Terms of Service

Effective: 29 September 2026 · Version 7.0

These Terms are a contract between you and the operator of Dapster (named in Section 1). They are written in plain language on purpose. There are no hidden terms: everything you agree to is on this page, in our Privacy Policy, and in the Community Standards shown in the app when you sign up.

Contents

1. Who runs Dapster
2. What Dapster is, and is not
3. Agreeing to these Terms
4. Who can use Dapster
5. Your account
6. How Dapster works
7. Persona rules
8. Content that is not allowed
9. Safety tools, moderation and appeals
10. Paid plans and refunds
11. Your content
12. Honest limitations
13. Our app and fair use
14. Disclaimers, liability and indemnity
15. Requests from authorities
16. Ending your account
17. Changes to these Terms
18. Governing law and disputes
19. Grievance Officer and contact

1. Who runs Dapster

Dapster (Android package com.dapster.app) is operated by Anandu P N, an individual, of Pullattu House, Nedumbassery P.O., Kapprassery, Kerala 683585, India ("we", "us", "our").

Support email: dapsterofficial@gmail.com. Grievance Officer: see Section 19.

Under Indian law, Dapster is an "intermediary": we host content that members create. Members are responsible for what they post and send.

2. What Dapster is, and is not

Dapster is a persona app. On Dapster, every member creates and plays a persona: a character with any adult age, any gender, any personality, or even an animal. Everyone on Dapster knows that profiles are personas, not real identities. That is the whole idea: real people, imagined personas.

• Real people: every account must belong to one real adult aged 18 or over who has passed our automatic selfie check.
• Imagined personas: the name, age shown, bio, story and details on a profile are fiction chosen by the member. Nothing on a profile is a statement of fact about the person behind it, and we do not check it.

Dapster is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any other product or company that uses a similar name (for example, products called "Dapster AI").

3. Agreeing to these Terms

• Before you can use Dapster, the app asks you to accept the Community Standards, these Terms and the Privacy Policy. Our server records the time you accepted and the version you accepted.
• If you do not agree, do not create an account or use Dapster.
• When we change these documents, the app asks everyone to accept the new version before continuing (see Section 17).

4. Who can use Dapster

• 18+ only. You must be at least 18 years old. You give your date of birth when you sign up and our server rejects anyone under 18. The date of birth is self-declared, so lying about it is a serious breach of these Terms.
• Selfie check. You must complete the automatic selfie check. It checks that the photo shows exactly one face. It is not an identity check (see Section 12).
• One account per person. You may have only one account. Do not create accounts for other people or share your account.
• You must be allowed to use Dapster under the laws that apply to you, and you must not have been banned from Dapster before.

5. Your account

• You can sign in with Google or with a username and password.
• Account information must be real and accurate. Your email, Google account, username, date of birth, gender, phone number (if asked) and selfie must be yours and true. This is different from your persona details (name shown, age shown, bio, story), which are fiction by design.
• Your gender is set when you sign up and cannot be changed later.
• Keep your login details secure and do not share them. You are responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has access to it.

6. How Dapster works

Feed and visibility

• Your feed shows members of the opposite gender who have completed the selfie check. There are no age or distance filters; your approximate location affects the order.
• New male members see a set of profiles chosen by our team during their first 24 hours, then profiles in random order.
• Women's feeds are ordered in tiers: members online now, then King members, then boosted members, then new members, then everyone else. Within each tier the order is shuffled.
• Paying changes visibility. Paid boosts and the King plan move a profile higher in women's feeds. This is advertised visibility, not a sign of quality or trust.
• The "online" mark is shown only if the member was actually active in the last 10 minutes and has not switched availability off.
• Men's profiles show a plan badge (Pro, Max or King) to women viewing them.

Likes, matches and requests

• You like a profile. If both of you like each other, that is a match and you can chat.
• Free male members can send 10 likes a day.
• Max and King members can send an instant message to a profile without a match.
• You can find a member by their exact Dapster ID and send them a request. Requests are open for 24 hours.
• You can send up to 5 friend requests a day.

Chats

• Chats support text, view-once photos (5, 7 or 10 second timer), voice notes, listen-once audio, location sharing and games.
• Match and friend chats disappear 24 hours after each message is sent. The last 5 messages of a chat may stay for up to 7 days, as text only.
• In instant-message and Dapster ID request chats, either person may switch disappearing messages off. Those messages then stay until the chat or an account is deleted.
• Sharing your location in a chat sends your approximate position to the other person.

Free limits

• Women: Dapster is free, with no chat limits.
• Free men: your first two matches get a limited message window. After that you can open one chat per day with limited messages, and send at most 10 messages per day. Each chat can receive up to 14 messages; after that, new messages in that chat stay locked until you buy a plan.
• We may change free limits. Changes are shown in the app.

Channels

• Anyone can ask to create a channel. Our team approves or declines each request.
• Only King members can post in channels. Posts appear under a random anonymous name. Anonymous means anonymous to other members only: our team can see who wrote each post.
• Posts can have several pages and may be "read once".
• Paid channels need a channel pass. Men also need an active plan. Without access you can see text previews only; images are hidden and audio plays a 30-second preview.
• King members can message a post's author privately ("post messages"). Swear words are masked in channels, and mentions of WhatsApp, Telegram or Snapchat are blocked in post messages.
• "Dapster Info" is our official one-way channel for announcements. Nobody can reply to it.

7. Persona rules

Personas are fun because everyone is in on it. These rules keep it that way.

• Personas are fiction inside Dapster only. Do not use your persona to deceive anyone outside the app, or to make someone believe something false that harms them.
• No money, gifts or personal details through a persona. Do not use a persona to ask for money, gifts, loans, investments, crypto, bank or card details, passwords, ID documents or other real personal information.
• No cheating or fraud by pretending to be someone. Cheating by personation and identity theft are crimes under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (sections 66C and 66D) and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (sections 318 and 319).
• No child personas. Zero tolerance for sexualising minors. Every persona must be an adult. Profiles, posts and chats must never describe, role-play or sexualise anyone under 18. Our text filter blocks profile and channel text that describes a minor. See our Child Safety Standards.
• No impersonating real, identifiable people, including celebrities, public figures and private individuals, and no using other people's photos.
• No sexually explicit content and no sexual services. Publishing or sending obscene or sexually explicit material is an offence under sections 67 and 67A of the IT Act. Do not offer, ask for or advertise sex, escort services or paid companionship.
• No intimate images without consent. Never share, or threaten to share, intimate or nude images of anyone without their consent, including edited or AI-generated ones.
• Anyone can step out of character at any time. Any member can drop the persona, set a boundary, say no, unmatch or block, whenever they want and without giving a reason. Respect it.

8. Content that is not allowed

Indian law (Rule 3(1)(b) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021) requires us to tell you that you must not host, display, upload, change, publish, send, store, update or share any information that:

1. belongs to another person and which you have no right to use;
2. is obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, or invades another person's privacy, including bodily privacy; is insulting or harassing on the basis of gender; is racially or ethnically objectionable; relates to or encourages money laundering or gambling; or promotes enmity between groups on the basis of religion or caste with the intent to incite violence;
3. is harmful to children;
4. infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other intellectual property right;
5. deceives or misleads the person receiving it about where the message came from, or knowingly and intentionally communicates false or misleading information;
6. impersonates another person;
7. threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, India's friendly relations with other countries, or public order; incites any cognisable offence; prevents the investigation of any offence; or insults another nation;
8. contains a software virus or any other code, file or program designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the working of any computer resource;
9. is patently false and untrue, and is written or published with the intent to mislead or harass a person, entity or agency for financial gain, or to cause injury to any person;
10. is an online game that is not permitted under Indian law, or advertises or promotes one;
11. violates any law in force.

How this fits with personas: a persona is a fictional character that every member knows is fictional. Playing one is not "impersonation" or "deception" under this list as long as you follow the persona rules: never pretend to be a real, identifiable person, never mislead anyone about where a message came from, and never use a persona to cause harm or gain money.

Also not allowed: harassment, threats, blackmail, stalking, hate speech, spam, advertising, and trying to move people to other platforms to get around our rules.

9. Safety tools, moderation and appeals

Your tools

• Report: on profile cards, in chats, on channel posts, on whole channels and on post messages. You can choose a reason, including a child-safety reason.
• Block: on profile cards, in chats and on post messages. Blocking deletes the chat history between the two of you. You can see and undo blocks in Settings.
• Unmatch and mute are also available.

How we moderate

• Automatic scanning: every text message, caption and channel post is automatically scanned for safety risks, such as phone numbers, mentions of other platforms, requests for money, and violence or blackmail. Flagged text is stored for review.
• Staff access: authorised Dapster staff may access conversations for safety, moderation, legal compliance and to handle reports.
• Photos are not scanned automatically. They are reviewed when reported or during our own reviews.
• Moderation can miss content. If you see something wrong, please report it.

What we can do

If you break these Terms or the law, we may, depending on how serious it is: warn you; restrict your chat for up to 90 days; remove photos, posts or other content; ban you for a set time or permanently; or delete your account. For serious harm (for example child safety, threats, or fraud) we may act without warning and may report to the authorities.

Appeals

If you think we made a wrong decision about your content or account, write to our Grievance Officer (Section 19) with your Dapster ID and what happened. If you are not satisfied with the Grievance Officer's decision, you can appeal to the Grievance Appellate Committee (see Section 19).

10. Paid plans and refunds

Paid items are optional. All payments go through Google Play Billing. Every paid item is a one-time purchase with no auto-renewal: nothing is charged again unless you choose to buy again. We never see your card or bank details.

• Prices are in Indian rupees and are the prices Google Play shows you before you pay, which may include taxes as Google Play displays them. Availability depends on your Google Play country.
• Upgrades start a fresh 30-day period on the higher plan. The unused time on your old plan is not refunded pro rata.
• Buying a lower plan while a higher plan is active is refused, and Google Play refunds that purchase automatically.
• Refunds follow Google Play's refund policy. Ask Google Play for a refund first. If Google refunds or cancels a purchase, we remove the matching benefit from your account.
• Deleting your account or being banned ends any paid time left on it.
• Paid access is personal to your account, cannot be transferred and has no cash value.
• We may change prices or plan features for future purchases. We tell you in the app before you buy. A change does not affect a period you have already paid for.

Nothing in these Terms takes away rights you have under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

11. Your content

• You own what you create and upload: photos, bio, messages, posts and voice notes.
• You give us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, resize, display and deliver that content only to operate Dapster: showing your profile and posts to other members, delivering your messages, moderating, and keeping records the law requires. The licence ends when the content is deleted, except for copies we must keep by law.
• You are responsible for your content. Only upload photos you have the right to use. Everyone in your photos must be an adult who agreed to it.
• Do not copy or share other members' photos, messages or posts outside Dapster without their permission.

12. Honest limitations

We want you to know exactly what Dapster can and cannot do.

• The selfie check is basic. The app checks on your phone that the selfie shows exactly one face, and our server approves it automatically. There is no face matching, no liveness test and no ID check. "Selfie-checked" does not mean anyone's identity or age has been confirmed.
• Personas are fiction. Do not rely on anything a profile says about the person behind it.
• View-once is not capture-proof. The app enforces view-once and listen-once, and Android blocks screenshots inside Dapster, but someone can still photograph or record the screen with another device.
• Your messages are not hidden from us. Every text message, caption and post is scanned automatically, and authorised staff may access conversations as described in Section 9.
• Moderation can miss content. We cannot check everything before others see it.
• The service may have interruptions or errors, and messages may occasionally fail to deliver.

13. Our app and fair use

• The Dapster name, logo, app design and software belong to us. You may use the app for personal, non-commercial use only.
• Do not scrape, copy data in bulk, use bots or automation, reverse engineer the app, get around limits or paywalls, attack our systems, or create accounts in bulk.

14. Disclaimers, liability and indemnity

• We provide Dapster "as is" and "as available". We try to keep it working well but cannot promise it will always be available or error-free.
• We are not responsible for what other members say or do, on or off Dapster. Be careful if you choose to share anything personal or meet anyone.
• As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses (such as lost profits or lost opportunities), and our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us for Dapster in the 12 months before the claim.
• These limits do not apply to losses caused by our gross negligence, fraud or wilful misconduct, or where Indian law (including the Consumer Protection Act, 2019) does not allow liability to be limited.
• Indemnity: if someone makes a claim against us because of content you posted or because you broke these Terms or the law, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs from that claim. This does not apply to the extent the claim was caused by our own fault.

15. Requests from authorities

• We cooperate with lawful requests from Indian government agencies and courts, including under sections 69 and 79 of the IT Act and the IT Rules, 2021.
• When we receive a lawful order, we provide the information or help it asks for within 72 hours, as the IT Rules, 2021 require.
• When the law requires it (for example, after we remove content or an account under these Rules, or when an authority asks us to), we preserve the related information and records for 180 days, or longer if a court or authorised agency requires.
• We may also share information where needed to prevent serious harm, such as a threat to someone's life or a child's safety.

16. Ending your account

• You can delete your account at any time in the app (Profile > ⋮ > Delete account) or by email. See Delete your account for exactly what is deleted and what is kept.
• We may suspend or end your account as described in Section 9.
• Sections that by their nature should continue (such as Sections 11, 14, 15 and 18) still apply after your account ends.

17. Changes to these Terms

• When we change these Terms, the Privacy Policy or the Community Standards, we give the new version a new version number and date.
• The app then asks every member to read and accept the new version before continuing. This in-app prompt is how we notify you. Important changes are also announced in the Dapster Info channel.
• If you do not accept the new version, you can stop using Dapster and delete your account.

18. Governing law and disputes

• These Terms are governed by the laws of India.
• Please contact us or the Grievance Officer first; most problems can be solved quickly.
• Subject to your rights as a consumer (for example, to approach a Consumer Commission under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019), the courts in Kerala, India have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes about these Terms or Dapster.