BuildMyMTB — Image & Data Permission

Partnership terms — v1.1, August 2026

The request

BuildMyMTB requests permission to display your official product images and published specifications so riders can accurately compare, configure, and plan custom bike builds using your products.

Who we are

BuildMyMTB (buildmymtb.com), built and operated by Doug Wills. A free bike build planner where users can choose frames and components for custom bike builds and modifications. It includes real time compatibility checks, product specs, weights, and running price. Signed-in riders get a garage to save builds, track inventory of the parts they own, log service records for bikes and components, and get recall notifications. BuildMyMTB is the flagship of one site. BMX, road, gravel and e-MTB builders run at buildmymtb.com too. Free to use, funded by disclosed affiliate links as those programs come online, never by placement. BuildMyMTB is under active development, with new products and features added continuously. (This permission runs to the site's operator today and carries over automatically to a company if one is later formed.)

The Numbers

More than 7,300 bike parts listed so far (as of August 2026), over 5,200 of them verified against the maker's own published specs, with more being added and verified regularly. The "verified" mark is enforced, and our validator refuses it unless a row carries the source URL and the date we checked it. Where we lack maker-backed data, the engine stays silent rather than guessing: the all-clear reads "No conflicts found," never "guaranteed compatible."

What we're asking manufacturers to grant

Permission to use the same official assets you already make available to dealers and distributors. Your current-line product studio images (product-on-white or transparent PNG), per SKU and per colorway where they exist. The highest resolution you have, PNG is preferred, JPEG/TIFF is fine(we convert), no watermarks. Ideally filenames identify the product, or a simple list correlating images to their SKUs.

What we're NOT asking for

• No exclusivity. This is non-exclusive by design, and you can grant the same permission to anyone else.
• No payment. This costs you nothing, in either direction.
• No proprietary information. No engineering data, CAD files, or manufacturing details. We ask only for the same official marketing assets you already supply to dealers and distributors.

Terms

• Non-exclusive: You keep every right and can grant the same to anyone else.
• Revocable: You can end it at any time for any reason. If asked to remove your images, we'll do so promptly.
• Display: Your images appear on your products' listings at buildmymtb.com and sister domains, hosted and served from our own infrastructure for display on the site. No other sites, no ads, no social, no resale, no AI training, no merchandising, no sublicensing. Anything outside of this scope would require a fresh, separate permission from you(Sister domains: buildmybmx.com, buildmyemtb.com, buildmygravelbike.com, buildmyroadbike.com, buildmyridekit.com)
• Attribution + link-back: Every image is credited to you and every listing links to your site or your retail channel.
• Display Derivatives Only: Resize, crop, thumbnail, format conversion, and compression for web delivery. Never edits that change how the product looks.

Why say yes, what you get

• Every product we list shown accurately, right colorway, your own photography
• Every listing links to your site or your preferred retail channel
• Fewer riders misidentifying your products when researching and buying
• Correct listings faster when new products launch
• No cost, no exclusivity, no commitment, revocable at any time

What we commit to in return

• We treat your published specifications as authoritative. Our listings follow your pages, not the other way around. If your published numbers ever conflict, we hold the more conservative value and flag it to you rather than guess.
• Your product's appearance is never altered. No re-branding, no compositing.
• Zero ranking favor. Compatibility verdicts and catalog ordering are isolated from every commercial relationship, and we audit this. Partnership gets your products shown accurately; no placement, ranking, verdict, or badge can be bought by anyone, including you.
• Every image's paper trail kept on file. Where it came from, the permission it rests on, and the date. Same way we already track every verified spec.

Delivery

If you already publish a product feed to dealers in CSV, XML, JSON, or through an API, that is our preferred route. We adapt to your format, it keeps your images and specifications synchronized automatically, and it asks the least of your time. Otherwise, whatever is easiest for you: a link to your media library or asset portal, or a zip/Drive dump. If you can name a contact for future asset updates and your preferred channel for those, we can keep your listings current as your line evolves.

Paper

A reply saying "approved, scope as described" is all we need to keep on file. Equally happy to sign your standard asset-license agreement.

Douglas Wills · BuildMyMTB · [email protected] · buildmymtb.com