Terms of Service

Effective: October 4, 2026

1. Eligibility and acceptance

You must be at least 21 years old to create or use a member account. By creating an account or using member-only features, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. You must provide an accurate date of birth and may not allow another person to use your account.

2. The platform's role

The Curious Commons provides online community features through which adults may communicate, create profiles, participate in rooms, groups, events, games, blogs, voice/video features, and other community activities. Except where the site expressly states otherwise, The Curious Commons is not a party to, organizer of, supervisor of, or guarantor of private communications, relationships, meetings, transactions, or activities between members.

3. Member interactions and no screening guarantee

Member profiles and statements are user-provided. We do not promise that profile information is accurate or complete and do not guarantee that a member is who they claim to be. You are responsible for deciding whether, when, and how to communicate with another member and what personal information you choose to share.

4. Offline meetings and personal safety

If you choose to meet another member in person, that decision is voluntary and made at your own risk. Consider meeting initially in a public place, telling a trusted person where you will be, arranging your own transportation, protecting your home address and financial or other sensitive information, and leaving immediately if you feel unsafe. The Curious Commons does not supervise or control private meetings between members.

5. Assumption of risk

You understand that online interactions, offline meetings, and activities independently arranged between members can involve foreseeable and unforeseeable risks, including deception, harassment, emotional harm, fraud, theft, property damage, physical injury, sexual misconduct, exposure to communicable illness, and other serious harm. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you voluntarily assume the risks inherent in interactions, meetings, and activities that you independently choose to undertake with other members.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to waive or limit liability that cannot lawfully be waived or limited, including liability that applicable law prohibits a consumer agreement from waiving.

6. Consent and adult activities

Membership, profile information, participation in a room or group, discussion of a kink or interest, flirting, prior consent, or agreement to meet never constitutes consent to sexual contact, BDSM activity, physical contact, recording, photography, or any other activity. Consent must be freely and affirmatively given by the people involved, applies only to what was agreed to, and may be withdrawn. Members must respect boundaries and applicable law.

7. Prohibited conduct

You may not use the service to threaten, stalk, harass, exploit, impersonate, defraud, coerce, blackmail, dox, distribute another person's private or intimate material without permission, facilitate nonconsensual activity, evade safety controls, or engage in unlawful conduct. Content involving minors or attempting to involve minors is prohibited. You may not use another person's account or misrepresent your eligibility to join.

8. User content

You remain responsible for content you post or transmit. You represent that you have the rights and permissions necessary to share it. You grant the service the limited permission reasonably necessary to host, display, transmit, back up, moderate, and technically operate that content as part of providing the service. Do not post another person's private, identifying, copyrighted, or intimate material unless you have the legal right and appropriate permission to do so.

9. Moderation, reports, and emergencies

We may remove content, restrict features, suspend accounts, or terminate access when reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, protect the community, comply with law, or address abuse. Moderation tools do not guarantee that harmful conduct will be prevented or detected. If you believe you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services. Suspected criminal conduct should be reported to appropriate authorities as well as through available site reporting tools.

10. Third-party and realtime services

Some community features may rely on third-party or separately operated technology, including voice/video, hosting, notifications, or linked external websites. Their availability, privacy practices, and terms may differ from ours. External links and member-provided websites are used at your own discretion.

11. Availability and changes

Features may change, be interrupted, or be discontinued. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. We may update these Terms when the service, law, or safety requirements change. Material changes may require renewed acceptance where appropriate.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, The Curious Commons and its owner, operators, agents, and service providers are not liable for losses or harm caused by the independent acts, omissions, representations, communications, meetings, transactions, or activities of members or other third parties. Any limitation applies only to the extent permitted by law and does not exclude liability that cannot legally be excluded.

13. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to be responsible for claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful conduct, your violation of these Terms, or content you post without the necessary rights or permissions. This provision does not require you to indemnify any party for conduct for which indemnification cannot lawfully be required.

14. Account termination

You may stop using the service at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account for violation of these Terms, safety risks, unlawful activity, age ineligibility, abuse of the service, or other legitimate community-protection reasons.

15. Governing law

Except where applicable law requires otherwise, these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Nothing in these Terms removes rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be waived.

16. Entire agreement and severability

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any clearly incorporated community rules, form the agreement governing use of the service. If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect to the extent permitted by law.