Terms of Service

DivorceAve is operated by Emooze, LLC (Emooze), mailing address United States (mailing address pending entity formation). "We," "us," and "DivorceAve" refer to Emooze and its affiliates. These Terms incorporate by reference our Community Guidelines, Safety Policy, Refund Policy, Cookie Notice, and Privacy Policy.

• You must be 18 years old or older.
• You must be a US resident.
• You must not be on any US-government sanctioned-persons list.
• You must not have been previously banned from DivorceAve.

You verify your account using your US mobile phone number. Keep your phone secure — anyone with access to your number can sign in. Notify us immediately at info@divorceave.com if your account is compromised. One account per person.

We may verify your age, identity, or eligibility at any time using documented methods including SMS verification, IP-geolocation checks, and (if required) third-party identity verification.

DivorceAve offers a free trial of 60 days followed by a paid subscription at $9.99 per month.

Most states — automatic renewal. If you live outside California, New York, and Illinois, your subscription renews automatically every month at $9.99 until you cancel. We will remind you by SMS approximately 5 days before your first paid charge. You may cancel anytime from Settings → Membership with no further charge; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.

California, New York, and Illinois — no automatic renewal. If you indicate that you live in California, New York, or Illinois, your subscription does not renew automatically. You are charged for one month at a time and must check out again to continue.

3-day cooling-off period. You may cancel your subscription within 3 business days of your first paid charge for a full refund, as required by NY GBL §394-c, IL Dating Referral Services Act (815 ILCS 615), and CA Civ. Code §1694. See our Refund Policy for the cancellation procedure.

DivorceAve does not conduct criminal background checks on members. Members are responsible for their own safety. Always meet in public, share your location with someone you trust, and never send money or share financial information.

Full rules are in our Community Guidelines. You agree NOT to:

• Lie about your age, identity, photos, or location.
• Upload photos that are not of you, that are AI-generated, that show only pets/scenery/memes, or that depict another identifiable person without their consent.
• Harass, threaten, defame, stalk, or sexually harass anyone.
• Post sexually explicit content, child sexual abuse material, non-consensual intimate imagery, or content that depicts violence or self-harm.
• Solicit money, gift cards, cryptocurrency, or any payment from other members; commit fraud or run schemes.
• Impersonate any person or entity, including DivorceAve staff or law enforcement.
• Promote or sell goods or services to other members.
• Scrape, reverse-engineer, or otherwise interfere with the service or attempt to access non-public areas.
• Use DivorceAve for any unlawful purpose.

Violations may result in warnings, content removal, contact restrictions, suspension, or permanent ban, with loss of any remaining paid subscription period in cases involving safety risk or material policy violations.

We reserve the right to:

• Review reports using human moderators and automated signals.
• Issue warnings, restrict access to features, suspend, or terminate accounts for violations of these Terms.
• Remove or refuse to display any content for any reason.
• Preserve evidence of policy violations for safety and legal purposes.
• Cooperate with law enforcement in response to lawful process.

We do not guarantee that every report will be reviewed, or that we will inform you of moderation outcomes affecting other members. Banned members may submit a written appeal to info@divorceave.com. We review appeals when feasible but are not obligated to reinstate accounts.

Notice of previously banned members (NY). Where permitted by NY General Business Law and the laws of other states, we may notify you that a member you have matched, messaged, or interacted with was previously banned from DivorceAve for violating our community standards. Such notices are factual, limited, and do not disclose unnecessary disciplinary detail. We provide this notice as a safety measure; the absence of a notice is not a representation that any member is safe to meet.

You retain ownership of your content (photos, bio, messages, profile fields). You grant DivorceAve a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt for display, transmit, and otherwise use your content as necessary to operate the service — including showing your profile to other members, delivering your messages, backing up our systems, and performing moderation. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except where we must retain it for legal, safety, or fraud-prevention reasons described in the Privacy Policy.

We do not use your messages or photos to train machine-learning models or build advertising profiles.

You represent that you own or have the rights to all content you upload, including the right to grant the license above. You consent to the use of your content for moderation, including automated screening before publication.

We review every uploaded photo before it appears publicly. We may reject photos that violate community standards. Rejected photos are deleted from our storage within 7 days. We do not pre-screen messages but may review them in response to reports or automated alerts.

Stealth mode hides your profile from Discovery search results while keeping you visible to anyone you have already exchanged messages with. Use Settings to enable, disable, or further restrict your visibility. Additional privacy controls are described in our Privacy Policy.

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the size and complexity of our business and the sensitivity of the data we hold, including measures aligned with NY GBL §899-bb (SHIELD Act). Full details are in §11 of our Privacy Policy.

The Service — including all software, source code, designs, text, graphics, user-interface elements, compilations, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and logos other than your own User Content — is owned by or licensed to Emooze and is protected by US and international intellectual-property laws. Except for the limited, revocable right to access and use the Service for its intended purposes in accordance with these Terms, no right, title, or interest in or to the Service is granted to you. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse-engineer, decompile, or create derivative works of the Service.

The Service depends on third-party providers — currently Stripe (payments), Twilio (SMS verification), Vercel (hosting and blob storage), our chosen photo-moderation vendor, and our chosen age-verification vendor where used. We do not control these services. Your use of any third-party service may be governed by that provider's separate terms and privacy policy, summarized in §6 of our Privacy Policy.

You may delete your account at any time from Settings. We may suspend or terminate your account for material violations of these Terms or applicable law. On termination, your access ends and your subscription is set to cancel at period end. We do not refund the unused portion of a paid period when termination is for cause.

DivorceAve is provided "as is" and "as available." We do not guarantee that you will meet anyone, form a relationship, or have any particular experience. We do not screen members for criminal history, marital status, sexually transmitted infection status, or any other characteristic. The accuracy of profiles is the responsibility of each member.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, DivorceAve and its affiliates are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenues, data, or goodwill. Our total cumulative liability for any claim relating to the service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) US $100. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

Any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and DivorceAve will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS in New York County, New York, not in court. You and DivorceAve waive the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in a class, collective, or representative action.

Carve-outs. This Section 15 does not apply to:

• Individual claims that qualify for resolution in small-claims court within the jurisdiction's monetary limit.
• Requests for temporary or preliminary injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to stop misuse of our intellectual property or violations of these Terms pending arbitration.

Arbitration will be conducted under the JAMS consumer arbitration rules in effect at the time the demand is filed. The arbitrator may award the same individual damages and relief a court could award. The arbitrator has no authority to conduct class or representative proceedings. If any portion of this class-action waiver is found unenforceable, it will be severed and the dispute will proceed in court, but the rest of this Section 15 remains in effect.

You may opt out of Section 15 by emailing info@divorceave.com within 30 days of creating your account, with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" and including your phone number on file. Opting out will not affect any other portion of these Terms.

You agree to indemnify and hold DivorceAve harmless against any claim arising from (a) your use of the service in violation of these Terms, (b) your content, (c) your interactions with other members, or (d) your violation of any law or third-party right.

These Terms are governed by the laws of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. To the extent any dispute is not subject to arbitration, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in New York County, New York.

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced in-app and by SMS at least 30 days before they take effect. Your continued use of DivorceAve after that date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

By using the Service, you consent to receive communications from Emooze electronically — including by SMS, in-app message, push notification, and any optional email you provide. You agree that all notices, disclosures, agreements, and other communications we provide electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Standard message and data rates may apply to SMS. You may opt out of non-essential SMS by replying STOP. Critical service messages (verification codes, security alerts, billing notices, legally required disclosures) may continue regardless.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force to the fullest extent permitted by law, and the invalid provision will be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of that provision or of any other provision.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. Emooze may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing transaction, corporate reorganization, or sale of assets.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the documents incorporated by reference in §1, constitute the entire agreement between you and Emooze regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements on the subject.

Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

Emooze, LLC
United States (mailing address pending entity formation)
info@divorceave.com