Terms of Use

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Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Prohibited harassment, intimidation, and financial solicitation

Users are strictly prohibited from harassing, stalking, intimidating, or bullying others, as well as soliciting money, gifts, loans, or credentials.

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Harass, bully, stalk, intimidate, assault, defame, harm or otherwise or mistreat any person;
Solicit money or other items of value from another user, whether as a gift, loan, or form of compensation;
Solicit passwords for any purpose
whether on or off of the Services

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Applies both on and off the services

purpose: security · purpose: service_operation

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Ban on automated scraping, crawling, indexing, and reverse engineering

Tinder prohibits automated or manual scraping, indexing and data mining, and prohibits framing without prior written authorization and reverse engineering.

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Use any robot, crawler, site search/retrieval application, proxy or other manual or automatic device, method or process to access, retrieve, index, "data mine," or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of our Services or its contents;
"Frame" or "mirror" any part of our Services without Tinder's prior written authorization;
reverse engineer, decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of our Services

purpose: security

Security & Safeguards · Context

No criminal background or identity checks disclaimer

The terms state that Tinder does not conduct criminal-background or identity-verification checks, while reserving the right to screen using public records or a consumer-reporting agency. Users authorize those checks and remain responsible for precautions and interactions.

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YOU UNDERSTAND THAT TINDER DOES NOT CONDUCT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND OR IDENTITY VERIFICATION CHECKS ON ITS USERS OR OTHERWISE INQUIRE INTO THE BACKGROUND OF ITS USERS. TINDER MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE CONDUCT, IDENTITY, HEALTH, PHYSICAL CONDITION, INTENTIONS, LEGITIMACY, OR VERACITY OF USERS.
YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS. WE CANNOT, AND SEX OFFENDER SCREENINGS AND OTHER TOOLS DO NOT, GUARANTEE YOUR SAFETY AND ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR FOLLOWING THE [SAFETY TIPS](https://policies.tinder.com/community-resources/safety-tips) AND OTHER SENSIBLE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Tinder reserves the right to conduct public records screenings at its discretion

purpose: security · purpose: service_operation

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Third-party AI integrations and API use need written consent

The terms prohibit unapproved third-party services that interact with Tinder or member information, including AI systems, and unapproved API access.

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including but not limited to artificial intelligence or machine learning systems;
Use, access, or publish the Tinder application programming interface without our written consent;

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Users must keep the app current and secure their accounts

Users agree to follow applicable laws and community guidelines, use the latest app or website version, treat others respectfully and protect account credentials.

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Comply with all applicable laws
Use the latest version of the Website and/or App;
both on and off our Services;
Take reasonable measures to protect the security of your account and login information.