Terms of service

These Terms of Service govern your use of the CaseCrest platform and services.

1. Acceptance

By accessing or using CaseCrest, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least the age of majority in your jurisdiction, or at least sixteen (16) years old with appropriate consent.

3. Accounts

• You are responsible for maintaining account security and all activity under your account.
• Usernames and profiles may be publicly visible.

4. Platform Use

• Use the platform lawfully and in good faith.
• Follow competition-specific rules and guidelines.
• Avoid automated scraping, interference, or abuse.

5. User Content and Submissions

You retain ownership of content you submit (“User Content”).

By submitting User Content, you grant CaseCrest a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable licence to host, store, reproduce, modify, analyse, distribute, publicly display, and create derivative works.

CaseCrest may use User Content in connection with platform operation, improvement, analytics, research, benchmarking, promotion, and related offerings.

User Content is not confidential by default.

6. Competitions

Competition-specific rules govern each event. Where conflicts exist, those rules prevail for that competition only, and judging decisions are final.

Draft submissions may be modified prior to deadlines. Final submissions may become immutable.

If you submit on behalf of a team or organisation, you represent that you are authorised to do so.

Student-led societies, clubs, and university organisations may create and host competitions on CaseCrest at no cost. Corporate or commercial entities may be required to enter into a separate licence and pay usage fees; applicable pricing and terms must be agreed before launch.

7. Derived Outputs

CaseCrest may generate scores, rankings, feedback, annotations, analytics, benchmarks, and other system-generated insights (“Derived Outputs”). Derived Outputs may be used independently of the original submission for operational, analytical, educational, or commercial purposes.

8. Disclaimers

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”. CaseCrest does not guarantee confidentiality, exclusivity, prize delivery, or uninterrupted availability.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, CaseCrest is not liable for indirect or consequential damages. Aggregate liability is limited to the greater of AUD $100 or amounts paid in the preceding six months.

10. Termination

CaseCrest may suspend or terminate access at its discretion. Rights granted to CaseCrest survive termination.

11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which CaseCrest is operated, without regard to conflict of laws principles.

12. Contact

Questions may be directed to support@casecrest.org