Terms of Service

Leisure Friends is owned and operated by PGBDIC LLC, an Illinois limited liability company (“PGBDIC LLC”, “we”, “us”). Where these terms say “we” or “us”, they mean PGBDIC LLC. Your agreement is with PGBDIC LLC and not with any individual working on the service.

You must be 18 or older to use Leisure Friends. We do not currently verify identity, age or background, and being on Leisure Friends is not an endorsement by us. Accounts are personal: one person, one account, using your real first name and a current photograph of yourself. You may not create an account for somebody else or on behalf of a business.

Some of the profiles and Activities you see on Leisure Friends are examples we created ourselves. They are not real people and not real plans. While Leisure Friends is new, we may also use example profiles, example Activities and automated accounts to show how the service works and to help build early activity until there are enough members for the service to fill out on its own.

These appear alongside genuine listings and are not marked on each card. This section is where we tell you they exist. As the number of real members grows we expect to rely on them less, and we will keep this section accurate about what we are doing.

Nothing on an example profile is a representation about a real member, and seeing one is not a statement by us about how many members are in your area. You should not rely on an example listing as evidence of who is available to meet, and no example profile can receive a message or a Join Request from you.

Leisure Friends is for making platonic friends around shared activities. That is not decoration: it is the product’s purpose and the reason people feel safe using it. Every member accepts the Platonic Pledge when they join, and using the service to pursue romance or sex, to recruit, to sell, to solicit donations, or to promote paid coaching or services is a breach of these terms.

The Community Rules set out what that means in practice and form part of this agreement.

You keep ownership of your photographs, your introduction video and everything you write. You give us permission to store them and to show them to the members entitled to see them, for as long as your account exists — nothing more. We do not licence your content to anybody else, use it to advertise, or train models on it.

You are responsible for having the right to post what you post. Photographs must be of you; your introduction must be you speaking.

Some profiles on this site are illustrative. They exist to show how a profile reads — what someone is up for, when they are free, how they describe themselves — and they do not represent a real or contactable person.

You cannot invite, message or otherwise contact an illustrative profile, and they are never counted as members. We do not use them to suggest that the service is busier than it is: no invitations, messages, popularity or demand are ever generated on their behalf. If we ever use an account that replies automatically, we will say so where you would be talking to it, not only here.

You may add up to six photographs and one optional video introduction of up to thirty seconds. They must be of you, and you must have the right to post them. Do not upload anybody else’s likeness, impersonate another person, or post sexual, violent, hateful or illegal material.

A video introduction is not identity, age or background verification. It is there to help another member get a sense of you before deciding whether to meet. We do not screen, endorse or guarantee any member, and deciding whether and how to meet somebody remains yours. Meet in public the first time.

We may remove media that breaks these terms and suspend the account that posted it.

Plans on Leisure Friends are made for public places, and the product is built that way on purpose. We do not vet members beyond the age and identity check, we are not present when you meet, and we are not responsible for what another member says or does. Use your judgement, meet in public, and tell someone where you are going.

We do not review photographs, introductions or profiles before other members see them, and we do not screen anyone for character, compatibility or safety. What we do is check that an upload is a readable image or video of a permitted type and size — a technical check, not a judgement about a person.

Moderation here is reactive. When somebody reports content or conduct it goes to a moderator, who can remove it, suspend an account, or end it. We will act on conduct that endangers somebody without waiting. Deciding whether another member is someone you want to meet is yours to make, and the Community Rules set out what everyone here agrees to.

If your account is suspended you are told, and you stop being visible or contactable immediately. We will explain what happened where doing so does not expose the person who reported you.

This is a young product and it is offered as it is. We do not promise it will always be available, and features may change. Where the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses; nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless PGBDIC LLC, an Illinois limited liability company and Leisure Friends, its affiliates, its owners, its members and managers, its officers and directors, where applicable, its employees, its agents, its contractors, its service providers, its licensors, its successors, its assigns (together, the “Protected Parties”) from and against any third-party claim, demand, action, liability, loss, judgment, damage, penalty, cost or expense — including reasonable attorneys’ fees — arising out of or relating to:

• anything you post, send or share through Leisure Friends;
• your conduct, on the service or in person;
• an Activity you post, host or attend;
• a meeting or any other interaction with another member;
• your breach of these terms, the Community Rules or the Platonic Pledge;
• your violation of any law;
• your violation of anybody else’s rights, including privacy and intellectual property;
• damage to property;
• personal injury;
• harassment or other misconduct;
• commercial use, recruiting, soliciting or anything else these terms prohibit;
• a misrepresentation you make, on your profile or anywhere else;
• your use of a third-party service reached through Leisure Friends.

This does not apply to anything caused by our own negligence or wilful misconduct, and it does not cover a claim to the extent it arises from our breach of these terms. Nothing in this section requires you to indemnify us for liability that the law does not permit to be shifted, and nothing here limits your rights as a consumer where those rights cannot be waived.

We will tell you promptly about any claim we ask you to cover, and a delay in telling you only affects this section to the extent it actually prejudices your defence. You may control the defence with counsel of your choosing, and we will cooperate with you at your expense; we may also take part with our own counsel at our own expense. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault on behalf of a Protected Party, imposes any obligation or payment on one, or affects one’s rights, without our written agreement.

This section survives the end of your account and the end of these terms, and if any part of it is held unenforceable the rest continues to apply.

This section does not apply to anything caused by a Protected Party’s own negligence or wilful misconduct, and it does not cover a claim to the extent it arises from our breach of these terms. It does not require you to indemnify anybody for liability the law does not permit to be shifted, it does not limit your rights as a consumer where those rights cannot be waived, and it is not insurance or a guarantee that any Protected Party is protected from every claim.

Leisure Friends helps people who do not know each other arrange to do something together in public. That carries ordinary risks, and you accept them: the other person may not be who you expected, may not turn up, may behave badly, or may simply not be somebody you want to spend time with. Activities involve physical places and sometimes physical effort, and things that happen at them can go wrong.

We do not organise, supervise, attend or control any Activity, and we are not a party to any arrangement you make with another member. Deciding whether to meet somebody, where, and whether to stay, is yours.

Read the Community Rules before your first meeting. They are short and most of them are about this.

If you have a dispute with another member, it is between the two of you. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law you release the Protected Parties from claims, demands and damages of every kind arising out of or connected with such a dispute, whether you know about them now or find out later.

That release is not a reason to stay silent with us. Report anything that concerns you — we act on reports, and a release between you and another member does not change what we do about somebody who is unsafe.

The service is provided as it is and as it is available. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Protected Parties disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment and non-infringement, and any warranty arising from a course of dealing or how a service is usually performed.

In particular, none of the following is something we do or promise:

• verifying every member, or checking anybody’s background;
• confirming that anybody is who they say they are;
• making a meeting safe;
• ensuring anybody turns up, or is good company;
• finding you a friend;
• endorsing any host or any participant;
• treating a connected Facebook account as evidence that a member is safe, or is even the person that account belongs to — it is a signal a member chose to show, and nothing more;
• keeping the service uninterrupted, timely, secure or free of errors.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranties to be excluded. Where that is so, this section applies as far as the law allows and no further.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no Protected Party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of Leisure Friends — even if we were told such damages were possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the total liability of the Protected Parties for all claims relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred United States dollars.

Nothing in this section limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded by law. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits; where that is so, this section applies as far as the law allows and no further.

Leisure Friends runs on services operated by other companies, and some features connect to them. We are not responsible for those services, for their availability, or for what they do with information you give them directly. The Privacy Policy names each one and what it is for.

What you post stays yours. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for display, and show your content to the members it is meant for — and, where you have posted something publicly, to show it on pages that describe the service. That is the whole of it: the licence exists so the product can operate and be explained, and for no other purpose.

The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies already made by somebody else, and for records we must keep as described in the Privacy Policy. We do not sell your content and we do not use it to train anything.

If you believe something on Leisure Friends infringes your copyright or another intellectual-property right, write to [PGBDIC LLC to supply] with: what the work is, where on Leisure Friends you found the copy, how to reach you, a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised, a statement that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them, and your signature.

We remove material that infringes, and we may end the account of anybody who does it repeatedly. If your material was removed and you believe that was wrong, write to the same address and say so — we will look again.

We may remove content, limit an account, suspend it, or close it — with notice where we reasonably can, and without notice where waiting would put somebody at risk. We may do this for a breach of these terms or the Community Rules, for behaviour that makes the service unsafe, or where the law requires it.

We are not obliged to monitor what members post, and the fact that something is on Leisure Friends does not mean we have looked at it.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that is not resolved between us will be heard in the state and federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois, and each of us agrees to that court’s jurisdiction.

There is no arbitration requirement and no class-action waiver in these terms. If that ever changes we will say so plainly, raise the version, and ask you to accept the new terms before they apply to you.

Nothing here waives a right you have as a consumer that cannot be waived, or prevents you from bringing a matter to a regulator or a small-claims court where the law allows it.

Legal notices go to [PGBDIC LLC to supply], and by post to [PGBDIC LLC to supply]. For anything that is not a legal notice — a question, a report, a problem — use Getting help, which is read faster.

These terms, the Community Rules, the Platonic Pledge and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about Leisure Friends. If any part is held unenforceable, the rest continues. Not enforcing something once does not waive it. You may not transfer your account or your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours to a successor or to somebody who acquires the business, and your rights are unaffected.

You can delete your account at any time from Account & privacy. Deletion removes your profile, your media and your conversations, as described in the Privacy Policy. Reports and moderation records are retained without you attached, so that leaving cannot erase a safety history.

Unanswered invitations lapse on their own after 14 days, so nothing sits open indefinitely.

When these terms change materially we will raise the version, set a new effective date, and tell members before the change takes effect rather than after.