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Last updated: 5 July 2026
Welcome to Slower Dating ("we", "us", "our"). These Terms & Conditions govern your use of the Slower Dating website and mobile applications (the "Service"). By creating an account, you agree to these terms.
Data Controller:
Mr Harjinder Singh
Contact: info@datebeyondborders.com
Postal address: Available upon request. Please contact us at info@datebeyondborders.com if you require our postal address for legal correspondence.
ICO Registration Number: ZC038711 (Registered: 10 November 2025)
You must be 18 years or older to use Slower Dating.
Zero tolerance policy for underage users.
You confirm all information you provide is accurate.
If we believe your age is incorrect, we may request verification or suspend your account.
You must also be legally allowed to use online dating services in your country.
You are responsible for:
We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms.
We reserve the right to suspend, restrict, or permanently terminate any account at our sole discretion where we believe it is necessary to protect the safety, integrity, or proper functioning of the platform.
This may include, but is not limited to, situations involving:
Suspension may be temporary or permanent.
We are not required to provide advance notice before suspending or terminating an account where immediate action is considered necessary to protect users or the platform.
We may remove or restrict access to content, features, or services at any time.
If you believe your account has been suspended or restricted in error, you may request a review of the decision. To submit an appeal, contact info@datebeyondborders.com. Include your account email, a brief explanation of your request, and any relevant information you would like us to consider. We aim to review appeals promptly. Decisions made after review are final.
We reserve the right to suspend, restrict, or permanently ban accounts where necessary to protect the safety and integrity of Slower Dating. You may request a review of a suspension decision by contacting info@datebeyondborders.com.
You retain ownership of the content you submit, including your profile information (such as bio, tagline, and alias) and messages you send in chats. We do not claim ownership of your content or your private messages. Ownership of your content is separate from our role as data controller under UK GDPR when we decide how your personal data is processed — see our Privacy Policy for how we process personal data lawfully and transparently.
The platform is text-only — no photos or media attachments as part of the core Service.
By using the Service, you grant Slower Dating a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence (for as long as we reasonably need it to run the Service) to host, store, reproduce, display, analyse, moderate, and otherwise process your profile content and messages in order to operate, secure, personalise, improve, and develop the Service.
We do not sell your personal data or private messages, and we do not share them with advertisers for their own marketing.
AI and automated systems: We may use automated systems, and where appropriate AI tools, to help operate, secure, moderate, support and improve Slower Dating. We do not use your private message content to train general-purpose AI models. If that ever changes, we will update our Terms and Privacy Policy and ask for consent where required.
If you choose to provide your religion, you must give explicit consent.
You may withdraw this consent at any time via:
Settings → Privacy → Withdraw Religion Consent.
Upon withdrawal, we remove religion from your profile, stop using it for Discover filtering or matching, and clear any saved Discover religion filter on your account. You may add religion again later if you choose.
Slower Dating is currently free during the early community launch. You can use the core service — including Discover and chat — at no charge while we grow the community.
If Premium is offered later, the price, features, renewal terms, and cancellation options will be shown clearly before you pay. Premium may include additions such as extra filters or expanded discovery; indicative pricing may be from £2.99/month when launched — you are not being charged today.
When Premium is live, it may grant additions such as:
Chat requests are allowances, not guarantees. A chat opens only when both people request each other (mutual).
Auto-renewal (when Premium is offered)
If you choose Premium when it becomes available, it may auto-renew monthly unless cancelled. You will be able to cancel in Settings → Manage Subscription.
Cancellation (when Premium is offered)
You may cancel at any time. Premium benefits would continue until the end of the billing period.
This section applies if and when Premium subscriptions are offered for payment. During the early community launch, the core service is free.
Premium is non-refundable once activated. Because Premium grants instant access to digital features (extra daily chat requests, filters, global discovery, etc.), all sales are final.
This is standard for digital services and complies with UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. By upgrading to Premium, you agree to instant access and waive your statutory 14-day cooling-off period.
What this means:
To protect users, the following are prohibited:
Other unacceptable behaviour:
Breaches may result in suspension or termination.
Identity & Anonymity: Users remain anonymous within the platform unless they choose to share details. Slower Dating does not fully verify identity. Users may choose to exchange personal contact information at their own discretion.
Conversations: Conversations may continue for as long as both users wish. There is no automatic expiration tied to identity disclosure. The words you write in chat remain yours; our rights are limited to the licence in Your Content and Licence to Us above.
Chat Requests: During our early community launch, all members currently receive the same allowance: up to 10 outgoing chat requests per UTC calendar day (resets 00:00 UTC). A chat opens only when both people request each other (mutual). Requests are allowances, not guarantees.
Ending Chats: Users may end a conversation at any time. Ending a chat prevents further interaction.
Contact Exchange: Contact details are only shared if both users mutually agree to exchange them voluntarily. Do not feel pressured to share contact details or meet before you are ready.
Meeting in person: If you choose to meet someone from the platform, meet in a public place, tell someone you trust where you are going, and leave if you feel uncomfortable. Report any concerns to us at info@datebeyondborders.com.
We do not guarantee a chat, a date, a relationship, chemistry, or your safety when meeting offline.
Payments are processed securely through Stripe.
We do not store card details.
All payment data is subject to Stripe's own policies.
To the fullest extent permitted by UK law:
Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:
To exercise these rights, contact us at info@datebeyondborders.com. We will respond within one month.
We retain your data for the following periods:
When you delete your account, we will delete or anonymize your personal data within 30 days, except where we are required to retain it for legal purposes (e.g., payment records).
We use essential cookies only for authentication and security. We do not use third-party tracking cookies or advertising cookies.
For more information about our cookie usage, please see our Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these Terms, including but not limited to:
You may delete your account at any time through Settings → Delete Account. Upon deletion, your data will be removed in accordance with our Data Retention policy.
These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.
Any disputes may be resolved through the courts of England and Wales.
For questions:
For privacy matters:
For data complaints, you can contact the ICO: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/