If you were banned from another Match Group service, your data can be shared with Tinder to close or block your account
Tinder is part of the Match Group family of businesses. If you were banned from another Match Group service, your data can be shared with Tinder so it can take what it calls necessary actions, including closing your account or preventing you from creating an account on Tinder. This is data Tinder receives from affiliated companies rather than from you; Section 6 describes the broader affiliate sharing.
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If you were banned from another Match Group service, your data can be shared with us to allow us to take necessary actions, including closing your account or preventing you from creating an account on our service.
Match Group considers the safety and security of members a top priority.
Qualifications & exceptions
Triggered by a ban on another Match Group service.
Not stated here
Which companies are in the Match Group family is given only by a link that is not supplied.
Data is shared with other members, service providers and partners, Match Group companies, and for legal reasons
Section 5 introduces the recipients of your data: some information is visible to other members because the service is about making connections; data is also shared with service providers and partners that help operate the service, with other Match Group companies for the reasons in Section 6, and in some cases for legal and related reasons. The table that follows gives each recipient group, the reasons for sharing, and the data categories involved.
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5. How We Share Data
We also share data with service providers and partners who assist us in operating the service, with other Match Group companies for the reasons laid out below and, in some cases, for legal and related reasons.
some of your information is of course visible to other members on the service.
Sharing & Disclosure · Context
The sharing table lists each recipient with the reasons for sharing and the categories of personal data
The Section 5 table has three columns: Recipients, Reasons for sharing, and Categories of Personal Data. The row cards read each recipient together with its reasons and categories; the category labels are those defined in Section 3.
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Recipients
Reasons for sharing
Categories of Personal Data
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
What you disclose on the service is visible to other members and may appear in Tinder notifications to potential matches
You share data with other members when you voluntarily disclose information on the service for others to see, such as your public profile. That data is visible to other users in the app and may also be shared, when Tinder considers it relevant and appropriate, in other Tinder communications, for example a profile snapshot in an email or other notification sent to potential matches. So profile content can travel outside the app interface into messages Tinder sends to other members.
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Other members
You share data with other members when you voluntarily disclose information on the service for others to see (e.g., your public profile). This means your data will be visible to other users in the app, and may be shared when relevant and appropriate in other Tinder communications, such as sharing a profile snapshot in email or other notifications to potential matches.
Qualifications & exceptions
Sharing in other communications is said to occur when relevant and appropriate.
Triggered by information you voluntarily disclose for others to see.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
If someone reports you, Tinder may tell the reporter what action it took; the same applies when you report someone
If another member submits a report involving you, such as a claim that you violated the Terms of Use, Tinder may let the reporter know what actions it took, if any, as a result. The same applies in reverse when you submit a report about another member: you may be told the outcome. The disclosure is framed as something Tinder may do, not must do.
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If someone submits a report involving you (such as a claim you violated our Terms of Use), we may let the reporter know what actions we took, if any, as a result of their report. The same applies if you submit a report involving another member.
Qualifications & exceptions
Framed as “may”; disclosure of outcomes is not guaranteed.
Not stated here
What level of detail is disclosed to a reporter is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
If another member requests a copy of their personal data, they may receive the messages you sent them
When another member exercises their right to a copy of their personal data, the copy they receive may include the messages you sent to them. Your chat messages are therefore not only visible to the recipient in the app but may also be handed over to them as part of their data export.
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If another member requests a copy of their personal data, they may receive the messages you sent them.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when the other member requests a copy of their personal data.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Data shared with other members includes Usage Data and Insights and Inferences, not only profile and content
The categories listed for sharing with other members are Profile Data, Content, Social Media Data, Third Party Data, Customer Support Data, Usage Data, and Insights and Inferences. Account Data (phone, email, date of birth) is not listed, nor are Purchase, Technical, Geolocation, Face or ID Data. The inclusion of Usage Data and Insights and Inferences means that signals derived from your activity, not just what you typed into your profile, can reach other members, though the policy does not say in what form.
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Profile Data
Content
Social Media Data
Third Party Data
Customer Support Data
Usage Data
Insights and Inferences
Qualifications & exceptions
Account Data, Purchase Data, Technical Data, Geolocation Data, Face Data and ID Data are absent from this row.
Not stated here
How Usage Data and Insights and Inferences are surfaced to other members is not described.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Vendors and partners receive data for hosting, analytics, support, marketing, ads, payments, legal and security
Tinder shares data with vendors and partners that help it operate, promote and improve the service. They provide services such as data hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising, payment and refund processing, legal support, and security operations. A list of data recipients is linked but not supplied here.
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Service providers/partners
who help us operate, promote and improve our service. They provide us services such as data hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising, payment and refund processing, legal support, and security operations.
Not stated here
The linked list of vendors and partners is not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Tinder may use Facebook Login, Pixel, plugins and SDK, acting as joint data controller with Meta Ireland
Tinder may use Facebook tools such as Facebook Login, Pixel, Social plugins, and the Facebook SDK for App Events. When it uses these tools, Tinder and Meta Ireland are considered “Joint Data Controllers”. How Facebook processes the resulting data and how you can exercise rights with Meta are addressed in Meta Ireland's Privacy Policy, which is not supplied.
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Specifically, we may use Facebook tools, such as Facebook Login, Pixel, Social plugins, and Facebook SDK for App Events. When using these tools we are considered “Joint Data Controllers” with Meta Ireland.
Qualifications & exceptions
Use of the Facebook tools is stated as “may”.
Joint controllership applies when these tools are used.
Not stated here
Meta Ireland's Privacy Policy is linked but not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Where law permits, Tinder may exchange data with partners facing similar threats to protect safety and integrity
Where permitted by applicable law, Tinder may share data with partners such as companies facing similar threats, and they may share data with Tinder, when necessary to promote the safety, security and integrity of the service, its members, its employees and others. This is a two-way exchange limited by law and by necessity for safety purposes.
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Where permitted by applicable law, we may also share data with partners (such as companies facing similar threats), and they may share data with us, when necessary to promote the safety, security, and integrity of our service, our Members, our employees, and others.
Qualifications & exceptions
Only where permitted by applicable law and when necessary for safety, security and integrity.
Not stated here
Which partners take part in this exchange is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Depending on the vendor, any category may go to service providers, including Face Geometry, ID and Geolocation
The categories shared with service providers and partners depend on the service the vendor or partner provides, and may include Account Data, Profile Data, Content, Purchase Data, Marketing/Survey/Research Data, Third Party Data, Customer Support Data, Social Media Data, Usage Data, Technical Data, Insights and Inferences, Geolocation Data, Face Geometry Data and ID Data. This is the widest category list in the sharing table.
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Depending on the service provided by the vendor or partner, it may include:
Account Data
Profile Data
Content
Purchase Data
Marketing, Survey and Research Data
Third Party Data
Customer Support Data
Social Media Data
Usage Data
Technical Data
Insights and Inferences
Geolocation Data
Face Geometry Data
ID Data
Qualifications & exceptions
Which categories a given vendor receives depends on the service it provides.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Ad partners receive data or collect it via cookies and SDKs; hashed contacts build exclusion or lookalike audiences
Tinder publishes third-party advertisers' ads on its service and promotes its own service on third-party sites and apps. To improve ad relevance it provides certain information about you to third parties, including advertising partners, or allows them to collect such data from Tinder's services through cookies, SDKs or similar technologies. Some advertising partners let Tinder transform your email address, advertising identifiers or phone number into an identifier that cannot be used to identify you personally, then use that identifier either to exclude you from Tinder's marketing campaigns or to target Tinder's ads at an audience similar to you in background, interests or app usage. The categories involved are in the next row cells.
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Advertising Partners
To help improve the relevance of these ads, we provide certain info about you to third parties, including advertising partners, or allow them to collect such data from our services (such as via cookies, SDKs, or similar technologies).
Some of our advertising partners enable us to transform your email address, advertising identifiers or phone number into an identifier that can’t be used to identify you personally and then use that unique identifier to either exclude you from our marketing campaigns, or to target our ads at an audience that is similar to you in terms of background, interests or app usage.
Qualifications & exceptions
Hashed identifiers are used either to exclude you from campaigns or to find similar audiences.
Partners may collect data directly from Tinder's services via cookies, SDKs or similar technologies.
Not stated here
Which advertising partners are involved is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Advertising partners get Account, Profile, Usage and Technical Data and Insights and Inferences
Tinder publishes third-party advertisers' ads on its service and promotes its own service on third-party sites and apps. The categories of personal data shared with advertising partners for this are Account Data, Profile Data, Usage Data, Technical Data, and Insights and Inferences. Content, Geolocation, Face Data and ID Data are not listed for advertising partners. Profile Data and inferences about you can therefore feed ad targeting, subject to the controls in Sections 4 and 8.
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We publish ads about third-party advertisers’ products and services on our service, and publish ads promoting our own service on third-party sites and apps.
Account Data
Profile Data
Usage Data
Technical Data
Insights and Inferences
Qualifications & exceptions
Content, Purchase Data, Geolocation Data, Face Data and ID Data are absent from this row.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Tinder shares data with Match Group affiliates and receives data from them for the Section 6 purposes
Affiliates are a recipient group in the sharing table. Tinder shares data with affiliates, and receives data from them, for the purposes laid out in Section 6 of the policy, which cover safety across Match Group, mutual service-provider assistance, recommendation systems, cross-platform visibility, analytics and marketing, and corporate reporting. The flow is two-way: affiliated companies' data about you can come to Tinder as well.
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Affiliates
We share data with affiliates or receive data from them for the purposes laid out in Section 6 of this policy.
Qualifications & exceptions
Limited to the purposes laid out in Section 6.
Not stated here
The list of affiliates is given only by links that are not supplied.
Affiliate sharing may involve every category, including Geolocation, Face Data and ID Data, depending on the reason
The categories shared with affiliates vary with the reason for sharing but may include Account Data, Profile Data, Content, Purchase Data, Marketing/Survey/Research Data, Third Party Data, Customer Support Data, Social Media Data, Usage Data, Technical Data, Insights and Inferences, Geolocation Data, Face Data and ID Data. Together with service providers, affiliates are the only recipient group whose list reaches every category.
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The categories of data will vary based on the reason for sharing, but it may include:
Account Data
Profile Data
Content
Purchase Data
Marketing, Survey and Research Data
Third Party Data
Customer Support Data
Social Media Data
Usage Data
Technical Data
Insights and Inferences
Geolocation Data
Face Data
ID Data
Qualifications & exceptions
The categories vary based on the reason for sharing.
Not stated here
Which categories go to affiliates for which Section 6 purpose is not broken down.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Tinder may disclose data to comply with legal process, help prevent or detect crime, protect safety, or defend claims
Tinder may disclose your data to law enforcement authorities in four situations: to comply with a legal process such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, a government or law enforcement investigation, or other legal requirements; to assist in the prevention or detection of crime; to protect the safety of any person; and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. The second and third grounds do not require a formal legal demand.
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Law enforcement authorities
We may disclose your data to: (i) comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements; (ii) assist in the prevention or detection of crime; (iii) protect the safety of any person; and (iv) establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Qualifications & exceptions
Framed as “may disclose”.
Prevention or detection of crime and protection of safety are listed as grounds separate from legal process.
Not stated here
Whether Tinder notifies members of such disclosures is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Law enforcement disclosures often include Content, Geolocation and ID Data; the mix depends on the request
The categories shared with law enforcement vary with the specific circumstances of the request, but the policy says they often can include Account data, Profile Data, Content, Purchase Data, Customer Support Data, Third Party Data, Social Media Data, Usage Data, Technical Data, Geolocation Data and ID Data. Face Data, Insights and Inferences, and Marketing/Survey/Research Data are not listed here.
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The categories of data shared will vary depending on the specific circumstances surrounding the request, but it often can include:
Account data
Profile Data
Content
Purchase Data
Customer Support Data
Third Party Data
Social Media Data
Usage Data
Technical Data
Geolocation Data
ID Data
Qualifications & exceptions
The categories vary depending on the specific circumstances surrounding the request.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
In a merger, sale, bankruptcy or other change of control, your data may be transferred to affiliates or new owners
If Tinder is involved, in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control, it may transfer your data to its affiliates or the new owners. The data involved varies with the type of transaction and may be the entire organization's data or only a subset, such as Purchase Data.
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In the context of merger and acquisition, with our Affiliates or new owner(s)
We may transfer your data if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control.
The categories of data shared will vary based on the type of corporate transaction. It may include the entire organization data or only a specific subset such as Purchase Data.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to transactions involving Tinder in whole or in part.
The scope of transferred data depends on the type of corporate transaction.
Not stated here
What protections apply to data after such a transfer is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license
Members can share each other's profiles outside Tinder, and Share My Date passes match details to third parties
Using the profile sharing functionality, you may share other members' profiles with people outside the service, and other members may share yours. With the Share My Date feature, you may share your matches' profile information and details of upcoming dates with other Tinder members and with third parties outside the platform, and they may do the same with your details. The data involved is Profile Data and Content. Your profile can thus reach non-members through other members' choices, not only your own.
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When the profile sharing functionality is used
You may choose to share other members’ profiles and they may share yours with people outside of our service, using the sharing functionality.
When using the Share My Date feature, you may choose to share your matches’ profile information and details of upcoming dates with other Tinder members and with third parties outside of the platform. They may do the same with your details.
Profile Data
Content
Qualifications & exceptions
Sharing happens when a member chooses to use the sharing functionality or Share My Date.
Other members can share your profile and date details; the policy states no opt-out here.
Not stated here
Whether you can prevent other members from sharing your profile is not stated in this row.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Tinder is part of Match Group and exchanges data about you with its affiliates for listed reasons
Section 6 states that Tinder is part of the Match Group family of businesses and that Tinder shares data about you with its Affiliates, and they share data about you with Tinder, for the reasons it then lists. A help article with more detail on how Match Group companies work together is linked but not supplied.
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6. How Match Group Companies Work Together
Tinder is part of the
We share data about you with our Affiliates and they share data about you with us, for the reasons laid out below:
about how Match Group companies work together.
Not stated here
The Match Group company page and the help article are linked but not supplied, so the affiliate list is not established here.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Affiliate data exchange serves group-wide safety, shared services, recommendation systems, analytics and audits
The reasons for exchanging data with Match Group affiliates are: making all Match Group platforms safer, including identifying bad actors across platforms so that someone found on one platform can be banned from all; assisting each other as service providers in operations such as hosting, customer care, marketing and targeted advertising, analytics, finance, legal support, payment processing, service improvement, security and fighting spam, abuse and fraud; suggesting relevant connections by developing or improving Match Group brands' core recommendation systems; where allowed by law, understanding how people use Match Group services overall, personalizing your experience across them and enhancing marketing and advertising; and other legitimate business purposes including consolidated audit, analysis and reporting.
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To make all Match Group platforms safer, for instance by searching for and identifying bad actors and how they operate across Match Group platforms, as well as making sure that when a bad actor is found on one Match Group platform (for instance ours), they can be banned from all.
To assist each other, as service providers, in data processing operations, such as data hosting and maintenance, customer care, marketing and targeted advertising, analytics, finance and accounting, legal support, payment processing, service improvement, data security and fighting against spam, abuse, fraud and other wrongdoings.
To suggest to you relevant and meaningful connections, by developing or improving Match Group Brands’ core recommendation systems.
Where and as allowed under applicable law, to better understand how people use Match Group services overall, to personalize your experience across Match Group services and to enhance marketing and advertising campaigns.
For other legitimate business purposes including corporate / consolidated audit, analysis and reporting.
Qualifications & exceptions
Cross-service analytics, personalization and marketing enhancement apply only where and as allowed under applicable law.
A ban on one Match Group platform can lead to bans on all.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Tinder may make you visible on other Match Group services or give you cross-platform features
To improve your chances of building connections, Tinder may make you visible on other Match Group services or allow you to benefit from cross-platform functionalities. Your profile could therefore appear to users of other Match Group brands. The policy phrases this as something Tinder may do and does not describe a choice or setting here.
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To improve your chances at building significant connections with others, we may make you visible on other Match Group services or allow you to benefit from cross-platform functionalities.
Qualifications & exceptions
Framed as “may”.
Not stated here
Whether you can opt out of being shown on other Match Group services is not stated in this section.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment
Sharing involves cross-border transfers to affiliates and providers in countries with different privacy laws
Because Tinder operates a global service, the sharing described in Section 5 involves transferring your data across borders to affiliates and service providers in third countries with different privacy laws. When it transfers personal data to a third country, Tinder says it uses appropriate mechanisms, giving as examples adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission or other competent authorities, and standard contractual clauses or similar approved mechanisms. The following cards cover each mechanism.
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7. Cross-Border Data Transfers
Because we operate a global service, the sharing of your data laid out in Section 5 involves cross-border data transfers to our Affiliates and service providers (other third parties) in third countries that have different privacy laws.. When we transfer personal data to a third country, we use appropriate mechanisms. For example, we rely on:
or other competent authorities under applicable laws. We transfer personal data to our Affiliates to perform important functions, as outlined in Section 6, by storing, accessing or otherwise processing data and to third- parties in countries with adequacy decisions for the purposes outlined in Section 5.
Qualifications & exceptions
The named mechanisms are examples (“For example, we rely on”).
Not stated here
Which countries receive data under which mechanism is not fully stated; the United States is named as a country without an adequacy decision.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment
Transfers to countries with adequacy decisions rely on those decisions, for Section 5 and Section 6 purposes
One transfer mechanism Tinder relies on is adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission or other competent authorities under applicable laws. Under this mechanism Tinder transfers personal data to its Affiliates to perform the functions outlined in Section 6, by storing, accessing or otherwise processing data, and to third parties in countries with adequacy decisions for the purposes outlined in Section 5. An adequacy decision is a regulator's finding that a destination country's protection is adequate; the policy does not list which countries are covered.
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or other competent authorities under applicable laws. We transfer personal data to our Affiliates to perform important functions, as outlined in Section 6, by storing, accessing or otherwise processing data and to third- parties in countries with adequacy decisions for the purposes outlined in Section 5.
Adequacy decisions issued by the
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to transfers to countries that have an adequacy decision.
Not stated here
Which destination countries are covered by adequacy decisions is not listed; the linked European Commission page is not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment
Transfers to countries without adequacy, such as the United States, rely on standard contractual clauses
For countries without adequacy decisions, such as the United States of America, Tinder relies on standard contractual clauses issued by the European Commission or similar contractual transfer mechanisms approved by other competent authorities. The policy describes these as commitments between the companies transferring personal data, binding them to protect the confidentiality and security of your data and to ensure an adequate level of protection in the destination country. Tinder uses them to transfer data to its Affiliates for the Section 6 functions and to third parties for the Section 5 purposes. You can contact Tinder for a copy of the clauses.
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issued by the European Commission or similar contractual data transfer mechanisms approved by other competent authorities under applicable laws. These contractual data transfer mechanisms are commitments between companies transferring personal data, binding them to protect the confidentiality and security of your data and ensuring adequate level of protection in third countries.
We rely on such mechanisms to transfer personal data to our Affiliates to perform important functions, as outlined in Section 6, by storing, accessing or otherwise processing data, and to third parties for the purposes outlined in Section 5 in countries without adequacy decisions, such as the United States of America.
for a copy.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to transfers to countries without adequacy decisions, the United States being the named example.
A copy of the clauses is available on request through the contact link.