Last updated: May 19, 2026
By accessing or using Gathr, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the platform. We reserve the right to update these terms at any time with notice posted in the app.
You must be at least 13 years old to use Gathr. By using the platform, you represent that you meet this requirement. Users between 13 and 18 should have parental or guardian consent. Gathr is designed for social event discovery and in-person meetups — use of the platform for any purpose inconsistent with this is prohibited.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately at legal@joingathr.app of any unauthorised use. You may not create multiple accounts, transfer your account to another person, or impersonate any other user. Session controls: From Settings, you may sign out of the current device or sign out of every active session on every device you have ever signed in from. Use the "Sign Out Everywhere" option if a device has been lost, sold, or used without your permission — it immediately revokes every session token associated with your account. Destructive actions: Certain destructive actions — deleting your account being the prime example — require you to re-prove your identity by entering your password in the confirmation dialog (or, for Google sign-in users, by relying on a freshly issued OAuth session). A valid session token alone is not sufficient. This is enforced server-side and is in place specifically to protect against a compromised or shared device.
You agree not to use Gathr to post illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable content. You may not impersonate others, spam users, scrape data, or use the platform for any unlawful purpose. Violations may result in immediate account suspension or termination. We reserve the right to remove content and restrict accounts that violate these rules, including based on community safety reports.
By enabling People Matching in Settings, you consent to your profile being surfaced to other attendees of the same events as a potential match. You can disable this at any time. Waves: Gathr+ members may send a wave to a match before an event. By sending a wave, you acknowledge that if the recipient is a Gathr+ subscriber, they will see your first name, profile photo, and interests you share with them. You agree to use waves in good faith as a genuine expression of interest in meeting someone at an event. Waves may not be used to harass, target, or intimidate other users. Attempting to use the wave system to identify or profile users beyond the disclosures described above is a violation of these Terms and may result in immediate account termination. Paths Crossed: Gathr+ members can access a feed of people they have co-attended events with, derived from check-in and RSVP records. By using Gathr, you acknowledge that your attendance at public events (check-ins and RSVPs) may surface you in another Gathr+ user's Paths Crossed feed if you share at least one event and have matching_enabled = true. You can prevent this by disabling People Matching in Settings → Privacy. Viewer presence: When two or more people are viewing an event whose start time is within 24 hours, the event page may display a "N viewing now" indicator. Only the deduplicated count is shown; individual viewer identities are never revealed. By using Gathr, you acknowledge that your presence on an event page may be counted toward this indicator while you have the page open. Closing the tab removes you from the count.
You may send a connection request to any user whose profile you can view. Each request is held as "pending" until the recipient accepts or declines it. Connection actions are subject to the following rules: Declining a request: When a user declines your connection request, you are not told that the request was declined. From your side, the UI may continue to show the request as pending. A 7-day cooldown then applies: during that window, any attempt to re-send a connection request to the same person will silently take no effect and will not generate a new notification for them. After 7 days, you may try again — at which point a fresh request can be delivered. This design protects users from being repeatedly contacted by people they have declined, while not exposing the fact of the decline. Withdrawing your own request: You may withdraw a pending request you sent at any time before it is accepted or declined. No retaliation: Attempts to circumvent the cooldown — for example by creating additional accounts, asking another user to relay messages, or otherwise pressuring a person who has declined — are violations of these Terms and grounds for account suspension or termination.
After events, you may submit anonymous reviews of other attendees. By submitting a review, you represent that your responses reflect your honest, good-faith experience with that person at that event. You agree not to: • Submit false, misleading, or retaliatory reviews • Coordinate with others to inflate or damage another user's safety score • Use safety flags to harass or target users you have a personal dispute with Abuse of the review system — including false safety flags — is grounds for account suspension. Gathr investigates all safety flags and retains the right to discount or remove reviews that appear to be in bad faith.
Gathr calculates a safety tier (New, Verified, Trusted, or Flagged) based on aggregated community reviews. The Flagged tier is applied automatically when either: (a) any single reviewer submits a safety flag of type "threatening", or (b) at least two distinct reviewers have submitted a safety flag of any type against an account. While in the Flagged tier, an account is automatically excluded from pre-event match lists, Paths Crossed, and similar discovery surfaces. Designated members of the Gathr team additionally review flagged accounts via an internal moderation tool to decide whether further action — warning, suspension, restriction of event hosting, or termination — is warranted, and may restore the tier if a flag was unfounded. We will notify you if a further action is taken against your account. Repeated or severe violations may result in permanent account termination.
Gathr+ is the premium tier of Gathr. It unlocks: pre-RSVP match preview (see who's going before you RSVP), wave sender identity (Gathr+ recipients see the first name, photo, and shared interests of who waved at them), unlimited waves, Paths Crossed history, priority matching rank, Open to Dating Mode, Travel Mode (coming soon), and a Founding Member badge for the first 1,000 paid subscribers. Pricing: Gathr+ plans are $4.99/month or $39.99/year. Billing has not yet launched — subscribers added to the waitlist will be charged only when billing goes live, and will be notified in advance. By joining the waitlist, you agree to be contacted when paid plans become available. Founding Member badge: The first 1,000 paid subscribers receive a permanent "Founding Member" badge on their profile. This badge is granted once at subscription time, is non-transferable, and remains on the profile permanently even after a subscription lapses. Free 7-Day Trial: Eligible users (account at least 1 hour old, no prior trial used) may claim a one-time 7-day Gathr+ free trial. No card is required. Access ends automatically when the 7 days expire. The trial may only be claimed once per account; enforced server-side and cannot be bypassed. Level-Milestone Previews: Reaching level 5 grants a one-time 48-hour Gathr+ preview; reaching level 10 grants a one-time 7-day preview. These are automatic, non-repeatable rewards — not a paid free trial. They do not renew, cannot be transferred, and expire at the time shown in your profile. Open to Dating Mode: Gathr+ subscribers may opt in to Open to Dating Mode in Settings to signal openness to romantic connections. This status is disclosed only to other active Gathr+ subscribers who have also opted in — it appears in the Paths Crossed feed and pre-event match lists between mutually opted-in members. You may toggle this on or off at any time; toggles are rate-limited to prevent abuse. By enabling Open to Dating Mode, you acknowledge that other opted-in Gathr+ members will see that you have indicated openness to romantic connection. Use of this feature to harass, misrepresent your intentions, or pressure other users is a violation of these Terms and grounds for account termination. Cancellation & Refunds: Once paid plans go live, you may cancel Gathr+ at any time and your subscription will remain active until the end of the current billing period. No partial refunds will be issued for unused time. Refund requests may be submitted to support@joingathr.app within 48 hours of a charge and will be handled on a case-by-case basis. If you delete your account, any active subscription is cancelled immediately with our payment processor, and your customer record at that processor is also deleted at the same time — you will not be charged again, and your PII at the payment processor is scrubbed (historical charges that we are legally required to retain remain only in aggregate form). Feature changes: We may add, modify, or remove Gathr+ features at any time. Material reductions in features will be communicated in advance.
Gathr is a platform for discovering and organising events. We are not responsible for the content, safety, or conduct of any event listed on the platform. Event hosts are solely responsible for ensuring their events comply with applicable laws and regulations. Attending any event found through Gathr is at your own risk. Ticket Types: When creating an event, hosts may designate it as Free, Paid, or Donation-based. Paid and Donation events display the specified price or suggested amount on the event card. Paid ticket prices must be a positive value, may not exceed $10,000 per ticket, and may not contain more than two decimal places — these constraints are enforced by the platform at the time of event creation. Paid Ticket Payment Processing (Coming Soon): In-app payment collection for paid events is not yet active. Tapping "Get Ticket" on a paid event will display a notice explaining that ticketing is coming soon and directing you to our waitlist. Until in-app payments are live, hosts are solely responsible for collecting any fees through their own means. Gathr does not process or facilitate payments during this period. Misrepresenting ticket pricing or collecting fees without delivering the advertised event is a violation of these Terms. RSVP Cancellation: You may cancel your RSVP to any event at any time before the event starts. Cancellation releases your spot back to the event. The platform will ask you to confirm before cancelling to prevent accidental removals. Check-In: After RSVPing, you may tap "I'm Here" during the event window (30 minutes before start through end time) to record your attendance. Gathr may request your device's GPS location at that point. If granted, your coordinates and distance from the venue are stored and displayed in miles; attendees within approximately 0.3 miles (500 metres) of the venue are recorded as `geo_verified` check-ins. Attendees further from the venue, or attendees who deny location access entirely, can still complete a `self_attested` check-in via a soft confirmation prompt — Gathr distinguishes the two trust levels internally and may use the distinction to weight features such as post-event matches. Check-in data is visible to the event host for attendance analytics. Checking in (or holding a valid RSVP) is required to access the post-event survey and match reveals.
You retain ownership of content you post on Gathr (photos, event descriptions, community posts, comments, reviews, chat messages, etc.). By posting content, you grant Gathr a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display and distribute that content within the platform. You represent that you have the rights to any content you post and that it does not violate any third-party rights. Image Uploads: You may upload images to your profile, event covers, community banners, community posts, and chat conversations. Uploaded images must not contain nudity, illegal content, graphic violence, or content that violates any applicable law. We enforce file type and size limits server-side. Chat attachments are private: Photos, PDFs, and other files sent in 1:1 conversations are stored in a private bucket and served only via authenticated, short-lived signed URLs. They are not accessible at a guessable public address and only the two participants of the conversation can view them. Profile photos, event covers, community banners, and community post images remain on public buckets and are visible to other Gathr users. Offline messages: Messages composed while your device is offline are saved to your browser's local storage (IndexedDB) and sent automatically once connectivity returns. Until the message reaches Gathr's servers, it is your responsibility and lives only on your device. We make a reasonable effort to flush the outbox on reconnection but cannot guarantee delivery of a message that fails to send (for example, if the recipient blocks you, or if the message violates rate limits at the time of flush). Community Events: Only community owners and admins may create new events linked to a community or link an existing event to it. By hosting an event, you agree to allow a community owner or admin — in any community you are a member of — to associate your event with that community. This association does not transfer ownership of your event and does not affect its visibility settings. Content Removal: We reserve the right to remove any content that violates these Terms without notice. Community owners and admins may remove posts and messages within their communities.
Your use of Gathr is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Please review our Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, use, and protect your information, including the anonymity protections for waves and safety reviews.
Gathr does not use artificial intelligence, large language models, or machine learning to make decisions about you or your account. Match suggestions, event recommendations, safety tiers, and search results are produced by deterministic, hand-written code — not AI scoring. The search bar accepts natural-language phrases (e.g. "live music thursday night") that are interpreted by a fixed keyword parser, marked "Quick filters" in the UI; no LLM is in the loop and your queries are not sent to any third-party AI provider. Your messages, posts, photos, and profile content are not analysed by AI of any kind. If we ever introduce AI-assisted features (for example, optional content moderation), we will update these Terms and the Privacy Policy and give you the choice to opt out where applicable.
The Gathr name, logo, and platform design are owned by Gathr and may not be used without permission. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.
Gathr is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. We do not guarantee that the platform will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that defects will be corrected. Safety tier scores reflect aggregated community feedback and are not an endorsement or guarantee of any individual's conduct. We are not liable for any damages arising from your use of the platform or from attending any event found through it.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Gathr shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of or inability to use the platform, including damages arising from reliance on safety tier information, wave interactions, or event attendance.
We may suspend or terminate your account at any time for violation of these Terms, including for abuse of the safety review system, wave system, or repeated safety flags from other community members. You may delete your account at any time through Settings → Danger Zone. The dialog will ask you to type the word "DELETE" to confirm AND — for email-and-password accounts — to re-enter your password. Both safeguards are enforced server-side: a borrowed or stolen session token alone is not enough to destroy the account. Google sign-in users rely on the freshly issued OAuth session instead of a password. Once you confirm, your profile, hosted events, RSVPs, connections, messages, and Gathr+ status are permanently removed within 30 days. Any active Gathr+ subscription is cancelled with our payment processor at the moment of deletion, and your customer record at that processor (which holds personally identifying details such as email address and partial card information) is also deleted at the same time — you will not be billed again and your PII at the payment processor is scrubbed. The processor retains only the historical charge records that we are legally required to keep for refunds, disputes, and tax purposes; those records do not contain enough information to re-identify you. Anonymised review data you submitted may be retained to preserve the integrity of other users' safety scores. Upon termination, your right to use Gathr ceases immediately.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles.
For questions about these Terms, contact us at: legal@joingathr.app For safety concerns or reports, contact us at: safety@joingathr.app