Legal

Terms of use.

The rules of the place. Most of them exist to protect the one thing the service is for — people learning without being cheated, scraped or harassed.

last updated · 22 August 2026effective · 1 September 2026
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The agreement

These terms govern your use of DSA University, operated by DSA University. Creating an account or using the service means you accept them. If you are accepting on behalf of an institution, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.

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Your account

One account per person. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for everything done under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe it has been compromised.

  • →You must be 13 or older, or 16 where local law requires it.
  • →Account sharing is not permitted; Campus seats are individually assigned.
  • →You may delete your account at any time from Settings.
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Acceptable use

The service exists so people can learn. Most of the rules below follow from protecting that.

  • →Do not submit code you did not write during a rated contest.
  • →Do not scrape, bulk-download or redistribute problems, editorials or visualizers.
  • →Do not attempt to escape the execution sandbox, exhaust shared resources, or attack the judge.
  • →Do not post another learner's private submission publicly.
  • →Do not harass anyone, in the forum, in messages, or in live classes.

Reading an editorial, taking a hint, or discussing an approach outside a rated contest is not cheating. It is the intended use.

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Content and ownership

We own the curriculum, problem statements, editorials, visualizers and the software. You may use them for your own learning and may not redistribute them.

You own the code and notes you write. By posting to the public forum or publishing a community solution you grant us a non-exclusive licence to host and display it on the platform. You can delete your posts at any time.

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Availability

We aim for high availability and publish incidents on the status page, but the service is provided without an uptime guarantee outside Campus contracts that specify one. We may change or retire features, and will give reasonable notice before removing anything a paid plan depends on.

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Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms. For a first, minor breach we will normally warn first. For plagiarism in a rated contest, the result is voided and the rating change reversed. Terminated accounts are not refunded.

You may terminate at any time by deleting your account. The refund policy governs money already paid.

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Liability

The service is provided as-is. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death, personal injury or fraud.

We make no promise about employment outcomes. The curriculum teaches algorithms; it does not guarantee an interview, an offer, or a salary.

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Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of [YOUR JURISDICTION], and the courts of [YOUR JURISDICTION] have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protections available where you live.

Questions about this document

Write to us and a person will answer. If a clause here is unclear, that is a fault in the document and we would like to know.

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This document is provided as a working template for the DSA University product and is not legal advice. Bracketed values such as [YOUR COMPANY] and [YOUR JURISDICTION] must be completed, and the whole document reviewed by a qualified lawyer, before it governs a real service.