ChannelCred

Terms of service

Last updated: 9 October 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and ChannelCred (channelcred.com, "ChannelCred", "we", "us"). By using the site, signing in, rating, reporting, verifying a channel or paying for a plan, you agree to them. If you don't agree, don't use the site.

1. What ChannelCred is, and isn't

  • ChannelCred shows information about public Telegram channels: details that Telegram makes public, whether someone proved to us that they control a channel, accounts they linked, channels with similar names or pictures, change history, and ratings and reports posted by users.
  • It is information only, never a guarantee or a recommendation. A verified owner, a good rating or no reports does not mean a channel is safe, honest, licensed or profitable. A missing verification, a low rating or reports do not prove that a channel did anything wrong. Compare the facts and make sure you join the channel you meant to. You alone decide whether to trust, join or pay any channel.
  • "Verified owner" means only that someone showed us they control the Telegram channel (it was created by their Telegram account, or they could edit its description) and, where shown, that they could edit the linked YouTube channel or log in to the linked Instagram account. We do not check identity documents, licences, qualifications, track records or the legality of what a channel offers.
  • Verification is optional and free, and the verified badge stays as long as the owner remains verified. The owner's showcase (the channel description, linked accounts, paid-offer details and the owner's message) is shown only while their free month or subscription is active. Ratings, reports and similar channels are shown for every channel, paid or not.
  • "Similar channels" are found automatically by comparing names, pictures, descriptions and dates. Being listed is a fact about appearance, not a claim that a channel is fake, copied or unlawful.
  • We do not give financial, investment, trading, legal or tax advice, and we do not endorse any channel, person, course, signal, tip or offer shown on the site.
  • ChannelCred is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Telegram, Google, YouTube, Meta or Instagram. Their names and logos belong to them and are used only to identify their services.

2. Who can use it

You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live, if higher) to sign in, rate, report, verify a channel or pay. You must not use ChannelCred if the law where you are forbids it, and you are responsible for following your local laws.

3. Ratings, reports and replies (user content)

Ratings, reports and replies are written by users. They are the opinions of the people who post them, not ours, and we don't check whether they are true. We act as an intermediary that hosts them. When you post, you confirm and agree that:

  • it describes only your own, honest, first-hand experience, and you rate a channel only once;
  • it is not false, misleading, defamatory, abusive, hateful, obscene, threatening or harassing;
  • it contains no personal information about anyone (phone numbers, addresses, bank, card or UPI details, ID numbers, private photos or messages);
  • it is not spam, advertising or a link, is not paid for or rewarded, and is not a fake review of a competitor or posted for someone else;
  • it does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights, and breaks no law;
  • images you attach are genuine, unedited screenshots or photos of your own experience, with other people's private details (phone numbers, bank or UPI details, ID documents, faces) hidden. Images are shown only after our team checks them, and we may refuse or remove any image;
  • you are solely responsible for what you post, including any legal claim it causes, and you will compensate ChannelCred for any loss, claim or cost (including reasonable legal fees) that arises from it.

You keep ownership of what you post and give us a worldwide, free, non-exclusive licence to host, show and share it on the site and in search results. You can delete your own report at any time. We may hide or remove any content, or suspend any account, at our discretion: when it breaks these terms, when we receive a valid complaint, or when the law requires it. We don't have to monitor content, and we don't remove honest reports only because a channel owner disagrees with them.

4. Channel owners

  • Only verify Telegram channels you run, and only link YouTube or Instagram accounts that are yours. Pretending to be someone else, or verifying a channel to mislead people, is forbidden and may be reported to the authorities.
  • Information you add (such as whether your channel asks for money, and your message to your audience) must be true, lawful and kept up to date. Your message must not ask for payments, promise returns, impersonate anyone or link to anything unlawful. You are solely responsible for your channel, everything it offers, and everything you add on ChannelCred; we may remove your message at any time.
  • A verification never means we approve your channel, and you must not say or suggest that ChannelCred endorses, recommends, guarantees or certifies you, your channel or your offers.
  • By verifying, you agree that we show your channel's public Telegram details and what you add on its public page. Owners can reply to reports but cannot edit or delete them; use the complaint process (section 7) if a report breaks these terms.
  • We may remove a verification, hide owner features or close a page at any time, without refund, if we believe it is wrong, misused, unlawful or harms users.
  • You will compensate ChannelCred for any loss, claim or cost (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your channel, your offers, or information you added.

5. Paid plans for channel owners

  • Checking channels and verifying a channel are free. Channel owners get their showcase free for 30 days from their first verification. After that, showing the showcase to visitors needs a subscription: US $5 a month or US $13 for 3 months (see the pricing page).
  • Prices are in US dollars and do not include taxes. Any sales tax, VAT, GST or similar tax is added at checkout where it applies and is paid by you. Your bank may charge currency conversion fees. Payments may be processed by a third-party payment provider acting as the seller (merchant of record), under its own terms.
  • Plans are paid in advance for the period you choose and are not renewed unless you choose to renew. They are not refundable, in full or in part, including if you stop using them, except where the law where you live requires a refund.
  • Without an active plan, the verified badge stays and the showcase is hidden. Its data is kept and shown again once the owner subscribes. Paying never changes, hides or removes ratings or reports.
  • We may change prices for future periods; we show new prices on the pricing page before they apply to you.

6. Acceptable use

Don't scrape or copy the site in bulk, try to break, overload or get around its limits, use bots or several accounts to rate or report, harass anyone, or use the site for anything unlawful or to deceive people.

7. Complaints, removal and legal requests (grievance officer)

If you believe something on ChannelCred is false, defamatory, infringes your rights or is otherwise unlawful, if you want your data removed or corrected, or if you have a complaint, use our contact form or write to:

Grievance Officer, ChannelCred
Email: support@channelcred.com

  • Include the page link, what you want removed or corrected, and why.
  • You get a reference number at once, and we reply within 5 days. We resolve complaints within 15 days at the latest, as India's Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 require (and faster where those rules say so).
  • We may ask you to prove who you are or that a channel is yours. We may refuse requests that are unclear, unproven, abusive or made to hide honest reports. We act on court orders and lawful government directions.
  • Sending a false complaint or notice may be unlawful, and you are responsible for it.

8. No warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without any warranty of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, availability or fitness for a purpose. Information from Telegram, YouTube, Instagram and users may be out of date, incomplete or wrong. We may change, pause or stop any part of the service at any time.

9. Limit of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, ChannelCred and the people who run it are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the site, from content posted by users or channel owners, from any channel listed on it, or from any decision you make based on it, including money paid, lost or stolen, investments, lost profits or data, and indirect or consequential loss. Where we are liable despite this, our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (zero for free users). Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

10. Ending

You can stop using ChannelCred at any time and ask us to delete your data (see the privacy policy). We may suspend or end your access at any time if you break these terms. Sections 3, 4, 8, 9 and 11 continue to apply after that.

11. Law, disputes and changes

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, unless the law where you live gives you a right to bring a claim in your own courts. Please contact us first; most problems can be solved quickly. We may update these terms; we change the date above, and for significant changes we show a notice on the site. Using the site after a change means you accept it. If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.

See also our privacy policy and contact page.