Terms of Service

Who operates Vesper

Vesper is an 18+ dating service at https://vesperdating.app. These terms are between you and [COMPANY LEGAL NAME], [COMPANY ADDRESS]. “Vesper” in these pages means that service. The legal name, address, and contact details below are blanks. They are not filled in yet.

Effective date: [EFFECTIVE DATE].

Agreement

These terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Community Guidelines are the draft rules for using Vesper. They are not final. A lawyer has not reviewed them.

Opening the site does not, by itself, record that you accepted this document. Inside the product, Discover, swipes, posting, and Kink Lane ask you to accept a shorter set of house rules and to enter your date of birth. That step stores the version of those house rules and the time. It is a separate checkbox from these pages. Groups you already belong to stay available while that form is unfinished.

The service

Vesper lets adults create a profile, filter a deck by age, sex, and distance from a city center, and record likes and passes. A like is only your side. A pair is stored when both sides have agreed. You can end your record of a pair.

The service also has community rooms, meetups, profile portraits, a photo album with a secret section, and two lanes: Vanilla and Kink Lane. Kink Lane is optional. It holds kink rooms, interests, and discovery for adults who turn it on.

Some profile cards in non-production setups are fictional samples. Production is set up to hide those samples. A card is not a promise that someone will meet you.

Age requirement

You must be 18 or older to open Discover and to swipe. Vesper asks for your date of birth and calculates your age on the server. That Discover check does not turn away a member older than 80. Saving a new date of birth on the house-rules form, and joining Kink Lane, still require an age from 18 to 80. The service does not trust an age number sent by the browser in place of that date.

The date of birth is something you type. It is not, by itself, a check of a government ID. Vesper can also send you to Persona for an age estimate (a selfie with a liveness check) or a government-ID check with a live selfie. Vesper stores the result of that check: the provider, the method, pass or fail, the age threshold used for an estimate, an inquiry reference, and timestamps. It does not store the photos from the check or a birth date returned by Persona. Joining Kink Lane requires the date of birth and the current house rules. It does not require the Persona check.

If an account belongs to someone under 18, or the date of birth misrepresents their age, [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] will close the account and remove the profile material it can remove. See “Closing an account” for what the in-product wipe actually deletes.

Accounts and sign-in

Sign-in uses Better Auth on this site. When Google sign-in is configured, Google sends a name, an email, whether that email is verified, and sometimes a profile-image address. Those fields stay on the sign-in record. They are not copied onto your public display name or your handle. A new Google account still has to pass the date-of-birth check and accept the house rules.

An optional identity broker can be turned on to offer Google or X. Email-and-password sign-in exists in the software and is turned off. If it is turned on later, a password hash would be stored with the account.

You are responsible for the activity on your account. Tell [LEGAL CONTACT EMAIL] if you think someone else is using it.

Your content

You keep ownership of the text and images you submit. That includes your display name, bio, handle, portrait, album photos, room titles, meetup notes, and community posts.

You give [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, and display that material only as needed to run Vesper: to show it to the people the product’s rules allow, to make the technical copies the service needs, and to store community notes as ciphertext after they are encrypted in your browser. The license ends when that material is deleted from the running service, except for copies already shown to other members, copies in backups for [BACKUP RETENTION], and anything the law requires [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] to keep.

You are responsible for what you post. You need the rights to it. If a photo or description shows another person, you need their consent, including consent for any sexual or intimate context. You will not upload anyone under 18, even if you are an adult in the same image.

Lanes, photos, and sealed notes

Vanilla is the default lane. Discover and swipes on that lane require you to be 18 or older and to accept the house rules. They do not apply an upper age limit, and they do not hide groups, notes, meetups, or rosters you already belong to. Kink Lane (stored in the product as “explore”) is an optional adult lane. Switching into it requires a date of birth from 18 to 80 and acceptance of the current house rules. Kink Lane rooms, posts, and meetups are withheld from members who stay on Vanilla. Desire tags you save are used to order your deck and are not printed on other people’s cards.

Your portrait is a profile image. Album photos you mark public can be seen by any signed-in member. Photos you mark private, and photos uploaded without that choice, go in your secret album. Another member sees a secret photo only when you are paired (both sides) and you have approved their request. Ending the pair or closing the approval removes that access. Other members can see how many secret photos you have before they can see the pictures.

Community notes are encrypted in your browser before they are saved. The server stores ciphertext, a nonce, and key wraps. Your private key stays in this browser. There is no recovery code and no server copy of that key. A new browser, or clearing site data, means those notes cannot be read. [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] cannot decrypt them. Room names, room summaries, and meetup fields (title, city, time label, and a short place note) are stored in plaintext. The product rejects phone numbers, emails, links, street addresses, and anything involving anyone under 18 in bios, room text, and meetup text. It cannot read sealed note text, so that screen does not apply to the words inside a sealed note.

Reporting and moderation

The Community Guidelines are part of these terms. From Community, a signed-in member can report a note or a meetup. Each member can report a given item once, and at most 10 reports in an hour. An item is hidden when three different members report it and those reports fall within the same 24-hour window. Posts from the house account are not hidden by that rule.

There is no report button on profile cards, portraits, or album photos. For those, and for an appeal, write to [APPEALS CONTACT EMAIL]. People with a staff role can read reports. The product does not yet show members a separate review queue or a restore button. A restore action exists in the software for the content owner; using it deletes the reports on that item.

[COMPANY LEGAL NAME] has no tolerance for sexual content involving anyone under 18, or for non-consensual intimate images. It will remove that material when it learns of it, close the account, and may report it to law enforcement. Lawful requests can be sent to [LEGAL CONTACT EMAIL]. [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] may preserve and disclose information when the law requires it.

Meetups and assumption of risk

You accept the risk of dealing with other people, online and in person. Vesper can list a city, a time, and a short public place note. It does not organize the meetup, host it, supervise it, or check who arrives. It does not run background checks. It does not promise that a member is the person they claim to be, including when a verification result is on file. A verification result is a pass or fail stored from Persona. It is not a guarantee of identity or of character.

If you meet someone, choose a public place, tell a friend where you are going, keep your own transport, and leave if you want to. Do not post a home address, a phone number, or another way to find someone offline. The product is built to reject that kind of detail in several text fields. You are still responsible for what you share in person.

Disclaimers

Vesper is provided as is and as available. [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] disclaims warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, quiet enjoyment, and non-infringement, and any warranty that the service will be uninterrupted, accurate, or error-free, to the fullest extent the law allows.

There is no guarantee of a match, a reply, a meeting, or a particular result. There is no guarantee that another member’s name, age, photos, or intentions are true. Background checks are not part of the service.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] and its operators will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of your use of Vesper or a meeting with another member.

To the fullest extent the law allows, the total liability of [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] for a claim relating to the service is limited to [LIABILITY CAP]. Some places do not allow certain limitations. In those places, the limit applies only as far as the law allows. [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] does not limit liability for conduct the law does not allow it to limit.

Copyright and DMCA

If you believe material on Vesper infringes your copyright, send a notice to the designated agent. The agent is not appointed yet: [DMCA AGENT NAME], [DMCA AGENT ADDRESS], [DMCA AGENT EMAIL], [DMCA AGENT PHONE].

A notice needs to include: your physical or electronic signature; a description of the copyrighted work; a description of the material and where it appears on the service (a URL if you have one); your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorized to act for the owner.

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice to the same agent. A counter-notice needs to include: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the material and where it appeared before it was removed; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address, and telephone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in [FEDERAL DISTRICT] (or the federal district the statute requires if you are outside the United States) and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

[COMPANY LEGAL NAME] may remove material in response to a notice and may close accounts of repeat infringers. That repeat-infringer process is not automatic in the product today. Counsel should confirm the process, register the agent, and decide whether a counter-notice period applies before anything is restored.

Arbitration and governing law (placeholder)

This section is a placeholder. It is not a completed arbitration agreement. It does not choose a court, a state, or a set of rules. Do not treat it as a forum selection until counsel replaces every bracket.

Intended text, once completed: disputes between you and [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] arising out of Vesper or these terms will be resolved by individual arbitration under [ARBITRATION RULES], seated in [STATE]. The laws of [STATE], excluding conflict-of-law rules, will govern these terms. [CLASS ACTION AND JURY TERMS]. Either party may still use small-claims court in [STATE], and either party may ask a court for injunctive relief about misuse of the service or intellectual property. If a law forbids arbitration of a particular claim, that claim may be brought in the courts of [STATE].

Closing an account

The product has a wipe control. It deletes your filters, swipes, pairs, album photos and unlock requests, community posts, meetups and rooms you created, reports you filed, handle, date of birth and other profile fields, portrait file, and the seal key on that device and its public key on the server.

The wipe control leaves the sign-in record in place, including the email, name, session rows, and any stored sign-in tokens. It also leaves verification results and reports other people filed about your content. To ask for those to be deleted, write to [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL]. What the service can delete, and what a backup may still hold for [BACKUP RETENTION], is described in the Privacy Policy.

[COMPANY LEGAL NAME] may stop offering Vesper, or may refuse service, where the law allows. Closing an account does not erase a promise you already made in these terms about content you had already shared, or a duty the law imposes.

Changes and contact

These terms may be updated by posting a new version on this page and changing [EFFECTIVE DATE]. When that version changes, Vesper asks you to accept the new Terms again before you use Discover, post, or switch lanes. If the in-product house rules change, Kink Lane and accepting a community or group invite ask you to accept the new house rules before you use them.

Legal notices: [LEGAL CONTACT EMAIL]. Appeals and moderation: [APPEALS CONTACT EMAIL]. Privacy requests: [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL]. Copyright notices: [DMCA AGENT EMAIL].