FLOQ Terms of Service

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Welcome to FLOQ.

FLOQ is a platform for adults to find and participate in small, focused communities — called Flocks — around shared interests, hobbies, activities and subjects.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of FLOQ, including the FLOQ website, applications, Flocks, discussions, messaging and other services we provide (collectively, the "Service").

By creating an account or using FLOQ, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree with them, you may not use FLOQ.

1. You must be 18 or older

FLOQ is an 18+ service.

You must be at least eighteen (18) years old to:

You may not use FLOQ if you are under 18.

You must provide truthful information about your age when registering. Attempting to circumvent FLOQ's age requirements, including by providing false information, may result in immediate suspension or permanent termination of your account.

FLOQ may take reasonable measures to verify age where required for safety, legal or regulatory reasons.

If we become aware that a person under 18 is using FLOQ, we may immediately suspend or terminate the account and take any other measures required by applicable law.

2. Your account

You are responsible for keeping your account secure and for all activity conducted through your account.

You agree to:

We may limit the number of accounts a person may operate.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, our Community Guidelines or applicable law.

3. FLOQ is a community platform

FLOQ exists to provide focused, friendly communities around shared interests.

Each Flock has its own subject, purpose and community rules. Flock moderators help maintain those communities.

You are expected to:

Disagreement is allowed. Personal attacks, threats, intimidation and persistent harassment are not.

4. Prohibited content and behaviour

You may not use FLOQ to create, publish, transmit, request, facilitate, organise, promote or distribute content or behaviour that is illegal or harmful.

This includes, but is not limited to:

4.1 Illegal activity

You may not use FLOQ to:

Discussing a subject for legitimate educational, historical, journalistic or safety purposes is not automatically prohibited. However, FLOQ may restrict content where the purpose or context indicates that the Service is being used to facilitate illegal activity.

4.2 Child sexual abuse and exploitation

Any sexual content, sexual solicitation, grooming, exploitation or abuse involving minors is strictly prohibited.

You may not:

Because FLOQ is an 18+ platform, sexual exploitation of minors is treated as a particularly serious violation.

We may immediately suspend accounts, preserve relevant information and report suspected child sexual exploitation or other serious offences to appropriate authorities where required or permitted by law.

4.3 Non-consensual sexual content

You may not use FLOQ to distribute or solicit intimate or sexual content without the consent of the person depicted.

This includes so-called "revenge porn", intimate images shared without consent, sexual extortion and threats to distribute intimate material.

4.4 Threats and violence

You may not:

We may take immediate action where there appears to be a credible threat to a person's safety.

4.5 Harassment and stalking

You may not use FLOQ to:

4.6 Hate and extremist content

You may not use FLOQ to promote or organise hatred, violence or discrimination against people based on protected or comparable characteristics.

Content supporting terrorist organisations, violent extremist organisations or ideologies that promote violence against protected groups is prohibited.

Discussion of such organisations for legitimate purposes such as news, history, research or criticism may be permitted where the context is clearly non-promotional.

4.7 Fraud and deception

You may not use FLOQ to:

4.8 Doxxing and privacy violations

You may not publish or distribute another person's private or sensitive information without a legitimate reason and appropriate permission.

This includes, for example:

4.9 Malware and attacks

You may not:

Security researchers are encouraged to report vulnerabilities responsibly through the FLOQ security contact.

5. Intellectual property

You may only post content that you have the right to use.

You must not upload or publish content that infringes another person's copyright, trademark, database rights, privacy rights or other intellectual property rights.

When you submit content to FLOQ, you retain ownership of that content.

However, you grant FLOQ a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, process, display and transmit that content solely as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, moderate and improve the Service.

This licence does not give FLOQ ownership of your content.

The licence ends when the content is deleted, except where retention is reasonably necessary for legal, security, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution or regulatory purposes.

6. Moderation

FLOQ uses a combination of:

AI may be used to identify potentially harmful content, detect patterns of abuse, assist moderators and help prioritise reports.

AI does not replace human responsibility for serious moderation decisions where human review is appropriate or legally required.

We may:

We do not guarantee that every violation will be detected.

7. Flock moderators

Flock moderators are community volunteers or representatives authorised by FLOQ.

Moderators may enforce the rules of their Flock, including removing discussions or replies, muting members and reporting users to FLOQ.

Moderators may not:

FLOQ may remove or replace moderators at any time where necessary to protect a Flock or the platform.

Moderator actions may be logged for safety, accountability and dispute resolution.

8. Reporting content

If you believe content or behaviour violates these Terms, you can report it to FLOQ.

Reports should contain enough information for us to understand the issue.

We may ask for additional information where necessary.

We may prioritise reports involving:

  1. immediate threats to safety;
  2. child sexual exploitation;
  3. terrorism or serious violent crime;
  4. serious illegal activity;
  5. fraud or significant financial harm;
  6. harassment or abuse;
  7. other violations of these Terms.

False, malicious or deliberately misleading reports may themselves constitute a violation of these Terms.

9. Illegal content and law enforcement

FLOQ is operated in accordance with applicable Dutch and European law.

FLOQ does not provide a safe harbour for criminal activity.

If we become aware of content or behaviour that appears to involve criminal activity, we may take appropriate action, including removing content, restricting accounts, preserving relevant information and contacting competent authorities where required or legally permitted.

Requests from authorities

FLOQ may disclose personal information, account information, content or other information in our possession when:

We will assess requests from authorities and respond in accordance with applicable law.

Where legally permitted, FLOQ may notify an affected user of a governmental or law-enforcement request. We may not be able to provide such notification where prohibited by law or where doing so could compromise an investigation, the safety of a person or the integrity of the Service.

Emergency situations

Where FLOQ has reason to believe that there is an imminent and serious threat to a person's life or physical safety, we may provide relevant information to appropriate authorities where legally permitted or required.

10. Data preservation

In certain circumstances, FLOQ may preserve information for a limited period where this is necessary to:

Preservation of information does not mean that FLOQ will retain information indefinitely.

Our Privacy Statement explains how personal information is otherwise collected, used, stored and deleted.

11. Privacy

Your privacy matters to us.

Our Privacy Statement explains what information FLOQ collects, why we collect it, how it is used, how long it is retained and when it may be shared with third parties or authorities.

You can find the Privacy Statement here: floq.community/privacy.html

By using FLOQ, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed as described in the Privacy Statement.

12. Blocking other users

FLOQ may provide tools allowing you to block another user.

When you block someone, you should not attempt to circumvent the block by:

13. Account suspension and termination

You may stop using FLOQ at any time.

FLOQ may suspend or terminate your account if we reasonably believe that you:

Serious violations may result in permanent termination without prior warning.

We may also restrict access to specific Flocks or features without terminating your entire account.

Where required by applicable law, we will provide information about significant moderation or account decisions and available appeal mechanisms.

14. Appeals

If FLOQ takes enforcement action against your account or content, you may have the right to request a review of that decision.

Where applicable, FLOQ will provide an appropriate internal appeal mechanism.

Appeals should explain why you believe the decision was incorrect and include relevant information.

We may reject repetitive, abusive or clearly unfounded appeals.

Nothing in this section limits any rights you have under applicable law, including rights provided by the Digital Services Act.

15. Flock structure

FLOQ controls the overall structure of the platform.

Main Flocks are created and managed by FLOQ.

Users and moderators may request new Sub-Flocks, but a requested Sub-Flock is not automatically created.

FLOQ may:

This is intentional: users create the conversations; FLOQ controls the structure.

16. No guarantee of availability

We aim to keep FLOQ available and reliable, but we do not guarantee that the Service will:

We may temporarily suspend parts of the Service for maintenance, security, upgrades or other operational reasons.

17. Third-party services

FLOQ may rely on third-party providers for services such as hosting, authentication, email, infrastructure, security, analytics, AI processing or other technical functions.

Those providers may have their own terms and privacy policies.

FLOQ remains responsible for processing personal information as described in our Privacy Statement where required by applicable law.

18. Your responsibility

You are responsible for your own actions and content on FLOQ.

FLOQ is a community platform and cannot guarantee the accuracy, legality, safety or reliability of content posted by users.

You should exercise appropriate judgement when interacting with other users.

Do not assume that someone is who they claim to be simply because they have a FLOQ account or moderator badge.

19. No professional advice

Content posted by users does not constitute professional advice.

This includes, without limitation:

You are responsible for determining whether information is appropriate and reliable before acting on it.

20. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, FLOQ will not be liable for:

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited under applicable law.

21. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to compensate FLOQ for reasonable losses, claims, liabilities and costs arising from your:

This section does not apply to the extent that the relevant loss was caused by FLOQ's own unlawful conduct or negligence.

22. Changes to FLOQ

FLOQ may change, improve, suspend or discontinue features of the Service.

We may also update these Terms where reasonably necessary, including because of:

Where a change is material, we will provide appropriate notice where required by law.

Your continued use of FLOQ after the effective date of updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms, to the extent permitted by law.

23. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, except where mandatory consumer or other applicable law provides otherwise.

Nothing in these Terms removes any mandatory rights or protections you have under the laws that apply to you.

Any dispute shall be submitted to the competent courts in the Netherlands, subject to any mandatory jurisdictional rights you may have under applicable law.

24. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply.

The invalid provision will be interpreted or replaced to the extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its intended purpose as closely as possible.

25. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the FLOQ Privacy Statement and Community Guidelines, form the agreement governing your use of FLOQ.

Where there is a conflict:

  1. applicable law takes precedence;
  2. these Terms take precedence over Community Guidelines;
  3. the Privacy Statement governs matters specifically relating to personal data processing.

26. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, enforcement decisions or legal requests, contact FLOQ at floqhq@protonmail.com.

For privacy matters: floqhq@protonmail.com

For reporting illegal content or serious safety concerns: floqhq@protonmail.com

Our basic principle

FLOQ is built for adults, but being an 18+ platform does not mean that everything is allowed.

Adults can talk about adult subjects. They cannot use FLOQ to harm people, exploit others or facilitate illegal activity.

FLOQ should remain a place where people can find their flock without having to wonder whether the person or community around them is using the platform for something dangerous or criminal.

Find your flock. Keep it safe.