Grindr Terms of Service

This document governs use of the Grindr platform, a geosocial networking application primarily serving gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer users, and establishes a binding contractual relationship between Grindr LLC and its users under US law. The agreement states that users grant Grindr a broad, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, and distribute user-generated content, and the terms authorize Grindr to collect sensitive personal data including HIV status, sexual preferences, and precise geolocation, with users consenting to this collection as a condition of service. The terms include a mandatory arbitration clause with a class action waiver that, if enforceable, eliminates users' ability to pursue collective legal claims, and the agreement asserts a unilateral right to modify terms with continued use constituting acceptance, a provision whose enforceability may be constrained by applicable consumer protection law in certain jurisdictions. The document engages GDPR for EU/EEA users, CCPA for California residents, and FTC consumer protection frameworks given Grindr's documented history of sensitive data handling; the FTC and state attorneys general have previously taken enforcement interest in LGBTQ+ platform data practices, and the collection of HIV status and sexual orientation data as special category information under GDPR creates heightened compliance obligations. The arbitration and class action waiver provisions interact with ongoing US regulatory scrutiny of mandatory pre-dispute arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, and the geolocation data practices engage additional state-level frameworks including the Illinois BIPA-adjacent location privacy discussions and various state consumer privacy laws.