This is a translation for your convenience. The German version is the legally binding one; where the two differ, the German text applies.
Terms of use
As of 17 July 2026
1. Scope and subject matter
These terms govern the use of the purrr.chat service (“the service”), a privately run instance of the open-source chat software purrr. It is operated by the person named in the legal notice (“we” / “the operator”). The service is provided without commercial interest, without advertising and in beta. By registering you accept these terms and the community guidelines, which form an integral part of them.
2. Minimum age
Using the service requires a minimum age of 16. By registering you confirm that you are at least 16 years old.
3. Your account
- Registering requires a username, a valid email address and a password.
- You are responsible for keeping your password secret and for all activity through your account.
- Your details must be truthful; impersonating others is not allowed.
- One account per person is enough. Bots are created through the API (see section 5), not as a disguised personal account; self-bots — a user account operated by automation — are only allowed after prior agreement with the operator.
4. Permitted and prohibited use
You may use the service for private communication within the applicable law and these terms. Prohibited in particular is any use that breaks the community guidelines — among other things illegal content, hate and incitement against protected groups, harassment, doxxing, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), malware, phishing and spam. The complete list is in the community guidelines.
Also not allowed: disrupting or overloading the infrastructure, circumventing security or moderation measures, and automated harvesting (scraping) of content or user data.
5. Bots, apps and the API
purrr.chat has an open API. Whoever uses it to run a bot or an application is the operator of that application and responsible for it — including under data protection law, as a controller in their own right within the meaning of Art. 4(7) GDPR. We provide the interface; we do not run your application with you.
Whoever uses the API undertakes:
- to collect only what the application actually needs, and not to store, analyse or combine messages, profiles and member lists into profiles beyond that;
- to sell nothing and pass nothing on to third parties, neither content nor user data, except under a legal obligation;
- not to train AI models on content from purrr without the explicit consent of the respective authors;
- to inform people themselves: whoever processes personal data through the API needs their own legal basis and their own privacy policy that users can reach;
- to keep credentials secret and to reset a bot token without delay after a leak;
- to respect rate limits and not to misuse the interface for wholesale harvesting. The difference between an application and a scraper is the purpose, not the technique;
- to disclose on request what data the application processes, and to delete it on request.
In case of violations we may block the application’s access. Whoever manages a den decides which bots get access there, and shares responsibility for that decision towards the den’s members.
6. Rights to your content
You keep all rights to the content you upload or post (messages, images, files). You grant the operator only a simple licence, limited in space and time to running the service, to store this content, process it technically and show it to the recipients entitled to see it — solely as far as running the service requires. Your content is not used, exploited or passed on beyond that.
You warrant that you hold the necessary rights to the content you post and do not infringe the rights of third parties (in particular copyright, trademark or personality rights).
7. Availability (no SLA)
The service is provided on a best-effort basis. There is no entitlement to constant availability, freedom from errors or the permanent preservation of data. Maintenance, outages or further development may cause interruptions. Keep your own copies of important content.
8. Liability
The operator is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence and for damage resulting from injury to life, body or health. For simple negligence the operator is liable only for breach of an essential contractual obligation (cardinal obligation), and limited in amount to the foreseeable damage typical for this kind of contract. Liability is otherwise excluded. As the service is provided free of charge, the statutory liability privileges for gratuitous services apply in addition.
For user-generated content the operator, as a host provider, is only responsible to a limited extent under §§ 7–10 DDG, and is obliged to remove content only once it has knowledge of a specific infringement.
9. Moderation, suspension and termination
If these terms or the community guidelines are broken, we may remove content and warn accounts, suspend them temporarily (timeout) or permanently (ban) — in serious cases without prior warning. The reporting and moderation procedure is described in the community guidelines.
You can delete your account yourself, or have it deleted, at any time. The operator may terminate the relationship with reasonable notice and may shut the service down with reasonable advance notice. The right to terminate for good cause without notice remains unaffected.
10. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms, for instance when the service or the law changes. Material changes are announced in the app with reasonable notice. If you do not agree with a change, you can stop using the service and delete your account at any time. If you keep using the service after the change takes effect, the changed terms are deemed accepted.
11. Governing law and final provisions
The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer protection provisions of the country where you habitually reside remain unaffected. Should any provision of these terms be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.