Terms of use

Stu-Decks is operated by Avram Plager, based in the United States. By using the site you agree to these terms. If you don't agree with them, please don't use the site. Questions about anything here go to studeckscomm@gmail.com.

Using Stu-Decks

Stu-Decks is free. You may browse and study decks shared with everyone without an account. An account is free too, and lets you build decks, keep your scores and progress, and share your decks with other students.

You are responsible for what happens under your account, including keeping your password to yourself. Tell us at studeckscomm@gmail.com if you think someone else is using it.

What you may not do

• Upload content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, or sexual content involving minors.
• Upload material you have no right to share — see copyright below.
• Use Stu-Decks to cheat where doing so breaks your institution's rules. Sharing a deck of questions from a live exam, or from material your instructor has told you not to redistribute, is not what this site is for.
• Scrape, crawl or bulk-download decks, or try to extract the deck database.
• Attack the site: breaking in, overloading it, or working around its limits.
• Impersonate someone else, or pretend a deck comes from a university or instructor when it doesn't.

Your decks

You keep ownership of the decks you make. Nothing here transfers your copyright.

When you share a deck with everyone, you grant Stu-Decks a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, display and distribute it so that other students can find and study it, and so that search engines can index its deck page. The licence lasts as long as the deck is shared, and exists only so the site can do what sharing a deck is for.

You can make a shared deck private again, or delete it, at any time from the deck's Manage menu. Doing so stops it being shown to others. Students who had already added your deck to their own dashboard may keep the copy they added, and search engines may hold a cached copy of the deck page for a while after it stops being shared.

Decks are shared with everyone by default when you create them. The deck builder says so, and you can untick it to keep a deck private. Please don't put anything personal, confidential or identifying in a deck.

Copyright and takedown

Decks are made by students, and Stu-Decks does not review them before they are shared. If material in a deck infringes your copyright, write to studeckscomm@gmail.com with:

• the URL of the deck page;
• identification of the work you say is infringed, and what part of the deck contains it;
• your name and contact details;
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised; and
• a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on their behalf.

Valid complaints are acted on promptly, usually by unsharing or deleting the deck. Accounts that repeatedly infringe are closed. If you believe your deck was removed in error, reply to the notice and say why.

Other people's decks

A deck another student shared belongs to them. You may study it and add it to your dashboard. Only its owner can change its cards, and they may edit, unshare or delete it at any time, which is why a deck you added can change or disappear.

Ads and donations

Stu-Decks accepts voluntary donations, and intends to show advertising, to cover its costs. Neither gates any feature. Donations are handled by Ko-fi on their own site and under their terms; they are gifts, not purchases, and are not refundable by Stu-Decks. What cookies the ads use, and what your consent choice changes, is set out in the privacy policy.

No warranty

Stu-Decks is provided as is, without warranties of any kind. It is a free study tool, not a record system: decks and study progress are not guaranteed to be preserved, available, accurate or complete. Keep your own copy of anything you can't afford to lose. Nothing on the site is academic, professional or legal advice, and a deck being on Stu-Decks says nothing about whether it is correct or suitable for your course.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Avram Plager is not liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential loss arising from your use of the site, including lost study time, lost decks or exam results. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing in them affects the statutory rights you have as a consumer.

Ending access

You may delete your account at any time; the FAQ explains how. Access may be suspended or ended if these terms are broken, or if the site has to shut down. Stu-Decks may also change or discontinue features, and will try to give notice of anything significant.

Changes to these terms

These terms may change. The date at the top says when they last did. Continuing to use the site after a change means accepting the new version.

Contact

studeckscomm@gmail.com, or see the contact page.