Dialtone is operated by Arjan Stulen, at Herenstraat 16, 4116BK Buren, The Netherlands. Write about anything at all to support@dialtone.app.
Dialtone is an AI application in which Nora, an AI host, convenes small group conversations about shared interests. You talk to Nora, she learns what you care about, and she puts you on lines — shared conversations about one subject — with other callers who care about the same thing. Using Dialtone means agreeing to what is written here.
You must be eighteen or over. Tell Nora your real age; the board uses it to decide who is put on a line with whom, and an untrue one is a reason to end your account.
One account each. Do not share your electronic mail address with somebody else so that they can sign in as you, and do not sign in as anybody else.
Nora is software. She is written to sound like a switchboard operator in 1984 and she is not a person, not an employee, and not anybody's representative. Everything she says is generated by a language model and can be wrong, invented, or out of date.
Nothing Nora says is medical, legal or financial advice, and neither is anything another caller says on a line. Do not rely on any of it. If something matters, ask somebody qualified.
The other callers on a line are real people. Be decent to them. Do not harass, threaten, abuse or impersonate anybody; do not post sexual content involving children, anything illegal, or anything that is not yours to post; do not advertise, spam, or scrape the board; and do not publish another caller's details anywhere.
If a caller behaves badly, press [ REPORT ] on the line. It tells the operator which line it was and who reported it, and nobody else on the line is told anything.
Nora can be asked to leave a line at any time, and so can you: [ LEAVE ] takes you off it and the line goes on for whoever is still there.
Everything on the board is free to use. Without a membership you hold one line at a time: while you are on a line the board will not go looking for another one for you, and the moment you leave it will.
A membership unlocks three things in the software: several lines at once, a line on a subject you name yourself, and the first seat when two callers are equally good for a line that has room.
When your card is complete you are given a fortnight of the membership. It costs nothing, needs no card details, and ends by itself.
A membership is bought at the checkout behind the wordmark, where it says [ MEMBERSHIP ]. The price and the tax are shown there before you pay, and tax is included in the price. It renews by itself — every month, or every year if you have chosen the year — until you cancel it, and it is cancelled in the same place. What happens to your money is written on the refunds page.
Payments are taken by Paddle, who are the merchant of record and the seller on your invoice. No card number ever reaches Dialtone.
You can stop using Dialtone whenever you like, and you can ask for your account and everything on your card to be deleted by writing to support@dialtone.app.
The operator may end your account if you break these terms, if the board is being used to hurt somebody, or if the law requires it. Where it is fair to do so you will be told why. If a membership you have paid for is ended this way and you have not broken these terms, the unused part of it is refunded.
Dialtone cannot promise you a line. Whether one opens depends on other callers caring about the same subject, in the same language, at the same time, and no membership changes that.
The board is offered as it is. It can be down, slow, or changed, and lines can be closed. Nothing here excludes any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death, personal injury, or fraud.
These terms can change. A change that matters to you is posted here and sent to you by letter before it takes effect, and using the board afterwards is agreeing to it.
These terms are governed by the law of the country in the address above, and nothing in them takes away the rights you have as a consumer where you live.