Use & Processing · Company practice
In territories Tinder identifies as unsafe for LGBTQ+ people, it hides your sexual orientation until you leave
If you added a sexual orientation to your profile and you are in a territory Tinder has identified as unsafe for LGBTQ+ people, Tinder says it will hide your sexual orientation from your profile until you leave that area. Separately, Tinder suggests that if you are in unsafe territory you toggle off "Show me on Tinder", a setting on the Settings page; that is your choice, not something Tinder does for you.
Supporting quotations
If you added a sexual orientation to your profile and you’re in a territory that we’ve identified as being unsafe for LGBTQ+ people, we’ll hide your sexual orientation from your profile until you leave that area.
If you’re in unsafe territory, we suggest toggling off “Show me on Tinder,” which you can find under the Settings page.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Hiding applies only if you added a sexual orientation to your profile and only while you are in a territory Tinder has identified as unsafe.
- The orientation is hidden until you leave that area.
- Turning off "Show me on Tinder" is a suggestion you act on yourself.
Not stated here
- The page does not list which territories Tinder treats as unsafe or explain how it determines that you are in one.