Terms of service
1. Who is on this page
These terms are for the Foran Forge website. The company behind the site is KENNETH FORAN GT INC, 252 S Main St, Slippery Rock, PA 16057, United States. Phone +1 (724) 896-2843. Email service@foranforge.com. Desk hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern. If you place an order, you are dealing with that company, not with a separate marketplace seller hiding behind the logo.
2. What you agree to
Using the site or paying at checkout means you accept this page, the Shipping Policy, the Refund Policy, the Privacy Policy, and the Payment Terms. If those pages disagree on a number, the page written for that subject controls: postage on the Shipping Policy, returns on the Refund Policy, cards on the Payment Terms, data on the Privacy Policy. This page covers conduct, accounts, and what each side can and cannot do.
3. Who may buy
You must be 18 or older and able to form a contract under United States law. You must pay with a card you are allowed to use. You must give a deliverable address in the 50 U.S. states. A parent or guardian placing an order for a minor is the customer of record and is on the hook for the payment and the return.
4. Accounts
An account is optional until you want order history or a return started from the order page. The email on the account has to be an inbox you read. You keep the password. You do not share the login. If someone else uses the account and places an order, that order is still yours unless you emailed service@foranforge.com that the account was taken before the order went in.
We can close an account that is used to place fake orders, abuse prepaid return labels, leave stolen-card checkouts, or scrape the catalog. Closing the account does not erase an order already paid.
5. What we sell
The catalog is belts. Punk, gothic, Y2K, and western straps with metal on them. Listings describe leather-look / PU straps and alloy hardware unless a page says something else. Photos are the supplier and studio shots for that SKU. Color on a phone will not match a desk lamp in Slippery Rock exactly. Width and length are the numbers on the product page. If you need a waist fit, measure the pants you will wear, then read the length on the listing. We do not cut belts to a custom hole pattern after the order is placed.
6. Prices
Prices are in United States dollars. The number on the product page at the moment you pay is the item price. We can change a price later. A price change does not rewrite an order already charged.
7. Sales tax
The listed price does not include sales tax. Tax is calculated at checkout from the ship-to address and the rules that apply to that address. Pennsylvania tax is collected when Pennsylvania law requires it. Other states are collected when collection is required. We do not bury a flat tax inside the belt price.
8. Payment
Checkout takes Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, American Express, JCB, Diners Club, and Discover. The charge runs when the order is placed. The page is HTTPS with the SSL certificate named in the Privacy Policy. We do not take a card over the phone and we do not take cash at 252 S Main St. A declined card is a failed checkout, not a backorder.
Refunds go back to the same card that paid, including when that path is a card processed through the checkout. PayPal, if it was the original method on that order, gets the PayPal refund. Details sit in the Payment Terms and the Refund Policy.
9. When an order exists
An order exists when checkout shows a confirmation and the charge goes through. We can refuse or cancel an order before USPS has the package if the address is outside the 50 states, the payment is reversed, the inventory is gone, or the order looks like fraud. If we cancel before shipment, the charge goes back to the original payment method. We email the address on the order when that happens.
10. Processing
We process and give the package to USPS in 1–3 business days. Saturday, Sunday, and U.S. federal holidays do not count. The cutoff is 3:00 PM EST. An order in by 3:00 PM EST on a business day enters that day’s queue. After 3:00 PM EST it waits for the next business day. Friday after 3:00 PM EST waits until Monday, or the next open business day if Monday is a holiday.
11. Where we ship
The 50 U.S. states only. USPS only. No UPS, FedEx, DHL, or a Slippery Rock courier. No store pickup at 252 S Main St. No local drop-off. Living on Main Street does not skip USPS.
12. Estimated transit
Transit times are estimates after the first USPS scan. They are not delivery promises.
From Slippery Rock, PA 16057: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and nearby Midwest, estimated 2–5 business days in transit. Southern states, estimated 4–8 business days in transit. Mountain and Pacific states, estimated 5–10 business days in transit. Alaska and Hawaii, estimated 7–14 business days in transit.
Estimated arrival is the 1–3 business day processing window plus that transit range. Weather, USPS volume, and the destination ZIP change the real date.
13. Tracking
After USPS takes the package, the tracking number goes to the shipment email and to the order page in your account. Track it on USPS.com. If both the email and the account are empty one full business day after the shipment notice should have gone out, email service@foranforge.com with the order number.
14. Where we will not ship
No international checkouts. We do not ship to Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Brazil, or any other country outside the United States. We do not ship to Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands.
15. Standard shipping rate
Standard shipping is $9.00 USD on orders totaling $0.01 to $80.00. Orders over $80.00 also ship standard USPS at $9.00 unless checkout shows a different number. If this page and checkout disagree, you pay the checkout number.
16. Delays on the way out
Holidays, storms, and supplier shortfalls can push a label past the 1–3 business day window. We email the address on the order when that happens. Transit after the first USPS scan stays estimated.
17. Lost or wrecked outbound packages
If the outbound package is gone or the belt arrives wrecked, email service@foranforge.com within 14 days of the delivery scan, or within 14 days of the last USPS scan if it never shows delivered. Photos of the box and the belt help. After 14 days we do not open that claim.
18. Return window
Returns and exchanges are accepted within 35 days of delivery. The 35 days start on the USPS delivered scan.
Returns are accepted within 35 days from the date you received the goods.
Day 36 is closed.
19. What may come back
Buyer’s remorse: yes. Non-defective returns: yes, if the belt still looks new. Defective belts: yes. Wrong SKU: yes. Partial returns from a multi-belt order: yes. Exchanges for another listed color or length of the same belt: yes.
20. Condition of a return
Remorse and non-defective returns come back unused, tags on, no waist shine, no denim dye, no extra holes. Defective and wrong-item returns can show the fault. Do not repair them first.
21. What does not come back
Clearance belts and final-sale belts stay sold, unless we shipped the wrong SKU or the belt arrived already broken. A belt worn out and then boxed. A belt missing the hangtag. A belt you punched new holes into.
22. How a return starts
Open the order in the account, or email service@foranforge.com, or use the contact page. Send the order number, the belt, and whether you want money back or a swap. We send a prepaid USPS label to 252 S Main St, Slippery Rock, PA 16057. Print it. Tape it. Give it to USPS. Keep the extra USPS receipt. Do not leave the box at the Main Street door.
23. Who pays return postage
Remorse and non-defective returns: you pay the return postage. We still issue the prepaid USPS label. That label cost comes out of the refund. No restocking fee. No relisting fee. No inbound handling fee.
Defect or wrong SKU: we pay the return postage. If you already paid USPS before the label arrived, email the receipt. We refund the amount on that receipt.
24. Refund timing
After the box is opened and checked at 252 S Main St, the refund is issued in 7 business days. Saturday, Sunday, and U.S. federal holidays do not count. The money goes to the original payment method. No check. No forced store credit.
25. Exchanges and partial returns
Exchanges sit inside the same 35-day window. Ask for the swap before you ship the first belt back. If the replacement costs more, pay the difference first. If it costs less, the difference returns on the original payment method. A two-belt order can return one belt and keep the other. We refund only the belt that comes back and passes the check.
26. Return packages that vanish or arrive crushed
Email the USPS drop-off receipt, the tracking number on our label, and photos if USPS handed a smashed box back to you. We work that file from service@foranforge.com. We do not accept a walk-up argument at 252 S Main St.
27. Conduct on the site
Do not scrape the catalog. Do not hit the checkout with stolen cards. Do not open multiple accounts to farm prepaid return labels. Do not post another person’s address as your ship-to to dodge a restriction. Do not upload malware in a review or a contact form. We can cancel open orders, refuse future checkouts, and close the account when that happens.
28. Reviews and messages
A review has to be about a belt you bought, or we can take it down. We can remove a review that is only a slur, a threat, or a pasted ad. Email to service@foranforge.com is for the order, the belt, or the account. Abuse mail can be ignored after one reply that the thread is closed.
29. Photos, names, and copy
Foran Forge, the product titles, the rewritten descriptions, and the photos on this site are used by KENNETH FORAN GT INC for this shop. You may not copy the catalog onto another storefront. You may photograph a belt you bought and post that photo as your photo. You may not lift our listing copy and sell the same SKU under our titles.
30. Data
The site uses SSL. We collect what checkout and the account need: name, email, phone, addresses, order notes, cart and page logs. We use that file to ship through USPS, to run returns, and to answer the inbox and the phone. We do not sell the list. We do not put it into an ad audience unless you have already agreed to that use. The Privacy Policy is the longer version. United States law applies to that page, with Pennsylvania law where the company sits.
31. Listing mistakes
A wrong price, a missing length, or a photo for the wrong color can go up by accident. We can cancel that order before USPS has the package and refund the original payment method. We do not honor a $9 belt that was meant to be $28.50 after the error is caught, if the label has not been scanned.
32. Site downtime
Shopify will go down. A page will 404. That is not a price-match ticket and not a free belt. Place the order again when the page loads. If you were charged twice in that window, email the two order numbers.
33. What we are not liable for
We are not liable for a USPS delay after the first scan, a color shift on your screen, a belt that does not match an outfit you did not photograph for us, or a duty or tax a foreign carrier tries to collect on an address we do not ship to. We are not liable for a lost package you reported after the 14-day outbound window, or a remorse return you started on day 36. For a belt we actually shipped broken or to the wrong SKU, the Refund Policy is the remedy: return or exchange, postage on us, refund in 7 business days after inspection. We do not pay consequential damages on top of that refund.
34. Law and venue
United States law governs these terms. Pennsylvania law governs where the company is based and where 252 S Main St sits. Disputes that cannot be closed by email go to the state or federal courts that cover Butler County, Pennsylvania, unless a United States statute says otherwise. We do not put this shop under EU or UK consumer statutes.
35. Changes
We can rewrite this page. The version on the site the day you pay is the version that applies to that order. A later rewrite does not reach back and change a return window that already started on a delivered scan.
36. How to reach us
service@foranforge.com
+1 (724) 896-2843, Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST
KENNETH FORAN GT INC
252 S Main St
Slippery Rock, PA 16057
United States
Use email for returns, tracking gaps, and account problems. Use the phone during desk hours if the email is not enough. Do not bring the belt to Main Street and expect a cash refund at the door.