SportBusiness Group provides subscriptions (as defined below) to its users and provides content to its Registered Users/Members and Recipients, each in accordance with these Terms that may apply to your Subscription. Please review our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to learn more about how we use any personal data that you provide about yourself.
Intellectual Property
The contents and design of the Site, any Digital Application and any material e-mailed to you or otherwise supplied to you in conjunction with the Site and/or a Digital Application (such contents, design and materials being collectively referred to as the “SportBusiness Content”), is copyright of SportBusiness Group and its licensors. Neither a Subscription nor any other consuming of SportBusiness Content entitles you to any commercial or promotional use rights in the SportBusiness Content. You may not use or reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce any trademarks (including, without limitation, “SportBusiness”, “SportBusiness Media”, “SportBusiness Sponsorship” and “SportBusiness Insights” names and logos or other trade names and logos appearing on the Site or any Digital Application) for any reason without written permission from SportBusiness Group. The software that operates the Site and all Digital Applications is proprietary software, and you may not use it except as expressly allowed under these Terms. You may not copy, reverse engineer, modify or otherwise deal with the software.
Registration, Passwords and Responsibilities
You are responsible for keeping your information and passwords up to date and confidential.
Certain areas or features of our Sites and/or Digital Applications in respect of SportBusiness Content may only be open to Registered Users/Members or Subscribers.
By purchasing a Subscription or agreeing to a free trial in respect of a Subscription (a “Free Trial”), you will become a subscriber of SportBusiness Group (a “Subscriber”).
By registering for an account on our Site or Digital Application without also becoming a Subscriber or agreeing to a Free Trial, you will become a customer of SportBusiness Group as a “Registered User/Member”. Being a Registered User/Member shall entitle you to certain benefits.
By providing your email address on certain Sites or Digital Applications in order to receive certain benefits, products or services without also becoming a Subscriber or Registered User/Member, you will become a “Recipient”.
A Subscriber shall only be entitled to one Free Trial per account and following completion of a Free Trial, any offers or promotions of a Free Trial shall not be applicable to that Subscriber.
Certain areas or features of our Sites and/or Digital Applications are only accessible to Subscribers that have purchased a certain type of Subscription or agreed to a Free Trial.
Certain features of our Sites and/or Digital Applications may only be open to Registered Users/Members or Recipients.
SportBusiness Group reserves the right to amend or vary the SportBusiness Content available to Subscribers, Registered Users/Members and Recipients from time to time (for the avoidance of doubt, including in respect of any Subscription). In addition, and if we have appropriate marketing permission, we may contact you from time to time in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
As well as on our Sites and Digital Applications, certain Podcast Subscription content may be available to be accessed on third party applications, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts (“Third Party Applications”). Access to Podcast Subscription content on Third Party Applications may be subject to your agreement to separate terms and conditions with the Third-Party Applications at your discretion. You may be required to log-in to your Podcast Subscription via such Third-Party Applications in order to access all Podcast Subscription content on the Third-Party Applications. Where you use an RSS feed in a Third-Party Application to access your Podcast Subscription, this may permit one of our third-party vendors to retrieve and download SportBusiness Content and the vendor may monitor this RSS feed and provide data to SportBusiness Group.
You are solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of and access to SportBusiness Content and the Site and/or Digital Applications using your username and/or password. You agree to immediately notify SportBusiness Group if you become aware of the loss, theft or unauthorised use of any password, user ID or e-mail address or of any SportBusiness Content. You will provide SportBusiness Group with accurate, complete registration information and inform SportBusiness Group of any changes to such information. For the purpose of confirming your compliance with these Terms, SportBusiness Group reserves the right to monitor and record activity on the Site and Digital Applications, including access to SportBusiness Content.
Each Subscription and registration as a Registered User/Member is for the personal use of the Subscriber or Registered User/Member only. You may not share your log-in details or password with any other person. You may not share or transfer your Subscription. SportBusiness Group does not allow multiple users (networked or otherwise) to access the Site and/or any Digital Application through a single name and password and may cancel or suspend your access to the Site and/or a Digital Application if you do this, or breach any of these Terms without further obligation to you.
Subscriptions
SportBusiness offers an individual subscription different types of subscriptions for certain products (“Subscription”) providing access to digital issues and content of SportBusiness.
SportBusiness Group reserves the right to vary the amount of content and types of service that it makes available to different categories of users at any time, including without limitation in respect of any Subscriptions and to Registered Users/Members and Recipients.
SportBusiness Group will try to process your Subscription promptly but does not guarantee that your Subscription will be activated by any specified time. By submitting your payment and other Subscription details, you are making an offer to us to buy a Subscription. Your offer will only be accepted by us and a contract formed when we have successfully verified your payment and contact details, at which point we will provide you (or, in the case of a gift Subscription, the beneficiary of the gift) with access to the Subscription. You will receive written confirmation when your Subscription offer has been accepted (beginning the fulfilment of a Subscription does not signify acceptance). We will update you from time to time about these benefits.
Renewal
Unless specifically stated in any Subscription offer or promotion when you place your Subscription order with us, if you choose an auto-renew payment option, you agree that at the end of the initial Subscription period (and of each renewal period thereafter), your Subscription will automatically renew for the same Subscription period at the then prevailing renewal rate, which may be changed from time to time. If there are any changes to the amount or frequency of your payment, SportBusiness Group will notify you at least two weeks in advance of payment being taken. In order to avoid any failure or delay with your renewal, you should keep your funding source information current (i.e. card number, expiry date and security code (or comparable feature)). If this payment information changes or is about to expire, SportBusiness Group may update it in our payment systems at our sole discretion without any action on your part according to information received from your payment service provider and/or third parties (including but not limited to our financial services partners and certain card payment networks) in accordance with law and by agreeing to these Terms of Use, you hereby authorise us to continue to take payment for your Subscription using such updated information. If we update your funding source information, we may retain any preference setting attached to it. If you do not want us to update your payment information as described above, you may contact your bank or card issuer to request this or remove the funding source in your account profile.
If you do not choose an auto-renew payment option for your Subscription (where applicable), we will contact you at the end of the initial subscription period with an offer to renew your subscription at the then prevailing renewal rate, which may be changed from time to time.
Cancellation
If you purchased your Subscription directly with SportBusiness Group then, unless specifically stated in any Subscription offer or promotion when you place your Subscription order, you have the right to cancel your Subscription at any time. Please note that if you purchase a Subscription, by placing your order you agree that we will start your Subscription immediately and you acknowledge that you will lose your right to a refund in relation to any period prior to your cancellation.
If you exercise your right to cancel, unless the terms of any Subscription offer or promotion state otherwise, we will cancel the next renewal of your Subscription such that your Subscription will end at the renewal date of your current Subscription term and you will not be charged any further amounts following the expiry of your existing Subscription; or
If applicable, any reimbursement will be settled as described in the “Fees and Payments” section below.
If you purchased your Subscription directly with SportBusiness Group (as described above), you may notify us of your wish to cancel your Subscription by contacting us customer service centre.
Use of SportBusiness Content
All SportBusiness Content is strictly for personal, non-commercial use only.
You may retrieve and display SportBusiness Content from the Site on a computer screen or mobile device, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on your computer or mobile device for your personal, non-commercial use. You may use Digital Applications only on devices for which they were intended, for your personal, non-commercial use and on no more than three separate devices. Except as expressly permitted above, you may not reproduce, modify or in any way commercially exploit any SportBusiness Content. In particular, but without limiting the general application of the restrictions in the previous sentence, you may not do any of the following without prior written permission from SportBusiness Group:
- reproduce or store in or transmit to any other website, newsgroup, mailing list, electronic bulletin board, server or other storage device connected to a network or regularly or systematically store in electronic or print form, all or any part of the SportBusiness Content; or
- modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit all or any part of the SportBusiness Content (including as part of any library, archive or similar service);
- remove the copyright or trademark notice from any copies of SportBusiness Content;
- avoid, bypass or override the paywall on our Sites and Digital Applications except pursuant to a valid Subscription or your entitlement as a Registered User/Member.
- use or permit the use, where by automated means or otherwise, of any software, tool or other device (including, but not limited to robots, crawlers, spiders or scripts) on any Sites or Digital Applications, or otherwise on SportBusiness Content, in order to copy, collect or scrape on the Sites, Digital Applications or SportBusiness Content (other than any such use by a public search engine for the sole purpose of providing direct, non-amalgamated links to SportBusiness Content that do not include any generative or derivative works based on or including SportBusiness Content);
- conduct data mining on, apply machine learning tools or models to, or train machine learning tools or models or any other artificial intelligence technology on, any Sites, Digital Applications or SportBusiness Content; or
- use artificial intelligence tools or models for the purposes of generating text, images or any other material, output or derivative works based on or using SportBusiness Content, whether or not in the same or similar style as the SportBusiness Content.
Any use of SportBusiness Content not specifically permitted above is expressly prohibited. Requests for permission for other uses may be sent through our customer service centre.
Liability and Indemnity
All SportBusiness Content and services are provided ‘as is’. You indemnify us for breaches of these Terms.
Although we endeavour to ensure the high quality and accuracy of the Site and Digital Applications, SportBusiness Group makes no warranty, express or implied concerning SportBusiness Content, any Digital Application, the Site or any software that are made available through the Site (the ” Services”), which are provided “as is”. SportBusiness Group expressly disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to warranties of fitness for a particular purpose and warranties of merchantability. In no event will SportBusiness Group, its affiliates, agents, suppliers or licensors be liable for indirect, special, incidental, and/or consequential damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information or other pecuniary loss) that may arise directly or indirectly from the use of (or failure to use) or reliance on the Services, even if SportBusiness Group has been advised of the possibility that such damages may arise. SportBusiness Group does not guarantee the accuracy, content, or timeliness of the Services or that they are free from viruses or other contaminating or destructive properties.
In no event will any liability of SportBusiness Group or its affiliates, agents, suppliers and licensors to you (and/or any third party) that may arise out of any kind of legal claim (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) in any way connected with the Services or in breach of these Terms by SportBusiness Group exceed the amount, if any, paid by you to SportBusiness Group for the particular Service to which the claim relates.
Upon SportBusiness Group’s request, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless SportBusiness Group, its affiliates, agents, suppliers and licensors from any claims and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, related to any breach of these Terms by you or your use of any Services.
Additional Terms apply to your use of SportBusiness Content.
Changes to these Terms. SportBusiness Group may, in its discretion, change these Terms (including those that relate to your use of the Site, Digital Applications and/or SportBusiness Content). Whenever the Terms are changed, SportBusiness Group will notify you by e-mail, directly through the Site and/or Digital Application, or by publishing the revised terms on the website. If you use the Site and/or a Digital Application after SportBusiness Group has published or notified you of the changes, you are agreeing to be bound by those changes. If you do not agree to be bound by those changes, you should not use the Site or a Digital Application any further after they are published. Access to certain SportBusiness Content may be subject to additional terms and conditions. SportBusiness Group may also modify, limit or terminate any Subscription offer at any time without prior notice.
Advertising, Third Party Content and other Web Sites. Parts of the Site and/or Digital Applications may contain advertising or other third-party content. Advertisers and other content providers are responsible for ensuring that such material complies with international and national law. SportBusiness Group is not responsible for any third-party content or error, or for any omission or inaccuracy in any advertising material. The Site and/or Digital Applications may also contain links to other web sites. SportBusiness Group is not responsible for the availability of these websites or their content.
Assignment of Agreement. This agreement is personal to you and your rights and obligations under these Terms may not be assigned, sub-licensed or otherwise transferred. This agreement may be assigned to a third party by SportBusiness Group.
Non-Waiver. No delay or omission on the part of either party in requiring performance by the other party of its obligations will operate as a waiver of any right.
Notices. Notices to SportBusiness Group must be given in writing, by letter, and sent to SportBusiness Group, The Record Hall, 16-16a Baldwin Gardens, London, EC1N 7AJ.
Severability/Survival/Statute of Limitations. If any provision of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, such will not render all the Terms unenforceable or invalid. Rather, the Terms will then be read and construed as if the invalid or unenforceable provision(s) are not contained therein. If you are outside of the United States, any cause of action of yours with respect to these Terms must be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction in London, England, within one year after the cause of action has arisen, or such cause will be barred, invalid and void. If you are in the United States, any cause of action of yours with respect to these Terms must be filed in arbitration within one year after the cause of action has arisen, or such cause will be barred, invalid and void.
Whole Agreement. Save as expressly referred to herein, any representation, warranty, term or condition not expressly set out in these Terms shall not apply.
Headings. Headings in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal meaning or effect, nor shall they be taken into account in interpreting these Terms.
Term and Termination
SportBusiness Group may terminate or suspend your access to SportBusiness Content at any time.
SportBusiness Group may, in its discretion, terminate or suspend your access to and/or use of all or part of the Site and/or a Digital Application (including any SportBusiness Content) with or without cause by delivering notice to you.
These rights of termination are in addition to all other rights and remedies available to SportBusiness Group under these Terms or by law.