Last changed 25 August 2026
Deskdrift is provided by Aliaksandr Palazok, an individual operating from the Republic of Poland (“the Provider”). Contact: support@deskdrift.eu.
Deskdrift is free. There is no subscription, no purchase and no payment of any kind, so there is nothing to bill and nothing to refund.
Where the game offers you a rewarded advert in exchange for something — a lap to race against, a day of a streak bought back — watching it is always your choice and declining costs you nothing you already had.
You get an anonymous token on your device rather than an account. Keep it and your records follow you; lose it and they are gone, because there is no email address to recover it with and no way to prove a lost token was yours. Signing in through a game portal, where one is available, is what makes your records reach a second device.
A track is a layout and a name. Keep both to what you would show a stranger: no abuse, no threats, no sexual content, nothing that identifies a real person, and nothing built to depict a slur or a symbol of hatred.
Names are checked when you publish. A name that renders like somebody else’s is marked rather than refused, because refusing it would let the first player to take a name burn it for everybody.
Open the leaderboard of any track somebody made and press “report this track”. Say what is wrong in your own words. One report per track per player counts.
When enough people report the same track it is hidden automatically, before anybody has read it. That is deliberate: content nobody has judged yet comes down first and is judged after.
A hidden track stops appearing anywhere and stops answering for anybody except its author, who keeps access to their own work and is told it was hidden. A person reads every hiding afterwards and can take it back. Every decision is recorded with who took it and why, in a record that cannot be edited or erased.
A hiding taken back is not undone by the next report: it takes as many fresh reports as hid the track in the first place to hide it again.
A time reaches a leaderboard only after the server re-runs the inputs you drove and gets the same result. A time the physics cannot produce does not reach a board at all.
What re-running proves is that a time is physically possible, not that a person drove it. A time that looks produced by a program rather than by hands goes to a board of its own rather than being deleted, because it is a real result of a different kind. The Provider decides which board a time belongs on and may move one.
The game, its code, its official tracks and its artwork belong to the Provider.
A track you build is yours. Publishing it grants the Provider only what is needed to run the game: to show it, to let people race it, and to keep the leaderboard for it. Nothing else transfers, and you may ask to be forgotten at any time — the privacy policy says what that does and does not remove.
Do not attack the service, its rate limits or its verification. Do not create identities in bulk. Do not report tracks you have no complaint about in order to have them hidden. Do not attempt to reach the operator surface.
The Provider may hide a track, move a time to another board, or refuse a device that is doing any of the above.
Deskdrift is a free game run on one machine by one person. There is no uptime commitment. The official tracks stay playable on your device with no network at all; leaderboards, published tracks and ghosts need the server, and it may be down.
The service is provided as is, without warranty. To the extent the law allows, the Provider is not liable for lost records, lost times, a lost token, or any indirect or consequential loss. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and consumers keep every mandatory protection of their own country.
You can stop at any time, and you can erase what the server holds with “forget me”. The Provider may withdraw a track or a device that breaks section 8, and may retire the service — in which case what is published here about deletion still applies to whatever is held at the time.
Found a way to break the verification, the rate limits or the operator surface? Write to support@deskdrift.eu before telling anybody else. Reports made in good faith are welcome and will not be answered with lawyers.
These terms are updated when the game changes in a way they describe. The date at the top is the date of the version you are reading.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Poland, excluding its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes that cannot be resolved by good-faith negotiation are referred to the competent courts of the Provider’s place of residence. EU consumers keep the mandatory protections of their country of residence, including the EU Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
Questions or formal notices: support@deskdrift.eu.