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What we check

Version 1.0 · Last updated: 10 August 2026

Read this first

We do not run criminal record checks or background checks on members. No consumer app in this category does, and any that implies otherwise is overstating it.

We are telling you that at the top of the page rather than in a clause near the bottom, because deciding whether to go and meet four strangers is your decision to make, and you can only make it on accurate information.

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.

1. What we do not check

  • Criminal records. We do not run criminal record checks, background checks or vetting of members, and we cannot tell you whether someone in your Group has a criminal record.
  • What a member tells us about herself. We cannot verify everything a member tells us about her job, her life or her intentions.
  • What happens at the table. We do not supervise Experiences. Nobody from Chérie is there.
  • What happens afterwards. We do not control what happens after — in the group chat, on other apps, or in person.

We would rather tell you this plainly than let you assume otherwise.

2. What we do check

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: [To be completed — confirmed list of the checks carried out on a member, as required by Terms clause 3.6]

Until that list is signed off and published here, this is what is true today, and it is deliberately a short list rather than a long one.

WhatWhat it actually establishesWhat it does not establish
A working payment card, held for your MembershipThat there is a real card, in someone’s name, at a real billing address, that a bank has approved. Our payment provider runs its own fraud checks on it. It makes a throwaway account meaningfully harder to create, and it means a removed account cannot quietly come back for free.Anything about the person’s character, history or intentions. A card is a friction, not a safeguard.
The declarations you make when you joinThat every member has been asked, and has confirmed, the things set out in clause 3.4 of the Terms — 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.That any of it is true. This is a declaration, not a check. 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 otherEvery report is read by a person, within 24 hours. We check in after every Experience and we read the replies. This is the check that has actually caught things.Anything before the first report. It is reactive by nature: it works after something has happened, not before.

3. What we check that is not a person

Most of what we actually control is the setting rather than the guest list, and that is where we have put the effort.

  • Every Experience is in a public, licensed or staffed venue. We do not send Groups to private homes, and we do not arrange one-to-one meetings.
  • We choose the venue and we book it. You are not meeting a stranger at a place a stranger chose.
  • You are never matched alone. Groups are four to six women. If a Group drops below three, we cancel and refund rather than let it go ahead.
  • The address comes through the app, from us, and never through a private message. If a member sends you a different address, that is not us — do not go, and tell us.

4. What we do when something is wrong

  • Every report is read by a person, within 24 hours.
  • We will suspend an account before we finish investigating if a member may be at risk. We would rather be wrong about a suspension than wrong about a risk.
  • You can block or report any member at any time, in the app or by emailing hello@cherie.social. When you block someone she will not be shown to you, your profile will not be shown to her, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure you are not matched into the same Experience.
  • Someone we have removed may not rejoin unless we have agreed in writing that she may.
  • If you disagree with a decision we have made about your own account, you can appeal. The process is at cherie.social/complaints.

5. What to do with this information

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.

6. If this changes

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 at cherie.social/legal/archive.

If anything here does not match your experience of us, we want to know: hello@cherie.social.

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