Terms of Service

1. Who we are

PATV is a community website and set of chat bots built around live Camfrog video chat rooms. It is run by Houseplants LLC ("we", "us"). In these terms "the service" means the website at publicaccess.tv and its sub-sites, the Pepe bot in Camfrog rooms, our Discord and Twitch bots, and the APIs behind them.

2. Eligibility (18+)

The service is for adults. You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live, if that's higher) to create an account or use the service. The Camfrog rooms, pads and feed can contain mature conversation and, where marked, adult content. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 18 we will close it.

You can't use the service if we've previously banned you, or if the law where you are forbids it.

3. Your account and its security

• Give accurate sign-up details and keep your email address current — it's how you get back into your account.
• You're responsible for what happens under your account. Keep your password private, use one you don't use anywhere else, and tell us at [email protected] if you think someone else has access.
• One person, one main account. Extra accounts made to dodge a ban, farm bonuses, inflate votes or reports, or win PAT games against yourself aren't allowed. Bot accounts need our permission.
• Usernames that impersonate someone, a pad or PATV staff, or that are hateful or sexual, may be changed or removed.
• We may archive accounts that have been inactive for a long time; we tell you first in your inbox and on the site where we can.

4. Camfrog, Discord and Twitch

You can link a Camfrog name (by typing !verify to Pepe), a Discord account or a Twitch account. Linking lets the service treat them as you — for PAT, games, posts and moderation. Those services are run by other companies under their own terms and privacy policies; we aren't responsible for them, and you must follow their rules too. Using PATV doesn't change anything about your relationship with them.

5. Your content

You own it

"Your content" is anything you post or send through the service: feed posts, comments, pictures, audio, video, links, profile details, chat and mic audio in Camfrog rooms the service mirrors, and so on. You keep whatever rights you have in it.

The licence you give us

So we can run the service, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, re-encode (for example resizing pictures or converting video), display, transcribe, translate, distribute and show your content on and through the service, and to let other users see and share it as the service allows (for example a post's share link). This licence is only for operating, promoting and improving the service. It ends when you delete the content or your account, except where (a) others have already re-shared it inside the service, (b) we need to keep it for moderation, safety, legal or backup reasons for a limited time, or (c) the law requires us to keep it.

You're responsible for it

• You confirm you have the rights and permissions needed to post it — including the consent of anyone recognisable in a picture, video or recording.
• You're responsible for your content and the consequences of posting it. We don't endorse what users post and don't check everything before it appears.
• Public Camfrog room activity (public chat, who is in the room, who's on the mic, and what is said on the mic, which is automatically transcribed) can be shown on the website to members. Anything you say publicly in a room Pepe sits in may appear there. Private messages are never shown.

6. What isn't allowed

Don't post, send, stream or link to anything, or behave in any way, that:

• is illegal where you are or where we are, or promotes or helps someone commit a crime;
• sexualises minors in any way — child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and any sexual content involving someone under 18, real or simulated. Zero tolerance: it is removed, the account is banned permanently, and we report it to the relevant authorities (the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) via its CyberTipline, as required by 18 U.S.C. § 2258A, and law enforcement where appropriate) with the information we hold;
• is intimate imagery of someone shared without their consent (including "revenge porn", hidden-camera content and sexual deepfakes of real people), or threatens to share it;
• harasses or bullies someone — targeted insults, pile-ons, unwanted sexual comments, stalking, or continuing after being asked to stop;
• doxxes someone — posts or threatens to post private information such as a home address, phone number, workplace, real name (when not public), or identity documents;
• threatens or incites violence, or glorifies violent extremism or self-harm;
• attacks people for who they are — race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or serious illness;
• is spam — unsolicited ads, scams, phishing, chain posts, repeated junk, fake engagement, or vote / report manipulation;
• impersonates another person, a pad, a brand or PATV staff, or misleads people about who you are in a harmful way;
• infringes someone's rights — copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity rights — for example uploading music, film or streams you don't have permission to share;
• contains malware or tries to break, overload, scrape at scale, probe or get around the security, rate limits or moderation of the service, or to access accounts or data that aren't yours;
• is adult content that isn't marked NSFW (see below);
• uses PAT, games, markets or wagers to cheat, launder value, or exploit a bug — report bugs instead.

For the friendly, everyday version — including how much room there is for swearing, dark humour, roasting and hot takes — see Padiquette, our site-wide guidelines. Pads can add rules of their own on top; if Padiquette and these terms ever disagree, these terms win.

7. Adult (NSFW) content

Legal adult content is allowed on the feed only when it's marked NSFW (the 🔞 box when you post) and only where the pad it's posted to allows it. Marked posts are blurred and hidden from visitors who aren't signed in. Admins and pad owners may mark, unmark or remove posts. Everyone shown in adult content must be an adult who consented to it being made and shared. The only exception is an AI-generated picture or video made under the AI rules in Padiquette: it may show a real, identifiable adult in a suggestive but non-sexual way (for example, a public figure in swimwear), and it must be marked NSFW. It must never show a real, identifiable person nude or in a sexual or sexualised way, never involve anyone who is or looks under 18, and the rest of these terms (harassment, impersonation, privacy and publicity rights) still apply. Never post adult content in a profile picture, username or pad listing.

8. Pepe and automated features

Pepe is an automated bot. His replies, voices, DJ picks, summaries, transcripts and pictures are generated by software, including AI models, and can be wrong, odd or offensive — don't rely on them for anything important, and they aren't statements by us. Mic transcripts are automatic and may mis-hear people. Pepe's room snaps and clips (!snap, !clip) capture what's publicly visible in a room at that moment; people can opt out of being shown by name with !incognito or !bridge hide. AI pictures and videos made with Pepe (!imagine, !video, the feed's Generate) follow the AI rules in Padiquette: suggestive content is allowed and marked NSFW; explicit nudity, anything sexual involving minors, and sexual depictions of real people are not.

9. PAT and virtual items

• PAT is a virtual points system for fun inside PATV. It has no cash value. PAT and anything bought with it (cosmetics, items, stakes, market shares, lottery tickets and so on) are not money, currency, securities, deposits or property, and can't be redeemed, withdrawn, exchanged or cashed out for money, by us or anyone else. PAT can only be spent on what PATV itself offers — including the store's prizes and members' listings, under section 10.
• You get a limited, personal, revocable licence to use PAT and virtual items within the service. You don't own them. Selling, buying or trading PAT, items or accounts for real money, or for anything outside PATV other than through the store, is not allowed.
• PAT games, markets, wagers, staking and vaults are entertainment. Balances, odds, prices, rewards and rules can change, and we may adjust, reverse, reset or remove PAT or items — for example to fix a bug or an error, undo cheating or abuse, keep the economy balanced, or when an account is archived or closed. No refunds or compensation are owed for PAT or virtual items.
• PAT may be shown with numbers, charts or words borrowed from finance ("staking", "vaults", "markets", "returns"). These describe game mechanics only and are not financial products or advice.
• Looking ahead: we may explore other ways for PAT to work in the future. Nothing on the service is a promise or an offer about that. If anything ever changes the nature of PAT, it will come with new terms that you'd be asked to accept separately; until then this section applies in full.

10. Premium subscriptions and donations

This section covers what you can pay for on PATV, whether you pay in PAT or, where we offer it, in real money: 📺 Prime Time, 🎟️ Season Pass, store subscriptions, gifts, donations and the store's prizes. The current prices, perks and options are shown on Prime Time & Season Pass, Subscriptions, Support PATV and the store, and what those pages say at the time you pay is part of these terms.

What you're buying

• 📺 Prime Time is a tier for a pad: perks for the whole pad, such as its Prime Time badge, a theme pack, and extra stage and badge slots. Anyone can buy or chip in to a pad's Prime Time, so a pad's regulars can keep it on air together.
• 🎟️ Season Pass is a tier for one account: perks for you, such as a name style, an animated avatar ring, a profile banner, sticker packs and bigger upload limits.
• Both run in periods (currently 30 days). Store subscriptions work the same way for some official store items (currently Plex access): you buy the first period and it renews in PAT until you cancel.
• Whatever you pay with, you get a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use a feature of the service for the time paid for. It isn't property, goods or a share in PATV, and it has no cash value. Perks marked "coming soon" are plans, not promises. Sticker packs and cosmetics you're told are yours to keep stay yours as virtual items under section 9, even after a tier ends.

Billing and auto-renewal

• In PAT: each payment adds time. A chip-in adds its share of a period, and you can pay up to about a year ahead. Turn on 🔁 auto-renew and the daily run takes one period's price from the renewer's PAT balance when it's due. A pad's Prime Time has one renewer at a time (its owner can always take it over); a Season Pass renews from its holder's balance.
• By card: where we offer it, a Season Pass, or a pad's Prime Time (for the pad's owner), can be paid by card as a monthly subscription in US dollars that renews automatically until you cancel. The price, and any taxes, are shown on the checkout page before you pay. By starting a card subscription you authorise us, through our payment processor, to charge your card each month until you cancel. Card and PAT payments can both apply to the same tier: it stays on while either one is paid up.
• If a renewal can't be paid (not enough PAT, or a failed card payment, which our payment processor retries), you get an inbox notice and a short grace period (currently 3 days) while the perks stay on and anyone can top it up. If it's still unpaid, the tier lapses: the perks switch off and the renewer is cleared, so nobody is charged later by surprise. Nothing else is deleted: Prime Time and Season Pass looks come back when the tier does.
• We can pause new purchases at any time. Existing periods and renewals keep running while sales are paused.

Cancelling

• You can cancel at any time. To stop a PAT auto-renewal or a store subscription, use Subscriptions (linked from Edit profile) or the 🔁 switch on /premium. To cancel a card subscription or change its card, use Manage card subscription on /premium, which opens our payment processor's billing page.
• Cancelling stops future charges. Time you've already paid for keeps running to the end of its period, then ends; nothing is charged after that. A store subscription you cancel while its renewal is overdue (in the grace period) ends straight away, and one you cancel ahead of time can be resumed before its period ends.
• Asking us to close your account doesn't by itself cancel a card subscription with the payment processor: cancel it first, or ask us to cancel it when you write to us.

Refunds

• PAT payments are final. Premium periods, chip-ins, gifts, sticker packs and store subscription renewals paid in PAT aren't refunded. Some features have their own refund rules, shown where you use them (for example members' store listings, stage slots and Plex requests); those apply to them.
• Card subscriptions: cancel any time and keep the perks to the end of the period you paid for. We don't give refunds or credits for part of a period or unused time, except where the law requires it or for a billing error (for example, being charged twice or charged after you cancelled). If you think you've been charged by mistake, write to [email protected] within 60 days of the charge.
• Donations are final and aren't refunded, except where the law requires it or for a billing error (see Donations below).
• If we do refund a payment, we may remove the PAT, perks or time it paid for.

Price changes

Prices in PAT and in money can change. A change never affects time you've already paid for. A PAT renewal charges the price in force on the day it renews, as shown on /premium or the item's store page. For a card subscription we'll tell you on the site (and by email where we have your address) at least 30 days before a new price applies to your next renewal; if you don't want to pay it, cancel before then. If you stay subscribed after the new price takes effect, it applies.

Gifts and comps

• Gifts: you can give someone a Season Pass period, a sticker pack, a cosmetic or some store items, and chip in to any pad's Prime Time. You pay the normal price. A Season Pass gift is one period and never sets up a renewal on your balance. Gifts are final: neither you nor the person you gifted can refund or exchange them. You can't gift to yourself, to someone who has blocked you or to someone you've blocked, and there are limits on how many gifts you can send. The person you gift gets a notice with your name, unless you tick 🕶 Send anonymously; site admins can still see who sent any gift.
• Comps: we may give premium tiers, Plex access, store items, cosmetics or sticker packs to a member or pad for free, for a set time or with no end date. Site admins' own accounts and pads have both tiers free while they're admins. A comp has no cash value, isn't transferable, doesn't renew, and can be ended at any time. If you pay during a timed comp, the paid time starts after the comp ends.

Donations

• You can donate to help pay for running PATV ("Support PATV"): by card, in whole US dollars (currently $1 to $1,000 per donation), or where offered, in USDC or USDT stablecoins on the networks listed on /support, sent from a wallet you've linked to your account. A donation is a voluntary payment to support the service. It isn't a purchase of goods, an investment or a charitable contribution: Houseplants LLC isn't a charity, and donations aren't tax-deductible.
• Thank-you PAT: each confirmed donation adds PAT to your wallet at the rate shown on /support when you donate (currently 500,000 PAT for every $1), and an extra amount (currently 20% of that) is created for the community pot that funds rewards across PATV; it doesn't go to your wallet. We may change the rate and the extra for future donations. Donated PAT is ordinary PAT under section 9: it has no cash value and can't be withdrawn, cashed out or exchanged for money. Please don't donate to get PAT as an investment.
• Donors get the 💚 Supporter flair, achievements and cosmetics described on /support. These are virtual items under section 9.
• Crypto donations: transfers under the minimum (currently $1) aren't credited; transfers over the per-transfer limit (currently $1,000) are credited after an admin checks them, and we may decline one. Only the listed tokens on the listed networks can be credited. A transfer of another token, on another network, or from a wallet nobody has linked (for example straight from an exchange) may not be credited, and blockchain transfers can't be reversed by us. If we decline or can't credit a transfer, we may (but don't have to) send it back to the sending wallet, less network fees. We never ask for your wallet's keys or seed phrase.
• Donations are final. We don't refund them, except where the law requires it or for a billing error. If something went wrong with a payment, write to [email protected].

PAT you buy, win or spend

Section 9 applies in full to PAT however you got it, including PAT from a donation, and to everything bought with PAT. In short: PAT has no cash value; it can't be redeemed, withdrawn or cashed out for money; it can't be moved off PATV or sold for anything outside it; we may adjust, reverse or remove it to fix a bug or an error, or to undo cheating, abuse or a reversed payment; and the economy's prices, rates and rules can change.

Real-world prizes in the store

• The official store sometimes offers prizes for PAT that exist outside PATV, such as game consoles and PCs, games, gift cards, collectables, jewellery, and subscriptions to other services (for example Camfrog or Discord). Some are donated by PATV members. These prizes are a promotional reward we offer at our discretion. They don't give PAT a cash value or make it a currency.
• Availability: stock is limited, often to one, and goes to whoever claims it first. We may add, reprice, pause or withdraw any prize at any time. Pictures and descriptions are for illustration.
• Eligibility: you must be 18 or older, in good standing, and have got your PAT within these terms. We may ask you to confirm your identity, age and delivery details before we deliver, and we can only deliver where we're able to lawfully and practically. Prizes are void where prohibited by law.
• Delivery: the PATV team arranges delivery by hand and will contact you through your inbox. If we can't reach you, or you don't give the details we need, within 30 days, we may cancel the order and return your PAT.
• Substitution and withdrawal: if a prize becomes unavailable or can't be delivered to you, we may substitute something of similar or greater value or cancel the order and return your PAT. We may also cancel an order, and return or remove the PAT, if it was paid for with PAT gained through cheating, extra accounts, a bug or a reversed payment.
• Warranties: prizes come with only the maker's or seller's own warranty, if any; we don't add one. Subscriptions to other services follow those services' terms.
• Taxes: you're responsible for any taxes on a prize. For prizes of higher value we may need tax information from you (for example a US form W-9) and may report the prize's value where the law requires; we may withhold a prize until we have what we need.
• No purchase necessary: you never have to pay money to get PAT. It can be earned free by taking part on PATV (for example welcome PAT, level-ups from chatting and mic time, achievements, and room games and raffles). Donating doesn't change the odds of any game.
• Members' listings: items other members list in the store are sold by them, not by us. Their PAT is held until the seller delivers, and the order's own refund and dispute rules apply, but we don't make or guarantee those items.

⭐ PATV Creators (creator subscriptions and locked posts)

Draft, under legal review.

• Members who qualify can sell subscriptions and locked posts for PAT under the Creator Terms, which apply on top of these terms. Buying one gives you a personal, revocable licence to view that content on PATV, not ownership of it.
• Creator earnings are PAT under section 9. They have no cash value and are never cashed out, withdrawn or exchanged for money. Payments are held for a few days before the creator receives them, so problems can be reported; held payments can be refunded, and PAT bought by a payment that's reversed can be taken back.
• Locked content must be safe for work, or R-rated (suggestive, never explicit) on a profile or pad marked 18+. Paid content is never sexually explicit, and nothing in it may involve anyone under 18 or anyone who didn't consent. Viewing an 18+ profile or pad requires being signed in and confirming you are 18 or older.
• Prizes claimed with PAT that came from creator income may be reviewed before delivery.

Payment processor

Card payments are handled by Stripe, under Stripe's own terms and privacy policy. Your card details go straight to Stripe; we never see or store your full card number. We keep a record of what was paid, when and for what, and Stripe tells us whether a payment succeeded.

Chargebacks and payment disputes

If something's wrong with a charge, please write to [email protected] first: we can usually sort it out faster than a bank can. If you dispute or charge back a payment, we may pause the perks it paid for and remove the PAT, time and items it gave you while the dispute is open, and keep them removed if it's decided in your favour. Disputing a payment you did make, or using a card that isn't yours, may lead to your account being suspended or closed.

Changes to premium features

PATV is changing all the time. We may add, change or remove perks, tiers, periods, grace periods, payment options and donation rates. If we stop offering a tier altogether, we'll stop its renewals and give notice on the site; for a card subscription we'll refund the unused part of the period you paid for. A change to the perks of a tier during a period you've paid for isn't a reason for a refund, unless the law says it is.

If your account ends

When an account is closed (by you, or by us under section 14), its premium tiers, comps, store subscriptions and auto-renewals end with it and we stop any card subscription it has. If we close an account because it broke these terms, no refund is owed for unused time. If we close it for any other reason, or stop offering the service, we'll refund the unused part of any card-paid period. PAT and virtual items end as section 14 says.

11. Pad owners

Some pads have owners who can moderate their pad's feed: approve, hide, pin, mark NSFW, remove posts from their pad, lock comments and ban people from posting there. Pad owners must follow these terms, use those tools in good faith, and must not use them to harass people or to hide content that should be reported to us. Owners don't see the private information described in our Privacy Policy. Site admins can review or reverse any pad-level action.

12. Moderation and appeals

We, our admins and pad owners may (but don't have to) review, label, hide, remove or restrict content and accounts, at any time, when we believe it breaks these terms, puts someone at risk, or exposes the service to legal trouble. Depending on how serious it is we may warn you, remove content, limit posting, reporting or PAT features, ban you from a pad or the whole feed, or close your account. Automated limits (rate limits, new-account limits, auto-hiding after several reports) apply too.

Appeals: if you think we got it wrong, email [email protected] from the address on your account within 30 days, with your username, what was actioned and why you think it should be reconsidered. A different admin from the one who acted will look at it where possible. We'll tell you the outcome. Decisions about CSAM and other illegal content are not reversed.

13. Reporting and copyright notices

Reporting content or people

Use Report in the ⋯ menu on any post or comment, or Report user on a profile. Pick the closest reason and add a note if it helps. Reports of sexual content involving a minor hide the content immediately and go straight to the site admins. Reports about posts in a pad also go to that pad's owner, except legal and safety categories (child safety, non-consensual imagery, copyright), which only site admins see. You'll get an inbox update when we've acted on your report. Making reports in bad faith can pause your ability to report.

For urgent safety issues or anything you can't report on the site, email [email protected]. If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.

Intimate images shared without consent (TAKE IT DOWN)

If an intimate image or video of you (real or AI-made) is on PATV without your consent, use our removal request form (you don't need an account), or report the post with the reason "Non-consensual intimate imagery". Someone authorised to act for you can also send it. We remove valid requests within 48 hours, together with identical copies we know of, and block those files from being posted again.

Copyright (DMCA) notices

Houseplants LLC respects the intellectual property rights of others. Per the DMCA, we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement on the Site if submitted to our Copyright Agent as described below. Upon receipt of a notice alleging copyright infringement, we will take whatever action we deem appropriate within our sole discretion, including removal of the allegedly infringing materials and termination of access for repeat infringers of copyright-protected content.

If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by us or by a third party who has uploaded materials to our website, please provide the following information to the designated Copyright Agent listed below:

1. A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
2. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
3. An address, telephone number, and email address where we can contact you and, if different, an email address where the alleged infringing party, if not we, can contact you;
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner or other intellectual property rights owner, by its agent, or by law;
5. A statement by you under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf;
6. Your electronic or physical signature.

Houseplants LLC may request additional information before removing any allegedly infringing material. In the event we remove the allegedly infringing materials, we will immediately notify the person responsible for posting such materials that we removed or disabled access to the materials. We may also provide the responsible person with your email address so that the person may respond to your allegations.

Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 512(c), Houseplants LLC's designated Copyright Agent is:

If your content was removed after a notice and you believe that was a mistake, you can send a counter-notice to the designated Copyright Agent above with: your signature; the material removed and where it appeared; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address and phone number; and your consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which you reside, or, if you reside outside the United States, any judicial district in which Houseplants LLC may be found (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3)(D)) and to accept service from the person who sent the notice. Misrepresenting that material is, or isn't, infringing can make you liable for damages.

General copyright questions that aren't notices can also go to copyright@publicaccess.tv. Formal notices and counter-notices go to the designated Copyright Agent above.

14. Ending your use of PATV

You can stop using the service at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account by emailing [email protected] from the address on it. We may suspend or end your access, or close your account, if you break these terms, if we're required to by law, if your account has been inactive for a long time, or if we stop offering the service. When an account ends, its PAT and virtual items end with it; section 10 says what happens to subscriptions. Sections that by their nature should survive (for example 5, 9, 10, 15–19) continue to apply.

15. Disclaimers

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows. We don't promise the service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free or that content (including anything from users, pads, Camfrog rooms, Pepe or AI models) is accurate. Live Camfrog rooms and streams are not under our control, and you use them at your own risk.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we and the people who run, build and moderate PATV won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill or virtual items, arising from or related to the service or these terms, however caused. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of (a) US$100 or (b) the amount you paid us in real money for the service in the 12 months before the claim.

Some places don't allow these exclusions or limits, so some of them may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law.

17. Indemnity

If you break these terms or the law through the service, or your content infringes someone's rights, and someone makes a claim against us because of it, you agree to cover the reasonable losses and costs (including legal fees) that result, to the extent the law allows.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as PATV changes or the law requires. The "Last updated" date at the top will change, and for material changes we'll give notice on the site — the next time you post, you'll be asked to accept the new version. If you keep using the service after a change takes effect, the new terms apply. If you don't agree, stop using the service and you can ask us to close your account.

19. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and applicable US federal law. Disputes will be handled in the state and federal courts located in New Castle County, Delaware, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim locally. If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a part straight away, we haven't waived it. These terms (with the Privacy Policy and any rules shown where you use a feature) are the whole agreement between you and us about the service.

20. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected]. Abuse and safety: [email protected]. Copyright: see section 13. Privacy: see the Privacy Policy.

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