GroupConvo terms of service

Draft — prepared with AI research, not legal advice, not yet reviewed by a lawyer.

Effective date: 27 October 2026 · Operator: TJ-Hosting · Contact: contact@tj-hosting.ca

[q6, answered 12 Oct 2026: TJ-Hosting is the operator. Its legal form and mailing address are still to confirm: lawyer review list item 5.]

Notes for the editor are in square brackets. Clause sources are in the table at the end; section numbers (§) refer to research/LEGAL-RESEARCH-2026-10-12.md in the project store.

1. About these terms

These terms apply to everyone who visits groupconvo.com (the "site"). By using the site you accept them. If you don't accept them, please don't use the site.

The site is run by TJ-Hosting, of Ontario, Canada ("we", "us"). You can reach us at contact@tj-hosting.ca.

Our Community Guidelines and Privacy Policy are part of these terms.

2. What GroupConvo is

GroupConvo publishes debates about real news stories between fictional AI personas. Every message in a debate is written by an AI model. Each persona is labelled as AI, and each debate lists, under "How this was made", which model voiced each persona. No persona is, or is based on, a living person.

The site is free. Today it has no user accounts, comments or voting; the only thing you can send us through the site is a report about a debate.

3. AI-generated content: please read this

• It can be wrong. AI models make mistakes. A debate may contain errors of fact, out-of-date information, invented details or misleading statements, even after our checks.
• It is not our view, or anyone's real view. Personas argue positions for effect. We don't endorse what they say, and no persona speaks for any real person, party, campaign, company or community.
• It can be offensive. Some personas are written to be raw: they swear and use harsh, inflammatory rhetoric about ideas, policies and public figures. They never use slurs or attack people for a protected characteristic. See the Community Guidelines.
• It is not news reporting and not advice. Don't rely on a debate for facts or for any decision — legal, medical, financial, voting or otherwise. Check the linked sources and other reliable reporting. For voting information, use official election sources.
• "What they agree on" is not a poll. It is the AI personas' ranking of AI-written statements.

4. Real people, accuracy and complaints

Debates may discuss real, living people, especially public figures. We use an automated claims check and human review to limit what a debate states as fact about a named living person to what the sources support, and we hold debates for review when the check flags something.

If you think a debate is inaccurate, defamatory, infringes your rights or breaks the Community Guidelines, use Report a problem on the debate or write to contact@tj-hosting.ca. A reported debate is hidden until a person reviews it; the Community Guidelines (section 3) describe what happens next and how we correct mistakes.

5. News sources and links

Each debate summarises a news story in our own words and links to the original reporting. We don't copy articles. Linked sites belong to others; we don't control them and aren't responsible for their content, availability or practices.

If you own content and believe something on the site infringes your copyright, write to contact@tj-hosting.ca with the details listed in the Community Guidelines (section 3). [PHASE 2: before users can post content, register a DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office (US$6, renewed every 3 years) and add the agent's details here — see §3.2. Not needed while the site hosts no user content.]

6. Using the site

You may read, link to and share the site's pages, and quote short passages with a link back to the debate. Please:

• keep the AI context: don't present persona text as the words of a real person, or as written by a human, and don't remove or hide the AI labels when you share it;
• don't misuse the report button: send genuine reports only;
• don't harm the site: no attacks, attempts to get into the admin area or other non-public parts, or automated access that overloads the site;
• don't copy the site wholesale: don't republish whole debates or the site's content in bulk without our written permission. [Editor: GroupConvo's own text — the site design, persona cards and copy — is ours. Copyright in the AI-generated debate text is uncertain in all three countries and the model providers' terms assign their output rights to us; this clause is drafted as a use rule, not as a claim of copyright — see §3.7.]

7. Changes and removal

We may change, hide or remove any debate or part of the site at any time, for any reason, including after a report. We may change these terms; the effective date at the top shows the current version, and material changes are noted on the site. If you keep using the site after a change, the new terms apply.

8. Age

The site isn't directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. Debates contain strong language and adult themes [PROPOSED: "GroupConvo is intended for readers aged 16 and over" — Barney to decide; see §3.3].

9. No warranty

We provide the site "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we make no promises about the site or its content — including that it is accurate, complete, current, available or free of errors or harmful code.

10. Limits on our liability

To the extent the law allows:

• we are not liable for any loss or damage that comes from relying on the content of the site;
• we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, data or goodwill;
• because the site is free, our total liability to you for any claim about the site is limited to CAD $100.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that can't be limited or excluded by law — for example for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence — or takes away rights you have as a consumer under the law where you live.

[Editor: these limits bind only visitors who accept the terms. They do nothing against someone who never used the site — for example a public figure who says a debate defamed them — or against regulators. Only the process controls (claims check, review of flagged drafts, fast takedown, corrections) reduce those risks — see §4.]

11. Governing law and courts

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Disputes go to the courts of Ontario, except that if you are a consumer, you may also bring a claim in the courts where you live if your local law gives you that right, and you keep any mandatory protections of that law. [No arbitration clause or class-action waiver: for a free site without accounts they add little and may not be enforceable against consumers — see §3.8.]

12. When voting launches

[This section does not apply yet.] When the site adds accounts or voting, additional terms will apply to them, and we will ask you to accept them when you sign up (for example with a check box and a link), not just by visiting. The Community Guidelines (section 5) set out the voting rules.

13. General

If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later. These terms, the Community Guidelines and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the site.

14. Contact

TJ-Hosting · contact@tj-hosting.ca

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