These are the rules for using Cozy Campfire. Installing the app or signing in means you agree to them. We have kept them short and in plain words, because rules nobody reads are rules nobody follows.
What the app is, and who runs it
Cozy Campfire is an iPhone app for trading real answers with people you know. Someone sends a question, everyone answers with a video or a voice recording, and you cannot play anyone else's answer until you have recorded your own. You may see who has answered and a blurred video preview before then. There is no public feed, no ads, and no algorithm deciding what you see. You only ever see conversations you were invited into.
It is made and operated by a small independent team through Infinite Gamer LLC, a California limited liability company. When this page says "we", that is who it means.
What you need to use it
- An iPhone and a US mobile phone number you control.
- To be at least 13 years old. Cozy Campfire is not for children under 13.
- An invite, or a friend to invite. Other signed-in users can see your display name and profile photo, and someone who knows your phone number can find your account. Your recordings stay private to their conversations.
You are responsible for what happens on your account, so keep your phone locked and do not hand your sign-in code to anyone. If you lose control of your number, tell us.
Your recordings stay yours
You own what you record. You are giving us permission to store your recordings and show them to the people in that specific conversation, which is the only way the app can work. That permission covers nothing else. We do not use your recordings in marketing, we do not show them to anyone outside the conversation, and we do not use them to train machine learning models.
You are responsible for having the right to post what you post: your own words, your own face, and the consent of anyone else who appears in your recording.
Community standards
These are the things that will get content removed and accounts closed. They are not aspirations. We enforce them.
Do not harass anyone
No threats, no intimidation, no bullying, no hate directed at someone for who they are, no coordinated pile-on, no repeated contact after someone has asked you to stop. A private group makes harassment worse, not better, because the person cannot walk away without leaving their friends.
Never post sexual content involving a minor
Zero tolerance, no context in which it is acceptable, no second chance. Any sexual content involving anyone under 18, including material that sexualizes a child in any way, results in immediate and permanent removal of the account. We report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and to law enforcement, and we preserve what is needed for that report.
Do not record someone who has not agreed to be recorded
Everyone visible or audible in your recording has to know they are being recorded and be fine with it. Do not post recordings of a private conversation, a person who is unaware, or anyone who has told you no. Recording people without consent is illegal in a lot of places, including in most of the United States for private conversations. It is also just a bad thing to do to someone.
Do not post illegal content
Nothing that is illegal to make, hold, or send: no material that sexually exploits a child, no threats of violence, no incitement of violence, no promotion of terrorism, no sale of drugs or weapons, no stolen material, no fraud, no content that infringes someone else's copyright.
Do not pretend to be someone you are not
Use your own name or a name people know you by. Do not impersonate another person, do not sign up with a phone number that is not yours, and do not set up an account to deceive the people in a conversation about who they are talking to.
Also not allowed
- Sexual content sent to people who did not ask for it, and any sexual content sent to a minor.
- Content that encourages suicide or self-harm, or that mocks someone for it. If you are worried about someone in a conversation, the right move is to reach them directly, not to report and walk away.
- Graphic violence or gore posted to shock people.
- Spam, scams, chain messages, and using invites to reach people who do not know you.
- Taking someone's recording out of the conversation and putting it somewhere public without asking them first. The app lets you save an answer to your phone because sometimes you want to keep it. That is not permission to publish it.
- Attacking the service: breaking or working around the give to get rule, trying to read other people's data, scraping, reverse engineering, load testing, or automating the app.
Reports, and what we do about them
If you see something that breaks these rules, email support@infinitegamer.me. Tell us what you saw, roughly when, and who posted it. Reports are handled privately, and we do not tell the person who reported them.
We aim to act on reports of objectionable content or abusive behavior within 24 hours. Acting means we review the report and take the relevant action: remove the content, remove someone from the conversation, close the account, or conclude that it does not break these rules. An in-app report does not currently receive an in-app reply, so email support@infinitegamer.me too if you need a response.
What we can do, depending on what happened:
- Remove the recording, message, or question.
- Remove someone from a conversation, or end the conversation.
- Suspend an account while we look into it.
- Close an account permanently and block the phone number from signing up again.
- Report the account to law enforcement where the law requires it or the situation warrants it.
Sexual content involving a minor is removed on sight and the account is closed permanently, with no warning and no appeal. For everything else, if you think we got it wrong, reply to that email and tell us why. We will read it.
We can also remove content or close an account without a report, if we come across something ourselves.
Ending it
You can delete your account any time in Settings, and everything that gets erased is listed on the privacy page. You can also just delete the app, though that leaves your account and your recordings in place, so delete the account if that is what you mean.
We can close your account if you break these rules. If we ever shut down Cozy Campfire entirely, we will give you notice first and time to save your recordings.
The lawyerly part, kept short
Cozy Campfire is provided as it is. Infinite Gamer is a small independent team, not a company with a large operations staff. We do not promise that it will always be available, that a recording will never fail to upload, or that nothing will ever be lost. Do not use it as the only copy of something you cannot lose.
We are not responsible for what other people post. If someone in a conversation does something that harms you, our responsibility is to act on it once we know about it, which is what the section above commits us to.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Infinite Gamer LLC is not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from your use of the app, and any liability we do have is limited to the amount you paid to use Cozy Campfire, which is nothing. Some states do not allow those limits, in which case they apply to you only as far as the law allows.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of laws rules.
Changes
If we change these terms, we will update this page and move the date at the top, and we will tell you in the app before a meaningful change takes effect. Continuing to use the app after that means you accept the new version.
Questions
Email support@infinitegamer.me. More on how to reach us is on the support page.