KinkySwipe
Kink is the first word of the name, and outside that name the word does not appear on the site at all. Not in the terms, not in the privacy policy, not on the front page. Neither do fetish, BDSM, dominant or submissive. The headline on its own front page reads “Your Fun Dating, Hookup and Swingers Site with Style”. Swingers and singles are named twice on that page. Kink is not named once.
KinkySwipe runs in a browser. Joining asks for an email address, an age from 18 upwards and a zip code, and the very first question on the form is whether you are signing up as a male, a female or a couple. Past that it is a monthly product, with the messenger and the private photos on the upgraded side. The front page runs two rolling strips of member handles and prints three testimonials with no names attached to them.
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The Facts Behind The Name
Site: kinkyswipe.com
Owner: the terms name Karneolis Ltd as Website Owner, and the privacy policy names it again as data controller
Registration: HE 403308, a number the site prints itself, once in its privacy policy and once in its cookie policy
Address given in the terms: Kennedy Ave 12-14, 1st Floor, Office 107, Nicosia, Cyprus
Disputes: heard under Cyprus law in the Nicosia courts, with a one year limit on bringing a claim, a jury trial waiver and a class action waiver
Domain: registered 8 January 2019 through Amazon Registrar, on Cloudflare nameservers
How it charges: nothing to join, one day of a paid plan on trial, then a subscription that renews itself every month
Cancellations and support: support@kinkyswipe.com
Legal and data contacts: legal@karneolisltd.cy, dpo@karneolisltd.cy
Minimum age: 18
How Busy The Site Looks
12,817 visits a month, and 423 daily unique visitors, is where HypeStat’s profile of the domain lands. Its three month chart ends in January, and its footer says the panel was last updated 156 days ago.
Two other estimates sit on the same panel and they do not agree with each other. SimilarWeb is quoted at 12,578 visits a month, within two percent of the HypeStat figure. SEMrush is quoted at 7,256, a little over half of it. The panel also records 3.76 pages per visit, an average visit of one minute six seconds, a bounce rate of 28.84%, and 98.57% of visits on a phone.
Four shots: the sign up panel, the contact form, the three testimonials and the strip of member handles. Open the testimonials one, because not one of the three carries a name or a date.
The Trial, The Subscription And The Way Out
Opening an account costs nothing. The help page says that “as a free member you have access to a limited amount of features”, and that an upgraded member “can send unlimited messages, use the instant messenger, view all images, videos, and much more”.
Before the subscription proper there is a day of it. In the site’s words, “Our trial lets you explore any paid plan for 24 hours”, after which “your paid subscription to your selected plan will automatically start unless you cancel before your trial ends”. Three kinds of card are accepted, debit, credit and prepaid, though prepaid comes with a carve out: those users are “eligible for a monthly or yearly plan only, without a trial period option”.
The terms put the renewal itself in capitals: “UNTIL TERMINATED, THE SITE MAY AUTOMATICALLY RENEW ALL PAID MEMBERSHIPS UPON THEIR EXPIRATION.”
Getting out is a written request rather than a button. The cancellation period “shall end twenty-four (24) hours before the expiration of your Premium Membership”, and it is support@kinkyswipe.com, or the ticket form, that has to receive it.
Two further charges attach to a payment going wrong: “a convenience fee of up to $4.99” where the site is unable to process one, and “an additional service charge of $50” once an account reaches a collections agency, on top of whatever the agency itself charges. Coins and tokens bought on the site “expire after 3 months”.
What Their Own Documents Say
The cookie policy, the privacy policy and the terms here are the same three documents that run on another site owned by the same company. Substitute the brand token out of both and they are equal to the byte, in both directions, and they carry the same effective date of October 4, 2023.
The vocabulary is the other half of that. Across all nine pages, kink outside the brand name returns zero, and so do BDSM, fetish, dominant, submissive, fantasy, roleplay, bondage and dungeon. What the homepage says instead is that “KinkySwipe is a fun and friendly site for fun dating and meeting singles and swingers”, an “online adult community that’s designed for you to meet and hang out with likeminded singles and couples”. Swinger appears twice on that page and never in the terms.
Two clauses in the terms cover separate ground. The first sets out what the service is for: under Description of Service the site states it is not there for meeting real individuals or arranging encounters in person, and that its purpose is flirting conversation which stays online. The second sets out who some accounts belong to: the company may create and run profiles of its own during quiet hours, messages from those may be produced with no person involved, and each is marked on screen by a green dot containing a white heart icon.
The join form carries its own wiring. Straight after the Join Free button it loads a one pixel tracking image from secure.authbill.com, tagged tour_id=39251 and affiliate_id=121071, and the sibling brand loads that same endpoint with a different number in each field. The cookie policy names that host from the other direction, listing eight billing cookies set on .authbill.com. On what reaches a bank, the help page says: “The descriptor displayed next to the charge is very discreet, and you will not see Kinkyswipe’s name appear on your billing statement.” The wording itself is published nowhere.
A clause near the start of the terms covers your profile being reused elsewhere: “with your consent, we may use your profile on kinkyswipe.com to populate registration and profile information on the Affiliate Websites”. Not one Affiliate Website is named in the document. The refund position is stated twice and the two do not match: the membership section says fees are non-refundable and that “ALL PURCHASES ARE FINAL”, while the refunds section repeats that and then adds that “refund requests may be granted only in exceptional cases”.
The 2257 page is an exemption notice rather than a compliance one, stating that all visual depictions on the site “are exempt from the provision of 18 U.S.C. 2257, 2257A”, with takedowns run through the DMCA page. The domain has been on the register since 8 January 2019.
What Gets Asked About Kinky Swipe
What is KinkySwipe?
Kinky Swipe, as half the people looking for it spell it, is a browser based adult site built around chat and profiles. Its front page sells it as fun dating, hookups and swingers, and the join panel asks whether you are one person or two before it asks anything else. An email address gets you inside to look around; the messenger and the private photos sit on the upgraded side. The name is the part that does not match what is underneath it, because nothing the site publishes uses the word kink anywhere except in the brand.
Is there actually any kink on KinkySwipe?
Nothing the site says about itself claims there is. Search every page it publishes and the words kink, fetish, BDSM, dominant, submissive, fantasy, roleplay, bondage and dungeon come back at zero once the brand name is taken out of the count. There are no fetish categories, no scene vocabulary and no kink filters described in the terms, the privacy policy, the cookie policy or the help pages. What is there instead is the headline “Your Fun Dating, Hookup and Swingers Site with Style” and a description of an adult community for meeting likeminded singles and couples. Whether members bring their own is the part only a member can answer, which is what the poll and the comments are for.
Can couples join KinkySwipe?
The join form is built for it. The opening field asks whether you are signing up as a male, a female or a couple, ahead of the age and the zip code, so the choice is the first thing the site wants from you. The front page backs that up, describing a place designed for you to meet and hang out with likeminded singles and couples, and using the word swinger twice. That word then disappears completely: it does not occur once in the terms, which describe the service in general dating and chat language from beginning to end.
Do people meet up through KinkySwipe?
The site publishes two answers to that and they pull against each other. Under Description of Service, its terms state that this is not a site for meeting real individuals or arranging in person encounters, that the purpose is flirting chat between users, and that everything on it should be treated as virtual. Its front page prints three testimonials, none with a name or a date on it, and two of them are about meeting: one reads “Better than conventional sites! Way faster and easier to meet people. Have 2 dates today, wish me luck!” and another describes a lot of action since joining. The clause and the quotes are published by the same company on the same site.
Is KinkySwipe connected to other dating sites?
Its own paperwork says so three times over. Near the start of the terms, members are told that with their consent the company may use a kinkyswipe.com profile to populate registration and profile information on what it calls the Affiliate Websites, none of which is named anywhere in the document. Its three legal documents are then word for word the ones another site owned by the same company publishes, down to a shared effective date. And the join form pulls a tracking image from a billing host, carrying a tour id and an affiliate id issued to this brand alone, while the sibling site loads the identical image with its own pair of numbers.
What does a KinkySwipe charge look like on a statement?
Not the brand. Before you pay, the help page volunteers that the descriptor beside the charge is very discreet and that Kinkyswipe itself will not be printed there, and the actual string is published nowhere on the site. All the terms commit to is that the entry identifies the payment processing agent, which they decline to name. One name does emerge from the site’s own files, from two directions at once: eight billing cookies declared on authbill.com in the cookie policy, and a pixel loaded from that host by the sign up panel. So what lands on the statement is an entry you would have to look up before you recognised it.
How do you stop KinkySwipe charging you again?
You write to them, and you do it early. Renewal is automatic, stated in capitals, and repeats every month for as long as the membership stands, while the 24 hour trial rolls into a paid plan by itself unless it is stopped inside the day. Your deadline is a full twenty four hours ahead of the date the current membership runs out, not the date itself.
There is no self serve button either. It takes an email to support, or a ticket through the contact form, where Membership Cancellation is one of the subject options and no login is needed to send it. Two things catch people out afterwards: for a paying member, ending the membership and deleting the profile are two separate requests, and neither one stops the marketing and promotional email.
Now Your Side Of It
A few questions for anyone who has actually held an account here. Was there any kink on it once you were inside, or was it the dating and swingers crowd the front page describes? Did the green dot ever turn up beside somebody who wrote to you? Did signing up as a couple get you anywhere that signing up alone would not? And if you recognised that same join form on another site, name it.
I payed for a month but don’t know how to use it