These terms describe the Wisteria app. We will update them as the product changes, and we will change the “last updated” date and give notice in the app when we do.
The agreement
Using Wisteria means agreeing to these terms, to our Privacy Policy and to our Community Guidelines. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the app.
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Wisteria Social LLC (“Wisteria”, “we”, “us”), a company registered in the United States at 1897 E Rock Hollow, Lake Point, UT 84074. They govern your access to and use of the Wisteria mobile applications for iOS and Android, this website, and any related services we provide (together, the “Service”).
By creating an account or using the Service you accept these Terms. Our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines form part of this agreement. Where the Guidelines and these Terms overlap, both apply; where they conflict, these Terms govern.
Who may use Wisteria
You must be 18 or older. There are no exceptions, and we do not care how close to 18 you are. Each club sets its own minimum age, which may be higher.
- You must be at least 18 years old. Wisteria is an adult community platform. It is not directed at minors, and no one under 18 may create an account, use the Service, or appear in content on it.
- You give us your date of birth when you sign up. Giving a false date of birth is a breach of these Terms and grounds for immediate termination.
- Each club sets its own minimum age. A club’s age rule is on its own application form, and it may be higher than ours — 21, 25, or something else. Being old enough for Wisteria does not mean you are old enough for every club; the club’s rule decides who it admits.
- You must not be barred from using the Service under the laws of the country you are in, and you must not have been removed from Wisteria before.
- Membership is open. You do not need to belong to a club, and you do not need to verify your identity, to hold an account. Verification is optional. We do not claim that members have been vetted or screened — because they have not been. You are responsible for your own judgement about who you interact with, on the platform and off it.
Your account
Your phone number is your account. There is no password. Keep control of your phone number, because whoever can receive your codes can reach your account.
- Authentication is by phone number and one-time passcode. Wisteria has no passwords. You sign in by entering a code sent by text message to your number.
- You are responsible for your phone number and the device that receives those codes. If you change or give up your phone number, change it in the app first — a recycled number can otherwise be used to reach an account. Tell us at admin@wisteriasocial.com immediately if you think someone else has access to your account.
- One account per person. Do not create an account for anyone else, do not share your account, and do not create a new account to evade a suspension or a block.
- You can see every device signed in to your account and end any of those sessions from inside the app.
- Standard message and data rates from your carrier may apply to the text messages we send.
Subscription and billing
$15 a month for one person, or one shared plan for a couple or a group, billed by Apple or Google, never by us. Membership is what lets you chat and add to the community — nothing else is behind it, and there is nothing else to buy. Cancel any time through the store you bought it from.
What the subscription is
- There are four plans, and you hold one at a time. Solo is $15 a month and covers you. Couple is $20 a month and covers you and one partner. Group of three is $30 a month and covers you and two others. Group of four covers you and three others, at the price the store shows. Prices are set in the App Store and Google Play, and the app shows each plan’s price exactly as the store gives it before you buy.
- Membership is what lets you chat and add to the community — following people, posting, commenting, reacting, asking to chat and replying in conversations.
- Browsing clubs and events, and getting tickets, is free to every member whether or not they subscribe.
- There are no engagement paywalls. No paid likes, no message limits, no boosts, no paid extras you have to keep buying, no ads, and no advantage that can be bought. Every filter is included. We will not degrade the experience to extract more money from you.
- Paying never unlocks mature content. What decides it is your age and your own choice — see the content policy.
How billing works
- Subscriptions are sold and billed only through the Apple App Store and Google Play. There is no web checkout for a Wisteria subscription anywhere, and we will never ask you for card details for one. If a site or a message asks you to pay Wisteria for a subscription outside the app stores, it is not us.
- Your subscription is charged by the store to the payment method on your Apple ID or Google account, under that store’s terms. Prices shown may exclude taxes the store adds.
- A free trial may be offered through the store to new subscribers, shown in the store’s own words before you start it. If you do not cancel before the trial ends, the subscription begins and is charged. A trial gives access.
- Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each monthly period until you cancel.
- You only need one plan. If you end up paying for two at once — one on each store, or a plan of your own while a partner’s plan already covers you — we will tell you, so you can cancel the one you do not need at its store. A store receipt binds to the first Wisteria account that redeems it and cannot be moved to another account afterwards.
Cancelling and refunds
- Cancel through the store you bought it from — Apple App Store subscription settings, or Google Play subscription settings. Support has step-by-step instructions.
- Cancelling stops the next renewal. Access continues to the end of the period you have already paid for.
- Refunds are handled by Apple and Google under their own policies, not by us. If you believe you were charged in error, contact the store first; if you tell us at admin@wisteriasocial.com we will help you make the request, but we cannot issue a store refund ourselves.
- Deleting your Wisteria account does not cancel a store subscription. Cancel it at the store as well.
Couple and group plans
On a Couple or Group plan, one person pays and each seat goes to someone on the payer’s couple or group card on Wisteria — and only after that person accepts the seat in the app. Nobody is put on a bill without saying yes. A seat works only while the payer’s plan is paid for. Moving up to a bigger plan takes effect at once; moving down waits for the next renewal, and at that renewal the seats the smaller plan no longer pays for end. If the card behind a seat ends, the seat runs to the date the payer has already paid through and then stops.
Price changes
If we change the subscription price, we will give notice in the app and through the store before it takes effect, and you will have the opportunity to cancel before being charged the new amount. Where the store requires your explicit consent to a price increase, no increase will be charged without it.
Your content
What you post stays yours. You give us only the permission we need to actually show it to the people you chose — nothing wider, and nothing that survives you deleting it, except where someone else is genuinely part of it or it is named in an open report.
- You keep ownership of everything you post — your photos, your posts, your comments, your messages, your profile.
- You give us a licence to run the Service. You grant Wisteria a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, resize, transmit and display your content solely to operate, secure and support the Service and to show that content to the people your own visibility settings permit. This licence exists so we can put your photo on your profile and deliver your message to its recipient. It gives us no right to publish, syndicate, license or use your content for marketing, and we do not.
- The licence ends when the content does. When you delete a post or delete your account, the licence ends, other than for the copies described in the Privacy Policy — messages you sent, which stay in the other person’s conversation shown as from “A member”, the parts of a shared event record that belong to someone else, and anything we must retain for safety or legal reasons.
- You promise you have the right to post it. You must own or be licensed to use everything you upload, and everyone appearing in a photo you upload must be an adult who has agreed to appear in it.
- We may remove content that breaches these Terms, the Community Guidelines, or the law, and we may refuse a photo that the automatic check rejects under the content policy.
- Feedback you send us — suggestions, bug reports, ideas — we may use without obligation or payment.
The content policy
No nudity on your first profile photo, ever. Swimwear, lingerie and costume are fine everywhere. Mature photos are hidden until you turn mature content on. Payment never unlocks any of this.
- Your first profile photo — the one everyone sees — may never contain nudity or sexual activity. It must be an everyday photo. This rule has no exception ever and does not change with verification or subscription.
- Ordinary adult content is permitted everywhere. Clothed, swimwear, lingerie and costume photography is ordinary content on Wisteria. It is never blurred and never restricted.
- No sex acts, pornography or offers of sexual services anywhere on Wisteria, including chats.
- A photo with non-explicit nudity reaches only adult members who have turned mature content on (on iPhone at wisteriasocial.com/account, on Android in the app’s settings). It never appears in discovery or search.
- Every photo sent in a conversation gets an automated mature-content check, and a photo it marks as mature arrives covered for anyone who has not turned mature content on. Sending adult content to someone who has not agreed to receive it is a breach of these Terms (see Acceptable use).
- Your own choice, not payment, is the gate. A subscriber who has not turned on Allow mature content sees no mature content on the feed, profiles or club pages, and sees it covered in conversations. Wisteria does not sell access to adult material, and never will.
- Illegal content of any kind is prohibited without exception. Content sexualising minors is reported to the authorities and preserved as the law requires. There is no warning, no appeal window, and no second account.
- Photos are checked automatically. Every photo, including photos sent in conversations, is checked against known child-abuse images; a match is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and preserved under restricted access. Photos on the feed, profiles and club pages are also checked for nudity and explicit content. Location and other hidden details are removed from every photo we store.
Acceptable use
Do not harass people, do not lie about who you are, do not send explicit content to people who did not ask for it, do not out anybody, and do not use this place to sell things. The full, human version is in the Community Guidelines.
You agree not to:
- Harass, threaten, stalk, intimidate, defame or abuse anyone, or encourage anyone else to.
- Send sexually explicit content to anyone who has not agreed to receive it.
- Misrepresent who you are — including a single person presenting as a couple, using someone else’s photos, or claiming a verification, a club membership or a relationship you do not have.
- Post content depicting anyone under 18, or anyone who has not consented to appear.
- Disclose another member’s identity, participation in this community, relationships, health status or attendance at an event, to anyone, without their explicit permission.
- Save, screenshot, copy, repost or redistribute another member’s photos or messages outside Wisteria.
- Use the Service for commercial solicitation — advertising, escort or sex-work solicitation, promotion of other platforms, recruitment, multi-level marketing, or selling anything, including tickets.
- Buy, sell, transfer or resell tickets, accounts, or access of any kind.
- Post hate speech, or content attacking people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or relationship structure.
- Scrape, crawl, harvest or bulk-collect content, images or member information by any means, automated or manual.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, interfere with, overload, probe or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service.
- Use bots, scripts or automation to interact with the Service.
- Circumvent a block, a suspension, a report outcome, or any safety control.
- Do anything unlawful, or use Wisteria to arrange anything unlawful.
WISTERIA DOES NOT CONDUCT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND SCREENINGS ON ITS MEMBERS.
Your safety off the platform is your own to manage. Wisteria does not screen members and does not supervise anything that happens between people away from the app. Meet people with the care you would use anywhere else: never send money to someone you met here, keep conversations on Wisteria until you trust the person, meet in a public place the first time, tell a friend where you are going, arrange your own way home, and stay in control of your drinks. Block and report anyone who makes you uncomfortable. If you are in danger, call 911.
Relationships and shared cards
A couple or group card exists only once each person on it has accepted the invitation. After that, any one of you can change how the card is seen — or hide it — on your own, without asking the others. Unlinking ends a couple card without touching anything else.
- A shared card needs everyone’s yes to exist. A couple or group card is formed only after each person on it has accepted the invitation to it.
- Any one person on a shared card can change its settings alone. Every card has four settings: who can see it (Public, Private or Hidden), who it is shown to, whether it shows in discovery, and which kinds of card can find it (singles, couples, groups). On a shared card any current member can change any of them, with no approval and no notice sent to the others. Hiding a card, or taking it out of discovery, affects that one card and nothing else.
- You may not pressure, coerce or trick anyone into joining a shared card, or into keeping one. Doing so is a serious breach of these Terms.
- Leaving a conversation, disconnecting and blocking are separate, escalating actions. Leaving a two-person conversation ends it for both of you. Disconnecting drops both follows and closes your one-to-one conversation; if you share a couple or group card, its door between you stays shut. After a disconnect the other person may ask once more — one follow request or one chat request — and only an accepted ask brings you back in touch. Blocking does everything disconnecting does and also hides you from each other completely. Unlinking dissolves a couple card and nothing else; blocking dissolves it too.
- Ending a relationship does not delete the history that existed. Group cards are archived rather than deleted so that moderation history survives.
Clubs, events and tickets
Clubs are independent businesses. When you buy a ticket or apply for membership, your agreement is with the club, not with us. We never touch the money and we cannot refund a ticket.
- Clubs on Wisteria are independent third parties. We do not own, operate, control or supervise them, their venues, their staff, or their events, and we do not endorse them.
- Wisteria is not a party to any ticket or membership transaction. The club sets prices, capacity and terms; the club takes payment through its own payment processor; the club issues the ticket and admits or refuses entry. Your contract for a ticket or a membership is with the club.
- We never touch club money. Payment goes from your device to the club’s processor. We do not collect, hold, or pay out club funds, and we do not receive your card details.
- Refunds, cancellations, entry disputes and event changes are matters for the club. Contact the club. We are happy to help you find the right person, but we cannot refund a ticket or overturn a door decision.
- Membership applications go to the club. When you apply inside the app you are completing the club’s own form and your answers go directly to them. Your answers and your photo go straight to that club and Wisteria never sees them; we keep only a reference number for your application and the club’s answer. Approval and denial are entirely the club’s decision, and so are how long it keeps your application and whether it can be withdrawn — ask the club directly. The club’s own minimum age is on its form.
- Only clubs sell tickets. There is no member-to-member resale, transfer or marketplace of any kind, and attempting one is a breach of these Terms.
- A club may have its own rules, dress code and conduct standards. Follow them. A club barring you from its premises is the club’s decision and does not by itself close your Wisteria account — it opens a case a person at Wisteria reviews.
Reporting and enforcement
We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. You can report anything, anywhere, and a person reads it. An automated flag never bans anyone on its own.
- Report and block are available everywhere in the app — profiles, posts, comments, photos, messages and chat requests.
- Our safety team is small and works business hours, 9 to 5 Mountain time. Reports are monitored around the clock — anything urgent alerts our team immediately, day or night. Child-safety matches and reports that need a decision reach a person first.
- An intimate image of you shared without your consent comes down within 24 hours. Report it in the app with the reason “An intimate image of me, shared without consent”, or use wisteriasocial.com/remove, which needs no account.
- Reports are reviewed by people. Our automated integrity checks flag patterns for human review; they never issue an automated ban. One automatic step exists: if several different people report the same account within a few hours, that account is paused until a person looks. Only a person lifts the pause or decides anything further.
- Depending on what we find we may remove content, restrict a feature, suspend an account, or terminate it. We aim to match the response to the behaviour, and we take repeat behaviour into account.
- We never tell the person you reported that it was you. When we close your report, we tell you whether we took action, but not the detail.
- When we act on your account or your content, we tell you what we did and why, and how to appeal.
- When someone is banned for fraud, every member who was in a conversation or a chat request with them is told, in the app and by email if they have confirmed one, that someone they were in contact with was removed for fraud, with that person’s username.
- If you believe we got it wrong, tell us. Appeal from the notice in the app — each decision can be appealed once — or write to admin@wisteriasocial.com, and a person will look at it again.
- Deliberately false or malicious reports are themselves a breach of these Terms.
Ending this agreement
You can leave whenever you like, from inside the app, without asking us and without explaining yourself. We can close an account that breaks these rules or puts other members at risk — and wherever it is safe to do so, we will tell you why.
- You can leave at any time, from inside the app, without asking us and without explaining, unless a legal request about your account is open. See what deletion does. Remember to cancel your store subscription separately.
- We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these Terms or the Community Guidelines, that we reasonably believe presents a risk to other members, or where we are required to by law. Where it is safe and lawful to do so, we will tell you why.
- Serious breaches — content sexualising minors, credible threats of violence, non-consensual sharing of intimate images, or deliberate exposure of another member’s identity — result in immediate termination without notice.
- We may discontinue the Service, or any part of it. If we discontinue it entirely, we will give reasonable notice, stop billing, and provide a way to export your data.
- The sections on content licence, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity and governing law survive the end of this agreement.
Our intellectual property
The Wisteria name, logo, app, website, design, and all software and content we create are owned by Wisteria and protected by intellectual property law. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial use, in accordance with these Terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or create derivative works from any part of the Service, or use our name or branding without written permission.
If you believe content on Wisteria infringes your copyright, write to admin@wisteriasocial.com with enough detail to identify the work and the content, your contact details, and a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised. We respond to valid notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and will remove infringing content.
Third-party services
The Service depends on third parties: Apple and Google for distribution and billing; our cloud host; our text-message and email providers; Stream, which carries messages between members; Amazon Web Services, which checks photos, including photos sent in conversations, for content and finds where a face is in a profile photo; our child-safety matching provider; and our error-reporting provider. ID checks are not offered yet; when they are, they will run through an outside ID company, and we will name it here first. Their handling of your information is described in our Privacy Policy and governed by their own terms.
Apple and Google are not parties to this agreement and have no responsibility for the Service. Where a store’s own terms require particular provisions to apply to your use of an app downloaded from it, those provisions apply in addition to these Terms.
Disclaimers
Wisteria is a place to meet people, not a guarantee about them. We do not vet members, and we cannot promise the service will never be down or never get anything wrong. Nothing here takes away rights your local consumer law gives you.
We build this carefully, but we cannot promise the app is perfect or that everyone on it is honest. Verification is optional, most members will not have it, and a badge is not a guarantee about a person. We do not run criminal background checks on anyone.
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Wisteria disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure against every attack, or that any defect will be corrected.
We do not vet members. Membership is open, and most members will not be verified. “Verified” means exactly what it says and nothing more: today, that a club has seen the member’s ID at its own door (once ID checks are offered, it may instead mean that an ID check passed). A club’s badge is that club’s alone and does not stand in for any other club. They are not a character reference, a background check, or a safety guarantee. We are not responsible for the conduct of any member, on or off the platform, and we do not supervise or control interactions between members or events run by clubs.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
Limitation of liability
If something goes wrong, there is a cap on what we can be made to pay — the greater of what you paid us in the past year or $100. That is standard, and it does not cover fraud or personal injury caused by us, which can never be capped.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Wisteria and its officers, members, employees and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service — including any conduct of another member, any content posted by anyone, any event run by a club, any unauthorised access to your account, or any interruption of the Service.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars ($100.00).
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
Indemnity
If you break these rules and somebody sues us over what you did, you cover our costs. This applies only to your own actions — never to something we got wrong.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Wisteria and its officers, members, employees and agents from any claim, demand, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content, your use of the Service, your breach of these Terms or the Community Guidelines, or your violation of anyone else’s rights. We will notify you of any such claim and may take over its defence at our own cost.
Governing law and disputes
US law applies, and disputes are heard in one named court. If you live in the EU or the UK, your own country’s consumer rights still apply. And please write to us first — almost everything is easier to fix that way.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The courts located in Salt Lake County, Utah have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of these Terms, and you and we each consent to that jurisdiction — except that either of us may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.
If you are a consumer resident in the EU, the UK, or another jurisdiction whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your own country’s courts or to rely on your own country’s consumer protection law, nothing here takes that right away.
Before filing anything, please write to us at admin@wisteriasocial.com. Most disputes are a misunderstanding that a conversation resolves, and we would rather have the conversation.
Changes to these terms
We may update these Terms as the product changes or as the law requires. When we make a material change we will update the “last updated” date, give notice in the app before it takes effect, and — where the change materially reduces your rights — ask you to accept it. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, delete your account.
General
- Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Community Guidelines are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.
- Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force.
- No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to an affiliate or a successor in a merger or acquisition.
- No third-party beneficiaries, other than as stated in Third-party services.
- Language. These Terms are written in English, and the English version governs.
Contact us
- Legal admin@wisteriasocial.com
- Support admin@wisteriasocial.com
- Safety admin@wisteriasocial.com
- Privacy admin@wisteriasocial.com
- Post Wisteria Social LLC, 1897 E Rock Hollow, Lake Point, UT 84074