1. Acceptance & Binding Effect
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding legal agreement between you and its me (the “Service”) and its operators, owners, employees, contractors, and affiliates (collectively, “we,” “us,” or the “Released Parties”). You accept these Terms by tapping “Agree and see who's nearby,” by choosing Google sign-in beside the displayed Terms notice, or by otherwise using the Service after that notice. If you do not agree, do not continue into the Service.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a binding contract under the laws of the jurisdiction where you reside. You must not be barred from using the Service under any applicable law. By tapping the button you represent and warrant that each of these requirements is true and will remain true for the duration of your use of the Service.
3. The Service: What It Is — and What It Isn't
its me is a casual social-discovery platform that displays the approximate map location of users who have affirmatively opted in to be visible and lets each user send one other user a single, fixed-content greeting (“hey there”).
The Service is not an emergency service, background-check service, guarantee of identity, or guarantee of another person's conduct. Anything that happens after the fixed greeting — including any conversation, meeting, transaction, or relationship — is a voluntary interaction between adults outside the Service. We remain responsible for operating the product, handling data, responding to reports and known risks, and performing duties the law places on us.
4. Anonymous Accounts & Profile Content
Accounts on the Service are anonymous by design. You may add a display name, a short biography, and up to four photographs. You must not impersonate any other person, upload content depicting another individual without that person's explicit consent, or include in your profile any content that is sexually explicit, violent, depicts minors in any way, contains contact information for the purpose of solicitation, includes commercial advertising, or is otherwise prohibited under Section 7.
5. Verification and Personal Safety
Unless a profile displays a verification badge, we have not verified that user's identity. A badge means only that the stated check was completed; it is not a background check or promise of character, intentions, photographs, statements, or current location. The Service makes no representation or warranty about any user, and no display name, biography, photograph, or location displayed through the Service should be relied upon as accurate. Any user may be lying about any or all of the foregoing. Treat every interaction with the same caution you would apply to a stranger on the street.
You are solely responsible for evaluating every other user you encounter and for every decision you make in connection with the Service, including but not limited to whether to send a greeting, whether to respond to a greeting, whether to communicate with another user off-platform, whether to meet another user in person, where to meet, when to meet, what to disclose, and how to protect yourself before, during, and after any such meeting.
6. Assumption of Risk & General Release of Claims
You expressly acknowledge that meeting strangers in person carries inherent and unavoidable risks — including physical harm, sexual assault, robbery, kidnapping, harassment, fraud, identity theft, financial loss, emotional distress, and exposure to communicable disease — and that the Released Parties cannot eliminate or meaningfully reduce those risks.
In consideration of being permitted to use the Service, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, you, on behalf of yourself and your heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, hereby release and discharge the Released Parties from any and all claims, demands, actions, causes of action, suits, damages, losses, costs, and expenses of any kind whatsoever — whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, foreseen or unforeseen, accrued or not yet accrued, arising in contract, tort, statute, or any other theory — that arise out of, relate to, or are in any way connected with (i) your access to or use of the Service, (ii) any content available through the Service, (iii) any greeting you send or receive, (iv) any communication, interaction, meeting, transaction, or relationship between you and any other user, whether occurring on the Service, near it, or anywhere else, and (v) the acts, omissions, statements, or conduct of any other user, before, during, or after any meeting.
You expressly waive any benefit or protection of California Civil Code §1542 (and any similar law in any jurisdiction) which provides that “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.” This release is intended to be construed as broadly as applicable law permits. It does not release claims that cannot lawfully be released, including claims based on gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, violation of statutory rights, or our failure to perform a non-waivable duty.
We strongly recommend that you meet other users only in public, well-lit, populated places; that you tell a trusted person where you are going and when you expect to return; that you carry your phone with you; and that you arrange your own transportation. These recommendations are not promises and are not a substitute for your own judgment.
7. Prohibited Conduct
You agree that you will not, and will not attempt to:
- harass, threaten, stalk, defame, intimidate, or discriminate against any other user;
- upload, post, or transmit content that is unlawful, sexually explicit, depicts minors in any context, depicts or promotes violence, infringes any intellectual-property right, or violates the privacy or publicity rights of any person;
- use the Service to facilitate prostitution, commercial sexual activity, human trafficking, or any conduct prohibited under 18 U.S.C. § 1591;
- use the Service to solicit commercial sex, traffic people, harass others, or advertise unlawful goods or services;
- create more than one account, falsify or spoof your location, impersonate any person, or use any automated means (including bots, scrapers, crawlers, or harvesters) to access, scrape, interact with, or replicate the Service;
- interfere with the operation of the Service, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system or account, circumvent any security measure, or reverse-engineer the Service;
- encourage or assist any third party to do any of the above.
8. Content You Provide; License to Us
You retain ownership of the content you upload. You grant its me a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, display, transmit, process, and create derivative works of that content solely for the purpose of operating, securing, and improving the Service. You represent and warrant that you own or have the rights necessary to grant this license and that the content does not infringe any third-party right.
9. Child Sexual Abuse Material — Zero Tolerance
We prohibit child sexual abuse material (“CSAM”) and sexual exploitation of minors. When we obtain actual knowledge of facts that trigger a reporting duty, we will report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as required by 18 U.S.C. § 2258A, preserve required information, and take appropriate account and content action. This statement does not promise universal monitoring or perfect detection.
10. Block, Report, and Termination
We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice and in our sole discretion, for any reason, including any conduct we determine in good faith is harmful, abusive, fraudulent, or in breach of these Terms. You may report another user's conduct through the in-app reporting tool. We triage reports under our safety process and may preserve information, restrict visibility, suspend an account, or refer a matter when appropriate. We cannot promise a particular result or response time for every report. Termination of your account does not relieve you of obligations that survive these Terms.
11. Disclaimer of Warranties
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind, express, implied, or statutory, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, security, availability, or that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. We do not warrant the identity, age, character, conduct, or trustworthiness of any user.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will the Released Parties be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, opportunity, or substitute service, arising out of or related to your use of the Service, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. The total cumulative liability of the Released Parties to you for any and all claims shall not exceed one hundred united states dollars ($100.00) or the amount you have paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim, whichever is greater. The Service is currently offered without charge.
13. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Released Parties from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to (a) your access to or use of the Service, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of any third-party right, including any intellectual-property, privacy, or publicity right, (d) any content you upload, transmit, or display through the Service, and (e) any communication, interaction, or meeting between you and any other user, on or off the Service.
14. Disputes and Applicable Law
Please use the Contact page to give us a reasonable opportunity to understand and resolve a dispute informally. These Terms are governed by the laws that apply to you and the operator; nothing in these Terms removes a consumer right, forum, or remedy that cannot lawfully be waived. Any arbitration, class-action waiver, choice-of-law clause, or forum-selection clause must be added through a future conspicuous agreement reviewed for the jurisdictions where the Service operates.
15. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page with a new effective date and, where practicable, surfaced inside the Service. Your continued use of the Service after a change becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
16. Severability & Entire Agreement
If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable, the provision shall be construed to give it the maximum effect permitted by law, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and its me regarding the Service and supersede any prior or contemporaneous understanding on the same subject.
17. Contact
Questions and legal notices may be submitted through our Contact page.