Terms of service

You must be 18 or older, able to enter a binding agreement, and not barred from using a service like this under the laws that apply to you. You may not use My Beloved if you are required to register as a sex offender anywhere, or have ever been convicted of a sexual offence or of a violent felony (or a crime of the same seriousness where you live). You may hold one account, for yourself, with your own photos and your real birth details. We may suspend or close an account that does not meet these conditions.

My Beloved does not conduct criminal background checks on its members. We do not check anyone's criminal record or identity documents, and we cannot promise who someone is. The safety page says how to meet well.

You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your password to yourself. Tell us through the contact page if you think someone else has used it. You can pause your profile, change your details or delete your account at any time from Settings; deletion is immediate and permanent.

My Beloved computes astrological, Human Design and Hexagram Keys charts from the birth details you give us, scores compatibility between charts, and introduces you to other members. These systems are lenses for reflection. They are not a science, not a prediction and not advice of any kind, and we make no promise that you will match with, meet, or form any relationship with anyone. Text generated for your charts and matches is produced by software from chart facts and first names; read it as an invitation to look, not as a statement about a person. Our Human Design readings are our own work; My Beloved is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jovian Archive.

The free plan is described on the pricing page. Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription at the price shown when you subscribe, charged at the start of each period through Stripe when bought on the web, or through the App Store or Google Play when bought in an app. The standard prices are the same on the web and in the apps. A first subscription starts with a free trial of the length shown when you subscribe: your payment details are taken at the start, and the first charge is made when the trial ends unless you cancel before then. It renews automatically until you cancel. Cancelling ends your membership at the close of the trial or the period you have paid for; you keep Premium until then and are not charged again. Prices may change; we tell you before a change affects a renewal. Refunds for web purchases are considered case by case through the contact page; purchases in an app store follow that store's rules. When you delete your account we cancel a subscription bought on the web or through Google Play, so it does not renew (the period already paid for is not refunded); a subscription bought through the App Store can only be cancelled by you, in your Apple account, and we tell you how.

Founding members: the first 200 members to pay for Premium keep the founding price, $24.99 a month or $174.50 a year ($174.99 through the App Store, Apple's nearest price), for as long as that subscription continues, including a switch between the monthly and yearly founding plans. A place is held while a founding checkout is open and through its free trial, and becomes yours with the first payment; a trial that ends unpaid frees it. If your founding subscription ends, a later subscription is at the standard price. A first founding subscription starts with 30 days free, or one month when bought through the App Store. One place per person, and the founding price does not combine with other offers.

Your photos, prompts, bio and messages stay yours. You give us permission to store, resize and show them to other members as the service requires, and to nobody else. You confirm that you have the right to share what you upload and that it shows you. We may remove content that breaks the community guidelines.

If you believe something on My Beloved infringes your copyright, write to our designated agent, registered with the United States Copyright Office: Copyright Agent, Internect LLC, 114 S Park Ln, Black Mountain, NC 28711, United States, +1 501 951 5696, [email protected]. Send: the work you say is infringed; where the material is on My Beloved; your name, address, phone number and email; a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not permitted by the copyright owner, their agent or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them; and your physical or electronic signature. We remove or disable material a proper notice describes, tell the member who posted it, and close the accounts of repeat infringers. A member who believes material was removed by mistake may send a counter-notice to the same address with the same details and a statement under penalty of perjury to that effect, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for their address (or for ours, if outside the United States); we may then restore the material after ten business days unless the complainant tells us they have gone to court.

The community guidelines are part of these terms. In short: be yourself, respect consent, harass no one, sell nothing, keep other people's details private, never post or share an intimate image of anyone without their consent, and never involve anyone under 18. Use My Beloved as a person, through the website and the apps: no bots, scrapers or automated access, no working around the free plan's limits, and no copying of other members' photos or words off the service. We may warn, restrict or remove an account for a breach, and we may report unlawful conduct to the authorities.

We work to keep My Beloved available, accurate and secure, and we do not guarantee that it will always be. To the fullest extent the law allows, My Beloved is provided as it is, without warranties, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for anything that happens between members on or off the service. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits rights that the law gives you and does not let us restrict.

You can end it by deleting your account. We can end it, or suspend your access, for a breach of these terms, for conduct that puts other members at risk, or where the law requires. Sections 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 survive.

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the State of North Carolina, where Internect LLC is organised, without regard to its rules on conflicts of law.

Talking first. Before either of us starts any legal proceeding, we try to settle the matter ourselves. Write to us at [email protected] or at the address in section 11, saying what happened and what you want; we write to the email on your account. If it is not settled within 60 days of that notice, either of us may go on to arbitration, or to court where this section allows it.

Arbitration. Any dispute between you and Internect LLC about My Beloved or these terms that is not settled is decided by binding arbitration before a single arbitrator under the Consumer Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association, not in court, and the Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. The arbitrator applies these terms and the law, can award an individual party anything a court could, and decides any question about whether this section applies, except that only a court may decide whether a class or group proceeding is allowed. The arbitration takes place in North Carolina, or by phone or video, or, for a claim of $10,000 or less, on written submissions if you choose. We pay the filing and arbitrator fees beyond what a court would have charged you to file, unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous; each side pays its own lawyers unless the law or the arbitrator decides otherwise.

One at a time. You and we each bring claims only as an individual, not as a plaintiff or member of a class, group or representative proceeding, and the arbitrator may not join one person's claims with another's or award relief for anyone but the individual party. If this paragraph is found unenforceable for a claim, that claim goes to court and everything else stays in arbitration. If 25 or more claims raising the same issues are filed by or with the help of the same lawyers, the Association's rules for mass arbitrations apply: ten proceed first and the rest wait for their outcome while a settlement is tried, with any time limit on the waiting claims paused meanwhile.

What stays open. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court, ask a court to stop infringement or misuse of the service, or report anything to a government agency. If you bring a claim of sexual assault or sexual harassment, you may choose court instead of arbitration, as United States law provides. Where a dispute goes to court under this section, it is brought in the state or federal courts in North Carolina, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction, unless the law where you live gives you the right to something else.

Opting out. You may opt out of arbitration and of the one-at-a-time rule within 30 days of creating your account by writing to [email protected] from the email on your account and saying so; the rest of these terms still apply to you. A change we make to this section does not apply to a dispute you have already given us notice of.

Every member has an invite link and code. When someone makes a profile through yours, you earn 40% of what we receive from each payment they make, for as long as they keep paying and both of you keep your accounts. What we receive is the price they paid less the payment fees: Stripe's on the web; in the apps, what the app store keeps (its commission and any tax it collects) and our subscription platform's 1%. Each payment earns at the rate in force when it is made; we may change the rate for later payments, and we will say so here and in Settings first.

Each share waits 14 days in case the payment is refunded. A refund or chargeback takes its share back, even after it was paid out, so your balance can go below zero until later earnings cover it. Payouts go to your bank through a Stripe account opened in your name under Stripe's terms for such accounts; Stripe checks who you are and takes your bank and tax details, and you can ask for a payout once a week once $25 is ready. Payouts are available to United States bank accounts for now. Any tax on what you earn is yours to pay; if what you earn in a year reaches the threshold the IRS sets, we file a Form 1099 with the IRS and your state through Stripe, using the tax details you gave Stripe. You see how many people joined and pay through your link and what you earned, never who they are.

Invites must be honest: no inviting yourself or a second account, no spam, no paid ads that bid on our name, no speaking for My Beloved, and no other company's trademarks to describe it. Say that you earn from the recommendation wherever you share it, as the law requires (in the United States, the FTC's rules on endorsements). We may hold or cancel earnings that come from breaking these rules and close payouts for an account that does. Earnings not yet paid out end with your account.

Someone who shares My Beloved without wanting a profile of their own can have a partner account, made by our team, which holds only their link, earnings and payouts; these terms apply to it in the same way. A payment made with the same card as the inviter's own, or as another member they invited, waits for our team to check it before it counts.

The App Store and Google Play versions of My Beloved are also subject to those stores' terms, and a purchase made in a store follows the store's rules for billing, cancellation and refunds. For the iPhone and iPad app, Apple asks us to say the following, and we do. This agreement is between you and Internect LLC, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Your licence to the app is limited to using it on Apple devices that you own or control, as the App Store's usage rules allow, including through Family Sharing. Internect LLC alone is responsible for maintaining and supporting the app; Apple has no obligation to. If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies to it, you may tell Apple and Apple will refund what you paid for the app, and Apple has no other warranty obligation; anything else that follows from such a failure is between you and Internect LLC. Internect LLC, not Apple, answers any claim about the app or your use of it, including product liability, consumer protection, legal and regulatory compliance, and any claim that the app infringes someone's intellectual property. You confirm that you are not in a country under a United States government embargo or designated by it as supporting terrorism, and that you are not on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You keep to any third-party terms that apply when you use the app, such as your wireless carrier's. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement and may enforce it against you. Questions, complaints and claims about the app go to Internect LLC, 114 S Park Ln, Black Mountain, NC 28711, United States, through the contact page or [email protected].

We may update these terms. When a change matters, we tell you inside the app or by email before it takes effect; continuing to use My Beloved after that is your agreement to the new terms. Questions go through the contact page or to [email protected].