Legal

What this is. Stacks is a play-money poker app. You play satellites against other players using diamonds, and winners receive a ticket towards a seat at a live event.

Diamonds are not money. Diamonds have no cash value. You cannot sell them, transfer them to another player, or withdraw them, and they cannot be converted back into currency. In this beta they are given to you — by the faucet, or by us — and there is no way to pay for them. They exist only inside this app, and we may adjust a balance to correct a mistake or to reverse a transaction obtained by cheating.

Who can play. You must be 18 or older, and you must not use Stacks from anywhere that prohibits online poker. You are responsible for knowing whether that applies to you.

Your account. One account per person. Keep your password to yourself — anyone holding it can play as you, and we treat actions taken from your account as yours. You can start as a guest and secure the same account later without losing anything.

Tickets. A ticket won here is a claim towards a seat at a live event, up to the ticket's stated value, within the window shown on the ticket. It is not cash and has no cash alternative. Claiming is subject to the event organiser's own rules — including their registration deadlines and their identity checks — and we cannot override those. An unclaimed ticket lapses when its window closes or its event finishes.

Fair play. No collusion, chip dumping, soft play, multiple accounts, bots, or automated assistance. We monitor gameplay for these patterns. Where we find them we may suspend an account, void a result, and cancel a ticket. Flagged patterns are reviewed by a person before any action is taken.

Beta, and what that means. This is early software running on a single server. Play may be interrupted, and a hand in progress when something fails may be abandoned. Chips only become final once a hand settles, so an interrupted hand costs you the hand, not your stack. We do not promise uninterrupted service.

Ending it. You can stop using Stacks at any time and ask us to delete your account. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. We may change these terms; if a change matters, we will say so in the app rather than quietly editing this page.

Liability. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. Beyond that, and because no money changes hands, our liability for anything arising from play-money use of Stacks is limited to putting your in-app balance back where it should be.

Governing law. ⚙️ To be set with legal review, alongside the jurisdictions we accept players from.

What we collect. Your account details (username, and an email address only if you give one — we never ask for a real name in play-money mode). Everything you do at a table: hands, actions, the timing of those actions, and the results. Your diamond balance and every transaction behind it. And technical information from your device: your IP address, and a one-way fingerprint calculated from your browser's headers.

Why we collect it. To run the game and show you your own history. To keep play fair — the timing and device information exists specifically to detect collusion, chip dumping and multi-accounting, which are the ways a poker game gets ruined. To keep accounts secure. And to answer you when you contact support.

How we watch the app being used, during this beta. We use PostHog, on its European servers, to see which screens you visit and where the app confuses people — for example, how many people open a satellite and then change their mind. We also record how the app is used on screen: taps, scrolling and navigation. Everything you type is masked and never recorded, and neither is anything shown on the table. It is tied to your account only by the same anonymous id the app already uses — never your name or your email. This is switched on for the beta so we can fix what is confusing, and it goes off when the beta ends.

What we do not do. We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers. There are no advertising trackers in this app, and nothing here follows you to other websites. The only cookie we set is the one that keeps you signed in, and it cannot be read by JavaScript or sent to another site.

Who else sees it. Our own operators, to run the platform and review fraud flags. The organiser of a live event, when you claim a ticket into it, and then only what they need to honour it. Our hosting provider, which stores the database. Sentry, which receives errors so we know when something breaks, and PostHog, which receives the usage described above — both on European servers, neither of them advertising companies.

How long we keep it. Hand histories and the money ledger are kept for as long as the platform runs — they are what makes a disputed result answerable, and the ledger cannot be edited after the fact by design. Expired sign-in sessions are deleted automatically thirty days after they expire. Revoked sessions are kept a little longer, because detecting a stolen token requires remembering it.

Your choices. You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account. Deletion removes your profile and stops you playing; we keep the hand histories and ledger entries you took part in, because other players' results depend on them, but they stop being linked to a live account.

Contact. ⚙️ A support address goes here once one exists.

It is play money, but the habit is real. Nothing here costs you anything, and nothing here pays out cash. But the shape of poker is the same at any stake, and so is the way it can pull at your time. Stacks is meant to be entertainment.

Signs worth noticing. Playing longer than you meant to, chasing a bad session, playing when you are tired or upset, or hiding how much you play from people close to you.

Taking a break. You can stop at any time; nothing expires except tickets, and those show their own deadline. If you would like your account closed or paused, contact us and we will do it — this is handled by a person today, not a button. ⚙️ A self-exclusion control is on the list to build.

Getting help. ⚙️ Links to independent support services in the countries we operate in go here, chosen with legal review.