Terms & Conditions

This website is operated by Let’s Make Stupid Decisions (“LMSD”, “we”, “us”), a BASE jumping club and training provider. You can reach us at team@letsmakestupiddecisions.com, or by post at 8 Queens Parade, Cleethorpes, DN35 0DF.

LMSD is run by Louis Harwood, trading as Let’s Make Stupid Decisions. Card payments for club membership and shop orders are taken by us through Stripe, and will show with LMSD in the name on your card statement.

By using this website, creating an account, joining the club, booking training or buying from our shop, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree with them, please don’t use the site or book with us.

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account, join the club or book training with us.

You are responsible for your own safety at all times, including your own decision to jump or not to jump on any given occasion. Our instructors coach, brief and advise, but the final decision on every jump is yours alone, and you remain responsible for your own equipment checks, your own assessment of conditions, and your own actions in the air and on the ground.

You confirm that you are medically fit to participate, that you have disclosed any medical condition, injury or medication that could affect your safety or that of others, and that you will tell us if that changes.

Before any training you will be asked to read and sign a separate written waiver and assumption-of-risk agreement. That signed document sits alongside these terms; where the two differ in relation to training, the signed waiver takes precedence.

We make no warranty, express or implied, that any information is accurate, current, complete or suitable for you or for any particular jump. Conditions change, objects change, access changes, and details go out of date. Anything you read here is a starting point for your own research and your own judgement, never a substitute for it.

In particular, we do not warrant and accept no responsibility for:

• the accuracy of any measurement, height, delay, landing area, access description, hazard note or condition report;
• whether any object is safe to jump, on any day, in any conditions, by you;
• whether access to any object is lawful, permitted by the landowner, or free from risk of prosecution or civil claim;
• information contributed by other members, which we do not independently verify; or
• the availability, suitability or condition of any third-party site, service or product we mention.

Nothing on this site is an invitation or authorisation to trespass, to enter any property without permission, or to break any law. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your access to any object and your jump from it are lawful, and for any consequences if they are not.

Course places are confirmed once we’ve agreed your booking and received any deposit. Payment for courses is arranged directly with us and is not taken through this website.

• Suitability. We assess every applicant individually. We may decline a booking, or end your participation during a course, if we judge that continuing would be unsafe for you or for anyone else. We will always explain why.
• Cancellations by you. We handle these case by case. In practice, if we can fill your place we will normally refund you; if we can’t, we may not be able to. Talk to us as early as you can. The more notice we have, the more likely we can sort something out, including moving you to a later course.
• Cancellations by us. If we cancel a course outright for a reason within our control, you can choose a full refund or a transfer to another course.
• Weather and conditions. Jump numbers are never guaranteed. Weather, conditions, access and your own progression all affect what’s possible, and we will always prioritise safety and solid fundamentals over hitting a number. We are not able to refund or compensate for jumps lost to weather or conditions.
• Club equipment. Where we provide gear at no extra charge, you must use it as instructed and return it in the condition you received it. If you damage it, you are responsible for the cost of repair by our rigger.
• Costs not included. Unless we say otherwise, course fees exclude travel, accommodation, food and drink, and insurance. Where transport is shared, participants split the cost of hire, fuel, insurance and tolls between them.
• Insurance. We strongly recommend appropriate travel, medical, repatriation and personal accident cover. Check carefully that your policy covers BASE jumping. Most standard policies do not.

Club membership costs £50 per year and renews automatically each year until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account or by emailing us; cancelling stops the next renewal and you keep your benefits until the end of the period you’ve paid for.

• If you change your mind within 14 days of joining you can cancel for a full refund, unless you have already used a member benefit in that time (for example, taken a member discount or accessed members-only content).
• Membership is personal to you and must not be shared or transferred.
• Benefits (including discounts, partner offers, resources and access to members-only areas) may change over time as partnerships and club activity change. We will not remove a benefit you have already redeemed.
• We may suspend or end a membership without refund if these terms are seriously or repeatedly broken, in particular the confidentiality rules in section 8.

Prices are shown in pounds sterling and include VAT where applicable. Member pricing applies automatically at checkout where you qualify. We may correct pricing or availability errors before dispatch, and will contact you if that affects your order.

A contract is formed when we confirm dispatch. Risk passes to you on delivery. Delivery estimates are estimates, not guarantees.

Returns and cancellation

• You may cancel an order of new items within 14 days of receiving them and return them for a refund, provided they are unused, undamaged and in their original packaging with any tags and seals intact.
• Return postage is your responsibility unless the item is faulty or we sent the wrong thing. Please contact us before sending anything back.
• We refund within 14 days of receiving the returned item, to the original payment method.
• Used, second-hand and consignment gear is sold as seen and is excluded from the 14-day right to cancel. Please ask us anything you need to know before buying.
• Any item that has been jumped, deployed, altered or removed from a sealed package where the seal is a safety or hygiene measure cannot be returned unless it is faulty.
• Made-to-order and custom-specified items cannot be cancelled once production has started.

None of this affects your legal rights if goods are faulty, not as described, or not fit for purpose.

Some parts of this site (including our exit database and certain resources) are shared with members in confidence. Access is a privilege extended to you personally, and it comes with conditions.

• Do not copy, screenshot, export, republish or pass on members-only information to anyone outside the club, in any form.
• Do not use automated means to collect or scrape information from the site.
• Treat every entry with discretion. Some objects are sensitive, and careless sharing can lose access for everyone.
• Respect landowners, access arrangements, security, local sensitivities and the law at all times.

To protect this information we log access, apply rate limits, and embed identifying watermarks in images served to you. Sharing members-only material outside the club is a serious breach of these terms and will normally result in your access and membership being ended without refund.

If you contribute information, you confirm it is yours to share, and you grant us a licence to store it, show it to other members according to the sharing level you choose, and moderate or remove it.

Keep your login details secure and don’t share your account. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access to it. You’re responsible for activity carried out under your account.

We may suspend or remove an account that is being used to break these terms, to harass others, or to put anyone at risk.

The content on this site (text, images, video, resources and branding) belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by copyright. You may use it for your own personal, non-commercial reference. You may not republish, redistribute or use it commercially without our written permission.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected.

Subject to that:

• we are not liable for loss or damage arising from your reliance on information published on this site or shared by other members;
• we are not liable for your decision to jump, or for the consequences of that decision;
• we are not liable for any act or omission of a landowner, authority, third-party provider, manufacturer or another jumper;
• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, opportunity or enjoyment; and
• where we are liable in connection with something you bought from us, our liability is limited to the amount you paid for it.

We do our best to keep the site available and accurate, but we don’t guarantee it will be uninterrupted or error-free.

We may update these terms from time to time. The version published here when you book, buy or use the site is the one that applies, and we’ll update the date at the top when we make a material change.

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, though if you live elsewhere in the UK you can bring proceedings in your own jurisdiction.

See also our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your personal data.