The terms of a seat.

Who runs this

Parlour is operated by Riverbend Interactive LLC. These terms are the rules of the service as of November 10, 2026. Taking a seat means you agree to them. If we change them, the date on this page changes, and the next time you speak you accept the new ones.

A seat

Listening and playing a public recording do not need an account. Speaking, hosting, tipping, paying for a chair, and writing in the margin do. You choose a handle. You keep the email on the account current, because that is how a lost password is reset.

You are responsible for what is said and shown from your seat. Do not share the password.

Recordings

A live table is recorded. Audio is saved. If you share your camera or your screen, that picture is part of the same recording. You cannot take a seat, and you cannot speak, until you have accepted that.

You keep the copyright in what you say and show. You give Parlour a license to store it, play it back to the people allowed to hear it, and show the recording on the site for as long as the host keeps it up. A public table can be played by anyone. A private table can be played only by the host and the people they invited.

The host decides whether a take is kept or discarded. The host can download the audio, or the audio with picture, and publish it somewhere else. That download is the host's copy to use under these same rules.

Money

The purse is a ledger inside Parlour. It is not a bank account, not a wallet you can spend elsewhere, and not free credit. Adding money charges a card through Stripe. A paid chair is a hold until the host approves the seat, and the card is charged only then. The house keeps 15% of a paid seat and of a gift. The rest goes to the person the payment names, as a balance in the purse.

Staff can keep a recording in the archive without the hosting fee. Everyone else pays to keep a recording up. Withdrawing from the purse returns credit in the ledger. It is not an automatic deposit to a bank.

The house can refuse

We can remove a recording, close a table, or close a seat that breaks the community guidelines, these terms, or the law. We can refuse a recording that a speaker asks us to review. If other people are in the same take, we may keep the parts that are not yours, or take the whole recording down.

Questions go to [email protected].