Terms of Service
Last updated: 26.07.2026
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the website and training application “GTO Academy” (the “Service”). By subscribing to or using the Service, you agree to these Terms.
1. Provider and contracting parties
The Service is operated by: Sven Güttner, Walter-Hohmann-Str. 19, 45128 Essen, Germany (the “Provider”, “we”, “us”). Contact: info@gto-academy.com.
Subscriptions are sold directly by us; payment processing is handled by Stripe (Stripe, Inc., 354 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA / Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. for EU customers). We are the contracting party and merchant of record for the purchase — Stripe processes the payment on our behalf under its own terms, which are presented to you at checkout. These Terms govern your use of the Service and the subscription contract between you and us.
2. The Service
GTO Academy is an online learning and training tool for poker strategy (game-theory optimal play), including preflop and flop decision drills graded against solver-based ranges, and statistics on your own decisions (accuracy trend and leak analysis) derived from them. It is provided for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Parts of the Service are free of charge and require no account — in particular the information pages, the public range preview and a limited number of free sample hands. The full trainer and its statistics require a user account (section 6) and an active subscription (section 4). We may change the scope of the free offering, in particular the number of free sample hands, at any time for the future.
The Service is a training tool only: it does not offer real-money play and does not accept any stakes or wagers. It does not constitute gambling within the meaning of § 3 of the German Interstate Treaty on Gambling (GlüStV 2021).
No guarantee of winnings: the ranges and grading provided are close approximations of solver output intended to train sound fundamentals; they are not a guarantee of results. Nothing in the Service constitutes financial advice or a promise of gambling profits. If you choose to play poker with real money elsewhere, you do so at your own risk and responsibility.
3. Eligibility (18+)
The Service is intended for an adult audience. You may only subscribe to and use the Service if you are at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, if higher) and legally capable of entering into contracts.
Gambling can be addictive; please act responsibly. Help and information are available at begambleaware.org and, for visitors in Germany, at check-dein-spiel.de (free helpline: 0800 1 37 27 00).
4. Subscriptions, prices and payment
Access to the paid parts of the Service requires a subscription. The available billing intervals (monthly or yearly), prices and any free-trial terms are those displayed at checkout at the time you subscribe.
All prices are final prices. As a small business under § 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG), the Provider does not charge or separately show German value added tax (gemäß § 19 UStG wird keine Umsatzsteuer berechnet). Any taxes or duties that may apply in your own country of residence are your responsibility.
Payment is processed entirely by Stripe; we do not receive or store your payment card details. A user account is required in order to subscribe, and the subscription is tied to the account you are signed in with at checkout. A successful checkout unlocks the Service for that account automatically — no licence key or manual activation step is required (see section 6).
Unless stated otherwise at checkout, subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled. Where a free trial is offered, it converts into a paid subscription at the end of the trial period unless you cancel before it ends.
5. Term and cancellation
You can cancel your subscription at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period. There are two ways to do it, and neither requires you to justify the decision:
- the “Cancel subscription” link in the footer of every page, which needs no sign-in — you identify the subscription by the email address it was taken out with, and we confirm the cancellation to that address in text form; or
- the customer portal linked in the app, if you prefer to cancel while signed in.
After cancellation you keep access until the end of the period already paid for; no further renewal charges are made. Statutory rights to terminate for cause remain unaffected.
Refunds for periods already paid are governed by the statutory rules and, where applicable, any refund policy presented at checkout. Your separate statutory right of withdrawal is set out in section 7 and in our Withdrawal Policy.
6. Account and access
Drilling in the trainer and subscribing require a user account, which you create with an email address or by signing in with a Google account. There is no password: you sign in with a one-time code sent to your email address, or via Google. You must provide accurate details, keep access to the email address (or Google account) you registered with, and not let anyone else use it — whoever can receive your sign-in codes can reach your account. Accounts are provided for us by our identity provider; how your data is processed there is described in our Privacy Policy.
Your account, your subscription and the sessions they establish are personal to you. You may use them to access the Service on your own devices; you may not share, sell, sublicense or otherwise make your access available to third parties. We may suspend access that is abused (e.g. shared publicly or used by multiple persons) after notifying you where reasonably possible.
Access is tied to your account and its subscription status rather than a key you manage — signing out clears the session on that device, and signing in again restores access on any device. If you believe your account has been compromised, contact us at info@gto-academy.com. You may request the deletion of your account at any time; deleting it also deletes your training history, and it does not by itself cancel a running subscription (see section 5).
7. Right of withdrawal for consumers
If you are a consumer, you have a statutory right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving reasons. The full instructions, including how the period is calculated, what happens to payments already made, and a model withdrawal form you may use, are set out in our separate Withdrawal Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
One point deserves stating here rather than in the small print. For digital services the right of withdrawal can lapse early under § 356(5) BGB — but only where the consumer has expressly consented to performance beginning before the period ends and has acknowledged losing the right as a result. We do not currently collect that consent and acknowledgement. Your right of withdrawal therefore is not shortened: it runs for the full 14 days from the conclusion of the contract even if you have already started using the trainer in the meantime.
To exercise it, an unambiguous statement — an email to info@gto-academy.com is enough — is sufficient. You do not have to use the model form.
8. Intellectual property and permitted use
All content of the Service (in particular texts, graphics, range charts, drills and training materials, the solved datasets, and the software itself) is protected by copyright and remains the property of the Provider or its licensors.
Subject to these Terms, you receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service for your personal, non-commercial training during the term of your subscription. You may not copy, redistribute, publicly display, scrape, decompile or commercially exploit the Service or its content (including the solved range data) beyond the limits of mandatory statutory law.
9. Acceptable use
You must not misuse the Service — in particular you must not attempt to circumvent access controls, interfere with the operation of the Service, use automated tools to access it or extract its data, or use it for unlawful purposes. We may suspend or terminate access for serious or repeated violations of these Terms; statutory rights remain unaffected.
10. Availability and changes to the Service
We aim to keep the Service available at all times, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, updates or events outside our control may lead to temporary interruptions.
We may develop the Service further (e.g. improve drills, add or adjust features) provided that the contractually agreed core functionality for your current subscription period remains available. If a change materially reduces the agreed functionality, you may have statutory rights, including termination.
11. Warranty and liability
The statutory warranty rules for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) apply.
We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and under mandatory statutory liability rules (e.g. product liability law). In cases of slight negligence, we are liable only for breaches of essential contractual obligations (obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfilment you may regularly rely), and such liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract. Any further liability is excluded.
We accept no responsibility for gambling losses. The Service is a training tool; decisions to play poker with real money are yours alone (see section 2).
12. Changes to these Terms
We may amend these Terms for the future where there is a valid reason (e.g. changes in law, changes to the Service or to the payment setup). We will announce material changes in an appropriate manner (e.g. in the app or by email, where available) with reasonable advance notice. If you do not agree to a change that is disadvantageous to you, you may cancel the subscription as described in section 5.
13. Final provisions
These Terms are governed by German law. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of your country of habitual residence.
We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).
If individual provisions of these Terms are or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.