Terms of Use (Terms of Service)

Last updated: August 8, 2026

Effective date: August 8, 2026 for anyone who accepts these Terms on or after that date. If you already held an Orbt account, or had already submitted an application, on August 8, 2026, these Terms take effect for you on September 7, 2026 — 30 days after publication. See Section 1.5.

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AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding contract between you and Orbt Social Inc ("Orbt," "we," "us," or "our"), a corporation registered in Massachusetts, United States, at 484 2nd Street, 6089, Everett, MA 02149, USA. You can reach us at hello@orbt.social.

These Terms cover everything Orbt offers: the website at orbt.social, the Orbt mobile apps for iOS and Android, the application and approval process, the in-app group chat, invitation links, and the in-person meetups organized through the Services (together, the "Services").

Please read Section 4 (Meetups, Other Members, and Your Safety) and Section 13 (Dispute Resolution) carefully. Section 4 explains that we do not run background checks and do not verify anyone's identity, asks you to assume the risks of meeting people in person, and includes a release of claims. Section 13 requires most disputes to go to individual arbitration instead of court, waives your right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action, and gives you 30 days to opt out of arbitration. If your dispute involves sexual assault or sexual harassment, Section 13.1(a) says you do not have to arbitrate it and you do not have to bring it alone.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not apply, do not use the Services, and do not attend an Orbt meetup.

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1. AGREEMENT, ACCEPTANCE, AND CHANGES

In short: You accept these Terms by ticking the box on our application form. You must be 18 or older. If we change these Terms in a way that matters, we will tell you at least 7 days before the change takes effect — and for the release in Section 4.4 and the arbitration agreement in Section 13, we will ask you to agree again rather than assume it.

1.1 How you accept these Terms

You accept these Terms by ticking the box on our application form that says you agree to the Terms and the Privacy Policy. That box is the only place we record acceptance today. If we add an acceptance screen in the Orbt app, tapping "I agree" there will count as acceptance too, and we will record it the same way. If you attend a meetup as a guest through an invitation link, Section 3.7 explains how these Terms apply to you.

Simply visiting our website does not make you a party to these Terms. If you already had an Orbt account or a pending application before these Terms took effect, Section 1.5 explains how and when they come to apply to you.

What we record when you accept. We record the date and time you ticked the box, together with a version identifier for the consent language you accepted. The consent record itself contains no IP address and no browser details. Our analytics provider does receive an event when you submit your application, and that event carries your IP address and your browser — our Cookie Notice and our Privacy Policy explain that. The consent record is kept with your application record, and you can ask us for a copy at any time by emailing hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Consent Record".

1.2 Documents that are part of these Terms

The following two documents are incorporated into these Terms by reference and form part of your agreement with us:

Document	Where to find it	What it does
Privacy Policy	orbt.social/policy	Explains what personal information we collect, why, who we share it with, how long we keep it, and your privacy rights.
Community Guidelines and Safety Policy	orbt.social/safety	The rules for how members behave, how to report someone, and what happens after a report. Breaking these rules is a breach of these Terms.

Two further pages are provided for information only and are not incorporated into these Terms: the Cookie Notice at orbt.social/cookies, which describes cookies and similar storage technologies used on our website, and the account deletion instructions at orbt.social/delete-account, which walk you through closing your account. On what we collect, keep, and delete, the Privacy Policy and Section 6.4 of these Terms are the controlling descriptions.

If there is a direct conflict between these Terms and the Privacy Policy, the Privacy Policy controls on privacy matters and these Terms control on everything else. If there is a direct conflict between these Terms and the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy, these Terms control. In particular, where the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy describes how blocking works, how reporting works, or where meetups happen, Section 4 of these Terms is the accurate and controlling description.

Where the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy describes how we operate, it describes our current practice. It is not a guarantee about any individual meetup. Each of these documents is current as of the "Last updated" date on it. If any of them turns out to be inconsistent with what we actually do, what we actually do does not become the term — we will correct the document.

1.3 You must be 18 or older

The Services are for adults only. You must be at least 18 years old to apply, to hold an Orbt account, to RSVP to an Orbt invitation, or to attend an Orbt meetup. There are no exceptions. By accepting these Terms you represent that you are at least 18.

We ask for your full date of birth on the application, we check it when your application arrives, and we reject any application showing an age under 18. We do not verify your age against a government-issued ID or any other document — see Section 4.1 — so our check confirms what you told us, not who you are. Do not assume that anyone you meet has had their age verified. Nobody has.

If we learn that someone under 18 has applied, holds an account, or attended a meetup, we will suspend the account immediately and delete the application, any account, the photograph, and every other piece of personal information we hold about that person, and instruct our service providers to do the same. We do this whether or not anyone asks us to, and we do not require the person to be able to log in. If you believe someone under 18 is using Orbt, tell us at hello@orbt.social and we will act on it. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18, and we do not use any personal information we receive from someone under 18 for any purpose other than deleting it.

1.4 You are agreeing on your own behalf

You may use the Services only as an individual, for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not accept these Terms on behalf of a company, an organization, or another person, and you may not use the Services on behalf of anyone else.

1.5 Changes to these Terms, and how they apply to existing members

We may change these Terms. When we do:

• We will post the updated Terms at orbt.social/terms and update the "Last updated" date at the top.
• For any change that materially affects your rights or obligations, we will give you at least 7 days' notice before the change takes effect, by email to the address on your account and by posting the updated Terms (see Section 14.1).
• Changes take effect immediately, without advance notice, only where the change (a) relates to a new feature that did not exist before, (b) is required by law or by a court or regulator, (c) addresses a security issue, or (d) fixes an error or typo that does not change the meaning of a clause.

Your continued use of the Services after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms — except as set out in the next two paragraphs, which override that rule.

Sections that need your actual agreement, not your silence. Section 4.2 (assumption of risk), Section 4.4 (release), Section 4.5 (waiver of unknown claims), Section 13.7 (class action waiver), Section 13.8 (jury trial waiver), and the agreement to arbitrate in Section 13.3 apply to you only from the date you affirmatively accept them — by ticking the acceptance box on the application form, by clicking the acceptance link in the email we send you, or by tapping "I agree" on an in-app notice if and when we build one. Continued use alone is never acceptance of those Sections, and never acceptance of a later change to them.

Existing members and pending applicants. If you held an Orbt account, or had submitted an application, before August 8, 2026, these Terms take effect for you on September 7, 2026 — 30 days after we published them. We are giving you that notice by email, and we will ask you to accept these Terms affirmatively. Until September 7, 2026, and until you affirmatively accept them, your previous Terms and Conditions govern the subjects listed in the paragraph above.

If you applied but were never approved, you have no account and no in-app messaging, so we will give notice to the email address on your application and by posting the updated Terms at orbt.social/terms. If we cannot reach you by email, a change to Section 4.4 or to Section 13 does not take effect as to you until we do.

Changes to Section 13 (arbitration) get their own opt-out right. See Section 13.5.

1.6 Notice about how this document is written

These Terms are written to be read. We have used plain English wherever we can.

Some passages are in capital letters and set apart from the rest of the text. Those are the parts that limit our liability, allocate risk to you, or waive rights you would otherwise have. We have set them apart so that you actually read them, and by accepting these Terms you confirm that you have read them.

The "In short" summaries at the head of each section are there to help you navigate. They are not operative terms; where a summary and the detailed text differ, the detailed text controls.

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2. WHAT ORBT IS — AND WHAT IT IS NOT

In short: Orbt introduces small groups of people who then meet in person, usually at a public venue. We do not guarantee that you will be matched, that a group will form, when it will happen, or that you will like the people you meet.

2.1 How the Services work today

1. You apply. You fill in an application at orbt.social/apply or in the app. You tell us about yourself, upload a photo, answer questions about how you like to socialize, and — in cities where booking is open — tell us what kind of activity you want, which days work, which neighborhood, and which week.
2. A person at Orbt reviews your application. Review is manual. We may approve or decline any application, for any lawful reason or for no stated reason. We are not required to tell you why.
3. If you are approved, we create an account for you and email you an invitation with a temporary password so you can sign in and download the Orbt app. That account holds the details you gave us on the application, including your date of birth and, where we could use it, your phone number. Our emails are plain text. Our email provider records whether one was delivered or bounced and, where link tracking is switched on, whether a link in it was clicked — it cannot tell us whether you opened it. See Section 14.2 and our Privacy Policy.
4. We try to match you into a small group. Group size is set by our matching system and may change as we tune it. Today, a group is four people, including you — you and three other people. We call a matched group a crew; in these Terms, "group" and "crew" mean the same thing. We do not guarantee that any particular number of people will be matched into your group or will attend.
5. If a group forms, we tell you the venue, the date and the time, and open a group chat so you can coordinate.
6. You go and meet them. You get yourself there and back. You order and pay for whatever you consume at the venue, unless we tell you in writing that something is included.

Separately, a member may create a gathering of their own and invite people using an invitation link. Those are member-organized. We do not choose or check where they happen. See Sections 2.6 and 4.13.

2.2 What Orbt is not

Orbt is not:

• a romantic or sexual matchmaking service. Orbt matches small groups of people for platonic, in-person social activities. We do not match people for dating, romance, or intimate relationships, we do not offer one-to-one introductions for that purpose, we do not present anyone to you as a romantic prospect, and members are asked not to treat meetups as dates. Some state laws regulating dating, social referral, or introduction services may nonetheless apply to us. Where they do, we comply with them, and Section 7.4 sets out cancellation rights we grant whether or not those laws apply;
• an escort, companionship, or social-escort service of any kind;
• an employer, agent, partner, or representative of any venue, restaurant, bar, café, or other business;
• a background screening company, an identity verification service, or a licensed investigator;
• a security service, a chaperone service, or an emergency service;
• a transportation provider;
• a food or beverage provider, and we hold no liquor license.

2.3 No guarantee of results

We do not promise any outcome. Specifically, and without limiting Section 11:

• We do not guarantee that you will be approved.
• We do not guarantee that you will be matched, that a group will ever form for you, or how long it will take.
• We do not guarantee how many people will be in your group, that everyone matched will show up, or that a meetup will happen at all. We may change group size, and we will update these Terms and tell you when we do.
• We do not guarantee that a meetup will happen on any particular date, at any particular time, or at any particular venue. Plans change, venues close, and people cancel. We may reschedule, relocate, or cancel a meetup.
• We do not guarantee that you will enjoy a meetup, get along with anyone you meet, make a friend, or find the experience worthwhile.
• We do not guarantee that any other member's information is accurate, or that any member is who they say they are.

Matching is a best-effort process that depends on who else has applied, when, and where. In a new city or a quiet week, there may not be enough compatible people to form a group of four.

2.4 Where the Services are available

Orbt is currently available only in Boston, Massachusetts, United States — today, the Somerville area — and only to people in the United States. You may be able to submit an application from another US city so that we can tell you when we launch there, but submitting that application does not entitle you to anything. We may add, pause, or withdraw cities and neighborhoods at any time.

We are not offering the Services outside the United States. If you apply from outside the United States we may decline your application and delete the information you submitted. If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, please do not apply — we are not currently set up to provide the Services, or to handle your personal data, in accordance with the law that applies to you.

2.5 Changes to the Services

We may change, add, or remove any part of the Services at any time, and we may stop offering the Services entirely. We will try to give reasonable notice before removing something you rely on, but we are not required to. We are not liable to you or anyone else for modifying, suspending, or discontinuing any part of the Services, except where Section 7 says otherwise about paid memberships.

2.6 Definitions

• "Meetup" means any in-person gathering you attend that you learned of, were invited to, were matched into, or arranged through the Services — whether organized by Orbt or by a member — including a gathering created through an invitation link, and including any continuation of that gathering at another location on the same occasion.
• "Orbt-Organized Meetup" means a Meetup for which Orbt matched the group and selected or suggested the venue.
• "Member-Organized Meetup" means any other Meetup, including one created through an invitation link.
• "Guest" means a person who attends a Member-Organized Meetup through an invitation link without holding an Orbt account.
• "Member" means a person who has applied for, holds, or held an Orbt account.

Sections 4, 5, 11, 12 and 13 apply to all Meetups, whoever organized them.

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3. ELIGIBILITY, YOUR ACCOUNT, REFERRALS, AND GUESTS

In short: One account per person, real information, keep your login safe, and we can decline or revoke membership. Referral links show your name to whoever opens them. Section 3.7 explains where guests stand.

3.1 Eligibility

To use the Services you must:

• be at least 18 years old;
• be able to enter into a binding contract with us;
• not be barred from using the Services under the law of the United States or of the place you live;
• represent to us, and we rely on your representation, that you are not a registered sex offender and are not subject to any court order, probation or parole condition, restraining order, or condition of release restricting your contact with other people. This is your promise to us, not something we check. We do not verify it and we have no way to verify it — see Section 4.1. Do not assume any other member has been checked, because none of them has. Giving us a false representation here is a material breach of these Terms and grounds for immediate permanent removal, and may be a criminal offense;
• not have been previously removed, suspended, or banned from the Services (unless we have expressly reinstated you in writing); and
• comply with these Terms and the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy.

3.2 One account, real information

• One account per person. You may not create or hold more than one Orbt account.
• Real information. The name you give us must be your real first name. Your photo must be a current, unedited photo that clearly shows you and only you. Your date of birth, city, and contact details must be accurate. Keep them up to date.
• No impersonation. Do not create an account in someone else's name, use someone else's photo, or misrepresent your identity, age, or affiliation.
• No transfers. Your account is personal to you. You may not sell, rent, lend, gift, or transfer your account, and you may not let anyone else use it. You may not bring an uninvited guest to an Orbt-Organized Meetup in place of, or in addition to, yourself.

3.3 Account security

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for everything that happens on your account. Tell us immediately at hello@orbt.social if you think someone else has access to your account. We are not liable for losses caused by someone else using your account, except to the extent the loss was caused by our own failure to use reasonable security measures.

3.4 Our discretion over membership, and what our matching uses

Orbt is a curated, application-based community. We may decline an application, decline to match you, pause your membership, or end your membership at any time, at our discretion, for any lawful reason.

We exercise that discretion in line with these Terms and the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy, in good faith, and on the basis of the information available to us — typically reports from other members, our own observations, information you gave us, non-payment (if and when we charge), or a legal requirement.

We do not make approval, removal, suspension, or matching decisions on the basis of your race, color, religion or religious dietary practice, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, disability or health condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, or marital or relationship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

What our matching actually uses. We put you in a pool with other members who chose the same kind of activity, the same time window, and the same neighborhood. We then score candidate groups of four and pick the strongest one. The information our matching system reads about you is:

• the activity, the time of day and the neighborhood you selected, and the days you said work for you. The week you asked for, the city recorded on your booking and the availability on your profile are stored but are not read by the matching system today;
• the things the compatibility score is actually calculated from — the kind of outing you said you want, your social energy, and your interests across music, books, film, arts and hobbies, and sport; and
• your conversation style, your sense of humor, your life stage, how long you have lived in the city, your career field, and your age calculated from your date of birth.

We do not use your nationality or cultural background, your religion or dietary practice, your relationship status, your gender, your languages, or your school as matching inputs. Our application does ask for your nationality, and it appears on your profile — but it is not a matching input, and it is not a basis on which we approve or decline anyone. Not being a matching input is not the same as not leaving your device: some of these answers — including your nationality, your dietary preference and your school — are still sent to our AI provider when it writes your group's summary, and Section 6.2(4) lists exactly what is sent. If we ever change any of this, we will tell you before the change takes effect and update this section.

Our matching system does not currently read block lists, so blocking someone does not keep the two of you out of the same group. Section 4.9 explains what a block does and does not do, and how to ask us to exclude someone by hand — please read it.

Separately from all of that, you can tell us what kind of people you would like to meet. Those preferences are yours, you choose what to say, and you may leave any optional field blank. They stay on your application record and are not returned by the profile view other members can reach — Section 6.2(3) explains what is.

We are not obliged to give you a reason for a membership decision, and in safety cases we often will not, because doing so can identify the person who reported you. See Section 10.

3.5 No re-registration after removal

If we permanently remove you from the Services, you may not apply again, create a new account, RSVP to an invitation, or attend a Meetup — including under a different name, email address, phone number, or device — unless we reinstate you in writing. Attempting to evade a removal is itself a breach of these Terms, and any account created that way may be closed without notice.

3.6 Referrals and invitation links

We may give you a personal referral link so you can invite people you know.

• Your first name is shown to anyone who opens your link, so they know who invited them — before they sign in, and whether or not you were the person who sent it to them. Links can be forwarded, shared, or found. Do not share your referral link anywhere you would not be comfortable putting your name.
• What we record. If someone applies using your link, we record that the two of you are connected on the applicant's application record. We currently keep that record indefinitely, and closing your account does not by itself remove it — our Privacy Policy explains why and what we are changing. We use it to give credit for referrals and to prevent abuse.
• What we do not tell you. We do not share an applicant's information with the person who referred them, and we do not tell you what anyone did with your link beyond whether it was used.
• Referrals earn nothing today. We do not pay, credit, discount, or reward referrals. If we ever do, we will publish the rules first, tell you what the reward is and what information it is based on, and give you a way to say no — and taking part will always be optional.
• Rules. One person, one account (Section 3.2). Do not refer yourself, create accounts to claim referrals, buy or sell referral links, generate, guess, scrape, test or bulk-distribute referral codes, post links on coupon or deal sites, or send them to people who did not ask. We may withhold or reverse credit and remove your link if we reasonably believe any of that happened.

3.7 Guests and people who receive an Orbt invitation link

Sometimes a member shares an Orbt invitation link with someone who is not a member.

• You must be at least 18 to open an invitation link, RSVP, or attend. There are no exceptions.
• Read Section 4 before you go. It tells you what we have and have not done. We have not reviewed, approved, background-checked, or verified you, and we have not done any of those things for the host or for anyone else who will be there. Section 4.1 is true of every person at that table.
• The RSVP form does not currently ask you to tick a box accepting these Terms, and we do not claim that filling it in makes you a signatory to a contract with us. What it collects is the name and email you type, so we can tell the host you are coming; our bot-protection provider also receives your IP address so we can tell you are not a robot. Our Privacy Policy at orbt.social/policy explains the rest.
• If you choose to attend, you attend on the basis set out in these Terms — in particular Section 4 (meetups, other members, and your safety, including the assumption of risk in 4.2 and the release in 4.4), Section 5 (conduct), Section 11 (disclaimers and limitation of liability), Section 12 (indemnification), and Section 13 (dispute resolution, including your right to opt out of arbitration under 13.5 and your rights under 13.1(a)). Those Sections apply to you to the fullest extent the law allows on the basis of the notice given to you here. If you do not agree to them, do not RSVP and do not attend.

If you are a member sharing an invitation link: you are responsible for who you share it with. Anyone who has the link can see the host's first name, what the gathering is, the venue name and address, the date and time, and how many people have said yes. Do not share a link publicly, do not forward one the host did not agree to, and do not invite anyone under 18.

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4. MEETUPS, OTHER MEMBERS, AND YOUR SAFETY

Read this whole section. It is the most important part of these Terms.

In short: We do not run background checks. We do not verify anyone's identity. We do not inspect venues. Meeting people you don't know carries real risk, including the risk of crime, and you accept that risk. We are not responsible for what other members do. Restaurants and bars are independent businesses we do not control. If you are in danger, call 911, not us.

4.1 WHAT OUR REVIEW IS — AND WHAT IT IS NOT

Every application is read by a person at Orbt before it is approved. It is important that you understand exactly what that review is.

Our review is: a human reading the application you submitted — your answers, your photo, and your stated preferences — and making a judgment about whether you are a fit for the kind of small-group meetups we organize and whether the application appears genuine.

Our review is not any of the following, and approval does not mean any of the following happened:

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We do not screen for criminal history and we do not check any registry. Section 3.1 requires every member to represent that they are eligible; we rely on that representation and we do not verify it. Because we do not check, we do not screen anyone in or out on the basis of a conviction record. Treat every member as someone whose background is unknown to us, because it is.

We reserve the right — but assume no obligation — to review public records, search publicly available information, or investigate a member at any time, including after a report. If we ever do any of that, it does not create an obligation to do it again, for that member or for anyone else, and it still does not make anyone safe. Screening tools of every kind are incomplete. They miss people. They are not a guarantee of safety and you should not treat them as one.

If we ever decide to use a third-party background or identity screening service, we will tell you first, obtain your separate written authorization, and give you the notices and the opportunity to dispute that the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires, before we use anything it returns to make a decision about your membership.

About your photo. Your profile photo is shown to the members you are matched with, and it is stored as a file at a web address with our cloud provider. That address is long and random and we do not publish it — but it is not password-protected and it does not expire. Anyone who obtains it can open the file without logging in, including services we use to run the group chat, and it is served with a cache header that lets browsers and networks keep a copy for up to a year. We cannot control what someone does with a copy once they have it. Upload a photo you are comfortable having seen by the people you meet, and do not upload anything else. See Sections 6.2 and 6.4.

Do not rely on the fact that someone was approved. Use the same judgment you would use meeting anyone for the first time.

4.2 YOUR ASSUMPTION OF RISK

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Every time you book a meetup, and every time you attend one, you represent to us that:

1. you are at least 18 years old;
2. you are attending voluntarily, and no one at Orbt required you to attend or to stay;
3. you are physically and mentally able to participate in the activity as described;
4. you have decided for yourself whether the venue and the activity are appropriate for you; and
5. any dietary restriction, food allergy, medical condition, mobility need, or accessibility requirement you have is yours to raise directly with the venue — see Sections 4.6 and 4.8.

We do not show you a separate confirmation screen at the booking step. These representations are made by the act of booking and the act of attending, each time, whether or not we ask you to confirm them again.

You decide whether to attend. You decide whether to stay. You may leave any meetup at any time, for any reason or no reason, and it will not count against you with us. If you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, leave.

4.3 We do not control what members do

We introduce people. We do not supervise them, chaperone them, attend meetups with them, or stand behind them. Orbt staff are not present at meetups unless we have told you in writing that a specific event is hosted by us.

Member content is member content. Anything a member writes in a group chat, in a profile, or in an application is that member's content, not ours. We have the right but not the obligation to monitor, review, screen, edit, refuse, or remove any content or any member. If we choose to review something, that does not create a duty to review anything else. We are an interactive computer service provider under 47 U.S.C. § 230, and nothing in these Terms should be read as us adopting, endorsing, or taking responsibility for content created by members.

Content we create. Some of what you see in the app is written by us or by an automated system on our behalf — in particular the short summary of what your group has in common, and the highlights we show before a meetup. That is our content, not a member's, and Section 230 does not apply to it. It is generated from what members told us about themselves, and it can be wrong, out of date, or clumsy. It is not a description of anyone's character and it is not a verification of anything. If something we published about you is wrong, tell us at hello@orbt.social and we will correct or remove it. You can also ask us to switch it off — see Section 6.2(4).

The group chat runs on a third-party chat platform. That provider stores your messages, the name shown on your chat account, and your profile picture on its own systems in the United States, under its own retention practices. Closing your Orbt account does not by itself delete your chat user — email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Delete Everything" and we will ask the provider to delete it. Either way, messages you already sent may remain visible to the people you sent them to. Treat a group chat the way you would treat any group message thread: anything you write there can be screenshotted, saved, or forwarded by the people in it, and we cannot take it back for you. Our Privacy Policy names the provider.

We may access group chat content and other member communications where we reasonably need to in order to investigate a report, enforce these Terms, operate the Services, protect someone's safety, or comply with the law. We do not routinely read member conversations.

4.4 RELEASE AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE

In exchange for being allowed to apply for and participate in Orbt meetups — which you are under no obligation to do — and having had the opportunity to read this Section, to ask us questions at hello@orbt.social, and to decline these Terms and not participate, you agree as follows. By accepting these Terms you confirm that you have read this Section 4.4 and Section 4.2, that you understand you are giving up legal rights including the right to sue for injuries caused by ordinary negligence, and that you agree to them freely and voluntarily.

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What this release does NOT cover. This release does not apply to, and nothing in these Terms limits or releases:

1. gross negligence, recklessness, willful or wanton misconduct, or intentional wrongdoing by an Orbt Party;
2. fraud, fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation, deception, false promise, or concealment by an Orbt Party;
3. violation of law by an Orbt Party;
4. any right or remedy under the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, M.G.L. c. 93A, which we do not ask you to waive and which you cannot be required to waive;
5. any right or remedy under the consumer protection statute of the state where you live, which we do not ask you to waive; or
6. any liability, right, or remedy that cannot lawfully be released, limited, or waived under the law that applies to you.

State savings clause. This release applies only to the maximum extent permitted by the law of the state where you live and the state where the relevant events occurred. Some states restrict or prohibit pre-injury releases of liability for personal injury — including, without limitation, Virginia, Louisiana, Montana, New York (for facilities charging a fee for recreational use), Hawaii, and Wisconsin — and California Civil Code § 1668 voids any contract that purports to exempt a party from responsibility for fraud, willful injury, or violation of law. Where and to the extent this release is not permitted, it does not apply, and the rest of these Terms remain in full force.

4.5 California Civil Code § 1542 waiver

If you are a California resident, or if California law otherwise applies to you, you waive California Civil Code § 1542, which reads:

> "A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party."

You also waive any similar law of any other state or jurisdiction. This waiver does not extend to any claim excluded from the release by Section 4.4 — including claims based on fraud, deception, false promise, misrepresentation, concealment, unconscionable commercial practice, willful injury, or violation of law, none of which are released.

4.6 Venues, accessibility, and other third parties

Venues are independent businesses. We do not own, operate, staff, control, or supervise them.

• We do not vet venues. We choose venues from public listings, availability, and general familiarity with a neighborhood. We do not inspect premises, and we do not check any venue's licenses, permits, insurance, health or fire inspection history, security arrangements, staffing, accessibility, or record of past incidents. A venue appearing in your meetup details means we thought it was a reasonable place to have coffee or dinner — nothing more.
• We select or suggest a venue for an Orbt-Organized Meetup and tell you where and when to meet. That is the extent of our involvement in the venue. For a Member-Organized Meetup we do not select the venue at all — see Section 4.13.
• We are not a party to any contract between you and a venue. When you order, eat, drink, or pay at a venue, that transaction is between you and the venue.
• We do not employ, direct, or supervise any venue's staff, and we are not responsible for their conduct.
• Everything about the venue is the venue's responsibility: the condition and safety of its premises, its licensing and permits, food preparation and food safety, hygiene, service of alcohol, security, staffing, accessibility, seating, whether a table is available, and whether it is open at all.
• We do not guarantee that a venue will hold a reservation, that a table will be available, that the venue can accommodate your dietary or accessibility needs, or that the experience will meet any standard of quality.
• You pay your own bill. Unless we tell you in writing that a specific item is included, the cost of anything you order or consume at a venue is yours, is not part of any Orbt membership fee, and is not something we collect, hold, or refund.

Accessibility. There is no accessibility field in the application or the booking flow today — email is how you tell us. If you have an accessibility requirement, email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Accessibility" before we finalize your group, and we will make reasonable efforts to select a venue that meets it, or to offer you a different group. We cannot inspect venues or guarantee any venue's accessibility, and we encourage you to confirm directly with the venue — but tell us, and we will try.

If a venue is closed, oversubscribed, or otherwise unable to host, we will try to tell the group, but we are not responsible for wasted time, travel costs, or any other loss.

4.7 Alcohol

• Orbt does not sell, serve, furnish, supply, purchase, or provide alcohol. We hold no liquor license. We do not open tabs, buy rounds, pre-purchase drinks, or include alcohol in any price.
• If alcohol is available at a venue, it is sold and served by that venue under that venue's license and that venue's responsibility.
• You must be 21 or older to purchase or consume alcohol in the United States. Orbt membership starts at 18, so members at the same table may be under 21. If you are under 21, do not purchase, accept, or consume alcohol at a meetup. If you are 21 or over, do not buy, order, hand over, or share alcohol with anyone at a meetup who is or may be under 21 — doing so is a crime in Massachusetts under M.G.L. c. 138 § 34 and in every other state, and it is a breach of these Terms and of the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy that will normally result in removal from the Services. If you are not certain of someone's age, do not buy them a drink.
• Nobody at an Orbt meetup has to drink. Choosing not to drink is always fine, and pressuring another member to drink is a violation of these Terms and of the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy — report it.
• If you drink, that is your decision and your responsibility. You are responsible for how much you consume, for your own conduct while under the influence, and for getting yourself home safely. Do not drive impaired.
• Do not attend a meetup already intoxicated, and do not bring alcohol or any controlled substance to a meetup.

4.8 Food, allergies, and dietary information

• Orbt does not prepare, cook, handle, serve, or sell any food or beverage.
• We may collect dietary preferences and restrictions when you apply. We use them to help choose a cuisine or a venue for your group, and to pass a preference to the venue if you ask us to. They are not a matching input — they play no part in deciding who you are seated with. You should also know that your dietary preference is currently included in the profile we send to our AI provider when it writes your group's shared-interest summary — see Section 6.2(4), which lists exactly what is sent and tells you how to ask us to switch it off. We do not use dietary information for advertising or profiling, and we do not sell it.
• Some dietary information can reveal your religion or your health — for example halal, kosher, or a nut allergy. We treat that as sensitive information. You are never required to give it to us, you can remove it at any time, and California residents can ask us to limit its use as described in our Privacy Policy. Telling us is a convenience, not a guarantee.
• We do not verify a venue's ingredients, preparation methods, kitchen practices, cross-contamination controls, or allergen handling, and we cannot and do not guarantee the absence of any allergen or of an allergic reaction.
• If you have a food allergy, intolerance, medical dietary requirement, or religious dietary requirement, you must confirm it directly with the venue and with the person serving you, every time. Do not rely on Orbt having passed anything along. Passing along a preference is not a warranty that the venue received it, understood it, or can meet it.
• If your allergy is severe, carry whatever medication you need and tell someone at the table. We strongly encourage this, and we cannot do it for you.

4.9 Reporting, blocking, and what we do about it

How to report. You can report a member from a direct chat, a crew chat, or the crew screen, or by emailing hello@orbt.social. Email is the route we control end to end — read the first bullet below before you choose. Report anything that breaks Section 5 or the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy, and anything that made you feel unsafe.

What we commit to do — and these are commitments about process, not promises about outcome:

• Every report that reaches us is recorded, and a person on our team reads it. Our own systems do not yet have a report inbox — a report you make inside the chat goes to the company that runs our chat, not to us — so if you want to be certain a report reached Orbt, email hello@orbt.social. That mailbox is monitored by a person and it is the only route we control end to end.
• We do not tell the person you reported who reported them. We will not identify you to them, and our team is instructed not to. We cannot control what a court, a regulator, or the police require of us: if we are ordered by legal process to disclose a report, or if we refer a matter to law enforcement and you are a witness to it, your identity may become known through that process. Where we are permitted to, we will tell you before your identity is disclosed in response to legal process.
• These commitments do not expire. We will not tell the person you reported who reported them, whether or not you still have an Orbt account, and whether or not they still do.
• We review reports as promptly as we reasonably can and look at whether there is a pattern across reports.
• When we receive a report alleging violence, a threat of violence, sexual misconduct, stalking, or conduct involving a minor, a person on our team treats it as a priority and, where we think it is warranted, suspends the reported member from being matched into new groups and removes them from any group that has not yet met, while we review. That step is taken by a person, not automatically. It is a step we take about the conduct reported. It does not mean we have decided anything about the report, and it is not a finding against anyone.
• Where we decide action is warranted, we may issue a warning, remove a member from upcoming groups, suspend an account, or remove a member permanently. Section 5.4 lists conduct that will normally lead to immediate permanent removal.
• We may not be able to tell you what we decided, because doing so can identify the reporter or interfere with an investigation.

We will not retaliate against you for reporting. Making a good-faith report — even one we cannot substantiate, and even about a member we decide not to remove — will never on its own cause us to suspend, restrict, deprioritize, or remove your membership, and it will not affect how we match you. Suspending someone while we investigate is a step we take about the conduct reported, not about the person who reported it. If you believe you were penalized for reporting, email hello@orbt.social and a person will review it.

What we do not promise: we do not promise any particular outcome, any particular timeline, that we will be able to determine what happened, that any action we take will prevent future harm, or that we will contact other people who had contact with the member you reported. We do not monitor meetups and we cannot intervene in real time.

Blocking is different from reporting. When you block a member, we ask our chat provider to stop that member being able to message you. Blocking does not currently affect matching at all: our matching system does not read block lists, so a block will not on its own keep you and that member out of the same group. If you do not want to be matched with someone again, email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Do Not Match" and a person will exclude them by hand.

We are building the matching exclusion now, and we will update this Section when it is live. Until it is, blocking has no effect on matching at all — it neither excludes anyone from your group nor slows your matching down. Blocking does not tell us anything — if something happened, report it as well, and if you believe a block has not been honored in chat, email hello@orbt.social immediately.

4.10 EMERGENCIES — CALL 911, NOT US

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After you are safe, please report it to us at hello@orbt.social so we can act on our side. Reporting to us is not a substitute for reporting to the police, and nothing in these Terms discourages you from contacting law enforcement, a regulator, or a lawyer at any time. See Section 5.7.

4.11 Showing up, cancelling, and no-shows

Small groups only work if people turn up.

• If you are matched into a group and confirmed, show up.
• If you cannot make it, cancel in the app as early as you can so we can try to fill your seat. Cancelling in advance is fine and normal.
• Not showing up without cancelling affects everyone else at the table. Groups are small — four people — so one no-show is a quarter of the group. Repeated no-shows are treated as a pattern and may result in your removal from upcoming groups, suspension, or permanent removal from the Services.
• Leaving a meetup early, for any reason, is not a no-show and will not count against you. If you left because you felt unsafe, tell us at hello@orbt.social.
• We do not charge no-show fees today. If we ever introduce one, we will tell you the amount and the rules before it applies to you, and it will only apply to bookings you make afterwards.

4.12 Community Guidelines and Safety Policy

The Community Guidelines and Safety Policy at orbt.social/safety is part of these Terms. Read it before your first meetup. It sets out how to prepare, what to expect, the rules for behavior, how reporting and blocking work, and what happens after a report. Breaking it is a breach of these Terms and may result in suspension or removal.

Two things to read together with it. Where it describes venues, it is describing meetups we organize — we schedule those at public venues and we do not organize meetups at anyone's home. Gatherings a member creates through an invitation link are organized by that member, not by us, and we do not choose or check where they happen (Section 4.13). And where it describes blocking, Section 4.9 above is the accurate description of what a block does and does not achieve.

4.13 Member-Organized Meetups and Guests

Where a member creates a gathering and invites people, that member is the organizer, not Orbt.

• We do not select, inspect, approve, or supervise the location. We do not review who is invited. We do not verify that the location is a public venue.
• Sections 4.1 through 4.11 apply in full, and the release in Section 4.4 extends to the acts and omissions of the organizing member.
• If you attend as a Guest, these Terms — including Section 4.2, Section 4.4 and Section 13 — apply to you on the basis described in Section 3.7. Read Section 3.7 before you RSVP.
• If you are the organizing member, you are responsible for the gathering you created, for who you invited, and for your own conduct. You must not organize a gathering at a private residence for people you have not met, you must not invite anyone under 18, and Section 5 applies to you throughout.
• Anyone who has the invitation link can see the host's first name, what the gathering is, the venue name and address, the date and time, and how many people have said yes. Share it accordingly.

4.14 What happens after a meetup — feedback about other members

After a meetup we may ask you how it went. You may be asked to rate the meetup, to say whether you would like to be matched with each person again, and to add short private notes. You should know how this works, because the other three people are asked the same questions about you.

• What the other people see. Saying you would like to meet someone again currently adds them to your own connections list straight away, whether or not they said the same about you — and any signed-in member can read another member's connections list, so a one-way yes is not private today. We are changing this so that a connection is created only when both of you say yes, and we will update this paragraph when we have. What no one sees either way is your rating, your notes, or how you answered about anyone else.
• What we do with it. We use it to improve matching and, together with reports, to help decide whether someone should stay in the community.
• What other people write about you. Other members answer the same questions about you. You cannot see their answers, because telling you would identify who said what and would stop people answering honestly. If you think a decision we made about you was based on something inaccurate, tell us at hello@orbt.social and a person will look at it.
• Nothing another member says in feedback is treated as a report of a rules violation unless they report it as one.
• Leaving a meetup early, for any reason, is not something we count against you — see Section 4.11.
• How long we keep it. We keep ratings and notes as part of our safety record. We do not currently delete them on a schedule, and closing your account does not delete them — reviews and notes are the content of the person who wrote them, so closing your account does not delete what other people wrote about a meetup you attended. If you want a note you wrote deleted, email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Delete My Notes" and we will delete it.
• Write about people the way you would want them to write about you. Knowingly false statements of fact about a member breach Section 5.5.

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5. MEMBER CONDUCT RULES

In short: Be a decent person, in person and in chat. The rules below are not exhaustive, and breaking any of them can get your account removed. Nothing in this section stops you telling the truth about your own experience or reporting anything to anyone.

5.1 How you treat other members

You will not:

• harass, bully, intimidate, threaten, stalk, or abuse any member, guest, or anyone connected to them;
• engage in sexual harassment or sexual misconduct of any kind, including unwanted sexual advances, unwanted touching, sexual comments after being asked to stop, sending sexual content that was not asked for, or any non-consensual sexual act;
• continue contacting a member after they have asked you to stop, blocked you, or left the group — including by finding them on another platform, at their workplace, or at their home;
• use slurs, or discriminate against or degrade any member on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, immigration status, or any other protected characteristic;
• share, publish, or forward another member's personal information — including their last name, phone number, email address, home or work address, employer, photos, or private messages — outside the group, without their permission. This rule never applies to any of the following, and we will never remove, suspend, or penalize you for any of them: reporting conduct to us, to the police, to any other law enforcement agency, to a regulator, or to an attorney general; speaking to a lawyer, a doctor, a therapist, a counselor, or a support service; warning someone you reasonably believe is at risk; giving a truthful account of your own experience, including naming the person involved, in any forum, at any time; or anything protected by the Speak Out Act of 2022, 42 U.S.C. § 19403, or by any other law. Nothing in these Terms is a confidentiality, nondisclosure, or non-disparagement agreement about sexual assault or sexual harassment, and we will not treat it as one;
• record, photograph, or film another member without their express permission, and never in a way that captures a private conversation without the consent of everyone in it. In Massachusetts, secretly recording an oral communication is a crime under M.G.L. c. 272, § 99, regardless of these Terms;
• act in a way that is violent, threatening, or physically unsafe;
• bring a weapon to a meetup, or bring or use illegal drugs at a meetup;
• attend a meetup while intoxicated or impaired;
• buy, order, hand over, or share alcohol with anyone at a meetup who is or may be under 21 (Section 4.7);
• misrepresent your identity, age, or photo to another member;
• attempt to extract money, gifts, loans, cryptocurrency, or financial information from another member, or run any romance, investment, or confidence scam; or
• do anything else that a reasonable person would understand as making a meetup unsafe or hostile.

5.2 What meetups are not for

Orbt meetups are for meeting people. They are not a sales channel. You will not:

• solicit, sell, promote, pitch, or advertise any product, service, investment, business opportunity, multi-level-marketing or network-marketing scheme, or fundraising campaign at a meetup or in a group chat;
• recruit members for a job, a religious or political organization, a study, a competing service, or a course, program, or coaching offer;
• collect members' contact details for a mailing list or any commercial purpose; or
• use the Services or a meetup for any commercial purpose, including market research or content creation, without our prior written consent.

5.3 How you use the Services

You will not:

• use the Services for any unlawful purpose, or in violation of any applicable law;
• scrape, crawl, harvest, index, or systematically collect data from the Services, or use any bot, spider, scraper, script, or other automated means to access the Services;
• generate, guess, enumerate, test, or bulk-distribute referral codes or invitation links;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of the app or any part of the Services, except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services, breach or circumvent any security or authentication measure, or interfere with or disrupt the Services or their infrastructure;
• upload or transmit malware, or any code designed to interfere with the operation of the Services or any member's device;
• create accounts by automated means, or create a second account after removal (Section 3.5);
• frame, mirror, or resell any part of the Services;
• use the Services to send spam, chain letters, or unsolicited promotional messages; or
• misrepresent your affiliation with Orbt, or hold yourself out as an Orbt employee, agent, or representative.

5.4 Zero tolerance

The following will normally result in immediate and permanent removal, and we may report them to law enforcement:

• any non-consensual sexual contact, sexual assault, or sexual harassment;
• violence or a credible threat of violence;
• stalking;
• bringing a weapon to a meetup;
• any conduct involving a minor;
• creating an account after we have removed you (Section 3.5).

5.5 Reviews, complaints, and what we will never do

We will never try to stop you from writing an honest review of Orbt or from telling anyone what your experience was. Nothing in these Terms restricts your ability to publish a truthful review, complaint, or assessment of the Services, in any forum, or to report us to a regulator.

We will never suspend, remove, restrict, deprioritize, or otherwise penalize you because of the content of a review, rating, or public statement about Orbt, our team, or our Services, however critical.

What you may not do is make knowingly false statements of fact about another member, publish another member's private information (subject to the carve-outs in Section 5.1), or engage in conduct that is independently unlawful — true threats, defamation, or doxxing. Those are prohibited because they harm people, not because they are unflattering to us.

5.6 Consequences

If you break these rules, we may — depending on what happened and on any pattern across reports — warn you, remove you from an upcoming group, restrict features, suspend your account, or remove you permanently. We are not required to warn you first, and for anything in Section 5.4 we will not. Nothing in this Section 5.6 applies to conduct protected by Section 5.5 or Section 5.7.

5.7 Nothing here silences you

No provision of these Terms — including Sections 5.1, 5.5, 6, 12, and 13 — restricts your ability to speak truthfully about your own experience of the Services or of any person you met through them, to report anything to any authority, or to seek help. We will not suspend, remove, or retaliate against you for doing any of those things, and we will not ask you to sign anything that does.

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6. YOUR CONTENT AND THE LICENSE YOU GIVE US

In short: What you upload is still yours. We need a limited license to run the service and to show your profile to the people you are matched with. We will not use your face in marketing unless you separately say yes. Read 6.2(3) and 6.4 carefully — they describe what other people can actually see, and what deletion does and does not reach.

6.1 Your content

"Your Content" means everything you submit to the Services: your profile photo, your name, your bio, your answers to our questions, your preferences, your messages in group chats, your reports, your reviews, ratings and notes about a meetup and about the people you met (Section 6.7), and anything else you upload or send.

You keep ownership of Your Content. These Terms do not transfer ownership of anything you create.

6.2 The license you give us

You grant Orbt a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, adapt (only for formatting, resizing, and compression), transmit, and display Your Content, solely for the following purposes:

1. operating and providing the Services to you — storing your profile, running the app, and delivering messages;
2. matching you — using your answers and preferences to decide which group you go into, as described in Section 3.4;
3. showing your profile to the members you are matched with. The other three people in your group can see your profile photo, your bio, your interests and favorites, your gender, your nationality, your languages, your city, your Instagram handle if you gave us one, and your personality and social-intent answers. That is the profile we intend you to have.

You should know that the profile endpoint our app calls currently returns your whole profile record to any signed-in member who requests it — including your email address, your phone number, your date of birth, your dietary information, your relationship status, your living situation, and how long you have lived in your city. We are cutting that response back to the fields listed above and we will update this paragraph when we have. Until then, treat everything on your profile as something another member can obtain. The one thing no member can see is anything you wrote in a report or in post-meetup feedback.

How your name appears depends on the surface. In some places your name is shown as your first name alone. In others — including the profile the app fetches for another member, and your connections list — it is your full first and last name. In group chat, your name appears as the full first and last name you gave us when you applied. We intend to reduce those to a first name and last initial, and we will update this paragraph when we do. In the meantime, do not give us a surname you are not willing to have the other people in your group see.

Three things worth knowing before you fill in your profile. First, the app is not a closed room: other signed-in Orbt members who are not in your group can retrieve your profile through the app's profile view. Second, that profile view returns every field on your profile record rather than the reduced version described above — including your nationality, your contact details and your date of birth. What you told us about the kind of people you would like to meet stays on your application record and is not returned by it. Third, if you give us your Instagram handle it becomes part of that profile, which means other members can find and contact you off the Services, where our rules and our ability to help you do not reach — leave it blank if you do not want that.

If you do not want your photo visible to the other people in your group, do not use the Services, because the photo is how a group finds each other at a table. Your profile photo is stored with our cloud provider and served from a web address that is not password-protected and does not expire. The address is long and random and we do not publish it, but anyone who obtains it can view your photo without logging in. Our chat provider also receives that address in order to display your picture in group chat.

Where we pass any of this information to a service provider, Section 6.2(4) and our Privacy Policy set out what each provider receives;

1. generating introductions, shared-interest summaries, and compatibility highlights — for your group as a whole and for you and another member individually — using automated systems including a third-party artificial-intelligence provider. To do this we send that provider a limited profile for each person. Today that profile includes: your first name; the account identifier we hold for you; your bio; your interests and favorites; your languages; your city; your job title and career field; your school; your life stage; your gender; your nationality; your dietary preference; your relationship status; your living situation; how long you have lived in your city; the availability you gave us; and your full set of personality, matching-preference and social-preference answers. We do not send your surname, your email address, your phone number, your date of birth, or any payment information. Our Privacy Policy names the provider. We are cutting that payload back to what the summaries actually need, and we will update this list when we do.

This is switched on by default. You can ask us to switch it off at any time by emailing hello@orbt.social with the subject line "No AI summaries". There is no in-app switch for it today, and honoring the request is a manual step a person takes before your next group is formed rather than something the system enforces. Tell us before you are matched and we will keep you out of that group's summary. We are building a proper switch and will update this paragraph when it exists. Asking us to switch it off does not affect your ability to be matched;

1. investigating reports, enforcing these Terms, and keeping records we need for safety and legal purposes; and
2. complying with the law and responding to lawful requests.

The license lasts as long as Your Content is on the Services. When you delete content or close your account, we stop using it under this license for the purposes above, subject to Section 6.4.

We may sublicense this license only to the service providers who host, transmit, or process content on our behalf (for example our cloud host, our chat provider, and our AI provider), and only so they can do that work for us. We may not sell it or license it as a standalone asset. We may assign it as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or substantially all of our business, in which case the same restrictions continue to apply.

We will not sell Your Content, license it to advertisers or data brokers, or use it to train a general-purpose AI model, and we never will under this license.

6.3 Marketing use requires separate opt-in

We will not use your name, photo, likeness, or quotes in advertising, on our website, on social media, or in any other marketing material unless you separately and expressly opt in. That opt-in will be a specific request, not a box buried in these Terms, it will say what we want to use and where, and you can withdraw it at any time by emailing hello@orbt.social. We will stop using the material in new placements promptly and remove it from placements we control within a reasonable time; we cannot recall material that has already been distributed or reposted by others.

Everything we publish that looks like a member is a member. We do not invent members, quotes, reviews, ratings, or stories, we do not pay for them, and we do not publish an illustration of a member without labelling it as one. If we ever show you an example rather than a real person, we will say so on the page.

Aggregated and de-identified statistics that do not identify you (for example, "members went to 300 meetups in Boston this year") are not covered by this section.

6.4 What happens to Your Content when you delete it

When you delete content or close your account, we stop using it under the license above and we delete it, except for the following, which we keep for the reasons set out in our Privacy Policy:

(a) records we are required to keep by law;

(b) records connected to a safety report, an investigation, or a legal dispute, including reports and notes another member made about a meetup you attended;

(c) security and fraud logs;

(d) content another member has already saved, screenshotted, or copied, which we cannot reach;

(e) copies held by our service providers on their own deletion schedules; and

(f) routine backups held by our cloud provider.

Four things you should know specifically.

• Your profile photo. Deleting your account removes your photo from your profile. The stored file itself is not removed by that process, and it stays at the same web address, which is not password-protected. If you want the file deleted, email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Delete Everything", saying it is the photo file you want removed, and we will delete it.
• Your application, your answers, and any booking. To have your application record, your personality answers, any queue entry for a booking, and your chat user deleted as well, email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Delete Everything" from the address on your account, and we will do it. Section 10.1 sets out the timescale.
• Other members' reviews and notes about a meetup you attended are their content, not yours — deleting your account does not delete them (Section 4.14).
• Content you posted in a group chat remains visible to the other people in that group, because it is part of their conversation.

Our Privacy Policy at orbt.social/policy is the authoritative description of what we keep and why. If this section and the Privacy Policy differ, the Privacy Policy controls.

6.5 Your promises about Your Content

You represent and warrant that:

• you own Your Content or have the rights necessary to grant the license in Section 6.2;
• your profile photo is a current photo of you, shows your face clearly, and does not show any other identifiable person;
• you will not upload a photo or other content showing another identifiable person without that person's permission;
• Your Content does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, publicity, or privacy rights;
• Your Content is not unlawful, defamatory, obscene, hateful, or sexually explicit; and
• Your Content does not include another person's private information.

We may remove any content that breaches this section, or that we reasonably believe breaches it, without notice.

6.6 Feedback about the product

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feature requests about how the Services work ("Feedback"), you assign it to us and we may use it for any purpose, commercially or otherwise, without compensating you, crediting you, or keeping it confidential. Do not send us Feedback you consider confidential or proprietary.

This section applies only to ideas and suggestions about how the Services work. It does not apply to Your Content as defined in Section 6.1, to a report you make about another member (Section 4.9), or to feedback, ratings, votes and notes about a meetup or about other members (Sections 4.14 and 6.7) — none of which is assigned to us.

6.7 Feedback about a meetup and about other members

Post-meetup ratings, votes and notes are described operationally in Section 4.14. For ownership:

• What you write about another member remains Your Content, licensed to us under Section 6.2 for the purposes in 6.2(2), 6.2(5) and 6.2(6). It is not assigned to us and it is not "Feedback" under Section 6.6.
• It is not shown to the person you wrote it about, and it is not shown to other members.
• We retain it, including after you or the other member closes an account, because it forms part of our safety record. Section 4.14 tells you how to ask us to delete a note you wrote.

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7. MEMBERSHIP, FEES, AND BILLING

In short: Orbt is free right now. We are not charging anyone, nobody has a subscription, and we do not ask for a payment method anywhere in the Services. If we ever start charging, we will tell you first, show you the price and the renewal terms, and get your separate express agreement before we take any money.

7.1 The Services are free today

As of the effective date of these Terms, Orbt does not charge for membership, for applying, for being matched, or for attending a meetup, and no member is being billed.

We do not collect a payment method anywhere in the Services, and there is nothing to cancel. We will never charge you without first showing you a price and asking you to agree to it at the point of sale, as described in Section 7.2. If you have not gone through that flow, you have not been charged and you have no subscription. We do not store your full payment card number at any time; if we introduce payment, it will be handled by Apple, Google, or a payment processor.

If you ever see a payment screen in Orbt, these Terms will have changed and Section 7.2 will have been complied with first.

You still pay the venue for whatever you order. See Section 4.6.

About the prices you may have seen. Our website and app describe prices we expect to charge in the future. Those are estimates and they may change before we begin charging. Nothing on our website or in our marketing is a charge, an offer, or a binding price, and we will not charge you any amount you have not been shown and separately agreed to under Section 7.2. If we have made you a specific price commitment — for example a founding-member rate — we will honor it, and Section 14.8 does not extinguish it.

7.2 What we will do before we ever charge you

If we introduce a paid membership, then before we charge you anything, we will:

1. give you advance notice by email at least 30 days before any charge — a longer period than the 7-day minimum in Section 1.5;
2. show you, clearly and immediately next to the button you press to subscribe: the price, what is included, how often it renews, when the first charge happens, how to cancel, and the deadline to cancel before the next renewal;
3. obtain your separate, express affirmative agreement to the automatic renewal terms specifically — a distinct action, not bundled into your acceptance of these Terms;
4. send you a written confirmation of those terms after you subscribe, in a form you can keep, including how to cancel; and
5. keep a record of your consent.

We will not convert a free account into a paid one automatically. Existing members will not be charged without taking an affirmative action to subscribe.

7.3 Terms that will apply if and when we introduce paid membership

(a) Subscription and automatic renewal. A paid membership would be a recurring subscription. It would renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the price disclosed to you when you subscribed, and continue until you cancel. We would not change that price except on 30 days' notice under paragraph (d). We will obtain your separate express agreement to these automatic renewal terms specifically, at the point of purchase, before any charge — that requirement in Section 7.2(3) is repeated here and cannot be severed from this paragraph.

(b) How to cancel.

• If you subscribed through the Apple App Store, your subscription is a transaction with Apple. Cancel in your device settings: Settings → your Apple Account → Subscriptions. We cannot cancel it for you.
• If you subscribed through Google Play, cancel through the Play Store subscriptions screen. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
• If you subscribed directly on our website, you can cancel online, in the same place and in the same number of steps it took to subscribe, without talking to anyone.
• Cancel before the renewal date. Cancelling stops the next charge; it does not shorten the period you have already paid for, and you keep access until that period ends. See Section 10.1 if you also delete your account.

(c) Refunds. We would not offer refunds for a billing period that has already started, except: (i) where a refund is required by law; (ii) where you are entitled to one under a statutory cancellation or cooling-off right, including those in Section 7.4; (iii) where we cancel or materially reduce the Services during a period you paid for, in which case we will refund the unused portion on a pro-rata basis; (iv) where we charged you in error; and (v) where we choose to give you one, which we may do without setting a precedent. If you purchased through Apple, only Apple can issue a refund and you must request it from Apple. Google Play refunds follow Google's refund policy.

(d) Price changes. We will give you at least 30 days' notice before any price increase takes effect, by email, together with instructions for cancelling. A price increase applies only to billing periods that start after the notice period ends. If you do not want to pay the new price, cancel before it takes effect. A price increase does not apply to any member to whom we made an express commitment that their rate would not increase. We will honor that commitment for as long as their membership is continuous.

(e) Renewal reminders. For subscriptions we bill directly, we will send you a reminder before each annual renewal (and before any renewal where the law requires a reminder) stating the renewal date, the amount, the frequency, and how to cancel.

(f) Taxes. Prices shown may exclude sales, use, or similar taxes. Where we are required to collect tax, it will be shown before you confirm the purchase and added to your charge.

(g) Failed payments. If a payment fails we may retry it, suspend paid features, or end the paid membership. You remain responsible for amounts properly owed.

(h) Payment processing. Payments would be processed by third-party payment providers and by Apple and Google. We do not store your full payment card number. Their terms and privacy policies apply to the payment itself.

7.4 Cancellation rights we grant voluntarily

If and when we begin charging, and regardless of whether the underlying statutes apply to Orbt:

• Residents of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin may cancel a new paid membership within three business days of subscribing and receive a full refund of everything paid. Any writing that reasonably tells us you want to cancel is enough — email hello@orbt.social, reply to your receipt, or use the in-app cancellation flow. We will not require any particular wording, form, or channel.
• Any member may cancel a paid membership and receive a pro-rata refund of the unused portion if they move more than 50 miles from the nearest city where Orbt operates, or if they become unable to use the Services because of disability or illness.
• If a member dies during a paid term, their estate is entitled to a refund of the unused portion. Contact hello@orbt.social.
• No paid membership term will exceed twelve months, and we will send you a copy of your subscription terms in writing when you subscribe.

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8. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND APP STORE TERMS

In short: Other companies power parts of Orbt, and other companies run the venues. Their terms apply to their part.

8.1 Third-party services

The Services rely on third parties, including a cloud host and infrastructure provider, a website and application hosting provider, an authentication provider, a group-chat provider, a push-notification provider, an email provider that also measures whether our emails were delivered, a bot-protection provider that receives your IP address, analytics providers, an artificial-intelligence provider used to generate group introductions and compatibility summaries, a form provider used for our contact form, and a payment processor (not currently active). Our Privacy Policy at orbt.social/policy names each of them and explains what data each one receives. Some of them are in the United States and some receive information about you automatically when you use the Services.

We are not responsible for third-party services, their availability, their content, or their acts and omissions. Where you interact directly with a third party — including a venue — that relationship is between you and them, and their terms and privacy policies apply.

8.2 Third-party links

The Services may link to third-party websites, apps, or content. We do not control them, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for them. Follow those links at your own risk and read their terms.

8.3 Apple and Google app store terms

These terms apply if you download the Orbt app from the Apple App Store or Google Play (each an "App Distributor"). They apply only to that app.

1. These Terms are between you and Orbt, not the App Distributor. Orbt, not the App Distributor, is solely responsible for the app and its content.
2. Scope of license. Your license to use the app is limited to a non-transferable license to use it on an Apple- or Android-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the App Distributor's usage rules — including, for Apple, the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
3. Maintenance and support. Orbt is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the app. The App Distributor has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support.
4. Warranty. Orbt is solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you (if any). To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app.
5. Product claims. Orbt, not the App Distributor, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the app or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection or similar legislation, in each case to the extent required by applicable law.
6. Intellectual property claims. If a third party claims the app infringes their intellectual property rights, Orbt — not the App Distributor — is solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
7. Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that (a) you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (b) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
8. Third-party beneficiaries. Apple, Google, and their subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance they will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
9. App Distributor terms. You must comply with the applicable third-party terms of the App Distributor when using the app.
10. Contact. Questions, complaints, and support requests about the app should go to hello@orbt.social.

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9. OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND YOUR LICENSE TO USE THE SERVICES

In short: The Orbt app, website, brand, and content are ours. You get a limited personal license to use them.

9.1 What we own

We own or license everything in the Services that is not Your Content: the software, source code, databases, matching logic, designs, layouts, graphics, text, audio, video, photographs (other than member photos), and the "Orbt" name, logo, and marks (together, the "Orbt Content"). The Orbt Content is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.

9.2 Your license

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Services and to install and use the app on a device you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial use only.

9.3 Restrictions

Except as expressly permitted by these Terms or by law, you may not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, publicly display, encode, translate, transmit, distribute, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Orbt Content, and you may not remove any copyright or proprietary notice. You may not use our name, logo, or marks without our prior written permission.

9.4 Reservation

All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved to Orbt and its licensors. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of anything.

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10. SUSPENSION, TERMINATION, AND CLOSING YOUR ACCOUNT

In short: You can leave whenever you want. We can end your membership if you break the rules or if we decide the community is better without you. Asking us to delete your data will never cost you anything you paid for.

10.1 How you close your account, and what if you never had one

You may stop using the Services at any time.

To close your account, follow the instructions at orbt.social/delete-account: sign in, go to Settings, and select Delete Account. That removes your sign-in and your profile record.

It does not, on its own, remove your stored profile photo file, your application record, your personality answers, any queue entry for a booking, or your chat user. To have all of that deleted too, email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Delete Everything" from the address on your account. We will confirm your request within 10 business days and complete it within 45 days, and we will tell you when it is done. See Section 6.4.

If you applied and were never approved, or you were declined, you have the same rights. You never had an account to sign in to, so email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Delete My Application" from the address you applied with. We will confirm your request within 10 business days and complete it within 45 days, and we will delete your application, your answers, and the photograph you uploaded. We will reply to confirm the request first, and we will not delete anything until you confirm it from that address, because an email address on its own is not proof of identity and we will not delete someone else's data on a stranger's say-so.

What we keep after deletion, and why, is described in our Privacy Policy at orbt.social/policy, which controls. See also Section 6.4.

If you have a paid membership (once paid memberships exist) and you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you paid for. If you delete your account before that period ends, we will refund the unused portion on a pro-rata basis. You never have to choose between deleting your data and getting what you paid for, and we will never treat a privacy request — a request to access, correct, delete, or limit the use of your information — as a reason to give you a worse service, a worse price, or no service at all.

10.2 How we suspend or terminate

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account and your access to the Services, with or without notice:

• if you breach these Terms or the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy;
• if we receive a report about you and reasonably believe suspension is appropriate while we look into it;
• if we reasonably believe your conduct creates a risk to another member, to a guest, to a venue, to our team, or to us;
• if you provided false information in your application;
• if you attempt to evade a prior removal (Section 3.5);
• if required by law or by a court, regulator, or App Distributor;
• for non-payment, once paid memberships exist; or
• under Section 3.4.

Making a report is never a ground for suspension or removal (Section 4.9), and neither is anything protected by Section 5.5 or Section 5.7.

Where it is safe and lawful to do so, we will tell you what happened and give you a way to respond. In safety cases we often will not, because it can identify the person who reported you.

10.3 Effect of termination

When your membership ends, for any reason:

• your license to use the Services ends immediately, and you must stop using them;
• you must not attend any Meetup;
• we may remove your profile and cancel any pending bookings;
• we may notify members in a group you were scheduled to attend that the group has changed, without saying why;
• you may not create a new account (Section 3.5); and
• amounts you already owe remain payable, and — except where Section 7.3(c), Section 10.1 or the law requires otherwise — fees already paid are not refunded if we terminated you for breach of these Terms.

10.4 Survival

The following survive termination of these Terms for any reason: Sections 1.2 (documents that are part of these Terms), 1.6, 2.3 (no guarantee of results), 2.6 (definitions), 3.5 (no re-registration), 3.6–3.7 (referrals; guests), 4.1–4.14 (safety disclosures, assumption of risk, release, § 1542 waiver, venue, alcohol, food, reporting and reporter confidentiality, emergencies, no-shows, the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy, member-organized meetups, and post-meetup feedback), 5.5 and 5.7 (reviews; nothing here silences you), 6.1–6.7 (content, license, and feedback), 7.3(c) and 7.3(g) (refunds and amounts owed, if a paid membership existed), 8, 9, 10.1 and 10.3–10.4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, together with any other provision that by its nature should survive.

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11. DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

11.1 THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS"

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Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you. Nothing here removes a warranty that cannot be excluded under the law that applies to you.

11.2 Security

We use the security features our cloud and service providers offer, including encryption of data in transit, and we require the providers who process information for us to protect it. Our Privacy Policy describes what we do.

We do not hold a security certification, and we do not represent that our security meets any particular standard or framework. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur. We do not promise that our security will never fail, and nothing in this section is a warranty. You transmit information to us at your own risk. Section 4.1 and Section 6.2(3) tell you specifically how your profile photo is stored, which is the one thing about our storage you should factor into what you upload.

If a security incident affects your personal information, we will notify you and the regulators as required by law — including, for Massachusetts residents, under M.G.L. c. 93H — as soon as practicable and without unreasonable delay, and we will not delay notice because our investigation is not finished, as our Privacy Policy states. We do not commit to providing credit monitoring except where the law requires it.

11.3 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

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11.4 What is NOT limited

Sections 11.1 and 11.3 do not apply to, and nothing in these Terms limits or excludes, liability for:

1. gross negligence, recklessness, or willful or intentional misconduct by an Orbt Party;
2. fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, deception, false promise, or concealment by an Orbt Party;
3. death, bodily injury, or sickness caused by an Orbt Party's own negligence, gross negligence, recklessness, or willful misconduct;
4. rights and remedies under the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, M.G.L. c. 93A, including statutory, multiple, and enhanced damages and attorney's fees, which we do not ask you to waive;
5. any right or remedy you have under the consumer protection statute of the state where you live, which we do not ask you to waive; or
6. any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded under the law that applies to you.

11.5 State savings clause

Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, or of certain warranties. In those states, the exclusions and limitations in this Section 11 apply only to the extent the law permits, and the remaining provisions stay in force. This Section 11 does not limit any non-waivable statutory right you have as a consumer.

11.6 Basis of the bargain

You acknowledge that the disclaimers and limitations in this Section 11 (other than the monetary cap in Section 11.3, which does not apply to bodily injury, sickness or death) and the release in Section 4.4 are an essential basis of the agreement between you and Orbt, and that we would not provide the Services without them.

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12. INDEMNIFICATION

12.1 Your indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Orbt Parties from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorney's fees) brought by a third party and arising out of:

1. your breach of these Terms or of the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy;
2. your violation of any law or of a third party's rights;
3. Your Content, including any claim that it infringes or misappropriates a third party's rights;
4. your misuse of the Services, or your use of the Services in breach of these Terms, of the Community Guidelines and Safety Policy, or of the law;
5. your conduct at, traveling to, or traveling from a Meetup, including any damage you cause to a venue or its property; and
6. any harmful act you commit toward another member, a guest, or any other person you met through the Services.

What you never have to indemnify us for. This Section 12.1 does not apply to:

(a) any claim to the extent it arises from an Orbt Party's own act or omission, negligence, gross negligence, recklessness, willful misconduct, or breach of these Terms;

(b) any claim arising from a report you made to us, to law enforcement, or to a regulator in good faith, or from anything you said truthfully about your own experience — we will not seek indemnity from you for speaking up, and if someone sues us because you reported them, that is our problem, not yours;

(c) any claim you bring against an Orbt Party; or

(d) any claim to the extent an indemnity from a consumer is not permitted by the law that applies to you.

Nothing in this Section requires you to indemnify us in connection with harm done to you, and nothing in it requires you to pay our legal fees in a dispute between you and us — Section 13.4 governs that.

12.2 Our indemnity

We will defend, indemnify, and hold you harmless from any third-party claim that the Orbt Content or the Orbt app, as we provided it and used by you in accordance with these Terms, infringes that third party's United States copyright or trademark, and we will pay any damages finally awarded or amounts we agree in settlement.

12.3 Procedure

The party seeking indemnity must (a) promptly notify the other party in writing of the claim, (b) give the indemnifying party sole control of the defense and settlement (except that no settlement admitting fault or imposing a non-monetary obligation on the indemnified party may be made without that party's consent, not to be unreasonably withheld), and (c) provide reasonable cooperation at the indemnifying party's expense. Failure to give prompt notice reduces the indemnity only to the extent the delay caused prejudice. The indemnified party may participate with its own counsel at its own expense.

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13. DISPUTE RESOLUTION, ARBITRATION, AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER

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13.1 What counts as a "Dispute"

"Dispute" means any claim, controversy, or dispute between you and Orbt (including any Orbt Party) arising out of or in any way relating to these Terms, the Services, a Meetup, your account, our advertising or marketing, our handling of your personal information, or your relationship with Orbt — whether it arose during or after the date these Terms took effect for you, whether based on contract, tort, statute, regulation, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory, and including disputes about the enforceability, scope, or formation of this Section 13.

This Section 13 does not apply to any claim that had already accrued before these Terms took effect for you, or that you had already notified us of in writing before that date. Those claims are governed by whatever agreement was in force when they arose.

"Dispute" does not include:

• a sexual assault dispute or a sexual harassment dispute, where you elect that this Section not apply (Section 13.1(a));
• a claim that qualifies for small claims court (Section 13.6);
• a claim for injunctive or other equitable relief to stop actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of either party's intellectual property rights (Section 13.9); or
• a claim for public injunctive relief to the extent the law of your state makes a waiver of that right unenforceable (Section 13.11).

Nothing in this Section 13 prevents you from reporting anything to a government agency, a regulator, an attorney general, or law enforcement, or from participating in a government investigation.

13.1(a) SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT — YOUR CHOICE, NOT OURS

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13.2 Step one: informal resolution (required)

Before starting an arbitration, and as a condition of doing so, the party with the complaint must first try to resolve it informally. Most problems get solved here. This Section does not apply to a dispute described in Section 13.1(a).

If you have a Dispute, send a Notice of Dispute either by email to hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Notice of Dispute", or by mail to the address below — either is sufficient:

> Orbt Social Inc — Notice of Dispute

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> Everett, MA 02149, USA

hello@orbt.social is the only email address Orbt operates. If you have seen any other Orbt address, use this one.

If Orbt has a Dispute with you, we will send our Notice of Dispute to the email address on your account and to any postal address we hold for you.

A Notice of Dispute must include: your full name; the email address and phone number on your Orbt account; your mailing address; a description of the Dispute; the specific relief you want; the amount of money you are claiming, if any, and how you calculated it; and it must be signed by you, or by your representative together with a short written confirmation from you that you have reviewed and authorized it.

The parties will then negotiate in good faith for 30 days from the date the Notice of Dispute is received. Either party may request a telephone or video conference during that period, and the other party will make itself reasonably available.

You will participate personally unless: (a) you are represented and you authorize your counsel in writing to participate for you; (b) your claim is for less than US$10,000 and you are represented; or (c) your claim involves alleged violence, sexual misconduct, harassment, or stalking, in which case you may participate through counsel or in writing and we will not require you to appear. We will not schedule any conference at which a person you have complained about is present.

The statute of limitations and any filing-fee deadline are tolled while this process is running. Completion of this process is a condition precedent to starting an arbitration, and either party may ask a court or the arbitrator to enforce it — except that we will not treat it as unsatisfied where you sent a Notice of Dispute to either address above and we did not receive it for a reason on our side.

13.3 Step two: binding individual arbitration

If the Dispute is not resolved within 30 days after the Notice of Dispute is received, either party may start binding individual arbitration. This agreement to arbitrate is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §§ 1–16.

• Administrator and rules. Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, and — where they apply — its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, each as in effect when the arbitration is filed, as modified by these Terms. The AAA's rules and forms are at adr.org. If the AAA is unavailable or declines to administer, the parties will agree on a substitute administrator; if they cannot agree, a court may appoint one.
• One arbitrator. A single arbitrator will decide the Dispute.
• Where. If you live in the United States, arbitration will take place in the county where you live, or — at your election — by telephone, video conference, or on documents only, without an in-person hearing. If an in-person hearing is required and you do not elect your own county, the seat is Suffolk County or Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at Orbt's election.
• Authority. The arbitrator may award any relief a court could award to you individually, including statutory damages and attorney's fees where a statute provides for them, and must follow these Terms and applicable law. The arbitrator may not award relief to, or against, anyone who is not a party.
• Award. The arbitrator will issue a written decision explaining the essential findings and conclusions. The award is final and binding, and judgment on it may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
• Confidentiality. The arbitration is private, but nothing in these Terms prevents you from discussing your own Dispute publicly, telling a regulator about it, or speaking truthfully about your own experience (Section 5.7).

13.4 Arbitration fees — we pay them

We will pay all AAA filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees, except that you pay the amount you would have paid to file the same claim in the small claims court where you live — and nothing at all if you cannot afford that; tell the AAA and us and we will pay it.

We will not seek to recover any arbitration fee or our attorney's fees from you, and no fee will be shifted to you unless a court of competent jurisdiction finds your claim was brought in bad faith under a standard equivalent to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. If a statute entitles a prevailing party to attorney's fees, the arbitrator may award them.

13.5 YOUR RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION — 30 DAYS

To opt out, email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out", or send a letter to Orbt Social Inc, Attn: Arbitration Opt-Out, 484 2nd Street, 6089, Everett, MA 02149, USA. Either route works, and hello@orbt.social is the only email address Orbt operates. Include:

1. your full name;
2. the email address and phone number associated with your Orbt account;
3. your mailing address; and
4. a clear statement that you do not wish to resolve disputes with Orbt through arbitration.

We must receive your opt-out within 30 days after the later of: (a) the date you first accept these Terms; (b) the date we approve your application and you first create an Orbt account; or (c) the date these Terms first apply to you. If you held an account or a pending application before August 8, 2026, these Terms take effect for you on September 7, 2026 and your opt-out window closes on October 7, 2026 — we will say so in the notice we send you. We will also remind you of this right in the email we send when we approve your application.

If you write to us to opt out and your message does not reach us for any reason on our side — a message that bounces, a filter, a mailbox problem — your opt-out still counts, provided you can show us you sent it. Resend it to hello@orbt.social and we will honor the original date.

We will confirm your opt-out in writing within 14 days. If you do not hear from us, write to hello@orbt.social again — your original opt-out still stands.

An opt-out sent by anyone other than you personally, or on behalf of a group of people, is not valid.

If we materially change Section 13, you get a new 30-day opt-out window running from the date the change takes effect, using the same method.

Opting out affects only Section 13. Everything else in these Terms still applies, and opting out will not affect your membership, your standing in the community, or how we treat you in any way.

13.6 Small claims carve-out

Either you or Orbt may bring an individual claim in small claims court instead of arbitration, if the claim qualifies for that court and stays there. If you file in small claims court before an arbitrator has been appointed in an arbitration covering the same claim, any such arbitration will be administratively closed. This carve-out is mutual.

13.7 CLASS ACTION AND REPRESENTATIVE ACTION WAIVER

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13.8 JURY TRIAL WAIVER

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13.9 Intellectual property and injunctive relief carve-out

Either party may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction seeking a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or other equitable relief to stop actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of that party's copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property rights. This carve-out is mutual and is limited to that relief; any related claim for damages is subject to arbitration.

13.10 Mass and coordinated arbitration protocol

If 25 or more Notices of Dispute or arbitration demands raising substantially similar claims are filed against Orbt by or with the assistance of the same law firm, group of firms, or coordinated counsel within a 180-day period, the following applies.

The AAA Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules and the AAA's fee schedules govern, and this Section 13.10 supplements them. Where this Section conflicts with those rules or with any determination of a Process Arbitrator, the AAA's rules and that determination control. Subject to that:

1. Bellwether round one. Claimants' demands will be selected by the law firm representing the largest number of claimants in the group; where claimants are represented by different firms, the AAA's Process Arbitrator will make the selection. Orbt will select its own. 10 demands per side will be arbitrated individually on an expedited basis. The remaining demands may be filed and will be administratively stayed pending the outcome of the bellwether round.
2. Tolling. All statutes of limitation, filing deadlines, and other time-based defenses are tolled for every claimant whose demand is stayed, from the date their Notice of Dispute was received until 30 days after their demand is selected for hearing or the stay ends.
3. Global mediation. After the bellwether arbitrations conclude, the parties will participate in a single global mediation before a mutually agreed mediator for up to 90 days, at Orbt's expense, to try to resolve the remaining claims.
4. Subsequent rounds, and a hard stop. If mediation does not resolve the remaining claims, the parties will proceed in further bellwether rounds of up to 20 demands per side, each followed by an opportunity to mediate. In any event, any claimant whose demand has been stayed for more than twelve (12) months from the date their Notice of Dispute was received may elect, at their sole option, to have their claim arbitrated individually and immediately, or to bring it in a court of competent jurisdiction on an individual basis. We will not oppose that election, and the stay ends as to that claimant.
5. Court option. If a court determines this Section 13.10 is unenforceable as to a group of claims, each affected claimant may elect that their claim proceed in court, individually, and the waiver in Section 13.7 continues to apply.
6. Bellwether results do not bind anyone else. An award in a bellwether arbitration is not binding on, and has no preclusive or evidentiary effect against, any claimant who was not a party to it, and neither party may offer it as such. Each claimant is entitled to have their own claim decided on its own facts.
7. What this protocol never applies to. This Section 13.10 does not apply to any claim for personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assault, or sexual harassment, or to any dispute described in Section 13.1(a). Those claims proceed individually and immediately, and are never stayed or batched.

This protocol is designed to make large numbers of similar claims resolvable at reasonable cost to both sides. It is not intended to, and will not be applied to, prevent any individual claimant from having their claim heard.

13.11 Public injunctive relief

Nothing in this Section 13 waives, and no part of it should be read to waive, any right to seek public injunctive relief where the law of your state makes such a waiver unenforceable. If a Dispute includes a claim for public injunctive relief, that claim alone will be severed and stayed pending the outcome of arbitration of the individual claims, and may then be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction. The rest of the Dispute remains in arbitration.

13.12 Severability and blow-up clause

If any part of this Section 13 is found unenforceable, that part will be severed and the rest will remain in effect — except that if Section 13.7 (the class and representative action waiver) is found unenforceable as to any claim or request for relief, then this entire Section 13 is null and void as to that claim or request for relief, and it must be brought in court. Section 13.1(a), Section 13.8 (jury trial waiver, subject to its own state carve-out) and Section 13.2 (informal resolution) survive in all events.

13.13 Governing law and venue

• Governing law. These Terms and any Dispute are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of the agreement to arbitrate. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
• Your consumer rights. If you are a consumer resident in another U.S. state, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer-protection provision of the law of the state where you live, and Sections 4.4, 11 and 12 apply only to the extent that law permits (Section 16.4).
• Venue for anything not arbitrated. For any Dispute that is not subject to arbitration — including the carve-outs in Sections 13.1(a), 13.6, 13.9, and 13.11, any action to compel arbitration or to enforce or vacate an award, and everything covered by these Terms if you validly opt out under Section 13.5 — the state and federal courts located in Suffolk County or Middlesex County, Massachusetts have jurisdiction, and you and Orbt consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there. This does not limit your right to bring a qualifying claim in small claims court where you live, and it does not limit your right under Section 13.1(a) to file in any court of competent jurisdiction.
• No shortened limitations period. We do not shorten any statute of limitations. Each party has the full period allowed by law to bring a claim.

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14. GENERAL TERMS

14.1 Notices

We may send you notices by email to the address on your account, by push notification, or by posting on the Services.

A notice by email is deemed received on the earlier of the time you actually receive it and 24 hours after we send it — unless it bounced, was rejected, or was otherwise not delivered, in which case it is not deemed received and we will reach you another way before treating it as given.

For anything that materially affects your rights — a change to these Terms under Section 1.5, a price increase under Section 7, a suspension or termination under Section 10, or a notice under Section 13 — we will send the notice by email, and we will also display it in the app once we have a way to do that. We do not have an in-app notice surface today, so email is how these notices reach you — which is why the address on your account must be current, and why a notice that bounces is not treated as given.

A change to Section 4.2, Section 4.4, Section 4.5, or Section 13 takes effect as to you only when you affirmatively accept it (Section 1.5).

Keep your email address current. If the address on your account is out of date and we cannot reach you, that is not something we can fix for you.

You send us notices at hello@orbt.social, or by mail to Orbt Social Inc, 484 2nd Street, 6089, Everett, MA 02149, USA. Legal notices under Section 13 must follow Section 13.2 or 13.5.

14.2 Electronic communications, signature, and email tracking

You consent to receive communications from us electronically — by email, by push notification, and by any in-app message we send — and you agree that electronic communications, agreements, and notices satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing. You agree that your electronic acceptance of these Terms (ticking the box or tapping accept) constitutes your signature, and you waive any right under any statute or regulation requiring an original non-electronic signature.

What you need, and how to get things on paper. To receive, view, and keep our electronic communications you need a device with an internet connection, a current web browser, an email account that can receive messages from us, and — for some documents — a PDF reader. If those requirements change in a way that materially affects your ability to access or keep our communications, we will tell you and give you the chance to withdraw your consent.

You can ask for a paper copy of anything we are required by law to give you in writing, free of charge, by emailing hello@orbt.social with your account email. You can also withdraw your consent to receive legally required records electronically at any time, by the same route, at no cost. Withdrawing consent does not affect the validity of anything we sent you before you withdrew it. Because the Services are delivered electronically, if you withdraw consent to receive account and safety notices electronically we may not be able to keep providing the Services, and we will tell you if that is the case.

Stopping non-essential email. Email hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Unsubscribe" and we will stop sending you anything that is not necessary to operate your membership. Push notifications are controlled in your device settings and in your in-app notification settings. We will still send you communications that are necessary to operate your membership — approval notices, booking and match details, safety notices, account and security notices, and legal notices — for as long as you have an account. Those messages do not carry an unsubscribe link, because you need them. If you do not want them, close your account.

Email tracking. Our emails to you are HTML and carry an invisible tracking image, so we can tell whether and when you opened one. The links inside them are rewritten through our email provider, so we can also tell which of those links you clicked. Our email provider records that a message was sent, and whether it was delivered, bounced, or was marked as spam. We use this only to tell whether our approval and booking emails are actually reaching people. Our Privacy Policy explains what is stored and how to ask us to delete it.

14.3 Push notifications

If you install the app and enable notifications, we will send push notifications about matches, bookings, reminders, and messages. You can turn them off in your device settings at any time.

14.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights under them. Any attempted assignment is void. We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets, on notice to you.

14.5 Force majeure

Neither party is liable for a failure or delay in performing an obligation (other than an obligation to pay money) caused by an event beyond its reasonable control, including natural disaster, fire, flood, severe weather, epidemic or pandemic, public health order, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor action, government action, utility failure, internet or telecommunications failure, or the failure of a third-party service provider.

14.6 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if it cannot be. The rest of these Terms remain in full force. Section 13.12 governs severability within Section 13.

14.7 No waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of it. A waiver is effective only if it is in writing and signed by us, and it applies only to the specific instance.

14.8 Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the two documents incorporated by Section 1.2, are the entire agreement between you and Orbt about the Services, and replace all prior agreements, proposals, and understandings, written or oral, on that subject — including any earlier version of our Terms and Conditions.

Nothing in this section limits your rights, or our liability, for fraud, fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation, deception, or any unfair or deceptive act or practice. It does not disclaim, supersede, or extinguish any specific representation we made to you about safety, price, privacy, or how we handle your information, or any commitment we made to you in writing — including a price commitment under Section 7.1. And it does not affect any right you have under the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, M.G.L. c. 93A, or under the consumer protection law of the state where you live.

14.9 No agency

These Terms do not create a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between you and Orbt. Neither party may bind the other.

14.10 Third-party beneficiaries

Except for the Orbt Parties (Sections 4.4, 11, and 12) and the App Distributors (Section 8.3), there are no third-party beneficiaries of these Terms. For the avoidance of doubt, no venue and no member is a third-party beneficiary of the release in Section 4.4 (see Section 4.4(C)).

14.11 Headings and interpretation

Headings and the "In short" summaries are for convenience only. The "In short" summaries are not operative terms; where a summary and the detailed text differ, the detailed text controls. "Including" means "including without limitation." References to a website page include any successor page.

14.12 Language

These Terms are written in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only, and the English version controls.

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15. COPYRIGHT AND DMCA

In short: If someone posted your copyrighted work on Orbt without permission, tell us and we will act on it.

15.1 Where to send a copyright complaint

We respect intellectual property rights. If you believe material on the Services infringes your copyright, send a written notice to:

> Orbt Social Inc — Copyright Complaint

> 484 2nd Street, 6089

> Everett, MA 02149, USA

> Email: hello@orbt.social, subject line "DMCA Notice"

Be clear about what this is. We have not registered a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, and we do not claim the safe harbor in 17 U.S.C. § 512(c). We operate the notice-and-takedown and counter-notification procedure set out below anyway, because it is the fair way to handle a copyright complaint. Using it does not affect any right or remedy you have, and nothing in this Section is a condition of any claim you might bring.

15.2 What to put in a notice

So that we can act on it, your notice should include substantially the following — the list in 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act for them;
2. identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or a representative list, if there are several);
3. identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it — a URL or a screenshot with the location is best;
4. your contact information: name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address;
5. a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. a statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

15.3 What we do with a notice

If we receive a notice that substantially complies with Section 15.2, we will remove or disable access to the material expeditiously and forward a copy of the notice to the member who posted it, along with notice that we removed it and information about the counter-notification procedure below.

15.4 Counter-notification

If you believe your material was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the same address in Section 15.1, using the subject line "DMCA Counter-Notice". Following the form in 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), it should include:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal;
3. a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
4. your name, address, and telephone number; and
5. a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the district in which your address is located (or, if you are outside the United States, of any judicial district in which Orbt may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent.

If we receive a valid counter-notification, we will forward it to the original complainant and tell them we will restore the material in 10 to 14 business days, unless they notify us first that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the member from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material.

15.5 Repeat infringer policy

It is our policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances and without notice, the accounts of members who repeatedly infringe copyright. We record every copyright notice we receive, the material it concerned, the action we took, and the member responsible, and we use that record to identify repeat infringers. Two or more notices that we determine to be valid will normally result in termination, and we may terminate an account at any time for a single serious infringement. Termination under this section is a permanent removal for the purposes of Section 3.5.

15.6 Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorney's fees. Before sending a notice or a counter-notice, consider whether the use may be a fair use, and consider talking to a lawyer.

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16. STATE-SPECIFIC NOTICES

16.1 California users and residents

Complaints. Under California Civil Code § 1789.3, California users are entitled to this notice: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

Fees. The Services are currently provided free of charge. If we introduce paid membership, the price and billing terms will be presented at the point of sale as described in Section 7.

Jury trial. The jury trial waiver in Section 13.8 does not apply to California residents (see Section 13.8).

Minors — California "eraser" right (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22581). The Services are for adults only and are not directed to minors. If, despite that, you are a registered user of the Services who is a California resident under the age of 18, you may request removal of content you posted on the Services by emailing hello@orbt.social with your account email and a description of the content. We will remove it within 30 days. Please note that removal is not complete or comprehensive: we are not required to delete every copy, content may remain on backup systems or may have been copied or reposted by others, and we may retain content where the law requires us to. If you tell us you are under 18, we will also close your account and delete your information under Section 1.3.

Civil Code § 1542. See Section 4.5.

Privacy rights. California residents have additional rights, including rights to know, delete, correct, and limit the use of sensitive personal information, and a "Shine the Light" right under Civil Code § 1798.83. Those rights and how to exercise them are described in our Privacy Policy at orbt.social/policy. You can also exercise them by emailing hello@orbt.social with the subject line "Privacy Request".

16.2 Massachusetts users

Orbt is a Massachusetts corporation and these Terms are governed by Massachusetts law. Nothing in these Terms waives, limits, or restricts any right or remedy you have under the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, M.G.L. c. 93A, and we do not ask you to waive any such right. You may contact the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Consumer Advocacy and Response Division, at (617) 727-8400, or the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, at any time.

16.3 New Jersey users

If you are a New Jersey resident, the following provisions apply to you only to the extent they are enforceable under New Jersey law, and are otherwise inapplicable: the limitations and exclusions of liability in Section 11, the indemnification obligations in Section 12, and the release in Section 4.4, in each case as they would apply to claims for personal injury, or to any liability arising from an Orbt Party's own negligence, gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional conduct.

16.4 General state savings

Sections 4.4, 11, and 12 apply only to the maximum extent permitted by the law of the state where you reside and the state where the relevant events occurred. Where a provision is not permitted, it does not apply, and the remainder of these Terms continues in full force. Nothing in these Terms waives any non-waivable statutory right.

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17. HOW TO CONTACT US

Orbt Social Inc

484 2nd Street, 6089

Everett, MA 02149

United States

hello@orbt.social is the only email address Orbt operates. Every request below reaches a person there. Use the subject line shown so we can route it quickly — but if you forget, we will still act on it.

Reason	Where to write
General questions, support, safety reports	hello@orbt.social
Accessibility requirements before a meetup	hello@orbt.social — subject "Accessibility"
A copy of your acceptance record (Section 1.1)	hello@orbt.social — subject "Consent Record"
Closing your account	orbt.social/delete-account
Deleting your photo, application, answers, bookings and chat user (Sections 6.4, 10.1)	hello@orbt.social — subject "Delete Everything"
Deleting an application if you never had an account (Section 10.1)	hello@orbt.social — subject "Delete My Application"
Switching off AI-generated summaries (Section 6.2(4))	hello@orbt.social — subject "No AI summaries"
Asking us not to match you with a particular member (Section 4.9)	hello@orbt.social — subject "Do Not Match"
Deleting a post-meetup note you wrote (Section 4.14)	hello@orbt.social — subject "Delete My Notes"
Stopping non-essential email (Section 14.2)	hello@orbt.social — subject "Unsubscribe"
Privacy requests	hello@orbt.social — subject "Privacy Request", or as described at orbt.social/policy
Notice of Dispute (Section 13.2)	hello@orbt.social — subject "Notice of Dispute", or by mail to the address above
Arbitration opt-out (Section 13.5)	hello@orbt.social — subject "Arbitration Opt-Out", or by mail to the address above
Copyright / DMCA (Section 15)	hello@orbt.social — subject "DMCA Notice", or by mail to the address above

In an emergency, call 911. Do not contact us first.

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These Terms of Service were last updated August 8, 2026 and replace all previous versions.