Terms and Conditions

1. Agreement to Terms

By accessing or using Strangerchat ("the Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions ("Terms"). If you disagree with any part of these terms, you do not possess authorization to access or utilize the Service and must immediately terminate your browsing session.

2. Mandatory 18+ Age Requirement

3. Prohibited Conduct & Zero-Tolerance Abuse Policy

When participating in chat conversations on Strangerchat, you strictly agree NOT to:

• Transmit, solicit, or facilitate any content involving child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or the exploitation of minors. Any detected violation will result in immediate permanent network ban and mandatory reporting to law enforcement authorities, including NCMEC.
• Engage in harassment, hate speech, threats of physical violence, defamation, or stalking.
• Transmit unauthorized commercial advertising, affiliate spam, phishing links, malware, or automated bot scripts.
• Impersonate any person, entity, or administrative staff of Strangerchat.
• Transmit unconsented explicit, graphic, or non-consensual sexual content.
• Attempt to de-anonymize, extract IP addresses of peers, or reverse-engineer the underlying matchmaking protocols.

4. User Interactions & Personal Safety Disclaimer

Strangerchat functions solely as an anonymous communication protocol connecting unverified third parties across the globe. You are exclusively responsible for your interactions with other users. We strongly advise:

• Never share personally identifiable information (PII), including real full names, physical home/work addresses, financial credentials, phone numbers, or social media handles.
• Do not open external URLs or download files provided by strangers.
• Use the in-app Report User feature immediately if you encounter malicious behavior or harassment.

5. Intellectual Property & User Content

All brand marks, interface layouts, vector graphics, logos, and technical architecture of Strangerchat are the exclusive proprietary property of Strangerchat. Because messages are transmitted ephemerally in RAM and never stored in a database, Strangerchat claims no copyright ownership over personal transient text messages transmitted by end-users.

6. Disclaimer of Warranties ("As Is")

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR UNINTERRUPTED AVAILABILITY. STRANGERCHAT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE FROM TRANSMISSION DELAYS.

7. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL STRANGERCHAT, ITS DIRECTORS, DEVELOPERS, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ANY INTERACTIONS WITH THIRD PARTIES MET ON THE PLATFORM.

8. Termination of Access

We reserve the unconditional right to suspend, throttle, or permanently block access to any IP address, client token, or network subnet at our sole discretion, without prior notice, for conduct that violates these Terms or threatens the security of our users.

9. Contact & Legal Notices

For questions or legal service notices regarding these Terms, contact our legal desk at legal@strangerchat.app or via our Contact Page.