Master Terms of Service

1. Agreement and structure

By using a product we operate — installing or using the Speedrun browser extension, using speedrun.study, or using offshorevc.com — you accept these Master Terms and the Schedule for that product. If you do not accept them, do not use the product.

Business mailing address: Offshore VC LLC, 945 Lake Murray Blvd, Ste D PMB 206, Irmo, SC 29063.

If the operating entity changes, these terms will be updated and the effective date revised.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use any product we operate, and at least 18 to purchase anything. If you are between 13 and 18, you may only use a product with the consent of a parent or guardian.

3. Accounts

Where a product has accounts, you are responsible for keeping your login details secure and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access. One person, one account, unless a product's Schedule says otherwise.

4. Acceptable use

Across every product, do not: resell or redistribute anything we provide; share your account; create multiple accounts to obtain a benefit meant for one person; attempt to reverse-engineer, bypass, or overload our systems; use a product to harass anyone or break any law; or misrepresent your relationship with us.

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms or a product's Schedule, and we may withhold anything obtained through abuse.

5. Availability, interruptions, and discontinuation

Our products are provided as-is and may change. Third-party platforms we work with or depend on can change at any time and may break compatibility without warning. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, and we may modify, suspend, or discontinue any product or any part of it.

Interruptions. Outages, maintenance, faulty updates, and periods where a product is unavailable because an app store, platform, or other third party has restricted, delayed, or removed it are normal parts of services like ours. They do not entitle you to a refund of anything already delivered, and they do not extend or pause a paid period. Anything you have paid for and not yet used remains in your account and stays usable when service resumes.

Permanent discontinuation. If we permanently discontinue a product, we will stop charging any subscription for it straight away and will not bill another period. We will give at least 30 days' notice by email where we reasonably can, so you have the chance to use what you hold. Anything remaining after that carries no cash value and is not refunded, except where a refund is required by mandatory consumer law where you live.

6. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, every product is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that a product will be error-free or that results will meet your expectations.

7. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, nor for any loss of data, money, reputation, or opportunity, arising from or related to your use of or inability to use a product.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability to you for a product is limited to one hundred US dollars ($100), unless that product's Schedule sets a different figure — in which case the Schedule's figure applies to that product instead of this one.

8. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, loss, or demand, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your use of a product or your breach of these terms or a product's Schedule, including any claim brought by a third party as a result of your use.

9. Termination

You may stop using a product and delete your account with it at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms or the relevant Schedule, or if we discontinue the product. A Schedule may set its own rule for what happens to unused paid balances on termination for breach.

10. Governing law and disputes

These terms, and every Schedule, are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in South Carolina.

Talk to us first. Before either of us files anything, the complaining party will email the other a short written description of the problem and the outcome they want, and will give 30 days to resolve it informally. Nearly everything can be sorted this way, and we will genuinely try. This step does not stop either of us seeking urgent injunctive relief, and it does not stop you bringing an individual claim in small-claims court.

11. General

Assignment. You may not transfer your account or these terms to anyone else. We may assign these terms to a successor entity (including when the operating business is moved into a newly formed company), and your rights are unaffected by that.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest of these terms stay in force.

No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it.

Entire agreement. For each product, these Master Terms, that product's Schedule, and the matching privacy policy are the whole agreement between us about that product, and they replace anything said or written previously about it.

Events outside our control. We are not liable for failure or delay caused by something beyond our reasonable control, including outages at a third-party platform or provider we depend on, or a change made by such a platform that breaks compatibility.

Third-party services. Our products depend on providers listed in the matching privacy policy. Their own terms govern their services, and we are not responsible for their acts or omissions.

Notices. We give notice by email to the address on your account, or inside the product. You give notice to offshore.vc@gmail.com.

Survival. Sections 4, 6 to 10 of these Master Terms survive termination, along with whatever each product's Schedule marks as surviving.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these Master Terms or any Schedule. If a change materially reduces your rights, we will give notice inside the affected product before it takes effect. Continuing to use a product after that means you accept the update.

13. Contact

offshore.vc@gmail.com

Schedule 1 — Speedrun

Applies in addition to Sections 1–13 above. Governs the Speedrun browser extension and the speedrun.study website.

S1.1 What Speedrun does

Speedrun works through the questions in your own online SmartBook coursework, and keeps a record of each assignment you run: its title, how many questions it covered, how many you got right, and the time it took. It uses that record to show you your completion history, your accuracy, and how your performance changes over the term, so you can see your own progress in one place. Speedrun also includes a referral system that lets you invite friends and earn credits. Your history and stats are tied to your account, stored on our servers, and visible only to you.

S1.2 No affiliation, and your responsibility

Speedrun is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to any educational publisher, courseware provider, school, university, or other institution. All product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners, and any reference to a third-party platform is for compatibility purposes only.

You are solely responsible for how you use Speedrun. That includes complying with your institution's academic-integrity policies and with the terms of service of any platform you use it on. We make no representation that use of Speedrun is permitted by your course, your instructor, your institution, or any third-party platform.

You accept all academic, disciplinary, and other consequences of your use. We give no guarantee as to grades, scores, accuracy, or outcomes of any kind. If you are unsure whether you are allowed to use a tool like this, ask your instructor before you do.

S1.3 Credits

Paid features run on credits. Credits are a limited, personal, non-transferable licence to use Speedrun. They are not money, they are not a deposit, they carry no cash value, and they cannot be transferred, sold, gifted, or redeemed for cash.

Free credits (from signup, referrals, or promotions) may be adjusted, expired, or withdrawn if we reasonably believe they were obtained by abuse, such as creating multiple accounts to farm referral rewards.

Credits are consumed as Speedrun works. A credit is spent whether or not you are satisfied with the result.

Credits expire 18 months after the purchase that granted them, or on account closure if that comes first. We will email you before purchased credits expire.

S1.4 Subscriptions, billing, and cancellation

Payments are processed by Stripe. By subscribing you authorise recurring charges to your payment method until you cancel.

• Pro bills every month. Semester Pass bills once every four months. Prices are shown in the extension before you buy.
• Subscriptions renew automatically. You can cancel at any time from the billing portal in the extension, or by emailing us.
• Cancelling stops future charges. It does not refund the current period, and you keep credits already granted for it.
• We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice before the change affects you.

S1.5 Refunds

Credit packs and subscription periods are generally non-refundable once credits have been granted, because the licence has been delivered. That said, we would rather have a fair outcome than a technically correct one: if Speedrun failed you, or you were charged by mistake, email offshore.vc@gmail.com within 14 days and we will look at it in good faith.

If a purchase is fully refunded, the credits from it are removed from your balance.

Nothing here limits any refund right you have under mandatory consumer law where you live.

S1.6 Limitation of liability for Speedrun

This overrides Section 7 for Speedrun specifically. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, nor for any loss of data, grades, academic standing, scholarship, enrolment, reputation, money, or opportunity, arising from or related to your use of or inability to use Speedrun.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability to you for Speedrun is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the three months before the claim, or (b) twenty US dollars.

S1.7 Survival

Sections S1.2, S1.3, S1.5, and S1.6 of this Schedule survive termination, in addition to the Master Terms sections listed in Section 11.

Schedule 2 — offshorevc.com

Applies in addition to Sections 1–13 above. Governs this website only, as distinct from any product we operate.

S2.1 Nothing here is an offer

This site is informational. Nothing on it is an offer to sell, a solicitation of investment, financial or legal advice, or a promise that any project described will ship, keep working, or continue to exist. If you buy or use a product we operate, the contract for that is these Master Terms plus that product's own Schedule, not this one.

S2.2 Our content and trademarks

The Offshore name, wordmark, logos, and the design and text of this site are ours. You may link to the site freely. Please do not copy the branding or present it as your own, or imply an affiliation or endorsement that does not exist. Other names and marks referenced anywhere on this site belong to their respective owners; reference to a third party does not imply any affiliation with, endorsement by, or sponsorship from them.

S2.3 Links out

Where we link to a site we do not control, we are not responsible for its content or its practices.