Terms of use

1. Parties

These Terms are an agreement between the operator that provides RaceBroadcast from Türkiye — the same operator that provides QuizBroadcast — (the “Operator”, “we”) and the person who creates an account or uses the service (the “Broadcaster”, “you”). You can reach the Operator through the contact form on quizbroadcast.com.

RaceBroadcast’s software developers, employees, contractors, suppliers and contributors are not personally parties to this agreement and give you no personal warranty unless they make an express written commitment. Claims about the service are directed to the Operator.

2. Acceptance and minimum age

By creating an account or using the service you accept these Terms and declare that:

• you have read these Terms and the privacy policy
• you are at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement
• if you act on behalf of an organisation, you are authorised to bind it

Where mandatory consumer law treats you as a consumer, nothing in these Terms removes or limits consumer rights you cannot waive.

3. What the service is

RaceBroadcast is a hosted software service that receives the chat and gift events of your TikTok LIVE broadcast, shows a broadcast screen you add to TikTok Live Studio or share from your phone, and lets you run races your chat drives, with audience polls between them. RaceBroadcast:

• is not a product of TikTok, ByteDance or their affiliates, and is not supported, endorsed or operated by them
• does not provide a TikTok account, LIVE access, viewers, gift income or an uninterrupted connection
• does not offer a payment, betting, lottery, raffle, prize distribution or escrow service
• is not the organiser, sponsor, judge or legal adviser of your race, and is not a party to any dispute between you and your viewers

The service is in early access, and the race itself is still being built: today a race counts the chat lines it hears and names no winner. Features, capacity, supported devices, third-party connections and what each plan includes will change over time.

4. One account across the Operator’s services

Your RaceBroadcast account is also your account on the Operator’s other services, such as QuizBroadcast: the same email address and password sign you in to each, and single sign-on can carry a sign-in from one to another. Your email address, password, language, country, TikTok username, logo and plan belong to the account, so a change to them on one service applies on all of them, and closing the account closes it on all of them.

These Terms govern your use of RaceBroadcast; each of the Operator’s other services has terms of its own.

5. The TikTok connection and third-party services

Live chat and gift events are received from TikTok through a third-party connection service. This connection does not rely on an official TikTok API. If TikTok or the connection provider makes a technical or contractual change, the service may stop working in part or entirely, without prior notice.

You alone are responsible for:

• complying with the current terms, community guidelines and LIVE policies of TikTok and any other platform you use
• being authorised to use your account, your broadcast and the links you use in it
• assessing the risk that using the service leads to restrictions, suspension or closure of your TikTok account

The Operator is not responsible for the actions of TikTok or any other third party, the accuracy of their data, service interruptions, account sanctions or policy changes. Liability arising from the Operator’s own fault that cannot be limited under mandatory law is reserved.

6. Account and security

You must give accurate account details that belong to you. You are responsible for keeping your password and your broadcast link secret, for keeping track of what is done under your account, and for reporting any unauthorised use straight away through the contact form.

The broadcast link contains a secret key that lets anyone who has the link open your broadcast screen. Share it only with the tools you broadcast with, such as TikTok Live Studio, and renew it in the app (“Reset link” on the dashboard) if in doubt.

Your account cannot be transferred or shared with others. Automated access, reverse engineering, security testing, scraping or activity that exhausts the service’s capacity is not allowed without the Operator’s prior written permission; reverse-engineering rights granted by law, and the rights that open-source licences give you (section 11), are reserved.

7. Your race and your broadcast

You are the sole organiser of your broadcast and of everything you run on it with RaceBroadcast. In particular, you:

• announce clearly to your viewers what is running, when it starts and ends, who can take part and, if anyone can win anything, how the winner is decided
• if you give a prize, decide and fulfil its nature, delivery terms and tax consequences yourself
• assess for yourself whether you comply with the rules on raffles, lotteries, competitions, advertising, consumer protection, tax and age
• settle viewer objections and prize claims yourself
• take the measures needed where minors take part
• hold the rights and permissions needed for the music, images, brands, names and messages you use on air

The chat-line counts, poll totals, gift values and supporter rankings RaceBroadcast shows are a technical aid. Network latency, the platform delivering events late, out of order or more than once, a dropped connection, a name change or a software fault can affect them. Check results yourself before giving a prize with legal or financial consequences. The Operator does not guarantee that these records are exact, complete or valid as evidence in a dispute.

8. Viewer data

While running your races and polls we process your viewers’ usernames, display names, chat messages and gift events on your behalf; as a rule, you are the data controller for this data. You are therefore responsible for:

• telling your viewers that RaceBroadcast is running on your broadcast, that their chat lines and gifts are counted and, if you switch the supporter boards on, that the names of your biggest gifters appear on screen
• where required, choosing the appropriate legal basis and obtaining the necessary permissions
• answering requests your viewers make to you; we carry out the technical steps these need, such as deletion, at your request
• not asking viewers for personal data you do not need

What is kept about your viewers, and for how long, is in the privacy policy.

9. Gifts and supporters

RaceBroadcast records the gifts your viewers send during your broadcast as TikTok reports them and, if your plan includes the designer and you switch the supporter boards on, shows your biggest gifters on the broadcast screen. Gifts are a matter between your viewers, TikTok and you: RaceBroadcast takes no payment, holds no money and pays nothing out, and the diamond values it shows are TikTok’s figures as reported to it, not a statement of your earnings.

A gift poll counts only the gifts it shows for each answer, each by a fixed value from RaceBroadcast’s own list of poll gifts.

10. User content

“User Content” means the race names, poll questions and answers, messages, logos, design and other settings you upload or publish through the service. Your content remains yours or the relevant rights holder’s.

So that we can provide the service, you grant the Operator a worldwide, non-exclusive licence for the term of this agreement, which may be passed to subcontractors for the same purpose, solely to operate the service and to host, back up and technically convert your content and show it on your broadcast screen at your instruction. Your logo belongs to your account (section 4), so the Operator’s other services you use show it on your broadcast screens there too. The licence ends when the content is deleted or the account is closed, except for legal retention and the normal backup cycle.

You may not upload or use in the service:

• content that is unlawful, misleading, threatening or infringes someone else’s rights
• copyright works, trademarks, personality rights or trade secrets you have no permission to use
• special categories of personal data, passwords, payment card or identity numbers, or other personal data the service does not need
• malicious code or material that affects the security of the service

The Operator is not obliged to review content in advance. Where there is suspicion of illegality, a security risk or an infringement, it may block or delete content or give the authorities the information required by law.

11. RaceBroadcast’s rights

The rights in the RaceBroadcast software, design, brand, domain and documentation belong to the Operator or the relevant rights holder. These Terms give you a limited, revocable, non-transferable and non-sublicensable right to use the service in your own broadcasts for as long as your account is open.

Parts of RaceBroadcast’s software are licensed under open-source licences, among them the GNU Affero General Public License; nothing in these Terms restricts the rights those licences give you. Beyond them, copying the service, selling or republishing it, or using it to build a competing service is prohibited; rights granted by mandatory law are reserved. If you give us feedback, we may use it free of charge to improve the service without disclosing your personal data.

12. Plans and fees

RaceBroadcast is free during early access. Designing the broadcast screen, which includes switching the supporter boards on, and uploading a logo need a Pro plan, which the Operator currently assigns to accounts; no payment is taken through the service. Your plan belongs to your account, so it is the same on all of the Operator’s services. You will not be charged unless you make an explicit purchase.

When a paid plan goes on sale, its price, taxes, billing period, renewal, cancellation and withdrawal terms will be shown separately before you order, and these Terms will be updated as needed. In consumer transactions, the mandatory rules on distance contracts and consumer protection take precedence.

When a plan ends, the features specific to it close: your design and logo are kept, but the broadcast screen goes back to the default look, without the logo, until the plan returns.

13. Prohibited uses

You may not use the service for:

• activity that breaks the law, a court order or an instruction from a competent authority
• gambling, an unauthorised raffle or a misleading prize campaign
• harassment, hate speech, discrimination, fraud or the abuse of children
• impersonating another person, broadcaster or brand, or running the service on a TikTok account you are not authorised to use
• collecting unnecessary personal data, passwords or payment details from viewers
• manipulating chat, gift or identity events, or the counts and rankings built from them
• unauthorised access to the service, another account or data
• malware, denial of service, excessive traffic or getting around security measures
• giving the impression that RaceBroadcast and TikTok have an official partnership

14. Changes, maintenance and availability

We may change the service for reasons of security, law, third-party dependencies or product development. We try to give reasonable advance notice of a material change to your disadvantage; in an urgent security matter, a legal obligation or a third-party outage, prior notice may not be possible.

The service may be temporarily unavailable because of maintenance, heavy load, internet failures, attacks or an outage at TikTok or the connection provider. We do not commit to any particular availability level or response time.

The service is not an archive or backup system; keep your own copy of any logos, polls and results you need to keep.

15. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the service at any time and ask, through the contact form, for your account to be closed and its data deleted — or only RaceBroadcast’s records, if you want to keep the account for the Operator’s other services. Before closing it we may verify that the account is yours. Closing the account closes it on all of the Operator’s services.

We may immediately restrict or suspend your access in the event of:

• a breach of these Terms
• suspected security issues, fraud or unauthorised access
• a risk to other broadcasters, viewers, the Operator or third parties
• a legal obligation or a request from a competent authority
• the third-party connection becoming legally or technically unsustainable

If a breach can be remedied, we first allow a reasonable period unless security or the law prevents it; for a serious or repeated breach we may end your use of RaceBroadcast or close the account. The Operator may end the free service with reasonable notice.

16. Warranty

To the extent mandatory law allows, the service is provided “as is” and “as available”. In particular, the Operator does not guarantee:

• that the service is uninterrupted, free of delay or error, or compatible with every device
• that the TikTok connection, your account or any particular feature will continue
• the accuracy of chat, gift value, line count, poll or supporter data
• that you will achieve any particular income, audience, engagement or commercial result
• that your race complies with the law or third-party rules
• that no data loss will ever occur

This section does not remove written commitments we expressly give, consumer rights relating to defective services that cannot be waived, or liability for defects concealed by fraud.

17. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent mandatory law allows, the Operator is not liable for indirect damage, loss of profit or income, loss of audience, reputation or opportunity, interruption of a broadcast or TikTok account, or data loss caused by your not keeping your own copy.

For direct damage caused by the Operator’s slight negligence that can lawfully be limited, the Operator’s total liability is limited to the amount you actually paid for RaceBroadcast in the 12 months before the event causing the damage or, if you used the service free of charge, to 1,000 Turkish lira.

These limitations do not apply to the Operator’s intent or gross negligence, death or personal injury, fraud, mandatory consumer rights, or obligations regarding personal data that cannot be limited by contract. If one limitation is invalid, the others are unaffected.

18. Third-party claims

You are responsible, in proportion to your own fault and breach, for any claim, penalty, cost or damage that a third party brings against the Operator because of your User Content; your race, prize, advertising or broadcast; your breach of the rules of TikTok or another platform; your unlawful processing of viewer data; or your breach of these Terms, and you bear the Operator’s reasonable defence costs to the same extent.

The Operator will not accept a settlement that increases your liability without your consent, and you may not withhold that consent without good reason. This clause does not shift the Operator’s own fault to you and does not limit a consumer’s mandatory rights.

19. Force majeure

A party is not held responsible for failing to perform an obligation because of natural disaster, war, epidemic, acts of public authorities, widespread internet or power outages, cyberattack or the outage of a critical third-party service beyond its reasonable control. Reasonable measures required for the security of personal data are not affected by this clause, and the affected party makes reasonable efforts to limit the consequences.

20. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms because of changes in law, security, the service or the business model. The date of the last update is shown at the top of the page. We announce a change that materially affects your rights and obligations on this page and to your registered email address before it takes effect and, where the law or the nature of the change requires it, we ask for your acceptance again. Corrections of wording and clarifications that do not work to your disadvantage do not require renewed acceptance.

21. Notices

We may send notices about the service to your registered email address or publish them on this page. You can send notices to us through the contact form; cases in which the law prescribes a special form of notice are reserved.

22. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Türkiye.

Consumers may apply, within the monetary limits set by law, to the Consumer Arbitration Committees and Consumer Courts where they live or where the consumer transaction took place; this right is not limited by any jurisdiction clause. Consumers living outside Türkiye keep the rights they have under the mandatory consumer law of their own country.

For disputes that are not consumer transactions, the Istanbul Central (Çağlayan) Courts and Enforcement Offices have jurisdiction, without prejudice to any other court that has exclusive jurisdiction by law.

23. Miscellaneous

These Terms, together with any special terms presented at the time of a purchase, form the entire agreement between the parties about RaceBroadcast. The processing of personal data is explained in the privacy policy. If a provision is invalid or unenforceable, it is applied to the closest extent legally possible and the remaining provisions stay in force.

Not exercising a right straight away does not mean waiving it. You may not transfer this agreement without the Operator’s written permission. The Operator may transfer it as part of a merger, reorganisation or transfer of the service, provided your rights are not materially reduced.

These Terms are published in English only.