Terms of service
Draft. Takes effect when Channel opens.
These terms are the agreement between you and Channel when you use the app or this website.
Who can use Channel
- You must be 18 or older.
- One person, one personal account. No anonymous accounts and no bots.
- You can read once your phone is confirmed. You must verify your identity before anything you do reaches another person.
Your handle
Your handle is your @name, your channel.is address and your email address, all at once. It’s yours to use, not to own: you can’t sell it or transfer it. A reservation lasts for a limited time unless you verify. We may hold back or take back a handle that impersonates someone, infringes a trademark or breaks these terms.
What you post
What you make stays yours. You give Channel permission to store it, copy it and show it to the people you’ve addressed it to, as needed to run the service. You’re responsible for what you post, and it must follow the community guidelines.
You can send email from your Channel address, up to a daily limit, to people you have a real reason to write to. No bulk mail. Only replies to your own conversations come back in. Other mail sent to your address doesn’t reach you, and your Channel address isn’t a general mailbox.
Your signature
A signature on Channel is a personal mark. It isn’t proof of identity or consent, and it isn’t a legal signature.
The Verified Human badge
The badge means someone passed our identity check. It isn’t for sale and it doesn’t mean we vouch for what they say.
Organizations
Business is $149 a month, paid through Apple, and renews until you cancel. Enterprise is $2,999 a month. Pages must represent a real organization and be run by verified people. A page can post once a day to its followers and answer people who write first. It can’t start a conversation.
Enforcement
We can limit, remove or label content, and suspend or close accounts that break these terms or the guidelines. You can close your account at any time in the app.
The service
We work hard to keep Channel running, but it’s provided as it is, and it may change or have outages. To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect losses or for what other people post or send.
Changes
If we change these terms in a way that matters, we’ll tell you in the app before the change takes effect.
Questions
Write to support@channel.is.