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Terms of Service

Last updated 2 October 2026

1. About these terms

These Terms of Service (Terms) govern your use of Sector, including the website at https://sectorapp.net, the Sector web app, the Sector desktop app and related APIs (together, the Service). Sector is a product and trading name of Hill Capital Limited, a company registered in New Zealand (we, us, our).

Customer means the team, club or business that holds the Sector account or subscription. User means any person who signs in to the Service under a Customer's account. If you accept these Terms for a Customer, you confirm that you are authorised to bind it. By creating an account, signing in, starting a subscription or using the Service, the Customer agrees to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

2. Business use only

The Service is supplied for business purposes to Customers who acquire it in trade, such as racing teams, clubs, coaches and engineering businesses. It is not offered to consumers for personal, domestic or household use.

The Customer agrees that it is acquiring the Service for the purposes of a business, and that both parties are in trade. To the extent permitted by law: (a) the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 does not apply (section 43(2)); and (b) sections 9, 12A and 13 of the Fair Trading Act 1986 do not apply (sections 5C and 5D). The parties agree that it is fair and reasonable to be bound by this clause.

If you are in another country, nothing in these Terms removes rights that the law of that country says cannot be excluded.

3. Accounts

  • Team administrators create User accounts and control who has access to the Customer's data.
  • Keep sign-in details confidential. Do not share accounts. The Customer is responsible for activity under its Users' accounts.
  • Tell us promptly at legal@sectorapp.net if you suspect unauthorised access.
  • Account information must be accurate and kept up to date.

4. Subscriptions, fees and cancellation

  • Paid plans are billed in advance through our payment provider, Stripe, at the price and currency shown at checkout. Prices exclude GST or other taxes unless stated.
  • Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled. Administrators can cancel at any time in the billing portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
  • Fees already paid are not refundable, except where we terminate for convenience, where these Terms say otherwise, or where the law requires a refund.
  • We may change prices by giving at least 30 days' notice before the change applies to your next billing period. You can cancel before the new price applies.
  • We may suspend paid features if payment fails and is not resolved within a reasonable time.

5. Acceptable use

You must not, and must not allow others to:

  • scrape, crawl or bulk-extract the Service, or access it by automated means other than our published APIs;
  • copy, modify, decompile or reverse engineer the Service, except to the extent the law expressly allows this despite this clause;
  • share credentials, resell the Service or let anyone outside the Customer use it without our consent;
  • upload data, files or video that you do not have the right to use, or use the Service in breach of a third party's terms (including timing providers' terms);
  • upload malware, probe or disrupt the Service, or bypass security or usage limits; or
  • use the Service for anything unlawful, harmful or infringing.

6. Your data

The Customer owns its data. "Customer Data" means the telemetry and log files, onboard video, timing data, schedules, setup notes and other content that the Customer or its Users upload to or create in the Service. We do not claim ownership of Customer Data.

The Customer gives us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, copy, process, transmit and display Customer Data only as needed to provide, secure and support the Service for the Customer, and as required by law. This licence ends when the Customer Data is deleted.

  • We do not use Customer Data to train artificial intelligence models, or for benchmarking across customers, unless the Customer separately opts in in writing.
  • We may use technical information about how the Service performs (for example error logs, request timings and feature usage counts) to operate and improve it. This does not include the content of your telemetry, video or timing files.
  • The Customer can export its files while its account is active. After an account ends, the Customer has 30 days to request an export. We then delete Customer Data within 90 days, apart from copies in rolling backups, which expire on their normal cycle, and anything we must keep by law.

7. Your responsibilities for data about people

Telemetry, timing data and onboard video can identify drivers and other people. The Customer is responsible for having the rights, consents and notices needed to upload and use that data in the Service, including consent from drivers, crew and anyone recorded on video or audio (and from a parent or guardian for minors). Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information.

8. Third-party services and data

The Service can show or rely on data and services from third parties, such as timing systems, weather forecasts (Open-Meteo, licensed under CC BY 4.0), map data (Google Maps Platform and OpenStreetMap) and payment processing (Stripe). We do not control these services. Third-party data is provided "as is", may be delayed, incomplete or wrong, and is subject to the third party's own terms.

Google Maps

Some features use Google Maps Platform. By using those features, you agree to be bound by the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and acknowledge the Google Privacy Policy. Do not remove or obscure Google's logos or attributions.

OpenStreetMap

Track outlines and circuit search results include data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.

9. Not a safety system

Sector is an analysis tool. It must not be relied on for safety-critical decisions. Race control, marshals, officials, official timing and the Customer's own engineering judgement remain authoritative. Do not use the Service to decide whether a car, driver or track is safe, or to replace any safety procedure, flag signal or official instruction.

10. Accuracy of timing, analysis and AI outputs

Lap and sector times, deltas, predictions, fuel and strategy figures, video and data synchronisation, track maps, weather information and any AI-generated summaries or suggestions are produced by software from data that may be incomplete or inaccurate. They are estimates. They may differ from official timing or from other tools. We do not warrant that any output is accurate, complete or fit for a particular purpose. Check important figures before acting on them.

11. Desktop app licence

While the Customer has an active account, we grant each User a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the Sector desktop app on devices they control, for the Customer's internal purposes, in line with these Terms. The desktop app may download and install updates automatically. Open-source components are licensed under their own terms, listed in our third-party notices.

12. Our intellectual property and feedback

We and our licensors own the Service, including its software, design and documentation. Apart from the rights granted in these Terms, no rights are transferred to you. If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them freely without any obligation to you.

13. Confidentiality

Each party will keep the other's non-public information confidential and use it only for the purposes of these Terms, except where disclosure is required by law or the information is already public through no fault of the receiving party.

14. Warranties

We will provide the Service with reasonable care and skill. Apart from that, and to the extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", and we exclude all other warranties, conditions and guarantees, including fitness for purpose and uninterrupted or error-free operation. Pilot, beta and free features may change or be withdrawn at any time.

15. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law:

  1. Neither party is liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, race results, championship points, prize money, sponsorship, opportunity or goodwill, however caused.
  2. We are not liable for loss arising from reliance on the Service for safety-critical decisions, from third-party data or services, or from damage to vehicles or equipment.
  3. Our total liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with the Service or these Terms, in contract, tort (including negligence), equity or otherwise, is limited to the fees the Customer paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. If no fees were paid, our total liability is limited to NZ$100.
  4. These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, or to loss caused by a party's fraud or wilful misconduct.

16. Indemnity

The Customer will indemnify us against third-party claims arising from Customer Data, including claims that the Customer did not have the rights or consents described in sections 5 and 7.

17. Suspension and termination

  • The Customer may stop using the Service and cancel its subscription at any time.
  • We may suspend or end access if the Customer materially breaches these Terms and does not fix the breach within 14 days of notice, or immediately where needed to prevent harm, unlawful use or a security risk.
  • We may end the Service for convenience with at least 30 days' notice and will refund any prepaid fees for the period after termination.
  • Sections 6 (export and deletion), 10, 12 to 16, 19 and 20 survive termination.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give at least 30 days' notice by email or in the Service before they take effect. If the Customer does not agree, it may cancel before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date means the Customer accepts the updated Terms.

19. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand. The parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New Zealand.

20. General

  • These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement about the Service, unless we sign a separate written agreement with the Customer (for example a pilot agreement), which prevails where it conflicts.
  • Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
  • If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
  • The Customer may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them to a successor to the Service.
  • Notices to us go to legal@sectorapp.net. Notices to the Customer go to the account administrator's email.
  • Not enforcing a right is not a waiver of it.

Contact

Hill Capital Limited, New Zealand. Email legal@sectorapp.net. See also Contact.