Terms of Service & User Agreement

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing, browsing, subscribing to, or using the GLD Racing website, subdomains, digital race cards, or associated data services (collectively, the "Services"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all terms, you must immediately discontinue use of the Services.

2. Nature of Services: Information & Research Only

All materials, speed figures (GLD Speed Ratings), pace indices (Early Pace, Late Pace, Pace Differential), running styles (Speed, Off-Pace, Pack, Closer), Race Power benchmarks (RP), and pedigree evaluations (OWD) provided through the Services are generated by proprietary statistical algorithms and are intended strictly for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes.

Nothing on GLD Racing constitutes gambling advice, betting recommendations, investment solicitations, or financial advice.

3. Age Eligibility & Legal Compliance

You must be of legal adult age in your respective jurisdiction to access the Services: at least eighteen (18) years of age generally and in Hong Kong; nineteen (19) years of age in South Korea pursuant to the Korea Racing Authority Act; twenty (20) years of age in Japan pursuant to Article 28 of the Horse Racing Act; and twenty-one (21) years of age in North American jurisdictions where required. If you are under the statutory age, you are strictly prohibited from creating an account or purchasing passes.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that your access to and use of horse racing analytical data complies with all applicable local, provincial, state, and federal laws in your jurisdiction.

4. Proprietary Data Rights, Anti-Scraping & Commercial Restrictions

All content, GLD Speed Figures, GLD Speed Ratings, GLD Line odds projections, dynamic pace diagrams, track bias coefficients, pedigree ratings, and database architectures are the exclusive intellectual property of GLD Racing, protected by international copyright and intellectual property treaties.

Purchased race card passes grant a strictly limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license for your individual, personal, non-commercial wagering analysis only. You are EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED from: (a) scraping, crawling, spidering, data-mining, or harvesting data via bots, automated scripts, or APIs; (b) republishing, distributing, syndicating, or sublicensing any figures or past performances to third parties; (c) selling, reselling, or commercially exploiting any GLD Racing data; (d) ingesting, training, fine-tuning, or benchmarking artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs), or machine learning systems with our proprietary datasets; or (e) reverse-engineering our calculations. Unauthorized extraction or commercial resale will result in immediate permanent account termination without refund, IP blacklisting, and aggressive legal prosecution for damages and copyright infringement.

5. Disclaimer of Warranties & Assumption of Risk

6. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, GLD Racing, its owners, operators, affiliates, and contributors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages, including loss of profits or wagering losses, arising from the use or inability to use our data, software, or projections.

7. Digital Purchases & Refund Policy

All single-day race card passes are digital products granting immediate data access. Due to the instantaneous nature of digital data delivery, all pass purchases processed via Stripe are non-refundable once unlocked, except where required by applicable consumer protection laws.

8. Trademark & Nominative Fair Use Notice

The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), Japan Racing Association (JRA - 日本中央競馬会), National Association of Racing (NAR - 地方競馬全国協会), Korea Racing Authority (KRA - 한국마사회), Tokyo City Keiba (TCK), and related venue names are registered trademarks of their respective governing bodies. All references to racetracks, stakes races, horses, jockeys, trainers, and cards are used strictly for nominative, descriptive, and informational purposes. GLD Racing is an independent analytical publication and is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or operated by the JRA, NAR, HKJC, KRA, or any official racing jurisdiction.