1.Introduction
Welcome to Plaicer. These Terms and Conditions (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Plaicer platform, including our website at plaicer.com, our coding challenges and assessments, our virtual skills CV feature, and any related services we provide (together, the “Service”).
The Service is operated by Plaicer Tech Ltd, a limited liability company registered in Malta, with its registered office at Unit No. SG26 SOHO Savoy Gardens, Rue D’Argens, Gżira GZR 1362, Malta (“Plaicer”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).
By creating an account or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service.
2.Definitions
- “Account” means the account you create to access and use the Service.
- “Challenge” means any coding challenge, assessment, bug-fixing exercise, or code-comprehension exercise made available on the Service, including those categorised as Structure Summit, Function Factory, Bug Buster, and Optimal Option.
- “Submission” means any code, answer, or reasoning you submit to a Challenge.
- “Result” means the score, evaluation output, and associated reasoning generated by the Service in connection with a Submission.
- “Virtual Skills CV” means the work-related profile you may build on the Service, containing no personal contact details.
- “Content” means any material you submit to, post on, or generate through the Service, including Submissions and Virtual Skills CV content.
3.Eligibility
To register for and use the Service, you must be at least sixteen (16) years old. By creating an Account, you represent and warrant that you meet this age requirement.
If we discover or have reasonable grounds to believe that a User is under 16, we will suspend the Account and delete the associated data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
4.Accounts and Login
4.1 Email Login Codes
Plaicer does not use passwords. To sign in, you enter your email address and we send a one-time login code to that address. You then enter the code on Plaicer to access your Account.
Because anyone with access to your email inbox can request and receive a login code, you are responsible for keeping your email account secure. You agree to notify us promptly at privacy@plaicer.com if you suspect that your Plaicer Account has been accessed by someone else.
4.2 Accuracy of Information
You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information when creating your Account and to keep it up to date.
4.3 One Account per Person
You may hold only one Account. Creating multiple accounts — for example to circumvent Challenge limits, artificially inflate your ranking, or evade suspension — is prohibited and may result in termination of all Accounts you control.
4.4 Responsibility for Activity
You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your Account.
5.Challenges and Submissions
5.1 How Challenges Work
The Service provides Challenges that you complete by writing code or selecting answers. Your Submissions are automatically evaluated by our systems, which run your code against pre-defined test cases in a sandboxed execution environment, or (for comprehension Challenges) compare your selection against the expected answer.
Evaluation is automated. The Service generates a Result indicating whether your Submission passed, along with reasoning or test output where relevant.
5.2 Storage of Submissions
Plaicer does not retain the code itself after a Challenge is submitted. Only the Result is stored on your Account, which means you can retake Challenges as often as you like and your history reflects your evaluated outcomes rather than the specific code you wrote each time.
For certain Challenge categories that allow mid-challenge saving, the Service will temporarily store your in-progress code so you can resume the Challenge. Once you submit or abandon the Challenge, the in-progress code is discarded and only the Result is retained.
5.3 Licence to Run, Evaluate, and Display Your Submissions
You retain ownership of any original code you write and submit to a Challenge. However, in order to operate the Service, you grant Plaicer a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to execute, evaluate, temporarily store, and display your Submissions to you during your active Challenge session, solely for the purpose of providing the Service to you.
This licence is limited to what is strictly necessary to run the Service. Plaicer does not use your submitted code to train artificial intelligence models, does not publish your code, and does not share your code with third parties, except where we are legally required to do so.
5.4 Retaking Challenges
You may retake Challenges. Each new attempt generates a new Result. Your Account may reflect your best Result, your most recent Result, or your attempt history depending on the Challenge category and the feature in question.
6.Acceptable Use
When using the Service, you agree that you will not:
- submit code or content that is illegal, infringes the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party, contains malware, or is designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorised access to Plaicer’s infrastructure, other Users’ Accounts, or any third-party system;
- probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any Plaicer system, or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measure;
- attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract the source code of the Service, the Challenges, the test cases, or the evaluation logic;
- use automated tools (bots, scrapers, headless browsers) to interact with the Service, create Accounts, or harvest Challenge content, except where we have explicitly authorised such use in writing;
- share, publish, or redistribute Challenge prompts, test cases, reference solutions, or any other Plaicer-created content, whether on public repositories, forums, tutoring sites, solution-sharing sites, or elsewhere;
- share your Account credentials or login codes with any other person, or allow anyone else to take a Challenge on your behalf;
- use the Service in a way that could damage, overload, or impair its operation, or that interferes with any other User’s use of the Service; or
- use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation, or for any purpose not expressly permitted by these Terms.
7.Use of Artificial Intelligence
Plaicer is an assessment platform. Challenges are designed to measure your ability, and the integrity of your Results is central to how the Service works.
You agree not to use external artificial intelligence tools (including, without limitation, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, or any other AI coding assistant) to generate, complete, or substantially assist with your Submissions. Submissions must reflect your own work.
We may introduce our own AI-powered mentor feature in future. If and when that happens, it will be made available inside the Service itself, it will be explicitly identified as the Plaicer mentor, and its permitted use will be described in the feature or in an updated version of these Terms. Until then, no AI-generated assistance is permitted.
We reserve the right to use automated detection techniques and manual review to identify Submissions that appear to have been generated or heavily assisted by external AI tools, and to invalidate Results, suspend features, or terminate Accounts where we reasonably determine that this clause has been breached.
8.Virtual Skills CV
The Service allows you to build a Virtual Skills CV: a work-related profile of your programming skills, preferred languages, areas of strength, and Results. The Virtual Skills CV is deliberately designed to contain no personal contact details — no name, email, phone number, address, or photograph — so that your profile represents your work, not your identity.
You are free to start building and updating your Virtual Skills CV from the moment you create your Account. Additional features built on top of the Virtual Skills CV may be introduced over time; any such features will be strictly opt-in, and we will tell you clearly what any given feature does before you enable it.
You are responsible for the accuracy of what you put on your Virtual Skills CV. You must not impersonate any person or organisation, or make false claims about your skills, experience, or qualifications.
9.Plaicer's Intellectual Property
All Challenges, prompts, test cases, reference solutions, doctrines, design, code (other than your Submissions), graphics, logos, trademarks, and all other materials provided as part of the Service are the property of Plaicer or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws.
We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial learning and skills-assessment purposes, subject to these Terms. No other rights are granted.
You must not copy, reproduce, publish, distribute, or create derivative works from any Plaicer content, except as expressly permitted by these Terms or by applicable law.
10.Service Availability
We aim to keep the Service available at all times, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. The Service may be unavailable from time to time due to maintenance, updates, technical issues, or events outside our reasonable control.
We may add, change, or remove features of the Service at any time. We will make reasonable efforts to let you know about significant changes in advance where practical.
11.Fees
The Service is currently provided free of charge. We may introduce paid tiers or premium features in the future. If we do, we will clearly identify which features require payment, present the price and billing terms before you subscribe, and obtain your agreement to those terms before charging you. Your continued use of the existing free features will not become payable retroactively.
12.Suspension and Termination
12.1 Your Right to Close Your Account
You may close your Account at any time from your Account settings, or by emailing privacy@plaicer.com. When you close your Account, we will handle your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
12.2 Our Right to Suspend or Terminate
We may suspend or terminate your Account, with or without notice, if:
- you breach these Terms, including in particular the Acceptable Use and Use of Artificial Intelligence clauses;
- we are required to do so by law or by a regulator or court;
- we reasonably believe your Account has been compromised or is being used fraudulently; or
- it is necessary to protect the Service, other Users, or Plaicer.
Where we can, we will tell you why. Where we reasonably believe that telling you would compromise an investigation, the security of the Service, or the rights of others, we may act first and explain afterwards.
12.3 Effect of Termination
When your Account is terminated (whether by you or by us), your access to the Service will end. Clauses that by their nature should survive termination — including intellectual property, liability, and governing law — will continue to apply.
13.Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, Plaicer disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Plaicer does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of viruses or other harmful components. Your Results reflect the automated evaluation of your Submissions against the test cases associated with a Challenge; they are not a certification or a professional qualification, and Plaicer makes no representation that your Results predict success in any specific role, task, or examination.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by Maltese law, including any statutory rights you may have as a consumer.
14.Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Plaicer shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities, arising from or related to your use of the Service.
Our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, whether in contract, tort, statute, or otherwise, shall not exceed one hundred euro (€100) or, if you have paid Plaicer any fees in the twelve (12) months before the claim arose, the total amount of those fees — whichever is greater.
Nothing in this section excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be excluded or limited under Maltese law.
15.Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Plaicer, its directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your breach of these Terms; (b) your violation of any law or of the rights of any third party; or (c) any Content you submit to the Service.
16.Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this document and, for material changes, we will notify you by email and/or by prominently displaying a notice in the Service before the new Terms take effect.
Your continued use of the Service after the updated Terms take effect means you accept the changes. If you do not accept the updated Terms, you should stop using the Service and close your Account.
17.Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, their subject matter, or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by the laws of Malta.
You and Plaicer agree that the courts of Malta shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms, except that if you are a consumer resident in the European Union, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of the EU Member State where you live, and you retain the benefit of any mandatory consumer-protection rules of that Member State.
If you are a consumer in the EU, you may also use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr to attempt to resolve a dispute.
18.General
18.1 Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Plaicer regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject matter.
18.2 Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect, and the invalid provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable.
18.3 No Waiver
Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.
18.4 Assignment
You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights and obligations under these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of assets, or by operation of law.
18.5 No Third-Party Rights
No person other than you and Plaicer has any rights under these Terms.
19.Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms or the Service, please contact us at:
Plaicer Tech Ltd
Unit No. SG26 SOHO Savoy Gardens, Rue D’Argens, Gżira GZR 1362, Malta
Email: privacy@plaicer.com
For data protection and privacy questions, please see our Privacy Policy or contact privacy@plaicer.com.