Terms of Service

Effective October 26, 2026

In short

Rated collects reviews of Telegram channels, bots, services and exchangers, free of charge.
The rating is calculated by code using one formula. It cannot be bought, and a project owner cannot hide a review.
Write only about your own experience. We do not publish accusations without proof.
Your review stays yours, but by publishing it you allow Rated to show it wherever the service works.
Rated takes no part in your deals and does not refund money.

This summary helps you get the gist quickly. The full text of the agreement is what applies.

1. What Rated is and when these terms apply

Rated is a review service for projects on Telegram. People share how they bought ads, paid a bot or a service, or exchanged currency. Rated collects these reviews, checks the proof and calculates a rating from them.

Rated consists of:

the @ratedapp bot;
the Telegram mini app;
inline mode: you type @ratedapp in any chat, and the bot inserts an image card with the rating;
the rated.tg website;
the website widget: a badge, a card and a feed;
notifications in the bot.

Words in this agreement mean the following:

Rated or we: the Rated service and its team.
You: anyone who uses Rated, whether to read reviews, write them, mark reviews as "helpful" or verify ownership of a project.
Project: a channel, bot, service or exchanger on Telegram that has a page on Rated.
Author: the person who wrote a review.
Owner: the person who has verified ownership of a project. Owners have an owner dashboard on Rated.

These terms apply to you as soon as you do any of the following:

open the @ratedapp bot or the mini app;
call @ratedapp in a chat;
use the rated.tg pages;
write a review or mark one as "helpful";
verify ownership of a project;
add the Rated widget to your website.

If you do not agree with these terms, do not use Rated.

The agreement consists of three documents: this one, the "Review Guidelines" and "Disputes and Complaints". They work together as one contract, and all three are binding. How we handle data is described in the "Privacy Policy". How the rating works is explained on the "How We Calculate the Rating" page. That page is for reference and is not part of the contract.

2. Rated and Telegram

Rated works inside Telegram, but it is an independent service. It is not owned by Telegram, is not affiliated with it and does not act on its behalf.
Telegram is not a party to this agreement and is not responsible for Rated. Bring your questions about Rated to us.
When you use Rated in Telegram, you also follow Telegram's own rules: the Telegram Terms of Service, the rules for bots and the rules for mini apps.
If Telegram restricts the bot or the mini app, some Rated features may stop working.

Rated is not affiliated with the projects it has pages about either.

A project page does not mean that we work with the project, recommend it or have vetted it.
Project names and usernames belong to their owners. We show them only so that it is clear who the reviews are about.

3. Your account

Who can use Rated

Rated is for people aged 16 and older. If we learn that you are under 16, we will delete your account and its data.
You can sign in only through Telegram. Your account is linked to your Telegram ID.
From Telegram we receive your ID, name, username, profile photo and language. We do not receive your phone number or your chats. See the "Privacy Policy" for details.
Everyone can see your Telegram name and your role under your reviews: advertiser, reader or customer.

Account rules

Each person may have only one account.
Use your own Telegram account and act in your own name. Do not write reviews on behalf of other people.
Do not transfer or sell your account or your owner status.
Anything done from your Telegram account counts as done by you. So keep your Telegram access safe.
We never ask for your password, login code or phone number. If someone asks for them on behalf of Rated, it is not us.

Messages from Rated

Service messages come to the @ratedapp bot: moderation decisions, replies to your reviews and requests, disputes, restrictions and changes to the documents.
If you have blocked the bot, these messages will not reach you. Deadlines still run, for example the 3 days to respond in a dispute.

4. Rated is free, and the rating cannot be bought

Rated is free to use. If paid features appear, they will never affect ratings or reviews.
The rating cannot be bought. We do not remove reviews for money and do not sell places in search.
The rating is calculated by code, using one formula for all projects. Nobody sets it by hand. It changes only when reviews change.
Verified reviews carry more weight in the rating than reviews marked "as told by the author". While a project has fewer than 10 reviews, its rating is preliminary. See the "How We Calculate the Rating" page for details.
The statistics blocks for a project are chosen by a language model, while the numbers in them are calculated by code from published reviews.
The rating and statistics bring together the opinions of authors. They are not a guarantee of quality, a recommendation or advice to make a deal. The decision to make a deal is yours.
Data from Telegram, such as subscriber counts, usernames and the SCAM and FAKE labels, may change and may update on Rated with a delay. The SCAM and FAKE labels are set by Telegram. Rated only displays them.

5. Your reviews and your rights to them

What you are responsible for

You are responsible for what you write and attach to a review.
Facts in a review must be true, and the opinion must be your own.
You must have the rights to the screenshots and other materials you attach.
What you can write and how to prove a deal is set out in the "Review Guidelines". A review in which the author accuses a project of fraud, non-payment or non-delivery is not published without proof.

What a review contains

A review has a rating from 1 to 5, a role, text and fields such as price, timing or exchange rate.
A language model suggests how to split the text into fields, and you confirm them with a tap. Only confirmed fields are published.
A verified review gets a checkmark. A review without proof is published with the label "as told by the author".

Rights to your review

You keep the rights to the text of your review. By publishing a review, you give Rated a free, non-exclusive, worldwide permission to use it for as long as it is published. Under this permission we may:

store the review;
show it on rated.tg, in the mini app, in the bot, in inline cards and in widgets on owners' websites;
make pages with the review available to search engines;
shorten the review and format it for a card or widget without distorting its meaning;
split the review into fields and count it in the rating and statistics.

Non-exclusive means that you can publish your text elsewhere too. Owners give Rated the same permission for their replies to reviews.

Editing and deleting

You can edit or delete your review at any time.
Once deleted, the review disappears from Rated pages and widgets. The rating and statistics are recalculated without it.
Some copies are beyond Rated's reach: inline cards already sent to chats; copies in search engine caches, which update on the search engines' own schedule; screenshots taken by other people.
We keep a copy of a deleted review only while it is needed for an open dispute, a complaint, fighting manipulation or because the law requires it. See the "Privacy Policy" for details.
If you chose to keep your reviews without your name when deleting your account, the permission for those reviews stays in effect.

Suggestions

We may use ideas and suggestions you send to support with no obligation to you.

6. Project pages and their owners

Where a page comes from

Rated creates project pages itself, from public Telegram data, open sources and reviews.
The owner's consent is not needed for this. A page is not removed at the owner's request.
We track username changes by channel ID from the moment the channel appeared on Rated. This history is shown on the project page.

How to verify ownership

Channel: add @ratedapp as an admin of the channel. The admin rights are needed only for the check, and you can remove them afterwards.
Bot or service: use the method shown in the owner dashboard.

What an owner can do

A verified owner can	An owner cannot
reply to reviews	hide or delete a review
open disputes	change the rating
get notifications in the bot with "Reply" and "Open" buttons	choose which reviews the widget shows
get the widget code	hide the username history

Rules for owners

Owners must not buy reviews, offer rewards for ratings or pressure authors. The full list of prohibitions is in the "Review Guidelines".
We remove manipulation in full. If the owner ordered it, a note about this appears on the project page.
Only a verified owner can open a dispute over a review. A person makes the decision. The procedure and deadlines are described in "Disputes and Complaints".
If an owner opens disputes without grounds, we restrict their ability to open disputes.

Widget

Install the widget as it is. Do not change its code to hide reviews or distort the rating.
Do not make fake Rated badges.
The widget loads data from rated.tg and does not set cookies.

7. Deals happen without us

Rated takes no part in deals between you and channels, bots, services or exchangers. We are not an intermediary or a guarantor.
We do not accept payment for other people's services, do not hold your money and do not guarantee that anyone will keep their promises.
Proof confirms a fact: the post went out and stayed up, or the transfer went through. It does not confirm honesty or quality.
A dispute decides the fate of a review, not of a deal. Rated does not refund money or compensate losses.
If you have been cheated, contact the party you made the deal with, the service you paid through or the government authorities.
A review will help other people, but it will not get your money back.

8. How you may not use Rated

This section lists general prohibitions. What you may not write in reviews is set out in the "Review Guidelines".

When using Rated, you must not do the following.

Accounts and manipulation

create several accounts or get around restrictions with another account;
inflate reviews or "helpful" marks, or order such manipulation.

Data collection

collect Rated data automatically: scrape rated.tg pages or send mass requests to the bot and the mini app;
copy reviews, ratings and username histories into your own databases or other services.

Rated has no public API. Data is available only through the service itself, links, inline cards and the official widget. Search engines may index rated.tg pages.

Security

hack Rated, overload it or get around its limits;
reverse engineer Rated's non-public code;
exploit a bug or vulnerability you have found. Report it to support instead.

Deception and abuse

pretend to be Rated, a moderator, another person or the owner of someone else's project;
create fake Rated bots, pages or badges;
send spam or advertising through Rated;
use Rated for illegal purposes.

9. Rated's brand and data

Rated owns:

the Rated name, the "rated." logo and the "r." mark;
the design, code and interface texts;
the method for calculating the rating;
the statistics, username histories and the entire collection of project data.

You may:

use Rated for your own needs;
share links and inline cards;
quote individual reviews and a project's rating with a link to its page on rated.tg.

An owner may install the official widget and mention their project's rating with a link to its page.

You may not:

use the Rated name and logo in a way that suggests we recommend you or work with you;
copy the database of reviews and ratings in full or in large parts;
build your own service on that database.

Rights to the reviews themselves stay with their authors (section 5). Rights to project names and usernames stay with their owners.

10. Restrictions and blocking

Violations are detected by automated checks and moderators. We choose the measure according to how serious the violation is.

What we can do

not publish a review;
correct a review, for example remove personal data from it;
delete a review;
restrict a specific feature: writing reviews, marking reviews as "helpful" or opening disputes;
block an account and the accounts linked to it.

For what

you broke this agreement or the "Review Guidelines";
you inflated reviews or marks, ordered manipulation or committed fraud;
your actions threaten other people or the service;
the law or a binding decision of a government authority requires it.

How it works

The decision and the reason come to the @ratedapp bot.
A restriction on one feature does not stop you from using the others.
Reviews that were a violation in themselves, such as manipulated reviews, are deleted.
If you disagree with a decision, write to support. A person will review your request. The procedure is described in "Disputes and Complaints".

11. How to stop using Rated

If you leave

You can stop using Rated at any time.
To delete your account, contact support: @ratedapp → Profile → Support or support@rated.tg.
We will ask what to do with your reviews: delete them or keep them without your name. Reviews without a name stay on project pages and count in the rating.
Your owner status and access to the owner dashboard go away together with the account.
What we keep after deletion and for how long is described in the "Privacy Policy".
Simply blocking the bot does not delete your account.

If we close something

Rated may close a specific feature or the entire service.
We will announce the closure of the service in the bot in advance.

What remains in effect

the permission for reviews you kept without your name;
sections 9, 12 and 14: on Rated's brand and data, on liability and on governing law.

12. What we promise and what we are not responsible for

What we promise

to calculate the rating the same way for all projects;
not to sell ratings or places in search;
not to show owners screenshots or dispute correspondence;
to explain moderation decisions.

What we do not guarantee

Otherwise, Rated is provided "as is". We do not guarantee:

that the service will work without interruptions;
that reviews are complete and accurate;
that Telegram data and the results of external checks, such as blockchain data, are accurate.

What we are not responsible for

the content of reviews: a review is the author's opinion, and the author is responsible for it;
the actions of projects and people you make deals with;
decisions you make based on a rating;
outages and restrictions of Telegram and external services;
indirect losses and lost profits.

These limits apply to the extent permitted by applicable law. Where the law does not allow liability to be excluded, for example for intentional harm, we do not exclude it.

Your responsibility

You are responsible for your reviews, replies and materials.
If a claim is brought against Rated because of your violation, you will cover our reasonable costs and losses to the extent permitted by law.

13. Changes

Rated keeps developing: features appear, change and go away.
We publish new versions of the documents on rated.tg with a new date.
We announce significant changes in the @ratedapp bot and on the website before they take effect.
Edits that do not change your rights take effect when published, for example fixed typos and clarified wording.
If you use Rated after the date of a new version, you agree to it.
If you do not agree, delete your account (section 11).

14. Governing law and courts

This agreement is governed by the laws of the United Arab Emirates as applied in the Emirate of Dubai.
If you have a claim against Rated, write to support first. It is faster. How to submit a claim is described in "Disputes and Complaints".
If we cannot settle it, the dispute is heard by the courts of Dubai.
This section does not cover disputes over individual reviews. They have their own procedure in "Disputes and Complaints".

15. Other terms and contacts

If any provision of this agreement turns out to be invalid, the rest remain in effect.
If we do not use a right straight away, it does not mean we have waived it.
We may transfer our rights and obligations under this agreement to whoever continues to develop Rated. We will announce this in the bot.
We are not responsible for delays caused by circumstances beyond our control: Telegram outages, network shutdowns, decisions of the authorities.
We write to you in the @ratedapp bot. You write to us through support.
If a translation of this agreement differs from the Russian version, the Russian version prevails.

Contacts

Support in the bot: @ratedapp → Profile → Support.
Support email: support@rated.tg.
For third parties who do not use Rated, rights holders and government authorities: legal@rated.tg.