Root

Intentional dating

Root

Grow something real.

Root is for people who want serious relationships, honest conversations, and public-first dating.

Private by DesignYour safety stays in your hands. Review with FairnessPatterns guide review. No public ratings. Less noiseFocus on what matters.
Root

Maya, 31

Urban gardener • wants a committed relationship

18+ verified
Public dates Clear pace 0.7 mi away Long-term UCLA Green Table English

Daily compatibility question

What small habit makes love feel rooted to you?

High fit: cozy public places, clear intent, gentle pace
Values fit 92%

Short bio

I’m happiest around plants, neighborhood coffee, and people who mean what they say. Looking for something grounded, warm, and real.

Root keeps it simple

Public-first dates Your safety, your choice Private by design

Plan together

Plan a Public Meet

Choose public place Pick one staffed or clearly public place.
Pick time Choose a window that feels easy for both people.
Confirm together Pick a date and time, then send it to confirm.
Not planned No date selected yet Both people need to choose the same time before it is confirmed.

Date idea

Choose one simple public activity.

Meetup area

Venue Homes unavailable

Stay nearby. If plans change, use Change public venue or Easy exit.

Root Check-In

00:00

Private venue confirmation
Not checked in yet
Planned Arrived Both confirmed Ended

Private venue check

Confirm the agreed public place

Planned
Not checked inVenue status PrivateNo exact location shared Not startedLast check ContextGrace before review

Private venue confirmation helps both people respect the public plan. It does not guarantee safety, identity, or behavior. Your match never sees your exact location or live movement.

Arrived Verified 1 hr check-in

Arrival check

Check in together to show you arrived and unlock date prompts.

Conversation prompts

Order one thing neither of you has tried and compare first impressions.

Mini date games

Two truths and a tiny dream: share two true things and one sweet goal for the next year.

Relationship styles

Attachment Love language Birth chart

Attachment style: ask what helps each of you feel secure when getting close.

Your safety comes first. Leave any meetup at any time.

Connections

Matches

See who is ready for a thoughtful next step.

Review private to Root

How did it go?

Your review is private to Root.

Private No public ratings Human review
What kind of feedback is this?
How Root handles fairness

Simple promise

Feelings close matches. Account action needs behavior patterns or review.

If things became intimate

Both people privately answer. No proof is requested. Mutual intimacy starts a kind 2-month matching pause.

Review path

AI sorts. People decide.

No-fit feedback closes the match privately.

Private Review Appeal
Specific signals

Kept light on purpose

Arrived Text kept Reviewed

Keep it honest, warm, and easy to answer.

Use a clear photo. Care checks run before wider visibility.

Languages shown on profile

No phone numbers, links, handles, or off-app contact.

Specific Kind Low pressure True to you

More detail, still in plain English.

Guide

Here is the simple flow.

Root helps you move from match to meetup without guessing what happens next.

1

Safety & Privacy

Guides and tools for confident connections.

Meet publiclyChoose public places. Share details.
Leave anytimeYou are in control from start to finish.
Private reportsShare honestly. Keep it private.
Your responsibilityYour choices. Your safety.
2

How Check-In Works

Simple process. Built for peace of mind.

Only during the meetupActive just for the duration of your date.
No live mapNo location sharing. No movement trail.
Grace firstLife happens. We lead with understanding.
Safety firstTools that empower you, always.
3

Private Review

Your experience. Private and protected.

Date ended safely They did not show They left unexpectedly I felt uncomfortable Private note to Root
Feelings close matches. Patterns guide review. No public ratings.

Settings

Your Root space

Profile, privacy, safety, and legal controls.

Account

Appearance

Comfortable display Choose light or dark mode. Root uses cream, clay, sage, and cocoa.
Theme modeChoose light or dark.
App iconPick a Root icon concept for your phone. R mark

Native iPhone builds can bundle these as alternate app icons. This preview saves the choice inside Root.

Discovery

Date Preferences

Privacy & Safety

Trust & Safety Verification, privacy, public plans, and review context work together before account action.
No safety tasks right now If something needs attention, Root shows the next clear step here.

Safety & Privacy

Meet publiclyChoose public places. Share details only when both people agree.
Leave anytimeYou are in control from start to finish.
Private reportsShare honestly. Reviews are private and pattern-aware.
Your responsibilityYour choices, your comfort, your safety.

Notifications

Support

Date support

You matched

Start with text-only chat or choose a public place when ready.

Confirm public meetup

Only meet if you feel comfortable. Root helps you plan a public meetup, but you are responsible for your own decision to attend, stay, leave, or reschedule.

Quick check

Root guide

How public meets work

Choose public

Start with cafes, restaurants, or visible shared places.

Agree together

Both people confirm the same time and place.

Check in privately

Root confirms venue presence without showing live location.

Leave anytime

You can cancel, reschedule, or use Easy Exit.

Root Check-In

How Check-In works

Only during the meetup

Check-In works only during the scheduled public meet window.

No live map

Your match never sees your exact location or movement.

Grace first

If signal looks wrong, Root gives time to clarify.

Safety first

If something feels wrong, leave first and use Easy Exit.

Privacy

Screen Privacy

Sensitive screens

Profiles, chats, Check-In, reports, and reviews can be hidden.

Android support

Production can use platform screenshot blocking where supported.

iOS honesty

iOS cannot fully block ordinary screenshots through standard APIs.

Calm reminder

Please do not screenshot or share another person's dating content.

Venue note

Venue disclaimer

Root may help users choose public places, but Root does not inspect, vet, endorse, certify, control, supervise, or guarantee any cafe, restaurant, public place, staff, patrons, transport, or surrounding area.

Planning convenience

Venue suggestions are for visibility and planning, not safety certification.

Your judgment

Choose places you feel comfortable reaching, staying at, and leaving.

Root notice

Public Meetup Safety Notice

Root is a platform for meeting people. We are not the organizer, host, supervisor, chaperone, insurer, or guarantor of any offline meetup. If you choose to meet someone, you do so voluntarily and are responsible for your own decisions, transportation, communication, belongings, and personal safety.

Meet publicly

Choose cafes, restaurants, or other public places. Avoid homes, hotels, private residences, vehicles, secluded places, or changing to a private location.

Stay in control

You can cancel, reschedule, leave, or use Easy Exit at any time. You do not need to explain yourself to your match.

Use judgment

Root tools, check-ins, reports, and reviews are support features. They do not guarantee safety, identity, compatibility, honesty, or future behavior.

Report concerns

Reports help Root review platform behavior, but Root cannot control what users do outside the app.

Why this notice? Your responsibility Release

Plain English

Terms Summary

This summary is here to make the rules easier to understand. The full Terms and Privacy Policy control.

You are responsible for your interactions.
Root does not guarantee user identity, conduct, intentions, compatibility, or safety.
Public Check-In is a support tool, not a safety guarantee.
Root may review reports, restrict accounts, or remove users, but we do not promise to monitor every interaction.
You agree not to misuse the app, harass others, stalk, threaten, impersonate, scam, or pressure anyone.
You agree to release Root from claims arising from your voluntary offline interactions to the fullest extent allowed by law.
Some rights cannot be waived under applicable law.

Prototype legal framework

Terms & Safety Framework — Draft for Counsel Review

Prototype legal framework - not final legal advice. Must be reviewed by counsel before launch.

Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account, continuing to use Root, or confirming a public meetup, users accept the current Terms, Privacy Policy, Community Rules, and Public Meetup Safety Notice.

Eligibility: 18+ only

Root is for adults 18 and older. Users must provide truthful account information and may be asked to re-confirm eligibility or account ownership.

User Responsibility for Interactions

Root provides tools that allow users to discover, communicate with, and voluntarily arrange public meetups with other users. Root does not organize, host, supervise, control, chaperone, insure, or guarantee any offline meetup. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users, including your decision to communicate, share information, travel, meet, remain at, or leave any meetup.

Voluntary Offline Meetups

Public meetups are voluntary user decisions. Users may cancel, reschedule, leave, or decline to attend at any time.

No Safety Guarantee

Root offers privacy-first planning and support tools. These tools are not a guarantee that a meetup, user, route, venue, or conversation will be safe.

No Identity or Background-Check Guarantee

Profile care signals, public-web checks, and account review tools are limited support signals. They are not criminal background checks, identity guarantees, or promises about a person's character.

Public Check-In Disclaimer

Public Check-In, venue confirmation, safety prompts, reports, reviews, and moderation tools are support features only. They are not guarantees of safety, identity, background, character, intentions, compatibility, truthfulness, location accuracy, or future conduct.

Assumption of Risk

To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, you voluntarily assume the risks associated with communicating with and meeting other users, including risks related to personal safety, emotional distress, property loss, transportation, venue conditions, misrepresentation, misconduct, or unlawful behavior by others.

Release of Claims

To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, you agree that Root and its owners, operators, affiliates, employees, contractors, service providers, and agents are not responsible for user conduct online or offline, third-party venues, transportation, or events arising from voluntary meetups between users.

Limitation of Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where it cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, releases, or limitations of liability, so some terms may not apply to every user.

No Duty to Monitor or Intervene

Root may receive, review, and act on reports in its discretion, but Root does not promise to monitor every user, message, meetup, location signal, or interaction. If you believe you are in danger, leave the situation if safe to do so and contact local emergency services.

User Conduct Rules

Users may not harass, stalk, threaten, impersonate, scam, pressure, mislead, or push others off app. Users must respect boundaries and use the app lawfully.

Reports, Reviews, and Account Restrictions

Root may use reports, repeated patterns, appeal context, and review notes to restrict or remove accounts. Ordinary mismatch, rejection, or awkward chemistry should not be treated like misconduct by itself.

Emergency Disclaimer

Root is not an emergency service. If you believe you are in danger, leave the situation if safe to do so and contact local emergency services.

Third-Party Venues Disclaimer

Restaurants, parks, shops, transit, parking, and other third-party places are not owned, operated, supervised, or controlled by Root.

Privacy and Location Data Summary

Production builds should collect only the data needed for account, matching, public planning, venue confirmation, safety support, billing, moderation, and legal compliance. Location should be limited to scheduled meetup support and clear user controls.

Governing Law Placeholder

Production counsel should choose governing law, venue, and regional disclosures based on the launch entity, markets, and user locations.

Dispute Resolution Placeholder

Production counsel should decide whether arbitration, class-action waiver, small-claims carveout, opt-out rights, or court venue language is appropriate and enforceable.

Counsel Review Required

Final Terms, Privacy Policy, Safety Notice, Community Rules, waiver language, and policy acceptance logging must be reviewed by qualified counsel before launch.

Venue check

Use this when venue presence looks unclear.

Both people can confirm they are near the agreed public venue. End date kindly or Change public venue closes things cleanly. Your exact location and movement are never shown to your match.

Confirm safely, not constantly.

Root Check-In confirms venue presence during the scheduled meetup window. It is not live tracking and not a safety guarantee. Your match will never see your exact location or live movement.

Used only during the meetup window Confirms venue presence, not constant tracking or supervision Exact location is never shown to your match You can cancel, change plans, or use Easy Exit anytime

Grace period

GPS can be imperfect. Take a moment to clarify what is happening before any review.

Signal unclear

The venue check could not confirm clearly. Please choose the closest option.

Match filters

Tune the pool without over-optimizing.

Prioritize
Interests
Gentle dealbreakers

Venue assist

Use the lightest help that works.

Neutral script: “Could I settle up and wait near the front?” Staff do not confront the other person by default. Ask for a visible waiting spot or side exit if needed.

What they see

The other person receives a neutral “date is wrapping up” note and is asked to stay at the venue for a few minutes.

End date kindly

Pick the option that fits the moment. Your reason stays private.

What they see

A neutral message that the date is ending. No rating or private reason is shared.

How trust works

Root combines public-first planning, profile care signals, check-ins, text-only chat, and private reviews.

Public Check-In is a support tool, not a safety guarantee. Reviews look for behavior patterns, not one awkward vibe. You are responsible for deciding whether and when to meet. Members can request correction, deletion, and appeal.

Profile care check

✓ Verified care check completed with consent ✓ Public presence reviewed without storing face templates ✓ No exact-image misuse or impersonation matches found ✓ No unresolved public conduct signals found

This is a warm confidence signal, not a promise about someone’s full life.