crushsprout

Terms of Service

Last updated: 29 October 2026

1. About these terms

An independent developer based in India runs Crushsprout (“Crushsprout”, “we”, “us”). These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and us about your use of crushsprout.com and any Crushsprout apps (the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.

2. Eligibility and responsibility

Eligibility and responsibility
You must be 18 or older, use an email address you have permission to use, and respect the people you invite. Crushsprout invites people by email only. By inviting someone, you confirm you have a legitimate reason to have their email address. Do not add email addresses obtained unlawfully, use the service to harass someone, or attempt to bypass verification or rate limits.

We ask for your date of birth when you sign up and block anyone under 18. However, we keep only your birth year and a record that you confirmed you are 18 or older. You are responsible for the accuracy of what you tell us and for keeping your sign-in method secure.

3. Nature of the service

  • Crushsprout is invite-only. There are no public profiles and no browsing. You connect only with a person you invite or who invites you.
  • You stay anonymous until you choose to reveal your reveal profile (photos, name and tagline) through the in-app reveal.
  • We do not guarantee that a person you invite will accept, reply, feel comfortable to chat, or reveal. We will never tell you whether an invited person declined or ignored an invite.

4. Free to use

Crushsprout is free. In other words, every feature is available to everyone, and we never ask for card or bank details. If we ever introduce paid features, we will tell you in advance. Even then, we will charge nothing unless you choose it.

5. Accounts that aren’t used

If an account is not used for 40 days, we permanently delete it and its data. However, we will email you before this happens, and signing in keeps your account.

  • A chat (and the games) open only when the invited person confirms they are comfortable. The person who sent the invite can only let them know they are ready.
  • Identities are revealed only through the in-app reveal, and only by the person choosing to reveal.
  • You must not try to find out who an anonymous partner is by any other means, for example by analysing their photos, videos or messages, contacting people you think know them, or asking them to disclose it outside the reveal.

7. Prohibited conduct

You must not use the Service to do, or try to do, any of the following:

  • harass, stalk, threaten or intimidate anyone, or post hate speech;
  • impersonate anyone, or send spam or scams;
  • share or request any content involving minors, or anything that sexualises minors;
  • share intimate images of anyone without their consent;
  • screenshot, record or share another user’s content or revealed identity outside the Service;
  • send fake or bulk invites, or invite people whose contact details you obtained unlawfully;
  • use the Service for any commercial purpose, including advertising or recruiting;
  • bypass verification, rate limits or other security measures, or interfere with the Service;
  • copy, reverse engineer or scrape the Service (see section 9);
  • break any applicable law.

8. Your content

  • You own the photos, videos, voice notes, messages and other content you add (“your content”).
  • You give Crushsprout only the limited, non-exclusive licence needed to store your content and show it to the people you are connected with, as the Service is designed to work. This licence ends when your content is deleted.
  • You confirm that you have the rights to what you upload and that it does not show other people without their consent.
  • Profile snaps, videos and reveal photos are not yet checked automatically when you upload them. We plan to add automatic checks for illegal or unsafe content (using Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety), which may then reject uploads. Until then, please report anything that breaks these Terms; we remove it.

9. Our service, name and design

  • The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, games, game pictures and logo, and the Crushsprout name, belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws.
  • These Terms give you a personal, non-transferable right to use the Service for its intended purpose while your account is active. They do not give you any ownership of the Service or any right to use our name or logo.
  • Some parts of the Service use open-source software. Those parts stay under their own licences, and nothing in these Terms limits your rights under those licences.

You must not, and must not help anyone else to:

  • copy, modify, sell or distribute the Service or any part of it, or make works based on it;
  • decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Service, or try to extract its source code, except where the law allows this regardless of these Terms;
  • scrape, crawl or use bots or other automated means to access the Service or collect data from it;
  • use the Service, or anything you learn from it, to build or help build a competing product;
  • use our name, logo or design in a way that suggests you are us or are connected with us.

10. End-to-end encryption and disappearing messages

  • Chats are end-to-end encrypted. We cannot read, recover or restore chat messages.
  • Nothing in a chat is kept. Each message, photo and voice note is deleted permanently once the chat's timer runs out after the other person reads it (one minute, or a longer timer of up to 24 hours chosen by the invited person), from our servers and from your devices. Unread ones wait, encrypted, until they are read or the connection ends.
  • There is no chat history, backup or export. A device can only read messages sent after it first opened the chat.

11. People who are invited

If someone invites you and you have not signed up, we use your email address once to send the invite. However, we never store it. Instead, we keep only a one-way hashed form of it to manage the invite. We also do not track whether you open the email or click its links. The sender gives the invite a private name or nickname that only they can see. We delete invites and your contact details after 40 days if you do not join. Every invite email includes a “Don’t contact me again” link. Using it permanently stops invites to your address from anyone. So, to honour that, we keep only a hashed form of your address. You can also email support@crushsprout.com to opt out.

12. Block, report and what happens next

  • You can block or report any connection at any time. Blocking ends the connection immediately.
  • A report is the reason and your own description. Whatever happens in a chat stays in it: no messages, photos or voice notes are sent with a report, and we cannot see any chat.
  • We review reports and may warn, suspend or ban an account, remove content, and preserve and share information where the law requires it. We may not be able to tell you the outcome of a report.

13. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or permanently ban your account if you break these Terms, if the law requires us to, or to protect other users. In this case, where appropriate and lawful, we will tell you why. You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time in settings; deletion is immediate and permanent. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (such as your content licence ending, disclaimers, limitation of liability and governing law) continue to apply.

First-date suggestions may include sponsored listings, advertisements and affiliate links (for example, flower or gifting services). We always label them clearly. Also, if you buy something through an affiliate link, we may earn a commission. Those third parties provide their own products and services under their own terms, and we are not responsible for them.

15. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

  • Crushsprout does not run background checks on users and does not verify their identity beyond sign-in and the 18+ confirmation.
  • You are responsible for your own safety when communicating with or meeting other people. Please read our Safety tips before meeting anyone in person.
  • The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent allowed by law, we do not give any warranty that it will be uninterrupted or error-free.
  • To the extent allowed by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for the conduct of other users, and our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 3 months before the claim arose.
  • Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

16. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and why, and your rights. We wrote it to comply with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and, for users in the EU and UK, the GDPR and UK GDPR.

17. Grievance Officer

In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made under it, you can reach our Grievance Officer at grievance@crushsprout.com.

We will acknowledge a complaint within 24 hours and resolve it within 15 days of receipt. We will act within 24 hours on complaints about content that exposes a person’s private area, shows them in full or partial nudity or a sexual act, or impersonates them.

For general help, email support@crushsprout.com.

18. Governing law and jurisdiction

The laws of India govern these Terms. The courts of India have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them or the Service, subject to any mandatory rights you have as a consumer in your country of residence.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we will notify you by email and in the app at least 14 days before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after that, the updated Terms apply. Then, if you don’t agree, you can delete your account before they take effect.