Terms of Service

Meet40 puts a small age-matched group in the same place at the same time, under one theme — a coffee, a walk, a run or a hike. All four are on sale today. It happens in Capitol Hill, Downtown Bellevue, The Marina and The Mission. Everyone in the group is 40 or over. You pay for your place in the group; you pay for your own coffee, or whatever else you buy, yourself.

How many people, honestly. A group is four to six people. We build the groups by hand after registration for a date closes, so the exact number depends on who registered and who cancelled. We would rather run a smaller valid group than add the wrong person. Never fewer than four, never more than six, and never anyone who is not 40 or over.

Meet40 is a service for making friends. It is not a dating service and we do not build groups on any romantic basis. There is no public directory, no swiping and no feed. A limited connection page is available only between people who already attended together and both enabled 1-1 chat. It is still a booking for a meetup.

Group chat is shared by the assigned group. Optional 1-1 chat is available only between two people recorded as attending the same prior event, with both people’s setting on. There is no wider member directory, public profile, or way to contact someone you did not attend with. Your next still-bookable event may appear to those eligible prior attendees so they can book the same event; this never reveals the meeting point or guarantees the same group. Section 7 is about it.

A profile picture is optional. Before an event, Meet40 shows only an anonymous default avatar. After two people have attended together, a picture may appear only in their private 1-1 chat and Meet Again connection page; it is never a public profile or a group-chat attachment.

A person, not a program, decides who is in which group. There is no matching algorithm and we do not intend to build one.

Meet40 is operated by Digital Apps LLC, a limited liability company organised in Washington. In these terms, “we” and “us” mean Digital Apps LLC, and “you” means the person who booked the seat.

You must be 40 or older to book a place, and old enough to enter a binding agreement. The first question in the signup asks which five-year age range you are in — 40 to 44, 45 to 49, and so on. We do not ask for your date of birth, and we do not want it.

The range cannot be changed once you have signed up, not by you and not by us on request. The reason is the only promise this product makes: everyone in your group is 40 or over, and a group of 41-year-olds and a group of 60-year-olds are not the same group. An answer that can be edited afterwards is not a promise, it is a preference.

It is self-reported, and we do not check it. We ask for no document and we compare it against nothing. The age rule is a promise you make to the other members, and what makes it work is that everybody else made it too. If we find that the range on your account is not yours, we will cancel your bookings and close your membership. If we find it before the meetup, we refund the place in full.

An earlier version of this section said we ask for a date of birth “rather than an age bracket”. That was reversed on 2026-08-12: a birthday is a real identifier — it turns up in identity checks and credit files — bought precision nothing here used, and verified exactly as well as a range, which is to say not at all. Ninety-three of our ninety-five members have no date of birth on file, and nothing in the product writes one.

You pay for your seat in advance, through Stripe. Stripe handles the card details; we never see or store your card number. Payment is what reserves the seat, and it is why the group fills up with people who actually turn up.

The price you are shown before you pay is the price of the seat. It does not include anything you buy while you are there, which you settle yourself.

• Registration for a date closes before that date starts, because that is when we stop taking people and a person cuts the pool into groups. How far ahead is set for each date rather than by a standing rule — the moment is shown on the date before you pay, and it is in your confirmation email afterwards.
• A few hours before you meet, we email you the meeting point and its address, which group you are in, and the first names of the other members. That is one email, not a series. That is about six hours ahead — or by eight the previous evening, if you are meeting early enough that six hours would put it in the middle of the night.
• For a walk, a run or a hike, no route and no difficulty is stated, because we do not choose one — see section 9. The participation page is part of these terms and applies to those meetups. It is agreed the same way the rest of these terms are, by booking; there is no separate box to tick and we do not record one.
• If we cannot seat you — too few people booked, or the meeting point falls through, or the weather rules out an outdoor event — we tell you and you choose: a full refund, or your seat moved to another date.

Before registration for your date closes: cancel from your booking page and we put one booking credit in your account. It automatically covers any later open Meet40 event, does not expire, and cannot be transferred or exchanged for cash. You do not need a reason and we will not ask for one. Instead of cancelling you can move your place to another date that is still open.

After it closes, or if you simply do not come: the place is yours and the payment is not refunded. By then the group has been built and the other people in it have arranged their day around it. That forfeited place is the entire consequence.

There is no no-show fee and no late-cancellation fee. We do not have, and will not ask for, the ability to charge your card after checkout — Stripe Checkout does not leave us a saved payment method, so no fee is technically possible even if we wanted one. Any earlier version of these terms that suggested otherwise was wrong and is replaced by this section.

If we cancel an outdoor meetup for weather, or for a trail closure or an air quality warning, you get the same choice as any other cancellation by us: the money back, or another date. The thresholds we cancel on are written down rather than decided on the morning.

If someone repeatedly books and does not come, one of us looks at it and may stop selling them seats. That is a decision made by a person, and it ends in a closed membership, never in a bill.

If something serious happened — a hospital, a bereavement, a car that would not start — write to support@meet40.com. We read those and we have discretion. We would rather refund a seat than argue with someone having a bad week.

Meet40 is a website. There is no app to install and there are no push notifications.

Email and the calendar invite remain the complete record. Email includes the confirmation when you book; a notice when registration for your date closes, which is the same moment free cancellation ends and which names the exact date and time it happens; one email a few hours before you meet, carrying the meeting point, its address, which group you are in and the first names of the others; and one short note the next morning asking how it went. Four emails, and the third is the one you need on the day.

Those four are the whole of it for an ordinary booking. The only other emails we send are about something going wrong — a refund, a cancelled date, a payment that did not go through — and section 5 says when each of those happens.

Transactional text reminders are optional. If you affirmatively opt in, we may text reminders, the meeting point and important changes for an activity you booked. Message frequency varies and message and data rates may apply. Consent is not a condition of purchase and does not cover marketing.

Reply STOP to opt out immediately or HELP for support information. If your existing consent is still current and the number belongs to one account, START resumes texts; otherwise, sign in and choose text reminders again under Your details. Email continues either way. Texting is not a safety line; section 9 says what to do in an emergency.

Every group gets one chat, shared by the members assigned to it. It opens one hour before the event, independently of the meeting-point reveal, and remains open unless a member leaves it.

• Private chat is earned, not discovered. Two members can start a 1-1 conversation only after both are recorded as attending the same event and both enable the setting. We never pass on contact details.
• It is not an emergency channel. Nobody at Meet40 is watching it, and a message sent from a trail may not be read for hours. In an emergency, call 911.
• Either of the two of us can read it. It is not encrypted end-to-end and we are not going to pretend it is. We open a group’s chat when something has been reported or something is wrong, and every time one of us does, it is recorded. The Privacy Policy sets out what we store, for how long, and what happens if you delete your account.
• The rules for the group apply in the chat. The code of conduct is the same document in both places. Nobody in your group agreed to be pursued romantically, in person or in writing.
• Report and block are two taps each, from inside the chat. Nothing notifies the person you block and your name is never attached to it, but it works in both directions — neither of you sees the other’s messages afterwards — and the two of you are never grouped together again. It is permanent and we cannot undo it from the website.
• You can take your own message back at any time. The group then sees a removed message. We still hold what was written, where only the two of us can read it, so a message cannot be erased out from under a report.
• Text only. No photographs, no files, no attachments, and a web address is shown as plain text rather than something anyone can tap.

What you write there is yours. You give us permission to store it and show it to the other people in your group, to read it when we are dealing with a report, and to keep it for the period the Privacy Policy sets out. We claim nothing else in it, and we do not use it for advertising or to train anything.

We may take a message down, and the group then sees “message removed”. We may close a chat early, and we may stop offering chat entirely — none of that changes the meetup you paid for.

The rules for being in a group are on the code of conduct page, and they are part of these terms. In short: treat everybody else in the group and anybody else’s premises decently, and do not pursue anyone romantically at a Meet40 meetup.

We may cancel a booking and close a membership for harassment, threats, unwanted sexual or romantic pursuit, discrimination, being intoxicated to the point of disrupting the group, damaging somewhere the group went, pushing a group into something people had said they did not want to do, leaving somebody behind, or anything else that makes a meetup unsafe or miserable for the people in it.

• A founder makes that decision — one of the two people who run Meet40. It is never automated and there is no score.
• Seats you have paid for and not yet attended are refunded in full when we close your membership. We are ending the arrangement, so we return the money.
• We tell you the substance of why, unless doing so would identify the person who raised it or put someone at risk.
• You can reply to that email and a person will read it. We will change our mind if we got it wrong.

How a report is handled, and how fast, is written down on the code of conduct page. If something has happened, the form is at /legal/report.

The participation page is part of these terms for any meetup with a physical theme. It names the risks — falls, sprains and fractures, traffic, heat and dehydration, becoming separated or lost, and cardiac and other medical events brought on by exertion. You agree to it the same way you agree to the rest of these terms, by booking a place. There is no separate waiver checkbox at checkout and we do not record a per-booking acceptance of it. An earlier version of this section said there was one; that was never true of any booking, and saying so plainly is more use to you than the sentence it replaces.

• You decide whether to take part, on the day. We do not assess anyone’s fitness, nobody here is qualified to, and — because we do not choose the route — nobody here knows what you would be deciding about until your group decides it. We do not ask about your health and we do not hold it, which also means we cannot warn anyone or tell a paramedic anything.
• There is a ceiling, and it is a ceiling on us. The list of what we will and will not put on the calendar limits the themes we list, the hours we schedule and the meeting points we choose: nothing on water, snow or ice, nothing after dark, nothing needing equipment or skill, nothing timed. It does not limit what your group does once it has met, because we are not there and could not.
• Groups do not split and nobody is dropped. The pace is the pace of the slowest person, turning back is always fine, and the group turns back together. That is a rule the people there follow, on the conduct page — not a service we provide, and nothing in the route enforces it either.
• In an emergency, call 911. Whoever is nearest, immediately, without checking with us. Say where the group has actually got to, not where it was told to meet — the meeting point is all we know. Tell us afterwards. The full procedure is on the conduct page.
• If a group carries on after the meetup, that is not a Meet40 meetup. A further walk, a second lap or an arrangement to meet again is six adults making a private plan, and nothing we have written covers it.

We put six people together and we try to put the right six. We do not promise that you will like them, that you will be grouped with anyone in particular, that you will make a friend, or that any given meetup will be good. Some are quiet.

We do not promise the number will be exactly six. Six is the size we build to and the size we aim for, but as section 1 says, a date whose registrations do not divide evenly — or a late cancellation — can leave a group of five. We do not promise that a specific place, neighbourhood or date will be available either, and we may cancel a meetup too few people registered for. If we do, section 4 applies: a refund or another date, your choice.

We promise nothing at all about supervision, safety cover or first aid, because we provide none. We promise nothing about a route, because we do not choose one: not that it is safe, not that it is passable on the day, not how far or how hard it will be — those are decided by your group after we have stopped being involved. Nor do we promise anything about the ground, the weather, or anybody else’s property.

You attend at your own risk, including at cafés, parks, trails, paths and other places we do not own or control. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not responsible for the conduct of other people at a meetup, for the place it happens, for its condition, or for what happens there.

Food and drink are prepared by whoever is selling them, not by us. If you have an allergy, tell the person serving you directly. Do not rely on us having relayed it.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Digital Apps LLC’s total liability to you for any claim relating to Meet40 is limited to the amount you paid us in the three months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses.

For meetups with a physical theme, the participation page also applies, and you accept the risks it names.

Nothing here limits liability for gross negligence, for reckless or intentional misconduct, or for anything else the law does not allow us to limit. If we sent a group to a meeting point we knew to be dangerous, or described a meetup as something it was not, no clause on this page is meant to help us and none of it is written to.

Meet40 is new. We may change how it works, pause it, or stop running it. If we stop while you hold a seat you have paid for, we refund that seat.

We may update these terms. The date at the top changes when the words do. If a change affects a booking you have already paid for — the refund window, the price, what you get — we will email you before it applies to that booking, and the terms you booked under are the ones that govern it.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute goes to the state or federal courts sitting in King County, Washington.

If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands. There is no arbitration clause and no class-action waiver here; we did not think a coffee with five strangers needed one.

Questions about these terms, or about a booking: support@meet40.com. A person reads that address.