age and condition. We do not charge for fair wear and tear, existing faults or damage caused by us. We will explain and evidence any charge; a parent is not automatically liable solely because their child caused damage.
8 Accidents and first aid
Report accidents and injuries to staff as soon as reasonably practicable. We may provide first aid within staff competence, contact emergency services and contact a participant’s emergency contact where necessary.
Where possible, we will seek the participant’s consent and involve a parent or person with parental responsibility when appropriate. Urgent assistance will not be delayed where immediate action is necessary and lawful. This agreement does not give unlimited authority to consent to medical treatment on another person’s behalf.
9 Our responsibilities and liability
We will provide our services with reasonable care and skill and take reasonable care for the safety of people using the premises. Nothing in these terms excludes or restricts liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any liability or consumer right that the law does not allow us to exclude or restrict.
An injury occurring at the skatepark does not automatically mean that we are legally responsible. We are not responsible for loss or injury caused solely by the ordinary inherent risks of participation where we have met our legal duties. Where our negligence or another breach of duty contributes to an incident, signing this agreement does not prevent a claim.
Where we breach our agreement or fail to take reasonable care, we remain responsible for resulting loss or damage that was reasonably foreseeable. A loss is foreseeable if it was an obvious consequence or was contemplated by both parties when the contract was made.
10 Personal belongings
Keep belongings secure and do not leave valuables unattended. We provide storage lockers however we are not responsible for loss, theft or damage that is not caused by our negligence or another breach of our legal duties. This applies to clothing, vehicles, bikes, scooters and other belongings, without limiting the protections in section 9.
11 Entry and party bookings
Ordinary sessions are not booked in advance. Prices, session times and included services will be made available before payment. Party bookings are subject to the booking details and cancellation provisions below. The annual participation agreement does not replace the details of an individual party booking.
If you cancel a party booking at least 28 days before the event, we will give you a full refund. Party date changes may also be requested at least 28 days before the event, subject to availability and any price difference agreed before the change is confirmed. With fewer than 28 days’ notice, there is no guaranteed right to move a party booking.
If you cancel a party booking fewer than 28 days before the event, we may retain payments only to cover our reasonable net loss caused by the cancellation, up to the total booking price. We will take reasonable steps to reduce that loss, including attempting to rebook the slot, and account for costs saved and replacement income. We will refund any amount above our loss and explain any deduction on request.
If we cancel a booking or cannot provide a substantial part of what was booked, you may choose an offered alternative or a refund for the service not provided. This does not limit any further statutory rights you may have.
12 Refusal of entry and removal
We may refuse entry, stop participation or require someone to leave where we reasonably consider this necessary because of dangerous, abusive, intimidating or seriously disruptive behaviour, impairment by drugs or alcohol, or failure to follow reasonable safety rules.
We will act reasonably and proportionately. Where appropriate, we will explain the problem and give an opportunity to correct it, but serious safety concerns may require immediate action. Where a child attends alone, we will take reasonable steps to arrange a safe handover or collection if they must leave.
Removal does not automatically result in forfeiture of every payment. Any amount retained must be fair and proportionate to the service already provided and reasonable net loss caused by the breach, without double recovery. Immediate safety instructions must be followed, but you may still complain or exercise your legal rights.
13 Photography and filming
We may take photographs and video for event coverage and to promote the skatepark on our website, social media and promotional materials. We will make official filming apparent and explain the intended uses. Signing these participation terms is not consent to promotional photography.
If you do not want yourself or your child photographed or filmed for these purposes, please tell reception or contact info@4motiondarlington.co.uk. You may do this before a visit or at any time afterwards. We will record your preference and brief our photographers. Opting out will not affect your access to activities. We will respect objections and will not knowingly publish identifiable promotional images of someone who has opted out.
For general event or crowd coverage, we will only use identifiable images where a documented legitimate interests assessment supports that use, with particular care for children and safeguarding. There is no automatic exemption for crowd images. For posed or individually featured promotional images of children, we will seek separate permission from a parent or person with parental responsibility and, where appropriate, the child. We will respect the child’s wishes.
Contact us to request removal of an identifiable promotional image. We will stop new promotional use following an opt-out and remove the image from channels we control where we can. We cannot guarantee recovery of printed material already distributed or copies independently shared by others, but will consider reasonable steps to address these. Your statutory rights remain unaffected. Where use relies on consent, you may withdraw it at any time.
14 CCTV and personal information
CCTV operates in monitored areas for safety, security, crime prevention and investigating incidents. It does not record sound. Footage is normally retained for up to 30 days and then deleted or overwritten. Relevant footage may be retained longer where necessary for a specific incident, complaint, insurance matter or legal claim, with continued retention reviewed.
Access is restricted to authorised people. Relevant footage may be shared with police, emergency services, insurers, legal advisers or others where necessary and lawful. CCTV is separate from promotional photography; an objection to promotional photography does not automatically prevent necessary security recording.
We process booking details, contact information, participation records and relevant incident information to administer visits, manage safety and meet legal obligations. Any necessary health information will receive additional protection and be processed only where an appropriate legal basis and special-category condition apply.
Our privacy notice explains who controls your information, why it is used, the lawful bases, recipients, retention periods and your rights, including how to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Privacy notice: https://www.4motiondarlington.org/policies/privacy-policy
15 Annual acceptance and electronic records
The participation agreement must be renewed every 12 months. It applies to visits during that period, subject to the details of each session or party booking. We will bring material changes to your attention and obtain fresh acceptance where required; we will not treat an earlier signature as acceptance of undisclosed changes.
Please update emergency contact details and relevant support information when they change. A participant turning 18 must complete their own agreement before their next visit. Electronic acceptance may be recorded with the accepted version, date and time and, where disclosed in the privacy notice, technical information needed to evidence acceptance. We will make a copy available to you.
16 Questions and governing law
Raise concerns with reception or contact info@4motiondarlington.co.uk. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. They do not remove mandatory consumer protections or court rights that otherwise apply. If a term is unenforceable, the remainder continues where it can do so fairly and lawfully.