Working draft — version draft-2026-07-14. The effective Terms will be posted on this page.
These Terms of Use (the "Terms") govern access to and use of The Standard Scoring Platform (the "Platform"), operated by [The Standard, LLC] ("Licensor," "we," "us"). By creating an account, activating a hunt, entering scores, or otherwise using the Platform, you (the "User") agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.
These Terms sit alongside, and do not replace, any separate license agreement between Licensor and a sanctioning organization (e.g., the Software License & Services Agreement). Where an organization's agreement and these Terms both apply, these Terms govern the individual User's use and the data-license grant in §4.
1. Definitions
1.1 "Hunt Data" — the scores, placements, entries, crossings, times, judge assignments, hound and kennel records, and results captured or entered on the Platform for a specific hunt.
1.2 "Derived Analytics" — any aggregated, anonymized, statistical, comparative, or modeled output that Licensor creates from Hunt Data across one or more hunts, hounds, kennels, judges, or seasons, including leaderboards, breeding/pedigree analytics, consistency and field-strength metrics, and hunter-facing analytics products.
1.3 "Platform Data" — all software, IP, aggregated and cross-organization data, registry/pedigree data, audit and history data, and Derived Analytics owned by Licensor.
1.4 "Marks" — a party's names, logos, trademarks, and colors.
2. Accounts and Access
2.1 You are responsible for your account credentials and for activity under your account.
2.1a Authority — you act for the hunt. If you activate, score, or sync a hunt, you represent that you act on behalf of that hunt with authority to bind it, and "User" in these Terms includes both you and the hunt on whose behalf you act. The grants and obligations in these Terms — including the §4 data license — are made by and bind the hunt as well as you personally.
2.2 Access to score a hunt is metered by per-hunt activation. One activation key authorizes one named hunt; activation is the billable event.
2.2a Activation fees. Unless a separate agreement between Licensor and a sanctioning organization provides that the organization pays for its affiliated hunts, the hunt pays Licensor the published activation fee — currently $25 per one-day hunt and $50 per multi-day hunt — prepaid to activate. An unpaid hunt is simply not activated. Promotional offers (e.g., launch-window free activations) are applied at Licensor's discretion at confirmation. Where a sanctioning organization's license agreement fixes activation rates for its affiliated hunts, those rates control for those hunts notwithstanding any change to the published rates.
2.3 You will use the Platform only for lawful field-trial scoring and related purposes, and will not attempt to modify, reverse-engineer, fork, resell, or circumvent the Platform or its activation mechanism.
2.4 Suspension. Licensor may suspend or terminate a User's access to the Platform for breach of these Terms. The provisions listed in §9.3 survive any such suspension or termination.
3. Ownership
3.1 Licensor owns the Platform. All software, source code, data model, user interface, printouts, documentation, and IP in the Platform are and remain owned exclusively by Licensor. Using the Platform grants you no ownership of it.
3.2 Data ownership split. Consistent with Licensor's organization agreements:
- (a) Each hunt owns its own Hunt Data.
- (b) A sanctioning organization owns its aggregated official Season Leaderboard.
- (c) Licensor owns the Platform, the IP, and the Platform Data, including all Derived Analytics, subject to the license you grant in §4.
4. Data License Grant (the operative clause)
4.1 Grant. User grants Licensor a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, aggregate, anonymize, and create derivative analytics from Hunt Data, and to commercialize such derived analytics.
4.2 Scope and clarification. This license:
- (a) applies to all Hunt Data you enter, submit, sync, or generate through the Platform;
- (b) is irrevocable as to data already contributed and survives termination of your account or of any organization's license (Licensor's rights in Derived Analytics already created do not lapse);
- (c) permits Licensor to build, publish, sell, and license Derived Analytics products — including hunter-facing analytics subscriptions and breeding/pedigree analytics — as its own separate offerings; and
- (d) does not transfer ownership of the raw Hunt Data itself (which stays with the hunt per §3.2(a)); it grants Licensor the rights needed to derive, aggregate, and commercialize analytics from it.
4.3 No conflict with the ownership split. The parties intend §3.2 and §4.1 to operate together: the hunt owns its raw Hunt Data, and Licensor holds the standing license in §4.1 to derive and commercialize analytics from it. Neither limits the other. The license in this Section 4 is the hunt-level grant contemplated by Licensor's organization license agreements (e.g., §7.3 of the Software License & Services Agreement) and, like them, it is perpetual and survives termination per §4.2(b).
4.4 Data segregation. Published results and standings are public by design — anyone may view them. What Licensor will not do is provide one organization's non-public raw Hunt Data, exports, standings feeds, or rule-set configuration to another organization for that organization's use. Derived Analytics may draw on data across hunts and organizations, presented through the Platform's visibility rules (public standings, a hunter's own-hound records, aggregated or comparative metrics) — never as a wholesale transfer of another organization's dataset.
5. Privacy and Public Data
5.1 Field-trial results are competition records of participants who chose to compete. Derived Analytics present factual performance information (placements, points, times, pedigree) in Licensor's own format.
5.2 Licensor does not sell sensitive personal information. Contact/account details are used to operate the Platform and are not part of the commercialized Derived Analytics. [Add a full privacy policy when hunter accounts/subscriptions launch — collecting anything beyond scoring/account data triggers it.]
6. Third-Party and Historical Data
6.1 Where the Platform incorporates historical results from public sources, Licensor uses the underlying factual results only (which are not subject to copyright) and re-presents them in Licensor's own original format.
6.2 Licensor does not republish third parties' copyrighted images, article text, or logos, and does not represent any organization as endorsing or producing the Platform except under a signed agreement. Organization names may be referenced factually.
7. Trademarks and Feedback
7.1 Each party retains ownership of its Marks. You grant Licensor a limited license to apply your Marks to your own instance/printouts during use. No Marks are assigned. Licensor's factual references to organizations or events do not imply endorsement.
7.2 Feedback. Licensor may freely use any feedback, suggestions, or feature requests you provide. Anything built from them becomes part of the Platform and is owned by Licensor (§3.1), with no compensation or attribution owed. Nothing in this Section limits your own use of your own ideas. (This is the trial/operator-level feedback grant contemplated by §8.4 of Licensor's organization license agreements.)
8. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
8.1 The Platform and all outputs, including Derived Analytics, are provided "AS IS." Licensor disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The User/hunt remains responsible for reviewing and approving official scoring results.
8.2 To the maximum extent permitted by law, Licensor is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, and its aggregate liability is limited to the greater of $100 or the amounts you paid Licensor in the 12 months preceding the claim.
8.3 Stud listings. Stud Book listings are advertisements authored by the hound’s owner. Licensor verifies only that registration papers are on file and reports placements from officially scored hunts; Licensor is not a party to, and bears no responsibility for, any stud arrangement, fee, or breeding outcome.
9. Changes and Governing Law
9.1 Licensor may update these Terms; continued use after an update constitutes acceptance. Material changes to the §4 license grant will be presented for re-acceptance.
9.2 These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and disputes are resolved in the courts of [_____ County], Virginia (fill before the ToU goes live; arbitration deliberately not used at this scale).
9.3 Survival. Sections 3 (Ownership), 4 (Data License Grant), 7.2 (Feedback), and 8 (Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability) survive termination or deactivation of your account, the completion or cancellation of any hunt, and the expiration or termination of any organization's license agreement — mirroring the survival provisions of those organization agreements (e.g., §9.6(d) of the Software License & Services Agreement).
9.4 Assignment. Licensor may assign these Terms and the licenses granted to it, including to a successor entity that operates the Platform. Users may not assign these Terms.