Terms of Service

You must be at least 13 to create an account. If you’re under 18, you need a parent or guardian’s permission. Pediatric guidance says children and teens shouldn’t drink energy drinks at all, and nothing on this site suggests otherwise.

Give a real email address, keep your password to yourself, and use one account per person. You’re responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us through the contact page if you think someone else has used it.

You keep ownership of the ratings, reviews, taste notes and lists you post (“your content”), whether or not you have an account. By posting, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to host, store, display, reproduce, adapt (for example, to fit a layout or translate), and distribute your content, in connection with the site, its apps, and promoting them, including shareable rating cards. We may let our service providers do the same on our behalf.

The license continues for content already included in things like drink scores and rankings after you delete it or close your account. We’ll stop showing your deleted reviews with your name on them.

Ratings are only useful if they’re honest. So:

• Rate drinks you’ve actually tried, based on your own experience.
• Don’t rate or review a drink if you work for, own, or are paid by its maker or a competitor, or if you were given anything in exchange for the rating, unless you say so clearly in the review.
• No fake accounts, vote manipulation, or ratings posted in bulk.
• No harassment, hate, threats, spam, advertising, or illegal content.
• Only post things you have the right to post.

We may edit formatting, remove content, or suspend accounts that break these rules or that we reasonably believe harm the site or its users. We aren’t required to review everything posted, and reviews are the opinions of the people who wrote them, not ours.

Caffeine, sugar and ingredient figures come from product labels and manufacturer information. They can be wrong or out of date when a product is reformulated, so check the can. Tools like the caffeine calculator summarize published research for healthy adults, and the caffeine tracker’s totals and “in your system” figures are estimates from label amounts and an average half-life. None of it is medical advice. Talk to a doctor before using caffeine if you’re pregnant, have a heart condition, take medication, or are sensitive to caffeine.

Some links to retailers, including Amazon, are affiliate links. We may earn a commission when you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Prices and availability are set by the retailer and can change. Purchases are between you and the retailer.

The site’s design, text, logos, and our collection of drink data and ratings belong to us or our licensors. You’re welcome to read, link to, and share individual pages. You may not copy, republish, or sell substantial parts of the site or its database without our written permission.

Brand names and product images belong to their owners and appear here only to identify the drinks. It doesn’t mean those brands endorse us.

Don’t scrape, crawl, or bulk-download the site, or get around rate limits or security measures, except as follows. Search engines may crawl it under our robots.txt rules. AI assistants may use our published connector within its limits. Anything else needs our written permission.

If you believe something on the site infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent: Zak Edington, 223 Pensdale Street, Philadelphia, PA 19128, (267) 282-2042, zak@energydrinkratings.com. Include: your contact details; the work you believe was infringed; the page and material you want removed; a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorized; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and you’re authorized to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature. We remove infringing material, and we close the accounts of repeat infringers.

You can stop using the site at any time, and delete your account yourself from the Delete my account page. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms. The sections on your content, our content, disclaimers, liability and governing law continue to apply afterward.

The site is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, including accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, and uninterrupted service, to the extent the law allows.

To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data or profits, arising from your use of the site. Our total liability for any claim relating to the site is limited to $100. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

If a claim is brought against us because of content you posted or your breach of these terms, you agree to cover our reasonable costs of defending it.

These terms are governed by the laws of Pennsylvania, and of the United States where they apply. Any dispute will be heard in the state or federal courts located there, unless the law where you live requires otherwise.

We may update these terms. We’ll change the date at the top, and email account holders about significant changes. If you keep using the site after that, the new terms apply. If any part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. Questions go through the contact page.