Terms of use
Vixus Hush offers private chat rooms between people who know each other. By using it you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.
What the service is, and is not
- It is a way to talk in a room that exists only while people are in it. Messages are encrypted in the browser and are not stored by us.
- It is not a way to hide from the law or from the other people in a room. Anyone in a room can copy or screenshot what you write, and servers can see IP addresses and timing (see the privacy page).
- It is not for emergencies. If someone is in danger, contact your local emergency services.
- We cannot read rooms, so we cannot moderate them. Only join rooms started by people you know, and never share passwords, codes or payment details.
What you must not do
You must not use Vixus Hush to:
- do anything illegal, or help someone else to;
- share child sexual abuse material, or content that sexually exploits or endangers anyone;
- threaten, harass, stalk, blackmail or defraud anyone;
- run scams or phishing, for example by pretending to be a bank, a company or a person to obtain money, passwords, codes or personal data;
- spread malware, or links that lead to it;
- send spam or unsolicited bulk invitations;
- attack, overload or probe the service, or work around its limits (including the room size and rate limits);
- use it in a way that harms other people or other Vixus services.
Abuse contact and how fast we answer
Report misuse at [email protected] or through the abuse page. We read every report and aim to answer within one working day. We cannot see inside rooms, but we can act on what we do control: we can limit or block access to the service, including from the addresses that abuse it, and we will cooperate with valid legal requests within what we are technically able to provide. That is very little by design, because we hold no messages, keys or accounts.
What we keep
We keep only anonymous aggregate counters (visits, rooms created, joins, approximate unique visitors, and how many rooms and people are connected at a moment). We never store IP addresses. Details are on the privacy page.
No guarantees
The service is provided as it is, without promises of availability, fitness for a purpose or that it is free of errors. Rooms can close, fill up or fail at any time. Do not rely on it for anything you cannot afford to lose, and do not use it for anything where a failure would put someone at risk. To the extent the law allows, Vixus is not liable for loss or damage from using, or being unable to use, the service, or from what other people say or do in a room.
Changes
We may change these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. Continuing to use the service means you accept the current terms.
Contact
General questions: [email protected]. A Vixus product, vixus.io.