Privacy Policy

Wedocore Inc., a company incorporated in the United States, operates the Orthodate dating service (“Orthodate”, “we”, “us”). This policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, who we share it with and what rights you have. For the purposes of the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation, Wedocore Inc. is the data controller for the data described here.

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• Account data: email address, mobile number, and authentication identifiers.
• Profile data: name, date of birth, gender, photos, location, and the answers you choose to give to profile questions — including information about your faith and religious practice.
• Verification data: if you choose to verify your photos, two still images of your face taken by your camera, and a record of the outcome. See section 4.
• Usage data: likes, passes, matches, messages, and in-app activity such as your last-active time.
• Technical data: IP address, device and browser type, and cookies or similar local storage used to keep you signed in and remember your language.
• Billing data: if you subscribe, your subscription tier, status, renewal date and the customer and transaction identifiers issued by Stripe, our payment processor. Your card number is entered on Stripe’s own checkout and is never received or stored by us.
• Support data: the content of messages you send us through the contact form or by email.

Information about your religious beliefs — and, by the nature of a dating service, your sexual orientation — is treated as a special category of personal data. We process it only because you have voluntarily and explicitly provided it in order to be matched with other members, and you may withdraw that consent at any time by editing or deleting your profile.

Verification is optional and nothing on Orthodate depends on it. If you choose to take part, we ask you to hold a randomly chosen facial expression in front of your camera and we keep two still photographs: one taken just before the expression and one during it. The camera feed itself is never recorded and never leaves your device — the pose is checked by software running inside your own browser, and only those two stills are uploaded.

Those stills are held in a private storage area that other members cannot reach, and they are never shown on your profile. A member of our team compares them with your profile photos by eye. We do not generate a faceprint, face template, face geometry or any other biometric identifier from them; we do not run facial recognition across our membership; and we never use them to train software, sell them, or share them with advertisers or data brokers.

We process these images on the basis of your explicit consent, which you give by starting verification and may withdraw at any time through our contact form. If you are approved we delete them as soon as the review is complete; otherwise we delete them within 30 days. Deleting your account removes them straight away. Declining verification costs you nothing but the badge.

• To create and operate your account and show your profile to other members (performance of our contract with you).
• To recommend potential matches based on your preferences and location (performance of our contract).
• To deliver messages, notifications and service announcements (performance of our contract).
• To take payment and manage subscriptions (performance of our contract, legal obligation).
• To keep the Service safe: detecting fake profiles, spam, abuse and fraud, including via Cloudflare Turnstile on sign-in and public forms (legitimate interests).
• To confirm that the photos on a profile show the person using it, where that member has asked to be verified (consent).
• To publish your profile in English: the text you write is sent to DeepL for translation, and both the translation and your original wording are stored on your profile (performance of our contract).
• To understand how the site is used through aggregated analytics, and through anonymised recordings of how pages are clicked and scrolled — but only if you allow analytics cookies (consent, which you can withdraw at any time).
• To comply with legal obligations and respond to lawful requests (legal obligation).
• To check that we are allowed to offer the Service where you are: we compare the country of your verified mobile number, the location saved on your profile and the approximate country of your IP address against the places we may not serve. The comparison happens as each page loads and its result is not stored (legal obligation).

We do not sell your personal data and we do not show third-party advertising. We share data only with service providers who process it on our instructions: our hosting and database provider (Supabase), our application host (Amazon Web Services), our transactional email provider (Resend), DeepL (machine translation of the text you write on your profile), Cloudflare (Turnstile, for spam and bot protection), Google (Maps for location search and — only if you allow analytics cookies — Google Analytics), Microsoft (Clarity, for usage analytics and session replay, again only if you allow analytics cookies) and Stripe (payment processing and subscription billing, if you subscribe). Some of these providers operate outside your country; such transfers are covered by Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent safeguard. We may also disclose data where required by law or to protect the rights and safety of our members.

Requests from law enforcement and other government agencies are handled under our Law Enforcement Guidelines, which explain what legal process we require before disclosing anything and when we tell the member that a request was made.

Your photos, first name, age, approximate location and the profile answers you complete are visible to other signed-in members. Your email address, phone number and exact coordinates are never shown. If you have been verified, other members see the verified mark next to your name, but never the selfie that earned it. Orthodate is an English-language community: anything you write on your profile in another language is translated into English and published in English, with a note on the field saying which language it came from. Please do not put contact details or anything you would not want a stranger to know into your public profile.

We keep your profile data for as long as your account is active. Verification stills are the exception: they are deleted as soon as the review is complete, and in any case within 30 days. When you delete your account, your profile, photos, verification stills, likes, matches and messages are removed from our live systems promptly; residual copies may persist in encrypted backups for a limited period before being overwritten. If you choose to tell us why you are leaving, that answer is kept on its own, without your name, email address or any account identifier, so it cannot be linked back to you. Records we must keep for legal, tax or fraud-prevention reasons are retained for the period required by law.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, to receive a portable copy, and to withdraw consent at any time. You can edit most data directly in the app and delete your account in one tap from Settings. For anything else, send us a message through our contact form. You also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.

Data is transmitted over TLS and stored on managed infrastructure with row-level access controls, so that members can only read the records they are entitled to. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data and will notify you and the relevant authority of a personal-data breach where the law requires it.

Orthodate is strictly for adults aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a minor has created an account, contact us immediately and we will remove it.

We use strictly necessary cookies and local storage to keep you signed in, remember the settings you choose, and protect our forms with Cloudflare Turnstile. Anything beyond that — our analytics, and any future personalisation — is loaded only after you agree, and never before. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

Our Cookie Policy lists every cookie, who sets it and how long it lasts. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time from the “Cookie settings” link in the footer of every page; withdrawing also deletes the cookies that consent had allowed.

We will post any changes to this policy on this page and, where the change is material, notify you in the app or by email. Questions, or want to exercise a right in section 9? Reach us through our contact form or by email at support@orthodate.co. Our postal address is in section 1.