Terms of Service

Effective: 22 August 2026

DSH Studios ("we," "us," or "our") operates the website https://dshstudios.com (the "Service") — a community directory that surfaces third-party plugins, agents, skills, and workflows for the open-source DeepSeek Harness (DSH) framework, together with submission, account, and Pro subscription features.

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form a binding agreement between you and the operator of DSH Studios. By accessing or using the Service you accept these Terms; if you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

DSH Studios is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by DeepSeek. References to "DSH" and "DeepSeek Harness" identify the underlying open-source framework solely for descriptive purposes and do not imply any partnership or endorsement.

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By creating an account, submitting a plugin, subscribing to Pro, or otherwise using the Service, you confirm that you are at least 13 years old (or older if your local law requires a higher age to enter a binding contract), that you have the authority to accept these Terms, and that you accept them on behalf of yourself or the organization you represent. If you accept on behalf of an organization, "you" refers to that organization.

We may revise these Terms from time to time. The "Effective" date at the top reflects the latest revision. For material changes, we will email registered users at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

2. Use of the Service

2.1 What you may do. You may use the Service to browse, search, save, submit, and review plugin listings, within the limits described in these Terms and the public documentation.

2.2 What you may not do. You agree not to:

• Submit plugin entries that link to private repositories you do not own or have authorization to list, or that contain content you do not have the right to make available.
• Scrape the directory at a rate that exceeds what is permitted by our robots.txt and our rate limiter (60 requests per minute per IP for unauthenticated traffic, 120 requests per minute per user for authenticated traffic).
• Attempt to disrupt the Service, including by probing, scanning, or load-testing the infrastructure without our written permission.
• Submit automated or bulk content (spam), or use the Service to distribute malware, phishing pages, or content that violates the rights of others.
• Circumvent our rate limiter, authentication, or any other access control.
• Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with a plugin or its maintainer.
• Use the Service to violate any applicable law.

We may suspend or terminate access for any breach of this Section 2, with or without notice.

2.3 Availability. We aim to keep the Service available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may take the Service offline for maintenance, security, legal, or operational reasons. Where a planned downtime is material, we will post a notice in advance.

3. User submissions

3.1 Your rights over what you submit. You retain all ownership of the plugin metadata, descriptions, screenshots, and other content you submit ("Submissions"). You do not transfer ownership to us.

3.2 The license you grant us. By submitting, you grant DSH Studios a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, modify for formatting, publish, and display your Submissions as part of the directory, for as long as the listing is live. The license ends when you delete the Submission or your account, except that we may retain aggregated, non-personal metadata for record-keeping.

3.3 Representations you make. You represent and warrant that:

• You own the Submissions or have the necessary rights to submit them, including rights from any third-party contributors named in them.
• Your Submissions do not infringe any third party's copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other right.
• Your Submissions comply with the licenses of the upstream repositories they reference. Submitting a plugin entry does not give you any rights beyond those already granted by the repository's own license.
• You are not submitting content that contains malware, phishing material, or content intended to facilitate wrongdoing.

3.4 Our right to remove Submissions. We may remove or hide any Submission, in whole or in part, if we have a good-faith belief that it breaches these Terms, infringes a third party's rights, or poses a security or legal risk. Where reasonable, we will give you notice and an opportunity to address the issue.

3.5 Takedowns and counter-takedowns. Copyright-related removals follow the DMCA procedure described in /privacy Section 7.

3.6 Plugins as third-party software. Plugins listed on the Service are produced and maintained by their respective authors; they are not produced by DSH Studios. Listing a plugin does not mean we endorse it, have audited it, or guarantee its safety. Install commands are reference only; DSH Studios does not execute third-party plugins and does not guarantee compatibility with the current DSH version.

4. Subscription and Pro features

4.1 Plans. We offer a free tier (browsing, saving, and submitting up to the published rate limits) and a paid tier (DSH Studios Pro, $9.9 per month, or as otherwise noted on /pricing). Pricing is exclusive of applicable taxes unless we state otherwise on the pricing page; taxes are calculated at checkout based on your billing address.

4.2 Billing. Pro is billed in advance on a recurring monthly basis through our payment provider. By subscribing, you authorize us to charge the payment method on file for the recurring fee until you cancel. We will provide a receipt by email for each successful charge.

4.3 Cancellation and refunds. You can cancel Pro at any time from your account settings. Cancellation stops future charges; it does not retroactively refund the current billing period. We provide a 14-day money-back window from the first charge of a new Pro subscription, exercised by contacting us within that window. See /pricing for the full refund policy, including proration rules and EU/UK withdrawal rights.

4.4 Changes to fees. We may change Pro pricing with at least 30 days' notice by email. Continued subscription after the effective date of a price change constitutes acceptance of the new fee; you may cancel before the effective date to avoid the new fee.

4.5 Failure to pay. If a charge fails, we may suspend Pro features and retry the charge over the next billing cycles. We will give notice before any suspension.

5. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, DSH Studios and its operators disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and quiet enjoyment.

We do not warrant that:

• The Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.
• The information in any plugin listing (including install commands, READMEs, screenshots, descriptions, and metadata) is accurate, complete, or current.
• A plugin listed here is safe, free of malware, or suitable for any particular use case.
• A plugin listed here is compatible with any particular DSH version.

Listings do not equal an endorsement or security review. Third-party plugins can access files, credentials, and network resources. Review the source repository before installing.

6. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will DSH Studios, its operators, contributors, or affiliates be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including damages for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Service, the content of any plugin listing, or the conduct of any third party in connection with the Service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our aggregate liability for all claims arising under or in connection with these Terms in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the liability will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for a Pro subscription in that 12 months, or (b) USD 100.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (including fraud, death, or personal injury caused by negligence).

7. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim brought by a third party arising out of your Submissions, your use of the Service in breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

8. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

Nothing in this Section limits your right to bring a claim in the courts of your habitual residence if you are a consumer in a jurisdiction whose consumer laws provide that right.

We will first attempt to resolve any dispute informally by contacting you at the email address on your account. If a dispute is not resolved within 30 days of submission, either party may bring the claim in the courts of the State of Delaware.

For consumers in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you may also use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. We are not obliged to use that platform and participation does not constitute acceptance of any claim.

9. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account or access to the Service if you materially breach these Terms and fail to cure within 14 days of notice (where the breach is curable). You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your account from your account settings. Termination does not affect any provision that by its nature should survive, including the indemnity, limitation of liability, and dispute-resolution provisions.

10. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any posted community guidelines, form the entire agreement between you and us.
• Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.
• No waiver. A failure to enforce any provision does not waive our right to do so later.
• Assignment. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets; you may not assign these Terms without our written consent.