Terms of Service

Last updated: 29 October 2026

1. Who we are and what this covers

Strike Dodger is a Telegram bot (@strikedodger_bot) operated by The Lucas Agency GmbH, Germany ("we"). These terms apply to everyone who uses it ("you"). Contact: lucas.agency@outlook.com.

2. What Strike Dodger does

Strike Dodger checks posts on the Instagram pages you ask it to watch, and clips you send it, against a library of footage published by video licensing agencies. When a post appears to use such footage, it sends you an alert with a proof picture and a link to the original.

• It finds most, not all. The library doesn't contain every licensed clip, and heavily edited footage can be missed. A missing alert doesn't mean a post is safe.
• Alerts are indications, not legal advice. A match means footage looks the same; it doesn't say who owns the rights or whether you have a licence. Decide yourself, or ask a lawyer.
• Daily checks. New posts are usually checked once a day; a post can be struck before we check it.
• We depend on third-party services (Telegram, Instagram data providers). If they change or fail, checks can be delayed or stop until we fix it.

3. Your account and fair use

• Only ask us to watch pages you own or manage.
• Don't use Strike Dodger to harass anyone, to file claims against other people's content, or to find ways around a licensor's rights.
• You're responsible for who you add to your chats with the bot; everyone there sees your alerts.
• Clip checks are included up to a fair-use amount per watched page and month, shown in the app. We may slow down or pause checks that go far beyond normal use of your own pages.

4. What you may not do

Strike Dodger, its results and the library behind them are ours. You may use them to look after the pages in your plan. You may not:

• check content in bulk or by automated means (scripts, bots, scrapers), or check pages and clips that aren't yours in order to collect results;
• copy, resell, publish or pass on our results, alerts or proof pictures, except to the people who run your pages, or use them to build or improve a database, product or service of your own;
• try to find out how Strike Dodger works internally, e.g. by reverse engineering, by probing it systematically, or by trying to reconstruct its library or its matching;
• share your access with people outside your team, or get around limits, prices or security measures.

If you do, we can end or pause your access at once, without refunding paid time, and claim damages.

5. Plans, payment and cancelling

• Plans are monthly subscriptions priced per watched page. The current prices are shown in the bot before you pay and include any taxes that apply.
• Payments are processed by Stripe; for subscriptions bought in the bot, Link (Stripe) is the seller of record and its terms apply to the payment.
• The subscription renews every month until you cancel. You can cancel or change the number of pages at any time in the app (📱 My account → Plan) or at link.com. Adding pages charges the difference for the rest of the paid month at once; removing pages credits your next bill. A cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid month; we don't refund part-months, unless the law requires it.
• If a payment fails or a subscription ends, we pause watching your pages until it's renewed.
• One-time purchases (e.g. checking a page's older posts) are paid once and can't be refunded once the check has run, unless the law requires it.
• If we change prices, the new prices apply to new subscriptions; for existing ones we tell you at least 30 days ahead, and you can cancel before they apply.

6. Liability

We're liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and where the law doesn't allow a limitation (e.g. product liability). For slight negligence we're only liable for breach of essential contractual duties, and only up to the damage typical and foreseeable for this kind of contract — at most the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the damage. In particular, we're not liable for copyright strikes, claims, account restrictions or lost income resulting from footage Strike Dodger didn't flag, or from how you acted on an alert.

7. Ending the service

You can stop using Strike Dodger at any time. We can end or pause your access if you break these terms or don't pay, and we can discontinue the service with 30 days' notice; paid time you haven't used is then refunded.

8. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We'll tell you in the bot about changes that matter to you at least 30 days before they apply; if you keep using Strike Dodger after that, the new terms apply.

9. Law and venue

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you're a merchant, the courts at our registered office are responsible. If you're a consumer, the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you live remains.