Terms of Service

cs2pickside.com (the "site", "we", "us", "our") is an independently run service: it is operated by the owner of the cs2pickside.com website, who is the other party to these terms and who owes you everything they promise.

Write to us at [email protected]. That is the address for everything — questions, complaints, refund requests, data requests and formal notices — and it is the address our replies come from, so a thread stays in one place. We do not run a postal address for correspondence; email reaches us and is answered by a person.

These terms apply to the site and every subdomain of it, to any account you hold with us, and to any subscription we provide through it. They are the agreement between you and us.

You accept these terms by creating an account or by using the site. Creating an account requires ticking the consent box on the registration form; we record the moment you accepted and the version of these terms you accepted, and we keep that record for as long as a payment made on the account could still be disputed.

Our Refund Policy forms part of these terms. Where the two say something different about refunds, the Refund Policy governs.

These terms are published in the eight languages of the site. Every edition is equally binding and none of them governs the others: the edition you are reading in your own language is the agreement between you and us, and there is no separate original standing behind it.

You must be able to enter into a contract to accept these terms. If you are accepting them on behalf of a business, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and "you" means that business.

We publish forecasts for professional Counter-Strike 2 matches. A forecast names the side we expect to win (a "pick"), states how strongly we hold that view (a confidence level), and sets out the reasoning behind it. After the match is played we review the pick and add the outcome to a public accuracy record.

A forecast is an opinion formed from public information — recent results, head-to-head history, the likely map pool, roster and stand-in news — and is produced with the help of automated tools, including large language models. It is not a statement of fact about a future event, and it is not a prediction we warrant.

What we publish without charge, and how much of it, is our decision and may change at any time. Some or all forecasts may require a subscription. The accuracy record is open to everyone, paying or not.

We may change, add or withdraw features, stop covering a tournament, a team or an entire sport, and change how a forecast is presented or measured. Nothing in these terms is a promise to cover any particular match, team or competition, or to publish any particular number of forecasts.

This is match analysis. It is not betting advice, gambling advice, a tipster service, investment or financial advice, and it is not an inducement to bet or to gamble. We publish no odds and no stakes, we do not tell anyone to stake money, and we have no arrangement of any kind with a bookmaker, a betting exchange or a gambling operator.

We do not guarantee that any pick is correct, and we do not guarantee any rate of accuracy. A confidence level describes our own conviction; it is not a probability we warrant and it is not a price. The accuracy record is a record of what has already happened and tells you nothing about what will happen next.

If you decide to bet, wager, trade or otherwise risk money or anything of value, that decision is yours alone. You make it at your own risk, with your own money, and you are solely responsible for it and for everything that follows from it — whether or not it followed something we published, and whether or not what we published turned out to be right.

Betting and gambling are regulated differently in every country and are unlawful in some. Knowing and obeying the law where you are is your responsibility, not ours. Nothing on the site is an offer of a gambling service, a betting service, or a service of arranging either.

If gambling is costing you more than money, stop and speak to a support service in your country. There are free, confidential services in most of them.

You must be at least 18 years old to hold an account or a subscription. Ticking the consent box when you register is your confirmation that you are.

You may not use the site if the law where you are forbids it, or if we have previously closed an account of yours for breaching these terms.

We do not sell subscriptions in every country. Which countries we do not sell in is our decision and may change. Where we do not sell, checkout is refused; and where a payment nevertheless reaches us from such a country, we cancel the subscription, refund the payment and close the access — see the Refund Policy.

One person, one account. An account is personal to you. It may not be shared, transferred, lent, rented or sold, and the access it carries may not be passed on to anyone else.

If we find that an account is held by someone under 18, we close it. Where that account has been charged, we refund the most recent payment.

Registration requires a working email address and a password. Keep both accurate and current: the email address is how we confirm who you are, how you recover the account, and how we tell you about a charge before it is taken.

You are responsible for keeping your password secret and for everything done through your account. Tell us at once, at [email protected], if you believe someone else has access to it.

We may require you to confirm your email address. Until it is confirmed we may limit what the account can do, and we cannot recover it for you if you lose the password.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, that we reasonably believe is being used unlawfully or fraudulently, or that is being used to take a free trial or free access more than once.

A subscription buys you personal, private reading of what we publish. That is what it is for, and the rules below are the limits of it.

You must not:

• share, publish, resell, redistribute, forward or otherwise pass on our forecasts, in whole or in substance, to anyone else — including in a group chat, a channel, a forum, a paid community or a tipping service;
• let anyone else use your account, or use an account that is not yours;
• create or use more than one account in order to take a free trial, or free access, more than once — including with another email address, another payment method, or another person’s details;
• collect our content automatically or in bulk: scraping, crawling beyond ordinary reading, bulk downloading, or systematically copying pages;
• use our content to train, fine-tune, benchmark or evaluate a machine-learning model, or to build a dataset, index or derivative product, without our written permission;
• call our internal API, or any endpoint the site itself uses, from anything other than the site as we serve it, without our written permission;
• get around, or attempt to get around, a paywall, a rate limit, an account limit or a country restriction — including by using a VPN, a proxy, a rerouted connection, or a payment method that misstates where you are;
• probe, scan or test the security of the site, or interfere with its operation, its availability or its data, without our written permission;
• reverse engineer, decompile or copy any part of the site’s software, design or brand, except where the law expressly allows it;
• misrepresent who you are to our support staff, or abuse, threaten or harass them;
• tell a bank, a card issuer or a payment provider that a charge was unauthorised when it was not, or that access was never provided when it was;
• use the site unlawfully, or in a way that puts us in breach of the rules of a payment provider, an app store or an advertising platform.

We enforce this section. Depending on how serious the breach is we may warn you, end your sessions, suspend access, close the account, refuse you a further account, and keep the fees for the period in which the breach occurred. Access closed under this section is not refunded.

We may take the same steps where the pattern of use makes a breach the only sensible explanation — one subscription being read from many places at once, a run of new accounts each taking one free trial, or automated traffic that only a script produces.

If you think we have got that wrong, write to us at [email protected]. We will look at what we relied on and reopen the account if we were mistaken.

Part of what we publish can be read without paying. A subscription opens the rest, on the terms shown on the subscription page at the time you subscribe.

The price, the billing period, the currency and any free trial are shown before you pay, both on that page and at checkout. Taxes are added by the checkout where they apply.

A subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period, at the price then in force, until renewal is turned off. We state this before you pay, in the confirmation email, and in your account.

A free trial, where one is offered, is one per person — not one per email address. A payment method is required to start it and nothing is charged during it. The date it ends, and the switch that stops it, are shown in your account for the whole of the trial — that is the authoritative statement of where you stand. We also send a reminder email shortly before it ends; that reminder depends on our payment provider notifying us in time, so it is a courtesy and not a condition of the charge. When the trial ends, the first payment is taken automatically unless you turned renewal off before then.

Turning renewal off is one button in your account. It stops the next charge; it does not end the period you have already paid for, and your access stays open until that period ends. We do not refund the remainder of a period you cancel.

Payments are taken by Whop, which acts as merchant of record for the sale. Your card details are handled by Whop and its processors and never reach us. Whop’s own terms apply to the payment itself, alongside these terms; nothing in Whop’s terms changes what we owe you under ours.

If a payment fails we may retry it, and access may be suspended or closed until a payment succeeds. We are not obliged to keep access open on an unpaid account.

We may change the price. A change never applies to a period already paid for. Where a change affects your renewals we will tell you at least 30 days before the renewal it first applies to, so that you can turn renewal off if you do not want to pay the new price.

We may also open access without payment — a complimentary or granted period. We may end such access at any time, and it carries no refund.

Our Refund Policy says when we refund and when we do not, and it forms part of these terms.

In short: fees are not refundable once the billing period they pay for has started and access has been opened; cancelling stops the next charge rather than returning the last one; and there is a short list of situations in which we do refund. Read that policy before you subscribe — it is written to be read in a couple of minutes.

Nothing in that policy removes a right your local consumer law gives you and does not allow us to exclude.

Consumer law in the EU, the EEA and the UK gives you 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract for digital content or a digital service — unless you have asked for performance to begin immediately and acknowledged that you lose the right once it has.

A subscription here begins immediately: access opens as soon as the payment is confirmed, which is the whole of what you are buying. This is stated before you pay. By subscribing you expressly request that we begin immediately, and you acknowledge that your right of withdrawal is lost once access has been opened.

Where the right nevertheless applies and you exercise it within 14 days, we refund what you paid, less an amount in proportion to the access already provided.

If you believe a charge is wrong, write to us first at [email protected]. We answer, and where we agree the charge should not have been taken we return it.

Asking your bank or card issuer to reverse a charge (a "chargeback") without first raising it with us and allowing us seven days to answer is a material breach of these terms.

When a chargeback is filed against us we may immediately suspend or close the account, end the access it carried, and refuse you a further account permanently.

We defend chargebacks we believe to be wrong, and we give the bank and the card scheme the records we hold: when the account was created, when and against which version these terms were accepted, the days on which the account was used and from where, every payment taken, and our correspondence with you. You agree that we may disclose those records to the bank, the card scheme and our payment provider for that purpose.

A chargeback costs us the disputed amount and a fee charged to us by our payment provider. Where a chargeback is filed in breach of this section and is not decided in your favour on its merits, you remain liable to us for the amount charged back, that fee and our reasonable costs of recovering them; and we may set that liability off against any refund otherwise due to you.

None of this applies to a genuinely unauthorised transaction — a payment method used without your permission. Tell us and tell your bank: we refund the charge and close the account so that it cannot happen again.

The site is provided as it is and as it is available. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, timely or error-free, and we give no uptime guarantee.

There is no fixed number of forecasts per day. Professional Counter-Strike has quiet days, breaks between events, postponed and cancelled matches. A day with few forecasts, or none, is normal service and not a failure of it: a subscription buys access to what we publish, not a quantity of it.

We may suspend the site for maintenance, for a security reason, or because something we depend on has failed. Where the reason allows it, we say so in advance.

A gap in publication, and a suspension of the kind described above, do not entitle you to a refund or to an extension of your subscription, except where the mandatory law that applies to you says otherwise.

You may stop using the site at any time. Turning renewal off in your account stops future charges. To have the account itself erased, write to us — see section 13.

We may suspend or close your account and end this agreement where you breach these terms — in particular section 6 — where we must in order to comply with the law or with the rules of a payment provider, or where we stop offering the service.

If we close your account for a breach, access ends immediately and the fees for the current period are not refunded. If we close it because we are stopping the service, or for any reason that is not your fault, we refund the unused part of the period you have paid for.

Ending the agreement does not cancel anything either of us already owes the other, and does not affect the sections meant to survive it — what the service is not, the consequences of unacceptable use, chargebacks, our content, liability, and law and disputes.

What we collect, why, and how long we keep it is set out in our Privacy Policy.

To see, correct, export or erase the personal data we hold about you, write to us at [email protected] from the address on the account. We answer within the time the applicable data-protection law allows — under the GDPR, one month.

Erasure removes you from the account: the identifying details are overwritten and the account can no longer be signed in to. It does not remove records we are required to keep — in particular the record of payments and of the acceptance of these terms, which we keep for as long as tax law and the period in which a payment can still be disputed require.

Everything we publish — the forecasts and analyses, the accuracy record, the text, design, code and brand of the site — belongs to us or to our licensors and is protected by copyright and other rights.

While your account is in good standing, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to read and use what we publish for your own private, non-commercial purposes. Nothing beyond that is granted, by implication or otherwise.

You may quote a short extract with attribution and a link to the page it came from. You may not republish a forecast in full or in substance, and you may not build a dataset, an index, a derivative product or a training corpus from what we publish, without our written permission.

The ready-made descriptions and the logo files offered on our About page are published so that they can be reused, on the terms stated there. That is the one exception to the clause above.

Match data, team and tournament names, crests and other third-party material belong to their owners. Counter-Strike 2, CS2, CS:GO and Counter-Strike are trademarks of Valve Corporation; we are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Valve Corporation.

If you believe something we publish infringes your rights, write to us at [email protected] with enough detail to identify it and we will look at it promptly.

We are liable to you for loss you suffer as a result of our breaking this agreement or failing to use reasonable care and skill, and only where that loss is a foreseeable result of it.

We are not liable for:

• any bet, wager, stake or trade you place, or its outcome, or any money or thing of value you lose in one;
• loss of profit, revenue, expected winnings, savings or opportunity;
• loss of data, of goodwill or of reputation;
• any indirect or consequential loss, and any loss arising from a decision you took on the basis of something we published.

Our total liability to you for everything arising out of or in connection with this agreement is limited to the total amount you actually paid us in the twelve months immediately before the claim arose.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded — in particular for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and for any right you have as a consumer that the law does not allow us to exclude.

Where the law that applies to you gives you a mandatory right or remedy, these terms do not take it away and apply only so far as that law allows.

You are responsible for loss we suffer because you used the site unlawfully or in breach of section 6, including a claim brought against us by someone else as a result.

We may change these terms — because the service changes, because the law changes, or because a payment provider requires it of us.

The version in force and the date it took effect are printed at the top of this page. A change takes effect when we publish it, except that a change which materially affects a paying subscriber takes effect no earlier than 30 days after we publish it or notify you, whichever is later, and never during a period already paid for — unless the change is required by law, in which case it takes effect when the law does.

If you do not accept a change, turn renewal off before it takes effect and stop using the site. Continuing to use the site after a change has taken effect is acceptance of it.

We record on your account which version you accepted, so that it is always possible to say what you agreed to rather than what the page says today.

These terms do not choose a foreign law for you and do not send you to a foreign court. You keep the consumer law of the country you live in, and any dispute goes before whichever court the law that applies to you says is competent to hear it — in the ordinary case, a court where you live.

That is deliberate rather than an omission. A clause naming a distant law and a distant court is worth little to either of us: you would not travel to argue under it, and a consumer court would in any case apply the protections of your own country over it.

Before starting proceedings, write to us at [email protected]. Almost everything ends there. We ask for 30 days from your first written complaint to resolve it, and we will give you the same.

These terms, the Refund Policy and the Privacy Policy are the whole of the agreement between us about the site, and replace anything said before it.

If a provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest of them continue to apply.

If we do not enforce a provision straight away, we have not given it up and may enforce it later.

We may transfer this agreement to whoever takes over the service, telling you when we do. You may not transfer it without our written consent.

Neither of us is liable for a failure to perform caused by something outside our reasonable control.

Notices to you are sent to the email address on your account and are treated as received on the day they are sent. Notices to us go to [email protected].

Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, an agency, an employment or a joint venture between us, and no one other than you and us has any right to enforce them.

Write to [email protected]. Your email reaches a person, and the reply comes from the same address — including for a formal notice under these terms, which is the channel we have and the one we answer.