You must be at least 18 years old to use Bumble, and Bumble actively monitors for underage users and will suspend or terminate accounts it suspects belong to minors.
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The provision operationalizes age-gating requirements under applicable law and establishes a compliance mechanism whereby the service reserves authority to enforce age restrictions through account management actions based on indicators of underage use.
The updated terms reframe BeePitched from a collaborative pitch-sharing feature to a standalone content generation and distribution tool under user control. Users are now solely responsible for obtaining permissions, ensuring content legality, and distributing completed pitches themselves. Bumble clarifies it does not host or distribute pitches after generation and retains content only briefly (24 hours post-download, 7 days if not completed) for moderation purposes. Bumble reserves the right to review, refuse to generate, remove, or restrict access to any content that violates the terms or community guidelines, and may suspend access to the feature if misuse is identified.
View change record →The updated terms state that Bumble's license to use your uploaded content is now limited to distribution to other app users when they are using the app, rather than the previously stated right to make content available to the general public. This represents a narrowing of the company's stated rights over user content. Additionally, the terms now explicitly disclose five scenarios in which Bumble may request account verification: to prevent fake accounts and fraud, to confirm age compliance in certain jurisdictions, to detect unusual account access, to prevent payment fraud, and to enforce community guidelines. The terms also clarify that uninstalling the app does not delete your account, and you must manually follow account deletion steps to permanently remove it.
View change record →Accounts suspected of belonging to users under 18 may be suspended or required to verify their age, which protects minors but may also affect legitimate adult users who trigger monitoring systems.
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"be at least 18 years old or the age of majority to legally enter into a contract under the laws of your home country if that happens to be greater than 18; and be legally permitted to use the App by the laws of your home country. Please note that we monitor for underage use and we will terminate, suspend or ask you to verify your Account if we have reason to believe that you may be underage.Excerpt from Bumble's Terms and Conditions
Age gating and underage user monitoring obligations intersect with COPPA (for under-13 users), state minor protection laws, and the EU's Digital Services Act risk mitigation requirements for very large online platforms; the document's reference to …
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The provision operationalizes age-gating requirements under applicable law and establishes a compliance mechanism whereby the service reserves authority to enforce age restrictions through account management actions based on indicators of underage use.
Accounts suspected of belonging to users under 18 may be suspended or required to verify their age, which protects minors but may also affect legitimate adult users who trigger monitoring systems.
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