Terms of Use & Community Guidelines

“To cringe or not to cringe, that is the question.” The Cringe Dating App is a parody dating app for adults to be themselves — awkward, goofy, and cringe. Keep it fun and keep it kind.

Who can join

• You must be 18 or older. Accounts belonging to anyone under 18 are removed.
• One person per account. Don't impersonate anyone.

Not allowed — ever

• Anything involving minors. No content showing, sexualizing, or soliciting anyone under 18. This is the one thing that gets a permanent ban: once our team confirms it, the account is banned for good, its email can never sign up again, its media is removed from the app, and we report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and law enforcement as required by law.
• Nudity or sexual content of any kind — in photos, videos, bios, or messages.
• Harassment, bullying, threats, hate speech, or targeting someone for who they are.
• Spam, scams, selling stuff, or asking for money.
• Posting someone else's photos, or private info (addresses, phone numbers) about anyone.
• Illegal content or activity.

Reports & time-outs

• Every profile, photo, video and chat message has a ⚑ Report button. Reports go to our moderation team.
• When your account is reported, it gets a short automatic time-out of about 25 seconds (no swiping, messaging, or posting). It lifts by itself. Reports don't ban anyone automatically.
• The only permanent ban is for confirmed content involving minors (see above). Our team may also manually remove illegal content or accounts posting it.
• There is no block button. If anyone makes you uncomfortable, report them, and you can use the red “Feeling harassed? Delete my account” button at any time — it instantly and permanently deletes your profile, media, matches, and messages.

Cringe Credit & swiping

• Right swipe +10, match +1, message +1 (max one point per 5 seconds). Left swipe −10 (never below 0) with a 3–5 second cooldown.
• 100 left swipes = 1-hour swipe break; 1,000 = 1-week swipe break. Chat and profiles keep working.
• Higher credit = shown more often. The Top 10 most-matched users are promoted.
• Cringe Credit has no cash value.

Match Boost, ads & Remove Ads

• A Match Boost shows your profile at the top of up to 100 other people's decks. It doesn't guarantee matches — people still have to swipe right. Purchases are final unless the law or app store rules say otherwise.
• The Cringe Dating App shows clearly labeled ads (on the web via Google AdSense; in a future phone app via Google AdMob). Ad partners may use cookies or device identifiers to show and measure ads — see Google's policies at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
• Remove Ads is an optional one-time paid upgrade that hides all ads on your account. It doesn't change matching, Cringe Credit, or anything else. It ends if you delete your account. In the iOS/Android app it's sold through Apple/Google in-app purchase under their refund rules.

Your stuff

• You own what you post and give The Cringe Dating App permission to show it in the app. Only post photos and videos of yourself that you have the right to share.
• Delete your account any time and we delete your data, except content we must preserve by law (such as reported content involving minors).

The fine print

• The Cringe Dating App is provided “as is” for entertainment. Meet people safely: meet in public, tell a friend, and never send money.
• We may update these terms; continuing to use the app means you accept the update.
• The Cringe Store is run by Fourthwall at the-cringe-store-shop.fourthwall.com under its own terms.