Last updated: September 9, 2026
These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of AfterDarkSociety.com, the AfterDark Society mobile applications, and any related websites, applications, products, features, content, communities, events, messaging tools, subscription services, and other services provided by After Dark Society, LLC. In these Terms, we refer to those services collectively as the “Platform.”
These Terms are between you and After Dark Society, LLC (“After Dark Society,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
The Platform is an adult-only social, community, discovery, messaging, event, dating-adjacent, and user-generated content platform intended only for adults who are at least 18 years old and legally permitted to access adult-oriented content and services in their jurisdiction.
By creating an account, accessing the Platform, using the Platform, uploading content, viewing content, joining a group, creating or attending an event, sending messages, purchasing a subscription, using an in-app purchase, participating in a referral or affiliate program, or otherwise using the Platform, you agree to these Terms, including the dispute-resolution provisions in section 36.
If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Platform.
Important Notice About Dispute Resolution
These Terms contain provisions that affect how disputes between you and After Dark Society are resolved. The dispute-resolution section includes an informal dispute-resolution process, a binding individual arbitration agreement, a class action waiver, a representative action waiver, a jury trial waiver, time limits for bringing claims, and procedures for opting out of arbitration. Please review section 36 carefully.
The following policies are incorporated into these Terms:
If there is a conflict between these Terms and a feature-specific policy, the more specific policy controls for that feature unless the policy says otherwise.
2.1 Minimum Age
You must be at least 18 years old to access or use the Platform. By accessing or using the Platform, you state that you are at least 18 years old.
2.2 Legal Permission to Use the Platform
You may use the Platform only if your access to and use of adult-oriented social, community, dating, messaging, event, and user-generated content services is lawful in the place where you access or use the Platform.
You are responsible for complying with all laws that apply to you.
2.3 No Minors
Minors are not permitted to access or use the Platform.
You must not allow a minor to access your account, view Platform content, appear in Platform content, communicate through the Platform, attend Platform events through your account, or otherwise use the Platform.
2.4 No Circumvention
You must not attempt to bypass age gates, age verification, identity verification, content restrictions, jurisdictional restrictions, payment restrictions, app-store restrictions, or other access controls.
3.1 Verification Required
We may require age verification, identity verification, email verification, liveness checks, government-issued identification, selfies, biometric-derived verification checks, or other verification steps before you access, use, upload content to, appear in, or continue using the Platform.
3.2 Verification Methods
We may perform verification directly or through third-party verification service providers.
Verification may involve collection or review of government ID information, date of birth, images, selfies, liveness data, biometric-derived verification checks, verification status, fraud signals, sanctions-screening information, and related compliance records.
3.3 Accuracy
You must provide accurate, current, and complete verification information. You must not submit false, altered, fraudulent, expired, misleading, or third-party verification documents.
3.4 Reverification
We may require reverification if required by law, payment-processor rules, card-network rules, app-store rules, safety requirements, fraud-prevention requirements, moderation review, account activity, content upload activity, complaint review, or compliance review.
3.5 Verification Failure
We may deny access, restrict features, remove content, suspend an account, terminate an account, require additional documentation, or report activity to appropriate authorities if we cannot verify your age or identity, if verification information appears inaccurate or suspicious, or if legal, safety, payment-processor, card-network, app-store, or compliance requirements require additional action.
4.1 Account Creation
You may need an account to access certain Platform features. You must provide accurate, current, and complete information when creating or updating your account.
4.2 Account Information
You are responsible for keeping your account information accurate. This includes your email address, display name, profile information, verification information, payment information, location settings, content preferences, account type, and any other information required for your account.
4.3 Account Security
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs through your account.
You must promptly notify us if you believe your account has been compromised.
4.4 No Unauthorized Account Sharing
You must not sell, rent, transfer, or allow an unauthorized person to use your account.
You must not permit an unverified person or a minor to access the Platform through your account.
4.5 Single and Couple Accounts
The Platform may allow you to create or use an account as a single user or as a couple.
If you create or use a single account, the account must be used only by the verified adult associated with that account.
If you create or use a couple account, each person represented by, appearing in, or using that account must be at least 18 years old, must be legally permitted to use the Platform, and must complete any verification steps we require.
A couple account may be used only by the verified adults represented by that account. Each person using a couple account is responsible for activity conducted through that account.
You must not create or use a couple account to impersonate another person, include a person who has not consented to being represented on the account, misrepresent your relationship status, misrepresent a person’s participation, or allow an unverified person to access the Platform.
We may require additional verification, consent, or profile-confirmation steps for couple accounts. We may suspend, restrict, convert, or terminate a couple account if we cannot verify the age, identity, consent, or participation of each person represented by the account.
4.6 Account-Type Changes
You may be able to update whether you use the Platform as a single user or as a couple through Platform settings. We may require additional verification before an account-type change becomes effective.
An account-type change does not allow you to evade prior reports, enforcement action, verification requirements, subscription obligations, content obligations, or compliance obligations.
4.7 Fake, Duplicate, or Evasive Accounts
You must not create fake accounts, duplicate accounts, impersonation accounts, bot accounts, or accounts used to evade enforcement.
The Platform may include profiles, feeds, posts, comments, reactions, private messages, groups, public events, private events, local discovery tools, map features, matching or discovery tools, likes, sparks, rewinds, boosts, bookmarks, saved posts, achievements, streaks, badges, leaderboards, referrals, affiliate tools, tutorials, customer support tools, reporting tools, consent forms, creator-status tools, content-preference tools, and other features.
We may add, change, suspend, limit, or discontinue any feature at any time.
We may restrict certain features to verified users, paid subscribers, content creators, approved users, users in certain jurisdictions, or users who satisfy additional compliance requirements.
6.1 Profiles
You may create a profile and provide profile content, including your display name, photos, videos, preferences, interests, location settings, shop links, social links, biographical information, and other information you choose to provide.
You are responsible for the information you provide in your profile.
6.2 Profile Accuracy
You must not misrepresent your identity, age, location, availability, relationship status, account type, services, affiliation, experience, credentials, health status, intentions, or relationship to any person or entity.
6.3 Discovery Features
The Platform may include discovery, matching, liking, sparking, swiping, rewind, boost, “see who liked you,” profile-view, follower, close-friend, and similar features.
These features are provided for social discovery and community engagement.
6.4 Dating-Adjacent Use
The Platform may be used by adults to discover other adults, communicate, explore shared interests, join communities, attend events, and potentially meet in person.
The Platform is not a dating agency, matchmaking service, escort service, prostitution service, sex-work marketplace, or provider of in-person services. We do not arrange dates, sexual activity, paid companionship, escorting, meetings, or offline encounters.
6.5 No Guarantee
We do not guarantee that you will meet, date, communicate with, form a relationship with, have sex with, transact with, attend an event with, or have any particular interaction with another user.
We do not guarantee compatibility, authenticity of user intent, offline safety, attendance at events, user availability, user honesty, relationship status, sexual health, consent, or any particular outcome from use of the Platform.
6.6 User Responsibility for Interactions
You are responsible for your own decisions when communicating with users, sharing personal information, sharing explicit content, joining groups, attending events, meeting in person, or interacting off the Platform.
You should use caution, protect your personal information, verify information independently, meet in public when appropriate, tell a trusted person where you are going, arrange your own transportation, and leave any situation that feels unsafe.
7.1 Approximate Location
The Platform may use approximate location information to provide location-based discovery, groups, events, maps, search, matching, safety features, fraud prevention, and Platform functionality.
7.2 Location Controls
You may disable location features or adjust your location radius through your device settings or Platform settings.
If you disable location features or limit your location radius, some location-based features may not work or may be less accurate.
7.3 Location Privacy
The Platform may provide controls to hide posts from nearby users, set a radius around your location, or limit visibility based on location settings.
You are responsible for choosing the location settings appropriate for your privacy and safety.
7.4 No Safety Guarantee
Location and map features are provided for convenience. They are not emergency, security, tracking, or personal-safety services.
You should use caution when sharing location information or meeting other users in person.
8.1 User Content Defined
“User Content” means any content, information, data, text, photographs, images, videos, audio, livestreams, messages, posts, comments, profile content, group content, event content, banners, stories, links, feedback, bug reports, screenshots, verification-related submissions, consent forms, and other materials that you upload, submit, send, post, display, publish, transmit, or otherwise make available through the Platform.
8.2 Responsibility for User Content
You are responsible for your User Content and for the consequences of uploading, posting, sharing, sending, or otherwise making it available through the Platform.
You must ensure that your User Content complies with these Terms, the Community Guidelines, applicable law, app-store rules, payment-processor rules, card-network rules, and any other requirements that apply to your use of the Platform.
8.3 Explicit Adult Content
The Platform permits lawful explicit adult content only where allowed by these Terms, the Community Guidelines, applicable law, payment-processor requirements, card-network requirements, app-store requirements, and our content-review processes.
We may restrict, reject, blur, label, limit, remove, demonetize, suppress, or require additional verification or documentation for explicit adult content.
8.4 Content Involving Other People
You must not upload, post, send, display, or otherwise make available any explicit content depicting another person unless:
8.5 Couple-Account Content
If User Content is uploaded through, associated with, or presented as content from a couple account, each person represented by that couple account must have consented to the upload, display, distribution, and any applicable monetization of that content.
If a person represented on a couple account withdraws account participation, disputes consent, or reports unauthorized use of their identity or likeness, we may restrict the account, remove content, require updated verification or consent, or take other action.
8.6 Consent Forms and Creator Status
We may require users who upload explicit content or content depicting other people to submit consent forms, identification records, releases, 2257 records, or other compliance documentation.
We may use OCR, automated tools, manual review, service providers, or a combination of those methods to process verification documents and assist with consent-form completion.
You must submit accurate and complete consent documentation when required. You must not forge, alter, misuse, or submit a consent form, release, identification document, or verification document without authorization.
8.7 Creator Status
We may classify users by creator status or compliance status.
We may limit explicit-content uploads to approved users, verified users, or users who have submitted required consent documentation.
We may revoke creator status or restrict uploading if required documentation is missing, incomplete, inaccurate, fraudulent, expired, or insufficient.
8.8 2257 Compliance
If you upload content subject to 18 U.S.C. § 2257, 28 C.F.R. Part 75, or similar age-recordkeeping laws, you are responsible for maintaining any records required of you as a producer, content provider, uploader, or other responsible person.
We may require you to provide or confirm age, identity, performer, and consent records before content is published or allowed to remain on the Platform.
Our 18 U.S.C. § 2257 Compliance Statement provides additional information.
8.9 Content Review and Strikes
We may use automated systems, human moderators, service providers, user reports, compliance reviews, payment-processor notices, card-network notices, app-store notices, regulator requests, or law-enforcement requests to review User Content.
We may use a strike system or other enforcement system for content violations. Enforcement may include warnings, content removal, feature restrictions, upload restrictions, loss of creator status, account suspension, account termination, reporting to authorities, or other action.
8.10 No Obligation to Host Content
We are not required to host, display, store, maintain, publish, distribute, promote, or continue making available any User Content.
9.1 Platform License
You hereby grant After Dark Society a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, copy, modify, adapt, publish, display, distribute, transmit, stream, perform, make available, create derivative works from, use, and otherwise process your User Content as needed to operate, provide, improve, promote, protect, moderate, and enforce the Platform and these Terms.
9.2 Promotional Use
You hereby grant After Dark Society the right to use your public profile information, public User Content, display name, likeness, images, videos, event listings, group listings, and other public-facing Platform activity to promote the Platform, unless prohibited by law or by settings we make available.
9.3 Content Visibility
Your User Content may be visible to other users or the public depending on the feature used, your settings, the type of content, whether content appears in a public group or event, and Platform functionality.
9.4 Duration of License
The license you grant continues for as long as needed for the purposes described in these Terms, including to operate the Platform, maintain backups, comply with law, resolve disputes, enforce policies, process reports, maintain records, and protect users.
When you delete User Content or your account, we will remove or de-identify User Content from ordinary public display where reasonably practicable, but we may retain copies as described in these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
You must not use the Platform to create, upload, post, send, display, promote, facilitate, or engage in any of the following:
You must not upload, post, send, display, distribute, or otherwise make available nonconsensual intimate content.
For purposes of these Terms, “nonconsensual intimate content” includes intimate images, videos, or depictions shared without the consent of the person depicted, and intimate images, videos, or depictions created, altered, or manipulated using artificial intelligence, editing tools, deepfake technology, or other digital means to make it appear that a person is nude, engaged in sexual conduct, or depicted in an intimate manner without that person’s consent.
Requests to remove nonconsensual intimate content are handled under the Nonconsensual Intimate Content and Takedown Policy and the Appeals and Takedown Policy.
If we receive a valid removal request for content covered by applicable nonconsensual-intimate-content laws, including the TAKE IT DOWN Act where applicable, we will remove the reported content and take reasonable steps to remove known identical copies within the time required by law.
Copyright complaints are handled separately under the DMCA and Copyright Policy.
12.1 User Judgment
You are solely responsible for deciding whether to communicate with, meet, date, or otherwise interact with another user.
We do not perform criminal background checks, sex-offender registry checks, health checks, relationship-status checks, or offline-safety reviews on users unless we expressly state otherwise.
12.2 No Verification Guarantee
Age or identity verification does not guarantee that a user is safe, trustworthy, compatible, truthful, legally available, single, in a relationship, disease-free, nonviolent, or free from criminal history.
Verification means only that the user completed the verification steps we required at that time.
12.3 Offline Meeting Risks
Offline meetings carry risks. You should take reasonable precautions, including meeting in public when appropriate, telling a trusted person where you are going, using your own transportation, protecting your location and personal information, watching your drink, leaving if you feel unsafe, and contacting emergency services if needed.
12.4 Sexual Health and Consent
You are responsible for your own sexual-health decisions and for obtaining clear, voluntary, informed, and ongoing consent for any sexual or intimate interaction.
The Platform does not provide sexual-health advice, medical advice, consent verification, or offline conduct supervision.
12.5 No Commercial Sexual Activity
You must not use the Platform to offer, request, arrange, negotiate, facilitate, advertise, or promote prostitution, escorting, paid sexual activity, illegal sexual services, trafficking, or exploitation.
12.6 Reporting Safety Concerns
You should promptly report threats, coercion, trafficking indicators, nonconsensual conduct, sexual assault, harassment, stalking, suspected minors, or other safety concerns through Platform reporting tools or by contacting us.
If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
13.1 Groups
The Platform may allow users to create, join, moderate, search, and participate in groups. Groups may be public or private depending on Platform functionality and user settings.
Group creators and moderators are responsible for group descriptions, rules, banners, posts, moderation, and member activity within their control.
We may remove, restrict, or close groups that violate these Terms, the Community Guidelines, or applicable law.
13.2 Events
The Platform may allow users to create, promote, discover, join, save, or indicate interest in events. Events may be public or private depending on Platform functionality and user settings.
Event creators are responsible for the accuracy, legality, safety, and operation of their events.
Event creators must not create or promote unlawful events, unsafe events, illegal sexual services, prostitution, trafficking, coercion, nonconsensual sexual activity, or events that violate these Terms.
13.3 Event Content and Banners
Event creators are responsible for event titles, descriptions, banners, images, tags, location information, admission information, and other event materials.
Event materials must comply with these Terms, the Community Guidelines, intellectual-property laws, privacy laws, publicity-rights laws, and applicable event, venue, app-store, card-network, and payment-processor rules.
13.4 No Event Endorsement
We do not endorse, verify, sponsor, supervise, or guarantee any event, venue, host, attendee, group, meetup, or offline interaction unless we expressly state otherwise in writing.
13.5 Event Reports
We may allow users to report events, groups, users, or content.
We may review, remove, restrict, or take other action regarding events or groups based on reports, legal requirements, safety concerns, or Platform policies.
The Platform may include stories, insights, blog posts, editorial content, user-submitted articles, promotional content, or other informational content.
Content published in stories, blogs, or editorial areas is provided for general information, community engagement, or entertainment. It is not legal, medical, mental-health, financial, safety, or professional advice.
If users are allowed to submit stories, articles, comments, images, or other materials for those features, those submissions are User Content and are subject to these Terms.
15.1 Private Messages
The Platform may allow users to send private messages or other direct communications.
Private messages are hosted by After Dark Society and may be stored, processed, and retained as described in these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
15.2 Message Review
We do not guarantee that private messages are confidential from After Dark Society.
We may use automated tools, human review, user reports, metadata, safety signals, or other methods to review messages for safety, moderation, legal compliance, fraud prevention, policy enforcement, support, and security purposes.
15.3 Message Restrictions
You must not use messages to harass, threaten, exploit, scam, solicit illegal sexual services, share nonconsensual content, send spam, distribute malware, evade moderation, or violate these Terms.
15.4 Message Editing and Deletion
The Platform may allow limited message editing or deletion.
Edits or deletions may not remove all copies of a message from backups, moderation records, recipient accounts, reports, legal holds, safety records, or compliance records.
The Platform may include user controls such as blocking, muting, close friends, hidden posts, hidden content, keyword filters, NSFW preferences, location privacy settings, email preferences, bookmarks, saved posts, notification settings, account deletion, and reporting tools.
These tools are intended to help users manage their experience. They do not guarantee that you will not see unwanted content, be contacted by unwanted users, or encounter unsafe conduct.
You are responsible for using available controls in a manner appropriate for your privacy, safety, and content preferences.
The Platform may provide controls to hide NSFW content, blur NSFW content, show NSFW content with warnings, or show NSFW content without warnings.
You are responsible for selecting content-preference settings appropriate for you.
We may apply default safety settings, warnings, labels, blurs, or restrictions to NSFW content.
We may override or limit user settings where required for safety, compliance, app-store rules, payment-processor rules, card-network rules, or legal obligations.
The Platform may include achievements, streaks, badges, leaderboards, progress tracking, rewards, and similar features.
These features are provided for community engagement and entertainment. They do not create any entitlement to compensation, status, benefits, visibility, promotion, or continued access.
Leaderboard participation may require opt-in where Platform settings provide that option.
We may modify, reset, remove, or discontinue any achievement, streak, badge, leaderboard, reward, or gamified feature at any time.
19.1 Plans
The Platform may offer free access and paid subscription plans, including plans currently identified as Free, Velvet, Obsidian, and Infinity.
Plan names, prices, features, trials, promotional access, renewal dates, billing periods, and availability may change.
19.2 Current Plan Information
The Platform may display your current plan, renewal date, free-trial status, plan-management tools, cancellation tools, upgrade tools, downgrade tools, or subscription-management links.
19.3 Web Payments
Web subscriptions are processed by CCBill.
If you purchase a subscription through the website, your payment may be processed by CCBill, and your statement may show a descriptor associated with CCBill, After Dark Society, the Platform, or another descriptor disclosed at checkout.
You may cancel a web subscription through Platform subscription tools, if available, or through CCBill support at https://support.ccbill.com/.
19.4 Apple App Store Purchases
If you purchase a subscription or other digital product through the Apple App Store, the purchase is processed by Apple and is subject to Apple’s payment terms, subscription terms, cancellation procedures, and refund procedures.
Apple, not After Dark Society, is responsible for Apple App Store billing, payment processing, and Apple App Store refund decisions.
To manage, cancel, or restore an Apple App Store subscription, you must use your Apple account settings or other Apple-provided subscription-management tools.
Deleting the app or deleting your Platform account does not automatically cancel a subscription purchased through the Apple App Store.
19.5 Google Play Purchases
If you purchase a subscription or other digital product through Google Play, the purchase is processed by Google and is subject to Google Play’s payment terms, subscription terms, cancellation procedures, and refund procedures.
Google, not After Dark Society, is responsible for Google Play billing, payment processing, and Google Play refund decisions.
To manage, cancel, or restore a Google Play subscription, you must use your Google Play account settings, Google Play’s subscription center, or other Google-provided subscription-management tools.
Deleting the app or deleting your Platform account does not automatically cancel a subscription purchased through Google Play.
19.6 App-Store Billing Controls
We do not control Apple’s or Google’s billing systems.
If you purchased through an app store, we may be unable to cancel, refund, modify, or restore your subscription except through app-store tools made available to us.
You are responsible for managing app-store subscriptions through the account used to purchase them.
19.7 Recurring Billing
Paid subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled before the renewal date.
By purchasing a subscription, you authorize recurring charges for the subscription price, taxes, and applicable fees until you cancel.
If your payment method fails, the applicable payment processor or app store may attempt to process the payment again, request updated payment information, suspend access, or cancel the subscription.
19.8 Free Trials and Promotional Access
We may offer free trials, complimentary access, referral rewards, promotional access, or discounted access.
Trial and promotional terms may vary. A trial or promotional offer may convert to a paid subscription unless canceled before the trial or promotional period ends.
The checkout flow or applicable app store may provide additional trial, promotional, renewal, cancellation, and billing disclosures.
19.9 Cancellations
You may cancel a subscription at any time through the applicable cancellation method for the purchase channel.
For web subscriptions, you may cancel through Platform subscription tools, if available, or through CCBill support at https://support.ccbill.com/.
For Apple App Store subscriptions, you must cancel through your Apple account settings or other Apple-provided subscription-management tools.
For Google Play subscriptions, you must cancel through your Google Play account settings, Google Play’s subscription center, or other Google-provided subscription-management tools.
Cancellation stops future recurring charges but does not automatically provide a refund for the current billing period unless required by law, required by applicable app-store rules, or expressly stated in the Subscription and Cancellation Policy.
19.10 Access After Cancellation
Unless otherwise stated at checkout, in the Subscription and Cancellation Policy, or by the applicable app store, you may continue to access paid subscription features until the end of the then-current billing period after cancellation.
We may revoke access earlier if required for legal, safety, fraud, payment, chargeback, app-store, payment-processor, card-network, or policy-enforcement reasons.
19.11 Upgrades and Downgrades
The Platform may allow you to upgrade or downgrade your plan.
Changes may take effect immediately, at the next billing cycle, or as described at checkout, in the subscription-management flow, or by the applicable app store.
If you purchase through an app store, upgrades, downgrades, prorations, billing adjustments, and renewal timing are controlled by the applicable app store.
19.12 Refunds
Refunds are governed by the Subscription and Cancellation Policy, applicable law, and, for app-store purchases, the applicable app-store rules.
We may deny refunds where permitted by law.
If you purchased through the Apple App Store or Google Play, refund requests may need to be submitted directly to Apple or Google.
19.13 Chargebacks
If you initiate a chargeback or payment dispute, we may suspend or restrict your account while the dispute is reviewed.
We may terminate accounts associated with fraudulent, abusive, or repeated payment disputes.
19.14 Dating-Service Cancellation Rights and Automatic-Renewal Rights
Some jurisdictions provide consumers with additional cancellation, refund, cooling-off, automatic-renewal, or dating-service contract rights. Those rights may include the right to cancel within a specified period after purchase, the right to cancel recurring subscriptions through specified methods, the right to receive particular pre-purchase or post-purchase disclosures, or the right to receive a refund within a specified period.
Nothing in these Terms limits any cancellation, refund, withdrawal, cooling-off, automatic-renewal, or subscription right that cannot be waived under applicable law.
Additional cancellation, renewal, refund, app-store, CCBill, dating-service, and consumer-withdrawal terms are stated in the Subscription and Cancellation Policy.
20.1 User Referrals
The Platform may allow users to invite friends or earn referral rewards.
Referral rewards may require the referred user to verify email, complete age verification, maintain an account, or satisfy other conditions.
We may change, limit, deny, reverse, or terminate referral rewards if we determine that a referral is fraudulent, abusive, self-referred, duplicate, ineligible, noncompliant, or inconsistent with the referral program.
20.2 Affiliate Program
We may offer a public affiliate program governed by separate Affiliate Program Terms or affiliate application terms.
Public affiliate program terms do not apply to any separate written agreement between After Dark Society and a specific affiliate to the extent that separate written agreement conflicts with the public affiliate program terms.
20.3 Taxes
You are responsible for taxes arising from referrals, rewards, affiliate commissions, credits, or other benefits you receive through the Platform.
21.1 Support Tools
The Platform may provide customer support through email, in-platform tools, tawk.to, support forms, bug-report forms, feature-request forms, or other support channels.
21.2 Feedback License
If you submit feedback, ideas, suggestions, bug reports, screenshots, feature requests, or similar materials, you hereby grant After Dark Society a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, develop, implement, distribute, and otherwise exploit that feedback without compensation to you.
21.3 Support Is Not Emergency Support
Customer support tools are not emergency services.
If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
22.1 Reporting
You may report content, users, groups, events, messages, or other activity through Platform reporting tools or by contacting us.
We may review reports using automated systems, human moderators, service providers, or a combination of those methods.
22.2 Complaints
Complaints about Platform content or conduct are handled under the Complaints Policy.
We may request additional information to evaluate a complaint.
22.3 Appeals and Takedowns
Users and persons depicted in content may request review, appeal removal decisions, or request removal of content under the Appeals and Takedown Policy.
If consent cannot be established, or if a person depicted in content demonstrates that consent is void under applicable law, we may remove the content.
Where required by payment-processor or card-network rules, disputes about consent may be referred to a neutral body at the merchant’s expense.
22.4 Nonconsensual Intimate Content Takedowns
Requests involving nonconsensual intimate content, including requests under the TAKE IT DOWN Act where applicable, are handled under the Nonconsensual Intimate Content and Takedown Policy.
22.5 DMCA and Copyright Complaints
Copyright complaints are governed by the DMCA and Copyright Policy.
A copyright takedown request is different from a depicted-person takedown request, consent complaint, privacy complaint, safety complaint, or nonconsensual-intimate-content removal request.
22.6 DSA Reporting and Appeals
For users in the European Union, we may provide reporting and appeal mechanisms intended to support compliance with the Digital Services Act.
We may provide statements of reasons, appeal rights, or other notices where required by applicable law.
22.7 Repeat Misuse
We may restrict or suspend users who repeatedly submit manifestly unfounded reports, notices, complaints, appeals, or takedown requests.
We may also restrict or suspend users who repeatedly upload illegal content or content that violates these Terms.
22.8 Enforcement
We may take enforcement action at our discretion, including warnings, labels, visibility limits, content removal, account restrictions, account suspension, account termination, re-verification, loss of creator status, loss of subscription features, loss of referral rewards, group or event removal, reporting to payment processors, reporting to app stores, reporting to law enforcement, or other action.
23.1 Child Safety
We prohibit child sexual abuse material, child sexual exploitation, grooming, sexual solicitation of minors, sexualized content involving minors, and any attempt to involve minors in the Platform.
We may report apparent child sexual abuse material or child exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, law enforcement, app stores, payment processors, card networks, or other appropriate authorities.
23.2 Anti-Trafficking
We prohibit human trafficking, sex trafficking, coercion, exploitation, prostitution, escorting, illegal sexual services, and solicitation of illegal in-person sexual activity.
We may remove content, suspend accounts, terminate accounts, preserve records, and report activity to appropriate authorities if we detect or receive reports of trafficking, coercion, exploitation, or related conduct.
23.3 Incorporated Policies
Our Child Safety Standards and Anti-Trafficking Policy provide additional rules and procedures.
24.1 Platform Ownership
After Dark Society owns the Platform and all technology, content, data, branding, business materials, goodwill, and intellectual property used in, relating to, or arising from the Platform, except for User Content owned by users or third parties.
24.2 Limited License to Use the Platform
Subject to these Terms, After Dark Society hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicensable license to access and use the Platform for your personal, lawful use.
24.3 Restrictions
You must not copy, modify, reverse engineer, scrape, crawl, reproduce, distribute, sell, rent, sublicense, interfere with, or create derivative works from the Platform except as permitted by these Terms or by law.
You must not use our trademarks, logos, trade names, domain names, branding, screenshots, or other brand assets without our prior written permission.
24.4 User Content Ownership
As between you and After Dark Society, you retain any ownership rights you have in your User Content, subject to the licenses and rights granted in these Terms.
25.1 Mobile Apps
These Terms apply to your use of the Platform through any website, mobile application, or other access method.
If you download, install, access, or use an AfterDark Society mobile application, these Terms apply to your use of that mobile application and to the services, content, subscriptions, and features available through it.
25.2 App-Store Terms Also Apply
Your download, installation, access, or use of an AfterDark Society mobile application may also be governed by the rules, terms, policies, and payment requirements of the Apple App Store, Google Play, or another app store or distribution platform through which you obtained the application.
If there is a conflict between these Terms and applicable app-store terms, the app-store terms control solely to the extent required by the applicable app store.
25.3 Apple App Store Acknowledgment
If you download, install, access, or use an AfterDark Society application through the Apple App Store, you and After Dark Society acknowledge that these Terms are between you and After Dark Society only, and not with Apple.
After Dark Society, not Apple, is solely responsible for the application and its content, subject to these Terms.
Apple has no obligation to furnish maintenance or support services for the application.
25.4 Apple Scope of License
For an application obtained through the Apple App Store, the license granted to you is limited to a nontransferable license to use the application on Apple-branded products that you own or control and as permitted by Apple’s usage rules, except that the application may be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing, volume purchasing, or similar Apple features to the extent permitted by Apple.
25.5 Apple Maintenance and Support
After Dark Society is responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the application only as stated in these Terms or as required by applicable law.
Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the application.
25.6 Apple Warranty
To the extent any warranty applies to the application and the application fails to conform to that warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, for the application as required by Apple’s applicable terms.
To the extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the application.
Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are the responsibility of After Dark Society only to the extent required by these Terms and applicable law.
25.7 Apple Product Claims
After Dark Society, not Apple, is responsible for addressing claims by you or a third party relating to the application or your possession or use of the application, including:
This section does not expand After Dark Society’s liability beyond the limits stated in these Terms.
25.8 Apple Intellectual-Property Claims
If a third party claims that the application or your possession or use of the application infringes that third party’s intellectual-property rights, After Dark Society, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of that claim to the extent required by these Terms and applicable law.
25.9 Apple Legal Compliance
You state that:
25.10 Apple Third-Party Beneficiary
Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms as they relate to your use of an AfterDark Society application obtained through the Apple App Store.
Upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple has the right to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
25.11 Google Play Terms
If you download, install, access, or use an AfterDark Society application through Google Play, your use of the application may also be subject to Google Play’s terms, Google Play’s payment rules, Google Play’s subscription rules, Google Play’s refund rules, Google Play’s content policies, and Google Play’s user-generated content requirements.
Google is not responsible for the Platform, User Content, support, claims, or disputes between you and After Dark Society except to the extent required by applicable Google Play terms.
25.12 Google Play Billing
If you purchase digital content, subscription services, paid app functionality, or other in-app digital products through the Android application, Google Play billing may be required unless Google Play permits another payment method.
Subscriptions purchased through Google Play must be managed and canceled through Google Play’s subscription-management tools unless Google Play permits another cancellation method.
25.13 User-Generated Content Safeguards
Because the Platform includes User Content, we may provide tools to report content, report users, block users, restrict users, mute users, hide content, filter content, appeal moderation decisions, and contact support.
You must use those tools responsibly. You must not abuse reporting, blocking, appeal, or support tools.
We may remove User Content, restrict users, suspend accounts, terminate accounts, or take other action to comply with app-store rules, including rules relating to objectionable content, user-generated content, adult content, harassment, minors, safety, reporting, and blocking.
25.14 Adult Content and App-Store Availability
Some Platform content, features, or functionality may be unavailable, restricted, blurred, age-gated, moderated, or removed in mobile applications or in particular countries, regions, app stores, devices, or operating systems to comply with app-store rules, legal requirements, payment-processor rules, card-network rules, or Platform policies.
The website and mobile applications may not offer the same features, content, subscriptions, prices, or account functions.
25.15 App Updates and Permissions
We may provide updates, modifications, patches, or new versions of the applications.
Some features may require device permissions, including notifications, camera, photos, videos, microphone, approximate location, device storage, or other permissions.
If you disable permissions, some features may not work.
25.16 Push Notifications
If you enable push notifications, we may send you notifications relating to your account, messages, matches, likes, sparks, groups, events, subscriptions, safety, moderation, legal notices, promotional offers, or other Platform activity.
You may disable push notifications through your device settings or Platform settings, but disabling notifications may affect your ability to receive timely updates.
25.17 App Deletion
Deleting a mobile application from your device does not delete your Platform account, cancel your subscription, remove your User Content, revoke your consent to these Terms, or end your obligations under these Terms.
To delete your account, use the account-deletion tools where available or contact us as described in these Terms.
To cancel a subscription, use the cancellation method applicable to the channel through which you purchased the subscription.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information, including account information, verification information, location information, messages, content, payment-related information, device information, moderation records, and compliance records.
By using the Platform, you acknowledge our Privacy Policy.
27.1 Account Deletion
You may request or initiate account deletion through Platform tools where available.
Account deletion removes your account from ordinary Platform use and may remove or de-identify user-facing account data.
27.2 Retained Records
We may retain information after account deletion as needed for legal, safety, fraud-prevention, tax, chargeback, payment, 2257, consent, reporting, moderation, dispute-resolution, law-enforcement, audit, app-store, payment-processor, card-network, and compliance purposes.
27.3 Private Messages After Deletion
Private messages are deleted or anonymized after account deletion, except that we may retain messages or related records as needed for safety, moderation, legal compliance, fraud prevention, dispute handling, law-enforcement cooperation, 2257 compliance, consent compliance, or other legitimate business or legal purposes.
27.4 Backups
Deleted information may remain in backups or archives for a limited period, subject to our retention practices and legal obligations.
The Platform may include links, integrations, payment services, verification services, hosting providers, analytics services, customer-support tools, app stores, maps, event-related services, or other third-party services.
We do not control third-party services and are not responsible for their content, policies, practices, availability, security, or compliance.
Your use of third-party services may be subject to separate terms and privacy policies.
The Platform may include safety materials, tutorials, community guidance, blog posts, support content, and other informational materials.
Those materials are provided for general information only and are not legal, medical, mental-health, emergency, financial, sexual-health, relationship, dating, safety, or professional advice.
We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue the Platform or any feature at any time.
We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free operation, content availability, message delivery, event availability, subscription-feature availability, or compatibility with any device, operating system, browser, app-store environment, payment processor, or third-party service.
31.1 Termination by You
You may stop using the Platform at any time.
You may delete your account through Platform tools where available.
31.2 Termination by After Dark Society
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account or access to the Platform at any time if we determine that:
31.3 Effect of Termination
After termination, your right to access and use the Platform ends immediately.
Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including provisions relating to User Content licenses, retained records, payment obligations, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and governing law.
The Platform is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
To the extent permitted by law, After Dark Society disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, security, and uninterrupted operation.
We do not guarantee that:
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so some of these disclaimers may not apply to you.
To the extent permitted by law, After Dark Society and its owners, managers, officers, employees, contractors, service providers, affiliates, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or enhanced damages; lost profits; lost revenue; lost data; loss of goodwill; personal injury; emotional distress; or damages arising from user conduct, dating activity, offline meetings, events, groups, messages, content, subscriptions, or inability to use the Platform.
To the extent permitted by law, After Dark Society’s total liability arising out of or relating to the Platform or these Terms will not exceed the greater of:
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of these limitations may not apply to you.
You shall indemnify After Dark Society and its owners, managers, officers, employees, contractors, service providers, affiliates, and agents against all losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, settlements, penalties, fines, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of:
Florida law governs these Terms and all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Platform, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
36.1 Informal Dispute Resolution
Before either you or After Dark Society begins an arbitration or court proceeding, the party asserting a dispute shall first send a written notice of dispute to the other party.
A notice of dispute to After Dark Society must be sent to legal@afterdarksociety.com and must include:
A notice of dispute to you may be sent to the email address associated with your account or by another notice method permitted under these Terms.
The parties shall attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days after a complete notice of dispute is received. Neither party may begin arbitration until that 30-day period has ended, except that a party may seek temporary injunctive or other equitable relief if necessary to prevent immediate and irreparable harm.
36.2 Agreement to Arbitrate
Except as stated in section 36.3, you and After Dark Society shall resolve any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Platform, your account, your subscription, your purchases, your User Content, your communications with other users, your participation in events or groups, our policies, our moderation decisions, or the relationship between you and After Dark Society by binding individual arbitration administered by National Arbitration and Mediation (“NAM”).
This arbitration agreement applies to disputes based on contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, consumer-protection law, privacy law, common law, equity, or any other legal theory, whether arising before or after the date you accepted these Terms.
The Federal Arbitration Act governs this arbitration agreement. NAM’s applicable rules and procedures in effect when the arbitration is filed govern the arbitration, including any applicable consumer or mass-arbitration rules, except to the extent those rules conflict with these Terms.
36.3 Disputes Not Subject to Arbitration
The following disputes are not required to be arbitrated:
36.4 Delegation
The arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve disputes regarding arbitrability, formation, scope, interpretation, applicability, enforceability, revocability, or validity of this arbitration agreement, including any claim that all or part of this arbitration agreement is void or voidable.
A court, not the arbitrator, must decide disputes regarding the validity or enforceability of the class action waiver, representative action waiver, public injunctive relief waiver, or mass-arbitration procedures in these Terms.
36.5 Arbitration Procedures
The arbitration must be conducted by one neutral arbitrator.
The arbitration must take place in Broward County, Florida, unless NAM or the arbitrator permits remote proceedings, the parties agree otherwise, or applicable law requires a different location.
The arbitrator may allow reasonable discovery consistent with the needs of the case and NAM’s applicable rules.
The arbitrator must issue a reasoned written decision sufficient to explain the essential findings and conclusions on which the award is based.
Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.
36.6 Individual Relief Only
The arbitrator may award relief only to the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to resolve that party’s individual claim.
The arbitrator must not award relief for or against anyone who is not a party to the individual arbitration.
36.7 Class Action and Representative Action Waiver
You and After Dark Society each agree to bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity.
You and After Dark Society each hereby waive the right to bring, participate in, maintain, or receive relief from any class action, collective action, representative action, private attorney general action, consolidated action, or any proceeding in which a person acts or proposes to act in a representative capacity.
This section 36.7 does not prevent either party from participating in a class-wide settlement of claims.
36.8 Public Injunctive Relief
To the extent a claim seeks public injunctive relief that cannot lawfully be waived or arbitrated, that claim must be severed from arbitration and brought in the court identified in section 36.14.
The parties shall stay any claim for public injunctive relief until all arbitrable claims between the parties have been finally resolved.
36.9 Mass Arbitration Procedures
If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against After Dark Society by or with the assistance, coordination, or cooperation of the same law firm, group of law firms, organization, or person, the demands will be treated as a mass arbitration.
If a mass arbitration occurs, the parties shall follow NAM’s applicable mass-arbitration rules, procedures, protocols, fee schedules, or administrative procedures.
If NAM does not apply a specific mass-arbitration procedure, the parties shall cooperate in good faith to implement a fair and efficient staged or batched process for resolving the demands. Unless NAM requires otherwise, no more than ten arbitration demands may proceed at the same time until those demands have been resolved or the parties agree otherwise.
The statute of limitations and any filing-fee deadlines will be tolled for demands subject to a staged or batched process from the date NAM receives the demand until the demand is selected to proceed, withdrawn, resolved, or otherwise closed.
36.10 Fees and Costs
Arbitration fees and costs will be allocated under NAM’s applicable rules and fee schedules, subject to applicable law.
If you are a consumer and applicable law requires After Dark Society to pay a portion of the arbitration fees for this arbitration agreement to be enforceable, After Dark Society will pay the required portion.
The arbitrator may award fees, costs, and expenses only to the extent permitted by applicable law, NAM’s applicable rules, or these Terms.
36.11 Confidentiality
The parties shall keep the arbitration proceeding, filings, evidence, nonpublic information, and award confidential, except to the extent disclosure is necessary to conduct the arbitration, confirm or enforce an award, seek judicial review, comply with law, obtain legal or professional advice, or disclose information to insurers, auditors, regulators, payment processors, app stores, card networks, law enforcement, or other persons with a legitimate need to know.
36.12 Arbitration Opt-Out; Rejection of Future Arbitration Changes
You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending a written opt-out notice to legal@afterdarksociety.com within 30 days after you first accept these Terms.
Your opt-out notice must include your name, the email address associated with your account, your username if any, and a clear statement that you opt out of the arbitration agreement in the After Dark Society Terms of Service.
If you validly opt out of this arbitration agreement, the opt-out will apply to you unless you later affirmatively agree to an arbitration agreement with After Dark Society.
If After Dark Society makes a material change to this dispute-resolution section after you accept these Terms, that change will not apply to you unless you affirmatively accept the updated Terms or unless applicable law permits the change to apply without affirmative consent.
If applicable law permits a material change to the dispute-resolution section to apply without affirmative consent, you may reject that material change by sending a written rejection notice to legal@afterdarksociety.com within 30 days after the updated Terms are posted or after we notify you of the change, whichever is later.
Your rejection notice must include your name, the email address associated with your account, your username if any, and a clear statement that you reject the material change to the dispute-resolution section.
Rejecting a material change to the dispute-resolution section does not opt you out of arbitration entirely. Instead, the last version of the dispute-resolution section that you accepted, and did not validly reject, will continue to govern disputes between you and After Dark Society.
Changes to our notice address, our legal name, formatting, numbering, or wording that does not materially alter the parties’ rights or obligations do not create a new right to reject changes.
Opting out of arbitration or rejecting a material change to the dispute-resolution section does not affect any other part of these Terms.
36.13 Time Limit
To the extent permitted by law, you and After Dark Society each must bring any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Platform within one year after the claim accrues.
This section 36.13 does not apply to claims that cannot lawfully be shortened by contract.
36.14 Court Proceedings
If a dispute is not subject to arbitration, or if a party seeks injunctive or other equitable relief permitted under these Terms, the dispute or request may be brought only in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida or, only if there is no federal subject-matter jurisdiction, in a state court located in Broward County, Florida.
You and After Dark Society each consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts for those purposes.
36.15 Jury Trial Waiver
To the extent a dispute is not subject to arbitration, you and After Dark Society each hereby waive any right to a jury trial to the fullest extent permitted by law.
36.16 Severability
If any part of this arbitration agreement is held unenforceable, that part will be severed or modified to the extent necessary, and the rest of the arbitration agreement will remain in effect.
If the class action waiver or representative action waiver is held unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request for relief must proceed in court, and all arbitrable claims must proceed in arbitration.
36.17 Survival
This dispute-resolution section survives termination of your account, deletion of your account, cancellation of your subscription, removal of User Content, and termination or expiration of these Terms.
37.1 International Access
The Platform is operated from the United States.
If you access the Platform from outside the United States, you are responsible for complying with local laws.
37.2 Regional Restrictions
We may restrict access to the Platform or certain features in particular countries, regions, or jurisdictions.
37.3 Privacy and Platform Laws
We may take steps intended to comply with GDPR, UK GDPR, the Digital Services Act, U.S. state privacy laws, app-store requirements, payment-processor rules, card-network rules, adult-content laws, and other laws or requirements that apply to the Platform.
37.4 EU Digital Services Act
For users in the European Union, we may provide mechanisms for reporting illegal content, challenging moderation decisions, receiving statements of reasons where required, and contacting us for Digital Services Act purposes.
Unless we provide another contact point, our contact point for legal and Digital Services Act communications is legal@afterdarksociety.com.
38.1 Updates
We may update these Terms from time to time.
38.2 Notice
When we make material changes to these Terms, we will provide notice using a reasonable method, which may include posting the updated Terms, updating the “Last updated” date, sending an email, providing an in-platform notice, using a click-through notice, or using another method reasonably designed to notify affected users.
38.3 Changes Requiring Affirmative Consent
If we make a material change that applicable law requires to be accepted by affirmative consent, the change will not apply to you unless you affirmatively accept the updated Terms.
We may require affirmative consent for changes that materially affect dispute resolution, arbitration, class-action waivers, payment obligations, subscription terms, automatic-renewal terms, content licenses, privacy or data-use rights, age or identity verification requirements, or other rights or obligations where affirmative consent is required by law or where we determine that affirmative consent is appropriate.
38.4 Continued Use
For changes that do not require affirmative consent, your continued use of the Platform after the updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
38.5 Existing Disputes
Unless you affirmatively agree otherwise, an updated version of these Terms will not apply retroactively to a dispute that arose before the updated Terms became effective.
38.6 If You Do Not Agree
If you do not agree to updated Terms, you must stop using the Platform and, if applicable, cancel your subscription. Your cancellation rights are described in the Subscription and Cancellation Policy.
38.7 Arbitration Changes
Changes to the dispute-resolution section are also governed by section 36.12.
We may provide notices to you by email, in-platform notice, posting on the Platform, push notification, or other reasonable method.
Legal notices to After Dark Society should be sent by email to:
General support requests should be sent to:
Notices regarding copyright infringement should be sent under the DMCA and Copyright Policy to the designated copyright agent identified in that policy.
40.1 Entire Agreement
These Terms and the policies incorporated into them constitute the entire agreement between you and After Dark Society regarding the Platform.
40.2 Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or, if modification is not permitted, disregarded. The rest of these Terms will remain in effect.
40.3 No Waiver
A failure or delay by After Dark Society in enforcing any provision of these Terms does not waive that provision.
40.4 Assignment
You must not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent.
We may assign or transfer our rights or obligations under these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, change of control, or transfer of the Platform or our business.
40.5 No Third-Party Beneficiaries
Except as stated in the app-store provisions, these Terms do not create rights in any third party.
For general support, contact:
For legal questions about these Terms, contact: