These Terms and Conditions govern your use of the websites operated by The Startup Race Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”), namely thestartuprace.com and its subdomains (race., join., endorsement., assessment.). They apply alongside our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Refund and Cancellation Policy, and the product-specific Terms and Conditions for each of our paid programmes.
By using the website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and Conditions and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree, you should not use the website.
This document is being published as an interim version while we complete a review with our solicitors. We will replace it with a finalised version once that review is complete.
The Startup Race Ltd is a private limited company registered in Scotland.
The websites covered by these Terms and Conditions are:
You accept these Terms and Conditions by visiting any of our websites, by completing any form on them, by registering for an account, or by purchasing any product or programme. Your continued use after a change to these Terms and Conditions constitutes acceptance of the changed version.
You must be at least 18 years old to use our websites. Our products and programmes are not designed for, and not sold to, anyone under 18.
We may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time. The version in force at any given time is the version published on this page. The version number and effective date are at the top of this document. Where a change is material, we will let you know by email or by a notice on our websites.
You may use our websites for the following purposes:
You may not use our websites in any way that is unlawful, that infringes a third party’s rights, or that interferes with the operation of the website. The list of prohibited conduct in section 5 is not exhaustive.
Some parts of our websites (notably the paid programmes, the membership areas, and the booking widgets) require you to register for an account or to provide identifying details. The information you provide must be accurate and current. We collect and process this information in line with our Privacy Policy.
You are responsible for keeping your password and any other credentials confidential. You are responsible for any activity carried out under your account, whether or not you authorised it. If you become aware of unauthorised use of your account, contact us at privacy@thestartuprace.com without delay so we can secure the account.
We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, where you have breached these Terms and Conditions, where we reasonably suspect fraudulent or illegal activity, where the law requires us to, or where we are unable to provide the service for technical or operational reasons. Termination does not affect any rights or obligations that existed before termination.
You must not use any of our websites:
We are not obliged to monitor user activity, but we reserve the right to do so where the law permits, and to take such action as we consider reasonable in response to a breach of this section, including suspending or terminating an account, removing content, and reporting the matter to law enforcement.
The website is not a secure means of communication. You should not send us highly sensitive or confidential information through the website (in particular through public-facing forms, comments, or chat), including patentable inventions or trade secrets you wish to keep confidential. Where we need to receive sensitive material from you (for example, in the course of a paid programme), we will provide a secure route for doing so.
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect the website against intrusion, but no system is perfectly secure. If you become aware of a security incident affecting the website or any data you have shared with us, please email privacy@thestartuprace.com so we can investigate and respond.
All content on our websites, including text, images, logos, graphics, video, audio, and the underlying code, is owned by us or by the third parties whose content we license. The Startup Race name and logo, the league table format, the Investment Readiness Constellation, the Golden Buzzer mechanism, and our other proprietary frameworks are protected by intellectual property law.
You may view our published content for personal, non-commercial use, and you may share our public-facing pages by linking to them or by quoting short excerpts with attribution. You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, sell, license, or create derivative works of our content without our prior written consent, except as expressly permitted in these Terms and Conditions or by applicable law.
You retain ownership of any content you submit to us through the website (for example, business plans, financial models, or text submitted via forms or comments). By submitting content to us, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide licence to use, copy, store, transmit, and display that content for the purposes of operating the website, delivering the services you have purchased, and improving our products. The licence is terminable to the extent the law requires.
You confirm that any content you submit is your own original work, that you have the rights to provide it to us, and that submitting it does not infringe any third party’s rights. We may rely on this confirmation in good faith.
Where you participate in a cohort, programme, or assessment, content you generate through that participation (your business plan, your league table data, your assessment answers) remains your property. The terms on which we use it are set out in the relevant product-specific Terms and Conditions and in our Privacy Policy.
We may remove or edit content posted on our websites that breaches these Terms and Conditions, that we reasonably consider unlawful or infringing, or that a third party has notified us infringes their rights. We are not obliged to do so, and our decision not to remove content does not constitute an endorsement of it.
You may link to our publicly accessible pages from your own website, provided the link is presented fairly and lawfully and does not damage or take unfair advantage of our reputation. You may not frame, mirror, or otherwise present our website as if it were part of yours.
Our websites contain links to third-party websites and platforms (LeanSpark, LivePlan, Eventbrite, Stripe, the Magic MRM booking widgets, and others). When you follow such a link, the third party’s own terms and privacy policy apply. We are not responsible for the content, security, or practices of websites we do not control.
We do not warrant that our websites will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free from viruses or other harmful components. We aim for a high level of availability but cannot guarantee it. We may suspend, withdraw, or restrict access to all or any part of the website without notice for operational, security, or maintenance reasons.
The content on our websites is for general information. It does not constitute legal, financial, tax, investment, or immigration advice. In particular:
You should obtain independent professional advice appropriate to your circumstances before acting on anything we publish.
We do not guarantee any specific outcome from participation in our programmes or from use of our websites. Specifically, we do not guarantee endorsement, visa approval, business success, investment, league-table position, prize allocation, or revenue performance. Outcomes depend on a wide range of factors, many of which are outside our control.
Some content on our websites describes plans, projections, or expected outcomes. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees. They reflect our reasonable view at the time of writing and may change.
Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes or limits our liability for:
Subject to section 10.1, our total aggregate liability to you arising out of or in connection with your use of our websites, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall not exceed:
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, consequential, special, or incidental loss, including loss of profits, loss of business, loss of opportunity, loss of immigration status, loss of investment opportunity, or loss of data.
If you are using our websites as a consumer, the limitations in section 10 apply only to the extent that the law allows them to. They are intended to operate alongside, not in place of, the consumer protections set out in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and other consumer-protection legislation.
The collection, use, storage, and sharing of personal data through our websites is governed by our Privacy Policy. The use of cookies and similar tracking technologies is governed by our Cookie Policy. By using our websites, you agree to the terms of those policies as they apply to you.
You confirm that you have read those policies and understand them. If anything in them is unclear, please contact us at privacy@thestartuprace.com before continuing to use the website.
Where you purchase a product or programme from us, the purchase is governed by the product-specific Terms and Conditions for that product or programme, by our Refund and Cancellation Policy, and by these Terms and Conditions where they do not conflict with the more specific documents.
In case of conflict, the order of precedence is:
We may update this Refund and Cancellation Policy from time to time. The version in force at the date of your purchase is the version that applies to that purchase. Updated versions will be published on this page with an updated effective date. Where the change is significant, we will let you know by email or by a prominent notice on our websites.
Where you visit, view, or interact with our investor-facing pages (the Race Investors page on the main site and the Race Investor sign-up at join.thestartuprace.com), the following applies in addition to these Terms and Conditions:
A separate Investor Privacy Notice and Investor Terms apply to the investor relationship in more detail. Those documents are provided to investors at the point of self-certification.
Where you visit, view, or interact with our Innovator Founder Visa programme pages (the visa hub on the main site and the four endorsement programme pages at endorsement.thestartuprace.com), the following applies in addition to these Terms and Conditions:
You may stop using our websites at any time. You may close any account you hold with us by contacting us at privacy@thestartuprace.com. Termination does not affect any rights or obligations that have accrued before termination, including obligations relating to active programmes or paid memberships.
We may suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of our websites, with or without notice, for any of the reasons in section 4.3, or where we discontinue the relevant part of the service.
Sections 5 (Acceptable use), 7 (Intellectual property), 9 (Disclaimers), 10 (Limitation of liability), 16 (Governing law and jurisdiction), and any other provision intended to survive, will survive termination.
We are not liable for any failure to perform, or delay in performing, our obligations under these Terms and Conditions where the failure or delay is caused by an event outside our reasonable control, including acts of God, fire, flood, severe weather, war, civil unrest, pandemic, government action, industrial action, failure of telecommunications or internet networks, or failure of utility services. We will use reasonable endeavours to resume normal operations as soon as practicable.
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable, or illegal, the other provisions remain in full force and effect.
A failure by us to enforce any right under these Terms and Conditions is not a waiver of that right. A waiver of any breach is not a waiver of any subsequent breach.
These Terms and Conditions, together with the Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, the Refund and Cancellation Policy, and the relevant product-specific Terms and Conditions, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of the website. They supersede all previous communications, representations, and agreements, whether written or oral. Save for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, we have no liability for any representation that is not contained in those documents.
A person who is not a party to these Terms and Conditions has no right under the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of these terms.
These Terms and Conditions, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or your use of the website, are governed by the laws of Scotland.
You and we agree that the courts of Scotland have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim. If you are using the website as a consumer in another part of the United Kingdom, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of that part of the United Kingdom; this does not affect our right to bring proceedings against you in your courts.
For any question about these Terms and Conditions:
For complaints, see the complaints section in the Refund and Cancellation Policy.