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Terms of Service: Plain-English Reader Contract

Read our terms of service: 18+ eligibility, fair-use quoting, no accounts, US + EU + UK + CA + AU consumer rights preserved. Plain English by Alexandra Joly.

By Last revised May 2026

Most adult-site terms of service run to 12,000 words of boilerplate built to hide liability, scare readers out of quoting, and reserve rights the publisher will never actually use. This page is shorter, structured by what you actually need to know, and honest about the 18+ requirement up front. I wrote it the way I'd want a reader contract written to me.

bestgirlfriend.ai (the "Site") is an independent editorial comparator covering AI girlfriend apps, live cam sites, and adult games. It does not offer chat, AI generation, live video, or any payment flow on its own domain. These Terms (the "Terms") describe the reader contract between you and the publisher of the Site, drafted against the U.S. Restatement (Second) of Contracts, EU Directive 2011/83/EU and 2019/770, the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015, the Canadian Competition Act, and the Australian Consumer Law. Where any clause conflicts with a mandatory provision of those statutes in your jurisdiction, the statute prevails.

Who can use bestgirlfriend.ai?

Any adult of legal majority in their jurisdiction may read the Site (18+ in most regions, higher in some U.S. states and Asian markets). Minors are categorically prohibited. The Site is editorial only, so use does not require account creation, payment, or identity verification on our domain.

The Site is published from the European Union and accessible globally. We rely on each reader to confirm their own legal majority. Where a national or sub-national authority imposes a higher threshold or an age-assurance requirement (Texas HB 1181, Utah SB 287, Louisiana Act 440, the UK Online Safety Act 2023, the EU Digital Services Act), readers are routed through our age-verification page before suggestive imagery or any affiliate path is exposed.

What is the age requirement?

You must be at least eighteen years old, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction if higher. Texas, Utah, Louisiana, and several Asian markets impose stricter thresholds. By using the Site you affirm you meet the applicable threshold. See the jurisdiction matrix for the complete table.

The 18+ floor is non-negotiable. Underage access is categorically prohibited under our content safety policy and U.S. [Source: 18 U.S.C. § 2257: record-keeping requirements for sexually explicit material · verified 2026-05-26]. The threshold table by jurisdiction sits on our age-verification page, and we update it whenever a regulator publishes a new rule.

What conduct is prohibited?

Industrial scraping, evading rate limits, reverse-engineering our scoring, framing or hot-linking our content, impersonating Alexandra Joly or the editorial team, posting unlawful content via /contact, and any attempt to interfere with Site availability. Personal reading, sharing a link, and quoting with attribution are expressly permitted.

The prohibited list is narrow on purpose. We want our content to circulate, so quotations on Reddit, in newsletters, and in academic citations are all welcome. What we don't want is wholesale extraction of the proprietary benchmark dataset, mass-translation farms cloning our structure, or automated crawlers ignoring the crawler directives we publish. Those behaviours trip Cloudflare security rules and, in extreme cases, the civil remedies described under "What happens if I violate these terms?" below.

Permitted use vs prohibited use

Can I republish bestgirlfriend.ai content?

Short quotations with a visible byline credit and a do-follow link to the source page are permitted under fair use, fair dealing (UK, CA, AU), and the EU quotation right (Directive 2001/29/EC, Article 5). Wholesale republication, machine translation, or AI-derived rewrites of full reviews require written permission at [email protected].

A "short quotation" means up to ≈ 150 words from a single page, used for commentary, criticism, news reporting, teaching, or research, with an unobscured do-follow hyperlink to the source URL. AI-derived paraphrases count as derivative works no matter how deep the paraphrase goes; the test is whether the copy substitutes for the original, not how much wording overlaps. Academic researchers and journalists on deadline can request expedited written permission, typically answered within 48 hours.

Are there any user accounts?

No. bestgirlfriend.ai does not offer reader accounts, subscriptions, paywalls, or login flows on its own domain. The newsletter and the Discord community are optional, governed by their own terms, and never required to read editorial content. Affiliate signups happen on third-party platforms under their own contracts.

The absence of accounts is deliberate. No login means no password breach risk, no profile graph to leak, and no behavioural cookie pool for anyone to subpoena. The newsletter and Discord are opt-in extensions with their own terms, and you can leave, block, or unsubscribe from either without losing access to any review on the Site.

What if a third-party platform misleads me?

Disputes about a platform's pricing, billing, or service quality are between you and that platform, not us. Our review is editorial commentary based on standardized testing, not a guarantee of the platform's conduct. We log substantiated complaints in the errata board and re-test under our published cadence.

We describe what we observed during testing and what user reports add up to. We can't underwrite a third party's billing rails or refund flow. If a platform's behaviour materially diverges from our review, write to [email protected] with screenshots, billing-descriptor strings, and dates. Substantiated reports trigger an out-of-cycle re-test under our editorial process, and the change is logged in the public errata board.

Who owns the content on this site?

bestgirlfriend.ai owns the editorial content, original photography, scoring criteria, and proprietary benchmark dataset under copyright. Trademarks of platforms we cover (Candy.ai, Chaturbate, Hentai Heroes, etc.) belong to their respective owners and appear here under nominative fair use, not as endorsement or partnership.

Copyright sits with the publisher. Trademarks stay with their proprietors, and our use is strictly nominative: we name a platform to describe and evaluate it, never to imply approval or sponsorship. The Alexandra Joly persona, visual identity, and proprietary scoring criteria are protected as a coherent editorial asset under EU, U.S., UK, Canadian, and Australian copyright and trademark frameworks.

What happens if I violate these terms?

We may revoke your access by IP, ASN, or Cloudflare rule, without notice, for any material breach (industrial scraping, rate-limit evasion, abusive contact). Civil remedies, including damages and injunctive relief, remain available under applicable law. We have never pursued a reader for ordinary reading or quoting and do not intend to start.

The escalation ladder is graduated. The first responses are technical: a rate-limit, a captcha, a security rule. If that doesn't stop the abuse, the next step is administrative, a cease-and-desist to the operator's hosting provider or registered agent. Only material commercial harm gets us to civil action under copyright, trademark, and unfair-competition law. Ordinary readers, quoters, and link-sharers will never see this ladder activated.

Are there any warranties?

No. The Site is provided AS-IS, without warranty of any kind, express or implied. We make no warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. Mandatory consumer guarantees under your local law remain in force regardless (see "What law governs these terms?" below).

Editorial content is our best-faith account of what we tested on a specific date, against criteria we publish openly. Platform behaviour changes, pricing changes, regulators issue new rules. We refresh on the schedule described on our editorial process page, but between refreshes the world keeps moving. Read with that in mind, and write to [email protected] if a fact looks stale. That's how the errata board gets fed.

Is there a limit on liability?

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for any claim related to your use of the Site is capped at zero, since the Site is free to read and we collect no payment from you. Mandatory non-waivable damages under your local consumer-protection law remain in force regardless of this cap.

The cap is not a trick. It mirrors what you actually pay us, which is nothing. We earn from affiliate commissions paid by third-party platforms downstream of an outbound click, not from readers. EU readers keep their mandatory remedies under Directive 2011/83/EU; UK readers under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 fairness test; U.S. readers under state UDAP statutes. A cap clause never waives a non-waivable statutory right.

Do I indemnify you?

Only for your own misuse of the Site. You agree to hold bestgirlfriend.ai and its editorial team harmless from third-party claims arising directly from your industrial scraping, impersonation, unlawful content submission, or other prohibited conduct. Ordinary reading and quoting carry no indemnification obligation.

Indemnity is the boring mirror image of the prohibited-uses list above. If you scrape us at industrial volume and your hosting provider sues us because the abuse trail leads back to your infrastructure, you cover the legal costs, not us. If you read us, quote us, or share a link with a friend, this clause never activates.

How does the affiliate revenue model affect these terms?

It does not change your rights or obligations as a reader. The affiliate disclosure explains how we earn; our scoring page explains how we score; this Terms page governs your interaction with the Site itself. Clicking an affiliate link transfers you to a third-party platform whose own terms then apply.

The three documents are layered. Terms of Service governs reading the Site. Affiliate Disclosure is the FTC-compliant statement of how the publisher earns. Methodology is the published scoring criteria explaining how scores are produced. Affiliate revenue doesn't buy editorial favour, our editorial choices don't bind the affiliate networks, and these Terms don't reach the platforms downstream of an outbound link.

What law governs these terms?

These Terms are governed by EU law and France for EU readers, U.S. federal law and the State of Delaware for U.S. readers, and the consumer-protection statutes of your country of residence where mandatory rules apply. Mandatory consumer rights under your local law always prevail over any contrary clause here.

This is a layered choice-of-law clause, drafted to satisfy the Rome I Regulation Article 6 (consumer contracts, EU) and Restatement (Second) Conflict of Laws §187 (U.S.). The underlying principle is the same on both sides of the Atlantic: a publisher can't waive your mandatory consumer rights by contract, whatever the forum. The table below shows the floor we can't drop below.

Jurisdiction × Statute × Mandatory consumer rule × Our compliance

How do I resolve a dispute?

Contact [email protected] first; we respond within fourteen calendar days. If unresolved, EU readers may use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform; UK readers may approach Citizens Advice; U.S. readers retain small-claims courts and state consumer-protection bureaus. Class-action waivers are not enforced where local law prohibits them.

The dispute ladder is short on purpose and front-loaded toward direct resolution. Most contestations (a wrong score on a sub-criterion, an outdated pricing snapshot, a missing feature) get resolved by editing the page and logging the change in the errata board. Regional escalation paths stay available regardless of any forum-selection clause we publish.

Can these terms change?

Yes. We may update this page; material changes update the page's revision date and are announced in the next newsletter edition. Continued use of the Site after a logged change constitutes acceptance for non-mandatory terms. Mandatory consumer rules apply regardless of any clause we publish.

We don't silently amend these Terms. Every substantive edit is dated, reflected in the page's revision date, and previewed to newsletter subscribers. Cosmetic edits (a typo fix, a broken link repair, a formatting cleanup) get logged with a "non-substantive" flag. The [Source: EU Modernisation Directive 2019/2161 · verified 2026-05-26] obligation to flag material changes to consumer-facing terms is the floor we operate above.

What if a clause is unenforceable?

If any clause is held unenforceable by a competent court, that clause is severed and the remainder of the Terms continues in force. The severed clause is replaced by the closest lawful equivalent that preserves the original intent. Severability is standard practice and is itself permitted under EU, UK, U.S., Canadian, and Australian contract law.

Severability isn't a loophole, it's housekeeping. Consumer-protection regulators occasionally strike down boilerplate clauses (forum-selection, class-action waivers, broad limitation-of-liability), and we'd rather lose one paragraph than collapse the whole contract. Clauses that have already failed elsewhere in the consumer-contract case law we follow are trimmed out of this draft before they ever ship.

Is this the entire agreement?

Yes. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookies notice, DMCA procedure, and Affiliate Disclosure, constitute the entire agreement between you and bestgirlfriend.ai regarding your use of the Site. Earlier drafts or marketing copy do not modify this agreement.

Side communications (email replies, Discord answers, social posts) can clarify but never amend the contract. If you need a binding interpretation of any clause, write to [email protected] and we'll reply in writing. That archived reply is the only out-of-band amendment we recognise. Otherwise, this page is the contract.

How do I contact you about these terms?

Write to [email protected] for editorial, factual, or republication queries; [email protected] for general questions; and [email protected] for copyright takedown notices under 17 U.S.C. §512. We acknowledge every message within 72 hours and substantively respond within 14 calendar days, business days where applicable.

Our contact page lists every mailbox, the response windows, and the structured fields a takedown or republication request should include. The DMCA designated agent for U.S. notices is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office; the EU notice-and-action point is the publisher's registered agent in France. We keep both addresses current on the contact page, and any change updates the page's revision date.

I write contracts the way I write reviews: short, structured by what the reader actually needs to know, no decorative jargon, no clauses I'm not willing to defend in plain language to a regulator. If a paragraph above feels too elastic, write to [email protected] and tell me. I'd rather tighten the draft now than find out a clause is unfair the day someone challenges it.

Sources

Cite this page (APA)

Joly, A. (2026). Terms of Service: bestgirlfriend.ai Reader Contract. bestgirlfriend.ai. https://bestgirlfriend.ai/terms

Frequently asked questions

Who can use bestgirlfriend.ai?

Any adult of legal majority in their jurisdiction may read the Site (18+ in most regions, higher in some U.S. states and Asian markets). Minors are categorically prohibited. The Site is editorial only, so use does not require account creation, payment, or identity verification on our domain.

What is the age requirement?

You must be at least eighteen years old, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction if higher. Texas, Utah, Louisiana, and several Asian markets impose stricter thresholds. By using the Site you affirm you meet the applicable threshold. See the jurisdiction matrix for the complete table.

What conduct is prohibited?

Industrial scraping, evading rate limits, reverse-engineering our scoring, framing or hot-linking our content, impersonating Alexandra Joly or the editorial team, posting unlawful content via /contact, and any attempt to interfere with Site availability. Personal reading, sharing a link, and quoting with attribution are expressly permitted.

Can I republish bestgirlfriend.ai content?

Short quotations with a visible byline credit and a do-follow link to the source page are permitted under fair use, fair dealing (UK, CA, AU), and the EU quotation right (Directive 2001/29/EC, Article 5). Wholesale republication, machine translation, or AI-derived rewrites of full reviews require written permission at [email protected].

Are there any user accounts?

No. bestgirlfriend.ai does not offer reader accounts, subscriptions, paywalls, or login flows on its own domain. The newsletter and the Discord community are optional, governed by their own terms, and never required to read editorial content. Affiliate signups happen on third-party platforms under their own contracts.

What if a third-party platform misleads me?

Disputes about a platform's pricing, billing, or service quality are between you and that platform, not us. Our review is editorial commentary based on standardized testing, not a guarantee of the platform's conduct. We log substantiated complaints in the errata board and re-test under our published cadence.

Who owns the content on this site?

bestgirlfriend.ai owns the editorial content, original photography, scoring criteria, and proprietary benchmark dataset under copyright. Trademarks of platforms we cover (Candy.ai, Chaturbate, Hentai Heroes, etc.) belong to their respective owners and appear here under nominative fair use, not as endorsement or partnership.

What happens if I violate these terms?

We may revoke your access by IP, ASN, or Cloudflare rule, without notice, for any material breach (industrial scraping, rate-limit evasion, abusive contact). Civil remedies, including damages and injunctive relief, remain available under applicable law. We have never pursued a reader for ordinary reading or quoting and do not intend to start.

How does the affiliate revenue model affect these terms?

It does not change your rights or obligations as a reader. The affiliate disclosure explains how we earn; our scoring page explains how we score; this Terms page governs your interaction with the Site itself. Clicking an affiliate link transfers you to a third-party platform whose own terms then apply.

What law governs these terms?

These Terms are governed by EU law and France for EU readers, U.S. federal law and the State of Delaware for U.S. readers, and the consumer-protection statutes of your country of residence where mandatory rules apply. Mandatory consumer rights under your local law always prevail over any contrary clause here.

How do I resolve a dispute?

Contact [email protected] first; we respond within fourteen calendar days. If unresolved, EU readers may use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform; UK readers may approach Citizens Advice; U.S. readers retain small-claims courts and state consumer-protection bureaus. Class-action waivers are not enforced where local law prohibits them.

Can these terms change?

Yes. We may update this page; material changes update the page's revision date and are announced in the next newsletter edition. Continued use of the Site after a logged change constitutes acceptance for non-mandatory terms. Mandatory consumer rules apply regardless of any clause we publish.

What if a clause is unenforceable?

If any clause is held unenforceable by a competent court or regulator, that clause is severed and the remainder of the Terms continues in force. The severed clause is replaced by the closest lawful equivalent that preserves the original intent. Severability is standard practice and is itself permitted under EU, UK, U.S., Canadian, and Australian contract law.

How do I contact you about these terms?

Write to [email protected] for editorial, factual, or republication queries; [email protected] for general questions; and [email protected] for copyright takedown notices under 17 U.S.C. §512. We acknowledge every message within 72 hours and substantively respond within 14 calendar days, business days where applicable.

Does bestgirlfriend.ai provide legal advice?

No. We are journalists, not lawyers. This page describes the contractual framework governing your reading of the Site and references the statutes we operate under. It is not legal advice. If you need guidance on your specific situation, consult a qualified attorney admitted to the bar in your jurisdiction.

What rights do I retain as a consumer?

All mandatory consumer rights under your local law are preserved in full. EU readers retain rights under Directive 2011/83/EU and 2019/770; UK readers under the Consumer Rights Act 2015; Canadian readers under provincial consumer-protection acts; Australian readers under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these Terms waives a non-waivable statutory right.

  • Privacy Policy: what data we collect, what we don't, and the GDPR / CCPA / PIPEDA / Privacy Act 1988 framework.
  • Cookies: Plausible analytics, no cross-site tracking, opt-out paths.
  • DMCA / Copyright takedown: 17 U.S.C. §512 designated-agent notice procedure.
  • Affiliate Disclosure: FTC 16 CFR Part 255 statement and the layered consumer-protection regime.
  • Editorial Process: twelve-step workflow and the score-lock-at-publish rule.
  • Methodology: three published scoring pages (AI v1.0, Cam, Adult Game).
  • About: masthead, persona, and registered agent.
  • Contact: every mailbox, with response windows.

Last verified 2026 · See errata log for any post-publish corrections · Editor: Alexandra Joly · Methodology · Editorial process · Affiliate disclosure

Terms of Service: Plain-English Reader Contract