Terms of Use
These terms outline the rules for using EpisodeTime, including acceptable conduct, content use, and liability limitations.
Welcome to EpisodeTime. By accessing or using EpisodeTime, you agree to follow these Terms of Use. These terms govern your access to the website, user accounts, TV show database, watchlists, rankings, reviews, comments, community posts, contributor tools, schedules, and other interactive features.
EpisodeTime is a TV show information, discovery, tracking, and community platform. We do not stream, host, upload, sell, or distribute TV episodes, movies, or copyrighted video content.
Use of EpisodeTime
You may use EpisodeTime for personal, lawful, and non-commercial purposes, including browsing TV show information, tracking episodes, creating watchlists, reading schedules, rating shows, posting reviews, joining discussions, voting in rankings, and contributing improvements to the database.
You agree not to misuse EpisodeTime or use the platform in a way that could harm the service, other users, or third-party rights.
You must not:
- Use EpisodeTime for illegal, harmful, abusive, or fraudulent activity
- Attempt to hack, disrupt, overload, scrape, or damage the website or servers
- Upload malware, spam, scripts, fake links, or harmful code
- Create fake accounts, manipulate votes, rankings, reviews, or community activity
- Harass, threaten, impersonate, or abuse other users
- Post private information about another person without permission
- Upload or share content that violates copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights
- Use EpisodeTime to promote piracy, illegal streaming, or unauthorized downloads
Accounts and Security
Some EpisodeTime features may require an account, such as watchlists, episode tracking, reviews, comments, rankings, community posts, lists, and contributions.
You are responsible for keeping your account login details secure. You agree to provide accurate account information and to avoid using another person’s account without permission.
EpisodeTime may suspend or remove accounts that violate these terms, abuse the platform, create spam, manipulate rankings, or harm the community.
User Contributions
EpisodeTime may allow users to submit content such as reviews, ratings, comments, watchlists, lists, rankings, community posts, database edits, corrections, show details, cast and crew information, episode details, images, links, and other contributions.
You are responsible for the content you submit. You must make sure your contributions are lawful, respectful, accurate to the best of your knowledge, and do not violate the rights of others.
By submitting content to EpisodeTime, you give EpisodeTime permission to display, store, edit, moderate, format, publish, and use that content as part of the platform. This permission allows EpisodeTime to operate the database, community features, rankings, watchlists, reviews, and public pages.
EpisodeTime may remove, edit, reject, hide, or moderate user content at any time if it appears inaccurate, abusive, spammy, harmful, illegal, misleading, duplicated, low-quality, or against these terms.
Community Rules
EpisodeTime is built for TV fans and contributors. Users should communicate respectfully and help keep the platform useful.
You agree not to post:
- Hate speech, harassment, threats, bullying, or personal attacks
- Spam, scams, fake promotions, or misleading links
- Sexual, violent, abusive, or harmful content that is not appropriate for the platform
- Private personal information about others
- False information intended to mislead users
- Content that encourages piracy, illegal streaming, or unauthorized downloads
- Copyrighted material that you do not have permission to share
Reviews, Ratings, Rankings, and Votes
EpisodeTime may include ratings, reviews, rankings, voting systems, likes, watch activity, contributor scores, and audience-based features.
These features are based on user activity and community participation. Rankings, scores, votes, and ratings may change over time and may not represent professional reviews or official measurements.
You must not manipulate rankings, create fake votes, use automated systems, or create multiple accounts to unfairly influence results.
Watchlists and Public Profile Features
EpisodeTime may allow users to create watchlists, track watched episodes, follow shows, save favorites, publish lists, share activity, and manage profile information.
Some profile, watchlist, review, contribution, or community activity may be public depending on the feature and your settings. Do not share private or sensitive information in public areas.
TV Data, Images, and Metadata
EpisodeTime uses TV show information, episode details, cast and crew data, posters, images, schedules, and metadata from public sources, third-party APIs, official providers, user contributions, and community updates.
This information is provided for discovery, identification, organization, research, and entertainment information purposes. While we aim to keep data useful and accurate, EpisodeTime does not guarantee that all information is complete, current, or error-free.
If you believe information on EpisodeTime is incorrect or violates rights, you may contact us or use available contribution/reporting tools.
No Streaming or Downloads
EpisodeTime is not a streaming service. We do not host, upload, sell, or provide TV episodes, movies, torrents, illegal streams, or download links.
Any show pages, episode pages, posters, cast details, schedules, or external references are provided for informational and discovery purposes only.
Intellectual Property
EpisodeTime’s name, design, layout, code, platform features, branding, original text, and user interface elements are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
You may link to public EpisodeTime pages, but you may not copy, reproduce, scrape, republish, clone, or reuse large parts of the website, database, design, or content without permission.
TV show names, images, posters, logos, trademarks, and related materials may belong to their respective owners. EpisodeTime does not claim ownership of third-party trademarks, show titles, images, or metadata.
Third-Party Links and Services
EpisodeTime may link to or use third-party services, APIs, metadata providers, image sources, login providers, security services, analytics tools, or external websites.
Third-party websites and services are controlled by their own owners and are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. EpisodeTime is not responsible for third-party content, availability, accuracy, security, or policies.
Availability and Changes
EpisodeTime is provided on an evolving basis. We may update, improve, remove, suspend, or change features at any time, including watchlists, rankings, reviews, community tools, schedules, import tools, profile features, and database pages.
We do not guarantee that EpisodeTime will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.
Disclaimer
EpisodeTime is provided “as is” and “as available.” We make reasonable efforts to provide useful information and a good user experience, but we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, availability, or reliability of all content, schedules, rankings, metadata, or community activity.
You use EpisodeTime at your own risk.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, EpisodeTime and its operators will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the platform.
This includes damages related to errors, downtime, data loss, account issues, user content, third-party services, inaccurate information, or unavailable features.
Account Suspension and Content Removal
EpisodeTime may suspend accounts, remove content, restrict features, block access, or take other action if a user violates these Terms of Use, abuses the platform, harms other users, posts illegal content, manipulates rankings, or creates security risks.
Termination
You may stop using EpisodeTime at any time. EpisodeTime may also suspend or terminate access to the service if necessary to protect the platform, users, community, or legal rights.
Some public content, contribution history, reviews, comments, or database edits may remain visible after account changes or termination where needed to preserve community discussions, moderation records, database history, or platform integrity.
Changes to These Terms
EpisodeTime may update these Terms of Use from time to time as the platform grows and new features are added. Any material changes will be posted on this page.
Continued use of EpisodeTime after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms.
Contact
If you have questions about these Terms of Use, user content, rights concerns, or account issues, you can contact EpisodeTime through the contact page or the official support method provided on the website.
These Terms of Use should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.