Last updated September 15, 2026.
These terms govern the use of PKWAT, published by Nendo (see the legal notice). The privacy notice forms part of them.
You accept these terms by creating an account. If you do not accept them, do not create an account; an existing account can be deleted from its settings at any time.
You agree on your own behalf, as a person. PKWAT is for private groups of people, not for companies, and nobody here is signing for an employer.
PKWAT is a poker game for private groups. The chips are play money. They cannot be bought, cannot be sold, cannot be cashed out, and have no value of any kind outside the club they sit in. There is no wagering here and no prize, and using PKWAT to run one is not allowed.
If real money changes hands between people who happen to play here, that is between them and their jurisdiction. It is not part of this service, it is not visible to it, and it is grounds for closing a club.
Nothing you can buy changes a hand. A paid plan raises what a club or an account is allowed to have — more members, more games at once, a club's own background and logo. The chips, the shuffle, the clock and the seats are the same for everybody, paid or not.
You must be at least 18 to have an account.
If we learn that an account belongs to somebody under 18, we close it and delete the data behind it.
You sign in with a code emailed to you rather than with a password. Whoever can read your email can request that code, so the security of your account rests on the security of your mailbox.
One account per person. Do not share it, and do not make a second one to get back into a club you were removed from or to get past what your plan allows.
Give an address you can actually read. It is the only way into your account, and an address that bounces is an account nobody can get back into — including us.
A club is run by whoever made it. They decide who is let in, who is removed, and how many chips people start with. We do not arbitrate between members of a club, and we do not restore chips.
Owning a club means being responsible for what happens in it. A club used for harassment, for wagering, or for anything illegal will be closed.
Report any of it at the abuse page. We can suspend an account or close a club without notice where it is warranted.
Your display name, your avatar and anything else you upload remain yours. You give us only what running the service requires: permission to store it, to show it to the people in the clubs you are in, and to include it in a hand that somebody in that hand chooses to share. That permission lasts as long as the content is on PKWAT, costs nothing, and is used for nothing else — no advertising, no resale, no training anything.
Upload only what you have the right to upload. If a photograph, a logo or a name is not yours to use, it does not become yours by being here.
Your hands are yours too. You can download them in the Open Hand History format from your settings, whenever you like and without asking us. Do it before you delete your account: deletion is final.
The name PKWAT, the interface, the artwork and the software behind it belong to Nendo. What you get is permission to use the service as it is meant to be used, for as long as you have an account. That is not a licence to copy, adapt or redistribute any of it.
PKWAT is provided as it is. A hand in progress can be lost to a restart, a bug or a network failure. Where a club or an account is on a paid plan, we owe it the plan it paid for; where the service is free, no particular level of availability is promised.
We may add, change or remove features at any time, including ones a club has come to rely on. Where a change would lose data, we will say so in the app first.
You can delete your account at any time from your account settings, and take your data with you first.
Some outages are not ours to prevent — a failure at the company that hosts the servers, a network somebody else operates, a power cut, or a change in the law. We are not answerable for those beyond refunding the part of a paid plan we could not deliver.
Most of PKWAT is free. A club or an account can buy a plus plan, which raises what it is allowed — more members, more games at once, a club's own background and logo. It buys room and appearance. It never buys an advantage.
Club Plus is €90 a year and Account Plus is €19 a year, VAT included. Payment is taken once a year and the plan renews for another year unless cancelled. We email you 45 days before each renewal.
You can cancel at any time, from the same settings you bought it in, without asking us and without giving a reason. Cancelling stops the next renewal and nothing else: the plan runs to the end of the year you have already paid for.
A plan starts as soon as it is paid for, at your express request. Because the service is delivered immediately, the statutory right of withdrawal does not apply; cancellation, as above, remains available at any time.
When a plan ends — cancelled, refunded, or because a payment stopped — the club or account drops back to free and keeps everything it already has. Nobody is removed from a club, no game is closed and no history is deleted. What changes is that it cannot add more, and a club's own background and logo go back to the default. We do not trim a club to fit.
Prices can change. A change applies from your next renewal and never to a year already paid for, and we will tell you before it does. If you do not want the new price, cancel before the renewal and nothing more is taken.
We can suspend an account or close a club when one of the rules above is broken, when we are required to by law, or when leaving it running would put other people at risk. Where the situation allows it we say why and give you a chance to answer; where it does not — an attack in progress, a threat, something illegal — we act first.
If your account is closed for one of those reasons you may not open another. You may contest a closure by writing to us.
Closing an account for breaking these rules does not refund a paid plan. If we close one for any other reason, write to us and we refund the part of the year still to run.
PKWAT carries no guarantee of availability, of accuracy or of fitness for any particular purpose beyond what the law requires of us. We are not answerable for chips lost to a bug or an outage, for what other members of a club do, or for a club being closed by its own owner.
Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow to be limited — including the guarantee of conformity French law gives a consumer. Where liability can be limited, it is limited to the fullest extent French law permits. For anything you have paid for, that limit is what you paid us in the twelve months before the problem.
You are answerable for what you put on PKWAT and for what you do with it. If somebody else brings a claim against us because of something you uploaded, something you did in a club you run, or a rule above that you broke, we may recover from you what that claim actually costs us.
This reaches only losses genuinely caused by what you did, only where the law lets us recover them, and never at the expense of a right you have as a consumer.
These terms can change. We will announce a material change in the app and by email at least 30 days before it takes effect, and continuing to use PKWAT afterwards means accepting it. If you do not accept it, delete your account before then. If you are part way through a paid year, write to us and we refund the part still to run.
These terms are governed by French law. They are published in five languages; the French version is the one that binds if a translation and it ever disagree.
If you are a consumer, none of this takes away a right the law of the country you live in gives you, including the right to bring a dispute before the courts there. For anybody who is not a consumer, the courts of Paris have jurisdiction.
Before any other step, write to us. If that does not settle the matter, a consumer may refer it free of charge to a consumer mediator.
If a court finds one of these clauses unenforceable, the rest still stands and the clause is read down to what the law does allow, rather than the whole agreement falling with it.
This page and the privacy notice are the whole of what is agreed between us about PKWAT. Not enforcing a rule once does not give it up for good.
We may transfer this agreement if the company behind PKWAT is sold or reorganised; nothing about what you are owed changes if we do. You cannot transfer your account to somebody else.
We write to you at the email address on your account. You write to us at hello@pkwat.com, or at the address in the legal notice.