Terms of Use
Effective: July 2026
1. Nature of the service
PrivateChat is a zero-knowledge encrypted relay. We provide infrastructure that routes encrypted data between participants. We cannot read, monitor, moderate, or inspect message content. This is by design.
PrivateChat is completely free. There are no advertisements, no paid tiers, no donations, and no commercial intent. No money changes hands. There is no business model. There are no investors to satisfy and no incentive to collect or monetize your data.
2. No accounts
PrivateChat requires no registration, no email, no phone number, no username, and no password. You access chat rooms via a URL. Anyone with the URL can participate in the room.
3. Shared rooms
A chat room is accessible to anyone who possesses the full URL, which includes the encryption key. You are responsible for sharing room URLs only with people you trust. PrivateChat cannot restrict access, verify identities, or moderate participants.
4. Acceptable use
Do not use PrivateChat to:
- Spam, flood, or disrupt the service
- Harass or intimidate other participants
- Attempt to interfere with our infrastructure
We may rate-limit connections or block IPs to protect service availability. We do this based on connection behavior, not message content.
5. No monitoring
We cannot monitor communications. We have no ability to inspect message content. We do not retain records. We cannot comply with requests for data we do not possess.
6. Your responsibility
You are responsible for your own communications. You are responsible for the security of the URLs you share. PrivateChat provides no warranties. The service is offered as-is.
7. Service availability
PrivateChat runs on Cloudflare's global edge network. We do our best to keep the service available but offer no guarantee of uptime. We may modify or discontinue the service at any time.
8. Jurisdiction
PrivateChat does not store data in any jurisdiction. The service operates on Cloudflare's distributed edge infrastructure. No single legal jurisdiction has a meaningful claim over data that does not exist.