Last Updated: October 30, 2025
Welcome to AfterDark Society. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the AfterDark Society web and mobile applications, websites, and services (collectively, the "Service"). Please read these Terms carefully.
By creating an account or using our Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
1. Eligibility and Account Responsibility
- Age Requirement: You must be at least 18 years of age and of legal age of consent in your country of residence to use this Service. The platform is for consenting adults only. We have a zero-tolerance policy for minors, and any account suspected of belonging to a minor will be terminated immediately.
- Mandatory Age Verification: You agree to submit to our mandatory age verification process as a condition of using the Service. Access to platform features beyond basic registration requires successful completion of age verification. You cannot access posts, groups, messaging, or other platform features until your age has been verified through our official process. Providing false information during this process is a serious violation of these Terms.
- Age Verification Gating: All content and features on AfterDark Society are restricted to verified adults only. You acknowledge that age verification serves as a mandatory gateway to access any platform functionality beyond account creation.
- Account Security: You are responsible for safeguarding your account password and for all activities that occur under your account.
2. User Conduct and Content Policy
You agree not to post, upload, or share any content that:
- Is illegal, hateful, discriminatory, threatening, or harassing.
- Violates our Community Guidelines.
- Involves the exploitation or depiction of minors in any way.
- Infringes on any third party's intellectual property rights (e.g., copyright, trademark).
- Constitutes spam, commercial solicitation, or fraudulent activity.
- Shares another person's private information without their explicit consent.
We reserve the right to remove any content and terminate any account that violates these rules, at our sole discretion.
3. Platform Interaction Rules
- Follow/Like/Match System: The Service includes features for social interaction. A "Follow" allows you to see a user's public content. A "Match" (resulting from a mutual "Like") is required to unlock private, one-on-one messaging.
- No Circumvention: You agree not to use public features, such as comments or group chats, to harass users or to circumvent the requirements for private messaging.
4. Private Messaging Features
When you use our private messaging features, you agree to the following terms:
Message Editing Policy
- Edit Window: You may edit text messages within 15 minutes of sending. After this period, messages cannot be modified.
- Text Only: Only text messages can be edited. Messages containing images, GIFs, or other media cannot be edited after sending.
- Transparency: Edited messages will display an "(edited)" indicator visible to all conversation participants.
- Original Content Retention: We retain the original message text for safety and moderation purposes, even after editing. This helps us enforce our Community Guidelines and investigate reported violations.
- No Abuse: Message editing is provided for correcting typos and minor mistakes, not to deceive other users or evade moderation. Abuse of this feature may result in account restrictions.
Message Ownership & License
- Your Content: You retain ownership of all messages and content you send through the Service.
- License Grant: By sending messages, you grant us a limited license to store, process, and display your messages as necessary to provide the Service and enforce our policies.
- No Commercial Use: We will not use your private messages for advertising, marketing, or any commercial purposes beyond providing the Service.
Message Content Restrictions
In addition to our general content policy, you agree not to send messages that:
- Harass, threaten, or intimidate other users
- Contain unsolicited advertising or spam
- Request or share personal financial information
- Attempt to manipulate or deceive other users
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations
Safety & Moderation Rights
- Automated Monitoring: Messages are scanned by automated systems to detect policy violations, harmful content, and prohibited behavior.
- Human Review: We reserve the right to review reported messages or flagged content to enforce our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service.
- Removal Authority: We may remove any message, suspend messaging privileges, or terminate accounts that violate our policies, without prior notice.
- No Liability: We are not responsible for monitoring all messages in real-time and cannot guarantee that all harmful content will be detected or removed immediately.
User Responsibilities
- Consent & Respect: Always respect other users' boundaries and obtain consent before sharing sensitive content.
- Screenshot Policy: While we cannot prevent screenshots, you should respect the privacy of your conversations and not share private messages without consent.
- Report Abuse: You agree to report any messages that violate our policies using our reporting tools.
- Block & Unmatch: You can block users or unmatch at any time to end unwanted conversations.
5. Service License
We grant you a personal, non-transferable, and non-exclusive license to use the Service. You agree not to copy, modify, sell, or distribute the Service or any part thereof.
6. Termination
We may terminate or suspend your account at any time, without prior notice or liability, for any reason, including but not limited to a breach of these Terms or our Community Guidelines.
You may terminate your account at any time through the settings in the application.
7. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
The Service is provided "as is." We make no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaim all other warranties. In no event shall AfterDark Society be liable for any damages arising out of the use or inability to use the Service.
8. Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed by the laws of [Your Company's Jurisdiction - e.g., the State of Florida, USA], without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at: legal@afterdarksociety.com