Private pilot terms · alpha-2026-09-29-v1, last edited 2026-09-29. Draft for legal review before public launch.
Who this pilot is for
Dialogue is an invitation-only experimental service at trydialogue.org operated by its alpha organizer for adults aged 18 or over. By accepting these terms you confirm that you meet this age requirement and choose to take part voluntarily. Visitors who listen without an account confirm the same age requirement and the listening rules below. These terms apply to listening, the questions and How you talk, one-to-one and group Dialogues, keeping in touch after a Dialogue and other pilot features.
Respect and personal choice
Do not harass, threaten, discriminate against, stalk, impersonate or sexually exploit anyone. Do not keep contacting someone who wants to stop. Do not share another person’s private information or try to work out who someone is. Do not record, capture or redistribute a conversation without the explicit permission of everyone in it. That includes Dialogues you listen to. Clipping a recording in Dialogue is the one exception, since everyone in it said yes to being recorded. Do not use the service for scams, selling, recruiting or illegal conduct. Anyone may decline, pause, block or leave at any time. Before your first introduction you make three short promises about how you will talk here. Those promises are part of these terms. Access may be restricted or removed for misuse.
An introduction, not a safety guarantee
You are responsible for what you say, share and choose to do. Conversations may involve disagreement, upsetting material, unreliable statements or unexpected behaviour. We cannot guarantee another member’s identity, intentions, conduct or compatibility. Answers to the questions are what people say about themselves. They are not background checks or a way to identify abusive people. No participant is currently ID verified through this pilot. Keep identifying, financial and sensitive personal details private.
Not therapy or emergency care
Dialogue is not a healthcare provider, therapist or crisis service and does not replace professional advice. The questions, How you talk and pairing do not identify health conditions or promise any benefit, a change of mind or a safe outcome. Voice is not monitored. Safety reports are visible to the alpha administrator. There is no guaranteed response time, live monitoring or emergency response. For urgent support, use the Need support? resources. For immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
What we store
We store your account email, password hash, sign-in sessions, the first name you chose and the code after it, the names you went by before, your answers to the questions and the scores worked out from them, your answers to statements, the lines you write for stories and decisions, the decisions you mark as made, the subject suggestions you write, the subjects you save for later, the suggestions and photos you share in Feedback Dialogues and the feedback cards they leave, your points and what earned them, the kinds of Dialogue you stay in, who and what you follow, your private feedback after Dialogues, your badges and milestones, your preferences, the terms and promises you accepted and service records. What you save is encrypted using server-managed keys held separately from the database. Account identifiers, email addresses, statuses and service timestamps remain searchable service records, protected by access controls and encrypted storage. Dialogue can decrypt saved content to provide account features, pairing and safety review, so this part of the service is not end-to-end encrypted. Messages between people who chose to keep talking are different and are described below. You do not need a separate encryption key. Your name has a short code of four letters and numbers after it in People, invitations and your page, so people with the same name can be told apart. It is never shown in a Dialogue. You can change your name once at any time and after that once every 30 days. A name cannot hold slurs, threats, explicit terms or swearing. We keep the names you went by before for 180 days for our staff reviewing a report. They go with Delete my data. Password-reset links are single-use, expire after 15 minutes and are sent to your eligible account email. Passwords and sign-in tokens are stored as hashes. Your email is never shown to other members. The sign-in and request forms carry one field nobody sees. Automated sign-ups tend to fill in every field they find, so anything written in it marks the request as automated. Nothing from that field is stored. While a one-to-one or a group Dialogue is live, your browser remembers the Dialogue and its access pass in that tab, so a reload can take you back to it. It stays on your device, it is not part of your saved data and closing the tab clears it. Redeeming an invitation confirms possession of a link bound to the specified email address. Administrators can review access requests. A notification with the email, name and note from the request goes to the support mailbox, never anyone’s answers to the questions or private notes. You may export or delete your saved data from You. Your sign-in account and invitation records remain after that. Close your account from You, or use Contact us. Closing deletes what deleting your data deletes, sign you out everywhere and close the account for good, keeping your sign-in email only in encrypted form so the address can be invited again. Closing cannot be undone. Relevant reports, blocks, administrative records and recovery backups may remain as described in our privacy notice.
How introductions are chosen
Pairing uses a few short questions and how you like to talk. In practice that means the ten short questions you answer before a first one-to-one Dialogue, the starter part where you have it, four parts of the full set once you and the other person have both done them (Thinking things through, Speaking up, Weighing things up and Taking advice), your language and, once you have saved them under You, your pace and what draws you in and, for a statement, your answer. Someone who sees it differently answered it another way. Someone who sees it the same way gave the same answer. Feeling things strongly, staying patient and noticing feelings are never used. Neither are How you talk, your persona or your badges. When you start a Dialogue from one you listened to, we look first for someone who heard it too. This approach is experimental and has not been shown to predict good conversations. The person you meet sees the first name you chose and what you are meeting on: for a statement, both answers; for a story, a decision or a friend of a friend story, the line each of you wrote. They may see a short reason for the introduction, such as that you both heard the same Dialogue. They never see your answers to the questions or anything else you saved. A smaller daily allowance applies during your first few one-to-one Dialogues.
What you talk about
Most one-to-one Dialogues start from a statement: the monthly statement or one of the statements on Talk. You answer Agree, Not sure or Disagree before searching and can say where you stand afterwards. Your answers are stored encrypted and are used to introduce you to someone suitable. Whether an answer changed is kept as a count, without the answer itself. Community splits are anonymous counts that appear only once enough people have answered. Your individual answers are deleted after 12 months or when you delete your data. You can also tell a story on a theme or talk through a decision you are making or have made. The one line you write names that Dialogue. You can also list a one-to-one Dialogue on Talk with one line: other members see the line, never your name, until someone picks it or you stop, for up to 15 minutes. A story about a friend of a friend is one you only heard about: keep it free of names and anything searchable, and never about anyone in the Dialogue. You can suggest subjects in your own words. Suggestions are read only by administrators, never shown with your name and deleted after 90 days.
How you talk
Your answers to the questions work out How you talk: three leans and, once you have done the whole set, one of eight personas. After a few Dialogues, what actually happens counts too: whether you changed your answer after talking with someone who saw it differently, whether partners say they felt heard and whether you take a listening or speaking seat in group Dialogues. Your answers keep most of the weight. It is private unless you choose to show it. It never affects who you are introduced to and never ranks anyone. How quickly heat rises for you is shown only to you. It describes general tendencies from what you said about yourself. It is not a measure of mood or health and it is not a type you are stuck with. You can separately opt in to help the research, which shares de-identified scores and after-call ratings in aggregate, never your name, email, answers to statements or messages. That choice is off by default, can be changed at any time and is removed when you delete your data. Anyone can answer the questions without an account. Those answers stay in that browser until the person keeps them in an account or forgets them.
Been there
Been there is a separate, quieter space for talking about hard things with someone who knows the subject first-hand. It is a Dialogue between two members. It is not support, counselling or a crisis service. Nobody in it is trained or expected to help. It is never open to listeners. It opens after a few introduced Dialogues. Some subjects are not offered there, and the support services are shown before you start and after each Dialogue. You choose a subject and whether you are living it now or have been through it. Those two choices are stored encrypted with your search and cleared with it. Your partner learns only that you both know the subject and which of you is living it now. Nothing you choose in Been there is used for pairing elsewhere or shown anywhere else.
Your voice Dialogues
Voice uses encrypted WebRTC through a privacy relay, which prevents a direct connection from exposing your network address to your partner. The service still processes the network information needed to operate the connection. Dialogue does not record voice or create transcripts unless everyone speaking puts the Dialogue on the record (see Recorded Dialogues and Monologues). It never analyses what is said. The speaking indicator and any private nudge about talk time are worked out on your own device from audio levels. Nothing about them is stored or sent to Dialogue, except the turn-taking numbers described under Letting people listen while listening is open. The subject and the guide’s prompts are suggestions. You decide what to say and either person can mute, leave, block or report at any time.
Typed Dialogues
When Dialogue offers Talk or Type, each person starting a one-to-one Dialogue can choose to type instead of talk. A one-to-one Dialogue is spoken only when both of you chose Talk. Otherwise it is typed: no microphone opens and you write to each other with the live text described below, through the same privacy relay. We store which of you chose Type with the introduction. Either of you can suggest talking out loud, and it becomes spoken only when the other says yes. Your microphone never opens without your own yes. A one-to-one Dialogue that started typed is never opened to listeners, even after you both start talking out loud.
Letting people listen
Inside a one-to-one Dialogue you and the other person can both choose to let people listen. It opens only when both of you say yes. It is available after a few introduced Dialogues each. Either of you can close it at any time, which makes everyone listening leave at once. We note when it opened and closed. Listeners hear both voices live, through the privacy relay or through our media server, which passes the audio on to them and never records it. They see your first names, the statement or title, the format, where you each stand and where you are in the guide. They see nothing else about you. You never see who is listening, only roughly how many. While it is open your devices send how the two of you take turns, as numbers only. Visitors without an account can listen after confirming they are 18 or over. When listeners’ questions are switched on and your 25 minutes are up, you can stay five more minutes for them. Each member listening can send one, which you see without their name. You can answer it, pass or report it. Reporting a question sends it to the administrators with the words the listener wrote and the account behind it. That listener stops listening to your Dialogue and cannot come back to it, and the report is kept under the safety-report retention rules below. Listeners are bound by these terms, may not record or redistribute what they hear and can report either speaker. A report a listener makes goes to the administrators and never pauses anyone by itself. We keep who listened to which Dialogue, and when, for seven days for safety review and, if you start a Dialogue from one you heard, to find someone who heard it too. Questions are stored encrypted and deleted when the Dialogue ends. Afterwards a Dialogue card with your first names, where you stood and how the listeners’ answers moved is published only if both of you say yes. An administrator can take a card down if it breaks these terms. Letting people listen never records a Dialogue, but a listener could record what they hear against our rules, so do not open it for anything you would not say in public.
Dialogues for you
Listen and Talk bring Dialogues like the ones you stay in a little earlier. When you spend a while in a Dialogue we add to the kinds of Dialogue you choose: its category, whether it is a one-to-one or a group Dialogue, its format and whether it is spoken or typed. Joining, chatting, asking, voting, raising a hand, following and sharing there add a little more. So does looking through one kind of conversation on Listen, like Q&A or Stories, for a while. We never count Dialogues about health, identity, relationships or life experiences. Nor do we count a statement marked sensitive. These kinds are stored encrypted, fade over a few weeks and are forgotten after 60 days without a visit. Nobody else sees them and they are never used for introductions. For a day we also keep which live Dialogues you were in, how long you stayed and what you did there, without any words, so Dialogues rank on how much their people take part rather than how many are in them. You can see what this holds, clear it or turn it off under You. In the Directory we also add to each topic you open, follow, start, post in or ask in. Picking a Dialogue in it, voting there and listening to its Dialogues add a little too. Talk also suggests topics followed by people who follow what you follow, and never says who they are. Your device also keeps its own tally of the subjects you listen to, which is never sent to us.
After a Dialogue
We may ask three short private questions about how the Dialogue went. Your answers are stored encrypted and are never shown to the other person. Whether people would talk with someone again is used only in aggregate to decide the order of future introductions. It never blocks anyone by itself. Whether partners felt heard counts, added up across Dialogues, towards their How you talk. These answers are deleted after 180 days or when you delete your data.
Keeping in touch
After a one-to-one Dialogue each person can privately choose to keep talking. Nothing happens unless both choose it. A choice made by only one person is never revealed and expires, by default after 24 hours. When both choose it you appear in each other’s People list by first name. Either person can then send messages or invite the other to talk again. Messages are end-to-end encrypted between your devices using keys that are created and kept in your browser. Dialogue stores only encrypted text that it cannot read and cannot recover for you. If you clear your browser’s storage or change device, earlier messages become unreadable on that device. Messages expire, by default after 30 days. We keep the fact of the connection, message timing and unread counts so the service can work. Either person can remove the connection at any time, which deletes the messages for both. Blocking also prevents future introductions. If you report someone from People, what you write in the report is sent to the administrator. Your messages are not, because Dialogue cannot read them. A recipient can always copy what they can see. When you and someone you follow follow each other, each of you sees the other under Mutuals in People, so each knows the other follows them. Following each other lets either of you invite the other to a Dialogue and nothing more: never a message or a call. If you start a Dialogue you can invite your mutuals, the people you keep talking with and the people who follow you back. A one-to-one you start for a mutual stays off Talk and only the people you invite can pick it. Each is told once in the app that you invited them and to which Dialogue, and can come straight in, including to a group kept to invited members. You can also share a link that anyone can open once they sign in or ask to join. We keep only who invited whom, to which Dialogue and when, never any words, until the Dialogue ends or for one day at most.
The chat under a one-to-one Dialogue
While people listen to a one-to-one Dialogue there is a chat under it. The two people talking and members listening can write short lines in it, and everyone who can hear the Dialogue can read them, members and visitors aged 18 or over alike. Unlike live text, Dialogue’s servers read the chat so that everyone listening can see it. Your first name shows next to what you write. Listening and reading without writing shows nothing about you to anyone. What you write is checked automatically when you write it, stored encrypted and deleted when the Dialogue closes to listeners or ends. Only the latest 200 lines are kept while it runs. You can take your own line away. The two people talking can take any line away. When one of them reports a line it comes off the chat and its writer stops listening to that Dialogue and cannot come back to it. The words go into the safety report. Anyone else reading can report a line to the administrators. A report about the chat never pauses anyone by itself. A reader can always copy what they see.
Text during a live Dialogue
Live text in a one-to-one Dialogue, and in a group Dialogue without a floor, is encrypted between the participating browsers and stays in browser memory during the session. Dialogue does not keep a transcript of it. Refreshing, leaving or closing chat removes that local history. We process limited message identifiers, timing, delivery authorization and moderation records to operate the chat. These records contain no message text. Your own device shows slurs and threats in other people’s live text and messages as *****, you can show them with a tap and nothing about this is sent to Dialogue. Hosts and assigned moderators can pause a Dialogue’s chat, set a slower posting rate, restrict typing separately from speaking and remove messages from the shared interface. Removing a message cannot retract a copy someone has already made. You can report from the chat. You see the last few lines other people wrote before you confirm, and those lines go with the report. They are then stored encrypted for administrator review under the safety-report retention rules. They are participant-submitted material, not independently verified evidence.
The floor of a Dialogue
Public group Dialogues have a floor: a chat, questions that others vote up and hands raised to speak. Unlike live text, what you write on the floor is read by Dialogue’s servers so that everyone who can listen to the Dialogue can read it, members and visitors aged 18 or over alike. Your name shows next to what you write, and a raised hand shows your name to the host. Floor text is checked automatically when you write it, stored encrypted while the Dialogue runs and deleted when the Dialogue ends. Only the latest 300 chat messages of a Dialogue are kept while it runs. Hosts and moderators can hold questions until they approve them, slow or pause the chat, remove anything and pause someone’s messages. When a host or moderator reports something on the floor it comes off the floor, its writer can no longer take part in that Dialogue and the words go into the safety report. A group Dialogue can start in text. Its stage opens when the host agrees and more than half of the people active on its floor say yes. Nobody’s microphone opens without their own tap, and taking the stage after the host brings you up is always your own choice.
Feedback Dialogues
A group Dialogue that starts with “Pitch:” or “New material:” is a Feedback Dialogue. One person, the presenter, shows something they made and asks one question, such as Would you use it? Members listening can answer it once after the pitch and again at the end. They can also suggest what they would change. We keep only that you answered, under a code made from your account that cannot be turned back into it. Your answer is added to the totals. We never store which answer you gave, and the record that you answered is deleted when the Dialogue ends. Suggestions are checked and stored like floor text and show your first name while the Dialogue runs. When it ends the ten voted highest stay on the presenter’s feedback card without names and the rest are deleted. Listeners to new material can tap Ha when something lands. Only counts are kept in five second steps and only the presenter sees them. The presenter can show up to four photos. Your phone shrinks each one and saves it again before sending it, which leaves out where it was taken and the camera’s details. Photos are stored encrypted, Dialogue’s staff see the photos in a public Feedback Dialogue before anyone else, anyone can report one and they are deleted when the Dialogue ends. Adding photos opens after your first few Dialogues. Before anyone else sees a photo it may go to a service that checks it for explicit images, which gets the photo and nothing else. A photo nobody has checked shows blurred until you tap it, and you can hide every photo on your own device. If staff take down one of your photos you cannot add photos for a while. A public Feedback Dialogue is listed like any group Dialogue. A private one is not listed and only members with its link can come in. The presenter’s feedback card under You shows the question, how the room answered each time, how far it moved, the top suggestions, where people laughed and how many listened. Only the presenter sees it and it is deleted when they delete it or after a year at most. Anything shown in a public Dialogue is public, and Dialogue claims no rights to it. Do not sell, take pre-orders or ask for investment in a Feedback Dialogue.
Scenarios
Scenarios on Talk are five kinds of Dialogue to practise in: a Courtroom, Switch sides, a Mock interview, a Pitch and a Toast. A Courtroom is a group Dialogue about a made-up case. The member who opens it is the Judge. Two members take the lawyers’ seats, members who raise a hand can be called to play a witness and members listening are the jury. Each seat is sent only its own papers for the case. The lawyers can object and the Judge rules on each objection. Members on the jury lean toward a side from the story on and can move as often as they like. Everyone in the trial sees how many lean each way, never who. The jury gives its verdict at the end. We keep only your lean and your verdict, under a code made from your account that cannot be turned back into it. That code is deleted when the trial ends. The totals, the objections and how many jurors changed their minds stay with the trial. We keep who sat as a lawyer for a week after the trial ends. A Judge can write their own case. It is checked like anything others read, stored encrypted and deleted when the trial ends. A case is about made-up people, characters from a story or an idea, never a real person. Switch sides is a one-to-one Dialogue on a statement where each of you argues your own side and then the other. A Mock interview is a one-to-one Dialogue where each of you is the candidate for one round. The job you say you are practising for is checked when it is sent and shown only to the other person. When people listen, members listening can vote once on who argued the other side best or whether they would hire the candidate. We keep only a code for each vote while the Dialogue runs, show the totals once the vote closes and delete the codes when the Dialogue ends. Voting earns points. A Pitch and a Toast are Feedback Dialogues, described above. A scenario is recorded only when everyone speaking says yes, and in a Courtroom a witness who takes the stand while it is on the record says yes by doing so. Scenarios can be changed or switched off at any time.
Recorded Dialogues and Monologues
Recording opens after your first few Dialogues, with a confirmed email and no concern upheld about you. A one-to-one or group Dialogue is put on the record only when the people speaking say yes on their own screens. In a one-to-one both of you must say yes. In a group the host puts it on the record and each speaker’s voice is kept only once that speaker says yes. Been there, typed Dialogues and calls between People are never recorded. While a Dialogue is on the record it says so at the top, and anyone speaking can pause it at any time. Each speaker’s own phone records their own voice and sends it to us in short pieces, which we store encrypted on our servers and with a storage provider that works for us. The provider holds only the encrypted files and never their keys. When the Dialogue ends everyone whose voice was kept is asked whether to keep the recording. If anyone says no or does not answer in time, every piece is deleted. Listen holds whole conversations, so a recording that ends before it has run the shortest length we keep, ten minutes at present, is deleted without anyone being asked. A recording everyone kept goes on Listen, where anyone who can listen on Dialogue can play it, with your first names, the statement or title, the date and how many people have listened. A listen counts once someone has played it for half a minute, once for each person. We keep only a code for each listen that nobody can trace back to who listened. Members can report a recording. When enough members with a few Dialogues behind them report it, it comes off Listen until our staff listen and put it back or delete it. One report of a threat, someone under 18 or private information is enough. So does a recording whose written-out words hold a word we do not allow. We may also ask our staff to listen to every recording first, and then one not reviewed in time is deleted. It shows on Listen with a chat under it: members playing it write short lines that everyone playing it reads by first name, with no questions. We check each line when it is written, store it encrypted and delete it after a day or with the recording. A report takes a line out of the chat and sends it to our administrators. We note which members are playing a recording so a name in its chat can open their page once you have listened a while. We forget that after a day. Members who play it can clip up to a minute of it on their own device and share it. A clip is made on that device and never sent to us, and nobody can call back a clip that has been shared. Anyone whose voice is in a recording can take it down at any time, which deletes every piece, its words and its link. A kept recording may be sent to a transcription service that works for us, to write out what was said for captions. It gets the audio and nothing else, and the words are stored encrypted and deleted with the recording. You can also record a Monologue on your own for Listen once you have had a few Dialogues. It can be posted once it has run a few minutes, and it goes on Listen and can be reported the same way. Deleting your data or closing your account deletes every recording you are in. Your standing is a private level we work out on our servers from how many Dialogues you have had, whether your email is confirmed, how old your account is, whether several people you talked with would rather not talk with you again and whether our staff upheld a report about you. It never uses your points or How you talk. Only our staff see it. It decides whether you can record or post a Monologue and whether a report you make counts towards taking a recording off Listen. Reports our staff keep dismissing stop counting towards a pause or a recording coming down. We would use an approved recording in a Dialogue podcast only with the separate approval of everyone in that episode. Recording can be changed or switched off at any time.
The Dialogue Directory
Every Dialogue belongs to a topic, such as a book, a place or an idea. Each topic has one public page. Anyone with its link can see its name, its line and how many follow it. They can also see the questions asked in it over the last day, how many members voted each up and any group Dialogue in it that is open to every member. Nobody’s name is shown there. Signed in, members also see the first name of whoever asked a question. One-to-one Dialogues posted in a topic show by their line alone, never who posted them. Any member with a confirmed email can start a topic by naming it in a word or two when they post a Dialogue, a few a week. A new topic is listed on Talk once two other members take part in it or a Dialogue happens in it. Until then we keep only a coded mark for each member who took part instead of their name, and delete the marks once the topic is listed. A new topic nobody takes up is deleted after a week, and any topic nobody uses for 45 days is deleted too. Its name is then free for anyone to start again. You can ask a few questions a day in each topic. We check each question when it is written, store it encrypted and delete it with its votes after a day. We never tell anyone who voted for a question. When a Dialogue starts from one, everyone who voted for it is told once in the app. We keep which topics you follow and which you started until you stop following them or delete your data. For each topic you follow we also keep when you last opened it, so Talk can show what is new there. A report takes a question off at once and sends it to our administrators, and our staff can take a topic down. A topic is about something public, never a private person.
Tips, paid questions and booked time
Where Dialogue has switched them on, members can tip someone speaking in fixed amounts, pay for a question where a host asks for money and book a few minutes of private time with a speaker. Only members can pay, and only members who set up getting paid can be paid. Payments are made through Stripe on the speaker’s own Stripe account and Stripe’s terms apply to them. Dialogue never sees your card details and keeps 10% of each payment, except a tip made in a phone app where the app store asks that Dialogue take nothing from it. A speaker sees what they were given and when, never who gave it. A paid question is held when you ask it and charged only if it is answered. It is let go if it is passed over or taken off or the Dialogue ends without it. Booked time is a private one-to-one Dialogue for the minutes booked, never listened to and never recorded. If the speaker calls it off or does not start it, you are refunded in full. Otherwise payments are final, except where the law says otherwise. Nothing you pay changes where a question sits, who is heard or what anyone sees. To be paid you set up a Stripe account, and Stripe checks who you are and pays you out. You are responsible for any tax on what you are paid. We keep a record of each payment: who paid, who was paid, the amount, our share and what it was for. If you delete your data the record stays without you as the payer, and slots and bookings still to come are called off and refunded. Earnings can be changed or switched off at any time.
Points and games
Taking part earns points: listening, saying where you stand, having a question of yours answered, a top suggestion in Feedback, talking for ten minutes or more and three Dialogues in a week. Playing a Scenario through earns points too, with more for winning it. A juror or a witness in a Courtroom earns a few. Points cannot be bought, cashed, sold or passed to anyone else and have no money value. Only you see your points and what earned them, and they never decide who you meet or what anyone sees. Some hosts may take points for questions. Points spent on a question that is not answered come back. In a Feedback Dialogue you can call which way the room will move before the second answer, and a right call earns points. Nothing is ever staked or won in a game but points. Levels reached come with a badge, which stays private unless you show it on your page. If you ask to be invited to special events, staff can see your level and your email and nobody else’s. We keep what earned each point for a year and your totals until you delete your data. Points and games can be changed or switched off at any time.
Following and your page
You can ask to hear when a statement is live, and follow someone who lets listeners follow them. Letting listeners follow you is off unless you switch it on. Followers are told only that you are live with people listening. They never see your answers or past Dialogues and a follow never lets anyone message you, call you or ask to be introduced. You see roughly how many follow you and never who unless you follow them too. Nobody is shown who follows whom. Two people who follow each other each see the other under Mutuals and either can invite the other to a Dialogue, as Keeping in touch describes. You can pause alerts or remove all your followers at any time. A follow of a person lapses after 90 days without listening to them and ends on a block either way or when they report your question. After a report you cannot follow them again. Before you accept an introduction you are told if the other person can be followed, and they are told the same about you. While you can be followed you have a page at a random address with your first name, your persona if you choose to show it and up to three badges you pick. Anyone with the link can see it.
Creator nights
A creator night runs alongside a creator’s own show. Dialogue supplies the statement, the vote and the result. It does not record or broadcast the show. Anyone can vote once before the argument and once after it without an account. A result shows how far the room moved and is not a verdict. Automated or repeated voting is not allowed, and Dialogue may close a night or take a result down.
Group Dialogues and moderators
Group Dialogues are built around one question on any subject. A group Dialogue opens as soon as you ask for it. Its words are checked for terms Dialogue does not allow, and Dialogue may read one before it is listed. Every group Dialogue follows the same rules. Joining publishes your chosen name and your current role to others in that Dialogue. Audio reaches the people currently admitted. A group Dialogue open to every member lets people listen without joining unless its host turns that off when asking for it, and then audio also reaches members and visitors aged 18 or over listening that way, up to the limit shown. They hear the people speaking through our media server, which passes the audio on and never records it. The people in the Dialogue see how many are listening, never who. They are bound by these terms, may not record or redistribute what they hear and can report someone speaking. Members among them can send one question in question time. A group Dialogue for invited members only is heard by the people in it and nobody else. The Dialogue tells you which it is before you join. A group Dialogue is not a private one-to-one Dialogue. A host or assigned moderator can invite a listener to speak, give one speaker the floor, run timed rounds, restrict a microphone, remove a person, ban them from a Dialogue or end the session. A speaking invitation never turns on your microphone automatically. Moderators have authority only in their assigned Dialogues. They do not receive anyone’s answers to the questions, notes, global account administration or the full safety-report inbox. If the browser cannot confirm current access it stops the call. A group Dialogue runs for 25 or 50 minutes plus ten minutes for questions and can be extended when everyone speaking agrees, a limited number of times. Each member listening can send one short question, which the people speaking see without the sender’s name and can answer, pass or report. A reported question goes to the administrators with the words the sender wrote and the account behind it. That listener stops listening to the Dialogue, and the report is kept under the safety-report retention rules below. If you drop out while speaking, your place is held for three minutes so you can rejoin. You can ask to be reminded about a group Dialogue that has not started. We keep that reminder until the Dialogue ends, tell you in the app when it starts and, if reminder emails are on, email you once shortly before it starts. Its host sees how many people asked, never who. Safety review is separate from moderation and is not live monitoring.
Automatic checks and pauses
Names, titles, notes, questions, suggestions, card sentences, Dialogue descriptions and what is written on a Dialogue’s floor or in the chat under a one-to-one are checked automatically against a short list of slurs, threats and explicit terms. Text that matches needs rewording or is held for an administrator to review. Ordinary swearing is never filtered. Voice is never checked, and live text and messages are only ever masked on the reader’s own device. If several members independently report the same person, that person’s new introductions pause until an administrator has reviewed the reports. Reports from people listening to a one-to-one or a group Dialogue go to the administrators and never pause anyone by themselves. Administrators can also pause all new one-to-one Dialogues, change service limits and close access requests. These measures reduce abuse. They do not make any conversation safe. You can report hateful conduct with Report on a person, a question or a message.
Purpose and privacy of contribution
Dialogue does not record or transcribe ordinary conversations. It does not sell member conversations, answers or notes and does not use them to train software. Any future optional research or licensing program would require a separate, specific agreement and separate controls before collecting anything.
Service and warranty limitations
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, this experimental service is provided as available, without warranties of uninterrupted availability, accuracy, suitability for a particular purpose or any particular conversation outcome. Do not rely on it for emergency assistance. We may change or stop the pilot. Material changes to these terms require a new acceptance before starting another Dialogue.
Safety records and service limits
One-to-one Dialogues allow up to five minutes to join and 25 minutes for a conversation, plus five minutes for listeners’ questions when people can listen and those questions are switched on. Near the end both people can agree to ten more minutes, a limited number of times. Group Dialogues run for 25 or 50 minutes plus ten minutes for questions and can be extended the same way when everyone speaking agrees. Group questions are stored encrypted and deleted when the Dialogue ends. Group connection messages expire after two minutes or when the Dialogue closes. Group membership, role, attendance timing, approved Dialogue descriptions and moderator decisions support operation and safety review. These contain no recording or transcript. Connection setup data is deleted when a Dialogue closes. Ended searches are cleared after one hour and match details one hour after the Dialogue ends. Badges and milestones count a sustained one-to-one Dialogue once both browsers report at least ten minutes of overlapping connection time. This is not proof of attention, speech, quality or trust. Badges are private to you. Temporary milestone timing is removed when a Dialogue closes. Your counts and milestones persist until you delete your data or close your account. To count each person you talk with only once, we keep a code for each of them that cannot be traced back to anyone without our key. It goes with your counts. Minimal membership and closure records, containing account identifiers and timing but no audio or transcript, remain for seven days after closure so safety actions can work after a call. Unfinished question drafts expire after 30 days and the latest 20 completions of each part are kept. Notes on how the questions were answered are deleted after a year. Saved subjects lapse after 30 days. Open safety reports remain until reviewed. Resolved safety reports are deleted 180 days after the last review, unless reopened. Administrative action logs keep up to 365 days or the latest 10,000 actions. Expired records are removed by scheduled maintenance that normally runs each minute. Outages can delay physical deletion. Deleting your data removes your connections, their messages, your message keys, your answers and your private feedback. It does not remove temporary participation records, your own blocks, your reports still being reviewed or reports and blocks submitted by others. The dashboard does not display anyone’s notes or answers to the questions. To protect availability, saved entries and submission frequency have service limits. Encrypted online backups keep recent recovery copies for two days, hourly copies for eight days and daily copies for 31 days. Disk snapshots keep up to 14 days. Offline encrypted backups are manually rotated during weekly backup maintenance. Deleted information may remain in those recovery copies until rotation or removal. Contact us about account closure, corrections, retention or limits preventing legitimate use.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages arising from use of the pilot, including losses arising from other members’ statements or conduct. This provision does not exclude or limit liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence or any obligation, injury, consumer right or other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Applicable law may give you additional rights. Nothing in these terms takes those rights away. This is not a promise that all liability is waived.
Questions and leaving the pilot
You can stop using the pilot at any time, end any Dialogue and delete your saved data. For questions, privacy requests or alpha administration, use the Contact us link. This inbox is not an emergency service. These alpha terms remain subject to legal review.
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