Terms of Use

Last updated: November 7, 2026

Beta service. Dewan.World is a free, experimental project that is still being built. Features can change, break or be removed at any time, and your data may be lost. Don't use it to store anything you can't afford to lose.

By creating an account or using Dewan.World you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, don't use the service.

1. Who runs Dewan.World

Dewan.World is a free, non-commercial project run by its owner. It is built and maintained by the owner and, from time to time, by student and volunteer developers who help improve it. They help as volunteers, not as a company, and are covered by the same limits of responsibility as the owner (sections 11 to 13). There is no paid service, no service-level guarantee and no customer contract.

2. Who can use Dewan.World

You must be at least 18 years old, and you must answer the age question truthfully. Keep your account secure. One person, one account. Don't share your password. New accounts must give a working email address that you control and confirm it before using Dewan.World. It lets you recover your username or reset your password. Older accounts without a confirmed email should add one; otherwise only a saved recovery code can reset a forgotten password.

3. What's not allowed

There is zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. You must not post, send or share:

• harassment, bullying, threats, or hate based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or nationality;
• sexual content involving minors, or any content that sexualises minors;
• sexually explicit, violent or graphic content;
• spam, scams, phishing, malware, or attempts to collect other people's personal information;
• impersonation of another person or organisation;
• content you don't have the right to share, such as other people's photos or copyrighted work;
• anything illegal, or that encourages illegal activity or self-harm.

You also must not misuse the service itself:

• no hacking, probing or attacking the service, its server or its users, and no attempts to get into accounts or data that aren't yours;
• no bots, automated accounts, scraping, mass messaging or anything that overloads the service;
• no creating accounts to get around a block, suspension or ban;
• no selling, renting or transferring your account.

4. Reporting, blocking and moderation

You can block people and report people and posts from inside the app. We review reports as soon as we reasonably can. You can also report incidents by email to [email protected]. We may remove any content and suspend or permanently ban any account, at our discretion, with or without warning. We don't monitor all content and can't promise to catch everything.

5. Your content and your responsibility

You own what you post, and you alone are responsible for it. You give Dewan.World permission to store, copy and display it as needed to run the service (for example, showing your posts to other users and delivering your messages). Public posts and comments are text only (with emoji) and can be seen by every signed-in user. Private messages and voice messages are only visible to you and the person you send them to, and to moderators only when the recipient reports them and chooses to share them. See the Privacy Policy.

Content from other users is theirs, not ours. We don't endorse it and we aren't responsible for it. Be careful what you share with people you meet online.

6. Disappearing messages and files

Private messages, voice messages, photos and files are automatically and permanently deleted 7 days after they're sent. We don't keep copies and can't recover them. You are responsible for saving anything you want to keep before it disappears.

You can share files up to 100 MB each (up to 1 GB every 7 days). Only share files you have the right to share. Programs and scripts (for example .exe, .apk or .js files) can't be sent, and files may be checked for malware, but no check is perfect: only open files from people you trust. You can delete a message for yourself at any time, or for everyone until the other person has seen it.

Message requests: your first message to someone new is a text-only request. You can't send more, or send photos, files or voice messages, until they accept or reply. They can decline or block you.

7. Voice and video calls

You can call people whose chat with you is open (after a message request is accepted). Calls are encrypted in transit and go directly between your devices when possible (otherwise through a relay server that only forwards the encrypted call data). We don't record, store or listen to calls; a short call history (missed, declined or answered, and how long) is kept in your chat for 7 days. Don't record a call without the other person's permission, and follow the same rules in calls as in messages. To make or answer a call, your browser asks for access to your microphone (and camera for video); you can say no and still use everything else. Because calls connect devices directly, the other person's device can see your internet (IP) address. Call quality depends on your connection, and calls may not work on every network.

8. Marketplace

Marketplace lets members list items for sale and talk to each other in chat. Each item has its own chat between the buyer and the seller, kept apart from personal chats; its messages are deleted after 7 days, and a deleted item's chat becomes read-only. Dewan.World is not a party to any sale. We don't handle payments, delivery, refunds or disputes, and we don't check items, sellers or buyers. You deal with each other directly and at your own risk.

Only list things you own and may legally sell, describe them honestly, and use real photos. Don't list: weapons, ammunition or explosives; drugs, alcohol, tobacco or vaping products; medicines; adult products or services; live animals; stolen, counterfeit or recalled goods; personal documents, accounts or data; gift cards or money; services, jobs or rentals; or anything illegal where you or the buyer live.

Meet in a public place, check items before paying, and never pay in advance with gift cards, wire transfers or crypto. Listings that mention such payments are marked with a warning. We may remove any listing and suspend accounts used for scams, without notice.

9. Anonymous mode and staff

An anonymous profile hides your photo, name, age and online status from other users, and Invisible hides your online status. It does not hide you from moderators and it does not allow you to break these terms. Dewan.World has an owner and may appoint moderators. They can review reports, remove posts and comments, and suspend or ban accounts. They can't read your private messages.

10. Features and your data can change or disappear

• We may add, change, limit or remove any feature at any time, without notice, including messages, voice messages, photos, posts, comments and profiles.
• We may delete content or accounts, limit storage, or reset data when we change or rebuild the service.
• We don't guarantee that any data will be kept, backed up or recoverable. Backups exist only to help us run the service, not for you to rely on. Keep your own copy of anything important.
• The service may be slow, unavailable or interrupted, and messages may be delayed, not delivered, or lost.
• We may shut Dewan.World down at any time.

11. No warranty

Dewan.World is provided free, "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, security, accuracy or availability. You use it at your own risk.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Dewan.World and its owner and moderators are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of, or inability to use, the service, including loss or corruption of data, messages or content; anything another user says or does; unauthorised access to your account; or indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses. Because the service is free, our total liability for any claim is limited to zero, or the smallest amount the law permits. Some places don't allow these limits, so they apply only as far as your local law allows.

13. Your promise to us

If someone makes a claim against Dewan.World, its owner, moderators or volunteer developers because of content you posted, your use of the service, or your breaking these terms, you agree to cover the reasonable costs of that claim, as far as the law allows.

14. Feedback and ideas

Feedback is always welcome, from anyone, by email to [email protected]. If you send feedback, ideas or suggestions, we may use them freely to improve Dewan.World, without any obligation, payment or credit to you. Please don't send anything confidential.

15. Security problems

If you find a security problem, please tell us privately at [email protected] and give us reasonable time to fix it before telling anyone else. Only test with your own accounts: don't access, change or delete other people's data, don't disrupt the service, and don't use automated attacks. If you follow these rules in good faith, we will not take action against you for your research.

16. Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time in Profile & settings → Delete account. This permanently deletes your profile, photo, messages, voice messages, posts and comments, and can't be undone. Messages you sent may remain visible to the other person until they're deleted with your account.

17. Suspensions and appeals

If your account is suspended, you'll see the reason when you try to sign in. If you think it was a mistake, email [email protected] with your username. Our decision after review is final. We don't owe you access to the service.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms at any time. The date at the top shows the latest version. Continuing to use Dewan.World after a change means you accept the updated terms. If a part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.

19. Contact

To report a person, post or comment, use Report in the app. For anything else, including urgent safety issues, illegal content, appeals of a suspension, copyright complaints and legal requests, email [email protected]. See also our Privacy Policy.