Terms of Service

1. Agreement to These Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Rumors website and mobile application (together, the “Service”). The Service is provided by Rumors Dating Inc. (“Rumors,” “we,” “us”). When you create an account or otherwise use the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

2. Who We Are

Rumors Dating Inc. is a Delaware corporation. Our business address is 1151 Walker Rd Ste 100, PMB 613, Dover, DE 19904, United States. Rumors operates rumors.app together with the Rumors mobile application for iOS and Android.

3. Eligibility

To use the Service you must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into these Terms. You will be asked for your date of birth when you register. The registration process also includes a technical check that is designed to stop anyone whose stated date of birth puts them under 18 from completing registration or reaching dating features. By using the Service, you represent that the information you give us, your date of birth included, is truthful and accurate. If an account belongs to or is used by someone under 18, we may suspend or terminate it. Our Child Safety page has more information.

4. Your Account

You are responsible for keeping the information on your profile accurate and for keeping your account credentials confidential. If you become aware that someone has used your account without authorization, notify us promptly.

Your Rumors account is personal to you. You agree not to sell, transfer or share access to it. You also agree not to create or use an account on someone else’s behalf, or to impersonate another person. As a general rule, each user may hold only one personal Rumors account unless Rumors expressly permits otherwise.

Depending on your platform, you can create or sign in to your account with email, Sign in with Apple, or Google Sign-In. Where a feature uses phone verification, you agree to provide a phone number that you control.

5. The Rumors Service

Rumors is an adult dating and social-discovery application. At present its functionality may include creating a profile, browsing and discovering other users, receiving recommendations and matching assistance (including features assisted by automated or AI systems, which Section 6 describes), exchanging messages with other users, using optional verification features, and using reporting, blocking and other safety tools. What is available can differ by platform and region, and it can change over time. Rumors does not guarantee that any particular feature will always be available.

Rumors helps users discover and communicate with one another. It does not guarantee that you will be matched with any particular person, that a match will be compatible with you, or that an interaction that takes place through the Service will lead to a successful relationship. Whether and how you interact with other users is your decision alone, and you are solely responsible for it.

6. AI-Assisted Features

The Service may use AI-assisted functionality to support features such as discovery, matching and recommendation assistance, and conversation assistance. Chat content goes to an external AI provider only when you choose to use a specific feature that requires it. Rumors does not routinely route your private messages through an AI provider. Our Privacy Policy explains in more detail how AI-assisted features process information.

Output from these features, whether recommendations, compatibility suggestions or conversation assistance, may be incomplete, inaccurate or unsuited to your situation. Use your own judgment before relying on it. AI-assisted features do not make legally or similarly significant decisions about you. They do not guarantee compatibility or any outcome, and they are not a substitute for professional, legal, medical or financial advice. You remain solely responsible for the messages and other content you choose to send, including anything sent with help from an AI-assisted feature.

7. User Content

“User Content” means your profile information, photos and other media, messages, reports and any other material you submit to or through the Service. Where you hold rights in your User Content, those rights stay with you.

When you submit User Content, you grant Rumors a limited, non-exclusive license to host, store, reproduce, display, process, transmit and moderate that content. The license covers only what is necessary to provide, operate, secure, maintain and improve the Service in line with these Terms and our Privacy Policy. It does not pass ownership of your User Content to Rumors, and it does not authorize any use that is inconsistent with our Privacy Policy. The license ends when you delete the content in question or your account. The exceptions are copies kept for a limited period under the account-deletion and retention provisions of our Privacy Policy, and anything else the law requires us to retain.

You represent that you hold the rights and permissions you need in your User Content and that the content does not infringe or violate the rights of any third party. You also represent that you will not upload another person’s intimate or private content without their authorization, and that your profile information is not deliberately deceptive.

8. Messaging, Reporting and Safety

Messages you send through the Service are meant for the recipient you choose. In the ordinary course of running the Service, Rumors does not routinely review the content of private messages. That changes when you or another user reports a message, conversation or account. Automated moderation systems or authorized Rumors personnel may then review the reported content in order to investigate the report and enforce these Terms and our Community Guidelines.

You can report or block another user at any time, and you can use the other in-app safety tools whenever you wish. Rumors does not guarantee the identity, intentions or background of any user. Verification and safety features are offered as aids. None of them guarantees who a person is, how safe they are or what they intend. For practical safety guidance, see our Safety Center and Community Guidelines.

9. Acceptable Use

While you use the Service, you agree that you will not do any of the following:

• harass, threaten, stalk or abuse another person
• impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity
• engage in fraud, scams or other deceptive conduct
• send spam or unsolicited commercial messages, or use bots or other automated means to access the Service
• exploit, coerce or endanger another person, including content or conduct involving a minor
• share non-consensual intimate content, or record, capture, distribute or publish another user’s private communications or personal content without authorization where doing so would violate privacy, law or these Terms
• solicit or offer commercial sexual services, or engage in other illegal conduct
• attempt to compromise the security of the Service, or scrape or extract data from the Service by automated means
• use the Service for unauthorized commercial purposes
• sell, transfer or share your account

Our Community Guidelines set out further conduct standards, and they form part of these Terms.

10. Verification and User Interactions

The Service may offer optional verification features. They are meant as a safety and authenticity aid. Completing verification does not guarantee a user’s identity, background, intentions or safety. Rumors does not conduct criminal background checks unless it expressly states otherwise. When you interact or communicate with another user, or decide whether to meet them, you are responsible for using your own judgment.

11. Paid Features and App-Store Purchases

Where we offer paid features or subscriptions, purchases made through the iOS or Android app are billed and processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play and are subject to that store’s terms. Rumors does not currently run its own card processing or a Rumors-hosted payment checkout, and it does not store your full payment card information.

Billing, renewal, cancellation and refunds for subscriptions, where these apply, follow the rules of the relevant app store and our Subscription & Refund Policy. Statutory consumer rights that cannot legally be limited are unaffected.

12. Account Deletion

You can delete your account inside the App under Settings → Account → Delete Account. If you no longer have the App installed, use our Delete Account page at rumors.app/support-delete-account.html instead. Note that deleting your Rumors account does not automatically cancel a subscription managed through the Apple App Store or Google Play. A store subscription has to be managed or cancelled separately through Apple or Google. You may delete your account right away even while a subscription is still active. Our Privacy Policy explains how account deletion affects your personal information.

13. Intellectual Property

The Service, including its design, text, graphics, software and underlying technology, belongs to Rumors Dating Inc. or its licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Provided you comply with these Terms, Rumors grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to access and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not copy, modify, distribute or create derivative works from any part of the Service, other than your own User Content, unless these Terms or applicable law permit it.

14. Third-Party Services and App Stores

The Service may refer or link to third-party services, Apple and Google among them. Rumors neither controls nor takes responsibility for independent third-party services. If you use the iOS or Android version of the App, the applicable App Store or Google Play terms may apply to you as well.

Apple. If you access the Service through an Apple device, you acknowledge that these Terms are a contract between you and Rumors, and that Apple is not a party to them. Rumors alone, and not Apple, is responsible for the Service and its content. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Service. Your use of the App must comply with the applicable App Store Terms of Service. Where those terms require it, Apple is a third-party beneficiary of this section and may enforce it against you.

Google Play. Google Play’s terms may also apply to your use of the Android version of the App. Google is not a contracting party to these Terms. Store billing, subscriptions and refunds for purchases made through Google Play remain subject to Google Play’s applicable rules.

15. Suspension and Termination

Rumors may issue a warning, restrict features, suspend an account or terminate it. It may do so for violations of these Terms or our Community Guidelines, for safety threats, fraud or illegal conduct, where an account belongs to or is used by a minor, or for other abuse of the Service. Any such step will be proportionate to the conduct involved. You, for your part, may stop using the Service or delete your account at any time. Nothing in this section limits rights that cannot legally be limited under applicable law.

16. Service Changes

From time to time Rumors may add, modify, suspend or retire features of the Service. We do not guarantee that any particular feature will stay available indefinitely. This section does not authorize changes that would unlawfully or retroactively alter entitlements you have already purchased, where that would run contrary to applicable law or app-store rules.

17. Disclaimers

To the extent applicable law permits, the Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Rumors does not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure or free of errors. Nor does it guarantee that information provided by users is accurate, or that you will be matched with any other user or have a successful interaction or relationship with one. Interactions with other users call for your own judgment and carry inherent risk. Nothing in this section disclaims liability that cannot legally be disclaimed.

18. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent applicable law permits, Rumors Dating Inc. will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages that arise from your use of the Service. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited or excluded under applicable law, including under mandatory consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction.

19. Indemnification

To the extent applicable law permits, you agree to indemnify Rumors and hold it harmless from claims, damages and expenses that arise from your violation of these Terms, from your unlawful conduct, or from User Content you submit that infringes the rights of a third party. This section does not apply to the extent that a claim arises from Rumors’ own violation of law or of these Terms.

20. Governing Law and Disputes

The laws of the State of Delaware govern these Terms, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. The exception is where mandatory consumer-protection laws of your jurisdiction apply and provide otherwise.

21. Consumer Rights

Nothing in these Terms limits rights that cannot legally be limited under applicable consumer-protection law. That includes rights which may apply to users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or certain US states, and rights connected with app-store purchases.

22. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make a material change, we will update the “Last updated” date on this page. If a change materially affects your rights and applicable law requires further notice or your consent, we will give that notice or obtain that consent.

23. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, write to us at legal@rumors.app.