Terms of use

You must be 18 or older to create an account. The Circle is intended for adults seeking marriage within the Sephardic Jewish community.

You may hold one account. Accounts are personal to you and may not be shared, sold or transferred.

Membership is at our discretion. The Circle is a curated service, and we may decline or end a membership.

If you sign in with a phone number, we text you a one-time code so you can get in. You are asking for that message by entering your number; we do not text people who have not.

We may also text you about your own account — that we have made an introduction for you, or that somebody is waiting on your answer. We do not send marketing or promotional messages, and we never text on behalf of anybody else.

How often depends on you. A code arrives when you ask to sign in; account messages are occasional, and there are usually none in a given week.

Message and data rates may apply. Your carrier, not us, decides what a message costs you.

Reply STOP to any message to stop receiving them. Reply HELP for help, or write to us at hello@intothecircle.org. Stopping texts does not close your account — you can still sign in with your email address.

Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

Your phone number, and your agreement to be texted, are never shared or sold to anybody else for marketing.

You agree that the information you give us — your answers, your photographs and your contact details — is truthful and about you.

Misrepresenting your age, marital status, or identity is grounds for immediate removal.

You are responsible for keeping your contact details current, since introductions depend on them.

The Circle suggests introductions; it does not guarantee them. There is no promise of a match, of a particular number of matches, or of an outcome.

An introduction is shared with both people only when both have expressed interest.

We may pause or withdraw an introduction at any time, including in response to a report.

Treat other members with respect. Harassment, intimidation, hateful speech, sexual content and solicitation are not permitted.

Do not use The Circle to advertise, to recruit, or to ask other members for money. Requests for money are the most common shape of a scam, and we will act on reports of them.

Do not share another member’s photographs, messages or details outside The Circle.

You can report a member or a message from inside the app, and you can block a member at any time. Reports are read by our team.

You keep ownership of the photographs you upload. You give us permission to show them to the people we introduce you to, and to our own team, for the purpose of making introductions.

Photographs are reviewed before they are shown. We may decline one that does not show you clearly or that is not appropriate for the community.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings in the app. Deleting removes your profile, your answers, your photographs and your conversations.

We may suspend or end a membership that breaks these terms, or where we believe a member poses a risk to others.

The Circle is provided as it is. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, or that any introduction will lead to a relationship.

We are not responsible for the conduct of any member, online or in person. Please use ordinary good sense when meeting someone: meet in public, and tell someone where you are going.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our liability to you is limited to the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

We may update these terms. If we make a material change we will say so in the app or by email, and the revised date above will change.

Questions about these terms can go to hello@intothecircle.org.