(1)      Introduction

These terms of use govern your use of our website; by using our website, you accept these terms of use in full.   If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use our website.

Certain features of our website are subject to age restrictions, as follows.

• You must be at least 14 years of age to use the other social networking features on our website.

• In order to enter a racing competition, you must be at least 8 years of age and, if you are at least 8 but less than 16 years of age, you must get your parent's or guardian's consent to entry to the racing competition.

If you register with our website, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms of use.

(2)      Licence to use website

Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.  Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use. 

You must not:

(a)      republish material from this website (including republication on another website);

(b)      sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;

(c)      show any material from the website in public;

(d)      reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;

(e)      edit or otherwise modify any material on the website (except using the website interface in accordance with its intended purposes); or

(f)      redistribute material from this website (except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution).

(3)      Registration

Access to certain areas of our website is restricted to registered users.  We reserve the right to restrict access to other areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion.

If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our website or other content or services, you must ensure that that user ID and password is kept confidential.  We may disable your user ID and password in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

(4)      Racing competition rules

In order to enter a racing competition, you must be at least 8 years of age and, if you are at least 8 but less than 16 years of age, you must get your parent's or guardian's consent to entry to the racing competition.  We may verify that you have such consent at any point during the racing competition process.

You must also have access to a computer meeting the minimum specifications required for the Live for Speed software, and have a broadband internet connection.

Entry to our racing competitions is free of charge.

In order to participate in a racing competition, you must: register with our website, download the Live for Speed software from our website, practice your racing, record a qualifying time for one or our live race competitions (which must be verified by our servers), and race online  against other contestants in a competition race.  We will filter racing results using a range of analytical tools (not simply measuring times) and a selected group of drivers will go forward for psychometric profiling.  A smaller selected group of drivers will then go forward for real-world racing and psychological testing, which may be filmed as part of a television series.

By entering a racing competition, you confirm that: (i) you are at least 16 years of age, or are at least 8 years of age and have your parent or guardian's consent to enter the racing competition; (ii) all information submitted by you as part of a competition entry is true, current and complete; (iii) that you are reasonably fit and free from injury or illness; and (iv) you will be able to so attend the particular locations/dates required enable further selection, recording of television programmes and to receive any prize you may win.

Each racing competition will have a start date and a closing date (which will be clearly set out on our website), and you must complete the competition entry procedures within this period.

There will be at least 3 prizes for winning our racing competitions.  The prizes are as set out on the website from time to time, and may include entries to one or more of the following driver programmes: British Karts, The Racing Steps Foundation, and Formula BMW. 

Racing competitions will be judged using a range of criteria, including: driver times and positions finishing, driver dedication, and driver improvement over time.  Prizes are awarded at the discretion of the judging panel.  The names of each member of the judging panel will be available upon request.

Any person we consider disruptive or unfit to take part in the competition may be disqualified.  Examples of behaviour liable to lead to disqualification include: excessive numbers of yellow flags, poor race etiquette, driving that would be dangerous if done in the “real world”, and the use of our website contrary to these terms of use.

A prize may be withheld and awarded to an alternative person if a winner is attend at the required places and times to receive the prize. 

Prizes are not transferable and there will be no cash alternative. We reserve the right to substitute prizes of equal or greater value at any time. 

Winners will be notified within 14 days of the completion of judging by email and will receive their prizes within the 12 month period following such notification.

Competition results will be announced on our website.  Winners' names will be published on our website along with recordings of their races.

These racing competition rules will remain on our website for the duration of the competition.  We recommend that you print off a copy for your own reference. 

(5)      Acceptable use

In these terms of use, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.  You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). 

Your user content (and its publication on our website) must not:

(a)        be libellous or maliciously false;

(b)        be obscene or indecent;

(c)        infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;

(d)        infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy, or right under data protection legislation;

(e)        constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f)        constitute an incitement to commit a crime;

(g)        be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;

(h)        be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i)         be blasphemous;

(j)         be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k)        be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l)         depict violence in a explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

(m)       be pornographic or sexually explicit;

(n)        be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(o)        consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p)        constitute spam;

(q)        be offensive, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, or menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r)        cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

Your user content must be appropriate, civil, tasteful and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.

You must not use our website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our website, breach the provisions of these terms of use.

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.

Notwithstanding our rights under these terms of use in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our website.

You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.

You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.

(6)      Limited warranties

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

(7)      Limitations of liability

Nothing in these terms of use (or elsewhere on our website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms of use, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows:

(a)        to the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature;

(b)        we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage;

(c)        we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information; and

(d)        we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees.  Having regard to that interest, and subject to the first paragraph of this Section 7, you accept that we are a limited liability entity and agree that you will not bring any claim personally against individual officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms of use.  This will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the company itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees.

You agreed to the publication of comments, reviews and/or feedback relating to you, by others, on our website.  You acknowledge that such comments, reviews and/or feedback may be critical or defamatory; and you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such comments, reviews and/or feedback, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such comments, reviews and/or feedback.

Subject to the first paragraph of this Section 7, we will not be liable in respect of any damage, loss or disappointment suffered by any competition entrant as a result of entering the competition or as a result of accepting or enjoying any prize.  In particular, you acknowledge that by taking advantage of a prizes, you may risk injury, and that we will not be liable in respect of any such injury.

(8)      Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use.

(9)      Breaches of these terms of use

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms of use in any way, we may:

(a)        send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)        temporarily suspend your access to the website;

(c)        permanently prohibit you from accessing the website;

(d)        block computers using your IP address from accessing the website;

(e)        contact your internet services provider and request that they block your access to the website;

(f)        bring court proceedings against you for breach of contract or otherwise;

(g)        suspend and/or delete your account with the website; and/or

(h)        delete and/or edit any or all of your user generated content.

Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

(10)    Third party websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties.  These links are not recommendations.  We have no control over the contents of third party websites, and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

(11)    Trade marks

V1 CHAMPIONSHIP and our logo are trade marks belonging to us.  We give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights. 

The other registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners. Unless stated otherwise, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.

(12)    Live for Speed software

The adapted version of the Live for Speed software available via our website has been developed by Live for Speed of 91 Lisbon Avenue, Twickenham, Middlesex TW2 5HL.  Any licences to use the software will be granted by Live for Speed (not us), and if you download the software from our website, the software will be subject to the terms Live for Speed's standard end user licence agreement from time to time.

(13)    Variation

We may revise these terms of use from time-to-time.  Revised terms of use will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on our website.  Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

(14)    Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use. 

(15)    Severability

If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

(16)    Exclusion of third party rights

These terms of use are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party.  The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

(17)    Entire agreement

These terms of use, together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

(18)    Law and jurisdiction

These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

(19)    Our details

The full name of our company is V1 Championship Limited. 

We are registered in England & Wales under registration number 04871912. 

Our registered office is V1 Championship Limited, Peartree Cottage, 2 Blackwells Yard, Northamptonshire, NN7 1JX.

You can contact us by email to info@v1championship.com.