Version 1.1 · Last updated: 30 September 2026
This is the page promised by clause 3.6 of our Terms of Service and by section 2 of our Safety Guidelines. Both of those documents say the checks we carry out are limited to the ones described here. That is meant literally: if a check is not on this page, we do not do it.
We would rather tell you this plainly than let you assume otherwise.
The confirmed and complete list of the checks we carry out on a member, in the form required by clause 3.6 of the Terms, is the three below and nothing else. We do not verify your email address, your phone number, your photograph or your identity, and we do not run criminal record or background checks. Creating an account is free, and accounts are approved automatically: nobody on our team reviews an account before it is approved.
It is deliberately a short list rather than a long one, and we would rather you knew exactly how short it is.
| What | What it actually establishes | What it does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| A working payment card, held for your Membership | That a bank has approved a real card for your Membership, and that our payment provider has run its own fraud checks on it. Booking an Experience, seeing who is going and joining its group chat all require a paid Membership, so nobody reaches a table without one — and a member we have removed who comes back on a new account has to pay again before she can book anything. | Whose card it is — we do not compare the name on the card with the member’s, and we do not collect a billing address — or anything about the person’s character, history or intentions. A card is a friction, not a safeguard. |
| Your date of birth, and the Terms you agree to when you join | That every member has given a date of birth showing she is 18 or over — we refuse anyone who gives one under 18 — and has agreed to our Terms, which include the confirmations in clause 3.4: that she is 18 or over, that she is acting as a consumer, that her information is accurate, that she is not subject to a court order, licence condition or notification requirement restricting her contact with other people or her attendance at public places, and that she has not previously been removed from Chérie. If we have reason to doubt that a member is 18 or over, we may ask her to prove it. | That any of it is true. Her date of birth is what she tells us, and she agrees to the Terms by continuing past a line that says so — she is not asked about each point separately. It matters because it makes a false statement a breach of the Terms we can act on, not because it proves anything. |
| What members tell us about each other | What other members have seen. Every in-app report alerts our team straight away and is read by a person. After an Experience we ask how it went, and anything you tell us about a member reaches a person. | Anything before the first report. It is reactive by nature: it works after something has happened, not before. |
Most of what we actually control is the setting rather than the guest list, and that is where we have put the effort.
Read the Safety Guidelines before your first Experience. They are practical rather than legal, and the single most useful thing on them takes one text message: tell one person where you are going, who with, and roughly when you expect to be home.
And the line that matters more than any check on this page: you can leave any Experience, at any moment, without a reason and without telling anyone. It will never count against you and it will never affect your Membership.
Our Community Guidelines set out what we expect of each other, and what happens when someone falls short of it.
If we add a check, or stop doing one, we will change this page, and clause 3.6 of the Terms points at this page precisely so that the two can never say different things. Previous versions are listed at cherie.social/legal/archive.
If anything here does not match your experience of us, we want to know: hello@cherie.social.