Terms

1. You have to be over 18

This site is for adults. Pressing START confirms that you are 18 or over. It is a confirmation, not a check — we have no way of verifying anyone's age. If you are under 18, do not use the site.

2. Nothing illegal

Do not use TALK to do any of this:

• share, request or describe child sexual abuse material, or attempt to groom, sexualise or make contact with a child
• threaten violence, or encourage anyone to hurt themselves or others
• support or organise terrorism
• defraud people — including romance scams, fake investments, phishing links and anything that ends with someone sending money
• sell or advertise anything illegal, or arrange prostitution
• harass, stalk or impersonate someone
• post other people's private information, or anything you do not have the right to share
• spam or flood rooms, or run bots against the site

We report illegal material to the relevant authorities and cooperate with lawful requests from them. We can remove a room, delete its contents or block access at any time, without notice and without explanation.

3. What is collected

When you use the site we store:

• the username you chose
• the gender letter you chose (male, female or anonymous)
• the messages you send, with the room name and the time sent
• a cookie on your device, which is how your name is remembered
• reports you file, or reports filed about you

There is no email address, no password, no phone number and no payment information, because none of it is asked for. Your data sets out the detail, including the cookie.

4. Your messages are not private

Every room is public, and anyone with the link can join it. Messages are stored unencrypted, and whoever runs the site can read them — including private messages, which are hidden from other people in the room but not from us.

In practice, messages are read when a report is filed: filing one copies the surrounding 20 lines of the room into the report so that a person can judge it.

Do not type anything here you would mind being read, kept, screenshotted or repeated.

5. How long things are kept

• Messages: 30 days, and only the last 100 lines of each room, whichever goes first.
• Rooms: deleted 30 days after the last message in them.
• Usernames: released 60 days after they were last used, and then anyone can claim them.
• Reports, with the room lines copied into them: 90 days. This is longer than chat is kept, on purpose, and your data explains why.

6. What you post is yours, and your responsibility

You keep whatever rights you have in what you type. You give us permission to show it to other people in the room and to store it for as long as section 5 says — that is all the permission the site needs to work.

You are responsible for what you send. We do not check messages before they appear and we do not endorse them.

7. The site is provided as it is

TALK is free and is offered without any guarantee. It can be slow, unavailable, or changed; rooms and messages can disappear; the whole site can stop. Nothing here promises uptime, delivery of a message, or that anything you typed will still be there later.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for what happens through your use of the site, including anything another user says or does. Nothing in these terms limits liability where the law does not allow it to be limited.

8. We can stop you using it

Access can be withdrawn at any time, particularly for anything in section 2. Since there are no accounts, this is blunt: a room can be deleted or the site closed to a network, and there is no appeal process.

9. Changes

These terms can change. The current version is always the one on this page, and using the site after a change means accepting it.

10. Contact

Questions about these terms, and legal requests, go to contact@talkchat.social. To report something someone said, type report <name> in the room instead: that reaches a moderator with the context attached (see Safety).