These terms govern the submission of your own routes, tour stages and the accompanying images. They supplement the General Terms and Conditions: for everything else — account, Premium, availability, cancellation — the Terms and Conditions apply. Where the two texts contradict each other in relation to uploading, these terms prevail, because they govern the process more specifically. In all other cases the Terms and Conditions remain authoritative.

They become part of the agreement when you tick the two boxes on submission. They are linked there and can be read in full before sending; without the ticks nothing can be submitted. Neither box is pre-selected.

By uploading a route you confirm that:

• You recorded it yourself (GPS device, smartphone, navigation app), created it yourself with the NBNL route planner, or have express permission from the author to publish it.
• It was not downloaded from a third-party platform and passed on. This concerns in particular, but not only: tracks from the Trans Euro Trail (TET), supplements to touring books and travel guides, holdings of commercial route providers and other copyright-protected sources.
• You hold all the rights needed to publish it on nbnl.de and make it available to other members.

Every GPX file is automatically checked for provenance details on upload — for author, licence, generating program and for terms of use in free text. If the check finds an express restriction, such as “private use only”, the file is rejected and not stored. Unclear cases go to a person for review.

This check is an aid, not a free pass: it can only find what is in the file. Whether you hold the rights to a route is something only you know in the end — your warranty above remains authoritative.

A submitted route is published only after release by the NBNL team. We are under no obligation to publish a submission.

By uploading, you grant NBNL and the users of the platform a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use the route:

• to display it and show it on maps,
• to make it available for download and for navigation of one’s own,
• to export it into the file formats offered (GPX, KML, GeoJSON),
• to process it technically — smoothing, elevation profile, trimming to the section actually ridden, for example.

You remain the author. You can delete your route at any time; copies already downloaded by other members are unaffected — those we cannot retrieve.

By uploading an image you confirm that:

• You took it yourself or have express permission from the author to publish it.
• It was not copied from third-party sources — search engines, travel portals, social networks, manufacturer or tourism sites.
• Identifiable persons depicted have consented to publication, or no interest worthy of protection stands in the way (§§ 22, 23 KunstUrhG, the German Act on Copyright in Works of Fine Art and Photography).
• You hold all the rights needed to publish it on nbnl.de.

You give this confirmation actively by ticking a box when uploading — without it the form cannot be submitted.

If your image was created or substantially altered with AI, mark it accordingly when uploading. We then label it visibly on the image and additionally record the note in the image data. The EU AI Act requires this (Art. 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) — and it is simply fair towards everyone who picks a route by its photo.

Before publication we scale every image down to a web-suitable size and convert it to WebP. In doing so the embedded metadata are removed — including the capture coordinates that many cameras and smartphones record. Your home is not going to end up in a caption.

A person then reviews the image and releases it. Until then it is not publicly visible.

By uploading, you grant NBNL a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use the image in connection with the route concerned:

• to display and publish it on nbnl.de,
• to process it technically (size, format, compression, crop),
• to use it in our own announcements about NBNL — for instance on social networks or in press material, in each case naming your display name.

You remain the author. You can delete your images at any time — we then remove them from nbnl.de. Press material already printed, and posts that appeared on social networks before the deletion, cannot be recalled; for those existing publications the licence continues to have effect. For everything else it ends with the deletion. Your material is not passed on to third parties for exploitation of their own.

A recording that begins outside your own front door makes your home address public — permanently, and to everyone who downloads the route. With images we remove the capture coordinates automatically; with a GPS track that is not possible, because the coordinates are the route.

So trim the beginning and the end down to the section that is actually interesting before you submit. The same goes for other people’s addresses — meeting points at friends’ homes, workshops, employers.

If someone contacts us about an infringement — a photographer, a person depicted, a map service — we first take the content in question offline and get in touch with you.

If, when uploading, you culpably — that is, intentionally or negligently — warranted that you held the necessary rights when in fact you did not, you indemnify NBNL to that extent against justified third-party claims: against damages, justified cease-and-desist costs and necessary costs of legal defence. The indemnity reaches only as far as the claim rests on your breach, and does not apply insofar as fault of our own is involved.

We inform you without delay of any such claim, make no admission without your consent, and give you the opportunity to defend yourself.

This provision merely restates what applies anyway (§ 280 (1) BGB, German Civil Code): whoever culpably breaches a contractual warranty is liable for the resulting damage. It neither extends your statutory liability nor restricts your rights.

This rule is not aimed at honest mistakes but at the case where someone knowingly passes off other people’s material as their own. If you are unsure about an image or a route: better not to upload it, or ask us first.

If we show a route or an image on a social network or in press material, we grant the respective provider the rights technically required for that (sub-licence) — nothing can be published there otherwise. This sub-licence never goes further than the display requires, and entitles nobody to exploit your material independently.

The following are not permitted:

• discriminatory, offensive or unlawful content,
• advertising, logos or paid content without our consent,
• images unrelated to the route in question,
• screenshots or extracts from third-party maps and apps — these are almost always protected by copyright,
• routes over ways that are visibly closed or on which riding a motorcycle is prohibited — this includes in particular forest and field tracks, nature reserves and landscape protection areas and private land without the owner’s permission. That a way looks rideable does not mean it may be ridden.

Uploaded routes are provided without warranty. NBNL gives no warranty as to the accuracy, currency or completeness of the data, nor as to whether the ways shown may lawfully be ridden. Every person is responsible for observing laws, traffic rules, signage and access rights on the ground — and for judging whether a route suits their ability and their machine.

For damage arising from use we are liable only in cases of intent and gross negligence. This does not apply to damage from injury to life, body or health, nor to the culpable breach of material contractual duties — for those we are liable even for ordinary negligence, in the latter case limited to the foreseeable damage typical of the contract. Claims under the German Product Liability Act remain unaffected.

We remove routes and images without prior notice where there is reasonable suspicion that they infringe these terms or applicable law — in particular in the case of copyright-protected material. In the event of repeated infringements we may block the ability to upload.

Do you consider a piece of content unlawful? Use the report function on posts and comments, or write to info@nbnl.de. We examine every report and inform you of the outcome (Art. 16, 17 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 — Digital Services Act).

You can report unlawful content through the notice procedure under the Digital Services Act; the process, deadlines and duties to give reasons are set out in the Terms and Conditions. We are under no obligation to monitor uploaded routes without cause — but as soon as we obtain knowledge of a specific infringement, we act without delay.

We adapt these terms when the legal situation, the technology or our offering change. For content already uploaded, the licence continues to apply to the extent you granted it. The date of the current version appears at the top and down here.