Member Guidelines
Welcome to the Blink Date (“Blink”) community. Our goal is to help people find and grow connections as long as they do so respectfully. Everyone is held to the same standard on Blink. We’re asking you to be considerate and abide by our community guidelines both on and offline. You heard that right: your offline behavior can lead to termination of your Blink account.
Below is a list of our policies. If you violate any of these policies, you might be permanently banned from Blink.
We expect daters on Blink to:
Be Open to Others
Blink is a diverse and welcoming community. This may mean you see and hear opinions that differ from your own. We encourage daters to respect the opinions of others, even when they don't agree with them, and simply end dates early if the person is not a compatible match.
Be Kind
The beauty of Blink is that daters have a chance to truly connect with someone in real time. Use this time to get to know your date. Always treat each other with kindness and respect. Being disrespectful to someone during your date or in messages is misaligned with our values of empathy and kindness.
Respect Boundaries
Daters should not reach out to users outside of Blink unless they have communicated that it is appropriate to do so. Talking to someone on Blink is not an invitation to interact with them off of the app. If you did not match with someone or someone unmatched you on Blink, respect that it is not a fit and do not attempt contacting them off of the app.
Be Honest
You do not need to provide your dates with much information about yourself upfront, but you should not provide a false name or date of birth, maintain duplicate accounts, or create an account if you’re under 18. Deceiving others about your identity or posting misleading photos is misaligned with our values of honesty and authenticity and unfair to other members of the community.
Blink is not for:
Nudity/Sexual Content
If you’re looking for nudity or sexual content, you’re in the wrong place. Please keep your photo, conversations, and messages appropriate. No nudity and no sexually explicit content.
Harassment
Do not engage, or encourage others to engage, in any targeted abuse or harassment against any other user. This includes saying or sending any unsolicited sexual content to your matches. Reports of stalking, threats, bullying, or intimidation, are taken very seriously.
Violence and Physical Harm
We do not tolerate violent, graphic, or gory content on Blink, or any actions or content that advocate for or threaten violence of any sort, including threatening or promoting terrorism. Physical assault, coercion, and any acts of violence are strictly prohibited.
Hate Speech
Any content that promotes, advocates for, or condones racism, bigotry, hatred, or violence against individuals or groups based on factors like (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, disability, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity is not allowed.
Private Information
Don’t publicly broadcast any private information, yours or anyone else’s. This includes social security numbers, passports, passwords, financial information or unlisted contact information, such as phone numbers, email addresses, home/work address.
Spam
Blink is about fostering connection and re-humanizing the dating experience, so don’t be fake and don’t spam people.
Prostitution and Trafficking
Promoting or advocating for commercial sexual services, human trafficking or other non-consensual sexual acts is strictly prohibited and will result in your account being banned from Blink.
Scamming
Blink has a zero-tolerance policy on predatory behavior of any kind. Anyone attempting to get other users’ private information for fraudulent or illegal activity may be banned. Any user caught sharing their own financial account information (PayPal, Venmo, etc.) for the purpose of receiving money from other users may also be banned.
Illegal Usage
Don’t use Blink to do anything illegal. If it’s illegal IRL, it’s illegal on Blink.