Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of www.chatsonly.com, the Chats Only application, and related products and services (collectively, the "Services"). The Services are provided by Chats Only ("Chats Only," "we," "us," or "our").

By accessing or using the Services, creating an account, or selecting a button indicating your acceptance, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Services. If the law where you live requires a higher minimum age, you must meet that requirement. If you are not legally able to enter into a binding agreement on your own, your parent or legal guardian must review and agree to these Terms on your behalf.

You may not use the Services if you have previously been suspended or removed unless we give you written permission to return, or if using the Services would violate applicable law. If you use the Services for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

2. Your account

You agree to provide accurate information, keep it reasonably current, protect your login credentials, and promptly notify us if you suspect unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity conducted through your account to the extent permitted by law.

You may not sell, transfer, license, or share your account or credentials with another person. We may require you to verify your email address, identity, age, or other account information when reasonably necessary to protect the Services or comply with law.

3. How Chats Only works

Chats Only is a social discovery service built around interests, questions, conversation starters, experiences, and perspectives. Users may publish discovery content, express interest in potential matches, and begin private one-to-one conversations when interest is mutual.

A match indicates mutual interest in starting a conversation. It is not an endorsement, identity verification, guarantee of compatibility, or guarantee that another user will respond or behave in a particular way. Chats Only is not a dating, employment, financial, medical, or professional-advice service.

We may add, change, limit, suspend, or discontinue features at any time. We do not guarantee that any feature, content, match, or account will always be available.

4. Your content

"User Content" means information or material you submit, post, publish, transmit, or otherwise make available through the Services, including profile information, conversation starters, answers, messages, feedback, and safety reports.

You retain ownership of your User Content. You grant Chats Only a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt, publish, display, distribute, and otherwise use User Content as reasonably necessary to operate, provide, improve, secure, and promote the Services. This license allows us, for example, to display a starter in discovery, deliver a message to its recipient, format content for different devices, and make backup copies.

The license is limited by your privacy and visibility settings and our Privacy Policy. It generally ends when your User Content is deleted from our active systems, except where content has been shared with others, retained in backups, or must be preserved for safety, fraud-prevention, legal, or compliance reasons.

You represent that you own your User Content or have all rights and permissions needed to submit it and grant this license, and that your User Content and our permitted use of it will not violate law or another person’s rights.

5. Discovery content and private messages

Content you publish to discovery may be visible to a broad audience of users. Do not publish sensitive personal information or anything you want to keep private. Other users may copy or share content they can access, and we cannot control their actions.

Private messages are intended for the participants in a conversation, but they are processed and stored by the Services to deliver chat. We may preserve or review messages when they are reported, when reasonably necessary to investigate abuse or a safety issue, or when required or permitted by law.

6. Acceptable use

You may not use the Services to:

• Harass, threaten, stalk, shame, bully, or promote hatred or violence against another person or group;
• Exploit, endanger, or sexualize a minor, or solicit personal or sexual information from a minor;
• Create, post, solicit, threaten to share, or distribute nonconsensual intimate content, sexual exploitation material, or content depicting sexual abuse;
• Impersonate another person or organization, misrepresent your identity or affiliations, deceive others, or engage in fraud;
• Post content that is illegal, defamatory, invasive of privacy, or that infringes intellectual-property or other rights;
• Send spam, scams, unsolicited promotions, chain messages, malware, or other harmful or disruptive material;
• Solicit money, financial credentials, passwords, or other sensitive information through deception or coercion;
• Scrape, harvest, collect, or index data from the Services by automated means without our written permission;
• Probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities; bypass access restrictions or safety controls; interfere with the Services; or introduce malicious code;
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code except where applicable law expressly permits it;
• Use another person’s account, create accounts through unauthorized automated means, or evade a suspension, ban, or enforcement action;
• Use the Services or information obtained through them to make eligibility decisions about employment, housing, credit, insurance, education, or another legally regulated purpose; or
• Encourage, assist, or attempt any violation of these Terms or applicable law.

7. Safety and interactions with others

You are responsible for your interactions with other users. Use good judgment before relying on advice, sharing personal information, sending money, moving a conversation off the Services, or meeting someone in person. If you choose to meet, use appropriate precautions, meet in a public place, tell someone you trust, and arrange your own transportation.

You can mute, leave, block, or report through available controls. If you believe someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services. Chats Only does not control user conduct and cannot guarantee that every user or item of User Content is accurate, authentic, safe, or appropriate.

8. Moderation and enforcement

We may use automated systems, human review, user reports, and other information to detect and address violations. We may investigate conduct and, when we reasonably determine it is appropriate, remove or limit content, reduce its distribution, restrict discovery or messaging, issue a warning, preserve information, suspend or terminate an account, or notify law enforcement.

We are not obligated to monitor all content or resolve every dispute between users. Enforcement decisions may consider context, severity, risk, prior conduct, and legal requirements. To report content or appeal an account decision, use the in-service tools when available or contact support@chatsonly.com.

9. Intellectual property

Except for User Content, the Services—including their software, design, text, graphics, branding, logos, and other materials—are owned by or licensed to Chats Only and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Services for their intended purposes.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, publicly display, or create derivative works from the Services except as expressly allowed by us or applicable law. No rights are granted by implication.

10. Copyright complaints

If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, email support@chatsonly.com with: identification of the copyrighted work; identification and location of the allegedly infringing material; your contact information; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act for the copyright owner; and your physical or electronic signature.

We may remove or restrict allegedly infringing material and may terminate accounts of repeat infringers where appropriate. Knowingly submitting a materially false infringement claim may result in liability.

11. Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback about the Services, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use and share that feedback without restriction or compensation to you. This does not give us ownership of personal information contained in feedback, which remains subject to our Privacy Policy.

12. Third-party services

The Services may contain links to or integrations with third-party websites, applications, or services. We do not control and are not responsible for their content, availability, security, or practices. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that service’s own terms and policies.

13. Suspension, termination, and account deletion

You may stop using the Services at any time and may request account deletion through available settings or by contacting support. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure, repeatedly infringed rights, or if suspension is necessary to protect users, Chats Only, or the Services.

Upon termination, your right to use the Services ends immediately. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including provisions concerning licenses already granted, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, disputes, and miscellaneous terms—will survive.

14. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available." Chats Only disclaims all express and implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, availability, security, and accuracy.

We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure; that defects will be corrected; or that matches, users, content, or information will be accurate, reliable, safe, or meet your expectations. Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Chats Only and its owners, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues, data, goodwill, or opportunities, arising from or related to the Services or these Terms, even if advised that such damages were possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the total liability of Chats Only and the related parties described above for all claims arising from or related to the Services or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid Chats Only for the Services during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or US $100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers or limitations, so some of the provisions above may not apply to you. In those jurisdictions, liability is limited only to the extent permitted by law.

16. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Chats Only and its owners, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, licensors, and service providers from claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your User Content, your misuse of the Services, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person’s rights. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from Chats Only’s own unlawful conduct.

17. Disputes

Before filing a formal claim, you and Chats Only agree to make a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute informally. Send a written description of the issue and the relief requested to support@chatsonly.com. If the dispute is not resolved informally, either party may pursue available remedies in a court or tribunal with jurisdiction under applicable law.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive or equitable relief, reporting an issue to a government agency, or using a small-claims process where eligible.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the Services or legal requirements change. We will post the updated Terms on this page and revise the "Last updated" date. If a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will provide additional notice when required by law. Your continued use of the Services after updated Terms take effect constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by law.

19. Miscellaneous

These Terms and the policies incorporated by reference are the entire agreement between you and Chats Only concerning the Services. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remaining provisions will remain effective. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law.

20. Contact us

Questions about these Terms may be sent to:

Chats Only
Website: www.chatsonly.com
Email: support@chatsonly.com