Legal
Privacy Policy
The short version
- fudidate is a dating app built around real plans: a place, a time and who pays. To make that work we need your phone number, a profile, and your location while you look for dates nearby.
- We never sell your personal data and we do not show ads.
- Other people see your profile and the dates you post. They never see your phone number or your exact location.
- Identity verification is optional unless a feature says otherwise. If you choose it, a selfie check is processed by our verification provider with your explicit consent.
- You can delete your account in the app at any time (Profile, Settings, Delete account).
- Questions or requests: [support email].
1. Who is responsible
The controller responsible for your personal data is [Operator legal name and registered address] ("fudidate", "we", "us"). You can reach us at [support email]. This policy covers the fudidate mobile apps for iOS and Android and the website at fudidate.com, including pages for dates that people share from the app.
Where the law requires one, we will name our data protection officer and our representative in the EU or UK here.
2. What we collect and why
The table lists each kind of data, what we use it for and the legal basis under the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). "Contract" means we need the data to provide the service you signed up for (Art. 6(1)(b)). "Legitimate interests" means we have weighed our interest against yours (Art. 6(1)(f)). "Consent" means you agreed and can withdraw at any time (Art. 6(1)(a), and Art. 9(2)(a) for special categories).
| Data | Why we use it | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Phone number and one-time codes | Create your account, sign you in, keep one account per person, fight fake accounts. | Contract; legitimate interests (security) |
| Profile: first name, birthday, gender, who you want to see, city, photos, interests, bio, optional social handles | Show your profile to other members, check that you are 18 or older, match you with people you want to meet. Your age is shown, your birthday is not. | Contract. Gender and who you want to see can reveal your sexual orientation, a special category of data: consent (Art. 9(2)(a)) that you give when you add them |
| Approximate location (area or city) | Show dates and venues near you and sort them by distance. | Contract |
| Precise location (GPS), only if you allow it on your device | Map of dates around you, nearby venues, distance to a date. We do not show your exact position to anyone. | Consent through the device permission, which you can turn off in your phone settings |
| Dates and requests: plans you post (title, venue, time, who pays), requests and notes you send, matches, cancellations, check-ins | Run the core service: posting, joining and attending dates. | Contract |
| Chat messages | Deliver messages between matched members. We do not read chats, except when a member reports a conversation, to investigate a safety issue, or when the law requires it. | Contract; legitimate interests (safety) |
| Safety data: reports, blocks, no-show marks, reviews and "would meet again" answers, moderation decisions | Protect members, enforce our Terms, stop banned people from returning, show a reputation summary. | Legitimate interests (safety of members); legal obligation (EU Digital Services Act) |
| Identity verification: a selfie video for a liveness check and a comparison with your profile photos | Confirm that you are a real person and that your photos show you. The check produces facial geometry, which is biometric data. | Explicit consent (Art. 9(2)(a)), asked for before the check starts. You can refuse; you then simply do not get the verified badge |
| Purchases: product, price, dates, renewal status and transaction IDs from Apple or Google | Unlock Premium, handle renewals and refunds, keep accounting records. We never see your card details. | Contract; legal obligation (tax and accounting) |
| Device and usage data: device model, operating system, app version, language, IP address, timestamps, server logs | Run and secure the service, prevent abuse, debug problems. | Legitimate interests (security and reliability) |
| Crash reports: error details, device model, app version, a pseudonymous user ID | Find and fix bugs. | Legitimate interests (a working app) |
| Support messages | Answer you and keep a record of the conversation. | Contract; legitimate interests |
| Website waitlist: email address and city | Tell you when fudidate launches in your city. | Consent, withdrawn at any time by asking us or using the unsubscribe link |
We do not use your data for advertising, we do not build advertising profiles and we do not sell or rent personal data. We do not make decisions about you based solely on automated processing that have legal or similarly significant effects. Automated tools may flag content or accounts for review; a person makes the decision to suspend or ban.
3. What other people can see
- Members see your first name, age, photos, bio, interests, city, verification badge, reputation summary and the dates you post, with an approximate distance.
- Social handles you add are only shown to people you share a chat with.
- Shared date links. When you share a date from the app, anyone with the link can see a preview of it on our website: the title, venue, city, time, who pays, your first name and your main photo. Link previews in messengers (for example Telegram or iMessage) show the same. The page disappears when the date is over, cancelled or no longer open.
- Never shown: your phone number, birthday, exact location, the contents of your chats with other people, reports you made, and who you blocked.
4. Who we share data with
We use service providers (processors) who handle data only on our instructions and under a data processing agreement:
| Provider | What they do | Data involved |
|---|---|---|
| Railway | Hosting of our servers, databases and website | All data stored by the service |
| Prelude | Sending SMS sign-in codes | Phone number, code, delivery status |
| Didit | Identity verification (liveness and face match) | Selfie video, profile photos used for comparison, the result |
| Sentry | Crash and error reporting | Error details, device data, pseudonymous user ID |
| Google (Maps Platform) | Venue search, place details and maps | Search terms and the location used for the search |
| Apple and Google (app stores) | App distribution and in-app purchases. They act as independent controllers for your store account and payment | Purchase and subscription records |
We also share data when the law requires it (for example a valid order from a court or authority), to protect someone's life or safety, to defend legal claims, and with a buyer or successor if fudidate is sold or merged, who must keep this policy's promises.
5. International transfers
Some providers process data outside the European Economic Area and the UK, mainly in the United States. Where a country has no adequacy decision, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for companies certified under it, together with additional safeguards where needed. You can ask us for a copy of the relevant safeguards.
6. How long we keep data
- While your account is open we keep your profile, dates, requests and chats so the service works.
- When you delete your account in the app: your profile is anonymised (name, photos, bio, interests and social handles removed, phone number released), every session is signed out, your upcoming dates are cancelled, your pending requests are withdrawn, and your chats are closed for the other person. Your photo files are deleted from our storage within 30 days, and from backups when those expire.
- Kept after deletion, in a form no longer shown to anyone: records of past dates (they are part of other members' history), reports and moderation decisions for up to 3 years to keep banned people out and handle legal claims, and purchase records for as long as tax and accounting law requires (up to 10 years in Germany).
- Verification: we keep the result (verified or not, and when). The selfie video and biometric data are held by Didit only as long as needed for the check and as set out in our agreement with them, and are not kept by us.
- Server logs and crash reports: up to 90 days.
- Sign-in codes: a few minutes; delivery records at the SMS provider up to 12 months.
- Waitlist: until you unsubscribe or 12 months after fudidate launches in your city, whichever comes first.
7. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you have the right to:
- access your personal data and get a copy of it;
- correct data that is wrong (most of it you can edit in the app);
- delete your data (in the app, or by asking us);
- restrict or object to processing based on legitimate interests;
- receive the data you gave us in a portable format;
- withdraw consent at any time, without affecting what we did before;
- complain to a data protection authority, for example the one where you live or the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.
To use these rights, write to [support email] from the app or include the phone number of your account. We may ask you to confirm it is you. We answer within one month, or tell you why it will take longer (up to two more months for complex requests).
8. Age limit
fudidate is only for adults aged 18 and over. We ask for your birthday when you sign up and block anyone under 18. If we learn that someone under 18 has an account, we close it and delete their data. If you think a minor is using fudidate, report the profile in the app or contact us.
9. Safety, moderation and reports
You can report or block any member from their profile or from a chat. When you report someone, we review the report, the reported profile and content, and where relevant the messages in that conversation. We may remove content, warn, suspend or ban accounts, and we keep records of these decisions. The reported person is not told who reported them. If we take action against your account, we tell you why and how to ask us to look again, as the EU Digital Services Act requires.
Where there is a risk to someone's life or safety, or where the law requires it, we may share relevant information with the police or other authorities.
10. Security
We protect data with encryption in transit (TLS), access controls limited to people who need it, sign-in codes instead of passwords, and revocable sessions. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach puts your rights at high risk, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.
11. Cookies and the website
Our website does not set cookies, does not use analytics or advertising trackers and does not store anything in your browser. Our server keeps short-lived technical logs (IP address, page requested, time, browser type) to run and secure the site.
The website loads fonts from Google Fonts, which means your browser connects to Google servers and Google receives your IP address. We rely on our legitimate interest in a consistent design. We plan to host the fonts ourselves so that this connection no longer happens.
The apps do not use advertising identifiers and do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
12. Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when the service or the law changes. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. The date at the top shows the latest version.
13. Contact
[Operator legal name and registered address]
Email: [support email]
Last updated: 7 November 2026.