Privacy Policy
DilMate is designed for privacy-safe dating: approximate location before joining, no public popularity scores, no public trust ratings, and no unsolicited cold inbox from strangers. This draft explains the intended product behavior and must be reviewed by qualified counsel before production launch.
Information we collect
We collect account information, age confirmation, profile content, photos, interests, approximate city/region, availability, meetup participation, blocks, reports, moderation records, notifications, connections, messages, subscription records, and manual identity review evidence.
Manual identity review evidence may include a sensitive photo of you holding a government-issued photo ID with your name and age visible. It is used for admin review and is not shown publicly.
How we use information
We use information to operate the service, recommend compatible members and meetups, enforce free/paid access, protect against impersonation and scams, review reports, support member-led meetups, process subscriptions when Stripe is connected, and improve launch-readiness metrics.
Privacy by design choices
- Exact home address is not part of the dating profile.
- Exact meetup venue details stay limited until the join/acceptance flow allows access.
- Blocks, reports, reliability events, and moderation outcomes are private operational records.
- Deal-breakers are private matching signals, not public profile labels.
- Manual ID review images are stored outside the public file disk and only admins can view them.
Sharing and providers
DilMate does not sell member profile information. Before production launch, this policy must list every provider that receives personal information, including payment, email, storage, hosting, verification, analytics, maps, calendar, push, or SMS providers.
Stripe, external phone/identity verification, external email delivery, push/SMS, maps, and calendar integrations are currently deferred in local development.
Retention
We aim to keep personal information only as long as needed for account operation, safety, legal, audit, and dispute-resolution purposes. Manual ID review images should have a specific retention schedule before launch, such as deletion after approval plus a short fraud-review window unless a report, dispute, or legal obligation requires longer retention.
Your choices and rights
You can update your profile, hide your profile, block members, report concerns, and request account deletion. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to know, access, delete, correct, limit, or opt out of certain uses of personal information. DilMate should provide a production request workflow before launch.
Research-informed notes
This draft is informed by FTC data-minimization/security guidance, NIST identity-proofing concepts, FTC romance-scam guidance, and California privacy-rights guidance. It is not legal advice.