Privacy Policy

We collect the following categories of personal information:

• Account details. Your name or chosen display name, unique @handle, email address, and password (stored only as a salted hash). We record whether your email has been verified.
• Profile & identity. Your date of birth (used to confirm you are 18+ and is not shown to other users as a raw date), gender identity (including any self-description), the genders you are looking to connect with, and your approximate location — a city you select, resolved to a coarse city-center coordinate and country. We never collect or store your precise street address or live GPS location.
• Values answers. Your responses to the onboarding values questionnaire (including how important each topic is to you), your answers and optional free-text notes in the 14-question conversation deck, and answers to any shared question sets you play with a match.
• Messages & connections. Chat messages you send, connection and photo-reveal consents, and interaction signals such as meet intents and check-in nudges.
• Photos. Photos you upload. We re-encode them and strip embedded metadata (including any EXIF/GPS data) on upload, and we keep them private — they are only revealed to a match after a full conversation and only with mutual consent.
• Preferences. Your match filters (including blocked countries), preferred check-in pace, and notification/email preferences.
• Safety data. Blocks you create and reports you submit (including the category and any details you provide).
• Technical & usage data. IP address, browser/user agent, session information, and in-product analytics events about how the service is used.

Some information you provide is treated as sensitive personal information under US state privacy laws — in particular, information that can reveal your sexual orientation (such as your gender and the genders you seek) and information reflecting your worldview or beliefs.

We collect and use this information only with your consent, which you give during onboarding, and only to operate the core matching and connection service — to find compatible people and show you where your values align. We do not use it for advertising, and we do not sell it. You can withdraw this consent at any time in Settings, which removes you from matching; we keep an internal record of when consent was given or withdrawn.

• To create and secure your account and authenticate you.
• To build your values portrait and automatically match you with one compatible person at a time.
• To run the answer-then-reveal conversation, connected chats, and shared question sets.
• To deliver notifications and transactional or service emails you have not opted out of.
• To keep the community safe — handling blocks and abuse reports, and preventing re-matching people who have parted.
• To understand and improve how the product is used, using aggregate and event-level analytics.
• To comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms.

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only:

• With people you are matched or connected with — the parts of your profile, values answers, and (once mutually unlocked) photos that the product is designed to reveal.
• With service providers who host and operate the service on our behalf (for example, our hosting/database provider, our email delivery provider, and — only if enabled and you consent — an analytics provider). They may process your information only to provide services to us.
• For legal and safety reasons — to comply with law, respond to lawful requests, or protect the rights, safety, and security of our users, the public, or ValuePair.
• In a business transfer — if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, subject to this Policy.

We use a small number of strictly necessary cookies to keep you signed in and secure. If analytics are enabled, we use them only after you accept the cookie banner; you can decline, and you can withdraw consent later in Settings, which clears the associated analytics cookies. We do not use cookies for third-party advertising.

Depending on where you live in the US, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information; to obtain a portable copy; to opt out of any “sale” or “sharing” of personal information or targeted advertising; and to limit the use of sensitive personal information. We do not sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not use sensitive information beyond providing the service.

You can exercise the core rights directly in the product:

• Access / portability: download all your data as JSON from Settings → Your data.
• Deletion: permanently delete your account and associated data from the same Settings section.
• Withdraw consent: withdraw sensitive-data consent or analytics consent in Settings.
• Email opt-out: turn off notification emails in Settings, or use the one-click unsubscribe link in any email.

You may also make a request, or appeal a decision, by contacting us at . We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights, and you may use an authorized agent where the law allows.

We keep your personal information for as long as your account is active and as needed to provide the service. When you delete your account, we delete your personal information and remove your uploaded photo files; limited records may be retained where necessary for security, legal compliance, or to preserve the integrity of abuse reports (in which case identifying details about you are removed).

We use technical and organizational measures to protect your information, including encrypted transport, hashed passwords, private photo storage separated from public assets, and access controls on the paths that touch other users’ data. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

ValuePair is for adults. You must be at least 18 years old to use it, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 has used the service, let us know and we will take appropriate action.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, notify you. Your continued use of ValuePair after an update means you accept the revised policy.

You can exercise your core privacy rights — including exporting or permanently deleting all of your data — yourself at any time from Settings. During this pre-launch beta we do not operate a public contact address; a dedicated privacy contact will be published before the service opens to the public.