Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of DCZ ("DCZ", "Platform"), operated by DCZ Media Holdings LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. By registering or using DCZ, you agree to these Terms in full.

What DCZ is. DCZ is a verified open-minded lifestyle app for Desi couples and adults aged 18 and over, from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal and living around the world. Members are looking to meet other open-minded, like-minded people, consensually and openly. Sexually explicit images and video are not allowed anywhere in the app, and every member is age-checked and every profile and photo is reviewed.

1. Eligibility

• You must be at least 18 years of age
• You must be legally permitted to use an 18+ service of this kind where you live
• You must not have been previously banned from DCZ
• By registering, you represent and warrant that all of the above are true

2. Registration & Account

Age is confirmed at registration by declaration and may additionally be subject to facial age-estimation performed by a third-party processor engaged under a written data-processing agreement. Misrepresentation of age is a breach of these Terms and may constitute an offence. Registration requires a verified email address; a mobile number is optional and, where supplied, is used for verification, account recovery and the display of a verification badge only.

You are responsible for the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity under your account, whether or not authorised by you, and must notify DCZ at [email protected] upon becoming aware of unauthorised access.

• One account per person. Multiple, duplicate or replacement accounts following removal are a breach.
• Non-transferable. Accounts may not be sold, rented, lent, gifted or shared. Doing so terminates the account without refund.
• Couple accounts. A couple account is a single account held jointly. The registering member is the account holder, is responsible for it including payment, and warrants that their partner is over 18 and consents to the account, to content posted, and to these Terms. DCZ is not obliged to adjudicate, divide or transfer an account on the breakdown of a relationship.
• Accuracy. Registration and profile information must be accurate and kept current. Impersonation, or misrepresentation of age, identity, gender, relationship status or affiliation, is a breach.
• Inactivity. DCZ may remove accounts not accessed for an extended period, following notice to the email on file.

2A. End-User Licence Agreement (EULA) — Website and Mobile Apps

This section applies to the DCZ website and to the DCZ iOS and Android apps (together, the “Service”). It forms part of these Terms and is the End-User Licence Agreement between you and DCZ Media Holdings LLC (“DCZ”), not with Apple Inc. or Google LLC.

• Licence. DCZ grants you a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to use the Service on devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial use, in accordance with these Terms. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by DCZ.
• Restrictions. You must not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, resell, rent or distribute the apps or Service; bypass or interfere with security, age checks, content review or access controls; use automated tools to collect data; or use the Service for any unlawful purpose.
• Your content. You keep ownership of what you post. You grant DCZ a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, display, review and deliver it solely to operate the Service, as described in section 4 and our Privacy Policy.
• Data use. By using the Service you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in our Privacy Policy, including device identifiers used for security and push notifications, and location only if you grant permission.
• Updates and support. DCZ is solely responsible for maintenance and support of the Service and for any updates. Contact us through the Support page. Neither Apple nor Google has any obligation to provide maintenance or support.
• Warranty. The Service is provided as described in section 12. If a mobile app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify the app store, which may refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, the app store has no other warranty obligation, and DCZ is responsible for any claims, losses or liabilities relating to the Service as set out in these Terms.
• Claims. DCZ, not Apple or Google, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the Service or your use of it, including product liability, legal or regulatory compliance and consumer-protection claims, and any third-party intellectual-property infringement claim.
• Legal compliance. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US government embargo or designated as a “terrorist-supporting” country, and that you are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Third-party terms. You must comply with applicable third-party terms (such as your device and network terms) when using the Service.
• Third-party beneficiary. If you obtained an app from the Apple App Store, Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this section and may enforce it against you. Google Play has the equivalent rights where applicable.
• Termination. This licence lasts until terminated. It ends automatically if you breach these Terms, close your account, or we withdraw the Service (see section 11). On termination you must stop using and delete the apps.
• Contact. Questions about this EULA: [email protected].

3. Acceptable Use

3.1 Prohibited Content

You must not upload, post, or transmit:

• Any content depicting minors in a sexual context (CSAM) — this will result in immediate permanent ban and NCMEC report
• Intimate images of any person shared without that person's consent
• Content depicting individuals who have not consented to appearing on DCZ
• Content that glorifies or promotes violence, hate speech, or discrimination
• Spam, unsolicited commercial messages, or phishing content
• Content that infringes third-party intellectual property rights

3.1A Public-facing content standard

Nudity and sexually explicit material are strictly prohibited in every public-facing area — profile photos and main photos, public profile text, public posts and comments, group and chatroom content, event and business listings, and any image visible to members who have not been granted access. Public-facing content must be suitable for a general audience. All uploaded photos and media are reviewed before other members can see them; anything that breaks this rule is removed, and repeat or serious breaches result in suspension or termination of the account. Any content a member chooses to share privately is never publicly visible, is available only to members the owner has chosen, and remains subject to sections 3.1 and 4A. Report any breach using the Report option on the content.

3.2 Prohibited Conduct

• Impersonating any person or entity
• Scraping, crawling, or harvesting member data
• Attempting to bypass age verification or content restrictions
• Using VPNs or proxies to evade geographic restrictions or bans
• Advertising, soliciting or arranging paid companionship or any commercial sexual service
• Creating multiple accounts after being banned

3.3 Non-commercial use

The Platform is provided for personal, non-commercial use. You may not sell, licence, or require or solicit payment, tips, subscriptions, gifts or any other consideration in exchange for access to any content you post, for continued contact, or for any interaction with you, whether on the Platform or elsewhere. You may not use the Platform to advertise, promote or drive traffic to any other website, application or service. This clause does not restrict venues, event hosts and businesses using a business account in accordance with § 15.3.

You retain ownership of content you upload and remain solely responsible for it. You grant DCZ Media Holdings LLC a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable licence to host, store, cache, back up, reproduce, adapt, modify (including resizing, transcoding and applying watermarks), publish, transmit and display that content, and to authorise its hosting, moderation, payment and infrastructure providers to do the same, for the purposes of operating, securing, moderating, analysing and improving the Platform and of complying with law.

You warrant that you own or control all rights in the content, that it infringes no third-party right, and that every identifiable person depicted is aged 18 or over and has consented to its upload and display on the Platform. To the fullest extent permitted by law you waive any moral rights in the content as against DCZ. DCZ is not a storage or backup service.

DCZ will not sell your content and will not use it in external advertising without your permission. Deletion of content or of your account removes it from public view. The licence survives to the extent necessary for (a) copies in backups and logs until overwritten in the ordinary course; (b) content already received by another member; (c) records DCZ is required to retain, including records under federal record-keeping law, moderation records, and evidence relating to reports, investigations or legal claims; and (d) anonymised or aggregated data that no longer identifies you.

No obligation to monitor.DCZ may, but is not required to, pre-screen, review, refuse, edit, restrict or remove any content or account at any time, for any reason or none, without notice and without liability. Moderation undertaken does not render DCZ the author or publisher of member content and creates no duty to detect every violation. Uploaded content is subject to automated screening and to review by authorised personnel before it becomes visible to other members (§ 4A.3), conducted by DCZ or by processors engaged under written data-processing agreements. Nothing in this clause obliges DCZ to apply any particular technique to any particular item.

By uploading Restricted Content (§ 19) you warrant that all depicted individuals are aged 18 or over, that you hold their consent to publish the content on the Platform, and that you will keep any records the law requires you to keep in respect of that content, including any records required by federal record-keeping law where that provision applies to you. DCZ will create a corresponding federal record-keeping law record linking your upload to your account and to the age confirmation given at the time of upload.

4.1 Sole responsibility of the uploading member

DCZ is an interactive computer service. Content depicting real persons is created and uploaded by members, who are its producers. DCZ does not create, commission, direct, script, stage or pay for member content, and does not hire, contract for, manage or otherwise arrange for the participation of any person depicted in it. The uploading member is solely responsible for the content they upload, for holding the consent of every person depicted, and for any record-keeping obligation the law imposes upon them, including under federal record-keeping law where those provisions apply to them. Any review, classification, approval, formatting or watermarking carried out by DCZ is undertaken for the purposes of safety and compliance and does not transfer that responsibility to DCZ, make DCZ the author or producer of the content, or constitute an endorsement of it.

4A. Content Review, Compliance Monitoring & Enforcement

4A.1 Scope

All content you submit, transmit or store on the Platform — images, video, audio, profile text and messages — may be reviewed by the DCZ Compliance & Security Team to verify compliance with these Terms, our Privacy and Acceptable Use policies, and applicable law.

4A.2 Basis and manner of review

Review may be conducted proactively, including on a risk-assessed or randomised basis, or reactively upon receipt of a report from a member, a trusted flagger, a rights-holder or a competent authority. Review is not conditional upon prior notice to the uploading member, and the designation of content as private, restricted or view-limited does not exclude it from review. Access is confined to personnel discharging a documented compliance function and is subject to authentication controls commensurate with Article 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.

4A.2.1 Measures imposed in consequence of review — being removal, restriction of visibility, suspension of the account, termination, or the issuing of a warning, and constituting restrictions within the meaning of Article 3(t) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 — are recorded in an append-only administrative record. Read-only inspection resulting in no measure is not separately recorded, and no representation to the contrary is made.

4A.3 Automated screening and classification

4A.3.1 Visual material transmitted to the Platform is subjected to automated classification prior to Moderation Team adjudication, such classification being directed to the detection of indicia that a depicted person may be a minor within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 2256(1). On public and general surfaces of the Platform, such classification is additionally directed to the detection of material within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2), and to keeping such material off those surfaces. Restricted Content (§ 19) may appear only within age-restricted, members-only areas of the Platform available to verified members who have chosen to view it, and is never shown on public pages, in search results or to visitors who are not signed in. Textual material, including profile fields, posts, comments and messages, is subjected to automated classification directed to prohibited expression, threats, and the solicitation of off-Platform contact.

4A.3.2 Automated classification is determinative of nothing. A classifier output may cause material to be withheld from publication, prioritised for adjudication, or escalated, but no measure within the meaning of Article 3(t) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act) is imposed upon a recipient of the service by automated means alone. All enforcement determinations are made by a natural person exercising independent judgement. Accordingly, and for the purposes of Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and of the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation as incorporated by section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, you are not subject to a decision based solely on automated processing producing legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affecting you.

4A.3.3 Conversely, a negative classifier output does not constitute approval. Material uploaded to a profile, gallery or album does not become visible to any other recipient of the service until it has been adjudicated by a natural person. Moderation Team adjudication, and not automated classification, is the operative control by which unlawful material is excluded from those surfaces. Live video sessions are not pre-adjudicated and cannot be; the measures applicable to them are those described at § 7A.

4A.3.4 DCZ does not disclose the identity of the vendors, models, parameters or thresholds employed, disclosure of which would prejudice the efficacy of the measures, and reserves the right to vary them without notice. Nothing in this clause imposes upon DCZ a general obligation to monitor within the meaning of Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, and no representation is made that any automated measure is complete or free from error. The voluntary character of these measures is without prejudice to the protection afforded by 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(2)(A) and Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.

4A.4 Account-level compliance audit

4A.4.1 The DCZ Compliance & Security Team is authorised to audit an account in its entirety, and not merely discrete items of content. The permitted scope of audit comprises profile data, public and non-public media, albums and access grants, account and session records, transaction records, and conduct directed toward other recipients of the service. The designation of material as private, restricted or view-limited does not remove it from scope. Audit is undertaken on a risk-assessed, randomised or report-driven basis, without prior notification, notification being incompatible with the purpose of the measure.

4A.4.2 Audit is directed in particular, but not exclusively, to the detection of:

• Child sexual abuse material. Any sexualisation of a minor howsoever effected. Detection attracts immediate and permanent termination, preservation, and reporting under § 4A.5.
• Commercial sexual services. The advertisement, solicitation, arrangement, facilitation or procurement of prostitution or of any transactional sexual arrangement, whether express, priced, implied or coded.
• Trafficking, coercion and exploitation. Including any indication that a depicted or participating person does not act freely.
• Harassment, stalking and abuse. Including unsolicited sexual material, persistent unwanted contact, threats, and publication of another person's identifying information without lawful authority.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery. Including material disclosed without the consent of every person depicted.
• Age and identity integrity. Including accounts operated by or depicting persons under 18, and material misrepresentation as to the operator of an account.
• Off-Platform circumvention. The circulation of external contact particulars or payment handles for any purpose falling within the categories above.

This clause is without prejudice to the record-keeping obligations imposed by federal record-keeping law.

4A.5 Preservation, reporting and disclosure

4A.5.1 Where review or audit identifies apparent child sexual abuse material, DCZ will preserve the material and the associated account records and report the matter to the CyberTipline operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, as required by federal reporting law, and will discharge any corresponding obligation arising under the law of any other jurisdiction in which it operates.

4A.5.2 Where review or audit identifies apparent trafficking, coercion or other serious criminal conduct, DCZ may disclose the relevant content and account records to law enforcement, and will inform the competent authorities where it becomes aware of information giving rise to a suspicion of an offence involving a threat to the life or safety of any person.

4A.5.3 Reports and disclosures under this clause are made without notice to the account holder. DCZ is under no obligation to disclose that a report has been made, and any statement of reasons otherwise owed may be withheld to the extent that its provision would prejudice the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of an offence.

5. Watermarks

All approved media on DCZ is watermarked with the DCZ logo. This watermark is applied to protect both creators and the platform. You may not use tools to remove or obscure the watermark.

6. Subscriptions & Payments

Paid features, where they are offered in the DCZ apps, are purchased through the Apple App Store or Google Play billing system. Each purchase is subject to the store's own terms. DCZ does not receive or store payment card details.

Renewals and cancellation.Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time in your Apple or Google account (Apple: Settings → your name → Subscriptions; Google Play: Play Store → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions). Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.

Refunds. Refunds for purchases made through the App Store or Google Play are decided and paid by Apple or Google under their refund policies, which apply in every country and include any longer period or extra right that consumer law in your country gives you (for example the 14-day right to cancel in the EU and UK). Request an Apple refund at reportaproblem.apple.com; for Google Play use your Play Store order history. DCZ cannot issue refunds for store purchases, but will help with any problem you contact us about. Rights you have as a consumer under the law of your country that cannot be excluded are not affected by these Terms.

Referral and partner rewards. Where DCZ operates a referral or partner scheme, rewards are non-transferable, hold no cash value, accrue only in respect of referred accounts that are genuine and remain in good standing, and may be withheld, reversed or forfeited where DCZ determines that a referral is duplicated, self-referred, obtained by misrepresentation, or otherwise abusive. DCZ may vary, suspend or withdraw any such scheme at any time without notice, and its determination as to eligibility is final.

7. Privacy & Record-Keeping

Your use of DCZ is also governed by our Privacy Policy. Records DCZ is required by law to keep (including under federal record-keeping law) are maintained as described in our Record-Keeping Statement. Our use of cookies is described in our Cookie Policy.

7A. Recording of Interactive Video Sessions

All interactive video sessions — one-to-one calls, group rooms, livestreams and verification sessions — are recorded automatically, and may be reviewed by authorised personnel. By initiating or joining a session you consent to that recording and review. If you do not consent, you must not initiate or join a session.

All-party consent. Where the law of a jurisdiction requires the consent of every party to a communication before it may be recorded, each member gives that consent in advance, on their own behalf, in respect of every session in which they participate. You warrant that any other person appearing within your camera frame is aged 18 or over, is aware of the recording and consents to it, and you are solely responsible for obtaining that consent.

Purpose, retention and reporting.Recordings are reviewed only to detect, prevent and investigate unlawful conduct, to investigate reports, and to respond to valid legal process. They are not used for marketing, profiling, advertising or model training, are not disclosed to other members, and are not made public. Preservation and reporting are governed by § 4A.5. Retention periods and security measures are set out at § 3.1 and § 5 of the Privacy Policy.

No expectation of privacy as against DCZ. Sessions are private as between members and are not visible to other members. You acknowledge that you have no expectation of privacy as against DCZ in respect of session content to the extent described in this clause. Nothing in this clause obliges DCZ to monitor, review or record any particular session, and DCZ accepts no liability for any failure to detect unlawful conduct.

7B. Automated and AI-assisted Features

Certain features are delivered or assisted by automated systems, including the guided verification session, matching and ranking, and content classification. Such features are provided on an “as is” basis. Their output may be incomplete, inaccurate or out of date, is informational only, and does not constitute advice of any kind. DCZ makes no representation as to the accuracy or reliability of any automated output and accepts no liability for reliance upon it. You may not probe, scan, reverse-engineer or attempt to extract the underlying models, prompts, parameters or training data, nor submit input designed to cause a system to act outside its intended purpose. Enforcement decisions are governed by § 4A.3.2.

8. Location

DCZ is a location-based service. An approximate location is derived from your IP address and network on each sign-in and is necessary to operate the Platform; it cannot be disabled while you use DCZ. Precise (GPS) location is optional, requires your device permission, and may be withdrawn at any time in your device or browser settings. Withdrawal does not restrict access to the Platform.

Other members are shown your city and an approximate distance only, and are never shown coordinates or an address. Authorised personnel may access location data for signup review, fraud prevention and safety investigation. Location data is not sold and is not disclosed to advertisers. Collection, use, retention and your rights in respect of location data are set out at § 1.4 and § 5 of the Privacy Policy.

9. Member Safety & Meeting In Person

DCZ is an introduction service. Any decision to communicate with, meet, travel to or engage in any activity with another member is yours alone and is taken entirely at your own risk. DCZ is not a party to any interaction between members, whether online, at an event or in person, does not supervise, attend or mediate such interactions, and is not responsible for the conduct of any member, including any injury, loss, harassment, coercion, transmission of infection, damage to property or criminal act.

Consent between members may be withdrawn at any time and must be respected immediately. Failure to do so is grounds for permanent termination and, where appropriate, referral to law enforcement. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services before reporting to DCZ.

9.1 Release

In this section and in § 12 and § 13, the “DCZ Parties”means DCZ Media Holdings LLC together with its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors and assigns, and each of their owners, members, managers, directors, officers, employees, staff, moderators, contractors, consultants, agents and service providers — in their personal capacity as well as their corporate one.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release the DCZ Parties from any and all claims, demands, damages, losses and liabilities of every kind — known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed — arising out of or in any way connected with any dispute, interaction or encounter between you and any other member, whether occurring on DCZ, at an event, or anywhere offline.

If you are a California resident, you expressly waive California Civil Code § 1542, which reads: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.” You waive any comparable provision of the law of any other jurisdiction, to the extent that waiver is permitted.

10. Verification & Prohibited Persons

DCZ may require verification of any account as a condition of continued access to any feature, and determines, at its discretion and by reference to objective indicators of risk to the integrity or safety of the Platform, which accounts are required to complete it and when. Where verification is requested and not completed within a reasonable period following notice, DCZ may suspend access to Restricted Content and to outbound messaging until the requirement is satisfied. Such suspension restricts features only; no account is terminated and no content removed by reason of an outstanding verification requirement alone. DCZ does not disclose the criteria, methods or tooling applied, disclosure of which would prejudice their effectiveness, and gives no undertaking as to the time within which a determination will be made. Recording of a verification session is governed by § 7A.

DCZ does not conduct criminal background checks. Verification confirms only that an account is operated by a real adult; it is not a criminal-history check, a character reference, or a warranty of safety, honesty or identity, and no reliance should be placed upon a verification badge.

You may not use DCZ if you are a registered sex offender or have been convicted of a violent or sexual offence, and you represent on registration that neither applies. DCZ will terminate any account determined to be in breach and may report it.

11. Termination, Service Changes & Discontinuation

DCZ may suspend or terminate an account at any time, with or without notice, for breach of these Terms. Breaches involving child sexual abuse material, fraud or repeated abuse attract immediate permanent termination with no right of appeal. You may close your account in Settings. Termination confers no entitlement to a refund of a current period save where the law requires one, and does not release you from obligations already incurred.

11.1 Impersonation, fabricated identity and fraudulent verification

DCZ reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to suspend or permanently ban any account, without prior notice, where DCZ determines that the account holder has impersonated another person, fabricated or misrepresented their identity, gender or relationship status, submitted a fraudulent, duplicated or otherwise fraudulent identity or age-and-identity verification (including a verification session in which a single individual purported to be, or completed verification on behalf of, more than one person represented on a couple profile), or engaged in any other conduct reasonably indicative of a fake, imposter or non-genuine profile. Where a member has previously been notified of such a concern and warned that a repeat occurrence will result in a ban, a subsequent occurrence of the same or a substantially similar concern shall result in the immediate and automatic suspension of the account, termination of all active sessions, and removal of the account from general circulation on the Platform (the account becoming dormant), without further warning.

An account suspended or banned under this clause may be appealed solely by written communication addressed to [email protected], and DCZ shall have no obligation to consider an appeal made by any other means. An appeal must include such evidence as DCZ may reasonably require to establish, to DCZ's sole satisfaction, the genuine identity of the account holder and, where the account represents a couple, the existence and genuine participation of both represented individuals. DCZ is under no obligation to grant an appeal, to reinstate any account, or to provide reasons for its determination, and DCZ's decision on any such appeal is final. No fee paid, subscription purchased or other sum tendered in connection with an account suspended or banned under this clause shall be refunded, in whole or in part, whether the suspension or ban precedes, coincides with or follows such payment, save where applicable law mandates a refund notwithstanding this provision.

11.2 Changes to and withdrawal of the service

DCZ may at any time and at its discretion add, alter, limit, suspend or remove any feature and change the operation of matching, ranking or any part of the Platform; change subscription prices for future billing periods on notice before the change takes effect; impose or vary limits on storage, file size, bandwidth, upload volume, message volume and rate of requests, and take proportionate action in respect of an account exceeding them; require the change of a username or display name that is misleading, impersonating, offensive or infringing; and suspend or permanently discontinue the Platform in any territory or globally. No feature, price or level of service is guaranteed and no member acquires a vested right in any of them. To the fullest extent permitted by law DCZ is not liable for loss arising from any such change, suspension, withdrawal or discontinuation.

11.3 Discontinuation of the business

If the Platform is permanently discontinued, or DCZ Media Holdings LLC ceases trading, is wound up, becomes insolvent or transfers the business, DCZ will give such notice as is reasonably practicable and, where practicable, a period in which to export your content. To the fullest extent permitted by law no refund, credit, compensation or damages is payable in respect of any unused or prepaid portion of any subscription, membership or credit. All licences granted to you end immediately and all obligations of DCZ cease, other than those surviving by operation of law. Account data may be deleted or transferred to a successor operator on terms no less protective than the Privacy Policy. Any right you hold as a consumer or as a creditor in an insolvency that cannot lawfully be excluded is unaffected; nothing in these Terms creates a right to a refund on discontinuation.

11.4 “Lifetime” memberships

A membership described as “lifetime” subsists for the operational lifetime of the Platform under its current ownership and not for the lifetime of the member. It confers no ownership interest, is non-transferable and non-refundable (except as set out in section 6 or required by law), ends on discontinuation of the Platform or on termination for breach, and does not exempt the member from these Terms.

11.5 Content and data loss

DCZ is not a storage or backup service. To the fullest extent permitted by law DCZ is not liable for the deletion, corruption, loss of, or failure to store any content, message or other data.

12. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

DCZ is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that you will make a connection, that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any member's profile, photos or statements are accurate.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, no DCZ Party is liable for user-generated content, member interactions (online or offline), or for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data or loss of goodwill.

Member content is not ours. DCZ is an interactive computer service that hosts content created by its members. To the fullest extent permitted by law, including 47 U.S.C. § 230 and equivalent intermediary-liability protections elsewhere, we are not treated as the publisher or speaker of member content and are not liable for it. Opinions, photographs, claims and statements posted by members are theirs alone, and we do not verify them.

Sole and exclusive remedy.Where DCZ is found liable to you on any basis, your sole and exclusive remedy is, at DCZ's election, the correction or replacement of the deficient service or, where correction or replacement is not reasonably practicable, the refund of amounts actually paid by you for the service to which the claim relates, together with termination of your account. This applies notwithstanding the failure of any limited remedy of its essential purpose.

The total aggregate liability of the DCZ Parties taken together, for all claims arising from your use of DCZ, shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) USD 100. This cap applies once in total, not once per person or entity.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any right a consumer cannot waive under the law of their country. If you are a consumer in the United Kingdom or European Union, your statutory rights are unaffected.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the DCZ Parties(as defined in § 9.1) from any claim, demand, investigation, proceeding, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees and the cost of responding to a regulator or a law-enforcement request) arising out of or connected with: (a) content you upload or transmit; (b) your use or misuse of DCZ; (c) your breach of these Terms or of any law; (d) your infringement of anyone else's rights; or (e) your interaction with any other member, including anything that occurs when you meet in person; (f) any failure by you to obtain or keep a consent, release or record you have warranted that you hold, including any record required of you by federal record-keeping law; or (g) any claim brought by a person depicted in content you uploaded.

This indemnity also covers: (h) any report, notice, request or counter-notice you submit that is inaccurate, misleading or made in bad faith; (i) any claim, investigation or demand arising from DCZ's good-faith action, or good-faith decision not to act, in response to content or conduct involving you; and (j) any fine, penalty or regulatory cost incurred by a DCZ Party because of your content or conduct. It applies even where the claim alleges a DCZ Party's ordinary negligence, to the fullest extent permitted by law, but not to the extent a court of competent jurisdiction finally determines the loss was caused by that DCZ Party's own fraud or wilful misconduct. You may not settle any claim in a way that imposes an obligation or admission on a DCZ Party without our written consent.

We may assume exclusive control of the defence of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which case you will cooperate with us. This obligation survives termination of your account. If you are a consumer, this section applies only to the extent permitted by the law of your country.

13.1 Policies incorporated

The Community Guidelines, Trust & Safety page, Take It Down Act Policy, Recommender Guidelines, DMCA Policy and Privacy Policy are part of these Terms. Each carries its own limitation, release and indemnity terms, which apply in addition to this section and to § 12.

14. Copyright & DMCA

We respect intellectual property rights and expect members to do the same. Uploading content you do not own or have permission to use is a breach of these Terms.

If you believe content on DCZ infringes your copyright, send a notice containing the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) — identification of the work, the location of the material, your contact details, a good-faith statement, and a statement under penalty of perjury that you are authorised to act — as set out in our DMCA Policy. We remove infringing material promptly and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. You may submit a counter-notice if you believe material was removed in error.

Non-consensual intimate imagery. If someone has uploaded intimate images of you without your consent, contact us immediately at [email protected]. We remove such content on an expedited basis and do not require a formal copyright notice.

15. Third-Party Links & Services

DCZ may link to or integrate third-party sites and services (for example payment processors, verification providers, or venues and events listed by members). We do not control them, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their content, products, pricing, availability or privacy practices. Your dealings with a third party are between you and them, and their terms and privacy policies apply.

15.1 Member-organised events, parties, stays and travel

Events, parties, clubs, stays, trips and meet-ups listed on the Platform are organised by members, venues or third parties and not by DCZ, save where DCZ states in writing that it is the organiser. DCZ does not vet, inspect, license, insure or supervise any event, venue or host, and makes no representation as to safety, legality, licensing, accessibility, the accuracy of a listing or the conduct of any attendee. Booking, payment, deposits, tickets, cancellation and refunds are matters between you and the organiser; DCZ is not an intermediary, escrow agent or guarantor. Attendance is at your own risk and compliance with the law of the place of the event is your responsibility. The release at § 9.1 and the indemnity at § 13 apply in full.

15.3 Business accounts, listings and advertising

Venues, event hosts and businesses may apply for a business account. Acceptance, placement, positioning and prominence of any listing or advertisement are at DCZ's sole discretion, and DCZ may refuse, vary, suspend or remove any listing or campaign at any time and without notice or refund. No representation is given as to impressions, reach, engagement or results, and DCZ is not liable for any error, omission, mispublication or non-publication beyond the amount paid for the item concerned. The advertiser is solely responsible for the content and legality of its listing and warrants that it holds all necessary licences, permits and consents. The indemnity at § 13 applies to it in full.

Features marked beta, preview or experimental are provided as-is, may be changed or removed without notice, may not work as intended, and carry no warranty or support commitment.

16. Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles.

16.1 Talk to us first

Most problems are resolved quickly. Before starting any formal proceeding, email [email protected] describing the issue and the outcome you want. We will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days.

16.2 Arbitration and class-action waiver (United States only)

If you are resident in the United States and the dispute is not resolved informally, you and DCZ agree it will be settled by binding individual arbitrationadministered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, seated in Wyoming or conducted remotely, by a single arbitrator. The arbitrator decides all issues, except that a court decides the enforceability of this paragraph.

You and DCZ each waive the right to a trial by jury and the right to participate in any class, collective, consolidated or representative action. Claims may be brought only in an individual capacity. No arbitrator may consolidate claims or preside over any form of representative proceeding. If this waiver is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim — and only that claim — is severed and heard in court; the remainder stays in arbitration. Either party may still bring an individual claim in small-claims court.

16.3 Time limit for claims

Any claim arising out of or relating to DCZ must be brought within one year of the date the claim arose, or it is permanently barred, to the fullest extent permitted by law. This does not shorten any period that cannot lawfully be shortened in your country.

16.4 Members outside the United States

Sections 16.2 and 16.3 do not apply to you where your law says otherwise. If you are a consumer in the United Kingdom, European Union, or another country whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings locally, you keep that right and the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence. Nothing here requires you to arbitrate or to litigate in Wyoming if your law says otherwise.

16.5 Costs

In any arbitration or proceeding arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the Platform, the prevailing party is entitled to recover its reasonable legal fees and costs, to the fullest extent permitted by law. This clause does not apply where you are a consumer and the law of your country of residence provides otherwise.

17. General

• Severability. Any provision held unenforceable is limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary; the remainder continues in force.
• Entire agreement. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, DMCA Policy and Record-Keeping Statement, constitute the entire agreement and supersede all prior understandings.
• Order of precedence. Where these Terms conflict with the Privacy Policy on the collection, use, retention or disclosure of personal data, the Privacy Policy prevails to the extent of the conflict. In every other respect, including content review, enforcement, payment and dispute resolution, these Terms prevail. The DMCA Policy and Record-Keeping Statement prevail on their own subject matter.
• No waiver. Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign your account or rights. DCZ may assign to an affiliate or in connection with a merger or sale of the business.
• Force majeure. DCZ is not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including natural disaster, war, terrorism, epidemic, industrial action, government action, and network, hosting or internet failure.
• No partnership. Nothing herein creates an agency, partnership, joint venture or employment relationship.
• Promotional use. DCZ may refer to a member's username, city or country and publicly posted profile content in its own promotional material. Private media, legal names and contact details are excluded. You may object at any time.
• In-platform messages. While your account is open DCZ may send service, community and promotional messages within the Platform. Notification channels are controlled in Settings; marketing opt-outs are addressed in the Privacy Policy.
• Notices. DCZ gives notice by email to the address on the account or by posting within the Platform; you give notice by email to [email protected]. Maintaining a current email address is your responsibility.
• Language. These Terms are drawn up in English. Any translation is provided for convenience; the English text governs.
• Taxes. Prices may exclude sales tax, VAT, GST or equivalent charges, which are added where applicable. You are responsible for tax arising from your use of DCZ or from any transaction with another member.
• Sanctions and export control. You represent that you are not located or ordinarily resident in a country subject to comprehensive United States sanctions and are not a restricted party. DCZ may block or terminate access to comply with sanctions, export-control or other law.
• Local law. DCZ is operated from the United States. Where the content or activity it facilitates is restricted in your jurisdiction, compliance is your responsibility and use is at your own risk. No representation is made that DCZ is lawful or appropriate in every jurisdiction.
• No fiduciary or advisory relationship. DCZ owes no fiduciary duty and gives no legal, medical, health or relationship advice.
• No right of survivorship. An account is personal and non-transferable. All rights in it, and in content within it, terminate on the death of the account holder; DCZ is under no obligation to transfer, disclose or preserve an account or its contents to any heir, executor or personal representative, save where required by law.
• Accessibility. DCZ is committed to improving the accessibility of the Platform and works toward conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. If you encounter a barrier to access, contact [email protected] and DCZ will make reasonable efforts to provide the information or function by an alternative means.
• Headings. Headings are for convenience and do not affect interpretation.
• Survival. The provisions on content licence, safety, review, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution and this section survive termination.

17A. Additional Protective Provisions

The provisions below apply in addition to, and do not limit, the rest of these Terms. Each applies to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law; where a mandatory law of your country of residence gives you a right that cannot lawfully be excluded, that right is unaffected.

17A.1 No minors, age gating and child safety

• DCZ is strictly for adults aged 18 and over. Minors are not permitted to register, browse, upload, message or appear in any content, under any circumstances.
• Access is age-gated: age is checked when an account is created, and DCZ may require further age or identity checks at any time. A member who fails, refuses or evades a check may be restricted or removed.
• Giving a false age or date of birth, or helping anyone under 18 to use the Platform, is a material breach. The person responsible bears all resulting liability and indemnifies DCZ under section 13.
• Parents and guardians: DCZ is not directed to children. If you believe a minor is using the Platform, or that content shows a minor, report it immediately through the Report option or at [email protected]. We act on such reports as a priority, preserve evidence, and report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement as the law requires.
• Zero tolerance: any content involving a minor in a sexual or exploitative context results in immediate permanent removal, preservation of evidence, reporting to the authorities and no refund.

17A.2 Anti-trafficking, exploitation and FOSTA compliance

DCZ complies with the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA-SESTA) and the laws it amended, including 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591, 1595 and 2421A. The Platform may not be used to promote, facilitate, solicit or arrange prostitution, commercial sexual services, sex trafficking, coercion, exploitation or the abuse of any person, and any such use is prohibited outright (see sections 3 and 4A). DCZ removes such content and accounts when found or reported, preserves evidence, cooperates with law enforcement, and reports suspected trafficking to the authorities. Members who suspect trafficking or coercion should report it at once.

17A.3 Member content, permissions and intermediary status

• DCZ is an interactive computer service and hosting intermediary. Member content is created by members, not by DCZ; DCZ does not endorse, verify or adopt it and is not its publisher or speaker, and it relies on 47 U.S.C. § 230 and equivalent protections wherever they apply.
• You must hold every permission, licence and consent needed for content you upload, including the written consent of every person who appears in it, and you must be able to produce evidence of it on request. DCZ may remove content, suspend uploads, or ask for proof at any time.
• The licence you grant in section 4 is what lets DCZ host, review, display and deliver your content. DCZ has the right, but no duty, to monitor, review, refuse, restrict or remove any content or account, and is not liable for acting or for not acting.
• Content remains your responsibility. Claims by other members or third parties about content you uploaded are yours to answer and are covered by your indemnity in section 13.

17A.4 Takedown notices and counter-notices

• Copyright. Send notices under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to [email protected] as described in section 14 and the DMCA Policy. A member whose content is removed may send a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g); we may restore the material unless the complainant files a court action within the statutory period. Repeat infringers are terminated.
• Non-consensual or private images, illegal content and privacy complaints. Anyone, including a non-member, may ask us to remove an image or content that shows them without their consent, or that is unlawful, by emailing [email protected] with the location of the content and, where possible, a description of the problem. We remove such content promptly, usually within 48 hours of a valid notice and sooner for anything serious, and may act on a notice before verifying it.
• Knowingly sending a false or bad-faith notice or counter-notice is a breach of these Terms and may expose the sender to liability, including under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

17A.5 Fees, refunds and chargebacks

• No refund, credit, compensation or damages is payable if the Platform, any feature, or DCZ Media Holdings LLC is discontinued, sold, suspended, unavailable, insolvent or wound up for any reason (see section 11.3). This applies equally to Lifetime memberships.
• Purchases made through an app store are subject to that store's refund rules, which DCZ does not control.
• Nothing in this section limits a statutory right to a refund that cannot lawfully be excluded.

17A.6 Governing law, exclusive venue and jurisdiction

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Platform, are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to section 16.2 (arbitration) and section 16.4 (members outside the United States), the state and federal courts located in Wyoming have exclusive jurisdiction, and you and DCZ consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum. Nothing prevents DCZ from seeking injunctive or other equitable relief, or enforcing an award, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

17A.7 Claims against DCZ and its people; legal costs

• Any claim must be brought only against DCZ Media Holdings LLC. To the fullest extent permitted by law you agree not to bring any claim against its members, managers, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates or agents personally for acts in connection with the Platform; each of them may rely on these Terms as a third-party beneficiary.
• If you bring a claim, demand, chargeback or proceeding against DCZ or any of those persons that is dismissed, withdrawn, or decided against you, or that is brought in breach of the dispute-resolution, time-limit or class-waiver provisions of section 16, you will pay the reasonable legal fees and costs they incur, in addition to any other remedy.
• Each party otherwise bears its own costs, and section 16.5 (prevailing party) also applies. For consumers, these cost provisions apply only as far as your country's law permits.

17A.8 Assumption of risk and no reliance on verification

Badges such as “verified” or “Genuine” show only that a member completed the stated checks. They are not a background check, an endorsement, or a guarantee of identity, character, intent, safety, relationship status or legality. You use the Platform, and meet or deal with anyone you meet through it, at your own risk, you are solely responsible for your own safety and decisions, and you release DCZ from claims arising out of dealings between members (see section 9). DCZ does not provide legal, medical, financial or relationship advice.

17A.9 Electronic agreement and notices

By registering, clicking to accept, or using the Platform you sign these Terms electronically and agree that electronic records of your acceptance, consent, age checks and activity are valid evidence. DCZ may give you notices by email, in-app message or by posting on the Platform; notices to DCZ must be sent to [email protected].

17A.10 General protections

• Feedback. Ideas and suggestions you give us may be used by DCZ freely and without payment or credit.
• Equitable relief. Breach of sections 3, 4 or 17A.1 may cause harm that damages cannot repair; DCZ may seek injunctive relief without posting a bond.
• No agency. Nothing creates a partnership, employment, agency or fiduciary relationship between you and DCZ.
• Assignment. DCZ may assign or transfer these Terms and your account data to an affiliate or a successor to the business; you may not assign them.
• Survival. Sections 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 17A survive termination or expiry of your account.
• Severability and waiver. If any provision is unenforceable it is modified to the minimum extent needed and the rest remains in force. A failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it.
• Language and interpretation. Headings are for convenience only. The English version controls.

18. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give notice by email or in the app before they take effect, and update the date at the top of this page. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept a change, you may close your account.

19. Definitions

• “Platform” — the DCZ websites, applications and services operated by DCZ Media Holdings LLC.
• “DCZ” — DCZ Media Holdings LLC.
• “DCZ Parties” — as defined at § 9.1.
• “Member” — any person holding an account, whether free, paid or lifetime.
• “Lifetime” — a membership that lasts for the operational lifetime of the Platform under its current ownership, not the lifetime of the member; non-transferable, non-refundable and ending on discontinuation or termination (section 11.4).
• “Content” — any image, video, audio, text, profile field, message or other material submitted to, transmitted through or stored on the Platform.
• “Restricted Content” — Content that is suitable only for adults, which a member may share only within age-restricted, members-only areas of the Platform and only with verified members who have chosen to view it. It is never shown on public pages.
• “Interactive video session” — a one-to-one video call, group video room, livestream or verification session.
• “Business account” — an account held by a venue, event host or business under § 15.3.

20. Contact

DCZ Media Holdings LLC
30 N Gould St Ste N
Sheridan, WY 82801, United States
Email: [email protected]