Terms of Service
Last updated: October 2026
Agreement to Terms
By accessing or using Competrace (“the Service”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the Service.
Description of Service
Competrace is a competence-tracking platform that helps teams manage and develop employee skills and competencies. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service at any time.
Account responsibilities
When you create an account, you agree to:
- Provide accurate and complete information
- Maintain the security of your account credentials
- Notify us immediately of any unauthorized access
- Accept responsibility for all activities under your account
- Keep API keys secret. Anything done with an API key counts as done by your organization. Revoke a key you think is exposed.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the Service for any unlawful purpose
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Service
- Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure
- Scrape, crawl, or use automated tools to access the Service, other than through our API with a valid API key
- Impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation
- Upload malicious code or content
Intellectual property
The Service, including its design, features, and content, is owned by Competrace and protected by intellectual property laws. You retain ownership of any data you submit to the Service. By using the Service, you grant us a limited license to process your data solely to provide the Service.
API and third-party integrations
- Use of the API is subject to these Terms and to the limits in the API docs.
- Data you send to services you connect (for example, Zapier) is handled under their terms.
- We may change or limit the API to protect the Service.
Data processing
Where we process personal data on your behalf (such as your employees’ evaluation data), we act as your processor under our Data Processing Agreement, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. How we handle personal data is described in our Privacy Policy.
Subscriptions, billing, and refunds
Competrace is offered on two plans:
- Free — $0, for organizations with up to 10 members.
- Team — $50 per month, including up to 50 members, plus $0.50 per month for each additional member beyond 50.
All prices, including the per-member charge for additional members, are exclusive of tax. Paddle calculates the VAT or sales tax for your country and adds it on top, both at checkout and on every renewal. If you have a VAT registration number, you can enter it at checkout and Paddle will apply the treatment required in your country. The Team plan is billed monthly and renews automatically at the start of each billing period until canceled.
Payments are processed by Paddle.com Market Ltd (“Paddle”), our authorized reseller and Merchant of Record. Paddle handles payment processing, the collection and remittance of sales tax and VAT, and the issuing of invoices and receipts. Paddle — not Competrace — appears on your card statement and is the entity that issues your receipts. Your payment card details are handled entirely by Paddle; Competrace never receives or stores your full card number.
Instead of paying by card, an organization administrator can ask to pay the Team plan by invoice from Settings. Paddle issues the invoice in U.S. dollars and emails it with the bank transfer details, and sends a new invoice for each monthly billing period. Each invoice is due 14 days after it is issued. Team access starts when the first invoice is paid, so allow for a bank transfer to take a few business days to arrive. You can cancel an invoice request from Settings until it is paid.
You may cancel at any time from Settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current paid billing period. Your organization keeps Team access until then and reverts to the Free plan afterward. Until it takes effect, you can undo a scheduled cancellation under Manage billing. Payments are non-refundable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial billing periods, except where required by law and except the two automatic full refunds below.
We automatically refund in full (a) a duplicate Team subscription paid for an organization that already has one, and (b) an invoice paid after it was canceled for non-payment. In the second case, the organization must request a new invoice or pay by card to return to Team. Refunds are issued through Paddle and may take a few days to arrive.
While a subscription is paused, the organization is on the Free plan until the subscription is resumed under Manage billing. An organization cannot be deleted while its subscription is active or scheduled to cancel. The subscription must end first.
If a card payment fails, Paddle will automatically retry the charge and notify you by email. Your Team access continues during a short grace period while payment is attempted. If payment cannot be recovered, the subscription is canceled and your organization reverts to the Free plan.
Paddle does not retry unpaid invoices. If an invoice is not paid, we email a reminder before it is due and a notice after it is overdue. Once Team access has started, it continues while a renewal invoice is overdue. Invoice dates are in UTC. An invoice that is still unpaid at the end of its pay-by date (its due date plus 10 days) is canceled. If it was a renewal, the subscription is canceled and your organization reverts to the Free plan, keeping its data. If it was the first invoice, the organization was never on Team and simply stays on Free. You can return to Team by paying by card or by requesting a new invoice.
We may change our pricing from time to time. We will give you advance notice of any price change by email or through the platform, and changes will not affect the billing period already in progress.
Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice. Your organization controls your membership: an administrator may remove you at any time, which permanently and irreversibly deletes your membership and the evaluation records about you, and deletes your account once you no longer belong to any organization. You may address deletion requests to your organization’s administrator, or to us at support@competrace.com. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ceases immediately.
Disclaimer of warranties
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Competrace shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, arising from your use of the Service.
Governing law
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the European Union. Any disputes arising from these Terms or the Service shall be resolved in the courts of the applicable jurisdiction.
Changes to Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes by email or through the platform. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.
Contact
For questions about these Terms, contact us at support@competrace.com.