Terms and Conditions

Last updated: July 2, 2026.

Please read these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) carefully before using the website located at https://lgbtchat.org/ (the “Website” or the “Service”), operated by the operator of lgbtchat.org (“we”, “us”, “our”).

By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree with any part of them, you must not use the Service. These Terms apply to all visitors and users, whether registered or not. Our handling of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy; our commercial relationships are described in our Disclosure Statement.

1. What this Service is

The Website provides a public, anonymous text chat together with editorial pages, guides, and reviews of and links to third-party websites.

You need no account and no registration to use the chat. Messages are written by visitors and appear immediately. We do not review messages before they are published, and we do not endorse, verify, adopt, or take responsibility for anything a user writes.

In respect of chat messages and any other user-generated content we act solely as a provider of a hosting service within the meaning of Article 3(g)(iii) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act), and as a provider of an interactive computer service within the meaning of 47 U.S.C. § 230. We are not the author, publisher, or speaker of user content.

2. Adult content and age requirement

The Website is intended for adults only. It may contain nudity, sexually explicit language and adult themes, and it links to third-party websites containing sexually explicit material. All sexually explicit content is created and provided by users or by third-party websites; we do not produce it.

You must be at least 18 years old — or 21 where 18 is not the age of majority, including in Alabama, Mississippi, Nebraska and Wyoming — to enter or use this Website. By entering the Website you confirm that you have reached the age of majority required by the law of your place of residence to view adult material, that you are accessing it voluntarily for your own private use, and that you will not permit any person below that age to access it through you or through your device.

If you are offended by sexually explicit content, or if accessing such content is unlawful in your country, state, county or location, do not enter the Website. You are responsible for complying with the law of the place from which you access the Service.

3. Chat rules

This chat is public, anonymous and open to adults only. You are fully responsible for everything you post. These are the rules; sections 3.2 to 3.6 set them out in full.

3.1 The short version — the four rules that get you blocked fastest

1. Never post anyone else’s contact details. No phone numbers, no QQ, WeChat, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal or Skype IDs, no email addresses, no addresses, no photos of other people. Not even if you say you have permission.
2. Never post sexual content about a real, identifiable person who is not in the chat speaking for themselves.
3. Nothing involving minors. Ever. This is reported to the authorities.
4. No threats, no harassment, no hate speech, no scams, no spam.

3.2 Other people’s personal information

Do not post information about any person other than yourself. This includes, without limitation:

• telephone numbers;
• messenger and social handles or IDs — QQ, WeChat, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Skype, Instagram, Snapchat, or any other;
• email addresses;
• home, work, or school addresses, or employer names;
• photographs or video of an identifiable person;
• identity documents, financial details, or any government-issued number;
• any combination of details that would allow a person to be located or contacted.

Posting such information about another person — commonly called doxxing — is prohibited even if the information is available elsewhere, even if you claim to have consent, and even if you claim the person is a public figure.

3.3 Sexual content about identifiable people

Do not attribute sexual interests, availability, offers or advertisements to an identifiable person who has not posted them themselves. Do not post intimate images of another person, or threaten to do so. Do not out, or speculate about, any person’s sexual orientation or gender identity without their consent.

3.4 Minors

Do not post any sexual content involving, referring to, or seeking a minor. Do not attempt to contact, groom, or solicit a minor. Do not claim to be a minor. There is zero tolerance here: such content is removed on sight, the poster is blocked permanently, and we report it to the competent authorities and relevant hotlines as required by law.

3.5 Other prohibited content and conduct

• threats of violence, incitement to violence, or content promoting terrorism;
• hate speech, or attacks on a person or group based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic;
• targeted harassment, stalking, or coordinated abuse of any person;
• impersonation of any person, organisation, or of the Website’s staff;
• prostitution, escort or sexual services advertising, and human trafficking of any kind;
• sale or promotion of drugs, weapons, stolen data, malware, or other illegal goods and services;
• fraud, phishing, blackmail, sextortion, or “romance” or investment scams;
• spam, flooding, unsolicited advertising, referral links, or automated posting;
• content that infringes another person’s copyright, trademark, or other rights;
• malicious code, or attempts to probe, scan, overload, disrupt, or gain unauthorised access to the Website or its infrastructure;
• circumventing a block, filter, or removal decision, including by returning under a different nickname, network, or device, and disguising prohibited content — for example by spacing out or substituting digits — in order to evade automatic filters.

3.6 Protect yourself too

• Do not share your own real name, address, phone number, workplace or intimate photographs with strangers in a public chat.
• Nobody here is verified. Anyone can claim to be anyone, and we cannot tell you who anybody is.
• Anyone asking you for money, gift cards or cryptocurrency is running a scam. Anyone threatening to publish your photographs is committing a crime — do not pay, report it.
• Any reader can screenshot the chat. Treat everything you type as potentially permanent, even though we delete messages from our servers automatically within 24 hours.

4. Moderation and enforcement

We may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice:

• remove, edit or restrict access to any content that breaches these Terms or that we reasonably believe to be unlawful;
• filter or automatically block messages containing telephone numbers, messenger IDs, or other contact identifiers, including disguised variants;
• add a specific identifier, phrase, nickname, IP address or network to a permanent blocklist in order to prevent the same or materially similar content from being posted again, including following a removal request from an affected person;
• terminate or suspend your access to the Service;
• disable the chat, in whole or in part, temporarily or permanently.

Removal, filtering and blocking are voluntary good-faith measures taken to keep the Service lawful and usable. Carrying them out does not make us the author or publisher of user content and does not create any obligation to monitor the Service generally. We do not undertake, and are not required under Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 to undertake, general monitoring of user content.

These Terms are enforced consistently, in good faith, and with due regard to the fundamental rights of users, including freedom of expression and information.

5. Report illegal or harmful content — notice and action

If you believe content on this Website is illegal, harmful, or violates your rights, tell us and we will act. This section is our notice-and-action mechanism under Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.

5.1 How to report

Send an email to [email protected]. To let us act quickly, please include:

• the exact URL of the page where the content appears;
• a description of the content — quote the text, or attach a screenshot with the timestamp visible;
• an explanation of why you believe it is illegal or breaches these Terms;
• an email address we can reply to;
• a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge.

You do not need a lawyer, a form, or a fee to file a report, and reports in any language are accepted. A report will never be held against the person who submits it.

5.2 What happens next

1. We confirm receipt of your notice without undue delay, normally within 48 hours.
2. We review the reported content and decide whether to remove it, restrict it, or leave it in place.
3. We inform you of our decision, normally within 7 days, with a short explanation.

5.3 Priority removal — 24 hours

The following categories are treated as urgent and removed as soon as we see the report, normally within 24 hours, without waiting for a full review:

• publication of another person’s contact details without their consent — phone numbers, messenger IDs (QQ, WeChat, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal), email addresses, home or work addresses, workplace, or documents;
• sexual statements, offers or advertisements attributed to an identifiable person who did not post them;
• intimate images shared without consent, or threats to share them;
• impersonation of a real person;
• threats of violence, targeted harassment, or incitement to hatred;
• any content involving minors.

Content in these categories is removed regardless of who reports it, and you do not have to prove your identity to us before we remove it. Once removed, the offending identifier — such as a phone number or messenger ID — is added to a permanent blocklist so that it cannot be posted again on this Website.

5.4 Content about you: removal under data protection law

If content posted by another user contains your personal data, you can also ask for its removal under Article 17 of the GDPR. Write to [email protected] or [email protected] with the URL and a description. We respond within one month at the latest, and in practice much faster for the priority categories above. You do not need to prove your identity for us to delete contact details published without consent, and there is no cost.

5.5 What we cannot do — identifying who posted something

We can remove content, quickly. We generally cannot tell you who posted it.

The chat is anonymous by design: there are no accounts, no registration, and no email addresses. We do not maintain any log linking chat messages to IP addresses. Like any web server, our infrastructure necessarily receives an IP address in order to deliver a page; this appears only in standard hosting access logs, which are retained for a short period, typically no longer than 30 days, for security purposes and cannot be matched to individual chat messages. This means that if you ask us to identify an author, our honest answer will usually be that the data does not exist.

If a court or a competent authority sends us a lawful order, we will respond to it and provide whatever data we actually hold at that time — which may be nothing.

5.6 If you disagree with our decision

If we removed your content and you believe the decision was wrong, or if we declined to remove content you reported, reply to our decision email and explain why. We will re-examine the case. You also retain the right to bring the matter before a competent court and — if you are in the European Union — before a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body or the Digital Services Coordinator of your Member State. Nothing in these Terms limits those rights, or your rights under the GDPR.

5.7 Misuse of this process

Notices that are manifestly unfounded and submitted repeatedly may be deprioritised after we issue a warning. This never applies to genuine reports.

6. Our liability for user content

Chat messages and other user-generated content are the sole responsibility of the person who posted them. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for user content, including where it is defamatory, false, offensive, infringing, or in breach of another person’s privacy.

In accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, we are not liable for information stored at the request of a user provided that we do not have actual knowledge of illegal activity or illegal content and, upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, act expeditiously to remove it or to disable access to it. We operate the reporting procedure in section 5 precisely so that we can act expeditiously, and we do so.

7. Intellectual property

Unless otherwise noted, the materials that make up the Website — including logos, brand names, images, designs, page layout, and written content — are protected by copyright, trademark, trade dress or other intellectual property rights owned, controlled or licensed by us. Nothing on the Website should be construed as granting any licence to use them, whether by implication, estoppel or otherwise, without prior written permission. Other product and company names mentioned on the Website may belong to their respective owners.

You keep whatever rights you hold in content you post. By posting content you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, display, reproduce and remove that content for the purpose of operating and moderating the Service. This licence ends when the content is deleted, except that we may retain a record of removed content and of blocklist entries where necessary to comply with the law, to handle reports, or to defend legal claims.

8. Copyright complaints

If you believe content on the Website infringes your copyright, send a notice to [email protected] identifying the work, the exact URL of the infringing material, your contact details, a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised, and a statement that the information in the notice is accurate. We remove or disable properly notified material and will notify the poster where we are able to do so. Repeat infringers are blocked.

9. 18 U.S.C. § 2257 statement

We are not the producer, primary or secondary, of any adult content or sexual imagery that may appear on or be linked from the Website. All such material is created and provided by users or by third-party websites. As far as can be ascertained by us, all models apparently engaged in any sexual depiction were at least 18 years of age when the material was created.

We rely on the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Sundance Associates, Inc. v. Reno, 139 F.3d 804, 808 (10th Cir. 1998), which holds that entities having no role in the “hiring, contracting for, managing, or otherwise arranging for the participation” of models or performers are exempt from the record-keeping requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 2257. Records requests and content concerns: [email protected].

10. Third-party websites and affiliate links

The Service contains links to third-party websites and services that we neither own nor control. Some of those links are affiliate links, meaning we may receive a commission if you sign up or make a purchase — see our Disclosure Statement. Affiliate relationships never cost you anything extra.

We assume no responsibility for the content, age-verification practices, privacy policies, or conduct of third-party websites, and we are not liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused by your use of or reliance on them. Read their terms and privacy policies before using them. You access linked websites at your own risk.

11. Availability and disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, that any information on it is accurate or complete, or that any defect will be corrected. We may modify, suspend or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, at any time without notice or liability.

Nothing on the Website is legal, medical, or psychological advice. If you are dealing with harassment, blackmail, or a threat to your safety, contact your local police or an LGBTQ+ support organisation in your country.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is not permitted by applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or reputation, arising out of or in connection with your use of the Service, the conduct of other users, or any content posted on the Service, whether based on contract, tort, statute or any other legal theory, and whether or not we were advised of the possibility of such damages.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, loss, liability or expense, including reasonable legal fees, brought by a third party and arising out of content you posted or transmitted through the Service, or out of your breach of these Terms or of any applicable law.

14. Governing law and mandatory rights

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Seychelles, without regard to its conflict of law provisions, and the courts of the Republic of Seychelles have jurisdiction over disputes arising from them.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose law grants you non-waivable consumer protections, nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, or of the right to bring proceedings before the courts of that country. Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the GDPR or under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.

15. Miscellaneous

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and the invalid provision will be applied to the maximum extent permitted by law. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Disclosure Statement, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a transfer of the Website.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may modify or replace these Terms at any time at our sole discretion. Where a revision is material we will endeavour to give at least 30 days’ notice before the new Terms take effect, and we will update the “Last updated” date above. What constitutes a material change is determined at our discretion. By continuing to access or use the Service after revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.

17. Contact

All of the addresses below are monitored and you will get a human reply. We do not operate a telephone line: everything is handled in writing so that there is a record of what was asked and what was done.

[email protected] — general enquiries, corrections, partnership and advertising questions.