Last Updated: 16 May 2026

These Terms of Use constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“You”, “User”), and dovedate.uk (“Company”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our”), concerning your access to and use of the website located at www.dovedate.uk (the “Site”).

SECTION 1: ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND PLATFORM RULES

• 1.1 Binding Agreement: By creating an account, accessing, or browsing the Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with all of these terms, you are expressly prohibited from using the Site and must discontinue use immediately.
• 1.2 Modifications to These Terms: We reserve the right to review, update, or change these Terms of Use at any time to reflect updates to our services or changes in the law. Any amendments will become effective immediately upon being posted on the Site, and the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page will be updated accordingly. We will not send individual warnings or notifications regarding these changes. By continuing to access or use the Site after any updates are posted, you accept and agree to be bound by the revised Terms of Use. We kindly encourage you to check this page periodically to stay informed of our current rules.

SECTION 2: ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AND CRITERIA

By registering an account on the Site, you represent, warrant, and guarantee that you meet all of the following eligibility criteria:

• 2.1 Minimum Age: You must be a natural person and at least 18 years of age to create an account and utilise this Site.
• 2.2 Single Account Restriction: You are permitted to maintain only one active profile on the platform. Multiple accounts, ghost profiles, or profile cloning are strictly prohibited. You may not log in with, share, or use another member's account.
• 2.3 Authentic Profile Photo: To maintain community integrity, you must present yourself honestly by uploading at least one clear profile photo that accurately displays your face.
• 2.4 Criminal History: You warrant that you have never been convicted of, or pled no contest to, an indictable offence, a sex crime, or any crime involving physical violence or the threat of violence.
• 2.5 Offender Registries: You warrant that you are not required to register on any sex offender registry or notification scheme with any local, national, or international government authority.
• 2.6 Prior Bans: You have not previously been removed, suspended, or permanently banned from our platform or any affiliated networks.

SECTION 3: ACCOUNT PROTECTION AND SECURITY

• 3.1 Credentials Confidentiality: You are solely responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your login credentials (username, password, and session tokens).
• 3.2 Activity Liability: You are entirely liable for all activities, messages, data updates, and interactions that occur under your registered account.
• 3.3 Immediate Notification: You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect or detect any unauthorised access to your account or any other breach of platform security.

SECTION 4: CODE OF CONDUCT AND PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

Users agree to use the Site in a lawful, respectful, and honest manner. You are strictly prohibited from engaging in the following actions:

• 4.1 Misrepresentation: Misrepresenting your real identity, age, employment status, physical location, qualifications, or profile details, or creating a profile for anyone other than yourself.
• 4.2 Abusive Behaviour: Harassing, bullying, stalking, abusing, defaming, intimidating, assaulting, mocking, or threatening any other user or our customer support agents.
• 4.3 Offensive Content: Posting, transmitting, or sharing content that is explicit, obscene, pornographic, violent, or promotes racism, bigotry, discrimination, or hatred against any group or individual.
• 4.4 Unauthorised Imagery: Uploading photos containing the images or likeness of other people without their explicit consent, or uploading any images containing minors.
• 4.5 Financial Solicitation and Alternative Communication Restrictions: Users must conduct all messaging and communications exclusively within the Site interface. You are strictly prohibited from:
  • 4.5.1: Suggesting, requesting, sharing, or posting alternative means of communication on your profile layout or within user conversations. Prohibited data includes, but is not limited to, telephone numbers, email addresses, messaging handles, social media profiles, or external web links.
  • 4.5.2: Asking or soliciting another member for money, financial assistance, donations, wire transfers, loans, or banking credentials under any circumstances.
  • 4.5.3: Violation of Section 4.5 will result in the immediate and permanent removal of your account without prior notice or warning.
• 4.6 Commercial Exploitation: Engaging in commercial activity, multi-level marketing, or posting links to external commercial platforms, adult webcams, or competing services.
• 4.7 Routing Hijacking: Hijacking our meta-tags, source code, hyperlinks, or search engine data to redirect users to external websites or third-party platforms.
• 4.8 Data Scraping: Deploying automated scripts, bots, scrapers, spiders, or third-party applications to copy, crawl, or harvest user data, images, or profiles from the Site database.
• 4.9 Infrastructure Attacks: Injecting malicious code, trojans, viruses, cross-site scripts (XSS), or executing tools intended to disrupt, probe, or test the vulnerability of our website, networks, or server infrastructure.

SECTION 5: CONTENT PERMISSIONS AND SERVICE PROMOTION

• 5.1 Licence to Host and Share: You retain full ownership of the photos, text, profile descriptions, and personal details you upload to the Site. By uploading your content, you grant the Company a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide permission (licence) to host, store, copy, modify, and display your material so your profile can function correctly across our platform.
• 5.2 Use for Platform Promotion: To help grow our community and increase your chances of finding a genuine connection, this permission allows us to utilise your public profile text and uploaded images to promote, advertise, or market our dating services across external platforms, social media networks, or marketing campaigns without any payment or notice to you.
• 5.3 Permission Scope and Warranties: You warrant that you have the legal right to share your content and grant us these permissions. You agree that this usage will not violate the privacy rights or copyrights of any third party.
• 5.4 Member Content Restrictions: You do not have any rights to content uploaded by other members. You may only view member profile text and photos for the personal, non-commercial purpose of communicating and meeting partners. You are strictly prohibited from copying, archiving, sharing, or using member content for commercial purposes or external spam.
• 5.5 Company Property: All platform designs, graphics, custom features, layout architecture, logos, source code, databases, functionality, software, and original text on the Site are exclusively owned by or licensed to us and are protected by copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws.

SECTION 6: SUSPENSION, TERMINATION, AND FINANCIAL FORFEITURE

• 6.1 Right to Terminate: We reserve the absolute right, in our sole discretion and without notice, justification, or liability, to deny access to, suspend, restrict, or permanently delete your account for any breach of these Terms of Use, or for conduct we deem detrimental to platform safety or the community environment.
• 6.2 User Deletion: You are free to deactivate or permanently delete your own account at any time through your dashboard profile settings.
• 6.3 Access Fees, Refunds, and Behavioral Forfeiture: Access to our platform features is sold as a non-recurring, one-off fixed-term access pass. Legitimate users who abide by our community rules have a statutory right to cancel their purchase and request a full refund within 14 days of purchase, provided they have not significantly used the service. However, this refund policy is strictly conditional upon your compliance with these Terms of Use. If your account is suspended, restricted, or permanently deleted by the Company due to a violation of our safety rules (including, but not limited to, financial solicitation, harassment, or ban circumvention), you completely forfeit any remaining access time. In the event of a ban for misconduct, all fees paid are strictly non-refundable as liquidated damages to offset the administrative and safety costs of managing your breach of contract.
• 6.4 Chargeback Abuse and Legal Rights: Initiating a chargeback or payment dispute with your bank or credit card provider for an activation fee forfeited due to a community guidelines violation or a ban circumvention attempt is strictly prohibited. We track metadata and digital fingerprints to enforce safety rules, and we reserve the right to submit these agreed terms, account usage logs, and your explicit agreement timestamp as binding evidence to card networks to successfully defeat any payment dispute.

SECTION 7: DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

• 7.1 Interaction Risk: You are solely responsible for your interactions, communications, and any offline meetings with individuals you connect with through the platform, both online and offline.
• 7.2 No Background Screening: We do not conduct criminal background checks, verify the absolute accuracy of profile data, or vet individual user identities. We assume no liability for any harm, fraud, emotional distress, physical harm, or financial loss resulting from your interactions. Always practice common-sense internet safety protocols.
• 7.3 As-Is Service: The Site is provided on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. We disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including commercial fitness for a particular purpose, safety, or non-infringement.
• 7.4 No Guarantee of Matches: We make no guarantees or warranties regarding the exact number, compatibility, success, or quality of matches, responses, or interactions you will experience on the platform.
• 7.5 Limitation of Damages: To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we shall not be held liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Site or your interactions with other members, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

SECTION 8: GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

• 8.1 Governing Law: These Terms of Use and your use of the Site are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom, without regard to its conflict of law principles.
• 8.2 Jurisdiction: Any legal action, dispute, or proceeding arising out of these terms shall be brought exclusively within the courts of England and Wales.

SECTION 9: CONTACT AND REPORTING PROCEDURES

• 9.1 Reporting Mechanism: To report a profile violating these rules, engaging in misconduct, or presenting fraudulent details, please click the "Report" option located directly on that user's profile interface.
• 9.2 Legal Issues: If you have any legal questions or concerns regarding these Terms of Use, contact us directly via a support ticket.

Last Updated: 16 May 2026

When you use www.dovedate.uk, you agree to these rules.

SECTION 1: ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND PLATFORM RULES

By making an account or browsing our site, you agree to follow all our legal rules. If you do not agree, you must stop using our website immediately. These may be updated, so take note.

SECTION 2: ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AND CRITERIA

You must be 18 or older and maintain only one active profile with a real photo of your face. You cannot join if you have been previously banned, or if you have a history of serious criminal offences or sex crimes.

SECTION 3: ACCOUNT PROTECTION AND SECURITY

You are completely responsible for keeping your password secret, and you are liable for any messages sent or actions taken using your registered profile.

SECTION 4: CODE OF CONDUCT AND PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

No lying, bullying, explicit content, or hacking. You must keep all chats inside our website. Sharing personal contact details (phone numbers, emails, social links) or asking other members for money is strictly prohibited and means an immediate, permanent ban.

SECTION 5: CONTENT PERMISSIONS AND SERVICE PROMOTION

You give us permission use any of your uploaded content, mostly in order to provide a service, but we may also use them for marketing and promotion.

SECTION 6: SUSPENSION, TERMINATION, AND FINANCIAL FORFEITURE

We can block or delete your account if you break our rules. If you close your account (after 14 days), or if we ban you for breaking the rules, you lose remaining access time and fees. If you make another account after being banned, it too will be banned, and without a refund.

SECTION 7: DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

We do not run background checks or verify if profiles are real. You are fully responsible for your own safety when talking to or meeting people, and we are not legally liable for any fraud, distress, or harm.

SECTION 8: GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

These rules follow the laws of the United Kingdom, and any official legal disputes must be handled exclusively in the courts of England and Wales.

SECTION 9: CONTACT AND REPORTING PROCEDURES

Report rule-breakers using the "Report" buttons, or send legal inquiries via a support ticket.