Terms of Use

Website Terms and Conditions

Welcome to the websites of Vail Resorts. The Vail Corporation and its affiliates (“Vail Resorts”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) provide these websites to you, subject to the following Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”), which govern your use of any of our websites containing a link to these Terms of Use (collectively, the “Sites”). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using our Sites. By using any of our Sites, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you should not use our Sites or the services we provide on them.

Privacy
By agreeing to the Terms of Use, you agree to the terms of our Online Privacy Policy, which is expressly incorporated into these Terms of Use. All personal data provided to us as a result of your use of these Sites will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Additional Terms and Agreements
We may also require you to follow additional rules or guidelines in order to sign up to use various special features or password-protected areas of our Sites, to make purchases or reservations on our Sites, to participate in certain promotions available through our Sites, or for other reasons. In such cases, you may be asked to expressly consent to additional terms, for example, by checking a box or clicking on a button marked “I agree.” This type of agreement is known as a “click-through” agreement. If any of the terms of a click-through agreement are different than the terms of these Terms of Use, the terms of the click-through agreement will supplement or amend these Terms of Use, but only with respect to the matters governed by the click-through agreement. In addition, certain policies or terms of sale may apply to online purchases or reservations made on our Sites, which may deemed accepted when you complete or confirm your purchase or reservation. All additional terms and click-through agreements as described in this paragraph are referred to as “Additional Terms.”

Vail Resorts Content
Our Sites contain text, graphics, video, audio, or other content provided by Vail Resorts or its partners (collectively, “Vail Resorts Content”) and such content is protected under applicable intellectual property laws. All Vail Resorts Content and related intellectual property rights are the property of Vail Resorts or the material is included with the permission of the rights. Vail Resorts grants you permission and license to lawfully access and use these Sites and to display, print, or download one copy of the Vail Resorts Content on any single computer for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that you (a) do not modify the Vail Resorts Content; (b) you retain any and all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the Vail Resorts Content; and (c) you do not copy, post, distribute or transmit the Vail Resorts Content on any other website, via any network computer or broadcast the Vail Resorts Content in any media.

You expressly recognize and agree that Vail Resorts’ trademarks, including our resort and hotel names and logos (the “Vail Resorts Marks”) are the sole property of Vail Resorts. You are not authorized to display or use the Vail Resorts Marks or the trademarks, product names, company names, logos, service marks and/or trade dress of any other owners featured on our Sites without the prior written permission of the owner.

Any applicable software you may download from or access on our Sites, including any files, images, or data accompanying the software (collectively, the “Software”) are licensed to you by Vail Resorts for the limited use described in the preceding paragraph. Vail Resorts transfers no right, title or interest in the Software to you. Vail Resorts retains full and complete title to the Software, and all intellectual property rights therein. You may not redistribute, sell, decode, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-perceivable form.

Content You Submit to the Sites
Some of our Sites may provide you with the ability to add, create, upload, submit, distribute, post, or share on or through the Site, content, including without limitation information, website links, opinions, photos, profiles, graphics, videos, and audio clips (“User Content”). For example, the Epic Mix service allows you to upload your photographs to the Epic Mix Site for posting and sharing through your Epic Mix account.

By posting any User Content on the Site, you expressly grant, and represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Vail Resorts a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual license to publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works, and sublicense your User Content in any manner or through any media now known or later developed without any payment to you.

Vail Resorts may choose, in its sole discretion, to pre-screen, edit, refuse, move or remove any User Content posted to the sites. You agree that exercise of that discretion by Vail Resorts does not convert the User Content into Vail Resorts Content.

Conduct
You agree to not use the Sites to:

(a) upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any User Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, offensive, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

(b) engage in or facilitate harassing conduct aimed at any other person or entity;

(c) harm minors in any way;

(d) impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;

(e) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Sites;

(f) upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any User Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);

(g) upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any User Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;

(h) upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation;

(i) upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

(j) interfere with or disrupt the Sites or servers or networks connected to the Sites, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites;

(k) violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, and any regulations having the force of law.

Special Considerations Related to Epic Mix™
Vail Resorts provides the option for you to share your experiences at our resorts with others through your Epic Mix account and the Epic Mix mobile applications. If you open an Epic Mix account, you understand that Vail Resorts will collect and maintain information related to your use of your ski pass at our resorts. Vail Resorts publishes that information to your Epic Mix account in order to provide the Epic Mix service to you. If you agree to have your picture taken by one of our professional photographers, we will upload the photographs to your Epic Mix account in order to provide you with the Epic Mix photography services. We will also collect and publish the User Content, such as your personal photographs, that you submit in connection with your Epic Mix account.

The Epic Mix service allows you to share content through various platforms, websites, and mobile applications, including Facebook and Twitter. You understand that Vail Resorts does not control what information gets published to those sites or who has access to that information. Those sites are managed by third parties and governed by the term of use and privacy policies published on those sites. Epic Mix allows you to upload and share photographs and tag or identify other Epic Mix users in a photograph. You agree not to tag users without their consent. You agree not to post a photograph of a minor child or tag a minor child in a photograph without the consent of that child’s parent or guardian. If a user requests that you remove a photo containing their image or delete a tag, you will do so immediately. Vail Resorts reserves the right to remove photographs or tags at its discretion.

You understand that when you publish User Content to Epic Mix using the “public” setting (including posting photographs), it means you are allowing anyone to access and use that User Content.

You understand that Epic Mix allows you to manage who can see User Content and other information in your Epic Mix account. To learn more about managing your Epic Mix account settings, visit our Epic Mix Privacy FAQ.

Copyright Infringement Complaints
Vail Resorts respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that content on the Sites infringes your work, or the work of a third party for whom you are authorized to act, please send a notice of the alleged infringement to Vail Resorts’ copyright agent including all of the following information, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”):

  • An electronic or physical signature of the intellectual property owner, or an agent authorized to act on behalf of the owner;
  • A description of the work that you claim has been infringed, including the URL, website location, or other identifying characteristics;
  • Your name, company name, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address (and, if you are not the owner of the intellectual property, the name of the owner);
  • A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the described use of the work is not authorized by the intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law;
  • A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are either the intellectual property owner or an agent authorized to act on behalf of the intellectual property owner.
Please send the notice of alleged infringement by any of the following:

Attn: Copyright Agent
U.S. Mail: The Vail Corporation
390 Interlocken Crescent
Broomfield, Colorado 80021
E-mail: comments@vailresorts.com (please include “attn: Copyright Agent” in the subject line)
Fax: (303) 404-6422

Vail Resorts Terms of Use for User Generated Content

Vail Resorts, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (together, “Vail Resorts”) reaches out to social media users to seek their permission to feature our favorite content on our various websites, social channels, and other Vail Resorts’ marketing and advertising media (collectively, the “Sites”), and other advertising outlets including paid advertising. You are reading this because Vail Resorts has requested your permission to use your social media content in this way.

If you choose to allow us to use your social media content (such as photos, text, graphics, audio, or video), including your name, profile information and location information associated with such content (collectively, “User Content”) by replying to Vail Resorts’ request with the hashtag #MyEpicPic, you agree to these Terms of Use and to Vail Resorts’ Online Privacy Policy located at snow.com/footer/privacy.aspx.

In addition, to the extent your User Content is displayed on the Sites you will also be subject to the Terms of Use for the Sites located at snow.com/footer/terms-and-conditions.aspx. If you do not agree to all of the terms of these Terms of Use, please do not submit User Content in response to a Request. Vail Resorts reserves the right to alter these Terms of Use without advance notice by posting a revised Terms of Use. Accordingly, you should review the Terms of Use each time you grant permission to Vail Resorts to feature your User Content.

Prohibited Content
Vail Resorts’ policy is that it does not accept any User Content that is libelous, defamatory, harassing, threatening, bigoted, racist, hateful, violent, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, or otherwise offensive or that harms or can reasonably be expected to harm any person or entity, whether or not such material is protected by law. You agree and represent and warrant that the User Content complies with this policy.

Age of Majority
By submitting your User Content, you confirm that you are at least the age of your majority in your state of residence.

Ownership
You agree and represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights and permissions including, without limitation, all copyrights, music rights, and publicity rights (with respect to any person) contained in the User Content, without the need for payment to any other person or entity, to use and exploit, and to authorize Vail Resorts to use and exploit your User Content in all manners contemplated by these Terms of Use. You further agree to indemnify and hold Vail Resorts harmless from any claims or expenses (including attorneys’ fees) by any third party arising out of or in connection with our use and exploitation of you User Content resulting from a breach of these Terms of Use.

License
You retain ownership of any User Content you submit to Vail Resorts in response to a Request and grant to Vail Resorts and its respective agents, licensees, sublicensees, contractors, successors, and third-party service providers, and their respective retail partners, marketing or public relations agencies, and other affiliates (the “Licensed Parties”) a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully-paid, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable right to use, reproduce, transmit, print, publish, publicly display, exhibit, distribute, redistribute, copy, index, comment on, modify, transform, adapt, translate, create derivative works based upon, publicly perform, publicly communicate, make available, and otherwise exploit any User Content, in whole or in part, in all media formats and channels now known or hereafter devised (including in connection with Vail Resorts services or goods and on the Sites, any Vail Resorts Properties, third-party websites, social media pages, paid advertising in any medium (including broadcast), services, applications, and/or platforms), in any number of a copies and without limit as to time, manner, and frequency of use, without further notice to you, without attribution (to the extent this is not contrary to mandatory provisions of applicable law), and without the requirement of permission from or payment to you or any other person or entity.

Unsolicited Ideas Policy
Vail Resorts does not accept or consider unsolicited creative ideas, suggestions or materials. In connection with any User Content you submit to Vail Resorts – whether or not solicited by Vail Resorts — you agree that any creative ideas, suggestions or other materials you submit are not being made in confidence or trust and that no confidential or fiduciary relationship is intended or created between you and Vail Resorts in any way, and that you have no expectation of review, compensation or consideration of any type. This policy applies without limitation to any User Content you submit in response to a Request.

Miscellaneous
These Terms of Use are personal to you and may not be assigned or transferred by you for any reason without the prior written consent of Vail Resorts. These Terms of Use are governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado. Exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any legal proceedings related to these Terms of Use shall be in the state and federal courts located in Denver, Colorado. If we fail to enforce any provision of these Terms of Use, it will not be considered a waiver of our rights. If any portion of these Terms of Use is to be unenforceable, then the remaining clauses and provisions will remain in full force and effect. These Terms of Use, including Vail Resorts’ Online Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use for the Sites constitute the entire agreement between you and Vail Resorts regarding your submission of User Content, superseding any prior agreements between you and Vail Resorts with regard to your submission of User Content. All of Vail Resorts’ rights and obligations under these Terms of Use are freely assignable by Vail Resorts in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.