These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern access to and use of Nordic Stars, the sailing performance and navigation service available at nordicstars.ai (the “Service”), operated by Goose Yard Sailing AB, a Swedish limited company (aktiebolag), org. nr. 559489-8594 (“Goose Yard”, “we”, “us”). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms on behalf of yourself and, where applicable, the organisation you represent.
1. Definitions
- “Customer” — the organisation (sailing team, club, campaign or company) that holds the account, or the individual using the Service on their own behalf.
- “Customer Data” — all data submitted to the Service by or for the Customer, including Telemetry Data, Tracking Data configurations, polars, tuning targets, video metadata and organisation content. Customer Data excludes Usage Data.
- “Telemetry Data” — instrument and logger data submitted to the Service, whether uploaded as recordings (for example Expedition logs, Vakaros recordings, or NMEA 2000 voyage-recorder files) or streamed live from Race Control on board, and the analytics derived from them.
- “Tracking Data” — fleet tracking data retrieved from third-party race tracking providers at the Customer’s instruction using the Customer’s own provider credentials.
- “Usage Data” — technical data about the use and operation of the Service (such as logs, metrics and feature usage), excluding the content of Customer Data.
- “Subscription” — a paid day pass or a monthly or yearly subscription for a boat, per the pricing page.
2. Accounts and eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. If you register on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have the authority to bind it to these Terms. You are responsible for the activity under your account and for keeping your sign-in credentials confidential. Notify us immediately at security@nordicstars.ai if you suspect unauthorised access to your account.
3. Trials, subscriptions and billing
Every new organisation starts with a 30-day free trial covering one boat, with no payment card required. After the trial, paid features require a Subscription per boat. Prices are per boat class and are published on the pricing page; the in-app catalog at checkout is authoritative.
- Payment. Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not store card numbers. All fees are exclusive of taxes; VAT is added at checkout where it applies.
- Day passes provide 24 hours of access for one boat from the moment of purchase and do not renew.
- Monthly and yearly subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled. You can cancel at any time from the billing screen in the app; cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period.
- Payment failure. If a renewal payment fails, we may suspend the affected boat’s paid features after the payment retry period. Your data is not deleted because a payment failed.
- Price changes. We will give at least 30 days’ notice of price changes affecting an active subscription; changes apply from the next renewal.
- Refunds. Fees are non-refundable except where these Terms or mandatory law provide otherwise.
4. Use of the Service
We grant the Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable right to use the Service for its own internal purposes during the subscription term. You must not, and must not permit anyone to:
- reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to derive the source code or architecture of the Service, except as permitted by mandatory law;
- resell, sublicense or provide the Service to third parties as a service bureau;
- use the Service to build a competing product;
- use the Service in violation of the Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
5. Customer Data
The Customer retains all right, title and interest in and to Customer Data. You grant us the rights needed to host, process, display and transmit Customer Data solely to provide and support the Service. Processing of personal data within Customer Data is governed by the Data Processing Agreement and the Privacy Policy.
- Onboard video stays local. The debrief player links video files on your own machine; video bytes are never uploaded to the Service. We store only lightweight metadata (file fingerprints and alignment offsets).
- Hosting. The Service is hosted in the European Union (Google Cloud, europe-north1, Finland). Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
- Aggregated data. We may use de-identified, aggregated data derived from the operation of the Service (for example format-decoder statistics) to operate and improve the Service. This right survives termination; it never includes publishing your team’s performance data in identifiable form.
6. Tracking Data and third-party providers
The fleet tracking data add-on retrieves data from third-party race tracking providers (currently GEORACING) using credentials the Customer supplies. You represent that you are entitled to use those credentials and that data, and your use of provider data remains subject to the provider’s own terms. We are not affiliated with, and do not speak for, any race tracking provider or event organiser. Provider outages or feed errors are outside our control (see the SLA).
7. Intellectual property
We and our licensors retain all right, title and interest in and to the Service, including its software, design and documentation. The Customer retains its rights in Customer Data, its boats, polars, targets and configurations. If you send us feedback, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide licence to use it without restriction.
8. Availability and support
Our availability objective, maintenance practice and support terms are described in the Service Level Agreement. We may modify the Service, provided the modifications do not materially reduce its core functionality during a paid period.
9. Warranties and disclaimers
We provide the Service with reasonable skill and care. Except as expressly stated, the Service is provided “as is” and we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Analytics are decision support for training and debriefs: we do not warrant race results, and the Service is not a navigation, collision-avoidance or safety system and must not be relied on as one.
10. Limitation of liability
Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue or data, to the extent permitted by law. Each party’s total aggregate liability under these Terms is limited to the fees paid or payable by the Customer for the Service in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability for wilful misconduct, gross negligence, or liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.
11. Indemnification
We will defend the Customer against third-party claims that the Service, used as authorised, infringes the third party’s intellectual property rights, and will indemnify the resulting damages finally awarded. The Customer will defend and indemnify us against claims arising from Customer Data, the Customer’s use of third-party provider credentials or data, or the Customer’s breach of these Terms.
12. Term and termination
- These Terms apply for as long as the Customer has an account. Subscriptions run per their billing period and can be cancelled as described in section 3.
- Either party may terminate for material breach if the breach is not cured within 30 days of written notice. We may suspend or terminate immediately for serious violations of the Acceptable Use Policy or where required by law.
- After account termination we will make Customer Data available for export for 30 days, and then delete it as described in the Privacy Policy.
13. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give at least 30 days’ notice by email or in-Service notice before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.
14. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Sweden, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The parties will first attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute by negotiation for at least 30 days. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Stockholm, Sweden, with Stockholms tingsrätt as the court of first instance.
15. General
These Terms, together with the documents they reference, are the entire agreement between the parties regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements on the subject. If a provision is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect. Neither party is liable for failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control. Notices to us go to legal@nordicstars.ai; notices to the Customer go to the account’s registered email.
16. Contact
Goose Yard Sailing AB
Org. nr. 559489-8594 · VAT SE559489859401
Email: legal@nordicstars.ai
Support: support@nordicstars.ai