PartyOf Co.
Effective 28 September 2026 · Last updated 28 September 2026
These are the terms on which you may use PartyOf. They are written to be read, not to be skipped, and the parts that will matter to you most — what you may write, and what happens to it once you file it — are in plain words.
PartyOf is operated by PartyOf Co., a Delaware corporation with its place of business at 5550 Glades Road, Suite 610, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, United States. In these Terms, “we”, “us” and “PartyOf” mean that company, and “you” means the person using the service.
These Terms govern your use of partyofco.com and of the member application at partyofco.com/app. By creating an account or by using the service, you agree to them. If you do not agree to them, do not create an account.
The Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms and explains what we collect, why, and what you can ask us to do with it.
You must be eighteen years of age or older to hold an account. You confirm this when you create one. We do not knowingly permit anyone under eighteen to use the service, and we close any account we learn belongs to someone under that age.
Membership is by invitation while the service is new. An invitation code is issued to a person, not sold or transferred, and we may decline or withdraw one without giving a reason.
You must not create an account if you are barred from receiving services under the laws that apply to you, and you must not use the service where doing so would breach the law of the country you are in. You are responsible for knowing whether that is the case.
One person, one account. You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your password to yourself. Tell us promptly at privacy@partyofco.com if you believe somebody else has it.
You write under a chosen name rather than your own. That name is shown, together with the country you give, to everyone seated at a table with you. Choose a name that is not the real name of another person, that does not impersonate anyone, and that does not itself carry an insult or a slogan. We may require a name to be changed.
The country you give is shown alongside your name and is used to seat you, because the entire point of a table is that the people at it are in different countries. Give the country you are actually in or actually writing from. Entering a country you have no connection to defeats the service for everyone else at your table, and we may close an account that does it.
A board of news stories is open. You mark a story that interests you and say whether you want a table of two, a table of four, or whichever fills first. When enough people in other countries have marked the same story, you are seated together.
Everybody at a table writes their own account of the story before anybody reads a word of anybody else’s. This is the seal, and it is the substance of the service rather than a feature of it. You do not read what you did not write. When the last person files, everything opens at once. If somebody never files, the table opens by itself after seventy-two hours, provided at least two people wrote.
Each person is then given one other person at the table to answer. The answer round is sealed in the same way: you read no answer until you have written your own, including the answer written to you. If you never write an answer, you never read the others.
We may change how the service works, including the size of tables, the length of the wait and the way stories are chosen. We may add, change or withdraw parts of it, and we may stop offering it altogether.
Everything you file is read by the other people at your table, and, if every one of them agrees, may be published. Write accordingly. You must not file anything that:
Entries carry no links, and the service refuses them. This is not a restriction on what you may say. It exists because the only reason anybody would want a link at a table is to put it somewhere it does not belong.
You must not use the service to gather information about other members, to attempt to identify them outside a table, to contact them elsewhere, or to build a list of them. There are no private messages, no profiles and no way to follow anybody, and you must not try to make one.
You must not interfere with the service itself: no automated access beyond ordinary use of the site, no attempt to read another member’s writing before you have earned it, no probing for weaknesses, no circumventing the sign-up gate or the limits on how often something may be done.
An entry cannot be edited or withdrawn from the table once you file it. The seal is worth nothing if a member can read the others and then rewrite their own, and the people who wrote alongside you did so in response to what you actually said. Read what you have written before you send it.
This has a consequence worth stating plainly. If you later close your account, we remove your name from what you wrote and delete everything else we hold about you. The text of what you wrote stays at the table for the two or three people who were seated there, because it is part of their conversation as well as yours, and removing it would take away writing that is theirs. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is deleted and what remains.
You can report anything filed at a table you are seated at, and you can block another member. A block is silent and works in both directions: the person blocked is not told, and the two of you are not seated together again.
We read reports and we act on them. Depending on what we find we may remove an entry from a table, withdraw a member from future seating, suspend an account or close it. We are not obliged to explain a decision, and we do not undertake to review everything written at every table.
Nothing here makes us the publisher of what members write. What a member files is that member’s own statement. PartyOf is an interactive computer service provider within the meaning of 47 U.S.C. § 230 and does not assume liability as the publisher or speaker of user content.
A finished table is private to the people who sat at it unless every one of them agrees to publish it. Consent is asked for each table separately and is never assumed from a previous answer. If one member declines, nothing from that table is published.
If you have agreed and later change your mind, you may withdraw. Withdrawal is limited to your own writing and never removes anybody else’s: you may take your name off what you wrote, remove your entry and leave the place it occupied marked as withdrawn, or remove everything of yours. A published table leaves the reading room if withdrawals take it below two entries.
You keep every right you have in what you write. You are not assigning anything to us.
You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, display and otherwise use what you file as reasonably necessary to provide, operate, secure, moderate and improve the service; to allow our service providers to do those things on our behalf; to create and use aggregated or de-identified information; and to comply with law and establish, exercise or defend legal claims. This license lasts as long as reasonably necessary for those purposes, including after a table or your account ends where needed for backups, legal compliance, safety, security or dispute resolution.
If you agree to publish a finished table, you grant us a further non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display that writing publicly, under the name you wrote it with, in the reading room and in material describing the service. That further license ends for your own writing when you withdraw it, except that we are not required to recall copies already made by other people, and we may keep an archival copy that is not shown.
You confirm that what you file is yours to file, and that showing it to your table, or publishing it if you agree to that, infringes nobody’s rights.
If you send us a suggestion about the service, we may use it without owing you anything for it.
The service is free while it is by invitation. If we introduce a charge we will say so clearly before it applies to you, and you will be able to decline it and close your account instead.
You may close your account at any time by writing to privacy@partyofco.com. What happens to your information when you do is set out in the Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or close an account, with or without notice, if we believe it has breached these Terms, if it is being used to harm another member, if it was created to evade a previous closure, or if we are required to. Where it is practical and appropriate to do so we will say why.
Sections 6, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 15 continue to apply after an account is closed.
We work to keep the service running and to keep the seal intact, but we do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, that a table will form for you, that anybody at your table will write, or that what anybody writes will be accurate, considered or kind. What members write is theirs, not ours. We do not endorse, verify or assume responsibility for any user-generated content.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available”, and we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. Where that is so, the exclusions in this section apply only to the extent the law allows, and nothing in these Terms limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot be limited by agreement.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill, arising out of or in connection with the service, whether the claim is framed in contract, in tort, or otherwise, and whether or not we were told such damages were possible.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or in connection with the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred United States dollars. This cap does not limit your obligations under Section 14, including your indemnification obligations.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
You will indemnify, defend and hold harmless PartyOf Co., its affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claim, demand, loss or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or relating to what you filed or published through the service, your breach of these Terms, or your infringement of somebody else’s rights. We may notify you of a claim when reasonably practicable, but failure to do so will not relieve you of your obligations. We will have sole control of the defense and settlement of any such claim, and you will provide reasonable cooperation at your expense.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.
Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or with the service is to be brought in the state courts located in Palm Beach County, Florida, or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. You and we each consent to the jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection to venue there or on the ground that the forum is inconvenient.
If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the law of the country where you live, or of your right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you must bring any dispute only in your individual capacity, and not as part of a class, collective or representative action. You waive any right to participate in, or recover through, any such action against us.
We may change these Terms. If a change is material we will tell members by email and will post the new version here before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the change; if you do not, close your account.
If any part of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours freely to any successor to our business or to an affiliate, without notice to you.
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole of the agreement between you and us about the service.
PartyOf Co.
5550 Glades Road, Suite 610
Boca Raton, Florida 33431
United States