Terms of Service
The short version: Reader Room connects actors with other actors who read scenes with them over live video. It is free to hang out and to swap reads. Paid reads use prepaid credits. All sales are final. Be decent to each other.
1. Who we are
Reader Room ("Reader Room", "we", "us") is operated by [legal name of the business]. By creating an account or using the service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you read for payment you also agree to the Reader Agreement.
2. Who can use it
You must be at least 18 years old. You are responsible for your account and for keeping your password private. One person, one account.
3. What the service is
Real actors, reading live. Every reader on Reader Room is a person: a working actor whose profile we review before they can read. Readers may not use AI-generated or synthesised voices, text-to-speech, pre-recorded audio or video, or have someone else read in their place. If a read is not what this paragraph describes, report it and we will remove the reader.
Reader Room is a meeting place. Readers are independent people, not our employees or agents. We do not cast, represent or employ anyone, and we do not promise that a reader will be available, that a read will go the way you hoped, or that it will help you book work.
4. Credits, swap minutes and prices
- Credits. One credit pays for one minute of a paid read. Credits are sold in packs at the prices shown at checkout. A read is charged in whole minutes, rounded up, and a paid read is charged for at least 5 minutes. Reads shorter than 20 seconds are not charged.
- Swap minutes. Swap minutes are earned by reading for others and spent on your own reads, minute for minute. They are free, cannot be bought, and may be adjusted if they were obtained through abuse.
- No cash value. Credits and swap minutes are not money. They cannot be transferred, exchanged for cash, or redeemed outside Reader Room.
- Tips. Tips are optional and come out of your credits. The reader receives 90% of the value of a tip; the rest covers payment processing.
5. Premium membership
- What it is. Premium is an optional paid membership with extra features, listed in your Wallet. The features may change over time.
- Free trial. New Premium members get 7 days free. A payment card is required to start, and each person gets one trial.
- Price. Premium is $15 a month or $150 a year.
- Founding members. The first 500 people who start a Premium membership on or before March 31, 2027 pay $100 a year and keep that price for as long as their membership stays active without a break. If a founding membership ends or lapses, rejoining is at the regular price.
- Automatic renewal. When the trial ends, your card is charged the price shown at checkout and the membership renews automatically for the same period, at the same price, until you cancel.
- Earning Premium by reading. If you read for other members for 300 qualifying minutes or more in a calendar month, Premium is free for you in the following calendar month. No more than 90 minutes read for any one member in a month qualify, and minutes obtained through abuse or collusion do not count. This does not reduce or refund a paid membership.
- Tape notes. Premium includes one tape notes request per calendar quarter. Further requests cost 40 credit minutes each. Notes are one reviewer's opinion and are not a promise of any casting result.
- How to cancel. Cancel any time in your Wallet under Manage or cancel membership. To avoid the next charge, cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date. You keep Premium until the end of the period you have already paid for.
- No refunds. Membership fees are not refunded, including for a partly used period, except where the law requires otherwise.
- Price changes. If the price changes, we will tell you before your next renewal so you can cancel first.
5a. No refunds on credits
All purchases are final. Credits are non-refundable, including unused credits and credits remaining when an account is closed, except where the law requires otherwise. If something went wrong on our side, such as being charged minutes for a read that never connected, contact us and we will look at it and may restore minutes at our discretion.
6. Recording
Actors may record a read, including the reader's voice and image, for the purpose of preparing and submitting an audition. By taking part in a read you consent to being recorded for that purpose. Do not record anyone for any other purpose, and do not publish a recording of another person without their permission. Recording laws vary by place; you are responsible for following the law where you are.
7. Your content
You keep ownership of what you upload: your headshot, profile, sides, takes, reviews and messages. You give us permission to store and display that content as needed to run the service. Only upload sides and other material you have the right to use. Audition material is often confidential; treat other people's sides as confidential and do not share them.
8. Conduct
Do not harass, threaten or discriminate against anyone. No sexual content or solicitation. Do not ask for or offer payment outside Reader Room for reads arranged here. Do not impersonate anyone, scrape the service, interfere with it, or try to manipulate minutes, reviews or payouts. Reviews must be honest and about a read you actually had.
9. Suspension and closing accounts
You can stop using Reader Room at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these Terms or puts other members at risk. Unused credits are not refunded when an account is closed.
10. Disclaimers and limits
The service is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. Live video depends on networks and devices we do not control, and calls can fail. To the fullest extent the law allows, Reader Room is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost auditions or bookings, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the three months before the claim.
11. Changes
We may update these Terms. If a change is significant we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Reader Room after that means you accept the updated Terms.
12. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of [state], without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.
Contact
Questions about this document: [contact email].