Terms of Service

Touch any part of the Service — even just browsing — and you are treated as having read, understood, and agreed to these Terms, and as entering a contract with us on them. If any part of them does not sit right with you, do not use the Service.

These Terms travel with our Privacy Policy and any other policies we publish in the app — the Chat Policies page and community guidelines among them. A policy referenced here counts as part of these Terms through that reference.

To use the Service you must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract in the jurisdiction where you reside. By registering, you represent that both are true.

Age alone is not the whole test. If you are still attending high school — or a school at the equivalent secondary level — HonmeiDate is off-limits to you, and that stays true even after you turn 18. We keep this community to people who have already finished their secondary schooling.

Age and identity verification.

Before you can post a profile to other members for contact, or send or receive messages, you must complete our verification check. We confirm that you are not under 18 using an accepted method, such as a government photo ID with a selfie, My Number card chip verification, or another method the law accepts. Self-declaration of your age alone is not sufficient. We may refuse, suspend, or delete any account that fails or refuses verification. We display an "18+ only — under-18s may not use this service" notice at sign-up and on the dating features.

Antisocial forces.

HonmeiDate has no place for organized crime. You confirm — and agree to keep it true — that you do not belong to a boryokudan or any other antisocial group, that you are neither tied to nor working with one, and that you are not someone who profits from one. You will not pass any benefit to such a group through the Service. Where we have reasonable grounds to suspect a link, we may turn down your registration or close your account at any time. And claiming a connection to one — to seem intimidating, or even as a joke — is by itself enough for us to end your account at once, with no notice.

You are not eligible to use HonmeiDate if any of the following apply:

• You are currently subject to a court order, injunction, or similar legal restriction that prohibits you from using a dating, social, or communications service.
• You have previously been banned from HonmeiDate for violations of these Terms or our community policies, and we have not agreed in writing to reinstate you.
• Applicable law where you reside prohibits you from using a service of this type.

The Service is not intended for minors. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close the account and delete associated personal data.

Make one account, and one only, tied to a real email address that is yours. Keeping your credentials secret is on you, and so is everything done under your account — including actions you did not personally authorize, where they trace back to credentials you left unprotected. Except where we acted with intent or gross negligence, we are not liable for loss from someone else's use of your credentials.

Tell the truth in your profile. Faking your identity, age, or life details on purpose — impersonating a real person included — breaks these Terms and is grounds for immediate termination.

Your account is not yours to hand off: do not transfer, share, sell, or lend it. Do not open accounts for other people. Do not use automated tools to register.

Think someone reached your account without permission? Tell us promptly, and we can help you secure it.

Where the Service lets adults seeking opposite-sex introductions post profiles that other members can view and then contact each other, it is an "Internet Dating Introduction Business" (インターネット異性紹介事業) under Japanese law. Before we make these features available, MensuraMedia will file the required notification with the Public Safety Commission and display the notification details in the app. We confirm members are not minors before allowing contact features (Section 2), and we remove posts that solicit a minor for a relationship, or that solicit an adult to be a minor's partner, when we become aware of them.

HonmeiDate offers a free tier and one or more paid tiers. Current pricing and included features are set out on the Pricing page and may change with reasonable advance notice to existing subscribers.

During beta.

The Service is free during the beta period. We do not charge for any feature during beta. Before we turn on any paid feature, we will publish the disclosures required by the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions and notify you in advance.

Recurring-purchase disclosures.

For any paid subscription, before you confirm the purchase we show you, on the final confirmation screen: the total amount you will pay, each cycle's price, the renewal cycle, the timing of charges, the auto-renewal fact, and how to cancel. The operator name, address, contact, pricing, and cancellation terms are set out on our Specified Commercial Transactions Act notice page, linked at checkout.

Auto-renewal.

Paid subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless you cancel before the renewal date. Canceling takes effect at the end of the current paid period — you keep access until then.

Later on, we may let you subscribe from inside a mobile app — for instance through the Apple App Store or Google Play. When a purchase goes through one of those stores, the store runs the billing, not us. One thing to know if that day comes: deleting your HonmeiDate account will not switch such a subscription off. It keeps renewing until you cancel it in the same store you bought it from. Wherever this applies, we will say so at checkout.

Payment processing.

Payments are processed by a third-party payment provider. By providing payment information, you authorize that provider — and us, as its customer — to charge the selected amount to your chosen payment method. If a charge is declined, your paid features may be suspended until the issue is resolved.

Refunds.

Except where required by law, subscription fees are non-refundable once a billing period has started. We may grant refunds at our discretion, for example where a technical failure on our end prevented you from using a paid feature for a meaningful portion of a billing period.

Promotions, credits, and one-off items.

We may offer free trials, promotional pricing, or consumable items (for example, profile boosts). Any such offer is subject to its own terms published alongside it. Promotional credits have no cash value, cannot be transferred, and expire as described at the point of grant. If we sell prepaid points or credits usable for future features, we will comply with the Payment Services Act rules on prepaid payment instruments.

Taxes.

Prices exclude applicable taxes unless stated otherwise. You are responsible for any taxes that apply to your purchase and that are not collected by us or the payment provider.

The photos, messages, profile text, and anything else you upload, post, or send through the Service ("Your Content") stay yours. Posting them hands us none of the underlying rights.

When you submit Your Content, you give MensuraMedia a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, transmit, display, reproduce, and adapt it — but only as far as reasonably necessary to operate, provide, and improve the Service. That covers things like showing your profile to other members, making blurred preview images for the free tier, running automated moderation, and looking into reports. For the content of your private messages with other members, we use this license no further than operating and moderating the Service requires. The license lifts once Your Content leaves our active systems, subject to backups and legal-hold retention described in our Privacy Policy.

You confirm that you hold every right needed to grant this license, and that Your Content breaks no one's rights and no law. For any image specifically, you confirm three things: it shows you or a person who consented; it does not use any other person's or public figure's portrait, likeness, or publicity rights without consent; and it is not an AI-generated or altered image used to misrepresent who you are.

We never sell Your Content to data brokers, and we never feed it into general-purpose third-party AI models for training. We do run automated systems over it — our own and trusted third parties' — as part of running the Service, things like content filters, spam detection, and image moderation (see Section 8A).

Most of Your Content you can take down whenever you like, by editing your profile or deleting the item. Some of it you cannot pull back on your own — a message already sitting in another member's inbox, for instance; deleting it on our side hides it from the Service from then on.

You agree that you will not:

• Harass, intimidate, stalk, or threaten another member, on or off the Service.
• Post, send, or request sexual content involving minors, or any content depicting non-consensual acts. We treat any sexual content involving a minor, or any image that depicts or appears to depict a minor in a sexual context, as a zero-tolerance violation: we remove it, permanently ban the account, and report it to the authorities.
• Solicit a minor for a relationship, or solicit an adult to act as a minor's partner, through the Service.
• Solicit money, gifts, or financial assistance from other members.
• Arrange, advertise, or ask for paid companionship of any kind — escorting, sugar arrangements, compensated dating, or sex for money.
• Use HonmeiDate to talk someone into cheating on, or leaving, a partner they are committed to.
• Gather, store, post, or pass on another member's personal details without their consent.
• Keep a second account, lend yours to anyone, or sign in as another member.
• Preach a religion, push a political cause, or recruit members into an organization or movement.
• Pretend to be someone else, use someone else's photos without their consent, or misrepresent material facts about yourself. This includes using a celebrity's image, another person's image, or an AI-generated or altered image to deceive other members.
• Advertise, promote, recruit for, or market any product, service, business, or political campaign, including multi-level-marketing offers.
• Scrape, crawl, or use automated means to access the Service or extract data from it, except through APIs we formally publish.
• Probe, disable, or bypass any security or rate-limit feature.
• Upload or transmit viruses, malware, or code designed to harm the Service or its users.
• Post content that is illegal, including defamation, threats of violence, incitement to violence, or content that infringes intellectual-property rights.
• Use the Service in a way that violates sanctions or export laws.
• Resell, sublicense, or provide the Service to a third party.
• Use the Service while being, or while acting for, a member of an organized-crime group or other antisocial force.

The list above is not exhaustive. If a behavior you are considering would embarrass HonmeiDate if it appeared in a news article, assume it is not acceptable.

HonmeiDate can introduce you to people; it cannot vouch for any of them. We run no comprehensive background checks. A verification badge reflects a limited, best-effort check — read it as a signal, not a guarantee.

Online, take the same precautions a thoughtful person would take offline:

• Don't share sensitive financial information (bank details, passwords, one-time codes) with anyone you met on the Service.
• Be cautious of stories that pressure you to send money, invest in cryptocurrency, or act urgently.
• If you decide to meet in person, meet in a public place, tell a friend, and arrange your own transportation.
• If something feels wrong, trust that instinct. Block, report, and — if a crime may be involved — contact local authorities.

We publish anti-doxxing, anti-grooming, and anti-scam guidance on the Chat Policies page. Read it.

Using the Service is on you, and so is whatever passes between you and other members, on the Service or off it. A dispute with another member is for the two of you to settle. We may step in to monitor, intervene in, or mediate such a dispute, but we are never obliged to. Where your loss is not our doing, you release us from claims that come out of a dispute with another member. None of this limits any liability we have for our own intentional act or gross negligence, or any liability that cannot be limited under Japanese law.

To enforce these Terms and our community policies, we moderate with both software and people. That can mean filtering messages, hiding or removing content, rate-limiting, muting, banning from specific features, suspending accounts, or closing them for good.

Messages between members run through our systems, where we and the people in the conversation can reach them. Acting on a report, or working to catch prohibited conduct and protect members, we may review relevant content — private messages included — for that purpose only, and we keep any such review as narrow as we can. Use the messaging features and you consent to this access and review for safety, moderation, and legal-compliance purposes.

Seeing another member break these Terms? Report them with the in-app report button or through our support channels. Every report gets reviewed, though we promise no specific response time or outcome. If a profile or image infringes your rights — your portrait or publicity rights included — or impersonates you, reach us through the report channel; we review those reports and take down content that breaks these Terms or the law.

Where the law or a court order requires it — a lawful sender-information disclosure request included — we may hand over a poster's or sender's information. Whether to suspend or terminate an account is a call we make on reasonable grounds. And we may keep banned-account data where we reasonably believe it is needed for safety, fraud prevention, legal compliance, or future enforcement.

To keep children safe, every image uploaded to the Service goes through a trusted third-party child-safety tool. For each image the tool builds a digital fingerprint — a cryptographic and perceptual hash — and checks it against established databases of known child sexual abuse material, while automated classification flags images that may be previously unknown material of that kind. The check serves child protection alone, and it is built so the images are not used to identify you as an individual.

On a match or a likely match, we pull the content, may suspend or permanently close the account, and report it to the relevant authorities and child-protection organizations as the law requires. Upload an image, or otherwise use the Service, and you understand and agree that your uploaded images go through this moderation. This processing is described further in our Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Policy lays out what personal data we collect, how we use it, how long we keep it, and the rights you have over it. It forms part of these Terms by reference. Read it before using the Service.

We do not sell, rent, or trade personal data to third parties for marketing.

We handle personal data by the book — the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), plus whatever other law reaches you because of where you live. The access, correction, and deletion rights set out in the Privacy Policy are yours to use; contact support to do so.

Verification data.

We hold only what it takes to show you finished verification — the result, the method, the date — and we cap how long document images stick around. Data we are not permitted to keep, such as health-insurance numbers, we mask, and your My Number we do not store at all. The details are in the Privacy Policy.

Storage and transfer outside Japan.

When our systems store or process your personal data outside Japan, using the Service means a cross-border transfer. Before or at the point of collection we tell you about that transfer and about data protection in the destination country, and we rely on your consent or another lawful basis under the APPI. Verification data is held under heightened protection, as described in the Privacy Policy.

The HonmeiDate name, the MensuraMedia name, the HD logo, the visual design, the site code, the words we write, and every feature we build belong to MensuraMedia or its licensors, and copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws protect them.

Your license from us is limited, personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive, and revocable, and it is for using the Service as intended — to meet people. It carries no right to copy, modify, translate, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of the Service, nor to put the HonmeiDate brand on your own products or content — except where normal use of the Service requires it, or non-waivable law permits it.

The Service may link to, embed, or lean on services run by third parties — payment processors, identity-verification providers, image-moderation providers, and email senders, for example. Reach one of them through HonmeiDate and that provider's own terms and privacy policy govern your use of its service.

A third-party service's content, accuracy, availability, and practices are out of our hands and not our responsibility. A link or integration from us is no endorsement of it.

You control your account from Settings → Account. Deactivating is reversible: your profile is hidden and you are signed out, but nothing is removed — log back in any time to reactivate. Cancelling your subscription stops it renewing; you keep your current plan until the period ends and then move to the free plan. Deleting your account starts a grace period during which you can still log in and cancel the request; once it ends, your profile and personal data are permanently removed, media files are deleted, and content you posted (comments, messages) is anonymised rather than attributed to you. Some information may be kept for limited purposes such as legal compliance, billing records, fraud prevention, or safety.

We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without prior notice, when we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms, acted fraudulently or harmfully, or created a meaningful safety risk to other members. Where it is practical and appropriate, we will tell you what rule you broke and give you a chance to respond before we close the account.

Leaving is fine, and so is coming back — just not the same day. Close your own account and a short waiting period has to pass before you can sign up again with the same details. A closure we make for a breach of these Terms is a different matter: treat it as final, and assume you cannot return unless we agree to reinstate you in writing.

Some sections are meant to outlast your account, and they do — the content license, the IP and disclaimer sections, limitation of liability, indemnity, and the dispute-resolution terms among them.

The Service comes "as is" and "as available." MensuraMedia disclaims all warranties — express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement — to the fullest extent permitted by law.

We do not promise that the Service will run uninterrupted, error-free, or clear of harmful components; that it will meet your expectations; that it will produce any particular result, a date, a relationship, or a marriage among them; or that a given member or match will ever contact you or turn out to be who they said they were.

These disclaimers reach only as far as the law permits. They do not exclude or limit our liability for damage caused by our intentional act or gross negligence, for death or personal injury we cause, or any liability that cannot be disclaimed under the Consumer Contract Act or other Japanese law.

When we owe you for damage caused by our ordinary negligence — that is, negligence that is not gross — we cover direct and ordinary damages only, and our total liability across all such claims will not exceed the greater of two figures: what you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the event, or a fixed amount we publish for free users. This limit applies to our ordinary negligence alone.

The limit falls away — and we remain liable to the full extent provided by law — where the damage results from our intentional act or our gross negligence, or where it involves death or personal injury caused by us.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under Japanese law, including the Consumer Contract Act. Should any limitation or disclaimer here be void under that law, it applies only to the extent the law allows, and the rest of these Terms stay in effect.

Where the relevant loss arises from your own act, fault, or breach, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless MensuraMedia, its affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claim, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) that comes out of:

• your breach of these Terms, or of any representation or warranty you made (including the image and content confirmations you gave in Section 5);
• Your Content or your use of the Service;
• your interaction or dispute with another member, on or off the Service;
• a third party's claim that your content or conduct infringed their rights, including portrait, publicity, or intellectual-property rights;
• your violation of any law or of any third party's rights.

You never have to cover loss that we caused. We will notify you of any such claim and may, if we choose, take control of the defense. And you may not settle any claim in a way that affects our rights or obligations without our prior written consent.

Try to talk it out first.

Have a concern or a claim? Come to us before taking formal action. Describe the issue, the outcome you would like, and how to reach you.

Informal resolution period.

If sixty (60) days pass from your good-faith first contact and we still have no agreement, either side can move to formal proceedings under Section 17.

Time limit.

To the extent permitted by law, file any claim you bring against us relating to the Service within one (1) year after it arose. Where the law gives you a longer non-waivable period, that governs instead.

The laws of Japan govern these Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The court of first instance for any dispute is the Tokyo District Court — or the Tokyo Summary Court, as appropriate — unless a mandatory consumer-protection rule gives you the right to sue or be sued in another court, such as the court for the place where you live. And nothing in this section removes a right the law of your home country gives you that cannot be waived by contract.

These Terms can change from time to time. For a material change, we will update the effective date and give you reasonable advance notice — usually by email plus a prominent in-app notice. Keep using the Service after a change takes effect and you accept the revised Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Service and, if you like, delete your account.

Unless law pins us to a specific method, we may reach you by email at the address on your account, by in-app notification, or by posting on the Service. A notice is effective when sent or posted, whichever comes first. Marketing communications go out only where you have opted in, and you can opt out at any time. You consent to receive required communications from us in electronic form. Keep your email address current; a notice we send to a stale address is still effective if we had no reason to know it was out of service.

Entire agreement.

Together with the Privacy Policy and any referenced policies, these Terms form the entire agreement between you and MensuraMedia regarding the Service, and they supersede any prior agreement on the same subject.

Severability.

Should any provision be held invalid or unenforceable, it is limited or removed only to the extent needed to make it valid, and the rest continues in full force.

No waiver.

If we do not enforce a right or provision, that is not a waiver of it. A waiver is effective only in writing.

Assignment.

You may not assign your rights or obligations without our prior written consent. We, though, may assign ours in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, or by operation of law.

Force majeure.

When something beyond our reasonable control causes a failure or delay — a natural disaster, government action, labor dispute, internet-infrastructure outage, or cyber-attack — we are not liable for it.

Headings.

Section headings are there for convenience and do not affect how these Terms are read.

No third-party beneficiaries.

These Terms run between you and MensuraMedia alone. No one else has the right to enforce them.

For questions about these Terms, for a safety concern, or to exercise a right described here or in the Privacy Policy, reach us through the feedback form on our About page or the in-app support channel.

Thank you for reading to the end. HonmeiDate is built by a small team that takes both community safety and your time seriously — these Terms are part of how we try to keep both.

We may publish these Terms in more than one language. The Japanese-language version is the binding one and prevails over any translation; this English text is provided for convenience.