Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of these terms

By accessing or using the Reserve Your Date websites and services (the “Service”), or by checking a box stating that you agree, you enter into a binding agreement with us consisting of these Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, our SMS Terms & Conditions, and our Safety Tips, each of which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

These terms contain a binding individual arbitration provision and a waiver of class actions and jury trials (Section 15), which affect your legal rights. Read it. You may opt out within 30 days as described there.

We may update these terms as the Service evolves. Material changes will be posted here with a new effective date, and material changes to Section 14 (Limitation of Liability) or Section 15 (Dispute Resolution) will require your affirmative acceptance before they apply to you. Continued use after other changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

2. Eligibility

By using the Service, you represent that:

• you are at least 18 years old;
• you are legally competent to enter into this agreement and are not prohibited by law from using the Service;
• you have not previously been removed from the Service by us; and
• you are not required to register as a sex offender with any government entity.

The Service is offered for use in the United States. The SMS program supports US phone numbers only.

3. The Service; queue positions

Reserve Your Date lets a person (a “waitlist owner”) operate a dating waitlist that other people (“applicants”) can apply to join, with position updates delivered by SMS. The Service is part software, part comedy. The software is real; the tone is a bit; the two are inseparable.

Queue positions are not property. A position, position number, estimated wait time, or any similar feature is a limited, revocable, non-transferable license to participate in the bit — it confers no title, ownership, monetary value, or real-world entitlement of any kind. We may re-order, adjust, suspend, or eliminate positions, queues, wait estimates, or any feature of the Service at any time, for any reason, without notice or liability. Positions are forfeited when an application or account is removed, and no position survives the closure of a queue.

Some numbers are theater. Displayed queue counts, positions, personas, testimonials, and wait estimates may include seeded, simulated, or dramatized entries maintained for comedic and illustrative purposes, and estimated wait times are satire, not forecasts. Do not make life decisions based on the queue math. In consideration for our making the Service available to you free of charge, you agree we may operate, present, and modify the Service in this manner.

4. Your responsibilities and conduct

You agree that you will not:

• misrepresent your identity, age, or — the board is watching — your height or weight, in any way intended to deceive another user;
• use the Service to harass, stalk, threaten, defame, or harm any person, or to send spam or unsolicited commercial messages;
• collect, harvest, or scrape information about other users, or attempt to access queues, codes, or accounts that are not yours;
• use the Service for any commercial purpose without our written permission, or for any unlawful purpose at all;
• interfere with, disrupt, reverse engineer, or circumvent any security or rate-limiting feature of the Service; or
• submit content that is unlawful, infringing, obscene, or that you lack the rights to submit.

You are solely responsible for the information you submit and for your interactions with other users. Keep your access credentials private; you are responsible for activity under your account or phone number.

5. Your content

You own the content you submit to the Service (applications, messages, signatures, and similar — “Your Content”). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable (to our service providers) license to host, store, reproduce, adapt, display, and use Your Content for the purposes of operating, improving, securing, and — where you would reasonably expect it — promoting the Service. This license ends when Your Content is deleted from our systems, except as needed for legal compliance, dispute resolution, and backup integrity.

You represent that you have all rights necessary to grant this license. If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them for any purpose without compensating you — though if the idea is funny enough, we may say thank you.

We may review, moderate, or remove any content at our sole discretion, but we have no obligation to review, display, or retain any content. Content submitted by users is stored and displayed at the direction of the submitting user.

6. No background checks; no verification

We do not conduct criminal background checks, identity verification, or any other screening on any user, and we make no representations or warranties as to the conduct, identity, health, intentions, legitimacy, or veracity of any user. We reserve the right — and you authorize us — to conduct any such screening at any time using available public records, but we assume no obligation to do so.

Phone-number verification confirms only that a person controls a phone number. It does not confirm who they are, what they want, or whether they are, in fact, 6'0".

7. Interactions and in-person meetings; assumption of risk

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users, online and offline. We are not a party to, and are not responsible or liable for, the conduct of any user, on or off the Service, or for any interaction, communication, meeting, date, relationship, situationship, or dispute that results from use of the Service. Any in-person meeting arranged in connection with the Service occurs at your own risk.

Read and follow the Safety Tips. Meet in public. Tell a friend where you are. Communications you receive through the Service, including automated notifications, may originate from users acting for improper purposes, and safety features are not a substitute for your own judgment.

8. Privacy

Our collection and use of your information is described in the Privacy Policy. By using the Service you consent to that collection and use.

9. SMS program

The text-message program — what we send, how often, and how to stop it — is governed by the SMS Terms & Conditions. Consent to receive texts is captured separately when you apply and is not a condition of any purchase. Reply STOP at any time to opt out; we honor any reasonable expression of revocation.

10. Termination

You may stop using the Service, withdraw an application, or request deletion of your information at any time (see the Privacy Policy). We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Service — including removing any application or queue position — at any time, with or without notice, with or without cause, and without liability, including if we believe you have violated these terms or behaved inappropriately on or off the Service. Sections of these terms that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 3, 5–7, and 11–18) do survive.

11. Disclaimers

The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties of any kind, express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We make no guarantee as to the number of users at any time; any user's desire or ability to communicate with, meet, or date you; any outcome, match, date, relationship, or compatibility; that any queue will move at any particular pace, or at all; or that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

12. Third-party services

The Service depends on third parties we do not control — telecom carriers, an SMS delivery provider, and cloud infrastructure. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. We are not responsible for third-party services, and your use of them may be subject to their own terms.

13. Copyright complaints (DMCA)

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice compliant with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) — including identification of the work, the location of the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, a good-faith statement, a statement of accuracy under penalty of perjury, and your physical or electronic signature — to info@reserveyourdate.com with the subject line “DMCA Notice.” We will respond as the law requires, and we will terminate the access of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

14. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will Reserve Your Date, the corporation of which it is a fictitious name, or their respective officers, directors, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive, fixed, or enhanced damages — including lost profits, lost data, emotional distress, or the outcome of any date — arising out of or relating to your access to or use of (or inability to access or use) the Service, or the conduct or content of any user or third party, on or off the Service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) one hundred US dollars ($100) or (b) the amounts you paid us, if any, in the twenty-four (24) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. The Service is free; you can do that math.

These limitations apply regardless of the theory of liability (contract, tort, statute, or otherwise) and even if any limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

15. Dispute resolution: arbitration, class waiver, opt-out

(a) Informal resolution first. Before filing any arbitration or court claim, you and we agree to try to resolve any dispute informally: send a written Notice of Dispute to info@reserveyourdate.com (subject: “Notice of Dispute”) describing the dispute and the relief sought, and allow 60 days of good-faith negotiation. Completing this process is a condition precedent to starting any proceeding. Applicable statutes of limitations are tolled during it.

(b) You and we each waive the right to a jury trial and agree that disputes will be resolved by binding individual arbitration — not in court and not as part of any class, collective, consolidated, representative, or private-attorney-general proceeding.

(c) Arbitration or small claims. Any dispute not resolved informally will be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator, with the seat in Miami-Dade County, Florida (hearings may be conducted remotely or by documents only). Either party may instead elect to bring an individual claim in small claims court. Claims under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act may be brought in court and are exempt from the notice prerequisite. The arbitrator decides all questions of arbitrability except the enforceability of the class waiver, which only a court may decide. If 25 or more similar demands are filed by coordinated counsel, arbitrations may be batched under the administrator's mass-filing procedures and filing fees deferred until a demand actually proceeds.

(d) If the class waiver fails. If a court finds the class waiver unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim — and only that claim — proceeds in court, stayed pending arbitration of the rest. The class waiver is an essential part of this Section 15.

(e) 30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement entirely by emailing info@reserveyourdate.com (subject: “Arbitration Opt-Out”) within 30 days of first accepting these terms, stating your name, the phone number or email associated with your use, and that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these terms.

16. Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 15. Any dispute that is not subject to arbitration and cannot be brought in small claims court will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

17. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Reserve Your Date, the corporation of which it is a fictitious name, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against all claims, demands, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) your access to or use of the Service; (b) Your Content; (c) your conduct toward, or interactions with, other users, on or off the Service; or (d) your breach of these terms.

18. Miscellaneous

These terms (with the documents they incorporate) are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign this agreement; we may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Your queue positions and account are non-transferable, and any rights to them terminate on death — the queue is long, but it is not that long.

19. Contact

Questions about these terms: info@reserveyourdate.com. Legal notices may be served on the registered agent of the Florida corporation of which Reserve Your Date is a registered fictitious name, as listed with the Florida Division of Corporations.