EchoFloat Terms of Use and Content Guidelines

Version 1.3, effective 23 October 2026. What changed from 1.2 (13 October 2026): the section "Floats" — the app's own currency, what it is and what it is not — and the allowance for your own sticker packs in "Limits built into the service".

EchoFloat is a private, non-commercial messenger: text channels with attachments and voice calls. By using the application and the server at echo.godrink.beer you accept these terms. They also set out what may be posted and how to report content — the rules any product needs when one person sees what another person wrote.

How we handle data is described in the [privacy policy](/privacy).

Who may use it

• you must be at least 13 years old;
• you are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your

password safe;

• one person may hold several accounts, but not in order to evade limits or a

block.

What may not be posted

The following are not allowed in channels, attachments, channel names or account names:

• material that exploits children, in any form. This is the one item with no

discussion: the content is removed and the account is blocked immediately;

• threats, bullying and harassment of specific people, or calls for violence;
• hate speech targeting race, ethnicity, national origin, language, gender,

age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or membership of any other group;

• pornography and sexually explicit material;
• other people's personal data without their consent — addresses, phone

numbers, documents, private correspondence;

• material that infringes copyright;
• malware, links to it, or attempts to defraud other participants;
• spam and bulk messaging, advertising included;
• anything unlawful under applicable law.

Everything you post must be yours, or something the rights holder permits you to use.

Pets (bots)

A pet is an account a program drives; its card names its owner. On this server only the server administrator makes pets.

• The owner answers for everything a pet writes, and the rules above bind it

as they bind a person.

• A pet writes only where it was invited — a dialog a person started, a group

whose administrators added it — and must not be used for bulk messaging, to collect data it does not need for what it does, or to get around a limit or a block.

• A pet's messages are reported like anybody's, with the same menu item.
• Anybody can stop a pet in their own dialog with it (see the

[privacy policy](/privacy)); a group's administrators can remove it from the group like any member.

Sticker packs

Anybody can put a sticker pack together and publish it. A published pack is everybody's to see: it is found in the catalogue, added to one's own stickers and sent from. A pack's card names its author.

• A published pack is content just as a message is: the rules of "What may not

be posted" apply to every sticker in it, to its title and to its stickers' emoji.

• The art must be yours, or art you have the rights to. Packs from Telegram

and anywhere else belong to their authors: publishing somebody else's pack under your name is not allowed, however familiar it already is.

• A pack may not be published to pass yourself off as another person or

project, nor used for advertising or spam.

• An author can delete their own pack: it leaves the catalogue and everybody's

stickers, while the stickers already sent from it stay in the conversations.

Floats

Floats are EchoFloat's own currency. They are not money: they cannot be bought for money, exchanged for money or withdrawn, and they have no monetary value. Floats are issued by a server administrator as promo codes, given at launch and paid for quests — for acts with friends in the app; they are spent on features inside the app, such as HD+ for streams or one more slot for your own stickers. Nothing is on sale for Floats yet: every feature of the app is free.

• Floats and the features bought with them belong to the account and pass to

nobody except as a gift to a friend through the app itself. Selling, buying or trading them outside the app is not allowed.

• A promo code works once for one account. Codes may not be guessed at: the

number of attempts is limited, and a code sent to you personally works for you alone.

• Gaming the quests — with bots, second accounts or collusion for the rewards —

is not allowed; an administrator may take back Floats obtained that way and revoke the features bought with them.

• What was bought with Floats is not refunded in money — there is no money

here; a mistake is corrected by an administrator adjusting the balance, with a reason you see in your history.

• We may change the prices, the set of features and quests, issue codes or not,

and stop Floats from being spent on the server — after an accounting fault, for instance; the balance and the history are kept meanwhile. If the project closes, Floats go with it: there is no obligation behind them.

How to report content

Every message written by somebody else has a "Report" item in its menu. It asks for a reason (harassment, sexual content, child safety, violence, unlawful content, spam, something else) and lets you add a comment. The report goes to the server administrator together with a copy of the message — the copy matters because the author can delete or edit the text before anyone reviews it.

Reports land in a queue the server owner reviews by hand. The outcome is either that the message is removed or that the report is closed as unfounded. We do not promise a review time: one person runs this project. For anything urgent — child safety above all — write directly to support@godrink.beer.

A sticker pack is reported from its card, with the same "Report" item and the same reasons. The report goes into the same queue.

You can also report what is not a message: a participant's behaviour, a channel name, or the service itself, by the same email.

What an administrator can do

• delete any message and any channel;
• disconnect a participant from a voice call;
• close an account used for any of the above;
• stop, remove or retire a pet that breaks these rules — retiring cuts its

program off for good;

• take down a sticker pack that breaks these rules: it leaves the catalogue and

everybody's stickers, and the stickers already sent from it read "Sticker removed". Where the pack holds unlawful content, its files are deleted from the server and cannot be uploaded again;

• remove content at the request of a rights holder or under a lawful demand;
• remove or disable content when Microsoft requires it, while the product is

distributed through the Microsoft Store.

We try not to remove more than necessary, but where the rules and convenience conflict, the rules win.

What we do not promise

• uninterrupted service. One server, one administrator, nobody on call;
• backups. They are not configured on the server — a disk failure would lose

messages and attachments;

• a response time for email or reports;
• that the service will exist forever. If it shuts down, we will say so in

advance — in a channel everyone can read and on this page.

The software is provided "as is", without warranty. We are not liable for damage arising from its use, nor for what other participants write.

Limits built into the service

So that one person cannot take up the whole server: at most 20 messages per minute, 30 uploads per hour, 20 reports per hour, a daily upload allowance per participant and a total storage ceiling. Sticker packs: at most 5 new ones a day and 10 of one author's own; stickers: at most 300 an hour and 32 in one pack. A Floats promo code may be tried at most 10 times an hour. Registration is rate-limited per address. A pet has budgets of its own: at most 60 messages a minute, and 20 into any one chat.

Changes

These terms may change; the version and date at the top of the page say which ones are currently in force. Significant changes will also be announced in a channel everyone can read.

Contact

support@godrink.beer — reports, questions, rights-holder requests, account deletion.