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Terms of Service

Effective: November 9, 2026 · Applies to www.dstk.net and app.dstk.net

In plain English

Use the Service only for legal study and training around poker — it is never a place to gamble. Your hands and notes stay yours; we just host and display them the way you choose. Don't abuse the Service or other users. The app is in beta and provided as-is. Full terms below.

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and DSTK and govern your use of the websites at www.dstk.net and app.dstk.net and the poker hand recording, replay, quiz, club and broadcast features we provide (the “Service”). By using the Service you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility and accounts

  • You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. Guests may play public quizzes without an account.
  • You may hold one account, must give accurate sign-in information, and are responsible for everything done through your account. Tell us immediately at info@dstk.net if you believe your account was compromised.
  • The Service is provided in beta. Features may change, break or be discontinued while we improve it.

3. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • Use the Service for real-money gambling, wagering of any kind, or operating or promoting illegal gambling; the Service records and studies hands, it never accepts bets;
  • Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law, the rules of a card room or casino, or the terms of any poker operator;
  • Upload content you do not have the right to share, including other people's personal information;
  • Harass, abuse or impersonate others through comments, clubs, feedback or profile fields;
  • Scrape, crawl, reverse engineer, overload or gain unauthorized access to the Service, or use it to build a competing database;
  • Bypass moderation filters or security controls, including database access rules.

We may moderate, hide or remove any content, and suspend or terminate accounts, for violations of this section.

4. Your content

  • Ownership. You keep ownership of the hands, notes, quizzes, comments and club posts you create (“User Content”).
  • License. You grant DSTK a worldwide, royalty-free license to store, reproduce and display your User Content as needed to operate the Service and share it according to the visibility you choose (private, friends-only, club, or public by link). If you share content publicly or to clubs, you also allow other users to view, replay and quiz themselves on it there.
  • Responsibility. You are responsible for your User Content and for having the right to share it, including hand histories imported from third-party poker sites.
  • Moderation. Text shared to friends, clubs or the public is automatically screened by our content filters before it is shared; no automated filter is perfect. We can remove content that breaks these Terms.

5. Copyright (DMCA)

We respect copyright. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) to info@dstk.net with: identification of the work, the URL of the infringing material, your contact details, a statement of good-faith belief, and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner. We will remove material we determine to be infringing and may terminate repeat infringers' accounts. Affected users may send a counter-notice to the same address.

6. Third-party platforms

The Service can import hand-history files from third-party poker operators (for example PokerStars, GGPoker, ACR/Winning Poker Network, 888poker and WSOP.com) for hands you already possess. DSTK is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any poker operator, and trademarks belong to their owners — see our Disclaimers. Importing and using the Service is at your own risk and must comply with those operators' terms.

7. Pricing

The Service is free during beta. If we introduce paid features, we will present the price and terms before you are charged, and these Terms will be updated. Unless stated otherwise, subscriptions renew until cancelled and fees are non-refundable except where the law requires.

8. Disclaimers; limitation of liability

The disclaimers on our Disclaimers page are part of these Terms. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, and DSTK's total liability to you for any claim is limited to the greater of $100 or the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or lost profits or data.

9. Indemnification; termination

You agree to defend and hold harmless DSTK from claims, damages and expenses arising from your User Content or your breach of these Terms. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you break these Terms or for any lawful business reason; sections that should survive termination (ownership, disclaimers, liability, disputes) do survive.

10. Disputes; governing law

Before filing a claim, email info@dstk.net and give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and you and DSTK consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in San Diego County, California for any dispute, except where the consumer-protection law of your country of residence gives you the right to sue locally.

11. Changes and contact

We may update these Terms; the effective date above will change, and material changes will be announced in the app or by email before taking effect. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms. Questions: info@dstk.net.