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Effective date: July 10, 2026

Welcome to The Vibe (“the Service”), available at thevibe.chat. The Service is operated under the trade name “The Vibe” by its founder, Masud Uddin Ahmed, doing business as The Vibe pending formation of a corporate entity (“we,” “us,” or the “Operator”). Upon formation, these Terms will be assigned to that entity. By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms.

1. Adults only — platonic social network, not a dating app

The Vibe is strictly for adults aged 18 or older. It is a platonic private club and friend-group chat network — not a dating, hookup, or adult-content service. Sexual content and romantic pursuit of members or AI companions are prohibited everywhere on the platform.

2. Mandatory identity verification (18+ gate)

The Vibe is strictly 18+ worldwide. After you confirm your email and complete onboarding, you must pass mandatory identity verification through our provider, Didit (government ID scan plus camera-based liveness check) before you can access any part of the Service — including clubs, parlor messaging, friend discovery, AI companion chat and design, community ratings, push notifications, and paid subscriptions.

If verification shows you are under 18, or verification cannot confirm your age, you cannot use the Service. Attempting to circumvent age verification is a material breach of these Terms.

Didit processes your government ID and liveness check under its own privacy policy. We associate verification sessions with your account only through your user ID. We persist verification flags and your age in years — never your legal name, document number, document image, or raw verification payload.

3. AI companions, privacy-first room safety, and helper connections

Some participants in clubs are AI companions powered by Google Gemini. They are clearly labeled with an “AI” badge, are not human, and their messages are machine-generated. AI companions are for platonic friend-group chat in an 18+ entertainment environment — not dating, romance, sexual roleplay, or professional advice (medical, legal, financial, or mental-health).

Smart context filtering: Automated background context evaluation (Gemini API) analyzes recent conversation to maintain safe, stable chat sessions. Severe room-safety signals may trigger a room-local overlay with confidential in-app helper connections — your message is not stored or shown to other members in group clubs. Companions are also optimized to support members through gaslighting or isolation without blocking ordinary hardship venting.

Room-local pause, not a ban: A severe safety intercept pauses messaging in that club only. You may use “Return to main dashboard” to leave and visit other clubs. You are not permanently locked out of the Service for a safety intercept. During a severe intercept, AI companions do not reply in that club — confidential helper connections are shown instead.

Group chat privacy: In multi-member clubs, other participants never see an intercepted message. They receive only a generic notice that a participant stepped away, so your situation stays private while the club continues for everyone else.

AI companions are not crisis counselors. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number directly. You agree not to use the Service to seek instructions for violence or lethal harm.

4. User-created companions

Verified members may design custom AI companions for their clubs. Premium and Elite members may optionally publish companions to the community directory. You retain ownership of your companion designs but grant us a license to host, display, and operate them within the Service.

Private companions: you may create companions for your own clubs with minimal pre-publication review. Named real-person or celebrity impersonation is prohibited (legal compliance — use fictional names and original archetypes).

Public companions: companions published to the community directory must pass automated validation of their name, description, and system guidelines before the visibility status changes in our database. Avatar images are vision-reviewed. We may remove any companion without notice for safety or policy violations.

You may not create companions that impersonate real people, minors, celebrities, or public figures, or that promote hate, sexual content, romantic/dating behavior, harassment, or illegal activity.

5. Messaging and moderation

The Service is strictly 18+. Before club messages are stored, automated system-level content filters analyze text inputs to help prevent severe harms. Support and hardship messages are not blocked for asking for help. Members use the in-app Report button for harassment or policy violations.

Private de-escalation: Severe safety or distress anomalies are addressed through in-app presentation of anonymous, confidential helper connection resources — localized when possible via a temporary network country hint (never GPS), otherwise via findahelpline.com. Severe intercepts use a room-local overlay that cannot be dismissed with an “X” but can be exited via the dashboard return action.

Safety tooling is designed to preserve session stability and member privacy. It does not replace emergency services. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number yourself.

6. Your account

  • You must provide accurate signup information and keep your credentials secure.
  • One account per person; accounts are non-transferable.
  • We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or our Community Guidelines.

7. Conduct rules

You agree not to:

  • Harass, threaten, defame, or abuse other members;
  • Post sexual content, use the Service for dating or romantic pursuit, flirt with members or AI companions, or request hookups;
  • Post hate speech or content that encourages self-harm or violence;
  • Share another person’s private information (doxxing), including precise locations or addresses;
  • Impersonate any person or misrepresent AI-generated content as human;
  • Use the Service for spam, scams, or any unlawful purpose;
  • Attempt to probe, scrape, reverse-engineer, or disrupt the Service.

8. Clubs and governance

Clubs are member-run spaces with leaders, moderators, admission queues, and democratic votes. Moderation actions inside clubs (kicks, bans, leadership changes) are taken by members through these tools. We retain the right to remove any content or account platform-wide for safety or legal reasons.

9. Subscriptions, billing, and fair use

Paid tiers (Premium, Elite) are billed through Stripe as recurring monthly subscriptions. You can cancel at any time and keep benefits until the end of the current billing period. Prices may change with advance notice. Where required by law (including New York’s automatic-renewal rules), we provide clear renewal disclosures and easy cancellation.

Free tier and usage limits: All tiers include caps on companion designs, AI seating capacity in clubs you lead, clubs you may lead, and daily AI companion sessions (each session is one of your messages that triggers Gemini-powered companion replies in a club with seated AI). Club chat with human friends is not daily-capped. Published limits appear in-app and on our landing page. We may adjust limits to prevent abuse, control AI costs, or maintain service quality, with reasonable notice for material reductions to paid tiers.

10. Content ownership and license

You own the content you post. You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and transmit your content solely to operate the Service. AI-generated companion messages are provided to you for use within the Service.

11. Friends, parlor, and blocks

You may send friend requests to other verified members by username (handle). Either party may decline, cancel a pending request, remove an accepted friendship, or block the other. Blocking is immediate: the blocked member cannot send you requests, open a parlor with you, appear in each other's discovery results, or see your optional city on profile. Handle lookup returns “unavailable” for blocked relationships. Friend relationships are platonic social connections — not dating features. Harassment through friend requests, parlor messages, or blocks used to evade moderation is prohibited.

Optional city on profiles: Members may voluntarily add a city in Settings. City visibility is off by default and controlled by you — friends only, all members, or hidden. We never show distance, maps, or neighborhood-level detail. Using city for discovery requires a separate opt-in and only provides a soft ranking nudge alongside vibe tags.

Parlor is our name for private, human-only 1:1 text chat between accepted friends. AI companions do not participate in parlor — they remain in clubs. Parlor messages are moderated before send (same safety pipeline as clubs, without AI replies). You may report or block from any parlor thread. Read receipts in parlor are optional: if either participant disables them in Settings, neither party sees delivery/read ticks for that chat.

12. Collaborative workspace invites and referral unlocks

Members may share a personal invite link. When a new member registers through that link, completes onboarding, and passes ID verification, the inviting member may receive bonus companion-design slots and AI seating capacity in clubs they lead — within published caps. Referral bonuses supplement (do not replace) paid subscription tiers. Abuse of referral systems (fake accounts, self-referrals, or verification fraud) is a material breach and may result in forfeiture of bonuses and account termination.

13. Community companions and personal copies

Premium and Elite members may publish AI companion designs to the community directory. Other members may adopt (fork) official or community companions into a private personal copy on their own account. You may only edit or delete companions you created or adopted — never another member’s original design. If a creator unpublishes or deletes their public companion, your adopted private copy remains yours. Ratings and reports apply to directory listings, not to private forks.

14. Safety reports

Every club message, parlor message, member, and club can be reported in-app. We review reports and may warn, restrict, or remove offenders. If you believe someone is in imminent danger, contact emergency services first.

15. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The Service is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind. AI companions may produce inaccurate content. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, and total liability is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim (or $50 if you paid nothing).

16. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York.

17. Changes

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced in-app or by email at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

18. Contact

Questions or legal notices: support@thevibe.chat · Operator: The Vibe (d/b/a of Masud Uddin Ahmed), United States.