Which terms apply in your country

A platform's terms are not always a single document. On some platforms the section for your country overrides the general rules, on others it is the terms of individual services that override them, and some say only “except where prohibited by applicable law” — with no text you can actually read.

Below is how the terms of ten platforms are arranged, with a link to the source.

Separate sections for countries

Find the section for your country and read it instead of the general one: where they differ, it prevails.

WeChat. the country-specific sections of the terms do not supplement the general rules but OVERRIDE them wherever they differ. There are four sections: the United States, Australia, the European Union with the United Kingdom, Singapore source, checked 2026-07-28

WeChat. for consumers in the European Union the general rule on mandatory arbitration in Singapore does NOT apply: disputes go to court source, checked 2026-07-28

WeChat. for users in the European Union and the United Kingdom: a refund for a product bought from the platform is possible on application within 14 days of the purchase date, and only the unused part is refunded. For a downloadable or streamed product no refund is due at all once downloading or playback has begun source, checked 2026-07-28

WeChat. for users in the United States the governing law section is replaced entirely by an arbitration agreement: disputes are settled by binding arbitration rather than in court, with four exceptions — including the ability to bring an individual claim in the small claims court where you live source, checked 2026-07-28

WeChat. for users in Singapore, without separate consent, information is used only for a closed list of purposes: network planning and maintenance (excluding commercial research), enabling interconnection with other telecommunications operators, assisting law enforcement and the courts, meeting regulator requirements, debt handling and fraud prevention, and information for subscribers roaming abroad source, checked 2026-07-28

Separate terms for services

The split is by service, not by country. The terms of the service you need override the general ones — look for the service document, not a country section.

Reddit. the additional terms of individual services OVERRIDE the general ones where they differ: paid services and digital goods are governed by the «Reddit Econ Terms», programmatic access by the «Reddit Developer Terms», and participation in payout programmes by the «Earn Terms». The platform's list of documents also includes separate «Jurisdiction Specific Terms» source, checked 2026-07-28

Viber. besides the general terms there are separate ones for specific services: Viber Out calls and eSIM have their own terms, while payments, programmatic access, business accounts and dating are covered by supplementary agreements source, checked 2026-07-28

Discord. additional terms for individual products and services TAKE PRECEDENCE over the general ones where they diverge source, checked 2026-07-28

A reservation with no separate text

The hardest case: the platform writes “except where prohibited by applicable law” but gives no separate text for your country. Which parts do not apply cannot be learned from the document.

Discord. the terms and disputes are governed by the law of the United States and the State of California; non-arbitrable disputes are heard exclusively by the court of New Castle County, Delaware, and by no other. For consumers in the European Union it is stipulated that this does NOT affect their mandatory rights under local law source, checked 2026-07-28

Discord. explicitly excluded from mandatory arbitration are: individual claims in a US small-claims court, disputes over trade secrets, over piracy and over unauthorized use of the services; in mass arbitrations either party may withdraw from the procedure and go to court source, checked 2026-07-28

The terms are the same for everyone

There are no country sections: what is written applies to everyone alike. This was verified by reading the text, not by the absence of mentions.

Telegram. there are no country sections in the terms: a document of 16 thousand characters contains neither sections by jurisdiction nor caveats about supplementary terms taking precedence source, checked 2026-07-28

Twitch. there are no country sections in the terms: a document of 15 thousand characters contains neither sections by jurisdiction nor caveats about supplementary terms taking precedence source, checked 2026-07-28

LINE. the terms contain no country sections: the 35-thousand-character document has no sections by jurisdiction source, checked 2026-07-28

VKontakte. there are no country-specific sections in the rules for developers: the 20,000-character document contains neither sections by jurisdiction nor clauses on the precedence of supplementary terms source, checked 2026-07-28

RUTUBE. the agreement has no country sections: a document of 117 thousand characters contains no sections by jurisdiction source, checked 2026-07-28

What to do

1. Start with your country, not with the general text. Reading the general rules without getting as far as your own section can give you the opposite answer: a European Union consumer of WeChat goes to court rather than to Singapore arbitration, as the general part states.
2. Check whether your service has terms of its own. Payments, API access, business accounts and payout programmes often follow documents of their own, and those override the general ones.
3. If all you have is a reservation about applicable law, treat the question as open. The platform says that part of what is written does not apply to you, but does not say which part.
4. The length of a document means nothing. The RUTUBE agreement is the longest in the registry (117 thousand characters) and yet the same for everyone.