📜 Terms of Service

Last updated: 9 August 2026 · what changed

Applies to: dsnakes.com · games.dsnakes.com · social.dsnakes.com · kenionek.dsnakes.com · account.dsnakes.com · tools.dsnakes.com

1. Acceptance of These Terms

Creating an account on any site in the DSnakes Network that requires one (games.dsnakes.com, social.dsnakes.com, account.dsnakes.com) requires ticking a checkbox at registration confirming you've read and agree to these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy — registration isn't possible without it. Simply browsing dsnakes.com, kenionek.dsnakes.com, or tools.dsnakes.com, which need no account, means you agree to these terms by using the service. If you do not agree, please don't use the service. If you're using the service on behalf of someone else (for example a child), you confirm you're authorized to accept these terms for them.

These terms work together with our Privacy Policy, which explains what data we collect and why — please read both.

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2. Who Operates This Service

The DSnakes Network is operated by an individual — referred to here as "Kenionek," "the operator," "we," or "DSnakes" — based in Belgium. DSnakes is not a registered company; it is run as an individual, personal project. References to "DSnakes" throughout these terms mean the operator personally, trading under that name.

Contact: info@dsnakes.com

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3. Eligibility & Accounts

• You must be at least 13 years old to create an account (or the higher minimum age of digital consent set by your country's implementation of the GDPR, if applicable).
• You're responsible for keeping your password and any two-factor authentication method secure, and for all activity that happens under your account. Tell us immediately at info@dsnakes.com if you suspect unauthorized access.
• One account is shared across every site that requires login (games, social, account) — signing in on one signs you in everywhere.
• You must provide a working email address you actually control, since it's used for login recovery and security alerts.
• Accounts are personal to you and may not be sold, transferred, or shared with anyone else.

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4. Acceptable Use

When using any part of the network, you agree not to:

• Harass, threaten, bully, or abuse other users, including through chat, comments, posts, or voice/video calls.
• Upload or share content that is illegal, infringes someone else's rights (including copyright), is sexually explicit involving minors, or promotes violence, hate, or discrimination.
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to another account, or to any part of our systems or infrastructure (including probing, scanning, or exploiting vulnerabilities without our prior written permission — see below on responsible disclosure).
• Use bots, scripts, or automation to inflate scores, leaderboard rankings, or engagement, or to scrape the service at scale.
• Use the location-based Hangouts/Bubbles features to stalk, track, or endanger another person.
• Send spam, unsolicited advertising, or malware through chat, posts, or any other feature.
• Interfere with the normal operation of the service (e.g. denial-of-service attempts) or bypass rate limits/security controls.

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4a. Interactions With Other Users & In-Person Meetups

The network connects you with other people — that's the point of it — but everything that happens between you and another user, on the platform or off it, is between you and that other person. We do not conduct background checks, identity verification (beyond the age-tier checks described in our Privacy Policy), or vetting of any kind on any user, and we make no representation about any user's identity, intentions, trustworthiness, or behaviour.

• Dating. The Dating feature on social.dsnakes.com surfaces potential matches and can arrange an in-person meetup at a public place both people agree to. Whether to engage with a match at all, whether to meet in person, and every safety precaution around doing so (meeting in a genuinely public place, telling someone else where you're going, arranging your own transport, trusting your own judgment) is entirely your decision and your responsibility. We are not involved in, and have no visibility into, what happens at any meetup, and we are not liable for anything that occurs there or as a result of it.
• Hangouts & Bubbles. These location-based features are opt-in (see our Privacy Policy) and let you discover and attend events, or see nearby posts, from other users. The same principle applies: choosing to attend an event or meet someone through these features is your own decision, made with your own judgment about the risk involved.
• Marketplace, Jobs/Gigs & Collab Board. These are listing boards only — see each feature's own notice, but in short: DSnakes never processes any payment, never holds funds, and is not a party to any transaction, job, or collaboration arranged through them. Buyers, sellers, employers, freelancers, and collaborators deal with each other directly and entirely at their own risk, including agreeing on and exchanging payment through whatever means they choose off-platform. We don't verify what's listed, who's listing it, or that either side will hold up their end of anything agreed.
• Chat, calls, and anything else that connects you to another user carry the same principle: we provide the tool, not a guarantee about the person on the other end of it.

None of this reduces your right to report another user whose conduct violates section 4 above — we do act on reports, including removing content and suspending or banning accounts (section 6). It just means we are a platform connecting you to other people, not a party to, guarantor of, or participant in whatever happens between you and them.

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5. Your Content & Our License to Use It

"Your content" means anything you upload, post, or send through the network — posts, comments, photos, videos (including Shorts, longform videos, remixes, and Bubbles), music tracks, profile information, and chat messages.

• You own your content. We don't claim ownership of anything you create or upload.
• You grant us a license to host and display it. By uploading content, you give DSnakes a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, host, reproduce, and display that content solely for the purpose of operating and providing the service to you and the users you share it with (e.g. showing your video to your friends, or on a public tutorial/video/music page if you chose to make it public).
• You're responsible for what you upload. You confirm you have the necessary rights to anything you upload (e.g. it's your own original music/video, or you're otherwise authorized to share it), and that it doesn't violate section 4 above or anyone else's rights.
• The license ends when your content is removed. If you delete a post, video, or track (or delete your account), the license ends for that content, subject to reasonable time for removal from backups and any copies already legitimately shared or cached by other users before deletion.
• Report function. If you believe content violates these terms, use the in-app report feature (posts, tutorials, videos, music, users) or email us.

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6. Moderation, Suspension & Termination

• We may remove content, or suspend or terminate an account, that violates these terms — including content flagged through reports and reviewed by an admin.
• Where practical, we'll aim to be proportionate (e.g. removing a single offending post rather than banning an account outright for a first, minor issue), but we reserve the right to act immediately for serious violations (e.g. illegal content, harassment, security abuse).
• You can delete your own account at any time via account.dsnakes.com. See our Privacy Policy for exactly what account deletion does (in short: your personal data is anonymized, not hard-deleted, so other users' shared content like group chats and comment threads stays intact).
• Sections that by their nature should survive termination (intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law) continue to apply after your account is closed.

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7. Intellectual Property

Aside from user content (section 5), the DSnakes Network — including its code, design, graphics, the Kenionek mascot/branding, and original game assets — is the intellectual property of the operator or its licensors. You may not copy, redistribute, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works from the platform itself (as opposed to your own uploaded content) without prior written permission.

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8. Third-Party Services & Links

Some features rely on third-party services (for example, Google Sign-In, GIPHY, embedded YouTube/ Spotify players, and OpenStreetMap-based map/geocoding services) — see our Privacy Policy for the full list. We aren't responsible for the content, policies, or practices of third-party services or any external site you reach through a link on the network.

social.dsnakes.com also shows a small number of Google AdSense ads, gated behind cookie consent — see our Privacy Policy's Advertising section for exactly what that involves and what data it touches.

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8a. Donations to Creators

A streamer on social.dsnakes.com can optionally add their own donation link (e.g. Ko-fi, PayPal.me, Patreon) to their channel page. Clicking it takes you to that third-party service, entirely outside the DSnakes Network.

• We are not a party to, and do not process, any donation. Money never passes through DSnakes — it goes directly from you to the streamer via whatever service they linked.
• We don't verify, endorse, or guarantee anything about a streamer's donation link, and can't help resolve a dispute about a donation once it's been sent — that's between you and the streamer (and the third-party payment service they used).
• A streamer is responsible for their own tax/legal obligations relating to any donations they receive; that's outside the scope of the DSnakes Network entirely.

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9. Availability & Changes to the Service

This is an independent, self-hosted project run by one person, not a large company with a dedicated uptime team. We don't guarantee the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at all times, and we may add, change, or remove features at our discretion. We'll try to give reasonable notice for anything major where practical.

We do not guarantee the service will exist forever. The network is currently free to use and self-funded, with the small amount of AdSense advertising mentioned above helping cover hosting/infrastructure costs — it is not backed by outside investment or a company with guaranteed longevity. If it's ever no longer sustainable (financially or otherwise) to keep a site, or the whole network, running, it may be discontinued at our discretion. We'll try to give reasonable notice where practical, but that isn't always possible for an independent, self-funded project.

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10. Disclaimers

This specifically includes — see section 4a for the full detail — that we make no warranty about any user's identity, intentions, or conduct, on or off the platform, and no warranty about the outcome of any interaction, transaction, meetup, or arrangement with another user.

Nothing in this section limits any statutory guarantee or consumer protection right you have under mandatory Belgian or EU law that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — where such a right applies, it applies regardless of anything above.

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11. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the operator will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of (or inability to use) the service — even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Where liability cannot legally be excluded, the operator's total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (which, since the network is currently free to use, will typically be €0), or (b) €50.

This limitation does not apply to liability that cannot be excluded or limited under mandatory Belgian or EU law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

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11a. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the operator from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to:

• your use of the service;
• your content (anything you upload, post, or send — section 5);
• your violation of these terms, including the Acceptable Use section (section 4);
• your interaction, dealing, or in-person meetup with any other user, including anything arranged through Dating, Hangouts, Marketplace, Jobs/Gigs, or the Collab Board (section 4a); or
• your violation of any right of a third party, including intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.

In plain terms: if something you did, posted, or arranged with another user leads to a claim against us, that's on you, not us — this section is what makes that concrete rather than just implied elsewhere in these terms. This does not apply to a claim arising from our own breach of these terms or our own negligence, and nothing here removes any right you have under mandatory Belgian or EU consumer law that cannot lawfully be limited (same carve-out as section 11 above).

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12. Governing Law & Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Belgium, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. If you are a consumer resident in the EU, you also benefit from any mandatory consumer protection provisions of the law of your own country of residence, and nothing here removes your right to bring proceedings in your local courts where EU consumer law guarantees that right, or your right to use the EU's Online Dispute Resolution platform. Subject to that, the courts of Belgium have jurisdiction over any dispute not otherwise resolved directly with us.

We'd genuinely rather sort out a problem directly — please email info@dsnakes.com before pursuing anything formal.

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13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms from time to time, for example as the network gains new features. The "last updated" date at the top will change when we do. For significant changes, we'll aim to give notice (such as a site-wide announcement) before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

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14. Contact

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See also our Privacy Policy.

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