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What Tinder's terms say

F privacy grade · tinder.com · Social & messaging

Tinder's terms of service and privacy policy have 38 rated points: 3 serious, 21 bad, 6 worth knowing and 8 good. 36 apply whenever you use the site, signed in or not; 2 only once you have an account.

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Signed in or not

Whenever you use Tinder

Serious 3

  • Your personal information may be collected, regardless of whether you interacted directly with the service or not

    They store data on you even if you did not interact with the service

  • Your personal data is used for automated decision-making, profiling or AI training

  • Sensitive data is collected and shared to target advertising

Bad 21

  • Third-party cookies are used for statistics

    Google Analytics is used for statistics

    Where it says this ↗
  • Your profile is combined across various products

  • Third-party cookies are used for advertising

  • You are being tracked via social media cookies/pixels

  • Third-party cookies are employed, but with opt out instructions

    Third party cookies are employed, but with opt out instructions

  • Information is gathered about you through third parties

  • Many different types of personal data are collected

  • Your personal data may be used for marketing purposes

  • Referring and/or exit pages are tracked

    This service tracks which web page referred you to it

  • You may be tracked on other websites

    This service tracks you on other websites

  • Your biometric data is collected

  • Your personal data is used to employ targeted third-party advertising

  • App required for this service requires broad device permissions

  • Location data may be collected, used and/or shared

    This service may collect, use, and share location data

  • This service receives your precise location through GPS coordinates

  • Your personal data may be disclosed to comply with government requests without notice to you

  • This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not essential to its operation

  • Your personal data may be sold or otherwise transferred as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction

  • Your data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world

  • Your personal data may be sold unless you opt out

    Your Personal data may be sold unless you opt out

  • You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting

Worth knowing 5

  • This service is a subsidiary of Company X

  • First-party cookies are used

    Where it says this ↗
  • Blocking first-party cookies may limit your ability to use the service

    Blocking first party cookies may limit your ability to use the service

  • Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location

  • This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation

Good 7

  • Information is provided about what kind of personal information is collected

    Information is provided about what kind of information they collect

  • A list of all cookies used by the service is provided

    A list of all cookies set by the website is provided

  • You can opt out of targeted advertising

  • Information is provided about how your personal data is used

  • You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data

  • You can limit how your information is used by third parties and the service

    You can limit how your information is used by third-parties and the service

  • A free help desk is provided

With an account

If you have a Tinder account

Worth knowing 1

  • Banned users are prohibited from creating a new account

    Users who have been permanently banned from this service are not allowed to re-register under a new account

Good 1

  • You can retrieve an archive of your data

The documents

Ratings by ToS;DR volunteers; they can lag behind the current terms. Not legal advice.