Terms of Service

Last updated: 5 October 2026

The short version

charper is for adults, 18 and over, and you get in only when a member invites you. One account per person. When you invite someone, you vouch for them: if they're banned, you'll be told, and if it becomes a pattern, your invites pause. Treat people with consent and respect. No minors, no harassment, no selling sex, no scraping, no pretending to be someone you're not. charper is an early prototype: the people on the map today are made up, and things will change. Be careful when you meet anyone from the internet. You can leave at any time.

Agreeing to these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Curiositech LLC, 5441 S MACADAM AVE STE N, PORTLAND, OR 97239, USA ("charper", "we", "us"). They cover charper.app: its public pages and the members' map with its sign-in and invite pages, which charper.app serves to signed-in members. They also cover charper's emails. By using charper, you agree to them. Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and why.

Who can join

• You must be 18 or older. charper is for adults only. Today you confirm this when you accept your invite; a stronger age check is planned. If you're under 18, don't use charper.
• You need an invite. charper is invite-only. You join through a link from a member.
• One account per person. Don't make a second account, share your account, or make one for someone else.
• If we've banned you, don't come back on a new account.
• You must be allowed to use charper under the laws that apply to you.

You're responsible for keeping your sign-in methods (passkeys, and your Google, Apple, Facebook or email accounts) and your backup codes secure. If you think someone else is using your account, use Sign out everywhere under Your devices and tell us. After a backup code is used, some changes to your account wait 24 hours; the Privacy Policy explains why.

Invites and vouching

Every member gets 5 invites. Each invite link works once and lasts 14 days. You can take back an unused invite at any time, and an expired or taken-back invite gives the slot back.

When someone joins through your invite, you vouched them in. That's a real statement: you know them well enough to bring them into a community that relies on trust. We record who vouched whom. You can see who vouched you in and who you vouched in, by display name; nobody sees how many people anyone has vouched in.

Vouchers are accountable, in steps:

• If someone you vouched in is banned, you're warned: a notice in the map on your next visit, and an email if email is on. It never names them or says why.
• Your invites pause only on a pattern: someone you vouched in is banned for coordinated abuse, or two people you vouched in are banned within 180 days of each other. Only bans since an admin last lifted a pause on your invites count.
• While your invites are paused, you can't make new ones and your open links stop working. You can still use charper. An admin reviews and can lift the pause. We may also pause your invites while we look into a concern.

Don't sell, trade or publicly post invite links.

Community rules

charper exists so queer people can find each other safely. These rules apply everywhere on charper, including to anything you post, send or set as your name or status.

Consent comes first

• No means no, the first time. Stop when someone says no or stops answering.
• Don't send sexual messages or images to someone who hasn't said they want them.
• Never share someone's intimate images, or threaten to, without their consent. Never pressure or blackmail anyone.

Respect people

• No harassment, bullying, threats or stalking.
• No hate based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, HIV status, body or age.
• Never out anyone, or share someone's personal information (their legal name, address, workplace, or location) without their consent.
• Don't try to work out where someone is more precisely than charper shows.

No minors, ever

Anything that sexualises, endangers or exploits a child is banned, and we report apparent child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as the law requires. Never ask whether someone is under 18 in order to pursue them, and never bring anyone under 18 to anything arranged on charper.

No commercial sex

Don't offer, request, advertise or arrange sex in exchange for money, gifts, drugs or anything else of value, and don't use charper to promote or facilitate prostitution or sex trafficking. We remove this and ban the accounts involved.

Be yourself

• Pseudonyms are fine. Pretending to be a specific other person, a business, or charper is not.
• No catfishing: don't use photos of someone else or misrepresent who you are to deceive people.
• No scams, spam, fake accounts, or selling things, unless charper offers a feature made for it.

Don't misuse the service

• No scraping, crawling, or collecting information about members by any automated means.
• No bots or automated accounts.
• Don't probe, overload, or get around charper's security, rate limits, privacy protections or bans.
• Don't use charper to break the law.

The made-up people on the prototype map are demo characters, not members. In the prototype, chats with them are scripted. Separately, a few made-up characters are marked as AI; chatting with them is switched off.

Your content

You own what you put on charper: your name, notes, messages and anything else you add. You give charper a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, copy, display and process it, only to run, protect and improve charper for you and the people you share it with. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies we must keep by law or for safety (see the Privacy Policy), and what other members already received.

Only post what you have the right to post. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without paying you.

Moderation, bans and appeals

We may remove content, pause invites, suspend or ban accounts that break these terms, or when we need to protect members or meet the law. We decide based on behaviour, not on who you are. When we ban someone, the person who vouched them in is warned, as described in Invites and vouching.

Private messages between two members are planned to be end-to-end encrypted, so we won't be able to see them unless the person you messaged reports them, which shares the reported message and the four before it with us (see the Privacy Policy). Group and event chats and private albums are not planned to be end-to-end encrypted at first, so we will be able to see them.

To report a member or content, or to raise a safety concern, use our private request form. An in-app reporting flow is planned.

To appeal a ban, a removal or an invite pause, use our private request form within [APPEAL WINDOW] and tell us why you think we got it wrong. A person reviews every appeal, and we'll tell you the outcome.

Meeting people safely

charper helps you find people; it doesn't vouch for them itself. We don't run background checks. A "Photos verified" badge is planned; when it launches, it will mean only that a member's face matched their own photos at the time of the check, not who they are, their age, or that they're safe to meet. A vouch means a member invited them, not that charper checked them. Today, being 18 or older is something members confirm themselves.

• Meet somewhere public the first time, and tell a friend where you'll be.
• Get yourself there and back. Keep your phone charged.
• Talk about consent, safer sex and boundaries before you meet. Trust your instincts and leave if something feels wrong.
• Never send money to someone you haven't met.

If you're in danger, call 911. If you're struggling: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988); The Trevor Project (1-866-488-7386, or text START to 678678); Trans Lifeline (877-565-8860); SAMHSA (1-800-662-4357). If someone is threatening to share your images: Take It Down (takeitdown.ncmec.org) and the FBI at ic3.gov. You're not in trouble, and you don't have to pay.

You're responsible for how you interact with other members, online and in person.

charper is a prototype

charper is at an early stage. The people on the map today are made up, and many features you read about aren't available yet. Features may change, break, or be removed, and we may pause the service. We'll try to give notice of big changes.

Paid features

charper is free, and nothing on charper costs money today. A paid tier for hosting events is planned. If we launch it, it will have its own terms, shown before you pay, covering price, billing, renewal, cancellation and refunds. We commit that safety features, such as blocking, filters, reporting and incognito, are never paid.

Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time, in the map under You, then Delete my account, except in the 24 hours after a backup code is used, when deletion waits until the 24 hours are up. The Privacy Policy lists what is erased and what stays.

We may suspend or end your account if you break these terms, if the law requires it, or if we stop offering charper. If we end charper itself, we'll give members notice when we can. Sections that by their nature should survive (such as your content licence for what others already received, disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law and disputes) survive the end of your account.

Disclaimers

charper is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties, express or implied, including that charper will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, or about the conduct of any member. We don't screen members, and we aren't responsible for what members do on or off charper. Some places don't allow these exclusions, so some may not apply to you.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, charper and its people won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits or goodwill, arising from your use of charper or from any member's conduct. Our total liability for any claim about charper is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or [US$ AMOUNT]. Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited by law, including for our own gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of [OREGON — confirm with attorney] and of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Disputes

If you have a problem with charper, please use our private request form first; most things can be sorted out that way. [DISPUTE RESOLUTION — venue, informal resolution period, and whether to use arbitration or small claims: to be written with the attorney]

Changes to these terms

We'll update these terms as charper grows. We'll change the date at the top, and for meaningful changes we'll tell members in the map or by email before they take effect. If you keep using charper after that, the new terms apply. If you don't agree, you can delete your account.

Contact us

Curiositech LLC
5441 S MACADAM AVE STE N, PORTLAND, OR 97239, USA
Send a private request

See also our Privacy Policy.