Terms of Use
Effective Date: December 1, 2024
Thank you for visiting Blue Bottle Coffee website. These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) apply to your access and use of this website and other online or mobile products and services (collectively, the “Sites”) provided by Blue Bottle Coffee, LLC, our brands, and subsidiaries (“Blue Bottle Coffee,” “we,” or “our”). By visiting, viewing, or using the Sites, (including to make purchases of our products) you agree to be bound by these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Sites.
If you have any questions about these Terms or the Sites, please contact us here.
EXCEPT WHERE PROHIBITED, THESE TERMS INCLUDE A CLASS ACTION WAIVER, A JURY TRIAL WAIVER, AND A BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AGREEMENT TO RESOLVE DISPUTES. IN ARBITRATION THERE IS LESS DISCOVERY AND APPELLATE REVIEW THAN IN COURT. DETAILS ARE SET FORTH IN SECTION 17 BELOW. PLEASE REVIEW CAREFULLY.
1. Modifying the Terms & Conditions
We may make changes to these Terms from time to time. If we make changes, we will provide you with notice of such changes, such as by sending an email, providing a notice through the Sites or updating the date at the top of these Terms. All modifications and additions to our products, services, or the Sites will be governed by the Terms, unless otherwise expressly stated by Blue Bottle Coffee in writing. You also have the right to stop using our products, services, or the Sites at any time, and you may terminate these Terms by ceasing use of our products, services, or the Sites.
2. Modifying the Sites
3. Eligibility
You agree to be fully responsible for the acts or omissions of use in relation to the Sites. If you use the Sites on behalf of another person or entity, (a) all references to “you” throughout these Terms will include that person or entity, (b) you represent that you are authorized to accept these Terms on that person’s or entity’s behalf, and (c) in the event you or the person or entity violates these Terms, the person or entity agrees to be responsible to us.
4. User Accounts and Account Security
5. User Content
You grant Blue Bottle Coffee and any future subsidiaries and affiliates a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed without compensation to you,. and waive any moral rights you may have in favor of Blue Bottle Coffee. When you post or otherwise share User Content on the Sites, you understand that your User Content and any associated information (such as your first name or profile photo associated with a product review or caption associated with a photo you share) may be visible to others and will be treated as non-confidential. This license continues even if you stop using the Sites.
You may not create, post, store or share any User Content that violates these Terms or for which you do not have all the rights necessary to grant us the license described above. You represent and warrant that your User Content, and our use of such User Content as permitted by these Terms, will not violate any rights of or cause injury to any person or entity. Although we have no obligation to screen, edit or monitor User Content, we may delete or remove User Content at any time and for any reason without notice.
6. Prohibited Conduct and Content
- Use the Sites other than for their intended purposes, in any unlawful manner or in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect, or inhibit other users from fully enjoying the Sites;
- Use any software or other means to access, copy, download, communicate to the public, collect, harvest, aggregate, or extract any content from the Sites or any system or network connected to the Sites, including by using web scraping, data extraction or data mining software or tools (except in the case of public search engines, in accordance with our robots.txt file and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices);
- Use content to train or develop any artificial intelligence models;
- Copy, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform or publicly display all or portions of the Sites, except as expressly permitted by us or our licensors;
- Modify the Sites, remove any proprietary rights notices or markings, or otherwise make any derivative works based upon the Sites;
- "Frame" our Sites or otherwise make it look like you have a relationship with us or that we have endorsed you for any purpose;
- Send unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, spam, junk mail, chain letters and pyramid schemes, or harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from the Sites for the purposes of sending spam;
- Use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access the Sites or to extract data;
- Reverse engineer any aspect of the Sites or do anything that might discover source code or bypass or circumvent measures employed to prevent or limit access to any area, content or code of the Sites (except as otherwise expressly permitted by law);
- Solicit personal information from anyone under 18 or solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes;
- Use or attempt to use another's account without authorization from Blue Bottle Coffee;
- Attempt to circumvent any content filtering techniques we employ or access any service or area of the Sites that you are not authorized to access;
- Engage in any harassing, intimidating, predatory or stalking conduct;
- Develop or use any third-party applications that interact with User Content or our Sites without our prior written consent
- Use the Sites in a manner that could interfere with or damage, disable, overburden or impair the operation of the Sites or introduce to the Sites or our users any viruses, malware, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files or code; or
- Use the Sites for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, or engage in, encourage or promote any activity that violates these Terms.
You may also post or otherwise share only User Content that is non-confidential and that you have all necessary rights to disclose. You represent and warrant that you will not create, post, store or share any User Content that:
- Is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
- Is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or fraudulent;
- Would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law;
- May infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party;
- Contains or depicts any statements, remarks or claims that do not reflect your honest views and experiences;
- Impersonates or misrepresents your affiliation with any person or entity;
- Contains any unsolicited promotions, political campaigning, advertising or solicitations;
- Contains any private or personal information of a third party without such third party’s consent;
- Contains any viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files or content; or
- In our sole judgment, is objectionable, restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Sites, or may expose Blue Bottle Coffee or others to any harm or liability of any type.
This Section 6 does not create any private right of action on the part of any third party or any reasonable expectation that the Sites will not contain any content that is prohibited by such rules.
7. Ownership; Limited License
8. Trademarks
9. Feedback
10. Repeat Infringer Policy; Copyright Complaints
- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
- A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the website;
- Your email address or other contact information that is sufficient for us to contact you;
- A statement by you that you in good faith believe that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement by you that the above information in your notice to Blue Bottle Coffee is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
Notification must be submitted to the following Copyright Agent for this site in the manner described below:
By Mail:
Copyright Agent
Nestlé USA – Blue Bottle Coffee
Attn: Legal Department/DMCA Notices
1812 N. Moore Street
Arlington, VA 22209
By Email:
DMCA.Notice[@]us.nestle.com
Also, please note that if you knowingly misrepresent that any activity or material on the Sites is infringing, you may be liable to Blue Bottle Coffee for certain costs and damages.
11. Third-Party Content and Hyperlinks
Links on the Blue Bottle Coffee websites may take you outside the Blue Bottle Coffee network and systems and Blue Bottle Coffee accepts no responsibility for the content, accuracy or function of these other third-party websites or mobile apps. The links are provided in good faith and Blue Bottle Coffee cannot be held responsible for any subsequent change in other third-party websites or mobile apps to which we provide a link. The inclusion of any link to other websites or mobile apps does not imply endorsement by Blue Bottle Coffee. We highly recommend that you make yourself aware of and carefully read the legal and privacy notices of all other websites or mobile apps that you visit.
12. Reliance on Services Information
13. Indemnification and Limitation of Liability
EXCEPT WHERE PROHIBITED, THE COMPANY WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITES OR ANY THIRD PARTY’S USE OF THE SITES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. THESE EXCLUSIONS INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, COMPUTER FAILURE, OR THE VIOLATION OF YOUR RIGHTS BY ANY THIRD PARTY, EVEN IF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF AND REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY UPON WHICH THE CLAIM IS BASED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE COMPANY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITES EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID USE TO USE THE APPLICABLE SITES IN THE PRECEDING TWELVE (12) MONTHS.
14. Disclaimer of Warranties and Release
15. Compliance with Export Laws
16. Transfer and Processing Data
Blue Bottle Coffee does not itself process payment for any of our products or services. To facilitate payment for our products and services via a payment card, we use Stripe, Inc. and its affiliates (“Stripe”), a third-party payment processor. If you make a payment for our products or services via a payment card, you may be subject to Stripe’s terms and conditions and other policies available at https://stripe.com/legal and Stripe’s privacy policy available at
https://stripe.com/privacy.
17. Dispute Resolution
THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU IF YOU RESIDE IN A JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH LIMITS ARE PROHIBITED. EXCEPT WHERE PROHIBITED, THIS SECTION LIMITS CERTAIN RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO MAINTAIN A COURT ACTION, THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL, THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY FORM OF CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE CLAIM OR ACTION, THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN DISCOVERY EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THE AAA RULES, AND THE RIGHT TO CERTAIN REMEDIES AND FORMS OF RELIEF. OTHER RIGHTS THAT YOU OR BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE WOULD HAVE IN COURT, SUCH AS APPELLATE REVIEW, ALSO MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ARBITRATION.
If you and Blue Bottle Coffee have a Dispute (defined below), you and Blue Bottle Coffee agree to make a good faith effort to resolve it informally prior to initiating a formal arbitration proceeding. If you or Blue Bottle Coffee intend to initiate an arbitration proceeding, the initiating party must first send a verified notice (“Notice”) to the responding party that describes the Dispute. The Notice must include the initiating party’s name and contact information (address, telephone number, and email address), sufficient information to enable the parties to identify any transaction at issue; and a detailed description of (1) the Dispute, (2) the nature and basis of the claims, and (3) the nature and basis of the relief sought, with a detailed calculation. If you have a Dispute with us, you must send this notice to USDisputeReso[@]us.nestle.com. If Blue Bottle Coffee has a Dispute with you, Blue Bottle Coffee will send this notice to the email associated with your Blue Bottle Coffee account. You and Blue Bottle Coffee will participate in an individual meet-and-confer in person or via teleconference or videoconference. The meet-and-confer will address only the Dispute between you and Blue Bottle Coffee. If you are represented by counsel, your counsel may participate in the meet-and-confer, but you will still need to be present for the meet-and-confer. Blue Bottle Coffee will participate through one of its representatives, and its counsel may also be present.
If the Dispute is not resolved within sixty (60) days after receipt of the Notice (which period can be extended by agreement of the parties), you or Blue Bottle Coffee may commence a formal dispute resolution proceeding consistent with the process set forth below. Compliance with and completing this informal dispute resolution process is a condition precedent to filing any formal dispute resolution proceeding, including a demand for arbitration. The statute of limitations and any filing fee deadlines shall be tolled while the parties engage in this informal dispute resolution process. If a party commences an arbitration without providing Notice and completing the informal dispute resolution process, that party will be responsible for any filing fees or other costs incurred in connection with such arbitration. If the sufficiency of a Notice or compliance with this informal dispute resolution process is at issue, it may be decided by a court at either party’s election, and any formal dispute resolution proceeding shall be stayed pending resolution of the issue. A court shall have the authority to enforce this condition precedent to arbitration, which includes the power to enjoin the filing or prosecution of a demand for arbitration.
If the parties are unable to resolve the Dispute through the mandatory informal dispute resolution process, except as set forth below, all claims, controversies, or disputes between you and Blue Bottle Coffee will be resolved entirely through binding individual arbitration, rather than in court, including, without limitation, such claims, controversies, or disputes arising out of or relating to any aspect of the relationship between you and Blue Bottle Coffee, your access or use of our Site or any products or services offered by or purchased from Blue Bottle Coffee, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory (“Dispute”). Dispute will be given the broadest possible meaning permitted by law. It includes claims that arose before this or any prior agreement or that arise after the termination of this agreement. The sole exceptions to the foregoing requirement to arbitrate are that: (1) either party may assert individual claims in small claims court if those claims otherwise qualify for small claims court and as long as the matter remains in such court and is not removed or appealed to a court of general jurisdiction and advances only on an individual (non-class, non-representative basis); and (2) each party may bring suit in court to enjoin infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights (but claims not related to infringement or other misuses or intellectual property rights but jointly submitted with claims to enjoin infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights will be resolved only in arbitration). This Dispute Resolution section evidences a transaction in interstate commerce, and thus the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Dispute Resolution section. This arbitration provision shall survive termination of this agreement. BY AGREEING TO THESE TERMS, AND UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED, YOU AND BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE GIVE UP THE RIGHT TO BRING AND PROSECUTE ANY DISPUTES IN A COURT OF LAW OR BEFORE A JURY AND GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN OR BRING CLASS ACTIONS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTIONS.
There is no judge or jury in arbitration, no class actions, and court review of an arbitration award is limited. An arbitrator, however, can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court, in favor or against only the parties to the arbitration and only to the extent necessary to provide the relief warranted by the party’s individual claim, including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages. The arbitrator may not award relief to any person or entity other than a party to the arbitration proceeding. The arbitrator must follow these Terms as a court would. The arbitrator may not consider any prior settlement offers in making the decision. Regardless of the manner in which the arbitration is conducted, the arbitrator shall issue a reasoned written decision sufficient to explain the essential findings and conclusions on which the award is based. The arbitration award shall be binding only among the parties to the arbitration and shall have no preclusive effect in any other arbitration or other proceeding involving a different party, provided that the arbitrator may consider rulings in other arbitrations involving different individuals.
We agree that the arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), adr.org. (If the AAA is unavailable or unwilling to administer arbitrations consistent with this Dispute Resolution section, another arbitration provider shall be selected by the parties that will administer arbitrations consistent with this Dispute Resolution section. If the parties cannot agree on a provider, one shall be selected by the court and that provider will administer any arbitration consistent with this Dispute Resolution section.). To begin an arbitration proceeding, after satisfying the condition precedent identified above, you must (1) send a verified and personally signed demand for arbitration that describes (a) the nature and basis of your claims, and (b) the nature and basis of the relief sought, including a detailed calculation to: Dispute Resolution at USDisputeReso[@]us.nestle.com, and (2) contact the AAA and follow the appropriate procedures with the AAA to commence the arbitration. Blue Bottle Coffee must do the same to begin an arbitration proceeding, except that it will send the demand for arbitration to the email address associated with your Blue Bottle Coffee account. The AAA consumer rules for arbitration will apply as modified by this Dispute Resolution section. Except as expressly provided in this Dispute Resolution section, the arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, shall have the exclusive authority to resolve any Dispute relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of this Dispute Resolution section including, but not limited to, a claim that all or any part of it is void or voidable. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA's applicable consumer rules. The parties shall be responsible for their own attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration, unless they are authorized by law or the arbitrator determines that a claim was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose or in bad faith. The arbitration may be conducted by telephone, based on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live or at another mutually agreed location as set forth in the AAA rules. If requested, you shall personally appear (with your counsel if you have one) at an initial telephone conference with a case manager before an arbitrator is appointed. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Blue Bottle Coffee will pay all fees and costs that we are required by law to pay.
AS SET FORTH ABOVE, WE EACH AGREE TO BRING ANY DISPUTE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS ONLY, AND NOT ON A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, REPRESENTATIVE OR COLLECTIVE OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL BASIS. IF FOR ANY REASON A CLAIM PROCEEDS IN COURT RATHER THAN IN ARBITRATION, WE EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION AGAINST THE OTHER TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. A Dispute may not be consolidated with a claim by any person or entity that is not a party to the arbitration proceeding, and the arbitrator may not otherwise preside over any form of a class, consolidated, representative, collective, or private attorney general proceeding. If a court determines that any of the prohibitions on non-individualized relief; class, representative, and private attorney general claims; and consolidation are unenforceable with respect to a particular claim or with respect to a particular request for relief (such as a request for injunctive relief), and all appeals from that decision have been exhausted (or the decision is otherwise final), then the parties agree that that particular claim or request for relief may proceed in court but shall be stayed pending arbitration of the remaining claims. You and Blue Bottle Coffee may participate in a classwide, collective, and/or representative settlement of claims. Specifically, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 17 (Dispute Resolution), the arbitrator may not issue a "public injunction" and any such "public injunction," if permitted, may be awarded only by a federal or state court. If either party is permitted to seek a "public injunction," all other claims and prayers for relief must be adjudicated in arbitration first and any such prayer or claim for a "public injunction" in federal or state court stayed until the arbitration is completed, after which the federal or state court can adjudicate the party's claim or prayer for "public injunctive relief." In doing so, the federal or state court is bound under principles of claim or issue preclusion by the decision of the arbitrator.
Special Additional Procedures for Mass Arbitration: If twenty-five (25) or more similar claims are asserted against a party by the same or coordinated counsel or are otherwise coordinated, you and Blue Bottle Coffee understand and agree that the resolution of the Dispute might be delayed. You and Blue Bottle Coffee also agree to the following coordinated bellwether process and application of the AAA Multiple Consumer Case Filing Fee Schedule. Counsel for the claimants and counsel for Blue Bottle Coffee shall each select ten (10) cases (per side) to proceed first in individual arbitration proceedings as part of a bellwether process. The remaining cases shall not be filed or deemed filed in arbitration nor shall any AAA fees be assessed in connection with those cases until they are selected to proceed to individual arbitration proceedings as part of a bellwether process. If the parties are unable to resolve the remaining cases after the conclusion of the initial twenty (20) proceedings, each side shall select another ten (10) cases (per side) to proceed to individual arbitration proceedings as part of a second bellwether process. The remaining cases shall not be filed or deemed filed in arbitration nor shall any AAA fees be assessed in connection with those cases until they are selected to proceed to individual arbitration proceedings as part of a bellwether process. A single arbitrator shall preside over each case. Only one case may be assigned to each arbitrator as part of a bellwether process unless the parties agree otherwise. This staged process shall continue, consistent with the parameters identified above, until all the claims included in these coordinated filings, including your case, are adjudicated or otherwise resolved. The statute of limitations and any filing fee deadlines shall be tolled for claims subject to this Dispute Resolution section from the time of the first cases are selected for a bellwether process until the time your case is selected for a bellwether process, withdrawn, or otherwise resolved. A court shall have authority to enforce this paragraph and, if necessary, to enjoin the mass filing or prosecution of arbitration demands.
Future Changes to Dispute Resolution Section: Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, if Blue Bottle Coffee makes any future changes to this Dispute Resolution section (other than a change to the mailing or email address), you may reject any such change by sending Blue Bottle Coffee written notice within thirty (30) days of the change to the address provided above. This is not an opt-out of arbitration altogether. By rejecting any future change, you are agreeing that you will arbitrate any dispute between us in accordance with the language of this Dispute Resolution section.
18. Governing Law and Venue
19. Recurring Subscriptions
When starting a Blue Bottle subscription, you agree to be billed in a recurring fashion on a per-order basis until your subscription is a) canceled, b) paused or c) skipped. Paused and skipped subscriptions are not considered active and may not be eligible for certain promotional benefits or discounts. If paused, the subscription will remain paused until the requested resume date or if a resume date is not specified, the subscription will remain paused indefinitely.
Your subscription may be cancelled at any time via our website, through the phone, or via email communication with our customer support team. If cancelling via phone or email, please contact us at least 72 hours before the date you are scheduled to be charged next.
You will be charged the same amount for each order that is generated from your subscription unless configuration changes are made to the subscription, or you cancel and then resume that subscription. If Blue Bottle makes changes to its subscription plans, we will communicate such changes in accordance with applicable laws.
The term of your subscription is continuous.
20. SMS Program
Message and data rates may apply to any messages sent to you from us and to us from you. Message frequency will vary. Blue Bottle Coffee reserves the right to alter the frequency of messages sent at any time, so as to increase or decrease the total number of sent messages. Blue Bottle Coffee also reserves the right to change the short code or phone number from which messages are sent.
Not all mobile devices or handsets may be supported, and our messages may not be deliverable in all areas.
Cancellation. You can cancel your participation in the SMS Program at any time. Just text the keyword "STOP" to our short code to stop receiving messages from all brands. To end SMS, please follow the instructions included in that brand’s SMS messages. After texting STOP to our short code, will send you a text message to confirm that your request has been processed. You acknowledge that our text message platform may not recognize and respond to unsubscribe requests that do not include the STOP keyword command and agree that Blue Bottle Coffee and its service providers will have no liability for failing to honor such requests.
Help. If at any time you forget what keywords are supported, just text “HELP” to the short code. After you text HELP to the short code, we will respond with our customer care information.
Customer Care. If you have any questions about the SMS Program, contact our customer care team here.
21. California Notice
22. Severability
23. Miscellaneous
Last modified: December 02, 2024