By downloading, installing, accessing, or using the Glimpzed application ("App"), you ("User," "you," "your") agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the App. These Terms form a legally binding agreement between you and Glimpzed ("Glimpzed," "we," "us," "our"). You acknowledge that you have read, understood, and consent to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Adults only. You must be at least 18 years of age to use Glimpzed. By creating an account, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older, and that the date of birth you provide is truthful, accurate, and complete.
Willful misrepresentation of age. Providing false date-of-birth information at signup constitutes fraud. If you access Glimpzed while under 18 by misrepresenting your age, you (and where applicable, your parent or legal guardian) agree to indemnify and hold harmless Glimpzed, its officers, employees, and agents from any claim, damage, loss, or expense — including reasonable attorneys' fees — arising from or related to that misrepresentation or any resulting use of the Service. This includes, without limitation, harm arising from Safe Meet check-ins, in-person event attendance, group participation, Glimpse selfies, direct messaging with other users, or any other Service feature you accessed as a result of the misrepresentation.
Waiver of claims. You further waive any claim against Glimpzed for any harm to yourself arising from your use of the Service while under 18 by way of misrepresentation, to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Enforcement. We reserve the right to terminate the account of any user determined to be under 18 without prior notice, delete their account data, and refer the matter to law enforcement where appropriate. We may require identity or age verification at any time, including via third-party identity-verification services. The indemnification, waiver, and survival provisions of these Terms apply notwithstanding termination.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use. We are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to safeguard your credentials.
You agree to use Glimpzed only for lawful purposes and in accordance with all applicable laws. You must not:
Glimpzed is a location-based social application. Location data shared within the App is intended solely for facilitating genuine social connections among consenting adults. Any use of location data — or any other App feature — to stalk, follow, surveil, or harass another user is strictly prohibited and may result in immediate account termination and reporting to law enforcement.
The App uses your device's GPS and location services to facilitate proximity-based features. Location data is used only within the App for matching purposes and is never shared with other users as raw coordinates. You may disable location services through your device settings, though this will materially limit App functionality. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
Connections ("matches") made through Glimpzed are time-limited by design and expire after 24 hours unless extended. We are not responsible for any loss of connection data or messaging history upon expiry.
All content you post or share through Glimpzed must comply with our Community Guidelines. Prohibited content includes but is not limited to nudity, sexually explicit material, violent imagery, hate speech, content infringing third-party intellectual property rights, and spam. We reserve the right to remove content and/or suspend accounts in our sole discretion.
GLIMPZED DOES NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE IDENTITY OF ANY USER. While optional verification badges are offered, those badges do not constitute a guarantee of any user's identity, age, intentions, criminal history, or any other characteristic. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND ASSUME ALL RISK ARISING FROM YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS, both on the App and in any in-person meeting. Glimpzed is not responsible for the conduct of any user, on or off the App. You agree to exercise independent judgment and reasonable caution in all interactions.
Optional profile and photo verification features are provided to enhance community trust. Verification does not guarantee the accuracy of any user's information, nor does it constitute our endorsement of any user. Always exercise your own judgment.
The Safe Meet feature is provided as a SAFETY AID ONLY. It is NOT a substitute for personal safety precautions, professional security, or law enforcement. Safe Meet may fail to deliver notifications due to network outages, device unavailability, GPS inaccuracy, or other technical conditions outside our control. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY INCIDENT, INJURY, OR LOSS — INCLUDING DEATH — ARISING FROM ANY IN-PERSON MEETING BETWEEN USERS, WHETHER OR NOT SAFE MEET WAS ACTIVATED.
How Safe Meet Shares Data. When you activate Safe Meet, the App composes a message on your behalf and hands it to your device's native SMS application or system share sheet for delivery to the Trusted Contact you select. You must press send in your messaging app for any message to leave your device. The routine Safe Meet share includes only your first name, the matched user's first name only, the matched user's age range (e.g. "Mid 20s" — not their exact age), the matched user's gender, and your intended check-in time. NO photos, NO bio, NO last name, NO exact location, and NO contact details of the matched user are included in the routine Safe Meet share. If you modify or cancel an active Safe Meet, the App will offer to send a short follow-up update to the same Trusted Contact; you remain free to skip these.
Auto-Cleanup. Active Safe Meet records are automatically removed when you mark yourself safe, cancel, or 24 hours after the planned check-in time has passed, whichever comes first.
By creating an account and using the App, you give the following standing consents, each of which you acknowledge is a material consideration for the safety-aid features described in Sections 11 and 12:
(a) Routine Safe Meet share. You consent that any other Glimpzed user with whom you are matched may activate Safe Meet for an in-person meeting with you and, in doing so, may share the following limited information about you with their nominated Trusted Contact via SMS or system share sheet: your first name, your age range, and your gender. No other profile information is included in the routine Safe Meet share.
(b) Emergency SOS during a Safe Meet — identification. You further consent that, if a matched user activates Emergency SOS while a Safe Meet with you is active, the SOS message they compose may additionally include your first name and your permanent Glimpzed user ID (an opaque identifier). This emergency-only escalation is intended to provide a Trusted Contact, or law enforcement to whom the Trusted Contact passes the information, with the minimum identifying reference needed to investigate a safety incident.
(c) Emergency SOS during a Safe Meet — photo share. You further consent that, after the SOS SMS app is opened, the activating user may be offered an explicit opt-in prompt to share your profile photo with their Trusted Contact via the device's system share sheet. This is offered only during an active Safe Meet and only when SOS has been activated. Once your photo has been shared in this manner it leaves Glimpzed's control and is subject to the privacy practices of the destination application chosen by the activating user.
(d) You acknowledge that none of the data sharing described in this Section 11A is visible to you in the App at the time it occurs (because it is the other user's safety flow), and that the consent given here is the legal basis for that sharing. You may withdraw this consent only by deleting your Glimpzed account in accordance with Section 19; you cannot selectively opt out of these safety pathways while remaining a user of the App.
Purpose limitation. Glimpzed sends SMS messages via our SMS provider (Twilio Inc.) solely for two safety-critical purposes: (i) Emergency SOS alerts and (ii) Safe Meet overdue check-in alerts. Glimpzed does not send marketing, promotional, subscription, recurring, transactional, or bulk SMS of any kind.
How consent is captured. When you add a Trusted Contact inside the App, you must affirmatively tick an unchecked-by-default consent checkbox representing that you have that contact's permission to receive safety-related SMS from Glimpzed on your behalf. The "Save" button is disabled until the checkbox is ticked. A public description of this consent flow and screenshots of the in-app dialog are hosted at glimpzed.app/sms-consent.
Mobile phone number non-sharing. Glimpzed does not share, sell, rent, lease, disclose, or transfer mobile phone numbers or the messaging consent associated with them to any third party or affiliate for that third party's or affiliate's marketing or promotional purposes. Phone numbers are transmitted to Twilio only to the extent required to deliver a specific SMS message that you or your Glimpzed account has authorized, and are processed by Twilio under Twilio's privacy policy and its role as our data processor. Numbers may be shared with law enforcement in response to a lawful process or a good-faith response to a credible imminent-harm report.
Message frequency. Message frequency is entirely event-driven and depends on the account holder's use of the safety features. A typical Trusted Contact receives fewer than 5 messages per year. During an active SOS or Safe Meet incident, a Trusted Contact may receive 1–3 messages in a short window.
Message and data rates may apply. Standard message and data rates from the recipient's mobile carrier may apply to any SMS received from Glimpzed. Glimpzed does not charge for SMS delivery.
Opt-out. Trusted Contacts may opt out of receiving Glimpzed SMS at any time by replying STOP, STOPALL, UNSUBSCRIBE, CANCEL, END, or QUIT to any Glimpzed message. Opt-out is honored immediately by our SMS provider — no further messages will be sent to that number by Glimpzed from any account until they opt back in by replying START. Recipients seeking help may reply HELP or INFO to receive an automated informational response, or email support@glimpzed.app.
THE EMERGENCY SOS FEATURE IS NOT AN EMERGENCY DISPATCH SERVICE. It does not contact police, fire, paramedics, or any other emergency responder. It is a convenience feature that opens your device's default SMS application with a pre-filled message to a trusted contact you have previously designated. You must press send in your SMS app for the message to leave your device.
IN ANY ACTUAL EMERGENCY YOU MUST CONTACT 911 (or your local emergency number) DIRECTLY. Glimpzed does not guarantee that SOS messages will be delivered, received, or acted upon. SOS may fail due to — among other causes — lack of cellular signal, GPS unavailability, your trusted contact's phone being off or unreachable, your trusted contact failing to read or respond, carrier delays, OS-level restrictions, or app or device crashes.
BY USING THE APP YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE SOS FEATURE IS PROVIDED ON A BEST-EFFORTS BASIS, IS NOT A LIFE-SAFETY SYSTEM, AND THAT YOUR RELIANCE ON IT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY INJURY, LOSS, OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM THE NON-DELIVERY, DELAYED DELIVERY, OR FAILURE OF THIS FEATURE.
SOS During a Safe Meet — Limited Escalation. If you activate Emergency SOS while a Safe Meet is active, the App will add the matched user's first name and Glimpzed user ID to the SMS body composed for your Trusted Contact, and after the SMS app is opened will OFFER (you must explicitly tap "Share photo") to share the matched user's profile photo with your Trusted Contact via your device's system share sheet. This escalation is enabled by the standing consent given by every Glimpzed user under Section 11A. No other matched-user data is ever included in an SOS composed by you.
Optional Premium features may be purchased via in-app purchase through your platform app store (Apple App Store or Google Play). Subscription pricing, billing intervals, auto-renewal behavior, and cancellation procedures are governed by the terms presented at purchase and by the applicable app store. Refund requests are handled through your app store provider in accordance with their refund policies.
The App and its original content are owned by Glimpzed and protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. You retain ownership of content you post, but grant Glimpzed a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, display, and distribute such content for the purpose of operating and improving the App.
If you believe content on the App infringes your copyright, send a DMCA-compliant notice to dmca@glimpzed.app including: (a) identification of the copyrighted work; (b) identification of the allegedly infringing material; (c) your contact information; (d) a good-faith statement that the use is not authorized; (e) a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and you are authorized to act; (f) your physical or electronic signature.
THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND TITLE.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT (i) THE APP WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) ANY FEATURE — INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION PULSE, BEACON, ORBIT, SAFE MEET, EMERGENCY SOS, ANONYMOUS / QUIET / INCOGNITO MODES, KNOCKS, MATCHES, OR EVENTS — WILL FUNCTION AS DESCRIBED IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, (iv) ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE APP WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, OR (v) DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED.
YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR USE OF THE APP IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL GLIMPZED, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM (i) YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE APP; (ii) ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE APP, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS; (iii) ANY CONTENT OBTAINED FROM THE APP; OR (iv) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE, OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY EXCEED THE GREATER OF (a) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (b) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Glimpzed and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, and suppliers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to (i) your violation of these Terms; (ii) your use or misuse of the App; (iii) your interaction with any other user, whether on or off the App, including but not limited to any in-person meeting; (iv) your violation of any third-party right, including any intellectual property or privacy right; or (v) any content you submit, post, transmit, or otherwise make available through the App.
We shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performance resulting from causes beyond our reasonable control, including without limitation acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, labor disputes, network or telecommunications failures (including failures of third-party platforms we depend on), pandemic, supply-chain disruption, or third-party service outages.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time, for any reason, including but not limited to violation of these Terms, suspected illegal activity, or risk to other users. You may delete your account at any time from Settings. Upon termination, your right to use the App ceases immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 9, 11, 11A, 12, 14–18, 19A, 20–24) shall survive.
You acknowledge and agree that we record a minimal structured audit log of actions you take in the App — including but not limited to starting / cancelling / marking-safe a Safe Meet, activating Emergency SOS, sending or accepting knocks, creating matches, sending Glimpses, and toggling privacy or visibility modes. Each entry captures the action type, the time, the opaque Glimpzed user ID of any other party involved, and a small set of non-identifying parameters. WE DO NOT LOG MESSAGE CONTENT, PHOTOS, OR GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES IN THIS AUDIT LOG.
Purpose. The audit log exists for troubleshooting, internal abuse-response, and to enable lawful responses to law-enforcement process. We rely on legitimate-interest grounds for this retention, including (where applicable) the safety-investigation carve-outs under GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) and 17(3)(b) and analogous provisions in other jurisdictions.
Retention. Audit log entries are retained for two (2) years from the time of the action and are then eligible for automated deletion. Entries tied to an unresolved safety report or open legal hold may be retained longer where required by applicable law. You may request deletion of your audit log by contacting privacy@glimpzed.app; we may decline where retention is required for safety or law-enforcement reasons, but we will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law. See the Privacy Policy for the full description of what is logged.
When you delete your account, all profile information, photos, messages, connections, knocks, beacons, and activity history are removed from our active systems. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that we may retain indefinitely a minimal "deletion record" containing only: (a) the permanent Glimpzed user ID issued to your account by our authentication provider — an opaque identifier that is never re-assigned to another user; (b) the time of deletion; (c) the cryptographic hash (SHA-256, one-way) of your lowercased email address; (d) cryptographic hashes (SHA-256) of each profile photo that was on file at the time of deletion; (e) the sign-in method you used; and (f) a snapshot of your first name, age range, and gender. THE DELETION RECORD CANNOT BE REVERSED TO RECONSTRUCT YOUR EMAIL, YOUR PHOTOS, YOUR FULL NAME, OR ANY OTHER PERSONAL DATA.
Purpose. The retained deletion record exists for the sole purpose of investigating safety incidents: allowing law enforcement, with appropriate legal process, to confirm whether a user with a given Glimpzed ID existed and whether a photo or email in their possession matches material that this account once had on file. We rely on legitimate-interest grounds (and, where applicable, applicable safety-investigation carve-outs under GDPR Art. 17(3)(b) and CCPA § 1798.105(d)) for this retention.
Your Rights. You may request additional deletion of this audit record by contacting privacy@glimpzed.app. We may decline where retention is required by applicable safety, law-enforcement, or legal-hold obligations, but in any case we will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law.
You and Glimpzed agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the App shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in small-claims court if your claims qualify. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this section.
YOU AND GLIMPZED AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Further, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not otherwise preside over any form of representative proceeding.
You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending written notice to legal@glimpzed.app within 30 days of first agreeing to these Terms.
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida and the federal laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. To the extent any dispute is not subject to mandatory arbitration under Section 20, you and Glimpzed agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Broward County, Florida.
If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be severed and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect. A provision held unenforceable shall be reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its intent.
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, constitute the entire agreement between you and Glimpzed concerning the App and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications, whether oral or written. No waiver of any term shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver.
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by posting a notice in the App and by prompting you to re-accept the updated Terms before continued use. Your continued use after re-acceptance constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. Each version of these Terms is identified by the version stamp at the top of this document.
If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at:
Glimpzed
legal@glimpzed.app
dmca@glimpzed.app (DMCA notices only)