"Meet in person" terms

These terms are in addition to the general Terms of Use and apply only to "Meet in person", the feature through which two users mutually commit to a real-life meeting. They must be explicitly accepted, once, before you can propose or accept a meeting.

1. How it works

Whoever proposes a meeting chooses an amount (10, 20, or 50 US dollars — any conversion into your local currency is handled by Stripe or your card network), a time window of up to 24 hours, and a location, with a 200-metre radius around the point chosen on the map. If the other person accepts, they deposit the same amount. Both amounts remain pre-authorized on each person's card — held, but not yet charged — until the outcome of the meeting is known.

2. What a pre-authorization is

Pre-authorizing an amount doesn't mean paying it: the bank holds that sum on your card, making it unavailable for other uses, but the actual charge only happens if and when MM4R captures it (see point 4). If the meeting succeeds, the pre-authorization is cancelled and the amount becomes available again, with no charge at all.

3. Accepted cards

We don't accept prepaid cards: if our payment provider (Stripe) recognizes a card as prepaid, the pre-authorization is cancelled immediately and you'll be asked to use a different card. We can't guarantee we'll recognize every kind of disposable or easily-closed card — that's a limitation of the payment provider, not a choice we make.

4. When the deposit is withheld

Within the agreed window, each of you must validate your presence at the meeting location (see point 5). Whoever succeeds gets their pre-authorization back, cancelled with no charge. Whoever doesn't — including if the other person doesn't show up at all — loses the deposited amount, which is captured by MM4R. If neither of you can prove your presence, you both lose the amount. This decision is made entirely automatically, based on the checks described in point 5, with no manual review or appeal: by accepting these terms you accept that the outcome computed by the system is final.

5. How presence is validated

On the "My meetups" page, during the agreed window, each of you opens validation on your own smartphone. The system cross-checks two independent signals between the two devices: both parties' GPS location (must be within the radius of the chosen location) and a mutual scan of a QR code that changes every few seconds shown on the other person's screen. If the other person doesn't show up, you can still prove your own presence alone via GPS location, within one hour of the end of the agreed window.

Openly stated limitation: this is a set of checks meant to discourage no-shows, not an absolute guarantee against fraud. No website — unlike an installed app with system-level permissions — can read your carrier's cell-tower data, or guarantee with certainty that a device's location hasn't been spoofed using advanced technical tools. The two cross-checked signals make tampering harder, not impossible.

6. Your smartphone's permissions

To use this feature your browser will ask for access to: your camera (to scan the other person's QR code) and your precise location (to verify you're at the agreed location). You can check in advance whether your device supports these checks on the "Device test" page: if the test fails, you won't be able to propose or accept a meeting until the problem is fixed (permissions denied, missing or non-working hardware).

7. Declining or cancelling

You can decline a proposal with no consequences: doing so immediately cancels the pre-authorization already taken from whoever proposed the meeting. Once both of you have deposited, the meeting is confirmed and point 4 above applies.

8. Changes to these terms

If we make a substantial update to this text, you'll be asked to accept it again before you can propose or accept another meeting: the terms that apply are always the ones accepted at the time of each meeting.