Leisure Friends is for the things you keep meaning to do.

You say what you enjoy, how experienced you are, and when you are free. So does everybody else. We show you the people nearby whose answers line up with yours.

Nothing starts with a cold message. It starts with an invitation to something specific: an activity, a time you are both free, a public place. Say no and nothing happens.

First meetings happen in public — a court, a trailhead, a café, a class. That is the expectation here, and it is the one thing we would ask you not to make an exception to.

Making friends as an adult is hard for a boring reason: nothing puts the same people in the same room every week any more. An activity does — and it makes “same time next week” an easy thing to say.

It also makes the first meeting easy to leave. An hour of tennis ends when the hour ends. Nobody has to decide how long is polite.

It is not a dating product. Everyone here has made the Platonic Pledge, and romantic or sexual approaches are the fastest way to lose an account. There are no matches, no swiping and no attractiveness signals, because the product is not trying to produce that outcome.

It is not a marketplace. Leisure Friends is not for selling services, promoting a business, recruiting, coaching for hire or any other commercial approach. If somebody uses an invitation as a sales lead, report them — that is what the report button is for, and we would rather hear about it.

It is not a public profile. Your profile is shown to members who can already discover you, not to the open internet, and not to a search engine.

City — and a neighbourhood if you add one — is as precise as it gets. “Close enough to meet” is the only question the product needs answered.

Your photographs are private to members who can see your profile. Your full week is never shown to anyone; another member sees only the hours the two of you have in common.

You can block anybody, at any time, without telling them. A block is immediate and mutual: they cannot message you, invite you, or find you again.

You can report a member for anything that breaks the Community Rules. We act on what is reported to us; we do not read private conversations looking for it. The member you report is never told who reported them.

You can delete your account whenever you like. It removes your profile, your photographs and the files behind them, your conversations and your invitations.

Leisure Friends is a small, independent product. If you want to ask something before you join, or tell us something is wrong, get in touch.