Terms of Service

The sprintd platform is operated by sprintd GmbH, c/o Christoph Kohler, Brohegasse 53, 4126 Bettingen, Switzerland, registered with the Commercial Register of the Canton of Basel-Stadt under UID CHE-397.280.023 (“sprintd”, “we”, “us”).

You can reach us at alexandros@sprintd.org. Full company details are in our Imprint.

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. You need to give accurate information and keep it current. Your account is personal to you. Do not share your login, and tell us promptly if you think someone else has access to it.

Events set their own minimum age, which is 18 unless the organizer lowers it to 16. Where an organizer opens an event to participants under 18, that organizer is responsible for obtaining and checking guardian consent, and for the duties that come with hosting a minor at their event. sprintd provides the consent form and the mechanism to collect it, and nothing more.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. We may ask you to verify your identity where that is necessary to run an event safely.

sprintd is a public builder directory. By default your profile is visible to anyone on the internet: your name, handle, headline, bio, location, skills, links, the teams and clubs you belong to, and the events and results attached to you. Assume anything you put in those fields is public.

You can turn that off. Under Account, “Keep it private” removes your profile page from the web and takes you out of the builders directory. Where a record has to stay accurate, such as a leaderboard, a team roster or the results of an event you took part in, your entry remains but is shown as “Private builder” without your name, photo or a link. Organizers of events you apply to always see your real profile, because they cannot review an application otherwise.

Some information you give us is never public and is shown only to the organizer of an event you have applied to, because they need it to run the event: your date of birth, dietary needs, allergies, accessibility needs, emergency contact, shirt size, and any CV you upload.

You can also delete your account entirely at any time (section 12).

This is the most important thing to understand about sprintd. Events on this platform are run by two different kinds of people.

Events we organize.Some events are sprintd’s own. For those, sprintd is the organizer and is responsible for the event.

Events other organizers run. Most events are hosted by independent organizers, clubs, universities, and companies who use sprintd as infrastructure. For those events, sprintd is not the organizer. We provide the software. The organizer decides who is accepted, sets the rules and the schedule, runs the venue, selects the partners, sets the event terms, awards the prizes, and is responsible for the event and for what happens at it.

Every event page names its organizer. Your agreement about the event itself is with that organizer, not with sprintd. We are not a party to it, we do not control it, and we are not liable for it. If something goes wrong at an event we did not organize, the organizer is your counterparty. We will help you reach them, and we will act on our own platform where our rules have been broken (section 11).

These obligations apply to you as an organizer.

• You are the organizer of your events and responsible for them, including safety, venue, staffing, insurance, and any permits.
• You must describe your event accurately, including what you provide and what participants must bring.
• You must comply with data protection law for the participant data we make available to you. Use it only to run your event. Do not sell it, and do not use it for unrelated marketing.
• If you share participant data with your partners or sponsors, you must bind those partners to the same purpose limitation before you share anything.
• If your event involves partners, prizes, confidential case material, or any claim over what participants build, you must publish your own event terms and link them on your event, so applicants see them before they apply. We publish a template you can adopt.
• You must apply our Code of Conduct at your event, as a minimum standard.
• You may not use sprintd to run an event that is unlawful, discriminatory, or that misrepresents who is behind it.

You indemnify sprintd against claims arising from your event or from your handling of participant data, except to the extent we caused the problem.

You keep ownership of everything you put on sprintd: your profile, your team and club content, your messages, and your submissions.

You give sprintd a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, display, and reproduce that content, so that we can operate the platform. On top of that, you allow us to show your public profile content, your team name, your project title, description, thumbnail, and any results in event recaps, on sprintd.org, and in our marketing. This is a showcase licence only. We do not take ownership of your work, and we do not sell it or license it on to anyone else.

You are responsible for what you post. Do not upload anything you do not have the right to share, and do not upload anything unlawful.

You keep ownership of what you build. sprintd never takes ownership of your submissions.

Events that involve a partner company will usually ask you to grant that partner rights in what you build on their case. Those rights are set out in the event terms, which the organizer publishes and links from the event, and which you accept when you apply. They differ from event to event, so read them before you apply.

For events sprintd organizes, our standard position is: you keep ownership; the partner whose case you worked on receives a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to evaluate, modify, and use your work in their own products and operations; and for six months after the event, if you want to sell or license that solution to a third party, you offer it to that partner first and give them 30 days to respond. You stay free to keep developing your work, to use it, to show it, and to build a company on it.

When you submit, you confirm that the work is yours, that you built it during the event, and that you are free to grant the rights the event terms ask for. If your employer or your university has a claim over what you create, check before you apply.

Events are documented. By attending an event you accept that photographs and video may be taken and that sprintd and the organizer may use them to document and promote the event and future events, including on sprintd.org and on social media.

If a specific image or clip of you is a problem, write to us at alexandros@sprintd.org and we will review it and, where your request is reasonable, stop using it going forward.

How we handle personal data is described in our Privacy Policy, which covers sprintd.org, this platform, and our events.

When you apply to an event, you agree that we share your builder profile and your contact email with that event’s organizer and with the partners of that event, for the purposes of that event only. Organizers may add their own consent checkboxes, which are shown when you apply and recorded with your application.

Our Code of Conduct applies to everyone on the platform and at every event hosted through it. It is part of these terms.

You may not:

• harass, threaten, impersonate, or discriminate against anyone;
• post unlawful content, malware, or content you have no right to post;
• scrape the platform, attack it, probe its security without our written permission, or work around access controls;
• create fake accounts, manipulate rankings, voting, or judging, or submit work that is not yours;
• use participant data you receive as an organizer for anything other than running your event.

If you break these terms or the Code of Conduct, we may warn you, limit your account, remove content, remove you from an event, or close your account. Where it is serious, or where someone’s safety is at stake, we may act immediately and without notice. You can close your account at any time.

You can delete your account from your account settings. When you do, we erase you: your profile, your applications, your votes and ballots, your memberships, your notifications, and your messages to other people.

The record of the events themselves stays. Projects that were submitted remain in the event record, but they stop being linked to you. A project you submitted alone shows as “Anonymous Builder”, a team project keeps the team’s name, and public questions you asked show as “Former builder” so the threads still make sense.

One limit: if you are the only member of an organizer, or the only president of a club that still has members, hand that over before you delete, so the organization is not left without an owner.

Some records are kept longer where the law requires it, for example accounting records.

The platform is in early access. Things will break, features will change, and data may occasionally be lost. We provide the platform as it is and as it is available, without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows. We do not promise the platform will be uninterrupted, error free, or fit for any particular purpose.

We do not promise that any event will take place, that you will be accepted to an event, or that any prize, partner, or opportunity shown on an event page will materialize. Those are the organizer’s commitments, not ours.

sprintd is liable for damage it causes intentionally or through gross negligence. That liability cannot be excluded and we do not try to.

To the extent the law allows, we exclude liability for slight negligence, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit, lost data, or loss caused by an event we did not organize, by an organizer, by a partner, by another user, or by a third-party service the platform depends on.

Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury where the law does not permit it, or any other liability that cannot be limited under Swiss law.

We may update these terms. When we do, we change the date at the top, and where the change is material we will tell you through the platform or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using sprintd after a change takes effect, that change applies to you. If you do not accept it, you can delete your account.

Terms you already accepted when applying to an event stay as they were for that event. We record which version you accepted with each application.

These terms are governed by Swiss law, without regard to conflict of law rules. The courts of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory place of jurisdiction the law gives you as a consumer.

If any provision of these terms is found invalid, the rest stays in force.

sprintd GmbH
c/o Christoph Kohler
Brohegasse 53
4126 Bettingen
Switzerland

alexandros@sprintd.org