Terms of Use

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

User sole responsibility and indemnity for shared user content

Users are solely responsible and liable for content they upload, publish, or display, and must indemnify and hold Tinder harmless for their content.

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You are solely responsible and liable for Your Content, and, therefore, you agree to indemnify, defend, release, and hold us harmless from any claims made in connection with Your Content.
Your individual profile will be visible to other people around the world, so be sure that you are comfortable sharing Your Content before you post.
You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Prohibits displaying personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment info

purpose: service_operation · purpose: legal_compliance

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Member content ownership and prohibition on unauthorized copying

Other members own their content. You may use it only consistently with the service purpose of communicating and meeting; commercial copying, spam, harassment and unlawful threats are prohibited.

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Member Content belongs to the user who posted the content
you may only use Member Content to the extent that your use is consistent with our Services' purpose of allowing you to communicate with and meet one another.
You may not copy the Member Content or use Member Content for commercial purposes, to spam, to harass, or to make unlawful threats.

purpose: service_operation

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Limited personal revocable license granted by Tinder to user

Tinder grants users a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-exclusive, revocable license to access and use the service.

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For as long as you comply with these Terms, Tinder grants you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-exclusive, revocable, and non-sublicensable license to access and use our Services for purposes as intended by Tinder and permitted by these Terms and applicable laws.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Conditioned upon full ongoing compliance with these Terms

purpose: service_operation

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Broad worldwide license granted by user to Tinder for user content

Users grant Tinder a perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, display, reproduce, adapt, edit, publish, and distribute content.

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By creating an account, you grant to Tinder a worldwide, perpetual, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free right and license to host, store, use, copy, display, reproduce, adapt, edit, publish, translate, modify, reformat, incorporate into other works, advertise, distribute and otherwise make available to the general public Your Content, including any information you authorize us to access from other third-party sources (if applicable), in whole or in part, and in any way and in any format or medium currently known or developed in the future.
Tinder's license to Your Content shall be non-exclusive, except that Tinder's license shall be exclusive with respect to derivative works created through use of our Services (including through our use of AI Technology).
Tinder's license to Your Content is subject to your rights under applicable law

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The license is subject to applicable legal rights, including personal-data protections.
  • Separate terms make the license exclusive for derivative works created through the service.

purpose: service_operation · purpose: marketing

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

User content may train AI, and learned information cannot be unlearned

The license expressly allows Tinder to use content to train, develop and improve its services and other products, including AI. The terms say the services may learn from content and cannot later unlearn it.

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to train, develop, adapt, modify, enhance, or improve the Services and other products or services including through our use of AI Technology.
cannot thereafter "unlearn.".
subject to your rights under applicable law

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The content license is subject to applicable law, including data-protection rights.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Tinder claims an exclusive license to service-created derivative works

The content license is generally non-exclusive, but exclusive for derivative works created through Tinder, including with AI. The terms give screenshots containing your content as an example.

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Tinder's license to Your Content shall be non-exclusive, except that Tinder's license shall be exclusive with respect to derivative works created through use of our Services (including through our use of AI Technology).

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Tinder may enforce content rights on your behalf

Users authorize Tinder to send DMCA notices about content taken from its services and used elsewhere. Tinder receives authority to act, without a duty to do so.

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the authority, but not the obligation, to send notices pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You remain responsible for AI-assisted content

AI-generated or enhanced material remains your content. You are responsible for its accuracy, use and resulting decisions or actions.

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This is still Your Content, and you are responsible for it and its accuracy

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Content can be restricted even if legal where you live

Tinder may edit, block or remove content at its discretion and has no obligation to display or review it. Content illegal in another jurisdiction where Tinder operates may be removed even if legal locally.

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If Your Content is prohibited under the laws of any jurisdiction where our Services are available, we may remove it even if it is not illegal in your location.
we have no obligation to display or review Your Content.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Feedback may be used without compensation

Tinder may use and share suggestions for any purpose without payment; users waive rights in those suggestions.

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Tinder may use and share such feedback for any purpose without compensating you

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Content and conduct restrictions cover fraud, harm and commercial solicitation

The terms prohibit identity misrepresentation, harmful or illegal uses, commercial content, infringement, non-consensual likenesses and unsafe content involving minors. Violations can cause immediate suspension or termination.

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Misrepresent your identity, age, employment (current or previous), qualifications or affiliations with a person or entity;
Is illegal or encourages or facilitates any illegal activity
Relates to commercial activities
Infringes upon any third party's rights
Includes the image or likeness of another person without that person's consent
Includes an image or likeness of a minor who is unaccompanied
may result in the immediate suspension or termination of your account.

Content & IP Rights · Procedure

Copyright complaints require a detailed notice

A DMCA notice must identify the work and allegedly infringing material, give contact details, include an authorized signature and good-faith and accuracy statements. Tinder says repeat infringers’ accounts will be terminated.

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please submit a notification alleging such infringement
A physical or electronic signature
under penalty of perjury
Tinder will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.