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Terms of Service
These terms govern your use of CHOSEN™ — our website, membership platform, assessments, matchmaking, coaching tools and live events. By creating an account or using the service you agree to them.
Last updated October 22, 2026
1. Who can join
You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a contract. CHOSEN is an invitation-based community for people seeking committed, conscious partnership. We may decline, pause or end a membership at our discretion, including where a member misrepresents who they are. You confirm your age when you create an account; accounts we find to belong to a minor are deleted immediately along with their data. CHOSEN is not available where its use would be unlawful, and you may not use it if you are barred from a dating platform under applicable law or have been convicted of a violent or sexual offence.
2. Your account
- Keep your login credentials private; you are responsible for activity on your account.
- One account per person. Accounts may not be shared, sold or transferred.
- The information you provide — name, age, location, photos, birth details, assessment answers — must be truthful and about you.
- You may download your data or permanently close your account at any time from Settings → Your Data & Rights.
3. Verification
Verification may include photo or selfie checks, voice prompts and human review. Verification helps reduce impersonation and fraud, but it is not a background check or a guarantee about any member's identity, intentions, relationship status or character. Always use your own judgment when meeting someone.
3a. What verification does not include
We currently verify members with a live pose selfie compared by a human reviewer, human profile review, and duplicate-account and fraud screening. We do not perform government-ID checks, facial-recognition matching, video verification, criminal background checks or sex-offender registry screening. Any such feature we add in future will be announced and, where it involves biometric data, will require your separate written consent.
4. Member conduct
You agree not to:
- Harass, threaten, stalk, defame or discriminate against another member.
- Post content that is sexually explicit, hateful, violent, illegal or belongs to someone else.
- Impersonate anyone, use another person's photos, or misstate your age or marital status.
- Solicit money, investments, gifts or crypto from members, or promote a business, service or other platform.
- Scrape, copy, resell or reverse-engineer the platform, its assessments, its scoring or its match data.
- Share another member's private information, photos, voice recordings or messages outside the platform.
Report concerns from any profile or thread. We may remove content, restrict features, or suspend or terminate an account for conduct that breaches these terms or endangers the community.
4a. Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
This Acceptable Use Policy forms part of our Terms of Service. CHOSEN exists for consensual connection between adults aged 18 or older. Human or Sex Trafficking, Illegal Acts, Impersonation, and Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) are expressly prohibited. The following are strictly prohibited on the platform — in profiles, photos, voice recordings, messages, events and anywhere else on CHOSEN. Violations result in immediate content removal and account termination, and where the law requires or permits, referral to law enforcement.
- Age. CHOSEN is only for adults aged 18 or older. We do not allow minors on the platform under any circumstances. Accounts we believe belong to a minor are deleted immediately along with their data, and we report suspected child exploitation to the appropriate authorities.
- Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and child sexual exploitation or abuse. Creating, uploading, posting, sharing, distributing, soliciting or facilitating access to CSAM through CHOSEN is strictly prohibited. This includes images, videos or other material depicting sexual abuse or exploitation of a person under 18. Any content, request, role-play, grooming behaviour or attempt to sexualise or exploit a minor is forbidden with zero tolerance. We remove such accounts at once and report them to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and law enforcement as required by law.
- Sexual violence and non-consensual content. Sexual threats, coercion, assault, threats to share intimate images ("sextortion"), non-consensual imagery, and any content that depicts or promotes non-consensual sexual activity are prohibited.
- Sexually explicit profile content. Nudity, sexual images, sexually explicit descriptions, and links to sexual material are not allowed on any profile, photo, voice recording or message. CHOSEN is not a platform for sexual content or solicitation.
- Human or Sex Trafficking. Human trafficking and sex trafficking, including recruiting, transporting, harboring or exploiting people through force, fraud or coercion, and facilitating the commercial sexual exploitation of any minor, are strictly prohibited. Soliciting, advertising, facilitating or engaging in prostitution, commercial sexual services, or the exploitation or coercion of any person is prohibited. Suspected trafficking is reported to law enforcement and the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
- Scam activity. Romance scams, investment or crypto fraud, phishing, catfishing for financial gain, impersonation of CHOSEN staff, and any scheme intended to defraud members of the platform are prohibited.
- Impersonation. Impersonating any person or organization, creating a profile for someone without their consent, using another person’s identity or photos, or falsely claiming to represent CHOSEN is strictly prohibited. Members must provide truthful information about themselves.
- Illegal Acts. Using CHOSEN to plan, promote or commit any crime — including harassment, threats, stalking, doxxing, identity theft, fraud, money laundering, or the sale or purchase of illegal goods, drugs or weapons — is prohibited.
We investigate reports of prohibited conduct, cooperate with law enforcement where the law requires or permits, and may preserve relevant records for those purposes. Members can report any concern from any profile or thread; see the Safety Centre for how reporting works.
5. Matchmaking, coaching and AI features
CHOSEN provides assessments, compatibility scoring, astrology-based insights, AI-generated coaching, weekly plans, journaling analysis and human matchmaking. These are tools for reflection and connection. They are informational and are not medical, psychological, financial or legal advice, and they are not a substitute for professional care. We do not promise a match, a relationship, a specific number of introductions or any particular outcome.
AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete or simply wrong, and astrology content is provided for reflection and entertainment. Never rely on CHOSEN in an emergency or a mental-health crisis. If you are in danger or in crisis, contact local emergency services — see the Safety Centre for crisis resources.
Some features use third-party AI services to process the content you submit. Do not enter information you are not comfortable processing this way. See the Privacy Policy for detail and controls.
6. Memberships and payments
Paid tiers, renewals, cancellation and refunds are covered by our Billing & Refund Terms, which form part of these terms.
7. Events
Attendance at CHOSEN mixers, workshops and retreats is subject to capacity, the event listing details and any additional rules stated at the event. You attend at your own risk and are responsible for your own travel, accommodation and behaviour. We may refuse entry or remove attendees for conduct reasons.
8. Your content
You keep ownership of the photos, recordings, writing and answers you upload. You grant CHOSEN a non-exclusive licence to host, store, display and process that content solely to operate the service for you — for example showing your profile to members you are matched with, generating your insights, and backing up data. We do not sell your content, and we do not use your private journal entries for marketing.
9. Safety
Take normal precautions: meet in public first, tell a friend where you are going, and never send money to someone you met online. CHOSEN is not responsible for the conduct of any member online or offline. Report suspicious behaviour to us and, where relevant, to local authorities. Read the Safety Centre before meeting anyone in person. CHOSEN does not conduct criminal background checks on members and makes no representation about any member's history or character.
10. Availability and changes
We improve the platform continuously and may add, change or retire features. We aim to keep the service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. If we make a material change to these terms, we will notify members by email or in the app before it takes effect.
11. Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, CHOSEN is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for the acts of other members. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.
12. Ending your membership
You may cancel at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account for a breach of these terms, for fraud or safety reasons, or where required by law. On termination, your profile is removed from discovery and your data is handled as described in the Privacy Policy.
13. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules. You and Eternal Flame Institute LLC agree that any dispute arising out of these terms or your use of CHOSEN will be brought exclusively in the state and federal courts located in Multnomah County, Oregon, and both parties consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Nothing here prevents either party from seeking relief in a small claims court where the claim qualifies.
14. Contact
CHOSEN™ is operated by Eternal Flame Institute LLC, an Oregon limited liability company. Questions about these terms: hello@choosehigherlove.com.
