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TERMS OF USE

NCEquestrianCenter.com
North Carolina Equestrian Center
Last Updated: May 20, 2026

Welcome to NCEquestrianCenter.com, the website of North Carolina Equestrian Center, located at 1746 Brooks Road, Reidsville, North Carolina 27320.

These Terms of Use explain the rules that apply when you visit or use our website, submit a form, request information, register for a lesson, clinic, event, camp, boarding service, training service, volunteer opportunity, or otherwise interact with us online.

By using this website, you agree to these Terms of Use and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use this website.

1. Who We Are

For purposes of these Terms, “North Carolina Equestrian Center,” “NCEC,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean North Carolina Equestrian Center and its owners, managers, employees, instructors, trainers, volunteers, representatives, and authorized service providers, as applicable.

“Website” means NCEquestrianCenter.com and any pages, forms, content, images, videos, online registration tools, payment links, embedded tools, or related online services we operate or control.

2. Website Purpose

Our website is intended to provide information about North Carolina Equestrian Center, including lessons, boarding, training, clinics, camps, events, barn policies, equestrian programs, facility information, and ways to contact us.

Information on the website is for general informational purposes only. It is not veterinary, medical, legal, insurance, tax, safety, or professional advice. You should consult the appropriate qualified professional for those matters.

The website is not an emergency communication system. For emergencies, call 911. For urgent barn-related matters, use the emergency contact method provided directly by NCEC.

3. Eligibility and Use by Minors

This website is intended for use by adults, parents, legal guardians, prospective clients, current clients, and general visitors.

Minors may use the website only with the involvement and permission of a parent or legal guardian. If a minor participates in lessons, camps, clinics, riding activities, volunteer activities, or other programs, a parent or legal guardian must complete all required forms, releases, consents, and agreements.

A person under 18 may not create a binding agreement with NCEC unless permitted by law and approved by a parent or legal guardian.

4. Program Registration, Bookings, Payments, and Availability

We may allow visitors to request information, submit registration forms, schedule services, join a waitlist, reserve event space, or make payments through the website or through third-party platforms.

Submitting a form or payment does not guarantee acceptance into a program, lesson time, event, camp, boarding arrangement, training program, or other service unless we confirm acceptance.

Program availability, pricing, schedules, instructors, horses, event dates, and policies may change at any time. Specific cancellation, refund, weather, make-up lesson, camp, event, boarding, and training policies may be posted separately or provided in written agreements. Those specific policies control over general website descriptions.

If online payments are offered, payments may be processed by third-party payment providers. We are not responsible for the acts, errors, delays, security practices, or policies of third-party payment processors.

5. Equine Activities, Farm Animal Activities, and Assumption of Risk

Using this website does not make you a participant in an equine activity or farm animal activity. However, if you visit our facility or participate in any equine, horse, pony, farm animal, barn, riding, handling, grooming, feeding, turnout, training, clinic, camp, volunteer, boarding, or event activity, additional rules, releases, waivers, and safety policies may apply.

Horses, ponies, livestock, and other animals are inherently unpredictable. They may bite, kick, strike, bolt, rear, buck, spook, pull back, step on a person, collide with people or objects, or react suddenly to sound, movement, weather, vehicles, dogs, wildlife, equipment, unfamiliar objects, or other animals.

North Carolina law provides liability protections for certain equine and farm animal activity sponsors and professionals when injuries or death result exclusively from inherent risks of those activities, subject to statutory exceptions. North Carolina law also requires specific warning notices for equine and farm animal activities. 

North Carolina Chapter 99E Equine Warning

WARNING
Under North Carolina law, an equine activity sponsor or equine professional is not liable for an injury to or the death of a participant in equine activities resulting exclusively from the inherent risks of equine activities. Chapter 99E of the North Carolina General Statutes.

This website notice is not a substitute for required barn signs, written contracts, releases, waivers, or safety instructions. Participants, parents, guardians, guests, visitors, spectators, vendors, and volunteers must follow all posted and verbal barn rules.

6. Required Barn Forms and Separate Agreements

Before participating in certain activities, you may be required to sign additional documents, including but not limited to:

  • Liability release and assumption of risk agreement 
  • Minor participant release signed by a parent or legal guardian 
  • Lesson agreement 
  • Boarding agreement 
  • Training agreement 
  • Camp or clinic registration form 
  • Photo/video release 
  • Emergency medical authorization 
  • Volunteer agreement 
  • Horse owner forms 
  • Dog/pet policy acknowledgment 
  • Barn rules and safety policy acknowledgment 

If there is a conflict between these Terms and a signed written agreement, the signed written agreement will control for that specific service or activity.

7. Your Responsibilities When Using the Website

You agree that you will not:

  • Use the website for unlawful, fraudulent, harmful, misleading, abusive, or disruptive purposes 
  • Submit false, incomplete, or misleading information 
  • Impersonate another person or misrepresent your authority to act for a minor, client, horse owner, organization, or business 
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, forms, email, accounts, or third-party platforms 
  • Upload malware, spam, harmful code, or automated scraping tools 
  • Copy, reproduce, sell, or exploit website content without permission 
  • Interfere with the website’s operation or security 
  • Use the website to harass, threaten, defame, intimidate, or harm another person 
  • Submit content that violates another person’s privacy, publicity rights, intellectual property rights, or legal rights 
  • Submit photos or videos of minors unless you are the parent/legal guardian or have proper permission 

We may block, restrict, or terminate access to the website if we believe a user has violated these Terms or created a safety, security, legal, or operational concern.

8. User Submissions, Reviews, Testimonials, Photos, and Videos

You may be able to submit messages, reviews, testimonials, photos, videos, comments, registration information, horse information, rider information, or other content to us.

You are responsible for anything you submit. By submitting content to us, you confirm that you have the right to provide it and that it does not violate anyone else’s rights.

Unless we agree otherwise in writing, you grant NCEC permission to use, store, copy, display, reproduce, edit for length or formatting, and respond to your submission for purposes related to our business, including customer service, registration, operations, safety, marketing, website administration, and recordkeeping.

We will not intentionally use a minor’s name, image, testimonial, or identifiable information for marketing without appropriate parent or guardian permission.

We may remove or decline to publish any submission for any reason, including if it is unsafe, inappropriate, inaccurate, misleading, unlawful, confidential, defamatory, or inconsistent with our barn values and safety expectations.

9. Photos, Videos, Events, and Social Media

NCEC may take or receive photos and videos at lessons, clinics, camps, shows, events, and around the facility. Separate photo/video releases may apply.

If you tag us, message us, submit content to us, comment on our social media pages, or use a hashtag associated with NCEC, you understand that your content may be visible to others depending on your privacy settings and the platform’s rules.

Do not post unsafe horse-handling content, private information, images of minors without permission, or content that misrepresents NCEC, our staff, clients, horses, facility, programs, or policies.

Social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, are operated by third parties. We do not control their privacy, moderation, advertising, data, or account practices.

10. Intellectual Property

The website and its content, including text, images, videos, graphics, logos, layout, design, program descriptions, forms, downloads, and other materials, are owned by NCEC or used with permission.

You may view and print website content for your personal, noncommercial use. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, scrape, publish, upload, or commercially exploit website content without our written permission.

The names “North Carolina Equestrian Center,” “NCEC,” and related names, logos, branding, and materials may not be used in a way that suggests endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or permission unless we approve it in writing.

11. Third-Party Links and Services

Our website may link to or use third-party websites, forms, maps, booking tools, payment processors, social media platforms, email services, analytics tools, advertising tools, embedded videos, or other services.

We do not own or control third-party services. Their terms, privacy policies, security practices, payment processing, availability, and content are their responsibility, not ours.

A link to a third-party website does not mean we endorse that website or accept responsibility for it.

12. Communications

When you submit your contact information, you authorize us to respond to you by email, phone, text message, mail, or other communication methods you provide, subject to applicable law.

You may opt out of promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link or contacting us. Transactional, safety, account, scheduling, billing, legal, or program-related messages may still be sent when necessary.

Do not submit confidential, sensitive, medical, financial, or emergency information through general website forms unless the form specifically asks for it and you are authorized to provide it.

13. Website Accuracy and Availability

We try to keep website information accurate and current, but we do not guarantee that all content is complete, accurate, current, available, error-free, secure, or uninterrupted.

Website content may be updated, removed, or changed at any time without notice.

We are not responsible for typographical errors, outdated information, technical errors, broken links, service interruptions, unauthorized access, malware, third-party outages, or losses caused by reliance on website content.

14. No Warranty

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the website is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory.

We do not warrant that the website will meet your expectations, be uninterrupted, be secure, be error-free, or be free from harmful components.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, NCEC and its owners, managers, employees, instructors, trainers, volunteers, representatives, service providers, and affiliates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages arising from or related to your use of the website.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit rights or liabilities that cannot legally be limited under applicable law.

These Terms do not replace any liability release, assumption of risk agreement, waiver, barn policy, or written contract required for participation in equine, farm animal, barn, riding, camp, clinic, event, boarding, training, volunteer, or facility activities.

16. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless NCEC and its owners, managers, employees, instructors, trainers, volunteers, representatives, service providers, and affiliates from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from:

  • Your use or misuse of the website 
  • Your violation of these Terms 
  • Information or content you submit 
  • Your violation of another person’s rights 
  • Your actions on behalf of a minor, guest, rider, horse owner, or organization 
  • Your violation of applicable law 

17. Privacy

Our collection and use of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy. By using the website, you acknowledge that you have reviewed the Privacy Policy.

18. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last Updated” date shows when the Terms were last revised.

Changes are effective when posted unless we state otherwise. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

19. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Any dispute arising from or related to the website or these Terms will be handled in the state or federal courts with jurisdiction over Reidsville, North Carolina, unless another written agreement requires a different process or venue.

20. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms may be directed to:

North Carolina Equestrian Center
1746 Brooks Road
Reidsville, NC 27320
Email: ncequestriancenter@gmail.com
Phone: 336-361-2838


Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

NCEquestrianCenter.com
North Carolina Equestrian Center
Last Updated: May 25, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how North Carolina Equestrian Center collects, uses, shares, protects, and retains information when you visit NCEquestrianCenter.com, contact us, submit forms, register for programs, interact with us online, or use related services.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “North Carolina Equestrian Center,” “NCEC,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean North Carolina Equestrian Center, located at 1746 Brooks Road, Reidsville, North Carolina 27320.

This Privacy Policy is organized to help you understand:

  • What information we collect 
  • How we use information 
  • When we share information 
  • How long we keep information 
  • What choices you have 
  • How we handle children’s information 
  • How to contact us 

1. Information We Collect

We collect information in several ways: information you provide, information collected automatically, information from third-party services, and information related to barn programs or facility participation.

A. Information You Provide to Us

You may provide information when you:

  • Contact us through the website 
  • Request lesson, boarding, training, camp, clinic, or event information 
  • Register for a program 
  • Submit a waiver, release, or barn form 
  • Join a waitlist 
  • Make a payment 
  • Sign up for email updates 
  • Submit a testimonial, review, photo, or video 
  • Apply to volunteer or work with us 
  • Communicate with us by email, phone, text, social media, or mail 

This information may include:

  • Name 
  • Parent or guardian name 
  • Minor participant name 
  • Email address 
  • Phone number 
  • Mailing address 
  • Emergency contact information 
  • Rider age or date of birth 
  • Riding experience 
  • Height, weight, or other information needed for appropriate horse assignment, safety, or program placement 
  • Horse ownership, boarding, veterinary, farrier, training, or care information 
  • Program preferences 
  • Scheduling information 
  • Payment and billing information 
  • Signed agreements, waivers, consents, and releases 
  • Medical, allergy, disability, accommodation, or safety-related information that you choose or are required to provide for participation 
  • Messages, comments, testimonials, reviews, photos, videos, or other content you submit 

Please do not submit sensitive information through a general contact form unless we specifically request it and you are authorized to provide it.

B. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics tools, security tools, or third-party integrations.

This may include:

  • IP address 
  • Browser type 
  • Device type 
  • Operating system 
  • Pages visited 
  • Date and time of visit 
  • Referring website 
  • Approximate location based on IP address 
  • Clicks and interactions with the website 
  • Cookie, pixel, or similar technology information 
  • Error logs, performance data, and security logs 

C. Information from Third Parties

We may receive information from third-party services, such as:

  • Online booking or registration platforms 
  • Payment processors 
  • Email marketing platforms 
  • Social media platforms 
  • Website analytics providers 
  • Advertising or retargeting tools, if enabled 
  • Event partners or show organizers 
  • Referral sources 
  • Publicly available sources 
  • Parents, guardians, horse owners, veterinarians, farriers, instructors, trainers, or emergency contacts 

Third-party services have their own privacy practices. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.

D. Payment Information

If online payments are available, payment information may be processed by a third-party payment processor. We do not intentionally store full credit card numbers on our website.

We may receive limited payment-related information, such as transaction status, amount paid, date of payment, billing contact information, last four digits of a card, payment method type, invoice number, or confirmation number.

2. How We Use Information

We use information to operate our website, provide equestrian services, communicate with you, improve our programs, and protect people, animals, property, and our business.

We may use information to:

  • Respond to questions and inquiries 
  • Schedule lessons, tours, calls, camps, clinics, events, or appointments 
  • Register riders, campers, boarders, volunteers, or event participants 
  • Evaluate rider experience and appropriate program placement 
  • Assign horses or instructors when applicable 
  • Manage safety, emergency contact, and health-related needs 
  • Process payments, invoices, deposits, refunds, and account records 
  • Send confirmations, reminders, updates, invoices, receipts, and policy notices 
  • Maintain signed waivers, releases, agreements, and barn records 
  • Provide customer support 
  • Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and secure the website 
  • Detect fraud, misuse, security incidents, or unauthorized access 
  • Analyze website traffic and improve user experience 
  • Send newsletters, promotional messages, event announcements, or program updates where permitted 
  • Share photos, videos, testimonials, or event highlights when we have appropriate permission 
  • Comply with legal, insurance, accounting, tax, safety, law enforcement, or regulatory obligations 
  • Protect the rights, safety, and property of NCEC, our clients, visitors, staff, horses, animals, and others 

3. Cookies, Pixels, Analytics, and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, analytics tools, and similar technologies to operate the site, remember preferences, measure traffic, improve content, protect security, and understand how visitors use the website.

These technologies may be used for:

  • Website functionality 
  • Security and fraud prevention 
  • Traffic analytics 
  • Performance monitoring 
  • Form functionality 
  • Embedded content 
  • Social media integrations 
  • Advertising or retargeting, if enabled 

If we use advertising or social media tools, such as Meta/Facebook, Instagram, Google, or similar platforms, those services may collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet to provide measurement services, ads, or related features.

You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect website functionality.

4. How We Share Information

We do not sell personal information in the ordinary sense of exchanging it for money.

We may share information in the following situations:

A. With Service Providers

We may share information with vendors who help us operate our business, such as:

  • Website hosting providers 
  • Form providers 
  • Booking and scheduling platforms 
  • Payment processors 
  • Email and text message providers 
  • Customer management tools 
  • Analytics providers 
  • Security providers 
  • Cloud storage providers 
  • IT support providers 
  • Accountants, insurers, attorneys, and business advisors 

These providers may use information only as needed to provide services to us or as allowed by their own agreements and policies.

B. With Barn Staff and Program Personnel

We may share information with instructors, trainers, barn managers, camp staff, volunteers, contractors, or other authorized personnel when needed to provide services, manage safety, assign horses, communicate with families, or respond to emergencies.

C. With Parents, Guardians, and Emergency Contacts

For minors or dependent participants, we may communicate with parents, legal guardians, authorized caregivers, and emergency contacts about scheduling, participation, safety, payment, behavior, incidents, injuries, program needs, or other relevant matters.

D. For Safety, Medical, Veterinary, Emergency, or Incident Purposes

We may share information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to protect the safety of a rider, child, visitor, staff member, horse, animal, or property.

This may include sharing information with emergency responders, medical personnel, veterinarians, law enforcement, animal control, insurance providers, attorneys, or other appropriate parties.

E. With Third-Party Platforms You Use

If you interact with us on social media, submit payment through a third-party processor, register through a third-party platform, watch embedded videos, or use an external link, your information may be processed by that third party.

F. For Legal, Insurance, and Compliance Purposes

We may share information when required or permitted by law, legal process, subpoena, court order, government request, insurance claim, investigation, dispute, debt collection, audit, or to protect rights, safety, property, and legal interests.

North Carolina law requires businesses that own or license personal information of North Carolina residents to provide notice after certain security breaches involving personal information, without unreasonable delay and subject to legal and investigative needs. 

G. Business Transfers

If NCEC is involved in a sale, merger, transfer, reorganization, financing, change of ownership, or similar business transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to appropriate protections.

H. With Your Consent

We may share information in other ways when you give us permission.

5. Children’s Privacy

Our website is intended primarily for adults, parents, legal guardians, and general audiences. It is not intended for children under 13 to submit personal information directly to us.

Parents or legal guardians may provide information about minor participants for lessons, camps, clinics, events, waivers, releases, safety planning, emergency contacts, billing, and program administration.

If we learn that a child under 13 has submitted personal information directly to us online without parent or guardian consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information or obtain appropriate parent/guardian consent where required.

The FTC’s COPPA guidance states that COPPA applies to operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 that collect personal information, and to general-audience sites with actual knowledge that they collect personal information from children under 13. 

Parents and legal guardians may contact us to review, correct, or request deletion of personal information submitted about their child, subject to legal, safety, insurance, and recordkeeping needs.

6. Photos, Videos, Testimonials, and Public Content

We may collect or receive photos, videos, testimonials, reviews, and other content related to lessons, camps, clinics, shows, facility events, horse activities, or client experiences.

We will use minor participant images or identifiable testimonials for marketing only with appropriate parent or guardian permission.

If you submit a testimonial, review, photo, video, or social media content to us, you give us permission to use it for business purposes unless we agree otherwise in writing.

If you want us to remove a photo, testimonial, or similar content from our website or marketing materials, contact us. We will review the request and take reasonable action where appropriate. We may not be able to remove content from third-party platforms, printed materials already distributed, archived backups, or content shared by others.

7. Marketing Communications

We may send emails, newsletters, event announcements, schedule updates, promotions, or program information.

You may opt out of promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link or contacting us.

Even if you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send non-promotional communications, such as lesson reminders, safety notices, billing messages, policy updates, registration confirmations, weather notices, or legal notices.

8. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

No website, email, form, payment platform, or online system is completely secure. Please use care when submitting information online.

If you believe information you submitted to us has been compromised, contact us promptly.

9. Data Retention

We keep information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

  • Provide services 
  • Manage accounts and registrations 
  • Maintain waiver, release, consent, and participation records 
  • Respond to inquiries 
  • Meet legal, tax, accounting, insurance, safety, and recordkeeping requirements 
  • Resolve disputes 
  • Enforce agreements 
  • Protect our rights, participants, staff, horses, animals, and property 

Some records, such as waivers, releases, incident reports, payment records, insurance-related documents, and minor participant records, may be kept longer where appropriate for legal, insurance, safety, or business reasons.

10. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on the information and context, you may ask us to:

  • Confirm whether we have certain information about you 
  • Update or correct your contact information 
  • Remove you from marketing emails 
  • Delete certain information where legally and operationally possible 
  • Update a child participant record if you are the parent or legal guardian 
  • Withdraw permission for future marketing use of a photo, video, or testimonial 
  • Ask questions about how your information is used 

We may need to verify your identity or authority before fulfilling a request. We may decline or limit a request where necessary for legal, safety, insurance, accounting, dispute-resolution, contractual, or recordkeeping purposes.

11. Do Not Track and Browser Controls

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” or similar signals. Because there is not a uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, our website may not respond to them automatically.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. You can also manage certain advertising preferences directly through advertising platforms and device settings.

12. Third-Party Websites and Social Media

Our website may link to third-party websites, social media pages, payment platforms, registration systems, maps, videos, or embedded tools.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or platforms. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, security, content, or policies.

When you interact with us on Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, or another third-party platform, that platform may collect and use information according to its own policies.

13. Visitors from Outside North Carolina or the United States

NCEC is located in North Carolina, United States. The website is intended primarily for users in the United States.

If you access the website from outside the United States, you understand that information may be collected, processed, and stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your location.

14. Security Breach Notice

If we determine that a security breach requires notice under applicable law, we will provide notice as required.

For North Carolina residents, state law requires certain notices to affected persons after qualifying security breaches involving personal information and requires notice to the Consumer Protection Division of the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office when affected persons are notified. 

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Last Updated” date shows when it was last revised.

Changes are effective when posted unless we state otherwise. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.

16. Contact Us

Questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

North Carolina Equestrian Center
1746 Brooks Road
Reidsville, NC 27320
Email: ncequestriancenter@gmail.com
Phone:336-361-2838[

Barn Rules & Policy

North Carolina Equestrian Center BARN RULES, SAFETY POLICY & PREMISES AGREEMENT


Location: 1746 Brooks Road, Reidsville, NC 27320


Barn Owner/ Emergency Contact: 

Karen Root: 570-972-6372

Kayla Root: 570-877-8322
 

Barn Manager / Emergency Contact: Marion Wright: 619-300-0444


By entering North Carolina Equestrian Center [NCEC] property, all visitors, students, riders, boarders, parents, guardians, guests, spectators, volunteers, vendors, and contractors agree to follow these rules. These rules apply to all barns, arenas, trails, driveways, parking areas, paddocks, pastures, wash racks, tack rooms, feed rooms, viewing areas, and all other areas of the property.


1. North Carolina Equine and Farm Animal Risk Notice

Horses, ponies, donkeys, mules, livestock, and other farm animals are large, powerful, and unpredictable. Even calm animals may bite, kick, step on, strike, run, bolt, spook, rear, buck, pull back, crowd a person, collide with another animal or object, or react suddenly to sounds, movement, vehicles, equipment, weather, dogs, wildlife, unfamiliar objects, or people.

North Carolina law recognizes “inherent risks” of equine activities, including the possibility of an equine behaving in ways that may result in injury, harm, or death and the unpredictability of an equine’s reaction to sounds, sudden movement, unfamiliar objects, persons, or other animals.  For farm animal activities, North Carolina law also includes the risk of illness from contact with animals, animal feed, animal waste, or surfaces that have contacted animal waste. 

Nothing in these rules eliminates a participant’s responsibility to use good judgment, follow staff instructions, supervise children, control dogs, wear proper safety gear, and avoid unsafe behavior.


2. Required North Carolina Chapter 99E Warning Sign

Applicable warning signs have been posted in clearly visible areas, including the barn entrance, arena entrance, lesson check-in area - wash/grooming area. The same warning is included in all lesson agreements,  lease agreements, boarding agreements, waivers, clinic forms, and other written contracts as applicable.


We are an equine-only facility

WARNING
Under North Carolina law, an equine activity sponsor or equine professional is not liable for an injury to or the death of a participant in equine activities resulting exclusively from the inherent risks of equine activities. Chapter 99E of the North Carolina General Statutes. 


As a mixed farm animal facility or any facility with non-equine farm animal activities

WARNING
Under North Carolina law, a farm animal activity sponsor or farm animal professional is not liable for an injury to or the death of a participant in farm animal activities resulting exclusively from the inherent risks of farm animal activities. Chapter 99E of the North Carolina General Statutes. 

Chapter 99E does not protect a sponsor or professional in every situation. North Carolina’s equine and farm animal liability provisions identify exceptions, including certain faulty tack/equipment situations, failure to make reasonable and prudent efforts to determine a participant’s ability to safely manage the animal provided, willful or wanton disregard for safety, and product-liability claims. 


General Barn Rules

3. Check-In, Access, and Restricted Areas

All visitors must check in with barn staff before entering animal areas. Everyone that sets foot on the premises MUST sign a waiver.  Not signing the waiver does not release your own obligation, personal responsibility or personal liability.  


No person may enter stalls, paddocks, pastures, arenas, tack rooms, feed rooms, hay storage areas, equipment areas, trailers, or private boarder areas unless authorized by barn staff.


Do not open gates, stall doors, arena doors, or pasture entrances without permission. If you open a gate, close and latch it immediately behind you. Report loose, injured, sick, or distressed animals to staff immediately.

No one may feed, pet, touch, catch, halter, lead, groom, tack, ride, train, discipline, or handle any animal without permission from barn staff or the animal’s owner.


4. Children and Minor Supervision Policy

Parents and guardians are responsible for their children at all times while on the property, except during the portion of a scheduled lesson, camp, or program when the child is directly under the supervision of staff.

Children may not be dropped off, left unattended, or allowed to wander the property unless NCEC has approved the arrangement in writing. A parent, guardian, or responsible adult must remain on-site for children under 16, unless the child is enrolled in a supervised barn program.

Children must stay under the control of a parent or in designated viewing or waiting areas unless participating in a scheduled activity. Siblings and non-riding children must be supervised by an adult and may not play in barn aisles, arenas, wash racks, stalls, paddocks, pastures, driveways, parking areas, hay areas, tack rooms, feed rooms, trailers, or equipment areas.

Children may not run, scream, climb fences, crawl under gates, sit on rails, throw objects, play with barn tools, enter stalls, touch electric fencing, approach tied horses, stand behind horses, crawl under horses, wrap lead ropes around hands or bodies, or feed treats without permission and must remain supervised and under control at all times.

Strollers, wagons, scooters, bicycles, balls, remote-control toys, drones, balloons, umbrellas, and other items that may spook animals are not permitted in animal-handling areas without staff approval.

All minors must wear properly fitted riding helmets when mounted. NCES may also require helmets for minors handling horses from the ground. Closed-toe shoes are required in all barn and animal areas.


5. Riding and Horse-Handling Safety

All riders must sign the required release forms before participating. Minors must have forms signed by a parent or legal guardian.

Riders must wear an ASTM/SEI-approved equestrian helmet when mounted. Proper footwear with a defined heel is required for riding unless barn staff approves an adaptive or therapeutic riding accommodation.

No riding alone without barn approval. No jumping, trail riding, bareback riding, lunging, driving, or use of obstacles unless approved by staff. No one may mount until girth/cinch, bridle, tack, and helmet have been checked as appropriate.

Only barn-approved tack and equipment may be used. Report damaged tack, unsafe footing, broken fencing, loose boards, exposed nails, open gates, or hazards immediately.

Maintain safe spacing between horses. Do not crowd, chase, tease, hit, surprise, or discipline any animal unless specifically directed by staff in an emergency.


6. Dogs and Pets on Premises

For the safety of riders, children, horses, livestock, visitors, and dogs, personal pets are not permitted on the property unless approved in advance by NCEC owners. Barn-owned animals, pre-approved dogs, and legally protected service animals are exceptions.

Approved dogs must remain on a leash no longer than 6 feet under adult control, and away from horses, livestock, arenas, lessons, camps, clinics, wash racks, barn aisles, paddocks, pastures, feed rooms, tack rooms, and horse-handling areas unless staff gives specific permission.

Approved dogs must be current on rabies vaccination and any other vaccinations or licensing required by law or local ordinance. North Carolina law requires dogs, cats, and ferrets over four months of age to be vaccinated against rabies. 

Dogs may not bark repeatedly, growl, lunge, chase, jump on people, approach horses, approach livestock, enter arenas, enter stalls, run loose, or interfere with lessons, riding, chores, veterinary work, farrier work, loading, turnout, or feeding. Any dog that creates a safety concern must be removed immediately.

Dog owners are responsible for all injuries, property damage, veterinary bills, medical bills, cleanup, and other losses caused by their dog. North Carolina law provides strict civil liability for owners of dangerous dogs for injuries or property damage the dog inflicts on a person, property, or another animal.  North Carolina also has dangerous-dog restrictions and allows cities and counties to adopt or enforce their own dangerous-dog programs, so local rules should be checked as well. 

All bites, scratches, kicks, falls, dog incidents, loose dogs, or animal-contact injuries must be reported to barn staff immediately. If an animal required to be vaccinated bites a person, North Carolina law requires immediate notice to the local health director and 10-day confinement in a place designated by the local health director. 


7. Service Animal Policy

Service animals are not pets. NCEC will accommodate service animals as required by law while also maintaining safety around horses and livestock.

A service animal must be under the handler’s control at all times. Under ADA guidance, service animals generally must be harnessed, leashed, or tethered unless those devices interfere with the animal’s work or the handler’s disability prevents their use; in that case, the handler must maintain control by voice, signal, or other effective means. 

When the need for the service animal is not obvious, staff may ask only the legally permitted questions: whether the dog is required because of a disability and what work or task the dog has been trained to perform. Staff may not require medical documentation, certification papers, a special ID card, or a demonstration of the task. 

A service animal may be asked to leave if it is out of control and the handler does not take effective action to control it, or if it is not housebroken.  For safety, handlers should check in with barn staff before entering animal areas so staff can provide a safe route and avoid unnecessary contact between the service animal, horses, livestock, and working dogs.


8. Outside Animals, Visiting Horses, and Livestock

No outside horse, pony, donkey, mule, livestock animal, poultry, goat, sheep, cow, llama, alpaca, rabbit, dog, cat, or other animal may be brought onto the property without prior written approval from NCEC owners.

[Optional: Visiting horses must have proof of current negative Coggins, health certificate if applicable, and vaccination records acceptable to NCEC.]

Outside animals must remain in designated areas only and may not have nose-to-nose contact with resident animals unless approved by staff.


9. Biosecurity, Cleanliness, and Health

Wash hands after touching animals, tack, feed, water buckets, manure, fences, stall doors, or barn surfaces, and before eating or drinking.

Do not share water buckets, feed tubs, grooming tools, tack, blankets, or other equipment without permission. Do not enter quarantine, medical, isolation, or private-care areas.

Do not come to the barn if you have been asked to quarantine for a contagious illness or if you have recently handled a sick animal at another facility without notifying staff.

Children must be closely supervised around manure, feed, water troughs, mud, farm equipment, and animal-contact surfaces.


10. Parking, Vehicles, and Farm Equipment

Drive slowly on the property. Speed limit: [5 mph]. Horses, children, dogs, cats, tractors, trailers, and pedestrians may be present at any time.

Park only in designated areas. Do not block gates, barn doors, driveways, trailers, emergency access routes, arenas, manure areas, hay deliveries, or veterinarian/farrier parking.

Do not approach, climb on, operate, or play near tractors, mowers, drags, manure spreaders, trailers, ATVs, golf carts, hay bales, equipment, or farm machinery.


11. Prohibited Conduct

The following are prohibited on NCEC property:

Smoking, vaping, open flames, fireworks, firearms, illegal drugs, alcohol use before or during riding or handling animals, reckless driving, harassment, abusive language, unsafe behavior, cruelty to animals, feeding animals without permission, entering restricted areas, and ignoring staff instructions.

[Optional: Dogs, drones, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, umbrellas, balloons, loud music, and photography/video for commercial use are prohibited unless approved by staff.]


12. Weather, Emergency, and Incident Policy

Barn staff may cancel, delay, or modify lessons, turnout, clinics, camps, trail rides, or events due to lightning, high winds, extreme heat, poor footing, unsafe air quality, illness, loose animals, equipment failure, or any other safety concern.

In an emergency, follow staff instructions immediately. Call 911 when needed, then notify barn staff. All falls, bites, kicks, dog incidents, head impacts, property damage, broken tack, loose animals, and near-miss incidents must be reported the same day.


13. Enforcement

NCEC may ask any person or animal to leave the property at any time for safety reasons or violation of barn rules. Repeated or serious violations may result in loss of riding, boarding, lesson, volunteer, visitor, or event privileges without refund.

Parents and guardians are responsible for their children and guests. Dog owners are responsible for their dogs. Boarders are responsible for their guests, family members, vendors, and any animals brought with permission.

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NORTH CAROLINA EQUESTRIAN CENTER

1746 BROOKS ROAD, REIDSVILLE, NC 27320

336-361-2838

Participation in equine activities involves inherent risk. Please review our Barn Rules, Safety Policy, and required participant agreements before visiting or participating.




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