Terms

1

A place to sit

Evening Chair is a room in your browser for anyone with something they are trying to be honest about: gambling, drinking, sex or pornography, a temper, overeating, gaming, or any type of bad habit. You choose who to sit with, you talk or type about the day, and they listen and talk back. The evening is kept in their book, and the next evening they remember it.

Mateo, Sable, Cal, and June are characters written by software. They are not real people, and no person is reading along or watching the room.

Anyone who needs someone to sit with can come in. There is no age written on the door.

2

What they will and will not do

They listen, they support you in what you are going through, and they remember what you told them so they can ask how it went. They write down what you say and what you want remembered. They do not judge you.

They are not a doctor, therapist, counselor, financial advisor, or lawyer, and nothing they say is professional advice or a substitute for it. They will not name an illness or a medicine, including an addiction or a disorder.

They will not help with the thing itself. No tips, picks, odds, or places to bet. No advice on how much to drink, use, or eat, or how to stop safely, and no diets or weight targets. Nothing sexual: they will not describe it, play along, or point you to a site or a person. No tips for a game either, and no help getting back at anyone. They will not tell you to borrow, move, or chase money. What you do is your decision and your responsibility.

They are written by software, so they can misunderstand you or be wrong. If you ask whether they are real, they will say what they are.

3

If you are in danger

If you are in danger, contact local emergency services, or someone you trust. That includes danger to someone else. Evening Chair is not an emergency service and cannot send help.

Coming off alcohol or drugs can make a person seriously ill, and so can going without food or making yourself sick. That is for a doctor or an emergency service, not for this room.

4

Before you sit down

You accept a short line, in these words: “I understand Evening Chair is a quiet place to talk about what I’m going through. It keeps what I say until I delete it. It is a conversation with characters written by software, not a doctor, and what I do is my own decision.”

That yes stays in this browser so you are not asked every time. If the line changes, you will see it again. Sitting down means you accept these terms as they stand that day.

5

Your words

What you say is kept until you delete it. A copy stays in this browser, and with an account the same pages are kept in the site’s database so they are there on any phone or laptop. Nothing is cleared on its own.

To make the room work, your words pass through a few services: OpenAI writes the replies, speaks them, and turns your microphone into text; Stripe takes the payment on its own page, so this site never sees your card; Vercel hosts the site; Neon holds the database; Resend carries the email. Each keeps its own rules. Evening Chair does not sell your words or show them to anyone else.

You can remove a page whenever you want, and it goes from the book and the database both. To close your account and delete everything in it, write to connor@eveningchair.com from the email on the account.

Please do not type passwords, card numbers, or someone else’s private details into the room. If you do, delete that page.

6

Accounts and paying

Anyone can make an account, and making one is free. One account per email. Keep your password somewhere safe; there is no reset yet, and you are responsible for what is done with your account. You can sign out from the menu on any page.

Sitting down is for subscribers, on one of two plans. Typing opens the room for written messages, up to 40 a day, answered in their voice or in words on the screen. The live line opens the live voice as well. A sitting on the line lasts up to fifteen minutes and then hangs up, so a tab left open cannot run on, and a line nobody has spoken on for a few minutes hangs up too. Another sitting can start straight away, out of seven and a half hours of live voice a month: a full sitting every evening. The time is counted from the moment the line opens to the moment it closes, both sides of the talk and the quiet included.

Evening Chair is $8 a month for typing, and $20 a month or $180 for the year for the live line, taken by Stripe on Stripe’s own page. You can switch plans or cancel from Manage billing whenever you like and keep the rest of the period you paid for. If a charge looks wrong, write to connor@eveningchair.com.

With a subscription, two emails come between evenings: a short note at the hour you choose, from the person you last sat with, to say they are in; and on Sundays, in place of the note, a page with the week in it, in your own words. Evenings is where you set the hour or turn either off, and every one of them has a link at the foot to stop it. They go to the email on your account and nowhere else.

7

What we cannot promise

Evening Chair is offered as it is. It can be down, a voice can mishear a word, and a page can fail to save if a browser is full. It is not a treatment, and it makes no promise about what happens with the thing you are working on.

As far as the law where you live allows, Evening Chair and the people who make it are not responsible for decisions you make, bets you place, money you win or lose, or anything that follows from what is said in the room. If the law gives you rights that cannot be limited, those rights stand.

8

Being kind

Use Evening Chair kindly. Don’t use it to hurt someone, to get a tip on a bet, to get anything sexual out of the people in the room, to pretend a person in the room is a doctor, to break the site, or to get into someone else’s book. An account used that way can be closed.

9

Changes and questions

These terms can change as the site grows. The date at the top is the date of the version you are reading, and a changed line at the door means the terms changed. Questions go to connor@eveningchair.com.