Terms of Service

HackCode is a live but evolving beta product. Features, account access, challenge content, and pricing may change as the platform matures.

• Public visitors may browse indexable pages and submit privacy requests.
• Protected product areas are for invited or approved users such as learners, mentors, organization operators, and super admins.
• Direct self-serve signup is intended for users aged 13 and older.
• If you are under 18 and use HackCode through the direct self-serve flow, you must have permission from a parent or legal guardian.
• If you use HackCode through an organization that operates a private space on the platform, that organization may control how your access is issued and how your activity inside their private space is supervised.

• Keep login credentials private and use only the account assigned to you.
• Do not attempt to bypass authorization boundaries, preview gates, or rate limits.
• You are responsible for content you submit into profiles, challenge solutions, lab applications, and privacy forms.

• No abuse, scraping, denial-of-service behavior, automated credential attacks, or attempts to interfere with the platform.
• No unlawful, infringing, or malicious content in profile uploads, challenge submissions, or communications.
• Do not treat AI assistance inside the product as legal, academic, hiring, or professional certification.

• Self-serve Learner Pro subscriptions, trials, promo grants, invoices, and payment method management are handled through Stripe.
• Trial eligibility, promo activation, and your paid subscription may take a short time to update after Stripe checkout or webhook delivery.
• If billing fails, access may move through trial, grace, suspended, or expired states according to the active billing configuration.

HackCode is provided on an as-available basis. The team works to keep the platform reliable, but does not promise uninterrupted availability, bug-free operation, or suitability for every educational or commercial workflow.

• HackCode, its branding, product design, and original platform code remain the property of HackCode and its contributors.
• Users keep rights to their own lawful submissions, but grant HackCode the rights necessary to host, review, secure, and display that content on the platform.

• HackCode may suspend preview or account access where needed for abuse prevention, security, operational risk, billing risk, or policy enforcement.
• Privacy, export, and deletion requests are handled under the privacy process rather than through automatic account deletion from these terms alone.