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Terms of Service — debuginterview.dev

Last updated: 11 August 2026

1. Introduction

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and Lkt software development and consulting Ltd, a private limited company registered in Cyprus under registration number HE442459 with registered office at Amfiktyonos, 15A, 7, 4046 Limassol, Cyprus (“debuginterview”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), governing your use of debuginterview.dev and any related services we offer (together, the “Service”).

By joining the waitlist, creating an account, or otherwise using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Definitions

  • “User Content” means any content you submit to, upload to, or generate through the Service, including source code, patches, test output, written explanations, and any other information you provide.
  • “Output” means content generated by the Service in response to your inputs, including automated feedback on your debugging work.
  • “EU Consumer” means a user located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom who is a natural person acting outside their trade, business, craft, or profession.

3. Eligibility

The Service is intended for personal, non-commercial use by individuals practising their own debugging and interview skills. You may use the Service only if:

  • You are at least 16 years old, or have the consent of a parent or legal guardian if between 16 and 18;
  • You have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract under the laws applicable to you;
  • You are not barred from using the Service under applicable law.

The Service is currently designed for individual consumers. If you wish to use the Service on behalf of an organisation (for example, to assess candidates or train a team), please contact us at hello@debuginterview.dev to discuss appropriate terms — these Terms do not authorise such use.

4. Waitlist and accounts

The Service is currently pre-launch. The only thing you can do today is join the waitlist by providing a valid email address.

If you join our waitlist, you consent to receive email communications about the launch of the Service. We use single opt-in: your address is added to the list as soon as you submit the form, without a confirmation step. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send you, or by emailing hello@debuginterview.dev. See our Privacy Policy for what we store and for how long.

When accounts become available, you will be responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential, for all activity that occurs under your account, and for notifying us promptly at hello@debuginterview.dev if you suspect unauthorised access. We may, at our discretion, refuse or close any account, including where we reasonably believe these Terms have been breached, where the account has been inactive for an extended period, or where required by law.

5. The Service

debuginterview provides practice tasks in which you diagnose and fix defects in prepared codebases, together with automated feedback on your work.

5.1 Pre-launch and beta status

Until we publicly announce a general release, the Service is provided in pre-launch or beta form. This means features may change, be added, removed, or break without notice; the Service may have reduced reliability or availability; we may collect additional diagnostic information to improve the Service; and we may contact you for feedback (you can opt out at any time).

Any pricing shown on the site describes plans we intend to offer at launch. It is not an offer, and no payment is taken today. Terms covering payment, billing, and refunds will be added to this document before any paid plan becomes available.

6. User Content and ownership

6.1 You own your User Content

You retain all ownership rights in the User Content you submit to the Service, including the code and explanations you write. We do not claim ownership of your User Content.

6.2 Licence you grant us

To operate the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable licence to host, store, copy, modify, execute, transmit, and display your User Content solely for the purpose of providing the Service to you. This licence ends when you delete your User Content or close your account, except to the extent we need to retain copies for legal compliance, dispute resolution, or routine backups (which are deleted on the schedule set out in our Privacy Policy).

We do not use your User Content to train AI models, sell it to third parties, or use it for any purpose other than providing the Service.

6.3 Your responsibility for User Content

You are solely responsible for the User Content you submit. You represent and warrant that:

  • You own or have all necessary rights to submit the content;
  • The content does not infringe the rights of any third party (including intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights);
  • The content does not contain malware, illegal material, or material that is defamatory, harassing, hateful, or otherwise unlawful;
  • You will not submit code intended to attack, escape, or otherwise compromise the environment in which it runs;
  • Where you include personal data about third parties, you have a lawful basis to share that data with us.

6.4 Output

The Output we generate (including automated feedback) is provided to you for your use without restriction, subject to these Terms. You are responsible for reviewing Output before relying on it. We do not guarantee that Output is unique to you — similar inputs may produce similar Outputs for different users, and we make no claim of exclusivity over generated text.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable law;
  • Submit content that is illegal, infringing, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or sexually explicit;
  • Attempt to attack, escape, or otherwise compromise the sandbox or execution environment in which tasks run;
  • Bulk-extract, scrape, republish, or redistribute our task content, solutions, or feedback;
  • Attempt to access, reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service or any part of it (except to the extent permitted by mandatory law);
  • Interfere with, disrupt, or place undue load on the Service, including via automated tools, bots, or scraping;
  • Use the Service to compete with us, benchmark us, or build a similar product based on data extracted from the Service;
  • Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute the Service without our written permission;
  • Bypass any access controls, rate limits, or security measures;
  • Submit content that violates a third party’s privacy or data protection rights.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these rules, with or without notice depending on severity.

8. Automated feedback and disclaimers

The Service uses third-party AI models to assist with generating feedback on your work. The current list of providers is maintained in our Privacy Policy.

You acknowledge and agree that:

  • AI-generated content can be inaccurate, outdated, biased, or fabricated (“hallucinated”);
  • The Service is an assistive practice tool, not a substitute for your own judgement, professional advice, or due diligence;
  • You are responsible for reviewing and verifying any Output before relying on it;
  • We do not warrant that Output is fit for any particular purpose, including passing an interview or obtaining employment.

The Service may integrate with or link to third-party services (e.g. AI providers, ad networks, email delivery, payment processors). We are not responsible for the content, terms, or practices of those third parties. Your use of those services is governed by their own terms and policies.

10. Intellectual property

The Service itself — including its software, design, layout, branding, logos, task content, and the debuginterview name — is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for its intended purpose, in accordance with these Terms. You acquire no other rights in the Service.

You retain ownership of the User Content and Output you create, as set out in Section 6.

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

If you believe that content on the Service infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to our designated agent containing:

  • A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorised agent;
  • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed;
  • Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with information sufficient for us to locate it;
  • Your contact information (address, telephone, email);
  • A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised;
  • A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on their behalf.

Designated DMCA agent: [TO BE NAMED], hello@debuginterview.dev, Amfiktyonos, 15A, 7, 4046 Limassol, Cyprus.

We will respond to valid notices and may remove allegedly infringing content. We will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. If you believe content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notice to the same agent.

11. Suspension and termination

11.1 By you

You can stop using the Service at any time. To leave the waitlist, use the unsubscribe link in any email we send you. Account deletion, once accounts exist, will trigger removal of your User Content as described in our Privacy Policy.

11.2 By us

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service:

  • For material breach of these Terms (with or without notice depending on severity);
  • If required by law, court order, or competent authority;
  • To protect the security or integrity of the Service or other users;
  • For prolonged inactivity (after reasonable notice);
  • On at least 30 days’ notice if we discontinue the Service or a material part of it.

11.3 Effect of termination

On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including ownership, licences you have granted, disclaimers, limitations of liability, and governing law) will continue in effect.

12. Service availability and changes

We aim to keep the Service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. The Service may be temporarily unavailable for maintenance, updates, or events outside our control.

We may change, add, remove, or limit features at any time.

13. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. We disclaim all implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that:

  • The Service will meet your requirements or expectations;
  • The Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free;
  • Automated feedback will be accurate, complete, current, or fit for your purpose;
  • Use of the Service will result in employment offers, interviews, or any career outcome.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties (including some US states and EU member states). To the extent any warranty cannot be disclaimed, it is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law. EU Consumers retain all non-waivable statutory warranties.

14. Limitation of liability

14.1 General

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost business opportunities, lost employment opportunities, or business interruption, arising out of or in connection with the Service — even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of (a) US$100, or (b) the amount you paid us for the Service in that 12-month period.

14.2 What we do not limit

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for:

  • Death or personal injury caused by negligence;
  • Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  • Any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under mandatory applicable law.

EU Consumers retain all non-waivable rights under the Consumer Rights Directive, the Sale of Goods Directive, and equivalent national legislation. Some US states do not allow the limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation may not apply to you in full.

14.3 Basis of the bargain

You acknowledge that the limitations and exclusions in this Section 14 are a fundamental part of the bargain between us, and that we would not provide the Service to you on these terms without them.

15. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless debuginterview and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claim, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of:

  • Your User Content, including any claim that it infringes third-party rights;
  • Your breach of these Terms;
  • Your violation of applicable law in connection with the Service;
  • Your use of Output in any context.

This indemnity does not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable consumer protection law in your jurisdiction.

16. Governing law and disputes

16.1 Governing law

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of the Republic of Cyprus, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

16.2 Jurisdiction

The courts of the Republic of Cyprus have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. EU Consumers may also bring proceedings in the courts of the EU member state where they are habitually resident, and we may only bring proceedings against an EU Consumer in those courts, in accordance with the Brussels I Regulation (recast).

16.3 Informal resolution

Before commencing any legal proceedings, you agree to first contact us at hello@debuginterview.dev with a written description of your dispute and the relief you seek, and to engage in good-faith negotiation for at least 60 days. Most disputes can be resolved this way.

16.4 EU online dispute resolution

If you are an EU Consumer, you may use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are willing to engage in good-faith resolution of any complaint sent to hello@debuginterview.dev.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes, we will notify you by email or through the Service at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms; if you do not agree, you can stop using the Service before the changes take effect.

For minor or non-material changes (e.g. clarifications, corrections), we may update the “Last updated” date without separate notice.

18. General

18.1 Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any additional terms you accept for specific features, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.

18.2 Severability

If any part of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest will remain in full force, and the unenforceable part will be modified to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable while preserving its intent.

18.3 No waiver

Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision.

18.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account without our written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or to an affiliate, on notice to you.

18.5 Force majeure

Neither party is liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control (including outages of third-party infrastructure, internet failures, war, civil unrest, pandemic, government action, or natural disaster).

18.6 Notices

We will send notices to the email address you gave us. You should send notices to us at hello@debuginterview.dev, with postal mail (where required) to our registered office.

18.7 Language

These Terms are provided in English. We may provide translations for convenience, but in case of conflict the English version prevails, except where mandatory consumer law in your country requires otherwise.

18.8 Sanctions

You represent that you are not currently located in any country or territory subject to comprehensive international sanctions (such as those imposed by the EU, UK, UN, or US) that would make our provision of the Service to you unlawful, and that you are not an individual or entity designated on any applicable sanctions list. We may suspend or terminate access where required to comply with sanctions law.

19. Contact

  • Email: hello@debuginterview.dev
  • Post: Lkt software development and consulting Ltd, Amfiktyonos, 15A, 7, 4046 Limassol, Cyprus