Terms of Use

Draft for legal review. These terms are not yet in force.

1. Who we are and these terms

Stagewerk is a platform for running motorsport events. It is operated by Shakewell Agency ("we", "us", "Stagewerk") in Australia. Motorsport clubs, series, competitors, officials, volunteers and spectators use it to run events, enter them, publish results and keep records.

These terms apply when you use the Stagewerk website, the Stagewerk app or any page we host for a club or series. By using Stagewerk or creating an account you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use Stagewerk.

2. Your account and its security

You need an account for most things you do on Stagewerk. Give us accurate details and keep them up to date.

Keep your sign-in methods to yourself. Where a club, a series or we require a second step (multi-factor authentication), you must set it up and use it. Tell us promptly through our contact page if you think someone else has got into your account.

You are responsible for what happens under your account unless you told us it was compromised and we had a reasonable chance to act.

3. Clubs and organisers

A club, series or other organiser that runs events on Stagewerk is a tenant. Each tenant is responsible for its own events, including:

the event details, regulations, entry conditions and withdrawal policy;
accepting, declining and managing entries;
running the event safely and holding the licences, permits and insurance it needs;
timing, results, penalties and protests;
notices and bulletins it sends to entrants and the public.

Stagewerk provides the tools. We do not run, sanction, insure or supervise any event, and we do not decide who may compete. Organisers must have the right to publish everything they put on Stagewerk and must follow the privacy law that applies to the information they collect from entrants.

4. Entering events

When you enter an event, your entry is a contract between you and the organiser, not with Stagewerk. The organiser's conditions and regulations apply to it.

Entry fees are paid to the organiser. Online payments are processed by Stripe, and Stripe's own terms apply to the payment. The organiser may also send you a pay-later link so that someone else, such as a team or a parent, can pay on your behalf.

Refunds follow the withdrawal policy shown on the event. If you have a question about a fee or a refund, ask the organiser first.

5. Acceptable use

Use Stagewerk lawfully and with respect for others. Do not:

break the law or anyone else's rights;
upload anything abusive, hateful, deceptive or harmful;
pretend to be someone else, or enter someone without their agreement;
try to get into accounts, data or systems that are not yours;
interfere with the service, overload it, or copy it in bulk by automated means without our written permission;
use contact details from Stagewerk to send unwanted marketing.

We may suspend or remove an account or content that breaks these rules.

You may upload photos, videos, documents, forum posts and other material to Stagewerk. This section explains who owns it and what we may do with it.

You keep ownership of the photos and videos you upload to Stagewerk. By uploading, you give Stagewerk a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, use, copy, store, edit, crop, adapt, publish, display and distribute your content, in the Stagewerk app and website and in promoting Stagewerk, including alongside sponsors and partners. Stagewerk will credit you where practical. This licence ends when you delete your content or your account, except where it has been shared with others who have not deleted it, and for backup copies we keep for a limited time.

You confirm that you took the photo or video, or have the right to share it; that anyone clearly identifiable in it has agreed to it being shared; that you have a parent or guardian's consent for any child shown; and that it does not break any law or anyone else's rights.

Stagewerk checks content before others can see it and may decline, remove or stop showing any content at any time, without giving a reason. Anyone can ask for content showing them to be removed through Report a problem.

7. The results archive

Results are part of the public record of a sport. Stagewerk keeps an archive of published results, and shows public results pages and driver pages built from them. These can include a competitor's name, car number, class, times and positions.

You can claim a driver page that belongs to you, so that it is linked to your account.
You can ask us to correct a result, and the organiser who published it decides whether it changes.
You can ask us to remove or limit a page about you. We will consider each request fairly, taking into account your privacy, the organiser's records and the integrity of the results.

Use the contact page for any of these requests.

8. Your data and exporting it

Your data is yours. You can export your data from Stagewerk at any time. A club or other organisation can also export its own data at any time, including events, entries and results.

We will not hold your data back to make you stay. Exports are provided in common formats that you can open and reuse elsewhere.

9. Privacy

How we collect, use and protect personal information, including health and medical information that organisers may ask for, is set out in our Privacy Policy.

10. Availability and changes to the service

We work to keep Stagewerk available, but we cannot promise it will always run without interruption or error. We may do maintenance, and we may add, change or remove features. Where a change would seriously affect you, we will give reasonable notice.

Do not rely on Stagewerk alone for safety-critical decisions on an event day. Organisers should keep their own backup of the information they need to run the event.

11. Liability

We provide Stagewerk with due care and skill, but to the extent the law allows:

we are not liable for loss caused by an organiser, a competitor, an official or any other person using Stagewerk, or for events run by organisers;
we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profit, lost opportunity or lost data that we could not reasonably have foreseen;
our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the fees you paid to Stagewerk in the 12 months before the claim.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot be excluded. Where the law lets us limit our liability for a breach of a consumer guarantee, we limit it to resupplying the service or paying the cost of having it resupplied.

12. Ending your account

You can close your account at any time from your account settings or by contacting us. Before you do, you can export your data.

We may suspend or close an account if you break these terms, if the law requires it, or if the account has been unused for a long time and we have given you notice. The parts of these terms that are meant to continue, including the licence in the section on photos and videos, the limit on liability and the governing law, continue after your account ends.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will post the new version on this page with a new "last updated" date, and we will tell you in the app or by email if the change is significant. If you keep using Stagewerk after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms. If you do not accept it, you can close your account.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of [state to confirm], Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state and of the Commonwealth of Australia.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms? Reach us through the contact page.