Terms of Service

Last updated: October 14, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of SpeakMic ("the Service"), operated by Mateusz Barniak, Poland, contact: [email protected]. By creating or joining a room or starting a video connection, you agree to these Terms.

1. Description of the Service

SpeakMic is a lightweight tool for live audio and video communication, peer-to-peer (WebRTC), with an optional text chat. In a Broadcast room, one "broadcaster" streams live audio to a number of "listeners" who join via a link or QR code. In a Walkie-Talkie room, any participant can press a talk button to speak to everyone else, one at a time; two participants may also take a private call that the other person has to accept, talking directly to each other while the room is muted for them (if the room's host allows them). The Video Connection feature allows two devices to connect directly via a private link or QR code for a live peer-to-peer video call (no account required). The Service is provided for live communication only: our signalling server does not record, store, or make audio or video available for later playback. (A broadcaster may optionally record their own microphone audio locally, on their own device — such a recording never reaches us or any other participant; see Section 2 of our Privacy Policy.)

In Broadcast rooms, the Service may automatically designate some listeners' devices as audio relay nodes. A relay node receives the broadcaster's audio stream and forwards it to a small number of other listeners (up to three) in order to distribute the load on the broadcaster's connection and support larger audiences. This happens without a separate permission prompt and uses a portion of your device's upload bandwidth and CPU while you are listening. The relay role is temporary and ends as soon as you leave the room or the broadcast ends. iOS devices are deprioritised for relay selection. By joining a Broadcast room, you consent to your device being used in this way. A separate, complementary feature, "relay rooms", lets a broadcaster set up their own room to rebroadcast another room's audio to its own, separate audience; a relay room is subject to these same Terms like any other Broadcast room.

2. Eligibility and acceptable use

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are below the age at which you can consent to the processing of your data by online services on your own in your country (16 in Poland), you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or guardian. Creator accounts and landing-page moderator access are for adults only.

You agree that you will not use the Service to:

• broadcast or share content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or infringes the rights (including intellectual property or privacy rights) of others;
• distribute malware, spam, or attempt to disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorised access to the Service or its infrastructure;
• impersonate any person or entity, or use the Service to facilitate illegal surveillance or recording of others without their consent;
• use the Service in a way that violates any applicable law or regulation.

You are solely responsible for the content you broadcast or send via chat, and for ensuring you have any consents required from your listeners (for example, if local law requires notice that a session is being broadcast).

If you hold a creator account or operate a landing page as a moderator, you are solely responsible for that page's content and branding, and for the rooms you feature or manage on it, under the same acceptable-use rules as above.

3. Rooms, tokens, and PINs

Anyone with a room's link or QR code can join it — as a listener in a Broadcast room, or as a participant in a Walkie-Talkie room — optionally requiring a room PIN you have set; both room types support this. Anyone with the broadcaster or admin access token for a room (stored locally on the device that created it) can act as that room's broadcaster or admin, including sending chat messages, managing PINs, removing participants from a Walkie-Talkie room (and blocking them from rejoining), and deleting the room. If you set an optional admin PIN, keep it confidential — anyone who knows it can reclaim broadcaster/admin access to that room. You are responsible for keeping room links, tokens, and PINs secure and for all activity that occurs through your room.

A permanent room can optionally have a custom link (for example speakmic.com/b/your-name for a Broadcast room or speakmic.com/w/your-name for a Walkie-Talkie room). A custom link is public and easy to guess, and anyone can check whether a name is in use - if your room should be private, protect it with a PIN to join. You are solely responsible for the name you choose: it must not infringe anyone's rights (including trademarks and names), impersonate another person, brand or institution, or be offensive or misleading. A custom link gives you no ownership of or exclusive right to that name, and we may refuse, remove or change a custom link at any time without notice, for example in response to a report. Setting an admin PIN is recommended: without it, if you lose access on your device, nobody can manage the room or its custom link.

4. Room lifetime and deletion

Rooms created on the app's home page (both Broadcast and Walkie-Talkie) are "permanent" by default: a permanent room persists until it is deleted manually or until it has had no activity for 3 months, after which it is automatically and permanently deleted. When creating a room, its creator may instead make it "temporary": a temporary room is automatically deleted after 1 day with no participants, and can be made permanent later. A room set up in a landing-page editor is temporary unless made permanent there (this requires an admin PIN). We do not guarantee that any room or its contents (including chat history) will be retained for any period of time, and we may delete rooms at our discretion, for example to address abuse or technical issues.

When a room is deleted, or its custom link is changed or removed, the old custom link stops working (including on printed QR codes). The name is then held for 90 days - during that time only the same room can take it back - after which anyone may use it, so an old link or QR code may then lead to a different room.

5. Reporting abuse and moderation

The Service has no user accounts and does not review what people say: audio and video are not recorded, and chat is not kept once everyone has left the room (see our Privacy Policy). A room's first moderator is its host (the broadcaster or admin), who can mute and remove participants of a Walkie-Talkie room, set an entry PIN, decide on private calls, and delete the room.

You can report content that is illegal or breaks these Terms (e.g. in a room name, custom link, chat, a /p/ landing page, or a call) with the "Report abuse" link in the room, on the landing page or in a video connection, or by email to [email protected]. Include the link to the room or page, a description of the problem and, if possible, when it happened. We handle reports without undue delay. Since we keep no recordings or conversation history, we cannot always tell who said or showed what - in that case we act on the room or page as a whole. If a situation may put someone's life or safety at risk, especially a child's, please also contact the police.

After a report, or on our own initiative, we may, depending on how serious the violation is: delete a room, its custom link or a landing page's content, and for serious or repeated violations a creator account or a page's moderator access. Decisions are made personally by the operator of the Service; we do not use automated content detection. If we know your email address (e.g. as a creator or as the person reporting), we will tell you about the decision and the reasons for it, and you can appeal by writing to the same address. We comply with orders and information requests from competent authorities to the extent of the data we hold - and we hold very little.

6. Technical requirements and ending your use

To use the Service you need a device with internet access and an up-to-date browser that supports WebRTC (e.g. Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) with JavaScript enabled, and to speak or make a video call, a microphone or camera and the browser's permission to use them. The Android app requires Android 8.0 or later.

The Service is free and needs no account. The agreement to use the Service is formed when you accept these Terms and lasts for as long as you use it. You can end it at any time by leaving the room or call, deleting a room you created, or clearing the site's data in your browser. We may stop providing the service in a given room as set out in Sections 4 and 5.

7. No warranty

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that audio/connection quality will be sufficient for any particular purpose. Because audio is transmitted peer-to-peer or via an optional intermediary server, quality and connectivity depend on each participant's own device, network, and browser.

The Service is not meant for emergency communication or for situations where someone's life, health or safety depends on the connection working (e.g. rescue operations, event security, work in the field or at height). A connection may drop at any time - in such situations use communication means designed for them, and in an emergency call your local emergency number (112 in the EU).

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Mateusz Barniak shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or related to your use of, or inability to use, the Service. Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law.

9. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party services, including Cloudflare (edge network, signalling server, TURN servers and bot protection), Vercel (web app hosting and aggregate statistics), Google (public STUN servers and - only with your consent - Firebase Analytics) and Oracle (servers in Germany running the optional SFU intermediary server). A full description, including the data each of them processes, is in our Privacy Policy. Your use of the Service is also subject to the availability of these services.

10. Changes to the Service or these Terms

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, at any time. We may change these Terms for valid reasons, such as new features, changes in the law, or preventing abuse. We announce a material change by updating the "Last updated" date above and asking you to accept the Terms again: the next time you create or join a room or start a video connection after the change, you will be shown the Terms to accept. If you do not accept the changes, you can simply stop using the Service, at no cost.

11. Problems and contact

You can report problems with the Service and send questions about these Terms by email to [email protected]. Say what it concerns (e.g. a link to the room or page) - we usually reply within 14 days.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Poland, without regard to its conflict of law provisions, unless mandatory consumer protection laws of your country of residence provide otherwise.