These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern access to and use of the VeriScout platform — a European scouting database for US college soccer programs (the “Service”) — provided by VeriScout ApS, a private limited company organised under the laws of Denmark, CVR 46154223, with registered office at Fogedvænget 98, 8722 Hedensted, Denmark (“VeriScout”, “we”, “us” or “our”).
By accessing the Service, by clicking to accept these Terms, or by signing an order form that references these Terms, you accept these Terms on behalf of the organisation you represent.
If you do not have authority to bind your organisation, or if you do not accept these Terms, do not access or use the Service.
1. Definitions
- “Authorised User” — an individual employee, contractor or agent of the Customer that the Customer has authorised to access the Service.
- “Customer” — the organisation that subscribes to the Service.
- “Customer Data” — data submitted to the Service by the Customer or its Authorised Users, including notes, ratings and uploads.
- “Order Form” — any document (electronic or signed) that records what the Customer is subscribing to, the fees, and the term.
- “Platform Data” — the player profiles, statistics, video and other content that VeriScout makes available through the Service.
2. The Service
VeriScout grants the Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the Service during the subscription term, solely for the Customer’s internal college recruiting and scouting activities and subject to these Terms and any Order Form.
The Service is provided “as a service” and is not licensed for download, resale, or redistribution.
3. Customer accounts and Authorised Users
The Customer is responsible for:
- registering its Authorised Users and keeping the list current;
- making sure each Authorised User keeps their credentials confidential and uses them only personally;
- all activity carried out under the Customer’s account, whether or not authorised; and
- promptly notifying us at Hello@veri-scout.com if it suspects credentials have been compromised.
Each Authorised User must be at least 18 years old and a current employee, contractor or agent of the Customer. Sharing credentials between people is not permitted.
4. Acceptable use
When using the Service, the Customer and its Authorised Users will not:
- use the Service for any purpose other than internal college recruiting and scouting (for example, no resale, no public publication of player profiles, no use as a sports-betting feed);
- copy, scrape, mirror or otherwise extract Platform Data in bulk, including by automated means, except for de minimis copying necessary for normal recruiting use within the Customer’s organisation;
- attempt to circumvent any access controls, rate limits, or technical protection measures;
- reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of the Service except to the extent allowed by mandatory law;
- introduce viruses, malware, or other harmful code;
- use the Service to harass, intimidate, contact or “cold-recruit” minors in violation of applicable child-protection laws or NCAA, NAIA or NJCAA rules;
- submit false, misleading, or unlawful Customer Data;
- infringe any third party’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity or other rights;
- use the Service in violation of any applicable law, including export-control and sanctions law; or
- use the Service in any way that breaches applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-money-laundering, export-control or economic-sanctions laws (including those of the European Union, Denmark, the United Kingdom and the United States), or for the benefit of any sanctioned person or jurisdiction.
We may suspend access (in whole or for a specific Authorised User) without notice if we reasonably believe a serious breach of this Section is occurring or is imminent. We will tell the Customer about any such suspension as soon as practicable.
5. Customer Data
The Customer keeps all rights in its Customer Data. The Customer grants VeriScout a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, copy, transmit, display and otherwise process Customer Data only as needed to provide and improve the Service and to comply with law. We do not sell Customer Data and we do not use Customer Data to train artificial-intelligence models for third-party benefit.
The Customer represents that it has all rights necessary to submit the Customer Data to the Service.
6. Platform Data
VeriScout (and its licensors, where applicable) own all rights in the Platform Data and in the Service itself. Subject to these Terms, the Customer may use Platform Data internally to evaluate prospective student-athletes and to communicate about specific players within its own organisation, in coaching staff meetings and in similar internal contexts.
The Customer may not:
- republish or redistribute Platform Data outside its organisation;
- use Platform Data to build a competing product or database;
- combine Platform Data with another product offered to third parties for commercial gain; or
- remove any attribution, watermark or notice from Platform Data.
VeriScout assembles the Platform Data from publicly available sources. While we work hard to keep it accurate and up to date, we do not warrant that any specific data point is complete, current or free from error. The Customer is responsible for forming its own recruiting judgement.
7. Fees
Fees, currency, billing frequency and payment terms are set out in the applicable Order Form. Unless an Order Form says otherwise, fees are due within 30 days of the invoice date and are stated exclusive of VAT, sales tax, withholding tax and similar taxes, which the Customer pays in addition.
Late payments accrue interest at the lower of (a) 1% per month and (b) the maximum rate permitted by applicable law. We may suspend the Service if undisputed amounts remain unpaid more than 30 days after the due date, after written notice and a reasonable cure period.
We do not collect or store payment-card numbers ourselves; payments are handled by a PCI-compliant payment processor or by direct invoice/bank transfer.
8. Term and termination
These Terms apply for the duration of the subscription term set out in the Order Form and renew automatically as that Order Form provides, unless either party gives notice of non-renewal as required by the Order Form.
Either party may terminate immediately if the other party (a) materially breaches these Terms and fails to cure within 30 days after written notice, or (b) becomes insolvent or enters bankruptcy or comparable proceedings.
On termination or expiry:
- the Customer’s right to access the Service ends;
- VeriScout will, on written request received within 30 days, make Customer Data available for export in a commonly used format, after which we may delete or anonymise it; and
- any Sections that are intended by their nature to survive termination — for example, Sections 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 — survive.
9. Confidentiality
Each party may receive non-public information from the other in connection with the Service. The receiving party will use confidential information only to perform under these Terms, will protect it with at least the same care it uses for its own confidential information (and never less than reasonable care), and will not disclose it to third parties except to its personnel and advisers who need to know and are bound by similar confidentiality obligations. This obligation continues for 3 years after termination, except for trade secrets, which are protected for as long as they remain trade secrets under applicable law.
Customer Data is the Customer’s confidential information. The Service, Platform Data and pricing are VeriScout’s confidential information.
10. Privacy and data protection
VeriScout’s processing of personal data through the Service is described in our Privacy Policy. Where the Customer is acting as a controller of personal data and VeriScout is acting as a processor on its behalf, our Data Processing Agreement applies and is incorporated into these Terms by reference. The DPA prevails over these Terms in case of conflict on data-protection matters.
A current list of subprocessors is published at /subprocessors.
11. Warranties and disclaimers
VeriScout warrants that it will provide the Service with reasonable skill and care.
Other than the express warranty above, the Service and the Platform Data are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, VeriScout disclaims all other warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.
The Service is not designed for use in life-critical or regulated decision-making contexts. The Customer is solely responsible for its recruiting decisions, including verifying eligibility under NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA or other governing-body rules.
Beta and pre-GA features. From time to time we may make features available that are explicitly labelled “beta”, “preview”, “early access” or similar. These features are provided for evaluation only, may be changed, suspended or removed without notice, are not subject to any service-level commitments, and are excluded from the warranty in the first paragraph of this Section. The Customer should not rely on beta features for production recruiting decisions.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law:
- Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost goodwill or lost data, even if advised of the possibility.
- Each party’s total aggregate liability arising out of or related to these Terms (whether in contract, tort, statute or otherwise) is capped at the fees actually paid or payable by the Customer to VeriScout in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
The cap and the exclusions above do not apply to (a) the Customer’s payment obligations, (b) either party’s breach of confidentiality, (c) the Customer’s breach of Sections 4 (Acceptable use) or 6 (Platform Data restrictions), or (d) liability that cannot be limited or excluded under mandatory applicable law (for example, fraud, gross negligence, or wilful misconduct).
13. Indemnities
The Customer will defend and indemnify VeriScout against any third-party claim arising from (a) Customer Data, (b) the Customer’s or any Authorised User’s breach of Section 4 (Acceptable use), or (c) the Customer’s use of the Service in violation of law.
VeriScout will defend and indemnify the Customer against any third-party claim that the Service, when used as permitted under these Terms, infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights. VeriScout’s exclusive remedies for such an infringement claim are, at VeriScout’s option, to (i) procure the right to continue using the Service, (ii) modify or replace the affected element so it is non-infringing, or (iii) terminate the affected subscription and refund pre-paid, unused fees.
The party seeking indemnification must (1) promptly notify the other in writing, (2) give the other sole control of the defence and settlement (provided no settlement admits liability or imposes obligations on the indemnified party without its consent, not unreasonably withheld), and (3) reasonably cooperate.
14. Force majeure
Neither party is liable for any failure or delay in performance (other than payment obligations) caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, epidemic, internet or telecommunications outages affecting third parties, or major cloud-provider incidents.
15. Changes to the Service and these Terms
We may update the Service over time, including adding, modifying or removing features. We will not materially reduce the core functionality of the Service during a paid subscription term without giving the Customer reasonable notice and a refund of pre-paid, unused fees if the Customer chooses to terminate as a result.
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be notified to the Customer by email or through the Service at least 30 days before they take effect for that Customer. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of an update means the Customer accepts the updated Terms.
16. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Denmark, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
The parties will try in good faith to resolve any dispute by negotiation between senior representatives. If a dispute is not resolved within 30 days of written notice, the courts of Copenhagen, Denmark have exclusive jurisdiction, except that either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or confidential information.
If the Customer is a US college and Danish jurisdiction is not workable for it, the parties may agree in the Order Form to resolve disputes by binding arbitration in a mutually acceptable US venue under the rules of the American Arbitration Association.
17. Notices
Notices to VeriScout must be sent to Hello@veri-scout.com with a copy to Fogedvænget 98, 8722 Hedensted, Denmark. Notices to the Customer will be sent to the email address on the Order Form or in the Service. Notice is deemed given when sent (for email) or 5 business days after dispatch (for post).
18. Miscellaneous
- Assignment. Neither party may assign these Terms without the other’s written consent, except that either party may assign to an affiliate or to the buyer in a merger, acquisition or sale of substantially all assets, on written notice.
- Entire agreement. These Terms (together with any Order Form, our Privacy Policy and any DPA) form the entire agreement between the parties on the subject matter and supersede any prior or contemporaneous understandings.
- Order of precedence. If there is a conflict, an Order Form prevails over these Terms only on terms it expressly amends; the DPA prevails over these Terms on data-protection matters; otherwise these Terms prevail.
- Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the rest of these Terms remain in full force, and the invalid provision will be modified to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable.
- No waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
- Independent contractors. The parties are independent contractors. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship.
- Publicity. VeriScout may identify the Customer as a customer (using its name and standard logo, displayed neutrally) on the VeriScout website and in routine marketing materials. The Customer may opt out at any time by emailing Hello@veri-scout.com. We will not publish quotes, case studies or detailed usage data about the Customer without its prior written consent.
- Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.