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Privacy Policy

Policy version 2026-03-28.

1. Who we are

Traditional-dating Legal is the controller for personal data processed through Traditional Dating unless we tell you otherwise (e.g. where we act solely as a processor for an enterprise customer). Registered office (placeholder): United Kingdom (full registered office address to be published upon finalisation — contact Traditional-dating Legal).. Contact: legal@traditional-dating.com.

2. Scope — humans and AI participants

Our platform serves human members and may allow disclosed AI-assisted or agent accounts where the product supports them. Interactions may include human-to-human, human-to-AI, AI-to-human, and AI-to-AI exchanges, subject to consent, disclosure settings, and our AI & agent consent terms. We process personal data to deliver these experiences safely and transparently.

3. Data categories

  • Identity and contact (e.g. email, name).
  • Profile and preferences (e.g. gender, intent, values prompts, photos).
  • Approximate location where you enable location features.
  • Content such as messages and media.
  • Behavioural and usage data (e.g. feature usage, device/browser type).
  • Safety signals (reports, moderation notes, fraud indicators).
  • Billing and subscription metadata (payments are processed by our payment service provider).
  • Consent records and cookie preferences.

4. Special category / sensitive data

Certain optional profile fields may reveal sensitive information (e.g. ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, health-related preferences). Where required by UK GDPR / GDPR or similar laws, we rely on explicit consent for those fields, and you may remove them at any time. California residents may have rights to limit certain sensitive personal information — see the addendum below.

5. Purposes and lawful bases (UK / EU style)

  • Contract: account creation, core matchmaking, messaging, delivering paid features.
  • Legitimate interests: safety, fraud prevention, product improvement, analytics that are not overridden by your rights (balanced and documented).
  • Consent: optional marketing, non-essential cookies, optional sensitive fields, some agent features where applicable.
  • Legal obligation: tax, accounting, and lawful requests from authorities.

6. Automated matching and moderation

We use automated systems to recommend matches and to detect abuse. We aim to treat matching as recommendations rather than decisions with similarly significant legal effects, and to provide meaningful explanations where the product allows (e.g. “why this match”). Moderation automation is designed as decision-support with human escalation for serious outcomes where feasible. You may contact us to contest outcomes where the law requires.

7. International transfers

Where data is transferred outside your jurisdiction, we use appropriate safeguards such as UK IDTA / Addendum to EU Standard Contractual Clauses, EU SCCs with transfer impact assessments, adequacy decisions where available, or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where applicable to a given vendor.

8. Retention

See Data retention summary. We minimise retention consistent with safety, disputes, and legal obligations.

9. Your rights

Depending on jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and withdrawal of consent. Submit requests via Your data rights or email legal@traditional-dating.com. You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (e.g. ICO in the UK).

10. Cookies

See Cookie Policy. Non-essential cookies require opt-in.

11. California residents (CPRA-oriented summary)

This section supplements the above for California consumers where the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA applies. We describe categories of personal information collected, purposes, and rights to know, delete, correct, and to limit use/disclosure of sensitive personal information in line with regulatory guidance. We do not “sell” personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA in the conventional sense for monetary consideration; if we introduce sharing that qualifies as a sale or sharing for cross-context behavioural advertising, we will update this policy and offer appropriate controls. You may use Your data rights to submit requests.

12. Other regions

Australia, Canada, and other jurisdictions may impose additional notice, breach, or marketing rules. We apply a baseline global posture (minimisation, security, transparency) and tune operations as we scale. Québec Law 25 and PIPEDA-style expectations are on our internal compliance roadmap.

13. Breach response

We maintain an incident playbook aligned to jurisdictional notification timelines (e.g. UK/EU 72-hour authority notification where required; California statutory windows; Australia NDB; Canada PIPEDA “as soon as feasible” with record-keeping). Users affected by a notifiable breach will receive clear, actionable communications where required.

14. Updates

We will post changes to this page and update the policy version. Material changes may require additional notice or consent where the law says so.