Terms of Service 📜

The house rules of Character Tavern, written to be actually read. By using the platform you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy, so please do read them.

Last updated: September 7, 2026

The house rules in three lines

  • 🔞You must be 18 or older. No exceptions.
  • 🏷️Label your content honestly and don't be awful to people.
  • ✍️What you create stays yours. We only host it.

🍺1. What This Is

Character Tavern provides AI-generated chat services and character sharing: you can create, upload, and share character cards, and chat with them. The platform is restricted to users aged 18 and older. By creating an account or using the platform, you accept these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy.

🛡️2. Content & Moderation

Your responsibility. You are responsible for labeling your content accurately, respecting platform boundaries, and making sure your activity complies with these Terms and applicable law.

Our moderation. We may review, relabel, restrict, or remove content when needed for safety, legal compliance, or platform operation. Moderation works through a community reporting system: every report is read by a person, and appeals can be made through Discord or email.

Enforcement. Decisions are made at Character Tavern's discretion, based on these Terms, user reports, automated checks, and legal obligations. Repeated or severe violations may lead to content removal, account restrictions, or termination.

✍️3. Your Content & AI Outputs

What you upload is yours. You retain all ownership rights to the content (text, images, metadata) you upload or input into the platform.

What the AI generates is yours too. Character Tavern claims no ownership over AI-generated outputs produced in response to your inputs. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you own your outputs and are responsible for them.

What we need from you. You grant Character Tavern a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, display, and distribute your content and outputs, solely for the purpose of operating the platform. That's the entire reason the license exists.

🔧4. Technical Ground Rules

Limits exist. The platform works on all modern browsers. Each endpoint has rate and size limits, and technical limitations may change without notice.

No bots. Fair use applies to everything. Automated access is prohibited, abuse determination is at administrator discretion, and violations result in immediate access termination.

Request optimization. To deliver the best experience, we may automatically process or adjust requests sent to AI models: trimming redundant context from long conversations, reformatting prompts for clarity, or other behind-the-scenes improvements. The meaning and intent of your messages are always preserved, and no user content is shared with third parties beyond what Section 7 describes.

🚫5. Don't Do This

By using Character Tavern, you agree not to:

  • Harass or abuse others
  • Post inappropriate content without proper warnings
  • Circumvent platform limitations
  • Misrepresent your age or identity
  • Automate access without permission
  • Promote, facilitate, or glorify trafficking, exploitation, or physical abuse

🌍6. Sanctions & Export Controls

This is the most lawyer-sounding section, because it has to be. By using Character Tavern, you represent and warrant that you are not listed on any applicable sanctions or restricted-party list, including but not limited to those administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and Global Affairs Canada, that you are not located in a country or territory under comprehensive sanctions, and that you will not use the platform in violation of applicable sanctions or export control laws.

We reserve the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate access at any time if a user is found to be a sanctioned person or entity, or if continued service would violate applicable trade sanctions or export control laws. Any balances associated with a restricted account may be frozen or forfeited as required by law.

🤝7. Third-Party Services

Character Tavern runs on a few external services. By using the platform, you acknowledge they may collect and process your data as described in the Privacy Policy:

Hetzner

Hosting & database

OpenRouter

AI text generation (CT Direct mode)

Kyara Intelligence

AI text generation, with your linked key

Cloudflare

Security, CDN & privacy-first web analytics

BunnyCDN

Image storage & delivery

Resend

Transactional emails

We do not assume liability for issues arising from the use of these third-party services.

🔄8. Changes & Termination

We may modify the service or these Terms at any time; continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms. We will provide reasonable notice before terminating accounts, except in cases of serious breach (such as illegal activity, hacking, or harassment), where termination may be immediate and without notice.

🔐9. Your Data

We comply with the GDPR. You can access, correct, and delete your data at any time; the full details, including every service that touches your data, live in the Privacy Policy.

⚠️10. Liability

Obligation of means. Character Tavern is subject to an obligation of means ("obligation de moyens") regarding access to the site and services. We do our best, but we do not guarantee the service will be available 24/7 without interruption. It's one person and a status page.

Limitation of liability. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Character Tavern shall not be liable for any indirect damages, loss of data, loss of profits, or intangible losses resulting from (i) your access to, use of, or inability to access or use the service, or (ii) any conduct or content of any third party on the service.

⚖️11. Disputes

Talk to us first, it works. Primary contact is Discord, with email as backup, and we target a 48-hour initial response time. Most problems are solved with one conversation.

📬Questions?

For anything about these Terms, write to [email protected].