Dating Quarter

Terms

Version 1 · 18 August 2026

What you're agreeing to, what we're promising, and what a KronosID actually is — because it is not the throwaway login you are used to.

1 · Your KronosID, and why it isn't a website login

Most accounts are a tenancy. You fill in a profile, it lives on someone else's website, and when that website is sold or shut down or decides it doesn't like you, the person you built there simply stops existing. You start again somewhere else, from nothing.

A KronosID is not that. It is one identity that belongs to you and carries across everything Kronos builds. One person, one KronosID — a place you accumulate a self rather than a temporary perch on someone else's roof.

Concretely, that means:

• It is singular. One KronosID is one human being. You do not get several, and neither does anyone else — which is what makes a block mean something, and what stops someone removed for hurting people from returning an hour later under a new name.
• It is portable across the street. The same identity signs you into everything we build. You do not rebuild yourself each time.
• It is separable. Leaving the Dating Quarter does not destroy your KronosID, and closing your KronosID takes the Dating Quarter with it. Those are two different doors and you choose which one you walk through.
• It is yours to end. Wholly and immediately, at your own hand. See Leaving.

You are responsible for keeping it secure — a real password, kept to yourself. If you think someone else has got into it, reset your password: doing so signs out every other device automatically.

2 · The Quarter is one place on a street

Dating Quarter is a place, not the whole world. It sits on a wider street of things your KronosID can walk into — other quarters, other activities, other rooms. Some exist now, more are being built.

The rule that makes that safe is worth stating clearly, because it is a design decision and not just a policy:

Your KronosID is the thread. What you hang on it in one place does not follow you into another unless you decide it should.

3 · 18 and over — the door, and why it's there

You must be 18 or over to enter the Dating Quarter. There is no discretion in this and no version of it we will bend.

When you first come to the Quarter we ask for your date of birth. If you are under 18, the Quarter does not open.

But your KronosID still works

This is deliberate, and it is the reason the two are separate things. Being too young for the Dating Quarter does not mean being turned away from Kronos. A younger person can hold a KronosID and use the other parts of the street that are appropriate for them. The age check is on this door, not on the identity.

When you turn 18, the door opens. You do not need a new account, and you do not lose anything you built elsewhere in the meantime — which is precisely the point of an identity that is yours rather than a site's.

Why we are strict about this

A dating space with children in it is the most harmful thing this product could accidentally become. Everything else on this page is a matter of degree. This one is not. Giving us a false date of birth to get in is a serious breach of these terms and will end the account, and where a child has been put at risk we will involve the police.

If you believe someone here is under 18, tell us at hello@datingquarter.com. We will act on it quickly and you do not need to be certain before reporting it.

4 · How to be here

We are not going to write you forty rules. The Quarter exists so people can meet each other honestly, so:

• Be who you actually are. Your own photos, your own age, your own self. Pretending to be someone else is the thing this place cannot tolerate.
• Take no for an answer — first time, without argument. A pass is not an invitation to try harder.
• Nobody here is a lead. No selling, no scams, no recruiting, no asking people for money, no sending anyone anywhere else to pay for anything.
• No sexual content involving children, ever, in any form. This is the one line where we go straight to the police rather than to you.
• No hate, harassment, threats, or sharing anyone's private information.
• No unsolicited explicit images. Consent applies to photographs too.
• Don't share what someone tells you in confidence here. A conversation that opened because two people chose each other is a private room.

And a practical one: meeting people from the internet is normal and mostly lovely, but meet in public the first time, and tell someone where you're going.

5 · What the conversation here is for

We are here to help you find someone. We are not trying to become the place you spend your evenings.

The conversation in Dating Quarter exists to get two people from "we matched" to "we're meeting" — or to "actually, no thanks", which is an equally good outcome and a complete sentence. Once you know you want to keep talking, take it to a phone call, a text, or wherever you normally talk to people. We are not built to be your daily messenger and we are not trying to hold you here.

That does mean a few things are out of place in this room:

• No sexual content in chat. This is our house, not a private one. What two consenting adults do after they have met each other is entirely their business and none of ours — it just doesn't happen in here.
• No unsolicited images of any kind.
• Nothing you would not say in a room with other people in it. That is the whole standard, and it is easier to remember than a list.

6 · What's yours and what's ours

Your photos and your words remain yours. We do not claim ownership of anything you make. You give us only the permission we need to actually run the thing — to store your profile and show it to other people inside the Dating Quarter — and that permission ends when you delete it.

We will not use your face or your words in advertising or promotion. If we ever wanted to, we would ask you first, and you would be free to say no.

The software, the design and the name are ours.

7 · What we promise you

Terms are usually a list of what you owe us. Here is the other direction:

• We will not sell your data or advertise at you. See the Privacy page, which is written the same way this one is.
• We will take harassment seriously, and help you beyond just blocking someone — including preserving evidence and dealing with the police if it comes to that.
• We will tell you the truth about security, including what we have not built yet. The Privacy page has a section that names our current gaps.
• We will let you leave completely, at your own hand, without a retention call or a thirty-day change-your-mind window.
• We will tell you before we change anything that matters, in the app and by email, rather than by quietly editing a date.

8 · Removal, and appealing it

We can suspend or remove an account that breaks these terms. For the serious things — anything involving a child, threats, or impersonation — we do it immediately and without warning.

For everything else we would rather talk to you first, and you can always reply to us at hello@datingquarter.com. If you think we have got it wrong, say so and a person will look again. We are small enough that this is a real offer rather than a form.

Being removed from the Dating Quarter does not automatically end your KronosID, unless what happened was serious enough to warrant it.

9 · Leaving

Settings → leave the quarter. Your card, your photos, and every decision you have made go immediately and permanently. Your conversations close.

Two honest details:

• The other person keeps their side of a conversation you both had. Your words are removed and they can never reach you again, but the fact that they once talked to someone is part of their own record.
• If we removed you for hurting other people, we keep enough to stop you simply returning. That is the one thing that survives a deletion, and we think it is right.

Leaving the Quarter leaves your KronosID intact. To close that as well, do it from your KronosID account.

10 · The necessary boring part

Dating Quarter is provided as it is. We work hard on it, but we cannot promise it will never be down and we cannot promise you will meet anyone — that part is not in our gift.

We do not vet the people who use it. An account existing here is not a character reference. We cannot know that someone is who they say they are, and we are not going to pretend otherwise — anyone claiming they can is selling you something.

What we can do is run the place well: make the rules clear, act when someone breaks them, and build this so that nothing ever hurries you. Everything here moves at your speed on purpose — the pause before a decision, the fact that a conversation only opens when both people chose it. That is not decoration. People who mean you harm rely on you moving faster than you would like to, and the simplest protection we can give you is a place that never asks you to.

So take your time. Nobody here is going anywhere — and anyone pressing you to hurry has just told you exactly who they are.

We are not liable for what other people do, though we will help you deal with it. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and nothing in them removes the rights you have as a consumer.