1. Who this agreement is with
Playkora is operated by Kurdbits, a sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) registered in the Netherlands at Binnendelta 11 m, 1261 WZ Blaricum, KVK number 96243554, establishment number 000061582808, reachable at info@playkora.com ("Playkora", "we", "us"). "You" means anyone using the site, with or without an account.
2. Accounts
Playing games and browsing the site does not require an account. Publishing a game, or rating and reviewing one, does.
You must give a real email address and confirm it; publishing is unavailable until you do. You must be at least 16 years old. You are responsible for keeping your password to yourself and for everything done through your account, and you agree to tell us promptly if you believe someone else has access to it. One person or organisation, one account — do not create additional accounts to get around a suspension.
Your display name is public. Choose one that does not impersonate someone else.
3. Your game stays yours
You keep every right in everything you publish here: the game itself, its code, art, audio, text, screenshots, translations and trademarks. Publishing on Playkora transfers no ownership whatsoever.
What you do grant us is a licence, and only as much of one as is needed to run the service: a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, reformat, resize, distribute and publicly display your game and its page — including in listings, category pages, search results, our sitemaps and feeds, our newsletter, and promotional posts about games on Playkora. The licence exists so that showing your game to players is lawful. It is not sub-licensable to anyone except our hosting and delivery providers acting on our behalf.
The licence ends when you delist the game or delete your account, apart from copies sitting in routine backups until they expire, and material already sent out — a newsletter that has been mailed cannot be recalled. Nothing here gives us the right to sell your game, sub-license it to a third party, or claim authorship of it.
By publishing, you confirm that you either created the game or hold the rights needed to publish it here, that everything on the page is your own work or properly licensed, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights.
4. Review, delisting and takedowns
Every submission goes into a manual review queue before it can appear publicly. We may approve it, or decline it and tell you why. Review is a spam and theft filter, not a quality endorsement: approval says a person looked at it, not that we vouch for it.
We may delist or remove a game, a review, a profile or an account — with notice where we reasonably can, and without prior notice where the content is clearly infringing, illegal or harmful — if it breaks these terms.
If someone has published your game here without permission, tell us and we will act on it. Send us, through the contact form or to info@playkora.com: the URL of the page in question, a description of the work and of your rights in it, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised. Stolen uploads are removed, and accounts that upload them are terminated. If your game was removed and you believe that was a mistake, reply to us and say so. Playkora is a hosting service established in the European Union, so the notice-and-action rules of the Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065) apply. A notice sent as described above is a valid DSA notice; we will confirm receipt, decide without undue delay, and tell both you and the uploader what we decided and why. If your content was removed you may reply to contest that decision, and we will review it — by a person, not automatically. You may also take the dispute to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body under Article 21 DSA, or to a court. We are not a very large online platform and are exempt from the additional obligations that apply to those.
5. Acceptable use
Do not use Playkora to publish or do any of the following:
- content you do not have the rights to, including re-uploads of other people's games and assets used without a licence;
- malware, cryptominers, drive-by downloads, or anything that abuses the visitor's browser or device;
- illegal content, content sexualising minors, or content that incites violence or hatred against people;
- games misrepresented on their page — a page that describes something other than what actually loads;
- phishing, scams, or forms and links that collect payment details or credentials under false pretences;
- fake reviews and ratings, including reviewing your own games through other accounts, and any attempt to inflate play counts artificially;
- automated scraping, denial-of-service, credential stuffing, attempts to bypass rate limits, or probing the site for vulnerabilities without our written agreement;
- uploading builds intended to escape the sandbox we serve them in, or to attack other parts of the site.
Adult, violent or otherwise mature content must carry an accurate age rating. If a rating is wrong, we will correct or remove the listing.
6. Playing games on Playkora
Games are made by independent developers, not by us. Some run from files hosted here, some are embedded from the developer's own server, and some are linked to on another site entirely. We do not control what a developer changes on their end after review, and we take no responsibility for content on sites we link out to. Playing is free; if a game ever asks you for money or personal details, that is not us, and we would like to know about it.
7. Availability and no warranty
Playkora is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. We do not promise that the site will be uninterrupted, that a game will run on your device, that your pages will rank in any search engine, or that data will never be lost. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the service. Keep your own copy of your game and its assets — this is a publishing platform, not a backup service.
Nothing in these terms limits any right you have as a consumer that cannot be limited by law.
We are liable to you only for damage caused by our own intent or gross negligence, and for anything that Dutch law does not permit us to exclude — including death or personal injury, and liability arising from our own wilful misconduct. Beyond that, and to the fullest extent Dutch law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profit, goodwill, data or anticipated savings, for the content or behaviour of games published by third parties, or for the site being unavailable.
Where we are liable, our total liability for all claims arising in any twelve-month period is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in that period and €250. Playkora is currently free to use, so for most users the first of those is zero — this cap exists so the limit is a defined figure rather than an open question.
8. Ending the agreement
You can stop using Playkora at any time, delist your games from your dashboard, or delete your account outright, which removes your games and their pages from the site.
We may suspend or terminate an account that breaks these terms, that is used to publish infringing or harmful content, or that is being used to attack the service. Where the breach is minor and fixable, we will normally ask you to fix it first. On termination, your pages come down and the licence in section 3 ends, subject to the backup and already-distributed-material exceptions noted there. Sections 3, 7 and 9 survive termination.
9. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of the Netherlands. Disputes go to the competent court of the Rechtbank Midden-Nederland, the district in which Blaricum lies.
That does not take away your rights as a consumer. If you are a consumer resident in the EU, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country. Consumers in the EU can also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform. Before any of that, please write to info@playkora.com — nearly everything is faster to fix directly.
10. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the platform changes. The date at the top of this page always shows the current version, and we will notify account holders by email before a material change takes effect. Continuing to use Playkora after that means you accept the new version; if you do not, you can delete your account.
11. Contact
Questions about these terms go through the contact form. How we handle personal data is described separately in our privacy policy, which forms part of this agreement.