Terms of Service

Who can use AroundMe

You must be 18 or older. At launch you also need a valid ucr.edu email address. One account per person — accounts exist so that behaviour has consequences, and that only works if an account is a person.

How meetups work

• Opt in for a week, and we may match you into a group of 4–6 people at a hotspot.
• You hold at most one invite at a time. Confirm it or decline it — both are fine.
• Declining is fine. Ghosting is not. Confirming and then silently not showing up leaves four people holding a seat for nobody. Three unexcused no-shows and you sit out a cycle. You can cancel at any time, including the morning of, with one tap — that is not a no-show.
• Meetups happen at public venues we have arranged. AroundMe is not present at every meetup and does not supervise them.

How to behave

Don't do any of this, on the platform or at a meetup:

• Harass, threaten, intimidate or discriminate against anyone.
• Make unwanted sexual advances, or treat a meetup as a dating opportunity when the other person is not.
• Misrepresent who you are, or use someone else's email to join.
• Solicit, recruit, sell, or pitch anything to the people we seat you with.
• Share what other members tell you at a meetup outside that group.
• Bring anyone who is not part of the confirmed group without asking us first.

If someone breaks these rules, report it. A human reads every report and responds within 24 hours. We can remove anyone from AroundMe at any time for behaviour that makes meetups unsafe or unpleasant, and we do not owe an explanation to the person we remove beyond telling them they have been removed.

What AroundMe is and is not

We introduce people who choose to meet in public. We do not run background checks. Email verification confirms that someone holds a university email address — it does not confirm that they are safe, honest, or who they say they are. Use the judgment you would use meeting anyone new: meet in the public venue we name, tell someone where you are going, and leave whenever you want.

AroundMe is provided as-is, without warranties. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for what happens between members at or after a meetup, or for anything that happens at a venue we do not own or operate. Nothing here limits liability that cannot legally be limited.

Your account

You can delete your account at any time, immediately and permanently. We may suspend or delete an account that breaks these terms. Your data is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

Changes, and contacting us

We will email you before any material change to these terms takes effect. Questions: deven@aroundme.co. The previous PDF version of these terms is archived here. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California.