InviteTrip Inc. · Version 1.0 · Effective September 9, 2026
In short
- Be the person your profile says you are.
- Nobody buys anybody here. No Inviter is expected to pay for anything, money never moves between members, and paying for a trip buys a trip, not compliance.
- Talk about the practical stuff, who pays for what, who sleeps where, before anyone books anything.
- Sharing a trip is not consent to anything. Consent is specific, and it can be withdrawn at any moment.
- Never hold anyone's passport, ticket, phone, or ability to go home.
- If something feels wrong, report it. A person reads every report.
Why these exist
Most dating platforms are asking people to spend an hour in a bar together. We are asking them to get on a plane.
That changes what the rules have to do. A bad evening is a bad evening. A bad week in a country you do not know, without your own transport, without the language, staying somewhere you did not choose, is something else. These guidelines exist because the distance is the whole point of InviteTrip and also the whole risk of it.
They apply to what you do on the platform and to what you do on a trip arranged through it. Breaking them can cost you your account. Some of them, if broken, will also cost you rather more than that, because they are also laws.
1. Be a real person, honestly described
Use your own photographs, recent ones, showing your face. Not a model, not a friend, not you eleven years and a different life ago.
Be honest about the basics. Your age, your relationship status, where you live, what you do, whether you actually intend to travel. People make expensive, irreversible plans based on what you write.
Do not pretend to be someone else. Impersonation, invented identities, and stolen photographs are grounds for immediate removal, and where money is involved, for a report to law enforcement.
One person, one account. If we remove your account, that is the end of it. Coming back under a new name is itself a violation.
Verify if you can. Verification is optional, but it is the single clearest signal you can give a stranger that you are real. We do not require it. We do notice who skips it, and so will everyone else.
2. The money line
This is the rule that defines InviteTrip, so it gets its own section and no softening. InviteTrip stands for its values and for complete transparency. We are a travel matchmaking platform with an optional dating character. Nothing more, nothing less.
Paying for a trip is hospitality. It is never a purchase. If you pay for someone's flight, hotel or dinner, in full or in part, you have not bought company, agreement, affection, intimacy or patience. Spending money creates no entitlement of any kind. You can reasonably expect the other person to act in good faith, the way anyone making plans with anyone else can expect that, and you could expect exactly the same if they had not cost you a cent. If that is not the arrangement you want, InviteTrip is not the platform you want.
No Inviter is expected to pay for anything. The Inviter role means you have a trip and you are open to sharing it. It carries no obligation to cover flights, accommodation, meals or anything else. Some members choose to, as a gesture of appreciation. Others split every cost evenly. Both are normal here. It is the same as any other date: someone may offer to pick up the bill, or the two of you agree on how to handle it. Who pays for what is decided between the two of you, and InviteTrip is not part of that decision, that conversation or that payment.
No money changes hands between members. Not cash, not transfers, not payment apps, not crypto, not gift cards, not "help with something back home." InviteTrip gives you no way to send money to another member, and arranging it privately in connection with the platform is prohibited. Trip costs are paid directly to the airline, the hotel, the restaurant. Never to another member.
Nobody sells anything here. Offering, requesting, hinting at or arranging any exchange of sexual conduct for money, gifts, travel, accommodation or anything else of value is strictly prohibited. There is no coded version that is acceptable, no allowance for a light-hearted framing, and no first warning. Accounts go, permanently, and where the circumstances suggest coercion, trafficking or a minor, the matter goes to the authorities with the records attached.
Do not ask members for money. Every story is a good one: the emergency, the frozen card, the customs fee, the visa deposit, the investment a friend told you about. All of them are the same scam. Asking is a violation whether or not anyone pays.
3. Consent
Sex without consent is rape. It is not a misunderstanding, it is not a grey area, and it is not softened by anything that happened earlier.
Consent is specific to the thing being consented to. It is given by the person themselves. It can be withdrawn at any moment, including in the middle of something, including after an earlier yes.
None of the following is consent to anything: matching, a long conversation, flirting, sending or receiving a rose, accepting an invitation, boarding a plane, arriving, accepting a hotel room, accepting a meal, sharing a bed, or having consented to something similar yesterday.
And this one, because it is the failure mode this platform is specifically exposed to: money spent does not create obligation. Not the flight, not the suite, not the whole trip. A person who accepts hospitality owes good faith and ordinary courtesy. Nothing else.
If someone tells you otherwise, on this platform or on a trip, report them.
4. Planning a trip together
Travel plans are the product here, so treat them seriously.
Talk about the practical things first, in writing, in the app. Who is paying for what. Whether flights are booked separately. What the accommodation is and how many rooms it has. What you each expect to do with the time. Sort this out before anyone spends money, not on arrival, and keep it in the chat where you can both check it later.
Do not let expectations arrive at the hotel unannounced. Almost every bad outcome in this category starts with two people who assumed different things and neither of whom said so out loud.
Have a video call before you book. It is free on InviteTrip for everyone, and it takes five minutes. Someone unwilling to appear on camera before you cross a border has told you something.
Book your own travel where you can, and hold your own ticket. If you are paying for someone else's ticket, book it in their name, in their control, changeable by them. Anyone who insists on holding another person's ticket or return booking is doing something with no innocent explanation.
Nobody holds anybody's documents. Not passports, not tickets, not phones. Ever. There is no legitimate reason, and doing it can constitute a serious criminal offense in most countries.
Sleeping arrangements are agreed in advance, and the agreement can change. If separate rooms were the plan, separate rooms are the plan. If someone agreed to share and then changes their mind, that is their right and there is nothing to negotiate. Booking one room and mentioning it at check-in is a violation of these guidelines, not a clever move.
Anyone can leave, at any point, without explaining. Before the trip, at the airport, on the second day, after an argument, or for no reason they feel like sharing. Making it difficult for someone to leave, whether by controlling their transport, their money, their documents, or by pressure, is one of the most serious things you can do on this platform.
5. Changing plans, cancelling, and not showing up
Plans change. That is fine. How you handle it is what matters.
Say so as early as you know. The moment you are not going, tell them. Someone who has booked time off work and a flight deserves more than silence.
Do not vanish after someone has committed money or time. Ghosting after a booking is not the same as ghosting after three messages. If you have gone quiet on someone who has spent money on the strength of your plans, expect that to be reported, and expect us to take it seriously.
Do not use trip plans you have no intention of keeping to get attention, to appear more interesting, or to keep someone talking.
If you are the one cancelled on, tell us if money was lost. We cannot recover it, and we do not adjudicate financial disputes between members, but a pattern of this behavior is exactly the sort of thing we act on.
6. Talking to people
Be decent. Harassment, threats, intimidation, insults, and abuse have no place here.
Take no for an answer, the first time. If someone stops replying, unmatches, or asks you to stop, that is the end of the conversation. Continuing through another account is harassment.
No unsolicited sexual content. Not images, not voice messages, not explicit propositions to someone who has not indicated they want that.
No hate. Nothing attacking or demeaning people for their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, age, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. This platform brings together people from countries with very different assumptions about most of those things. Curiosity is welcome. Contempt is not.
Do not share other people's private things. Screenshots of a private conversation, intimate images, someone's address, workplace, or phone number. Sharing intimate images without consent is a crime in most of the places we operate, and we treat it accordingly.
Do not push people off the platform immediately. Moving to another app is normal once two people trust each other. Pushing hard for it in the first few messages, before any call, is the most reliable single indicator of a scam we see, because off-platform there is no safety screening and no record.
7. Photos and profile content
Show your face. No nudity or sexually explicit imagery. Nobody else in your photographs without their agreement, and no children in photographs used on a dating profile. No images of weapons, drugs, or violence. No contact details, links, prices, or promotional material in photographs or your biography.
Every photograph is checked automatically on upload and placed in a queue for review by a person.
8. Absolutely not, ever
These end an account immediately and permanently, and several of them go to the authorities:
- Anything sexual involving a minor, in any form, including text. Zero tolerance, always reported.
- Anyone under 18 using the platform.
- Exchanging sexual conduct for money, gifts, travel, or anything else of value.
- Trafficking, coercion, or exploitation of any person.
- Sexual assault, violence, or a credible threat of either.
- Sharing intimate images of a person without their consent.
- Fraud against members.
- Controlling or removing a person's documents, money, or ability to travel home.
9. What happens when someone breaks these rules
Depending on what happened, we may do nothing, warn you, remove content, limit features, suspend the account while we look into it, or remove it permanently. We weigh what was done, the context, and what else is on the account.
We will tell you what we did and why, and you can appeal to a person who was not involved in the original decision, by writing to appeals@invitetrip.com.
Section 8 is different. Those are immediate and permanent.
10. Reporting
Report any profile or any single message from inside the app. It takes three steps.
Reports are confidential. The person you report is never told who reported them, or that a report exists.
A person reads every report. Reports involving a threat to someone's safety skip the queue.
Report honestly. Reporting someone because you are annoyed, because a conversation went badly, or because of who they are, wastes review capacity that another member may urgently need, and is itself a violation.
If you are in danger, call your local emergency services first. We are not an emergency service.
11. A last word
InviteTrip is asking people to trust strangers enough to travel to them. That only works if the people here are worth trusting. Most are. The rules above exist for the few who are not, and for the ordinary misunderstandings that get expensive when there is a border in the middle of them.
If you are unsure whether something is okay, it probably is not, and you can always ask us.
InviteTrip Inc. · Version 1.0 · Effective September 9, 2026 · Part of the Terms of Service