How do I create and manage waivers for rides I host myself?

You don’t need a club to use waivers. If you host rides under your own name, you can ask riders to agree to your terms before they join.

A note before you start: RiderFinder isn’t a law firm. We give you the tools to collect agreements, but we don’t write, review or approve waiver terms, and we can’t tell you whether a waiver holds up where you ride. The terms are yours. For help writing one, see Waiver legal considerations and templates.

How personal waivers work

• A waiver covers you as a host, not a single ride. Riders sign once and they’re clear for every ride you host, until you publish new terms.
• Signing is a click-through agreement: the rider taps Agree & sign, and we record their identity and a timestamp.
• Riders are asked at the moment they tap to join or mark themselves interested in one of your rides. Agreeing completes their join.
• You can have several active waivers at once. Riders must sign all of them, one after another.
• Only you can manage your personal waivers. There are no admins or moderators.

Creating a waiver

1. Go to Settings → Waivers.
2. Give your waiver a title.
3. Write the body. It can’t be empty.
4. Use the preview to see exactly what a rider will see before signing.
5. Publish it.

Formatting: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, headings, and bulleted or numbered lists. Links, images, tables and attachments aren’t supported.

Check your wording carefully before publishing. Waivers can’t be edited afterward.

Updating a waiver

There’s no edit button, and that’s deliberate: riders have already agreed to those exact words, so the text is frozen to keep every record accurate.

To change the wording:

1. Open the waiver and tap Update waiver.
2. Write the new terms and publish.

This creates a new version and retires the old one in the same step. The new waiver shows which one it replaces.

Two things to know:

• Signatures on the old version don’t carry over. Riders who signed it will be asked to sign the new version the next time they join one of your rides.
• Publishing new terms doesn’t affect riders already on a ride. The check only happens when someone joins or marks themselves interested.

Retiring a waiver

Retire a waiver when you no longer need it:

• Nobody will be asked to sign it again.
• Signatures already collected stay on record.
• The retired waiver stays in your list. Use the Active / Retired filter to find it.

Retiring doesn’t erase anything.

Seeing who signed

Open any waiver to see its signatures list: who signed and when, newest first. Each version has its own list, so a new version starts empty and fills up as riders sign it. Retired waivers keep their lists too.

Personal waivers vs. club waivers

Your personal waivers cover rides you host under your own name. If you lead a ride hosted by a club, riders sign the club’s waivers, not yours, even if you’re the one out front. To manage a club’s waivers, you need to be an owner or admin of that club: see How do I create and manage club waivers?.