Terms and conditions
Version 2026-10-16-v4 · Effective October 15, 2026
These terms govern TeaTime’s website and installed web app, operated by VARLINE. You must actively accept these terms and the community rules below before using community features. They apply to all members, creators, hosts, and moderators.
Membership and account responsibility
You must be at least 18 years old, provide accurate account and age information, verify your email when required, and protect your sign-in credentials. Do not share passwords or access another person’s account. You are responsible for content and activity submitted through your account.
Your content and permissions
You retain ownership of your content. By uploading or broadcasting, you give TeaTime permission to store, process, display, and deliver it as necessary to operate the features and audience settings you choose and to enforce these rules. Only share content you are entitled to use. Do not disclose other people’s private information or record or share them without any legally required permission.
Personal Stories
Stories are available to their creator and members who currently follow that creator, subject to blocks and account restrictions. They are not placed in the public post feed. Stories expire from viewing after 24 hours and may be deleted earlier by their creator. Authorized platform moderators may access reported Stories for safety review even if they do not follow the creator. Our community rules and two-strike nudity policy apply to Stories. Expiry controls access; stored media is cleaned up separately. Followers may still capture or copy content they can view, so do not post sensitive information.
Notifications and safety review
Members receive in-app notifications identifying people who like or comment on their posts, follow them, or open their profiles. Profile visits are recorded at most once per viewer each day; your profile visit may be visible to that creator. New member profiles, profile-picture updates, and public posts generate review alerts for the owner and authorized platform moderators. Private “Only me” posts are not included in public-post review alerts. Alerts support human review and do not mean a violation has occurred. Notifications refresh while TeaTime is open; device push alerts and email notifications are not enabled by this feature.
Feature availability and payments
TeaTime is being rolled out in stages. LIVE is currently a limited pilot. Paid gifting, purchased credits, and cash payouts are not open. Accepting these terms does not create an entitlement to payments or earnings. Separate payment and host terms must be accepted before future paid features are made available.
Community rules form part of these terms
Everyone belongs
TeaTime welcomes adults of every race, ethnicity, nationality, and background. Freedom to express ideas and respectful disagreement belong to everyone. Apply conduct rules consistently; identity, political viewpoint, or criticism alone is not a reason to silence a member.
Adults only: 18+
TeaTime membership, viewing, posting, messaging, gifting, and LIVE participation are restricted to adults aged 18 or older. All members, including existing members, must complete the age check. Providing a false date of birth or evading age restrictions is prohibited. Date-of-birth self-declaration is not independent identity verification.
Account security and hacking
Unauthorized access, account theft, password or verification-code theft, phishing, malware, payment tampering, attacks on TeaTime, and attempts to bypass security are prohibited. Confirmed malicious hacking results in a permanent account ban after review. Do not create another account to evade a ban. Good-faith security reports are welcome; stop testing, protect member privacy, and report the issue through a profile report. Never send passwords, verification codes, or stolen data.
Violence and threats
No threats to kill, injure, sexually assault, stalk, or intimidate anyone, whether sent through text, messages, comments, posts, or LIVE audio or video. No calls for violence, swatting, terrorism, or dangerous attacks. Threats can lead to immediate restriction and permanent account bans after review. The pornography/nudity two-strike rule does not require TeaTime to allow a first violent threat. Criminal liability is determined by the authorities and courts, not by a platform report or automated filter.
Cyberbullying and harassment
Debate ideas respectfully. Cyberbullying, targeted or repeated personal attacks, sexual harassment, stalking, coordinated harassment, and intimidation of members or their families are prohibited. Disagreement or criticism alone is not bullying. Conduct may violate TeaTime rules even when it does not meet the legal definition of a crime.
Hate and discrimination
No hateful slurs, dehumanization, exclusion, or threats based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or similar protected characteristics.
Privacy and consent
No doxxing, sharing private addresses or credentials, threats to expose personal information, impersonation, nonconsensual intimate images, or sexual deepfakes.
Protect children
No child sexual abuse material, grooming, exploitation, trafficking, or sexualization of minors. All TeaTime access is limited to members aged 18 or older. No minors may appear on camera, in uploaded photos or videos, profile pictures, or shared screens. Age self-declaration is not independent identity verification.
Dancing, clothing, and no nudity
Dancing, talent performances, and personal clothing styles are welcome. Members may wear outfits of their choice, including dancewear and swimwear, provided private parts remain covered by opaque material throughout the performance. Dancing or clothing style alone is not a violation. Pornography, nudity, exposed intimate body parts, and sexual acts are prohibited throughout TeaTime, including posts, Stories, profile pictures, LIVE broadcasts, shared screens, and messages. This includes illustrated, animated, and AI-generated material. Adults-only membership does not permit pornography or nudity. First confirmed pornography or nudity violation: the picture or content is removed and a warning is recorded. Second confirmed violation: permanent account ban. Reports alone do not count as confirmed violations. Other serious safety violations remain subject to their own enforcement rules. Sexual exploitation, coercion, and gratuitous graphic injury, abuse, or cruelty are also prohibited.
Self-harm and dangerous acts
No encouraging suicide, self-harm, dangerous challenges, or instructions to hurt someone. Requests for support and respectful discussion of recovery are welcome.
Scams, spam, and illegal activity
No fraud, phishing, malicious links, spam raids, illegal sales, or instructions facilitating violent crime. Do not evade a mute, removal, suspension, or ban.
Ownership and transparency
Share only media you have permission to use. Do not impersonate people or misrepresent paid promotions. Respect copyright, trademarks, and other people’s rights.
Hosts and moderators
A room moderator or platform monitor may choose a three-minute regroup pause for a host after reviewing escalating personal attacks or disruptive conduct. This is a soft warning: please regroup and continue with decorum and respect. The same LIVE resumes after the timer; the host does not need to start over. This action is never triggered automatically by ordinary disagreement, a report count, or an AI judgment. Serious threats and other severe violations remain subject to stronger platform enforcement. Hosts may add room rules, blocked terms, and slow mode. Moderators may remove messages, time out participants, and remove people from their room. Room rules cannot weaken TeaTime’s platform rules.
Lawful reporting and cooperation
TeaTime will comply with applicable legal obligations to report suspected criminal conduct, preserve records in its possession, and respond to valid legal process. Credible threats of imminent violence must be escalated promptly to platform leadership and appropriate emergency authorities. Where legally permitted, TeaTime may disclose relevant information it actually holds to governmental authorities in a good-faith emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury. Disclosures are limited to what is lawfully required or permitted; an accusation alone does not authorize unrestricted access to private accounts or messages. Moderators must escalate legal requests to platform leadership and must not independently release private member information. In immediate danger, contact local emergency services (911 in the U.S.); reporting in TeaTime does not contact emergency services.
Reports and appeals
Report a post, profile, or LIVE from its report control. Use Safety & appeals to view automated restrictions and request review. Mistakes can be appealed. Immediate danger requires local emergency services; TeaTime reports are not an emergency-response service.
Enforcement and appeals
Content may be removed and accounts restricted under the rules above. The two-strike pornography/nudity policy does not limit action for violent threats, child exploitation, or other serious violations. Members can request review through Safety & appeals. Automated filters can make mistakes and are not comprehensive; LIVE camera and audio are not automatically scanned.
Changes and acceptance records
TeaTime records the account, accepted policy version, and acceptance time. Material updates require renewed acceptance. If you do not agree, do not use the community features; you may sign out. Acceptance does not waive rights that applicable law does not permit you to waive.
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