Terms of Service

Who can use Popcast

You must be 18 or older. We ask you to confirm that yourself. We do not collect your date of birth. You may not use Popcast if we have suspended or removed your account.

Your account

You sign in with Google or with an email and password. You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping your password private. Your handle, display name, bio, and avatar are your public profile. Don't impersonate someone else or pick a handle that suggests you work for Popcast.

Your content

You can go live, chat in a stream, publish posts and photo drops, and follow people or ask them to go live. You keep ownership of what you create.

So that Popcast can run, you give Popcast a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transcode, process, transmit, and display your content, only as needed to operate, secure, moderate, and provide Popcast. Popcast may have service providers do this for it, such as GetStream (live video), Supabase (database and photo storage), and Vercel (website hosting). This license does not let Popcast use your content in advertising or other marketing, on merchandise, or to train AI models. It ends when your content is deleted from Popcast, except for records we keep as the Privacy Policy describes.

You are responsible for what you post and stream. By posting or streaming, you confirm you have the rights, licenses, permissions, and consents needed for it. That includes music or other copyrighted material you play or show, people who appear in it, and images or video you did not create yourself.

Popcast does not offer private messages.

Members-only content

Members-only streams, posts, and photo drops limit who Popcast authorizes to see them: that creator's fan-club members, the creator, and Popcast staff when needed to keep the service safe. Popcast cannot stop someone who is allowed to view content from taking screenshots, recording their screen, photographing their screen, or otherwise sharing what they saw. Only share members-only content you are comfortable with being copied.

What you can't do

Don't use Popcast to:

• break the law, or post or stream illegal content
• post or share sexual content involving anyone under 18, or anything that sexually exploits a minor
• share intimate images of someone without their consent
• post or stream sexually explicit or pornographic content. Popcast is for adults, but it is not an adult-content site
• harass or threaten anyone, or incite violence
• scam people or send spam
• infringe someone's copyright, trademark, or other rights
• impersonate a person or organization
• try to bypass a block, ban, suspension, or private-access limit

Moderation

Popcast may remove a post, photo, or chat message, stop a livestream, or suspend an account. Payment does not protect an account from moderation. We don't promise to review every report, and we don't promise a particular outcome.

Copyright and repeat infringers

Popcast's name, site, and software belong to Popcast. You may not copy them or imply that we endorse you.

If you believe something on Popcast infringes your copyright, use the report form or email support, and say what the work is and where it appears on Popcast. That form is a way to flag a concern. It is not a formal notice to a registered copyright agent. In appropriate circumstances, Popcast may suspend or close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual-property rights.

Fan clubs

A fan club is a subscription to one creator for $10 USD per month. Each creator's fan club is a separate subscription, so two clubs cost $20 per month. Membership unlocks that creator's members-only streams, posts, and photo drops, and shows a member badge in their chat.

A fan club renews automatically every month until you cancel it. Each renewal is charged to your payment method on file with Stripe, which processes fan-club payments.

Fan club payments are made to Popcast. Creators do not receive a share of fan-club subscription revenue or any payout from Popcast.

If Popcast ever changes the fan-club price, we will tell you before the new price applies to your subscription, so you can cancel first.

Canceling a fan club

You can cancel online at any time in Settings, under Fan clubs. You don't need to contact us. Canceling stops future renewals: you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for, and you are not charged again. Canceling does not refund the current period, except where the law requires a refund.

When a fan club ends early

A fan club also ends if:

• you or the creator deletes their account
• Popcast suspends the creator
• Popcast suspends you
• either of you blocks the other

In those cases the subscription is canceled, future charges stop, and access may end immediately rather than at the end of the paid period. Payments already made are not refunded, except where the law requires a refund.

Refunds

Other than as described here, fan-club payments are not refunded, except where the law requires a refund.

If a second subscription to the same club is charged by mistake, Popcast cancels that duplicate and refunds its payment. The membership you already had stays as it is. A refund of the whole payment for the current period ends access at the refund. A partial refund does not change access.

Suspension and closing an account

Popcast may suspend or close an account, or stop a livestream, if these terms are broken or if we need to protect people or the service. You can delete your own account in Settings. Deletion removes your profile, posts, follows, and live requests, ends your live stream, and cancels fan clubs you pay for and fan clubs other people pay you for, without refunds except where the law requires them. Some chat, reports, moderation records, ended streams, billing history, and audit records can remain, as the Privacy Policy describes.

Disclaimers

To the extent the law allows, Popcast is provided as available. Livestreams can fail, lag, or end without notice. We don't guarantee uptime, a particular audience, or that content from other people is accurate or safe. The service is a website in your browser.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, Popcast is not liable for indirect or consequential damages, or for other people's content, and its total liability for a claim related to these terms is limited to the amount you paid Popcast in the three months before the claim. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that the law does not allow to be excluded or limited, or takes away consumer rights that cannot be waived.

Changes

We may update these terms. The version you accepted is stored on your account. A wording change by itself does not make you accept again. If we need a new acceptance, we will ask you then. Updating these terms does not change the price of an existing fan-club subscription.