Telegram Terms of Service

This document sets out the rules for using Telegram and for paying for Telegram Premium. If you subscribe, you are authorising recurring charges — and cancelling your account or deleting the app does not stop them; you must cancel separately, and you will not get a refund for unused days. Telegram can temporarily or permanently ban you for breaking its rules, which include prohibitions on scraping, spam, scams, and illegal content on public channels.

Telegram's Terms of Service establish binding conduct rules, subscription mechanics, and content restrictions governing all users of the platform. On the subscription side, the document establishes that purchasing Telegram Premium constitutes authorisation for recurring charges, that deleting an account or uninstalling the app does not cancel a subscription, that cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing period with no refund or credit for unused days, and that initiating a chargeback or refund request through a third party triggers consent to Telegram releasing account status data to that third party. Acceptable-use obligations prohibit data scraping under Telegram's Content Licensing and AI Scraping Terms, spam, scams, cross-jurisdictionally illegal activities, illegal pornographic content on public-facing features, and promotion of violence on public-facing features. Enforcement of these terms may result in temporary or permanent loss of access to Telegram or specific services, and users in the EU, UK, and Australia must be at least 18 years old to register.

For an ordinary user, the most immediate practical effects are financial and access-related. Purchasing Telegram Premium immediately authorises recurring monthly or yearly charges until an affirmative cancellation step is taken; deleting the account or uninstalling the app does not constitute cancellation. If you cancel, your subscription runs to the end of the billing period with no refund or credit for remaining days. If you request a chargeback or refund for a Premium subscription paid through a third party, you consent to Telegram sharing your account status data with that third party. Breaking the Terms of Service — including scraping content, sending spam or scams, or posting prohibited content on public channels — can result in a temporary or permanent ban. Users located in the EU, UK, or Australia must be at least 18 years old to sign up. If you need to cancel a subscription, do so through the cancellation mechanism before the next billing date rather than by deleting your account.