Welcome to the Channel 1® Chathouse® -- the most popular chat site on the Internet!

The Chathouse® Rules! (and Terms...)

Enjoy yourself here, but respect the rights of others.

A message to potential abusers: YOU ARE NOT ANONYMOUS, despite the use of fake ID's. We maintain a database of all IP addresses associated with legitimate and fake ID's. Even if your IP address changes constantly, the time stamp is all we need to identify you. If criminal activity is involved, your Internet Service Provider must cooperate in your identification.

Channel 1 reserves the right to disable any user for any reason, some of which are listed here. This is not a complete list, but it does point out the most common abuses.

1. Use of an offensive Handle is not allowed.
2. No Explicit pornography in Handles allowed. Your Handle will be deleted.
3. Profanity; gender, sexual-preference, religious, ethnic slurs; or unwelcome overtures of any kind to other chatters will not be tolerated. The friendly attitude in the Chathouse® will not be compromised. If you are being rude to other chatters, you may find yourself kicked out of the room and you will be reported to your domain administrator.

   These forums are meant to be places of civility, decency and enlightened cordial conversation. Unfortunately, some will ignore this notion, you need not be among them. In our "Public Access" rooms, you can check an abuser's domain and find the administrator of offenders by checking with an InterNIC Whois lookup. In our "Members Only" rooms, you may report abusers by sending E-Mail to abuse@chathouse.com using "cut" and "paste" to document the offensive behavior.

4. Signing into multiple forums is not allowed. Always use the "exit forum" button when leaving a chat room. (If you do not, you will delay another chatter's entry for five minutes.)
5. Harassing other users, including impersonation of other users will not be tolerated. Handles that impersonate will be blocked.
6. Impersonating of Channel 1® or Chathouse® employees, representatives, or hosts is strictly forbidden. Handles that impersonate will be blocked.
7. Discussing obscene topics or harassing others in a public forum is prohibited.
8. Soliciting of any kind is prohibited.
9. Posting adult or pornographic pictures in a public forum is prohibited.
10. Abuse of HTML, including but not limited to: repeatedly sending very long messages, leaving tags open (such as blink tags, color tags) so that text is unreadable to other users, or any malicious hacking that makes it difficult to read the screen, is not acceptable.
11. Masking or hiding your IP address is not allowed. We repeat: YOU ARE NOT ANONYMOUS, despite the use of fake ID's. We maintain a database of all IP addresses associated with legitimate and fake ID's. Even if your IP address changes constantly, the time stamp is all we need to identify you. If criminal activity is involved, your Internet Service Provider must cooperate in your identification.

Be aware of these rules. By using the Chathouse®, you essentially agree to follow them. You or the Chathouse® may terminate your account at any time for any reason. Once your account is terminated, you may not engage in Member activities in the Chathouse®, in any manner for any reason, without the express AND written consent of the Chathouse® Administrator. If you assist in enabling a terminated member to access the Chathouse® using your account, your membership will be revoked.

Please be aware also of the following Terms

1. You use the Chathouse® at your own risk. The Chathouse™ disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether expressly or implicitly . The Chathouse® makes no warranties that it will meet your requirements, or that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free. We cannot guarantee the accountability or reliability of any information obtained through the Chathouse®.
   
   
2. Text, images, and sounds transmitted on or through the Chathouse® may be subject to proprietary rights (such as patents, trademarks or copyrights); in that case, you may need express authorization from the holder of those rights to distribute that content on the Chathouse®. By submitting Content to any part of The Chathouse®, you automatically grant -- or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted -- The Chathouse® a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, transmit and display such Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such Content.
   
   
3. To the full extent permissible under the applicable law, The Chathouse® shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use The Chathouse® You understand and agree that any content downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of The Chathouse® is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damages to your computer system or loss of data that results in the download of such data content.
   
   

Please note that offenders may be permanently barred from The Chathouse® in order to protect our chatters. If you share an account with other chatters, your actions will directly affect them. Please think about it before you sign in....

Please treat this House as you would your own.
This is an International Forum, so please represent your Country with honor.