Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your use of carportbay.com. By using this site, you accept these terms.

Acceptance of Terms

By visiting or using carportbay.com in any way, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use this site. We may update these terms as described below, and your continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised terms.

Who Can Use This Site

carportbay.com is intended for adults researching a carport purchase for their own property. By using this site or submitting a form on it, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old and able to enter into a legal agreement.

Description of Service

CarportBay is an independent informational publisher and lead-referral service. We publish buying-research content to help readers size, choose materials for, permit, and compare carports, and we refer readers who request quotes to third-party dealers, installers, and manufacturers. Some pages also include interactive tools, such as sizing and estimate calculators, that use the figures you enter to produce a general result. We build the site to work with assistive technology; our Accessibility Statement describes the standard we follow.

No Professional Advice

Content on this site, including sizing, material, permit, and installation information, is general information, not professional engineering, legal, or contracting advice. Where we cite a specific code, standard, or permit requirement, we cite the source and the date we checked it, but codes and local requirements change and vary by jurisdiction. This site is not a substitute for confirming current requirements with your local building department or consulting a licensed contractor or engineer for your specific project. See the general disclaimer for more on how we draw this line.

Third-Party Links, Referrals & Consent to Be Contacted

Clicking an affiliate link on this site, or submitting a quote-request form, connects you with a third party. The partners we currently work with are Amazon Associates, Wayfair, The RTA Store, Home Depot Installation Leads, Modernize, and Angi/HomeAdvisor. If you submit a quote-request form, you agree that the named partner or partners shown on that form, and a contractor in their network, may contact you about your request by phone, text, or email, and you accept that CarportBay is compensated for that connection. Once you leave carportbay.com or submit your information to one of these partners, their own terms and privacy practices govern that interaction, not this one. See our Affiliate Disclosure and Privacy Policy for more detail. If you submit a quote-request form, you can opt out of the sharing of your information through Do Not Sell or Share My Info.

Prohibited Uses

You agree not to:

• Copy, republish, or redistribute our content without permission.
• Use automated means (a bot, scraper, or crawler outside a search engine's own indexing) to extract content or data from this site at scale.
• Submit a lead or contact form using false, misleading, or someone else's information.
• Use this site in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair it.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of this site or its underlying systems.
• Use this site for any unlawful purpose.

Disclaimer of Warranties

This site, including its content and interactive tools, is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including that it will be accurate, uninterrupted, or error-free.

Limitation of Liability

CarportBay is not responsible for the conduct of any third-party partner, dealer, installer, or manufacturer we refer you to. The estimators and calculators on this site produce general estimates based on the information you enter; they are not guarantees of actual cost, load rating, or permit outcome. Decisions you make based on content on this site are your own responsibility, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, CarportBay is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of this site or reliance on its content.

Intellectual Property

The content, graphics, and design on carportbay.com that we created belong to CarportBay. Any third-party material used on this site (such as a manufacturer specification we cite, or a manufacturer-supplied product image) is used with permission, under a documented license, or under the terms that material's owner allows, and remains that owner's property. If you believe content on this site infringes your copyright, follow the steps in our DMCA / Copyright Policy.

• You may not copy or republish our content without permission.
• You may not use this site in a way that could damage, disable, or impair it.

Termination

We may suspend or restrict your access to this site, including its forms and interactive tools, at any time, for any reason, including a violation of these terms.

Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by United States federal law and the law of the state in which CarportBay is organized, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. If a dispute arises between you and CarportBay, we will first try to resolve it informally. Contact us through our Contact Us page to start that conversation. If a dispute cannot be resolved informally, it will be resolved through binding, individual arbitration rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court where available.

Severability

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest of these terms remain in full effect.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.