Prohibited content standards regarding hate speech, nudity, and third-party rights
Users may not post content that contains hate speech, discrimination, nudity, sexually explicit acts, spyware, malware, or infringes third-party rights.
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Is obscene, pornographic, violent or otherwise may offend human dignity, or contains nudity;
Is abusive, insulting or threatening, discriminatory or that promotes or encourages racism, sexism, hatred or bigotry;
Infringes upon any third party's rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights and privacy rights);
Contains any spyware, adware, viruses
may result in the immediate suspension or termination of your account.
Qualifications & exceptions
Uploading prohibited content may result in immediate suspension or termination
User retains content ownership and grants broad worldwide license to Hinge
Users own their content but grant Hinge a worldwide, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to host, store, display, reproduce, adapt, edit, publish, and distribute it.
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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.
By creating an account, you grant to Hinge 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 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.
Hinge's license to Your Content shall be non-exclusive, except that Hinge's license shall be exclusive with respect to derivative works created through use of our Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is subject to applicable legal rights, including personal-data protections.
It is generally non-exclusive, but exclusive for derivative works created through Hinge.
Authorization for Hinge to enforce copyright against third-party scraping outside Service
Users authorize Hinge to act on their behalf to prevent third parties from taking, scraping, or using their content outside of Hinge, including sending DMCA notices.
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In addition, so that Hinge can prevent the use of Your Content outside of our Services, you authorize Hinge to act on your behalf with respect to infringing uses of Your Content taken from our Services by other users or third parties. This expressly includes the authority, but not the obligation, to send notices pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) (i.e., DMCA Takedown Notices) on your behalf if Your Content is taken and used by third parties outside of our Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Authority granted to send DMCA notices on user behalf; Hinge has no obligation to act
Member content belongs to posting user with strict prohibition on commercial reuse
Member content belongs to the user who posted it; other users receive no rights and may not copy, spam, harass, or use member content for commercial purposes.
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You do not have any rights in relation to Member Content, and, unless expressly authorized by Hinge, 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. We reserve the right to terminate your account if you misuse Member Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
Permitted use limited strictly to communicating with and meeting other users
Hinge proprietary IP ownership and revocable personal license to the application
Hinge owns, controls or licenses its service content and intellectual property. It grants a personal, worldwide, revocable, non-assignable and non-sublicensable license for permitted service purposes.
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Any other text, content, graphics, user interfaces, trademarks, logos, sounds, artwork, images, and other intellectual property appearing on our Services is owned, controlled or licensed by us and protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property law rights. All rights, title, and interest in and to Our Content remains with us at all times.
For as long as you comply with these Terms, Hinge 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 Hinge and permitted by these Terms and applicable laws.
Qualifications & exceptions
The license and access authorization end automatically if you fail to comply with the terms.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown request submission process
Copyright owners may send a DMCA notice identifying the work and material, giving contact details and an authorized signature, and including good-faith and accuracy statements. The agreement provides email, phone and postal contacts and says repeat infringers’ accounts will be terminated.
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Hinge has adopted the following policy towards copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"). If you believe any Member Content or Our Content infringes upon your intellectual property rights, please submit a notification alleging such infringement ("DMCA Takedown Notice") including the following:
Any DMCA Takedown Notices should be sent to copyright@match.com, by phone to 214-576-3272 or via mail to the following address: Copyright Compliance Department c/o Match Group Legal, 8750 N. Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas 75231.
A physical or electronic signature
A statement that you have a good faith belief
under penalty of perjury
Hinge will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
Qualifications & exceptions
Takedown requests processed in accordance with DMCA provisions
Derivative works carry an exclusive content license
Hinge’s license is generally non-exclusive but becomes exclusive for derivative works created through its services, with screenshots containing user content given as an example.
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Hinge's license shall be exclusive with respect to derivative works created through use of our Services.
Hinge would have an exclusive license to screenshots of our Services that include Your Content.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Users remain responsible for suggested or enhanced content
Tools may generate or enhance content, but users retain responsibility for its accuracy and decisions or actions based on it. Automatically generated or third-party-written content is otherwise prohibited unless Hinge expressly authorizes it.
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This is still Your Content, and you are responsible for it and its accuracy
Was not written by you or was automatically generated, unless expressly authorized by Hinge;
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Hinge can restrict content that is illegal in another operating region
Hinge may remove, edit or block content at its discretion without an obligation to display or review it. It may remove content prohibited in any jurisdiction where its services operate, even if legal where you live.
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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
Hinge may use and share suggestions for any purpose without payment; it and its partners may place ads on the service.
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Hinge may use and share such feedback for any purpose without compensating you.
our third-party partners may place advertising on our Services.