Terms of Use

1.Who we are

Mornin' Mass (morninmass.com, "the site") is run by Plymouth St, LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company in Plymouth, Massachusetts ("we," "us"). Questions about these terms go to admin@morninmass.com.

By using the site you agree to these Terms of Use and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.

2.Using the site

The site is free and made for adults who like old cars. It isn't directed to children under 13. You may use it for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. Please don't:

• use the site for anything illegal, or to harass, threaten or defame anyone;
• try to break, overload or get around the security of the site or the services behind it;
• scrape or bulk-copy the site in a way that interferes with how it runs (see section 9 for the data you're welcome to reuse);
• pretend to be someone you're not, or send us spam through our forms.

We can block access for anyone who misuses the site.

3.Information only. Check before you go.

Everything on the site is general information for car people, provided as-is. It is not mechanical, legal, financial, insurance or safety advice. Before you rely on anything, check it yourself. In particular:

• Weather and the "Should the car come out?" gauge come from National Weather Service forecasts plus our own rule of thumb. The gauge is for fun. Whether you drive is your call.
• Gas prices are U.S. Energy Information Administration weekly averages, not what any station charges today.
• Station, parts store, mechanic, speed shop and body shop listings, including hours, phone numbers, tags like "Rig ready," "Dyno on site," "Carb tuning" or "Rebuilds," and distances, come from public data and from tips. They can be out of date or wrong. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving miles. Call before you go, and before you tow anything anywhere.
• Car shows and events are run by other people. We're a calendar, not the organizer. Shows get moved, rained out or canceled. Check with the host.
• Garage Radio is in beta. It streams over your internet connection, so stations can cut out, buffer, change programming or leave the lineup, and it uses your phone's data. Set your station before you roll, and follow the law on using your phone while driving. Hands-free means hands-free.

4.Listings are not endorsements

A business showing up on the site doesn't mean we recommend it, have checked its work, or have any relationship with it, and a business missing from the site doesn't mean anything either. We don't take money for placement. Any deal you make with a shop, station, show organizer or anyone else you find through the site is between you and them. Businesses can ask us to correct or remove their listing at any time. If you run a business listed on the site and think something about it is wrong or unfair, email us (section 12). We'll look at it promptly and fix or remove it if it's wrong.

5.Other people's content and links

The News Wire, the ticker and the Reels show headlines, short excerpts, photos and videos that belong to the publishers and channels that made them. We link to the original or play it through the publisher's own player, and we don't claim ownership. Our "recaps" are our own short summaries with a link to the full story.

Garage Radio and Garage Podcast play stations and shows that belong to their owners, through each station's own Live365 or iHeartRadio player or each show's own podcast feed. We pick them, but we don't control what they play, including songs, talk, language and ads, and a station or show can change its programming or go off the air at any time. Having a station or show on the site isn't an endorsement, and none of them pays us to be there. Their own terms apply when you use their players, or their apps if you open a station there.

Links to other sites (Google Maps, GasBuddy, publishers, YouTube and others) are for convenience. Those sites have their own terms and privacy policies, and we're not responsible for them.

Our Facebook and Instagram pages run under those platforms' rules. Comments there are public, and we may remove ones that are rude, spammy or off-topic.

6.Copyright complaints

If you believe something on the site infringes your copyright, email us with: your contact information; the work you say is infringed; the page and item on our site; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn't authorized by you, your agent or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature. We'll remove or disable the item while we sort it out.

Send notices to our designated copyright agent:

Copyright Manager, Plymouth St, LLC
82 Wendell Ave., Ste. 100
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Phone: 714-210-9463
Email: PlymouthStLLC@gmail.com

Our agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office (DMCA-1082897). If someone sends us a notice about something you sent us, you can send a counter-notice to the same agent. We may close the accounts of, or stop accepting submissions from, people who repeatedly infringe.

7.What you send us

When you send us a car show, a tip about a missing shop or story, a correction, a Garage Radio note, or anything else through the site's forms or by email:

• you confirm it's accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you have the right to share it;
• you give us permission to use, edit, publish and display it on the site and in our emails, without paying you;
• we decide what goes on the site. Sending something in doesn't guarantee we'll use it.

Please don't send private information about other people, or anything confidential.

8.Our emails

If you sign up, we'll send the weekly edition: one email on Friday mornings with the week's shows, the weather call, gas and holiday heads-ups. Every email has a way to unsubscribe, and you can also email us to stop.

9.Our stuff and open data

The site's design, writing, recaps, captions, logo and the Mornin' Mass name belong to Plymouth St, LLC. Please don't copy them without asking.

Some of the data behind the site is open data, and you're welcome to it on the same terms we got it:

• Station and shop locations from OpenStreetMap are © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Our compiled files that contain that data (/pumps.json, /parts.json, /mech.json, /body.json and /speed.json) are offered under the same license. See openstreetmap.org/copyright.
• Chain store locations come from All The Places. Weather comes from the National Weather Service and gas prices from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Town boundaries come from the U.S. Census Bureau. Speed shop leads come in part from the Dynoseek directory.

10.No warranties, and limits on our liability

The site is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including that the site or its information is accurate, complete, current, available or fit for a particular purpose.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Plymouth St, LLC and its members won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or vehicle or property damage, arising from your use of the site, information on the site, or any business, event or website you find through it. Our total liability for any claim about the site is limited to $100. Some places don't allow some of these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

If you misuse the site or break these terms and someone makes a claim against us because of it, you agree to cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it.

11.Massachusetts law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Massachusetts, and you and we agree to those courts' jurisdiction. Before going to court, please email us. Most problems get fixed faster that way.

If part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a term right away doesn't mean we've waived it.

12.Changes and contact

We may update these terms as the site changes. We'll change the date at the top when we do, and the version posted here is the one that applies. Questions, corrections, listing removals and copyright notices go to admin@morninmass.com. By mail: Plymouth St, LLC, 82 Wendell Ave., Ste. 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201.