1. Who we are

Opentospeak is a trading name of Prognox Ltd ("we", "us"), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 15303071, whose registered office is 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. We operate a marketplace that connects speakers with event organizers. These terms govern your use of the platform. By creating an account you agree to them.

You can reach us at [email protected].

2. Your account

You need one account per person. You are responsible for what happens under it, including keeping your password secure and your email address current. You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live.

You must verify your email address before you can publish an event listing, apply to speak, or invite a speaker. A speaker profile and an organizer profile can both live on the same account — you do not need two.

The information on your profile should be accurate. Claiming experience or engagements that did not happen is a breach of these terms.

3. Acceptable use

Use Opentospeak in good faith and treat other members as you would want to be treated. Specifically, do not:

• impersonate another person or organization, or claim a username intended to be mistaken for someone else;
• submit false engagement claims, or confirm an engagement that did not take place;
• use the invitation or application flows to send unsolicited advertising;
• scrape, bulk-download, or resell speaker or event data, or attempt to circumvent the limits that gate speaker search;
• post content that is unlawful, harassing, hateful, or infringes someone else's rights;
• probe or interfere with the security of the platform, or use it to distribute malware.

Reviews must reflect a real engagement and your genuine experience of it. You may not offer or accept anything in exchange for a review.

4. Your content

Your content stays yours — your profile, your bio, your event listings, your reviews. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display, and distribute it in order to operate and promote the platform: showing your public profile in search results and directory pages, on a share card, or through the embeddable badge you choose to publish.

The licence lasts as long as the content is on the platform. If you delete your account we stop displaying your profile. Reviews you wrote about other members remain, because they are also a record of that member's work — but they are anonymized.

You confirm you have the right to post what you post, including any images you upload.

5. Our content and marks

The platform itself — the software, the design, and the Opentospeak name and logo — belongs to us. These terms give you no right to use our branding beyond the badge and share tools we provide for that purpose.

6. What we are, and what we are not

Opentospeak introduces speakers and organizers. We are not a party to any agreement you reach with another member. We do not employ speakers, we do not run events, and we do not guarantee that any application or invitation will lead to anything.

Fees, travel, cancellation, and every other term of a speaking engagement are between you and the other party. Verified engagements and ratings reflect what members have told us and confirmed to each other; they are a signal, not a warranty. Do your own due diligence before entering an agreement.

Event listings are reviewed by our team before they appear publicly, but that review checks for obvious problems — it is not an endorsement of the organizer or a verification of the event.

7. Plans and payment

Opentospeak has a free plan and a paid plan, Opentospeak Pro. The free plan includes your profile, public pages, ratings, the engagement claim flow, full search, and contact details when you match — plus a monthly allowance of applications and invitations. Current plans and prices are on our pricing page.

Pro is billed monthly or annually in advance through Stripe, our payment processor. We never see or store your card details. Pro starts with a 14-day free trial; cancel before it ends and you are not charged.

You can cancel at any time from your subscription settings. Cancelling stops the next renewal, and you keep Pro until the end of the period you have paid for. Outside the cancellation right below, we do not automatically refund part-used periods — but if something has gone wrong, write to us; we would rather sort it out.

If you are a consumer in the UK or the EU, you have a statutory right to cancel a distance contract within 14 days of entering it, and to a refund. In practice the 14-day free trial means you will not usually have been charged inside that window — but the right stands either way: if you subscribe and change your mind within 14 days, email us and we will refund you. Nothing in these terms takes that right away.

If a payment fails we will retry and email you. Pro continues through the grace period and stops if payment cannot be collected.

If you claimed a custom username while on Pro, you keep it if your subscription lapses. Claiming or changing a username again requires Pro.

We may change prices. If we do, we will give you notice before it affects a renewal, and you can cancel.

8. Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from your privacy settings. Deletion cancels any active subscription immediately, hides your profiles at once, and permanently erases your personal data after a 14-day grace period. The grace period exists so a deletion you regret can be reversed — write to us within it.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms — impersonation, repeated false claims, or abuse of another member. Where it is reasonable to do so we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond. For serious cases, including anything that puts other members at risk, we may act immediately.

9. Availability

We work to keep the platform running, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may change, suspend, or withdraw features. If we make a significant change to a paid feature, we will tell you.

10. Liability

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

Beyond that, and so far as the law allows: the platform is provided "as is"; we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost bookings, or lost data; and our total liability to you in any 12-month period is limited to what you paid us in that period (which is nothing, on the free plan).

We are not liable for what other members do — an event that is cancelled, a fee that goes unpaid, or a speaker who does not appear.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects you we will give reasonable notice by email or in the product before it takes effect. Continuing to use Opentospeak after that means you accept the updated terms.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction — except that if you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in, and may bring proceedings in your local courts.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected].