Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) constitute a binding agreement between you and Cupid's Trick (“Cupid's Trick,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) governing your access to and use of our website and services (collectively, the “Service”). By creating an account or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. (a)“Content” means any photograph, text, or other material you submit to the Service.
2. (b)“Plus” means the paid subscription tier of the Service.
3. (c)“Type Pass” means the one-time purchase described in Section 11.
4. (d)“Match” means the state in which you and another user have each expressed mutual positive interest.

You must be at least 18 years old and a resident of a United States jurisdiction in which we offer the Service (currently every state except Illinois, Texas, and Washington) to use the Service. You may hold one account, the photograph you provide must genuinely depict you, and you must provide accurate information during account creation. We verify age and region before any biometric feature becomes available, and we may refuse or terminate access where these requirements are not met.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You agree to notify us promptly of any unauthorized use. We are not liable for any loss arising from your failure to safeguard your credentials.

The Service is a game of self-knowledge about attraction. It comprises an estimate of your physical type, a banded estimate of reciprocal attraction, and a score of how well you read expressed interest. It is provided for entertainment and self-reflection. It is not matchmaking, dating advice, counseling, therapy, or a promise of any romantic outcome. Estimates, readings, and scores are probabilistic and are labeled as estimates; you should not rely on them as statements of fact about yourself or any other person.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own non-commercial purposes. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. The Service, including its software, design, and content we provide, is protected by intellectual property laws and remains our property or that of our licensors.

You retain all ownership of the photograph you upload and everything you write on the Service. We do not claim ownership of your Content.

You grant us a limited license to store the Standardized Image and its facial embedding, and to display that image to other users within the Service, for exactly as long as you maintain your account and no longer. This license is the minimum necessary to operate the features you have signed up for. We will not license your Content onward, sell it, use it to train any model for another party, or use it to advertise anything. The license ends when you withdraw biometric consent or delete your account.

You agree that you will not:

1. (a)upload any photograph that is not a genuine depiction of yourself;
2. (b)capture, screenshot, copy, or redistribute another user's image or any material from the Service; other users consented to appear within the game, not elsewhere;
3. (c)harass, threaten, or abuse any person through any channel in connection with anything you encountered on the Service, including through a shared contact handle;
4. (d)attempt to identify, de-anonymize, or contact another user except through the Match and contact-sharing mechanism the Service provides;
5. (e)interfere with, disrupt, probe, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its underlying systems; or
6. (f)use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of these Terms.

We may remove Content and suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules.

Where you and another user each express positive interest, you are each informed that the interest is mutual. This is the only circumstance in which reciprocated interest is made visible. Following a Match, you may choose to share a contact handle; nothing is shared until you affirmatively elect to share it, and any interaction that occurs off the Service is solely between you and the other user. You may block any Match, which is mutual, total, and silent, and you may report any user. A pass or one-sided interest is never made visible to anyone.

We commit to presenting honest scores that we do not inflate or deflate for engagement, to keeping negative signals invisible so that no user learns who declined them, and to providing working, immediate deletion. A paid tier purchases depth of play and additional features; it never purchases the answer to the game. No plan reveals who has expressed interest in you, and a mutual Match is available on every plan, including the free tier.

Payments are processed by Stripe. Prices are displayed exclusive of tax, and applicable sales tax is calculated at checkout. We offer the following:

1. (a)Plus subscription ($6.99/mo). Plus is a recurring subscription that automatically renews each month at the then-current price until you cancel. You may cancel at any time from your account or through the Stripe billing portal; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you retain access until then. If we change the price of Plus, we will notify you by email at least 30 days in advance, and the new price will apply only to billing periods beginning after that notice.
2. (b)Type Pass ($5, one-time). The Type Pass is a single, non-recurring purchase that adds a pool of 40 additional four-faces rounds to your account, which you may use at any pace. It is not a subscription and does not renew. Once the rounds are used, your account returns to the free allowance; you may purchase another Type Pass at that point. It raises only your four-faces allowance and confers no other Plus feature.
3. (c)Founding membership ($29, one-time). A founding membership is a single prelaunch payment that provides the Plus feature set at no further charge for as long as Cupid's Trick operates as a service. It is purchased outright rather than prepaid month by month, so there is no unused balance to return; if we discontinue the Service, we will provide at least 30 days' notice and an opportunity to export or delete your data. It covers Plus as it exists and evolves, is subject to the same fair-use limits as paid Plus, grants Plus to the single account that first signs in with the verified email address used at purchase, and is not transferable or resellable. A full refund is available on request within 14 days of purchase, and a refund ends the membership.

Refunds for one-time purchases are handled as described above or in accordance with applicable law; recurring charges already incurred are non-refundable except where required by law or where we close a paid account for a reason attributable to us, in which case we will refund the current billing period through Stripe. Deleting your account ends paid access.

The Service relies on third-party providers, including those identified in our Privacy Policy, and may link to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the content, policies, or practices of any third party, and your use of a third-party service is governed by that party's terms.

You may delete your account at any time from You → Data & privacy, effective immediately rather than at the end of a billing cycle. We may suspend or terminate your access, with notice of the reason where practicable, if you upload another person's photograph, harass another user, attack or misuse the Service, or otherwise materially breach these Terms. If we terminate a paid account for a reason attributable to us rather than to you, we will refund your current billing period through Stripe. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

You may upload only a photograph of yourself. If you upload a photograph of another person, you are solely responsible for the consequences, and you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold us harmless from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from that upload or from your breach of these Terms. If a photograph of you appears on the Service and you did not upload it, you may request removal through our Copyright & Takedowns page; you need not own any copyright to make such a request.

The service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that any estimate, reading, or score is accurate. Nothing provided through the service is a prediction of any romantic or personal outcome.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will Cupid's Trick be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, goodwill, or profits, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the service will not exceed the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

Before initiating any formal proceeding, you agree to first email hello@cupidstrick.com describing the problem and the resolution you seek, and to allow us 30 days to resolve it. Most issues are mistakes we can correct, and we would prefer to correct them. This obligation is mutual: we will raise any dispute with you and allow the same 30-day period before taking formal action. This provision does not limit either party's ability to seek relief for intellectual-property infringement or in a small-claims court.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute not resolved under Section 17 shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Maryland.

We may modify these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date above, and, for material changes, provide additional notice where appropriate. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Biometric Data Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Questions about these Terms may be sent through the contact form linked at the bottom of every page or by email to hello@cupidstrick.com.