Terms Of Service

1. Acceptance

These Terms Of Service are an agreement between you and Phych LLC, the operator of Choid. By creating an account, accessing the app, or using any Choid feature, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree, do not use Choid. Questions can be sent to support@choid.app.

2. Eligibility

• You must be at least 18 years old.
• You must be legally able to enter a binding agreement.
• You must use Choid only for personal, non-commercial dating, social, and entertainment purposes.
• You may not use Choid if we previously removed or banned you unless we give written permission.

3. Account Responsibilities

• Give accurate account and profile information.
• Keep your login credentials secure.
• Do not create fake, duplicate, automated, or misleading accounts.
• Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without permission.

4. Your Content

Your Content includes profile text, photos, prompts, messages, GIF selections, chat photos, voice recordings, reports, feedback, and anything else you submit through Choid.

You keep ownership of Your Content. You grant Choid a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, resize, transmit, display, moderate, and otherwise use Your Content only as needed to operate, secure, enforce, and improve Choid.

This license ends when Your Content is deleted from active systems, except that limited copies may remain where needed for backups, safety reviews, legal obligations, dispute handling, or records of enforcement decisions.

5. Acceptable Use

• Do not harass, threaten, stalk, shame, abuse, exploit, or defraud another person.
• Do not upload content involving minors, non-consensual intimate imagery, hate, threats, or illegal activity.
• Do not upload, display, send, or share nudity, pornography, or sexually explicit content.
• Do not upload, display, send, or share real-world graphic violence or gore.
• Child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE), including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming, sextortion, sexual solicitation of minors, and child sex trafficking, are prohibited. These rules apply to all content and conduct, including computer-generated material and links to prohibited content.
• Do not impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity, age, affiliation, location, or intentions.
• Do not collect, publish, sell, scrape, or misuse another user's profile, photos, messages, location, or personal information.
• Do not use Choid for spam, advertising, recruiting, paid companionship, commercial solicitation, surveys, or account resale.
• Do not probe, reverse engineer, interfere with, overload, or bypass security for the app, Supabase backend, storage, realtime channels, Edge Functions, or third-party services.
• Do not use Choid content or data to train, evaluate, or improve an AI system without our written permission and the permission of affected users.

6. Dating Safety

Choid is a dating and social app. We do not guarantee matches, compatibility, identity, intentions, safety, or offline behavior of any user.

Use judgment before sharing personal information, meeting someone, sending money, or leaving the app. You are responsible for your interactions with other users.

Identity verification is unavailable in this release. Choid does not perform background checks or guarantee any user's identity or age. Never treat a profile status or badge as a safety guarantee.

7. Swipes And Games

Swipes are virtual app credits. They have no cash value, are not legal tender, are not property, and cannot be transferred, redeemed, sold, or exchanged outside Choid.

When purchase cards are shown in the app, Choid offers three consumable swipe packs through Google Play on Android or the App Store on iOS. The app displays the store's localized price before you confirm. A purchase adds swipes only after the store and Choid validate it. Choid does not offer a swipe subscription. Consumable swipes are credited to the Choid account used at checkout; recovering an interrupted delivery does not restore previously spent swipes.

The store processes the purchase and payment. Google or Apple handles payment-card details; Choid never receives your card number or other payment-card details. The applicable store's purchase and refund terms also apply.

A full refund, revocation, or chargeback reverses the related swipe grant. For an Apple partial refund, Choid reverses the pack quantity multiplied by Apple's cumulative refund percentage, rounded down to whole swipes. Choid first debits the available swipe balance; any shortfall remains as purchase debt and reduces later positive swipe credits before they become spendable. If Apple reverses a refund, the restored swipes first reduce any outstanding purchase debt and the remainder becomes spendable. A refund recorded before delivery reduces the initial credit; a fully refunded purchase adds no swipes.

All swipes, including purchased swipes, are the same virtual app credits. They may be spent on dating features or staked and lost in Chance games. Chance games use virtual swipes; Lounge games are local puzzles and entertainment. Games and leaderboards do not award cash, transferable value, cash-out, or real-world prizes. Lounge games do not grant swipes in this release.

8. Third-Party Services

Choid uses third-party services to provide the app, including Supabase, Google Play and Google Cloud for Android purchases and refund notifications, Apple for iOS purchases and refund notifications, Expo push notifications, and GIPHY. Internal testing builds may use GitHub for issue reporting; that reporter is disabled in the production release.

Those services may have their own terms and privacy notices. Choid is not responsible for third-party services that we do not control.

9. Moderation And Enforcement

We may review, remove, limit, preserve, or disclose content and account information when needed to operate Choid, investigate reports, enforce these Terms, prevent harm, protect users, or comply with law.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts at any time if we believe a user violated these Terms, created risk, misused the app, or could expose Choid or users to harm.

Report a profile from the Discover safety controls or a profile/chat menu. To report a message, long-press it and choose Report message. You can also contact safety@choid.app; do not email suspected CSAM or identity documents.

A report can preserve a restricted snapshot of relevant profile or message content and attached media for safety review. Unmatching, unsending, or deleting an account does not erase already-preserved report evidence. Retention and legal exceptions are described in the Privacy Policy.

10. App Availability

Choid may change, pause, remove, or add features at any time. The app is provided as available, and we do not guarantee uninterrupted service, error-free operation, or that all data will always be recoverable.

11. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent allowed by law, Choid is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, safety, or accuracy.

12. Limitation Of Liability

To the maximum extent allowed by law, Choid will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost data, personal injury, offline conduct, or disputes between users arising from use of the app.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions. In those places, these limits apply only to the extent allowed by law.

13. Changes

We may update these Terms. Material updates will be shown in the app or otherwise communicated when required. Continuing to use Choid after an update means you accept the updated Terms.