Terms of Service

HC MOTORSPORTS LTD
THE PADDOCK HUB — MASTER TERMS OF SERVICE, END-USER LICENCE AGREEMENT (EULA), ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY & MOTORSPORT RISK DISCLAIMER

SECTION 1. CORPORATE INFORMATION AND BINDING AGREEMENT

1.1 Provider Identity. The Paddock Hub web application, progressive web application (PWA), FlightDeck pit-wall monitoring system, local telemetry analysis studio, optical character recognition (OCR) timing tools, kart setup calculators, APIs, and all associated services (collectively, the "Platform" or "Services") are owned, operated, and licensed exclusively by HC Motorsports Ltd, a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales (Company No.: 17355831), whose registered office is at 66 Paul Street, London, United Kingdom, EC2A 4NA ("HC Motorsports", "we", "us", or "our").

1.2 Binding Legal Contract. By accessing, browsing, registering for, or using any part of the Platform (whether as a Driver, Parent/Legal Guardian, Team Manager, Race Mechanic, Sponsor, Follower, or Unregistered Visitor viewing a Public Driver CV, Race Share Card, or Showcase Poster), you ("User" or "you") agree to be legally bound by these Master Terms of Service (the "Agreement"). If you do not agree to every provision of this Agreement without modification, you are not authorised to access or use the Platform and must cease all use immediately.

1.3 Business Users vs. Consumers. Where you access or use the Platform in the course of a racing team operation, driver management agency, commercial sponsorship, mechanic/coaching service, championship organisation, or any other trade, business, or profession, you contract with HC Motorsports Ltd strictly as a Business User. For Business Users, all statutory implied warranties, conditions, and consumer protections are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ("UCTA 1977") and applicable international law.

1.4 Amendments to Terms. HC Motorsports Ltd reserves the right to modify, amend, or update this Agreement at any time at its sole discretion. Updated versions will be posted on the Platform with a revised "Last Updated" date. Your continued access to or use of the Platform following any update constitutes your irrevocable acceptance of the amended Agreement.

SECTION 2. ELIGIBILITY, MINORS & 'ACTING-AS' GUARDIAN AUTHORITY

2.1 Minimum Age for Contracting. You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age and possess full legal capacity to enter into this Agreement in your own right and to purchase any Paid Subscription (Base, Pro, or Team tiers).

2.2 Youth Drivers and Parental/Guardian Assumption of Liability. Where the Platform is used to log races, lap times, mechanical setups, telemetry, photographs, or public Driver CVs for a minor (under 18 years of age)—whether directly by a minor with parental supervision or via a Parent/Guardian account using the Platform's 'Acting-As' functionality:

• (a) Warranty of Authority: The Parent or Legal Guardian warrants and represents that they hold full parental responsibility and legal authority for the minor Driver;

• (b) Personal Assumption of Obligations: The Parent or Legal Guardian personally assumes all obligations, risk assumptions, liabilities, and indemnities under this Agreement on behalf of both themselves and the minor Driver; and

• (c) Consent to Public Showcase: Where the minor Driver's profile privacy toggle is set to 'Public', the Parent or Legal Guardian expressly consents to the public display of the minor's racing career statistics, lap times, photographs, and downloadable PDF Driver CV.

SECTION 3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (FULL OWNERSHIP BY HC MOTORSPORTS LTD)

3.1 Absolute Ownership by HC Motorsports Ltd. HC Motorsports Ltd is and shall remain the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title, and interest (including all copyright, database rights, patents, trade secrets, know-how, trademarks, service marks, source code, object code, client Web Worker telemetry and spreadsheet parsers, OCR pipelines, kart setup reference specifications, UI/UX designs, and the "The Paddock Hub", "FlightDeck", and Trophy Badge logos) in and to the Platform. All rights not expressly granted to you under this Agreement are strictly reserved by HC Motorsports Ltd.

3.2 Limited, Revocable End-User Licence. Subject to your continuous compliance with this Agreement and timely payment of any applicable Subscription Fees, HC Motorsports Ltd grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and fully revocable at-will licence to access and use the Platform strictly for your legitimate personal or internal team motorsport logging and analysis purposes.

3.3 User Data & Perpetual Licence to HC Motorsports Ltd. You retain ownership of the raw race logs, photographs, and personal data you upload to the Platform ("User Data"). By uploading, submitting, or inputting User Data into the Platform, you grant HC Motorsports Ltd a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable licence to host, store, cache, process, reproduce, display (where marked public or shared with teams/followers), and generate anonymised or aggregated statistical, circuit, setup, and lap-time benchmarks from your User Data for the operation, security, improvement, and commercial development of the Platform.

3.4 Feedback and Suggestions. Any feedback, setup specification corrections, circuit additions, feature requests, or suggestions provided by you to HC Motorsports Ltd shall become the exclusive property of HC Motorsports Ltd upon submission, without any obligation of attribution, royalty, or compensation to you.

SECTION 4. 'NOT A SOURCE OF TRUTH' — INFORMATIONAL ACCURACY & DATA RELIANCE DISCLAIMER

4.1 Platform Not a Source of Truth. THE PLATFORM IS AN INFORMATIONAL, LOGGING, AND ANALYTICAL AID ONLY. THE PLATFORM IS NOT, AND MUST NEVER BE RELIED UPON AS, AN AUTHORITATIVE, OFFICIAL, OR DEFINITIVE SOURCE OF TRUTH AT ANY TIME. YOU ACCESS AND USE ALL FEATURES, SUGGESTIONS, CHARTS, AND DATA OUTPUTS STRICTLY OF YOUR OWN ACCORD AND AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

4.2 Specific Feature & Calculation Disclaimers. Without limiting the generality of Clause 4.1, HC Motorsports Ltd makes no representation, warranty, covenant, or guarantee whatsoever regarding the accuracy, completeness, safety, legality, or fitness for purpose of:

• (a) Kart Setup Reference Suggestions (setupSpec): Any suggested cold or hot tyre pressures, front/rear sprocket gearing ratios, carburettor jetting, needle positions, castor/camber angles, front/rear track widths, or axle stiffness ratings are generic mathematical approximations only and do not account for track grip evolution, ambient anomalies, engine wear, or scrutineering rules;

• (b) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) & Spreadsheet Uploads: Lap times, sector splits, anomaly flags, or full-field competitor grids extracted via timing-sheet photo OCR (OcrLapDialog) or spreadsheet imports (DriverSheetUploadWizard) may contain recognition errors, omissions, misalignments, or inaccuracies;

• (c) Telemetry Studio & FlightDeck Feeds: Speed traces, RPM graphs, lateral/longitudinal G-forces, exhaust/water temperatures, GPS racing lines, downsampled datasets, and live pit-wall FlightDeck displays are subject to logger hardware errors, Web Worker downsampling approximations, and network latency; and

• (d) Weather, Circuit Maps & Calendars: Third-party weather data, circuit layouts, and championship round dates are provided for convenience only and may be inaccurate, delayed, or cancelled without notice.

4.3 Mandatory Independent Verification. Official race timing, championship regulations, technical scrutineering compliance, and mechanical safety remain the exclusive domain of the relevant motorsport governing body (e.g., Motorsport UK, FIA Karting, IAME, Rotax), event organisers, and your qualified race mechanic. You must independently verify all data and mechanical settings before taking any kart onto a circuit.

SECTION 5. MOTORSPORT & MECHANICAL ASSUMPTION OF RISK

5.1 Inherent Risks of Karting and Motorsport. You expressly acknowledge and agree that karting and motorsport are inherently dangerous, high-risk activities involving high speeds, close-quarters racing, mechanical component failure, and the ever-present risk of severe property damage, catastrophic bodily injury, paralysis, or death.

5.2 Zero Duty of Care for Mechanical Setups & On-Track Decisions. HC Motorsports Ltd is a software provider and does not provide mechanical engineering, race scrutineering, or safety advice. Applying any kart setup, tyre pressure, gearing ratio, carburettor jetting, ballast placement, or driving line viewed on, logged in, or suggested by the Platform is undertaken 100% at your own judgement, accord, and risk. HC Motorsports Ltd shall have ZERO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER for any engine seizure, tyre blowout, brake failure, chassis damage, technical disqualification, sporting penalty, collision, or personal injury arising directly or indirectly from your use of or reliance on the Platform.

SECTION 6. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY & PROHIBITED CONDUCT (ANTI-ABUSE & ANTI-MALICE)

6.1 Zero Tolerance for Misuse, Abuse & Malicious Materials. You covenant and agree that you will not misuse, abuse, corrupt, or weaponise the Platform, nor permit any third party to do so. You are strictly prohibited from uploading, inputting, transmitting, displaying, linking, or distributing—whether via Race Logs, Session Notes, Driver CVs, Showcase Posters, Photo Captions, Team Names, or Invites—any material or content that:

• (a) Is Threatening, Harassing, or Defamatory: Threatens violence or physical harm, intimidates, bullies, stalks, doxxes, defames, libels, or harasses any racing driver (including minors), parent, mechanic, marshall, race official, steward, team, sponsor, or HC Motorsports staff member;

• (b) Is Unlawful, Hateful, or Obscene: Is sexually explicit, pornographic, exploitative of children or minors, promotes self-harm, incites racial, religious, or discriminatory hatred, or violates any criminal or civil law in the UK, EU, or your jurisdiction;

• (c) Contains Malicious Code or Exploits: Contains any virus, Trojan horse, worm, logic bomb, ransomware, spyware, corrupted telemetry/CSV/Excel file, zip bomb, cross-site scripting (XSS) payload, SQL injection string, or malformed image/document designed to crash, overload, or compromise client Web Workers, user browsers, or HC Motorsports server infrastructure; or

• (d) Constitutes Fraud or Impersonation: Impersonates another driver, team manager, sponsor, or official, or fabricates/manipulates timing sheets or Driver CVs to defraud sponsors, teams, or governing bodies.

6.2 Prohibited Technical & Security Interference. You must not under any circumstances:

• (a) Attempt to bypass, disable, spoof, or circumvent the Platform's HumanGate bot protection, LoginCodeGate 90-day email verification, TOTP Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), rate limiters, or PostgreSQL Row-Level Security (RLS) policies;

• (b) Use any automated bot, spider, scraper, crawler, or headless browser to extract, harvest, or index circuit databases, kart setup reference tables, or public driver profiles;

• (c) Copy, decompile, disassemble, reverse-engineer, or attempt to derive the source code or underlying algorithms of any part of the Platform;

• (d) Publicly post, sell, trade, or distribute paid Team Seat Invite Codes, Manager Codes, or Promotional Access Codes outside your authorised racing team roster; or

• (e) Attempt unauthorised probing, penetration testing, or access to restricted administrative routes (including /crm or /secure-admin-panel).

6.3 Monitoring, Takedown & Law Enforcement Referral. HC Motorsports Ltd maintains immutable cryptographic security audit logs and reserves the absolute right (without obligation) to monitor, review, edit, or immediately delete any User Data or content that violates this Section 6, and to disclose your identity, IP address, email, and audit records to law enforcement authorities, cyber-crime units, and motorsport governing bodies without notice to you.

SECTION 7. SUBSCRIPTIONS, STRIPE BILLING, ACCESS CODES & TEAM SEATS

7.1 Membership Tiers & Payment Processing. The Platform offers Free, Base, Pro, and Team membership tiers. Paid Subscriptions are billed in advance on a recurring monthly or annual cycle via our third-party payment processor, Stripe. By purchasing a Paid Subscription, you authorise Stripe and HC Motorsports Ltd to charge your designated payment method for all applicable fees and taxes.

7.2 Immediate Digital Performance & Waiver of 14-Day Cooling-Off Right. Where you are a UK or EU Consumer purchasing a Paid Subscription, you expressly request that HC Motorsports Ltd begins supplying the digital Base/Pro/Team features immediately upon checkout completion. You acknowledge that once immediate access to digital subscription content has been granted, you lose your statutory 14-day right to cancel and receive a refund under the UK Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 and EU Directive 2011/83/EU.

7.3 No Refunds & Chargeback Prohibition. Except where strictly mandated by non-excludable law, all Subscription Fees are non-refundable and non-creditable, including for partial billing periods, unused team seats, or accounts terminated for breach of this Agreement. Initiating an unjustified payment chargeback or dispute with your card issuer constitutes a material breach of this Agreement and grounds for immediate permanent account termination.

7.4 Promotional Access Codes & Team Seat Inheritance. Promotional Access Codes and Team Seat Invite Codes have no monetary or cash value, cannot be exchanged for cash, and may be modified, capped, or revoked by HC Motorsports Ltd at any time without liability. Where a Driver accesses Pro features via a Team Seat Invite Code, such access is strictly contingent upon the Team Manager maintaining an active, paid Team Subscription and keeping the Driver on the active team roster.

SECTION 8. SYSTEMS DOWNTIME, OMISSIONS, DATA LOSS & THIRD-PARTY CYBER BREACHES

8.1 'AS IS' and 'AS AVAILABLE' Provision. THE PLATFORM AND ALL SERVICES ARE PROVIDED STRICTLY ON AN 'AS IS' AND 'AS AVAILABLE' BASIS WITHOUT ANY SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA) OR UPTIME GUARANTEE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HC MOTORSPORTS LTD DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

8.2 Zero Liability for Systems Downtime & Omissions. HC Motorsports Ltd shall have NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER for any temporary or permanent unavailability, server downtime, scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, software bugs, errors, omissions, latency, or failure of third-party infrastructure (including Supabase, Stripe, cloud hosting, DNS, CDN, or mobile trackside networks), including where such downtime occurs during an active race weekend, qualifying session, or championship event.

8.3 Responsibility for Data Backups. The Platform is not an archival backup service. You are solely responsible for maintaining your own independent local copies of all raw telemetry files, CSV spreadsheets, race photographs, and setup sheets. HC Motorsports Ltd shall have no liability for any deletion, corruption, failure to store, or loss of User Data.

8.4 No Liability for Cyber Attacks & Third-Party Breaches. While HC Motorsports Ltd implements technical security safeguards (including encryption, Row-Level Security, and Multi-Factor Authentication), no internet transmission or cloud database is impenetrable. HC Motorsports Ltd shall have NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER for any unauthorised access, hacking, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, ransomware, zero-day exploit, credential stuffing, phishing, or third-party cloud sub-processor breach that is not caused by the direct, proven, and wilful default of HC Motorsports Ltd.

SECTION 9. ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO TERMINATE ACCESS & WAIVER OF CLAIMS

9.1 Unilateral Right to Terminate or Suspend Without Prior Notice. HC Motorsports Ltd reserves the absolute, unconditional, and unfettered right to immediately suspend, restrict, lock, unpublish, or permanently terminate your account, Team roster, Public Driver CV, Showcase Poster, or access to the Platform—AT ANY TIME AND WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE, WARNING, OR LIABILITY—if, in our sole and absolute discretion:

• (a) You breach, or we reasonably suspect you have breached, any term of this Agreement or the Acceptable Use Policy (Section 6);

• (b) We determine that your continued access poses a security, operational, reputational, intellectual property, or legal risk to HC Motorsports Ltd, the Platform, or third parties;

• (c) You engage in rude, abusive, threatening, or vexatious conduct towards HC Motorsports Ltd personnel, CRM support staff, or community members;

• (d) Your account remains inactive for an extended period or fails periodic 90-day security verification; or

• (e) HC Motorsports Ltd elects to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Platform or any part thereof.

9.2 No Legal Right to Claim Upon Termination. Upon suspension or termination of your access under Clause 9.1, your licence to use the Platform terminates immediately, all active access codes or seat entitlements are forfeited, and YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT TO CLAIM DAMAGES, COMPENSATION, REFUND, ACCOUNT REINSTATEMENT, OR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST HC MOTORSPORTS LTD.

SECTION 10. EXCLUSION AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

10.1 Mandatory Statutory Carve-Out (Preserving Full Enforceability). Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit the liability of HC Motorsports Ltd for: (a) death or personal injury caused directly by the proven negligence of HC Motorsports Ltd or its officers/employees acting in the course of their employment; (b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation by HC Motorsports Ltd; or (c) any other liability which cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under the laws of England and Wales (including Section 2(1) of UCTA 1977 or Section 65 of the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015).

10.2 Total Exclusion of Indirect, Consequential & Motorsport Losses. Subject only to Clause 10.1, HC Motorsports Ltd, its parent, subsidiaries, directors, officers, shareholders, employees, licensors, and contractors shall UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE LIABLE to you or any third party—whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, misrepresentation, restitution, or otherwise—for any:

• (a) Loss of profits, revenue, anticipated savings, sponsorship income, prize money, or commercial contracts;

• (b) Loss of championship points, race positions, sporting eligibility, or scrutineering compliance;

• (c) Mechanical failure, engine damage, kart chassis damage, or accident repair costs;

• (d) Loss, corruption, inaccuracy, or disclosure of data, telemetry logs, lap times, or setup records;

• (e) Loss of business, goodwill, or reputation; or

• (f) Any indirect, special, incidental, exemplary, punitive, or consequential loss or damage whatsoever, even if HC Motorsports Ltd had been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage.

10.3 Hard Aggregate Financial Liability Cap. Subject to Clauses 10.1 and 10.2, the MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY of HC Motorsports Ltd to you for all claims, demands, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or your use of (or inability to use) the Platform in any twelve (12) month period shall in no event exceed the GREATER of:

• (a) The total net Subscription Fees actually paid by you directly to HC Motorsports Ltd in the three (3) calendar months immediately preceding the first event giving rise to liability; OR

• (b) Ten Pounds Sterling (£10.00 GBP) (or £0.00 GBP where you use only the Free Tier or a complimentary Access Code, to the maximum extent permitted by law).

10.4 Strict Contractual Time-Bar on Claims. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim or cause of action you may have against HC Motorsports Ltd arising out of or relating to the Platform or this Agreement must be formally issued in a court of competent jurisdiction within SIX (6) MONTHS from the date on which the cause of action accrued; failing which, such claim is permanently time-barred, extinguished, and waived.

SECTION 11. USER INDEMNIFICATION OF HC MOTORSPORTS LTD

11.1 Full Indemnity. You agree to fully indemnify, defend, and hold harmless HC Motorsports Ltd, its directors, officers, shareholders, employees, agents, and sub-processors on a full indemnity basis from and against any and all third-party claims, demands, actions, proceedings, regulatory fines, liabilities, damages, settlements, losses, costs, and expenses (including full reasonable legal and solicitors'/attorneys' fees) arising out of or in connection with: (a) your access to or use of the Platform (or use by any minor Driver, team member, or invitee linked to your account); (b) any mechanical kart setup, driving conduct, or motorsport activity undertaken by you or your team; (c) any User Data, photographs, sponsor logos, or materials uploaded or published by you; or (d) any breach by you of this Agreement or violation of any applicable law or third-party right.

SECTION 12. GOVERNING LAW, EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION & INTERNATIONAL ENFORCEABILITY

12.1 Governing Law. This Agreement and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

12.2 Exclusive Jurisdiction of English Courts. Subject only to any non-waivable mandatory local consumer forum rights under UK or EU statute, you irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales sitting in London shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or the Platform. Nothing in this Clause 12.2 shall limit the right of HC Motorsports Ltd to initiate proceedings for debt recovery, intellectual property infringement, or injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction worldwide where you reside or where assets or infringements are located.

12.3 Class Action & Jury Trial Waiver (Global & Non-UK/EU Users). To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law in your jurisdiction, you irrevocably waive any right to a trial by jury and agree that any dispute or proceeding shall be conducted solely on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, collective, or representative action.

SECTION 13. GENERAL LEGAL PROVISIONS

13.1 Severability and Blue-Pencil Modification. Each section, clause, and sub-clause of this Agreement operates separately. If any court or competent authority in the UK, EU, or any international jurisdiction finds that any provision (or part-provision) of this Agreement is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision shall be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid, legal, and enforceable while preserving the maximum legal protection for HC Motorsports Ltd. If such modification is not possible, the relevant provision or part-provision shall be deemed severed and deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected in any way.

13.2 Force Majeure. HC Motorsports Ltd shall not be in breach of this Agreement nor liable for any delay in performing, or failure to perform, any of its obligations under this Agreement if such delay or failure results from events, circumstances, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, extreme weather, fire, flood, epidemic/pandemic, war, terrorism, civil commotion, government sanctions, power grid failure, internet backbone outages, or third-party cloud provider failures.

13.3 Assignment. HC Motorsports Ltd may at any time assign, transfer, mortgage, charge, subcontract, or deal in any other manner with any or all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement without your consent. You may not assign, transfer, or sublicense any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement.

13.4 No Waiver. A waiver of any right or remedy under this Agreement or by law is only effective if given in writing and signed by an authorised director of HC Motorsports Ltd and shall not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent right or breach.

13.5 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with our Privacy Policy (/privacy-policy) and Cookie Policy (/cookie-policy), constitutes the entire agreement between you and HC Motorsports Ltd and supersedes and extinguishes all prior agreements, drafts, promises, assurances, warranties, representations, and understandings between us, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter.