Terms of Service

Last updated: 27 October 2026

§ 1 Scope

These Terms of Service ("Terms") apply to the use of the lingr mobile application ("App") and the associated website lingr.online, as well as all related services (together, the "Service"), offered by lingr Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Auenstr. 68, 80469 München, Germany, registered with the commercial register of the Munich Local Court (Amtsgericht München) under HRB 316866, represented by its managing director Johannes Lenz ("Provider").

§ 2 Conclusion of contract and registration

Use of the Service requires registration. Upon registration, a usage contract is formed between you and the Provider.
Registration is permitted only to natural persons who have reached the age of 18. You enter your date of birth when registering. By registering, you confirm that it is correct, that you are at least 18 years old and that you have full legal capacity.
Only one account per person is permitted. Every account confirms a mobile number with a code sent by text message; a number belongs to exactly one account. Multiple registrations may lead to the suspension of all accounts.

§ 3 Description of services

lingr is a social network for queer, gay and bisexual men. Members can create a profile, start and join groups, plan meetups, publish and attend events, find queer and queer-friendly places, chat with each other and share on the board what they are up to.

The Service is currently free of charge. If the Provider offers paid additional features in the future, separate terms will apply to them and will be shown to you before any purchase. Features that serve your safety, and the settings for who can see you, are not paid features.

The Provider makes the technical platform available but does not guarantee that contacts, meetings or other interactions will come about. The Provider is not a broker within the meaning of a brokerage contract and is not the organiser of the meetups and events that members create.

§ 3a How people are suggested to you

Under "People", lingr suggests members you share an occasion with: a group, a meetup or an event with up to 50 people going – for meetups and events from the moment you say you're going until seven days afterwards. Those you share the most with come first; where it's a tie, the order changes daily. You see up to 30 suggestions a day and can reshuffle the selection three times a day. You can filter by interests and by what someone is here for, among other things.

Distance, looks and money play no part in the suggestions. Not suggested are your connections, members you have blocked or hidden with contact protection, and members where a request was declined or a conversation was ended.

§ 3b Contact and conversations

With a shared occasion you can message a member directly.
Without a shared occasion – for example when you find someone by their exact @name – you send a request with a first message of up to 300 characters. It stays open for 72 hours. If it goes unanswered, you can send a second request seven days later. If the second one also goes unanswered, or the person replies "No thanks", you can no longer contact them; they can still message you at any time. You can send at most ten requests in 24 hours.
Connections can only be requested with a shared occasion or after a chat; the other person has to confirm.
Ending a conversation: you can end a one-to-one chat with one of three fixed, friendly sentences. After that the other person can no longer write there; you yourself can pick the conversation up again at any time.

§ 3c Groups, meetups, events and places

Groups

Members can start groups. A group's founders and admins decide on requests to join and on invitations. Groups run by the Provider itself are marked as lingr groups. Groups without activity are archived after 30 days. Groups with a sexual purpose, about fetishes or about drugs are not allowed.

Meetups

Whoever plans a meetup is its host and decides on requests; in doing so they see the requesting person's profile. Before you are accepted, the app only shows the rough area. Only accepted participants see the exact meeting point and the meetup's chat – and only once at least two guests besides the host have been accepted. If that has not happened six hours before the start, lingr cancels the meetup automatically.

Hosts are themselves responsible for what they say about the place, the plan and house rules; the Provider does not check this. If you meet at someone's home, you do so at your own responsibility. For meeting people you don't know yet, there is Safe-Meet.

Events

Events are published by members or organisers. They are themselves responsible for their details – time, place, admission, programme. The Provider does not guarantee that an event takes place as announced.

Places are curated third-party information

Details about places – address, category, opening hours – come from public sources and from members' reports. The Provider checks them with reasonable care but cannot warrant their accuracy, completeness or currency; nor the operation of, access to, or what happens at those places. You can report wrong details in the app. Listing a place is not a recommendation and creates no relationship between the Provider and the business.

Check-in

Checking in is voluntary. At a place it is only possible nearby, at a meetup only for the host and accepted guests. At a place, others only see a tiered number without names ("3+", "10+"); at meetups and events, others who are checked in see your profile. A check-in only appears on your board if you explicitly share it. You count as present until 30 minutes after your last sign of activity in the app; the entry is deleted after 48 hours. The Provider does not guarantee that displayed presences are current or complete.

§ 3d Safety features, authenticity status and sharing

Some features serve safety or orientation. What they do – and what they do not:

Safe-Meet is not an emergency service

With Safe-Meet you can let a trusted contact of your own choosing know that you are meeting someone. If you do not check back by the time you set, the platform releases the details you stored to that person and notifies them.

Safe-Meet does not replace an emergency call or an emergency service. The feature alerts neither the police nor an ambulance. It depends on circumstances the provider does not control: a working internet connection, delivery by the device manufacturer's push service, and your trusted contact noticing the notification and acting on it. Whether and how they react is entirely up to them. In an emergency, call 112 or your local emergency number.

You choose trusted contacts from your confirmed connections, at most three. The role has to be accepted and is locked while a Safe-Meet is running. If you pick a person other than the one you are meeting, their profile name becomes part of the entry; naming people abusively is prohibited.

The authenticity status is a statement by members, not a verification

The authenticity status shows how many connections have confirmed that a profile is real – ten per cent per confirmation, 100 per cent from ten confirmations on. These are statements by other members, not an identity check by the provider. A high status is no proof of a person's identity, intentions or behaviour, and no substitute for your own caution. Confirmations can be withdrawn at any time, so the value can drop. Confirmations in exchange for anything, or for profiles you do not know, are prohibited.

Sharing, watermarks and screen recordings

Your age, your social media names and your albums are only visible to people you share them with in a chat – for 24 hours, 7 days or without a time limit. You can withdraw a share at any time; blocking withdraws all shares. The app shows shared photos with a watermark carrying the name of the person viewing them. During a screen recording it covers other people's private photos, and it flags a screenshot taken in a chat as far as the operating system permits. You share a location in a chat for 24 hours, 7 days or without a time limit.

These features make passing content on harder, they do not prevent it: recipients can photograph content with another device. Only share what you could live with being passed on.

§ 4 Members' obligations

You undertake to:

provide only truthful information in your profile (in particular regarding age, identity and your own photos),
not impersonate another person, not use other people's photos or identities, and not create a misleading profile ("catfishing"),
keep your login credentials secret and not grant access to third parties,
not post any content that violates applicable law or the rights of third parties – in particular no insults, hate speech, pornographic, violence-glorifying or child-protection-violating content,
not post nudity in your profile, albums, on the board, in groups, meetups or events, and not send anyone explicit content unasked,
not put anyone down or exclude them because of their body, origin, age, gender expression or HIV status – including in profile texts,
not share, forward, photograph or publish intimate or identifying content of other people without their explicit consent (no "outing", no non-consensual imagery), and not pass on other people's profiles, photos or messages,
not harass, threaten, coerce, extort or stalk other members, and to accept a no,
not create groups, meetups or events with a sexual purpose, about fetishes or about drugs,
not use the App for commercial purposes (advertising, solicitation, paid meetings, arranging sex work) and not offer or arrange drugs,
not perform automated access (bots, scrapers) on the Service.

§ 5 Content and licence

You retain all rights to the content you post (photos, texts). However, you grant the Provider the simple, worldwide, royalty-free right to store, reproduce, display and make your content available to other members – to the extent necessary to provide the Service.

§ 6 Moderation and zero tolerance for harmful behaviour

Reporting: profiles, messages, photos, groups, meetups, events, places and board posts can be reported in the app. The reported person does not find out who reported them.
Blocking: every member can block other members. It takes effect immediately and in both directions: your connection and shares end, you can no longer message each other and you no longer see each other.
Review by people: reported content is reviewed by a person within 24 hours. Violations lead to the content being removed, a warning, or a temporary or permanent suspension. If we remove content of yours or suspend your account, we tell you and give the reason.
Automatic photo check: before uploading, the app checks photos for your profile, albums, chats, the board and events for nudity on your device; if it detects nudity, the photo is not uploaded. Videos cannot be uploaded.
Automatic text check: the Service compares profile texts, answers to questions, pronouns, texts of groups, meetups and events, and board posts with a list of demeaning and excluding terms. A text containing such a term is not saved; the app points this out while you type. Chats are not checked. If you think a match is wrong, you can appeal in the app; a person reviews the appeal.

§ 7 Suspension and termination

In the event of violations of these Terms, the Provider is entitled to suspend and/or delete your account temporarily or permanently. You yourself can end the contract at any time without notice by deleting your account in the App or at /en/account-loeschen.

If you consider a suspension or a moderation decision to be unjustified, you can appeal within 14 days by email to support@lingr.online. We will review the case again and inform you of the result.

§ 8 Liability

The Provider is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, as well as under the German Product Liability Act. For slight negligence, the Provider is liable only for breach of essential contractual obligations and limited to the foreseeable damage typical of the contract.

The Provider is not liable for content posted by members or for damage caused by the conduct of other members – including at meetups and events that members create.

§ 9 Changes to these Terms

The Provider reserves the right to amend these Terms. Material changes will be communicated with reasonable notice by email or in-app notification. If you do not object to the changes within 30 days, they are deemed accepted.

§ 10 Final provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Consumer-protection provisions of the state in which you have your habitual residence remain unaffected.

Should individual provisions of these Terms be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.