Community Guidelines

These Community Guidelines are part of the Terms & Conditions. If you break them, you break the Terms.

They exist so a table stays a meal between adults — not a problem Buddy Blind has to answer for. Buddy Blind is a platform. We do not supervise your table in real time, and we do not control restaurants or other users.

Hong Kong law applies. These guidelines do not create duties beyond the Terms and Hong Kong law.

1. Be a guest, not a risk

• Show up on time, or send a notify / cancel in the product as early as you can if you cannot attend. Do not leave people waiting in silence if you already know you will not go.
• No harassment, stalking, threats, hate, discrimination, or sexual pressure.
• No recording of faces, voices, or conversations unless everyone there agrees (and any consent required by Hong Kong law is obtained).
• No weapons, no illegal drugs, no drink-spiking, no theft, no fraud.
• No leaving a restaurant without paying your share of a bill you are responsible for (including dine-and-dash style conduct).
• Adults only (18+). Nothing sexual involving anyone under 18. We treat that as a serious breach and may report it to the Police or other authorities where Hong Kong law permits or requires.
• Meet in the public place on the seat. Do not pressure others to move to a private place they do not know.

You are responsible for your own conduct at the venue and for your own safety decisions.

2. Keep people blind until the table

The Blind Box is the product. Do not break it.

• Do not post or share another person’s phone number, email, full name, workplace, photo, ID, or exact home address without their clear permission (and never to shame, threaten, or target them).
• Do not try to identify someone before the meal in order to screen them out, harass them, or target them. That breaks the product.
• Notify messages stay inside the seat / product flows. Do not copy them out to social media, group chats, or public posts to shame someone.
• Do not scrape, harvest, or bulk-export user data from the Service.
• Do not reverse-engineer another user’s identity from points, circle colour, initials, or limited profile fields for a harmful purpose.

Breach of this section may lead to removal of content, seats, or accounts, and may support trust-and-security record use described in the Terms and Privacy Policy.

3. Hosts

A private night is still your gathering on our platform.

• Do not advertise it as organised, endorsed, insured, or run by Buddy Blind.
• Do not charge guests an extra fee through us or off to the side for “access” to the table, a “cover”, or a “deposit” that pretends to be Buddy Blind’s fee.
• The only Buddy Blind platform charge for confirming a Join, Invite, or Host is the HKHK$5 trust and security fee in the product (plus any Premium plan you choose). That fee is not a restaurant booking fee and is not payment for food or drink.
• Do not change the place, location, or time inside any lock window shown in the product.
• Do not use the night to pitch a product, investment, recruitment scheme, or multi-level marketing unless the description says that clearly before anyone joins.
• You are responsible for your guest list size limits, house rules you announce in the product, and for not misleading joiners.

4. Content you post

• You must have the right to upload photos, video, and text.
• No illegal content, no doxxing, no non-consensual intimate images, no content that exploits minors.
• Ratings and comments are about behaviour / interaction, not appearance or sexual desirability. Do not use ratings to harass.
• We may remove content that breaks these guidelines or the Terms, with or without notice where the risk is serious.

5. What Buddy Blind may do

We may, at our reasonable discretion:

• remove a seat, photo, video, comment, rating, notify, or other content;
• warn, suspend, or close an account;
• cancel, merge, or close seats;
• keep ban / trust / payment records as described in the Privacy Policy;
• cooperate with the Hong Kong Police Force or other competent authorities where Cap. 486 and other Hong Kong law permit or require.

We do not promise to monitor every table, message, or venue.

A report is not a promise that we will act, that we will act in the way you prefer, or that we will tell you what we did about another user (privacy and safety limits apply).

Email legal@buddyblind.com for Terms / guidelines reports. Privacy / data: privacy@buddyblind.com.

6. Emergencies and third parties

If you are in immediate danger, contact the Police (999 in Hong Kong) or other emergency services.

Buddy Blind is not an emergency service, security firm, or mediator on-site. We cannot dispatch help to a restaurant in real time.

Restaurants and other users are independent. Their food, premises, and conduct are their responsibility, subject to the Terms.

7. No waiver

If we do not act on a breach immediately, that does not waive our right to act later. These guidelines do not limit any remedy we have under the Terms or Hong Kong law.

8. Changes

We may update these guidelines. The “Last updated” date will change. Continued use of Buddy Blind after an update means you accept the new version as part of the Terms. If you do not accept it, stop using the Service and cancel any paid plan.

9. Contact

Reports / legal: legal@buddyblind.com

Privacy: privacy@buddyblind.com