EQUIPMENT REVIEW PROGRAM - TERMS AND CONDITIONS Walk Up Web, LLC, operator of EmergencyRadio.org Version 1.0 Last updated 22 July 2026 1. PARTIES AND ACCEPTANCE 1.0 These terms are offered by Walk Up Web, LLC, which operates EmergencyRadio.org. In these terms "we", "our" and "us" mean that entity, and "you" and "the submitter" mean the person or organization submitting equipment. The agreement formed under 1.2 is between those two parties. 1.1 Acceptance is confirmed in writing. Our acceptance email states the version of these terms then in force, the shipping address, a unique reference code for the submission, and an expected timeframe. 1.2 No arrangement exists until the submitter confirms agreement to these terms and conditions in writing. Equipment shipped before that confirmation is treated as unsolicited, and creates no obligation to review, publish, respond, or return. 1.3 The terms governing a submission are the version identified in its acceptance email. Later changes do not alter them. 1.4 The reference code must appear on the outside of the package. 1.5 An expected timeframe is indicated at acceptance. It is an estimate, not a commitment; material delays are communicated. 1.6 Pre-release and pre-production equipment is accepted. Where a publication date is agreed at acceptance, that agreement binds both sides. A date imposed after acceptance is a condition under 5.1. 2. REVIEW STANDARD 2.1 Equipment is used before it is written about, in the conditions it is sold for. 2.2 Reviews state what was tested, for how long, and what was not. 2.3 Products are assessed against their own class and price. 2.4 Strengths and faults are both reported. 2.5 Uncertainty is stated rather than resolved into a conclusion. 2.6 A review of pre-release or pre-production equipment says so plainly, and states that specifications, price and behavior may change before retail release. A fault in a pre-production unit is reported as a pre-production fault. 3. ACCURACY CHECK 3.1 The factual statements in a review are sent to the submitter at least 72 hours before publication, for correction of error only. Where that window would end on a weekend or public holiday, it is extended to the next business day. 3.2 Covered: any statement of fact the review makes about the product. Which particulars apply depends on the equipment, and some, all or none of the following may be relevant - specifications, model numbers, frequency and power figures, dimensions, battery and runtime claims, prices, features, and our account of the product's behavior. 3.3 Not covered: anything that is not a statement of fact, including conclusions, ratings, tone, wording, emphasis, how a product compares with others and where it places against them, inclusion or omission of material, and publication timing. 3.4 The accuracy check confers no approval right and no veto. We are the sole and final decisionmaker on any change. 3.5 Corrections must be supported by evidence. Disagreement with an assessment is not an error of fact. 3.6 Where no response arrives within the window, the review publishes as written. 3.7 A record of what was sent to the submitter, and of any reply received, is kept for no less than two years. 3.8 Errors identified after publication are corrected and noted on the page. 4. COMPENSATION AND INDEPENDENCE 4.1 No payment is accepted in exchange for a review or in connection with its content: no sponsorship, paid placement, fee for consideration, or payment tied to a review's conclusion. Affiliate commission, which is paid by retailers on reader purchases rather than by submitters, is dealt with at 4.4. 4.2 Submitted equipment is not returned, save as provided in 5.3.1, 5.3.2 and 5.4. It is kept for testing and reference, or donated, and never resold. 4.3 Free equipment is a benefit of value and is treated as compensation. Its receipt does not depend on what a review says, and because it is not returned, an unfavorable review cannot be answered by reclaiming it. 4.4 This site earns affiliate commission, and it is the larger of the two financial relationships described in this section. Where a review links a product, a purchase through that link may pay a commission at no extra cost to the reader. That revenue can recur, and can be larger when a review persuades than when it does not. Recommendations are formed before commission is considered, and a product we would not recommend is not linked. See the affiliate disclosure: https://emergencyradio.org/disclosure/ 4.5 Every review of equipment received free of charge says so within the review. That is a material connection under the FTC Endorsement Guides (16 CFR Part 255); the FTC Rule on Consumer Reviews and Testimonials (16 CFR Part 465) further prohibits fake, insider-written and suppressed reviews. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/rule-consumer-reviews-testimonials 4.6 Published reviews are not withdrawn on request. They are corrected where inaccurate. 5. CONDITIONS AND EXCEPTIONS 5.1 Conditions attached at any stage end the arrangement: approval rights, a minimum rating, a guaranteed conclusion, required wording or links, a publication date other than one agreed under 1.6, or removal of a published review. 5.1.1 A request to append a manufacturer safety notice, recall notice or corrected specification is not a condition under 5.1. We will append such a notice to the review. We decide where it appears and remain free to comment on it. 5.1.2 A request to correct or remove content that is unlawful, or that would be unsafe if a reader acted on it, is not a condition under 5.1. Any such request is considered on its merits and acted on where we agree it is well founded. We remain the decisionmaker (3.4). 5.1.3 Ending the arrangement means no review is published and we do not correspond further about the submission. It does not return equipment (4.2), does not alter or remove anything already published (4.6), and does not withdraw a licence already granted under 7.1. 5.2 A review may not appear if the equipment does not arrive, differs materially from its description at acceptance, or cannot be tested safely or lawfully. We say which applies. 5.3 Equipment that fails in use, or that is faulty on arrival, is documented and the submitter is contacted so that a resolution can be agreed - commonly a replacement unit, since one faulty sample is not evidence about a production run (8.2). Faulty equipment is not returned, save as provided in 5.3.2: a fault is a finding, and findings are ours to keep and to write about. 5.3.1 Equipment damaged in transit is the exception. It is photographed, reported promptly, and returned on request at the submitter's cost so that a carrier claim can be made. Transit damage is a shipping loss, not a finding about the product. 5.3.2 Where a failure involves fire, a thermal event, a battery, or a risk of injury, the unit is returned for failure analysis at the submitter's cost. A damaged cell, or any item restricted in transport, is returned only using packaging, marking and carriage the submitter specifies and provides; original packaging is used only where it is suitable and permitted. We keep and may publish all photographs, notes, measurements and findings, without confidentiality and without waiting for the submitter's conclusions. 5.4 Where Walk Up Web, LLC is unable to complete a review for reasons outside its control, including illness or bereavement affecting the personnel performing it, we notify the submitter and return the equipment at our own expense. This clause covers our inability to perform. It does not apply to any fault, failure or shortcoming in the equipment itself, which is dealt with under 5.3. 5.5 Equipment is held at the submitter's risk. We accept no liability for loss of or damage to equipment while it is in our possession. 5.6 We test in the conditions the equipment is sold for. We do not perform destructive or stress testing unless agreed in advance. 5.7 No confidentiality is offered. Nothing sent to us should be treated as confidential, including anything relating to unannounced or pre-production equipment. Submit on that basis or not at all. 6. LAWFUL OPERATION 6.1 The submitter warrants that equipment offered for review may lawfully be supplied to us in the United States, and, where it is offered as a production unit, that it may lawfully be marketed and sold here. This warranty concerns the regulatory status of the equipment. It is not a warranty about our own authority to operate it, which is our responsibility (6.3). Pre-production equipment need not hold marketing authorization; the submitter states its authorization status at acceptance. Agreement to these terms under 1.2 gives these warranties. Where a submitter does not give them, the submission is declined. 6.2 We do not test, verify or certify regulatory compliance, and make no finding about it. Where we have reason to doubt that equipment may be lawfully marketed, we may decline to review it rather than reaching a conclusion about it. 6.3 Reviews do describe what the law requires of the READER. Where a device needs a license to operate, or is legal to own but not to transmit with under FCC Part 95 or Part 97, the review says so. That is a statement about the rules a reader must follow, not about the product or its manufacturer. Equipment a reader cannot lawfully operate is not endorsed, but it is still reviewed; only where equipment cannot lawfully be tested at all does 5.2 apply. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95 https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-97 7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 7.1 Reviews remain our copyright. A submitter may quote a review in marketing provided the quotation is accurate, is not misleading, is attributed to EmergencyRadio.org, and links to the review. A quotation may not be altered, may not be assembled from fragments so as to change its sense, and may not imply an endorsement the review does not give. Our photographs may not be used without permission. 7.2 The submitter grants us a licence to use product images, specifications and descriptive material it supplies, in a review of that equipment and in related coverage. 7.3 Either licence may be withdrawn for future use on notice. Withdrawal does not require anything already published to be altered or removed. 7.4 A submitter may retain a dated copy of a published review in order to substantiate a quotation of it. Retaining a copy extends no licence to republish it. 8. LIMITATIONS AND LIABILITY 8.1 Reviews are opinion and observation. They are not certification, laboratory measurement, safety rating, or a guarantee of fitness for any purpose. 8.2 Results reflect a single test setup, location and sample. Radio performance is site-specific, and one unit is not a production run. 8.3 Manufacturer instructions, warnings and specifications govern where they conflict with anything published by us. 8.4 Warranty, defect, injury, recall and support matters are for the manufacturer or retailer. We do not sell, distribute, service or warrant any product. 8.5 Content is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Walk Up Web, LLC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from reliance on a review, including any decision to buy, use, or rely upon a product in an emergency. 8.6 No guarantee is given that a review, or this site, will remain published for any period. Publication may end without notice if the site closes, the business ceases to operate, or content is retired. Nothing in these terms obliges us to keep a review available indefinitely, and no submission should be made in reliance on continued publication. 9. GENERAL 9.1 These terms together with the acceptance email form the whole agreement between us for a submission, and replace anything said beforehand. 9.2 If any provision is held unenforceable, it is severed and the remainder continues in force. 9.3 A failure or delay in enforcing any provision is not a waiver of it, and does not prevent it being enforced later. END OF TERMS - VERSION 1.0