terms/submission-agreement.md

FormulaOne AI Coding Challenge - Submission Agreement v1.2

Last updated: 6 Aug 2025

1. Definitions

"Submission" means the code file you upload for a listed problem.

"Organiser" means the FormulaOne Team, c/o <legal entity and address>.

"Competition Site" means the leaderboard hosted at <HF URL>.

2. Licence to Organiser
You retain all IP in your Submission. You grant the Organiser and its
academic partners a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to:
a) copy, run, test and modify the Submission solely to evaluate it
against public and private test cases;
b) store the Submission on secure servers;
c) manually review the Submission for non-commercial, scientific
research;
d) reproduce small code excerpts (<= 25 lines) in research papers or
blogs;
e) contact you via the email linked to your platform account to ask
clarification questions, explore collaboration, or publicise notable
results.
3. Security, Integrity and Acceptable Use
- You confirm the Submission contains no deliberately malicious code,
back-doors, attempts to exfiltrate data, or calls to external network
resources beyond what the submission guidelines permit.
- You will not attempt to discover, reconstruct, scrape, or share
private test cases, nor to probe the sandbox environment.
- The Organiser may refuse, delete, re-run or disqualify any
Submission at its sole discretion for suspected abuse, tampering or
rule violations.
4. Competition Rules
- One account per team.
- You must own or have rights to your Submission.
- We may re-execute Submissions to confirm scores; ties may be broken
by earliest valid submission or additional hidden tests.
- We may correct or withdraw scores if errors or rule breaches are
discovered later.
5. Leaderboard and Publicity
Your chosen display name, organisation (if provided), total score and
ranking may be shown publicly and archived indefinitely. You may use a
pseudonym.
6. Ownership of Benchmark Assets
All evaluation code, problem statements and test data remain (c) 2025
FormulaOne Team and are licensed under Apache 2.0 (code) and CC BY 4.0
(content) as described in the public repository.
7. Export Control and Sanctions Compliance
You represent that your participation is not prohibited by applicable
export-control or sanctions laws and that you are not located in, under
the control of, or a national or resident of any country or person
embargoed by relevant authorities.

8. No Warranty
The benchmark and infrastructure are provided "as is." To the maximum
extent permitted by law, the Organiser disclaims all warranties,
express or implied.
9. Limitation of Liability
The Organiser's total liability arising out of or in connection with
the Competition will not exceed USD 100.
10. Changes to Rules
We may update these terms and technical rules from time to time.
Material changes will be posted on the Competition Site and apply to
submissions made after the effective date.
11. Governing Law and Venue
This Agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts
of London, UK, have exclusive jurisdiction.
12. Contact
Questions about these terms: legal@formulaone-ai.org