Terms of Use

Effective date: July 30, 2026 · Last updated: July 30, 2026

1. Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use are a legal agreement between you and The Real Market Investors, Inc., d/b/a Country Rebel, which operates countryrebel.com. In these terms, “Country Rebel,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean that company, and “you” means you.

By visiting the site, subscribing to our newsletter, commenting, or submitting anything to us, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we, our vendors, and our service providers handle your information, and it is part of this agreement. By using the site, you consent to the collection and use of information it describes. You can withdraw that consent at any time using the opt-out routes it lists. Our Editorial Policy describes how we report and correct our journalism.

2. What Country Rebel is

Country Rebel publishes news, features, video, and commentary about country music and the artists who make it. We also operate a merchandise store, a record label, and social media accounts. This agreement covers countryrebel.com. Purchases from our store are governed by the terms presented at checkout.

3. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we change the “last updated” date at the top, and for material changes we will post a notice on the site. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms. If you do not, stop using the site.

4. Using the site

You may read, link to, quote briefly with credit, and share our articles. You may not:

• Copy, republish, or redistribute our articles, photographs, or video in whole or in substantial part without our written permission.
• Scrape, harvest, or systematically download our content, whether by automated tool, script, or otherwise.
• Use our content to train an artificial intelligence or machine learning model without our written permission.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the site, any server, or any account.
• Interfere with the site’s operation, including by overloading it or introducing malicious code.
• Remove, obscure, or interfere with advertising, or with any copyright or attribution notice.
• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your connection to Country Rebel.
• Use the site for anything unlawful, or to harass, threaten, or defame anyone.

5. Our content

Everything on this site that we created, including articles, photographs, video, graphics, layout, and code, is owned by us or licensed to us and is protected by copyright and other laws. We grant you a personal, limited, revocable, non exclusive licence to view and use the site for your own non commercial purposes. That licence does not transfer ownership of anything.

Reasonable quotation with a visible link back to the original article is welcome and does not require permission. If you want to republish more than that, email editorial@countryrebel.com and ask.

6. Trademarks

“Country Rebel,” our logos, and our taglines are our trademarks. Other names and logos on the site belong to their owners, and their appearance here does not imply any endorsement or affiliation in either direction.

7. Content you send us

Sometimes you send us things: comments, video, photographs, story tips, or messages. We call all of that “your content.”

You keep ownership of your content. By sending it to us you grant us a worldwide, non exclusive, royalty free, transferable, sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, edit, publish, distribute, and display it in connection with Country Rebel and our promotion of it, in any media now known or later invented. If you submit content through a separate submission form that presents its own agreement, that agreement governs the terms of that particular submission.

Before you send a photograph or video, strip its location metadata. Camera files commonly record the exact place they were taken. We do not promise to remove that data, and if we publish your file it may still be attached. This is the one thing most likely to expose something about you that you did not intend to share.

When you send us content you are telling us that:

• You created it, or you have all the rights needed to give us this licence.
• It does not infringe anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity rights.
• It is not defamatory, obscene, threatening, harassing, or otherwise unlawful.
• If it shows a person who can be identified, you have their permission, and a parent or guardian’s permission if that person is a minor.

We are not obliged to publish anything you send, and we may edit, shorten, decline, or remove your content at any time and for any reason, including for length, clarity, accuracy, or tone. We do not review everything before it appears, and content posted by readers reflects the reader, not Country Rebel.

You agree to indemnify us for any claim arising from content you sent us, as described in section 14.

8. Copyright complaints and takedown notices

We respect copyright and we expect the same in return. If you believe material on this site infringes a copyright you own or control, send a written notice to our designated agent below. This is the process set out in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. section 512.

Designated agent for copyright notices

Copyright Agent
The Real Market Investors, Inc., d/b/a Country Rebel
1012 Norman Harris Rd
Ashland City, TN 37015
Email: dmca@countryrebel.com

What your notice must include

To be effective, your notice must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized to act for them.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it. A direct URL is best.
4. Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.

We will act on properly submitted notices expeditiously, which normally means removing or disabling access to the material and notifying whoever posted it.

Counter notification

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send our agent a counter notification containing your signature, identification of the material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief it was removed by mistake, your name, address, and telephone number, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district, or for the Middle District of Tennessee if you are outside the United States. We will forward it to the original complainant, and unless they file a court action we may restore the material in ten to fourteen business days.

Repeat infringers

In appropriate circumstances we block anyone who repeatedly infringes copyright from submitting further content, and remove any submission privileges they have.

Misuse

Knowingly making a material misrepresentation in a takedown notice or a counter notification can make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees.

9. Third party content, embeds, and links

Our articles embed video, images, and posts from platforms including YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok, and we link to other websites. That content belongs to whoever created it and is delivered by that platform, not by us. We do not control it, we do not endorse it by embedding it, and it can change or disappear without warning. When you interact with it, that platform’s terms and privacy policy apply to you.

Photographs credited to agencies such as Getty Images are licensed or used under the terms applicable to that material, and are not covered by the permission described in section 5.

10. Advertising, paid editorials, and affiliate links

Country Rebel is free because advertising pays for it. Three things follow from that, and we would rather say them here than bury them.

• Display advertising. Most ads on the site are placed automatically by our advertising partners. We do not review each one, and an ad appearing here is not an endorsement.
• Paid editorials. We occasionally publish articles paid for by a partner. Our policy is that every one of them carries a clear Sponsored label at the top of the article, naming the partner where there is one. If you find a paid article without that label, email corrections@countryrebel.com and we will correct it. Our Editorial Policy explains how we keep paid work separate from independent coverage.
• Affiliate links. Some articles contain links that earn us a commission if you buy something. That never costs you more, and it never determines what we cover or what we say about it.

These disclosures exist because the Federal Trade Commission requires material connections to be disclosed clearly and conspicuously, and because readers deserve to know.

11. Email and other communications

If you subscribe to our newsletter we will send you email until you unsubscribe. Every message contains a working unsubscribe link and our postal address. See our Privacy Policy for what we do with your address.

12. No warranties

The site and everything on it are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non infringement.

We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, secure, or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the site is free of harmful components. We work hard on accuracy and we correct mistakes when we find them, as our Editorial Policy describes, but we do not warrant that everything published is complete, current, or free of error.

Nothing on this site is legal, medical, financial, or other professional advice. Do not treat it as such.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Country Rebel and its owners, officers, employees, contributors, agents, vendors, and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill, arising out of your use of or inability to use the site, whether the claim is based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or anything else, and even if we were told such damages were possible.

Our total liability to you for all claims relating to the site will not exceed one hundred United States dollars.

Some states do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages. Where that is the case, the exclusions and limitations above apply to the greatest extent that state permits, and nothing here limits liability for fraud, for willful misconduct, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

14. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Country Rebel and its owners, officers, employees, contributors, and agents from any claim, damage, loss, liability, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your use of the site, your breach of these terms, content you submitted, or your violation of anyone else’s rights.

15. Governing law and where disputes are heard

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to conflict of law rules. Subject to section 16, you and we agree that any dispute that is not arbitrated will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Tennessee, and we each consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

16. Dispute resolution

Talk to us first. If you have a problem, email privacy@countryrebel.com and describe it. Most things get resolved this way. Please give us 30 days to work it out before starting a formal proceeding.

Arbitration. If we cannot resolve it, you and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the site, including a claim you bring against one of our vendors or service providers in connection with the site, will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator, and may be held by telephone, by video, or on written submissions unless the arbitrator decides an in person hearing is needed. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. Arbitration means there is no judge or jury, and court review of the award is limited.

Class action waiver. You and we agree that each may bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any form of representative proceeding. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim, and only that claim, will proceed in court.

Small claims. Either of us may bring a qualifying individual claim in small claims court instead of arbitration.

Claims filed in bulk. If twenty five or more people file arbitration demands against us that raise substantially the same issues, and those demands are brought by the same lawyer or by lawyers working together, we and the claimants agree the demands will be handled in batches rather than all at once. The administrator will group them into batches of up to fifty, and each batch will be heard by a single arbitrator as one proceeding. The first batches will be treated as test cases, and the deadline for bringing any remaining claims is paused while those are decided, so nobody loses their claim by waiting. Both sides agree this is the fairest and fastest way to handle claims filed in bulk, and it applies equally to us if we ever bring claims that way.

Your right to opt out. You can opt out of this section entirely. Email privacy@countryrebel.com with your name and a statement that you are opting out of arbitration, within 30 days of first accepting these terms. Opting out costs you nothing and changes nothing else about your use of the site.

Exceptions. Nothing here prevents either of us from seeking an injunction in court to protect intellectual property rights, or from reporting a matter to a government agency.

17. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the site at any time, without notice, if we believe you have breached these terms. Sections 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 18 survive termination.

18. General

• Entire agreement. These terms, with our Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the site, and replace anything said before, including the version of these terms dated April 12, 2014. This does not displace a separate agreement you accepted when submitting content through a submission form, which continues to govern that submission as described in section 7.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable provision is narrowed only as far as necessary.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these terms. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• No third party beneficiaries. These terms do not give rights to anyone other than you and us, except that our vendors and service providers may rely on the protections in sections 13 and 16.
• Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for a delay or failure caused by something outside our reasonable control.

19. Accessibility

We want the site to be usable by everyone, including readers who use screen readers, keyboard navigation, or other assistive technology. If you hit a barrier, email editorial@countryrebel.com and describe what happened and what you were trying to do. We will work with you to get you the content.

20. Contact us

The Real Market Investors, Inc., d/b/a Country Rebel
1012 Norman Harris Rd
Ashland City, TN 37015
Editorial: editorial@countryrebel.com
Corrections: corrections@countryrebel.com
Privacy: privacy@countryrebel.com
Copyright notices: dmca@countryrebel.com

See also our Privacy Policy, our Editorial Policy, our About page, and our Contact page.