Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the StarTrading website, application process, educational content, mentorship, community, the Beyond Pass challenge-passing service, and any related services (together, the "Service"). Please read them carefully. By accessing the Service, submitting an application, booking a call, enrolling in the mentorship, or ordering Beyond Pass, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Who We Are

The Service is provided by StarTrading ("StarTrading", "we", "us", or "our"), operated by an individual (sole proprietor) based in Germany. You can reach us at starbeyondthesky@proton.me. References to "Star" refer to the founder and lead mentor of StarTrading.

2. What StarTrading Is (and Is Not)

StarTrading provides education and mentorship about financial trading. Our Service may include educational material and lessons, a proven price-action framework, live and recorded sessions, one-on-one and group mentorship, market commentary, and access to a private community.

We also offer one separate, optional, paid service called Beyond Pass, under which we trade a prop firm evaluation account that you own, at your request and using access you choose to give us, with the aim of meeting that firm's profit target. Beyond Pass is described in full in section 11 and the sections that follow it.

Apart from Beyond Pass, and strictly within the limits set out in section 11, we do NOT: trade on your behalf, manage your money, place orders for you, hold or receive client funds, provide personalised investment advice, or sell trading signals as a managed product. Outside Beyond Pass, you alone make and are responsible for every trading decision and every order placed in your own accounts.

Beyond Pass is performed only on prop firm evaluation and funded accounts, which are simulated trading environments operated by the firm. We never hold, receive, control or have access to your money, your bank, your card, or any wallet. Nothing in Beyond Pass is portfolio management, asset management, or investment advice, and no fiduciary duty arises from it.

3. Not Financial Advice, and No Advisory Relationship

This is the most important part of these Terms. All content, lessons, sessions, commentary, examples, and communications provided through the Service are for general educational and informational purposes only. Nothing we provide is, or should be treated as, financial advice, investment advice, a personal recommendation, an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any financial instrument, tax advice, or legal advice.

Neither StarTrading, nor Star, nor any of our partners, affiliates, employees, contractors, mentors, moderators, guest speakers, interviewees, collaborators, or any other person, brand, business, or project associated with us , whether related to StarTrading or not, is a licensed or registered financial advisor, investment advisor, broker, dealer, fund manager, or fiduciary of any kind. No advisory, fiduciary, brokerage, or agency relationship is created between you and any of the above by your use of the Service. This applies equally across all of our channels, communities, social media, interviews, and other projects.

You should not act, or refrain from acting, on the basis of anything provided through the Service. Before making any financial or trading decision, you should do your own research and consult an independent, appropriately licensed professional who is familiar with your individual circumstances.

4. Trading Risk Disclosure

Trading foreign exchange, indices, commodities, cryptocurrencies, and other leveraged or derivative instruments carries a substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. You may lose some or all of your invested capital, and with leveraged products you can lose more than your initial deposit. You should only trade with money you can afford to lose entirely.

The high degree of leverage available in some markets can work against you as well as for you. You are solely responsible for assessing whether trading is appropriate for your financial situation, experience, and risk tolerance.

5. No Guarantees. Results Are Not Typical

We do not and cannot guarantee any particular result, including any profit, income, return, funding, or the passing of any prop firm evaluation. Trading outcomes depend on many factors outside our control, including your own decisions, discipline, risk management, and market conditions.

Any performance figures, statistics, win rates, screenshots, testimonials, member results, or examples shown anywhere on the Service are illustrative only, reflect individual experiences, and are not typical or a promise of future results. Past performance is not indicative of, and does not guarantee, future results. Your results may differ substantially, including the possibility of loss.

6. Prop Firms Are Independent Third Parties

Any proprietary trading firms ("prop firms") referenced on the Service are independent third parties. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any prop firm unless expressly stated. Their evaluations, rules, fees, resets, payout terms, and account conditions are set solely by them and may change at any time. We do not control them and cannot guarantee any outcome with them. Your relationship with any prop firm is governed by that firm's own terms.

7. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract to use the Service. By using the Service you represent that you meet these requirements and that any information you provide is accurate and complete.

8. Applications and Bookings

The mentorship is application-based. Submitting an application or booking a consultation call does not guarantee acceptance and creates no obligation on either side until the mentorship is expressly agreed. We reserve the right to accept or decline any applicant at our sole discretion. A consultation call is a no-obligation conversation to assess fit and, where appropriate, provide an individual quote.

9. Fees and Payment

Pricing for the mentorship is quoted to you individually during or after your consultation call and depends on your circumstances and the scope agreed. No payment is taken through this website. Any payment terms, methods, currencies, and applicable taxes are agreed with you directly at the time of enrolment. You are responsible for any taxes, bank, or transfer fees on your side.

10. Refunds and Cancellation

If you are a consumer, you may have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days. Because the mentorship consists of digital content and educational services that are made available to you immediately, you will be asked, when you enrol, to expressly request that we begin providing the Service straight away and to acknowledge that you lose your 14-day right of withdrawal once we do. Giving this consent is a condition of gaining immediate access.

The Service is considered to have begun, been supplied, and been used, and is therefore no longer refundable, as soon as any of the following happens after enrolment: (a) you access, stream, download, or watch any part of the video library, lessons, or other educational content; (b) you receive mentorship, coaching, or any personalised guidance or advice from us, in any form or shape; or (c) you are granted a role or access to our private paid community, for example our Discord server. Once any one of these has occurred, the Service has been used, and no refund will be issued, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

If none of the above has yet occurred and you withdraw within the 14-day period, you are entitled to a refund of amounts paid for the Service not yet supplied. You may stop participating at any time, but this does not entitle you to a refund of amounts due for the Service already used. Initiating a chargeback or payment dispute in breach of these Terms may result in immediate termination of access. Nothing in this section removes any mandatory rights you have under applicable consumer-protection law that cannot be waived.

11. Beyond Pass: What the Service Is

Beyond Pass is a separate, optional, paid service under which we attempt to pass a prop firm evaluation (a "challenge") on an account that you own. It is ordered per account and is not part of the mentorship.

You buy the challenge yourself, directly from the prop firm, in your own name, and you pay that firm's fee yourself. We never purchase the account for you, never pay the firm on your behalf, and never take ownership of it. The account remains yours throughout, and any funded account that results from it remains yours, in your name, with every payout from it belonging to you. We take no share of your profits and hold no continuing interest in the account.

We act as a service provider carrying out a task at your request. Beyond Pass creates no partnership, joint venture, employment, agency, brokerage, fiduciary or money-management relationship between us, and we are not your adviser in respect of it.

Optionally, and only if you order it, we may continue trading the funded account after it passes until it has reached a profit percentage you select, so that you can withdraw a payout. Everything in these Terms that applies to passing a challenge applies equally to that add-on.

12. Beyond Pass: Refunds

The Beyond Pass fee is payable in full in advance. Because the service is performed digitally and begins as soon as you give us access, you are asked when you order to expressly request that we begin immediately and to acknowledge that you lose your statutory 14-day right of withdrawal once we do. Giving that consent is a condition of us starting.

Before we have started, you may cancel for any reason or none, and you receive a full refund of the fee you paid us. This is the situation the refund rule exists for: you ordered, then changed your mind, and nothing has happened yet.

The service is treated as started, and the fee stops being refundable, at the earliest of the following moments:

• You send us, share with us, or otherwise make available the login credentials for the account, whether or not we use them.
• We log in to, access, or connect to the account in any way.
• We place, modify, or close any order or position on the account.
• We give you any instruction, plan, guidance, timing, or direction about how the account is to be handled or traded.
• You give us access through any other method, for example a copier, a remote session, or a third-party tool.

Once any one of those has occurred, no refund, credit, partial refund, or replacement is available, to the fullest extent permitted by law. That applies in every case, including but not limited to: the account breaching a rule and being failed; us not reaching the profit target; the firm suspending, disqualifying, terminating or closing the account for any reason; the firm changing its rules; the firm refusing, delaying or clawing back a payout; you changing your mind; you becoming unavailable or unresponsive; you breaching these Terms; or you withdrawing access before we have finished.

The fee you paid the prop firm for the challenge itself is a separate payment between you and that firm. We never receive it, and we cannot and do not refund it under any circumstances.

Any retry, discount, second attempt or goodwill gesture we may choose to offer is entirely at our sole discretion. It is not an admission of fault, does not create a precedent, and does not entitle you or anyone else to the same in future.

Initiating a chargeback, payment dispute, or reversal in breach of this section is a material breach of these Terms. We may immediately stop work, terminate your access to all of our services, and recover the disputed amount together with any fees and reasonable costs we incur. Nothing in this section removes any mandatory right you have under applicable consumer-protection law that cannot be waived by agreement.

13. Beyond Pass: What You Confirm and the Risk You Accept

By ordering Beyond Pass you confirm, at the time of ordering and for as long as the service runs, that:

• You are at least 18 and have the legal capacity to enter into this contract.
• You are the sole and lawful owner of the account, you opened it yourself with your own accurate details, and you have full authority to give us access to it.
• You have read and understood the prop firm's own terms, and you are responsible for complying with them.
• You understand that many prop firms prohibit account sharing, third-party trading, copy trading, or anyone other than the registered owner trading the account, and that using this service may breach that firm's terms.
• You understand and accept that the possible consequences of such a breach include the account being suspended or terminated, the challenge fee being lost, a funded account being cancelled, payouts being refused or reversed, related accounts being blocked, and you being banned by that firm.
• You accept all of that risk yourself, entirely and exclusively, and you will not hold us responsible for it.
• Using this service is lawful where you live, and you are not acting on behalf of a sanctioned person or for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose.
• The information you have given us is accurate and complete.

14. Beyond Pass: Your Obligations While We Work

While the service is running you agree that you will:

• Not trade the account yourself, and not open, modify or close any position on it.
• Not change the password or any credential, and not add, change or remove two-factor authentication, without telling us first.
• Not connect the account to any expert advisor, copier, signal service, bot or other third party.
• Not open other accounts, at the same firm or elsewhere, that would breach that firm's rules on duplicate, related, hedged or copied accounts.
• Not contact the firm to reset, upgrade, modify or close the account without agreeing it with us first.
• Keep the account active and in good standing and pay anything the firm requires to keep it open.
• Tell us straight away about any message from the firm concerning the account.
• Give us accurate credentials and respond to us within a reasonable time.

If you breach any of the above, we are released from any obligation to continue, we may stop immediately, and no refund is due.

15. Beyond Pass: No Guarantee, and No Fixed Timeline

We do not guarantee that the account will pass. Trading carries risk, and an account may hit a loss limit or otherwise breach and be failed. That is a possible and normal outcome of the service, not a defect in it, and it does not entitle you to a refund or to compensation of any kind.

Any timeframe we mention is an estimate, not a promise. Market conditions, the firm's minimum trading days, news events, holidays and platform outages all affect it. We may pause trading at any time when we judge conditions unsuitable.

Where we offer a payout add-on, we do not guarantee that the chosen profit percentage will be reached, that the firm will approve any payout, or that a payout will arrive within any particular time.

16. Beyond Pass: Our Right to Refuse, Suspend or Stop

We may decline any order before starting, for any reason or none, in which case we refund the fee in full.

Once started, we may suspend or stop the service immediately, without refund, if: you breach these Terms or any obligation in section 14; the firm restricts, suspends or terminates the account; the firm changes its rules; we believe continuing may be unlawful or may expose us to liability or to a claim; you behave abusively or threateningly; you start a chargeback or dispute; you gave us false information; or continuing becomes impractical for reasons outside our reasonable control.

We may also withdraw the Beyond Pass service entirely, at any time, permanently or temporarily, at our sole discretion and without liability. Where we do so before starting work on an order you have paid for, we refund that order in full.

17. Beyond Pass: Completion, Handover and Afterwards

The service is complete when the firm records the evaluation as passed, or, where you ordered the payout add-on, when the profit percentage you selected has been reached. At that point we stop trading and hand the account back to you.

You must change the account password immediately on completion or on termination. We are not responsible for anything that happens on the account after we hand it back, including your own trading, your compliance with the firm's funded-stage rules, and whether the firm issues, approves, delays or refuses any payout.

18. Beyond Pass: Credentials, Access and Security

You provide credentials voluntarily and at your own risk. We use them only for the agreed purpose, and we delete them on completion or termination. You must never send us payment card details, bank credentials, wallet keys, or the password to anything other than the specific trading account. We are not liable for loss arising from the prop firm's own systems or security, from platform outages, or from the acts of third parties.

11. Your Responsibilities and Acceptable Use

By using the Service you agree to:

• Use the Service only for lawful purposes and in line with these Terms.
• Provide accurate, current, and complete information when you apply or communicate with us.
• Take full responsibility for your own trading decisions, capital, and risk management.
• Keep mentorship materials, session recordings, and community content confidential and for your personal use only.
• Not copy, record, redistribute, resell, publish, or share our content, materials, or community access with any third party without our written permission.
• Behave respectfully in the community and not harass, spam, scam, or impersonate others.
• Not use the Service to give financial advice to others while presenting yourself as affiliated with StarTrading.

12. Intellectual Property

All content, materials, curricula, strategies, videos, graphics, trademarks, and other intellectual property made available through the Service are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by law. We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to access and use them for your own learning while you are an active participant. You may not copy, distribute, sublicense, or create derivative works from them without our explicit written permission. Any content you submit remains yours, but you grant us a licence to use it as needed to operate the Service.

13. Community and Conduct

Access to any private community (for example, a Discord server) is a privilege, not a right. We may add, restrict, or remove your access at any time for conduct we consider harmful, abusive, unlawful, or in breach of these Terms or the community rules. Beware of impersonators: we will never direct-message you first asking for money, and we are not responsible for the actions of anyone impersonating us.

14. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that any information provided is complete or current. This does not exclude any warranty that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, StarTrading, Star, and our partners, affiliates, and personnel shall not be liable for any trading or investment losses, or for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, data, or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with your use of the Service or your trading activity. To the extent we are found liable, our total aggregate liability shall not exceed the amount you actually paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless StarTrading, Star, and our partners, affiliates, and personnel from any claims, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the Service, your trading decisions, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

17. Third-Party Links and Services

The Service may reference or link to third-party websites, tools, brokers, prop firms, or platforms. We do not control and are not responsible for their content, policies, or practices. Any dealings you have with third parties are solely between you and them.

18. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, without notice, for conduct we believe violates these Terms or is harmful to us, other participants, or third parties. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (including disclaimers, limitations of liability, and intellectual property terms) will survive.

19. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of Germany, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The courts of Germany shall have jurisdiction over any dispute, and where you are a consumer, the competent courts of your place of residence within the EU as provided by law. If you are a consumer, you retain the benefit of any mandatory protections of the law of the country where you live that cannot be derogated from by agreement.

20. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the date below, and where required by law we will take reasonable steps to notify you. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

21. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, contact us at starbeyondthesky@proton.me. We aim to respond within a reasonable time.