Terms of Service

Last updated: November 12, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Pear app, our website at peardating.org, and our waitlist (together, the "Service"). Pear is operated by Iris Connect LLC ("Pear", "we", "us"). By creating an account or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy and our Community Guidelines. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

1. Who can use Pear

To use Pear, you must:

be at least 18 years old;
be able to form a binding contract, and not be barred from using the Service under the laws that apply to you;
never have been convicted of a felony or a sex crime, and not be required to register as a sex offender anywhere; and
not have had a Pear account removed by us, unless we've said you may come back.

We check age at sign-up. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will remove it.

2. Your account

You sign in with your phone number. Keep access to it secure: you're responsible for activity on your account.
One account per person. Accounts are personal and can't be shared, sold or transferred.
Give accurate information, including your date of birth.
Tell us at [email protected] if you think someone else has accessed your account.

3. Community rules

Everyone on Pear has to follow our Community Guidelines, which are part of these Terms. In short, you will not:

pretend to be someone else, or post anyone's photos or videos but your own;
harass, threaten, bully, or demean anyone, including for their race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or body;
post nudity, sexual content, violence, or illegal content, or send unsolicited sexual messages;
spam, sell, promote, or ask anyone for money, gift cards or crypto;
share other people's private information, or record or screenshot someone to embarrass them;
use Pear for anything illegal, or to harm, scam or exploit anyone; or
scrape, copy, reverse-engineer, disrupt, or use bots or automation on the Service, or try to access it in ways we haven't allowed.

4. Your content

"Your content" means the videos, photos, voice notes, messages, prompt answers and other material you post or send on Pear.

You own your content.
So that we can run Pear, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, process, display, and distribute your content within the Service, and to make technical changes needed for that (such as resizing or re-encoding video). This licence ends when your content is deleted, except for copies we keep as described in our Privacy Policy, and except for content you've sent to other users, who may still have it.
We will not use your videos in our marketing or ads without asking you first.
You're responsible for your content. Only post content you have the right to post, and that doesn't break the law or these Terms.
Other users' content belongs to them. Don't download, repost or share it outside Pear without their permission.

5. Reporting, review and removal

You can report a profile, video or message from the ••• menu in the app, or by emailing [email protected]. Reports are confidential: the person you report is not told who reported them, and reporting someone also blocks them for you.
We review reports and may remove content, limit an account, or remove it from Pear. Serious cases (anything involving a minor, threats of violence, or sexual exploitation) are removed immediately and may be reported to the authorities.
We may also review and remove content that breaks these Terms when we find it ourselves, but we don't review everything before it appears and we aren't responsible for content other users post.
If you think we got a decision wrong, email us and we'll take another look.
Copyright: if you believe content on Pear infringes your copyright, email us with the content, the work you own, and your contact details, and we'll review it.

6. Your safety

Pear helps you meet people. It is not a background-check service: we do not run criminal background checks or verify everything users tell us, and we can't guarantee how anyone will behave on or off the app. You are responsible for your interactions with other users. Please read our safety tips before you meet anyone, and if you are ever in danger, call 911.

7. The 14-day timer and features

Every pear (a mutual like) opens a chat that lasts 14 days. Features, including the timer, stories, gold, and which campuses Pear is open at, may change, be limited, or end. Pear is currently free to use. If we ever introduce paid features, we'll tell you the price and terms before you pay anything.

8. Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time in the app (You tab, Settings, Delete account), or see peardating.org/delete-account.
We may suspend or remove your account, with or without notice, if you break these Terms or the Community Guidelines, if we're required to by law, or to protect other users or Pear.
Sections 4 (the parts about licences and responsibility), 9, 10, 11, and 13 keep applying after your account ends.

9. Our rights

The Service, including the Pear name, logo, design, and software, is owned by us or our licensors and protected by law. We give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for its intended purpose under these Terms. You may not copy, modify, or reuse it without our written permission.

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We don't guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that you will find a match.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Pear will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any conduct of other users on or off the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to $100. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

12. App stores

If you downloaded Pear from the Apple App Store or Google Play, these Terms are between you and Iris Connect LLC, not Apple or Google. Apple and Google aren't responsible for the app or its content, have no obligation to provide support or maintenance for it, and are not liable for any claims about it. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. You must also follow the app store's own terms.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, USA, where Iris Connect LLC is registered, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as Pear changes. When we make material changes, we'll update the date above and, where appropriate, tell you in the app or by email before they take effect. Continuing to use Pear after that means you accept the updated Terms.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email [email protected].