Terms of Use
(Revised on 28/03/2024)

Preamble

These Terms of Use are entered into between Match (“we”, “us”) and you.

We, as well as other business entities controlled by, controlling, or under common control with us (our “Group”) offer a number of dating, matchmaking and social discovery platforms. We provide our products and services, some of which are free, some of which are paid for, via desktop, web mobile and apps (the “Services”).

Unless reserved to a certain category of users as may be specifically required upon registration (for example, when available, our services catered for users over 50 years only), our Services are open to every adult above 18 years, provided that they respect the criteria of eligibility statement below. If you are under 18, you are not authorized to access the Services and must immediately stop using them.

1. Acceptance of Terms of Use

By creating an account on our Services, you agree to be bound by our (i) Terms of Use, (ii) Safety Tips, and (iii) Community Guidelines, and that you have read and acknowledge our (iv) Privacy Policy and (v) Cookie Policy, together with any additional or special terms we may notify you of at the time when you use or buy certain Services, all of which are incorporated in these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to be bound by our Terms of Use, you must stop using our Services.

2. Services Eligibility

You can only use our Services under the following conditions. You represent and warrant at all times that:

• You are over 18 and can enter into a legally binding contract with us.
• You meet the conditions for registration stated on the Services.
• You will comply with these Terms of Use, including our Safety Tips, Community Guidelines and all applicable laws and regulations.
• You will provide correct, accurate and true information that is not misleading. In particular, you must be truthful and honest when completing your profile and in your interactions with other users and with us.
• You acknowledge and agree that the Services’ purpose is to enable single individuals to connect on a personal, non-commercial and non-financial basis, with the primary goal of forming committed relationships as a couple.
• You must respect and comply with the purposes of the Services at all times.
• You are not currently registered on a Sex Offender Register.
• You have never been convicted of an unlawful act involving fraud, a sexual offence, violence (including domestic violence), harassment, terrorism or a hate crime.

We reserve the right to decline, suspend or terminate your access or membership at any time if you do not meet any of these conditions.

3. Registration

Registration to our Services is free. You must not create more than one account.

You must provide the mandatory information required in order to complete your profile on the Services (including photos if applicable), and keep such information up to date. You acknowledge and agree that some of this information will be published on the Services.

Furthermore, your profile may be visible on some of our other services in certain circumstances, and thus available for users of other services to view. For more information on your profile visibility and associated settings, please go to the Help page.

Information provided by users during registration and at any time thereafter, must be accurate and true. The consequences that disclosing this information may have on a user’s life or the lives of other people are the exclusive responsibility of the user concerned. When you disclose and disseminate information, data, text, content, videos and images about you, you waive your right to make any claim against us, in particular on the basis of the possible infringement of your image or personality rights, honour, reputation or right to private life that may result from the distribution or dissemination of such information.

For more details on the information we collect from you and how we use it, please consult our Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the login credentials you use to sign up for our Services, and you are solely responsible for all activities that occur under those credentials. If you think someone has gained access to your account, please contact us immediately at the address mentioned in the ‘Requests and Claims’ section below.

4. Rules of Conduct

4.1 Introduction of the Rules of Conduct

The quality of interactions expected by both us and other users of the Services implies observing a certain level of ethical conduct in your expression and behaviour, respecting users and our Customer Care representatives as well as the laws and regulations in force. To meet this standard for quality, individual responsibility and ethics, we allow any user to report any content (photography, text, video, audio etc.), behaviour or comments made by a user that appears to be in violation of our Terms of Use, Safety Tips, Community Guidelines, third-party rights and the laws and regulations in force.

The list of prohibited content below is not exhaustive. As a result, by using the Services, you acknowledge and accept that the data you provide, as well as your behaviour, comments or published contents may be subject to moderation and/or control by us in accordance with our moderation policies.

As a user, you must abide by the following rules of conduct at all times and agree that you will not:

• Violate our Community Guidelines, as updated from time to time.
• Post any of your personal contact details or disseminate another person’s personal information (e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, etc.) in any manner whatsoever.
• Post any content that infringes anyone’s rights, including rights of publicity, private life, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property or contract right.
• Impersonate any person or entity.
• Solicit passwords or personal identifying information for unlawful purposes.
• Solicit money from or defraud any user.
• Mass send messages or spam.
• Post any content that is hate speech, threatening, sexually explicit, pornographic, incites violence, or contains nudity or graphic violence.
• Promote racism, bigotry, hatred, terrorism, discrimination or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual.
• Publish any content constituting sexual harassment, cyber-harassment or offences against minors.
• Publish any illicit content or content offering illicit products or services.
• Insult, bully, intimidate, assault, harass, mistreat or defame any person.
• Use the Services for harmful, nefarious, commercial or political purposes.
• Engage in any illegal activity through the Services.
• Promote transactional or non-consensual sexual acts.
• Use bots, crawlers, scrapers, or any automated method to access or extract data.
• Use another user’s account or maintain more than one account.
• Create another account if yours was terminated by us without our permission.
• Make false or unfounded reports of user behaviour or misuse reporting systems.

Your breach of any of these rules of conduct constitutes a serious material breach of your contractual obligations under these Terms of Use.