Terms of Service

Who can use here

• You must be 18 or older.
• You verify your identity once (a government ID and a selfie, handled by our provider Didit) before you can be matched with anyone. One real person, one account.
• You give us accurate information about yourself and keep it that way.

What here is (and isn't)

here introduces a small group, usually two people and at most four, who have each said they are free right now, and suggests a public place to meet. That’s it. We are not the host, we are not present, and we don’t supervise. The people you meet are other members, not our staff. Use the same judgement you would meeting anyone new: meet in the public place suggested, tell a friend where you’re going, and trust your instincts.

How to behave

here works because people are decent. So:

• Be respectful and inclusive. No harassment, hate, threats, or discrimination.
• here is for friendship, not dating. Don’t use it to hit on people or make anyone uncomfortable.
• Only say yes to a meet you intend to turn up to. If something changes, cancel in the app straight away so the other person is not left waiting.
• Only say you are available when you actually are, and only from where you actually are. here runs in Basel and Zürich, and we check your device location when you say you are free, so this is enforced rather than trusted.
• Show up as yourself. No impersonation, no fake profiles, no sharing your account.
• Your photo must be a recent, real one of you, nothing offensive and never someone else. It exists so the person you are meeting can recognise you, and it is shown to them with the proposal, before either of you decides. Nobody else ever sees it: there is no directory and no way to look anyone up. We review photos and can remove any that break this.
• No illegal activity, and nothing that puts other members at risk.

If someone breaks these rules, report them in the app. We read every report and can warn, suspend, or permanently remove accounts.

Your safety, and your own risk

Meeting new people in real life carries normal real-world risk. Identity verification and our rules reduce it, but they can’t remove it. You take part in meets of your own free will and at your own risk. Anything you spend while you are there is between you and the venue.

What the ID check tells you, and what it does not. It tells you the person opposite is a real person, over 18, holding a real document whose face is theirs. It tells you nothing about how they behave. We do not check criminal records, court files or any register of offenders, and as a private company in Switzerland we could not get at most of them if we wanted to. Somebody can pass the check and still be somebody you would rather not have met. That is why the meeting point is public, why you can leave whenever you want and never owe anyone an explanation, and why we ask you to report anything that felt wrong, even if you are not sure.

What we are responsible for, and what we are not

What we do not promise. here is provided as it is. We do not promise it will always be up, that a proposal will arrive, that anybody will say yes, that the person who said yes will turn up, or that the map and the walking estimate are right. It is a small service run by one person, and parts of it depend on companies we do not control. If it is down, or nobody is around, that is a disappointing evening and not something we owe you money for.

What we are not answerable for. What other members say and do, at a meet or anywhere else, and what happens at a meeting place we suggested, which is a public venue we neither own nor run. We introduce people and pick a spot. Nobody from here is there.

Where we do limit what we owe. As far as Swiss law lets us: not for indirect or knock-on loss, not for lost earnings or a missed opportunity, and where the law allows a cap, capped at what you have paid us in the twelve months before, which today is nothing, because here is free. If we ever start charging, that number moves with it. And if you are a consumer, the protections your own law gives you that cannot be signed away are untouched: this paragraph does not take them off you.

What we do not disclaim, because we cannot and would not want to. Swiss law (CO Art 100) does not let anyone sign away liability for intent or gross negligence before the fact, and we are not trying to. Death or injury we cause, and serious carelessness on our side, stay ours. Concretely: if we leave somebody in the pool after deciding to remove them, or hand your live position to a person you never agreed to meet, none of the paragraphs above helps us.

What you carry. What you do at a meet is yours. If somebody brings a claim against us because of something you did, or because you broke these rules, you cover what that costs us, unless it turns out to have been our doing.

Ending your use

You can delete your account any time, yourself, from your profile. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts others at risk, and we may remove content that doesn’t belong here.

Changes

here is early and evolving, so these terms may change. If we make a meaningful change, we’ll let you know in the app. Continuing to use here means you accept the update.

Who you are agreeing with

here is operated from Basel, Switzerland. These terms are between you and whoever operates it. The full name and postal address of the operator are available on request, by email. Write to hello@joinhere.app and a person reads it.

Which law, and which court

These terms are governed by Swiss law. If something cannot be sorted out between us, it goes to the ordinary courts of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland. If you are using here as a consumer somewhere with rules that give you a court closer to home, those rules still apply and this paragraph does not take them away.

What here costs

Nothing, today. here is free while we are starting out. If that ever changes we will say so clearly and in advance, and nobody will be charged for something they did not agree to pay for.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email hello@joinhere.app. See also our Privacy policy.