Privacy Policy

1. Information we collect

• Account and identity information, including email, display name, login provider, verification status, permanent account ID and account status.
• Your private date of birth and the age calculated from it.
• Profile information, including photos, gender, country, province or state, city, languages, relationship status, Looking for selections and About me text.
• Content and communications, including posts, Moments, comments, reviews, ratings, reactions, saved posts, reports and messages, together with uploaded images, videos and external media links.
• Activity information needed to provide features, including notifications, blocks, profile visits by signed-in members and the most recent visit date displayed in Profile views.
• Support, moderation and legal records, including Contact us requests, decisions, appeals, content or account IDs, evidence submitted and administrator audit records.
• Technical and security information, such as IP address, device and browser information, session identifiers, timestamps, request logs, rate-limit events and security signals.
• If optional commercial features are enabled, advertising, promotion, wallet, gift or transaction records needed to provide and account for those features.

2. Where information comes from

We receive information directly from you, from other members who interact with or report content, from authorized administrators and from service providers such as sign-in, hosting, email and media providers. Places listing information may also come from rights holders, licensors, official or public sources and other third-party sources selected by administrators. We may derive limited information, such as calculated age, aggregated rating, account status, an approximate country inferred from an IP address and security indicators, from information already held or from hosting-network location headers.

3. How and why we use information

• To provide the service: create and secure accounts, display profiles and content according to product settings, provide Places and people discovery, deliver messages and notifications, and maintain account controls. We may use a country-level IP estimate to suggest the most relevant community on the home page. The local lookup does not send the visitor IP to the database provider and is not intended to identify a precise address. Where applicable, this is necessary to perform our contract with you.
• For safety, integrity and support: prevent fraud and abuse, enforce restrictions, review reports, correct inaccurate data, protect systems and respond to requests. Where applicable, we rely on our legitimate interests and those of users, balanced against individual rights.
• To comply with law: respond to valid legal requests, preserve required records and meet regulatory, tax, accounting or rights-protection obligations.
• With consent: use optional permissions, non-essential cookies or other processing where local law requires consent. Consent can be withdrawn for future processing.
• For legal claims: establish, exercise or defend legal rights and resolve disputes.

4. What other people can see

Your public profile may show your display name, calculated age, gender, general location, languages, relationship status, Looking for selections, photos and public content. Your email and full date of birth are not displayed to other users. Optional empty profile fields are not shown. When a signed-in member visits another member’s profile, the profile owner may see the visitor’s public account identity and most recent visit date in Profile views for up to 30 days. Private messages are visible to participants and to authorized personnel only when access is reasonably necessary for safety, support, legal compliance or investigation.

5. Places and third-party listing data

Places listings may include place, organization, contact or other information obtained from sources other than the person or organization described. We use that information to provide a local directory and search service, maintain source and rights records where available, and investigate correction or removal requests. A person or rights holder may request information about the source where required by law and may report inaccurate, outdated or unlawfully used data through Contact us.

6. Sharing and service providers

We use service providers for hosting, PostgreSQL databases, email delivery, sign-in, media storage, security, support and other functions needed to operate the service. They may process information only for the contracted purpose and subject to appropriate contractual, confidentiality and security requirements. Authorized regional administrators can access only the information reasonably needed for assigned regions and permissions. Contact requests may be routed to the responsible support or regional team. We may disclose information when required by law, to protect rights or safety, in connection with a corporate reorganization subject to applicable safeguards, or at your direction. We do not sell private messages or use them for behavioural advertising.

7. Advertising

Advertising and paid placements may be organized by country or area, page section and listing. We do not use private message contents or sensitive profile fields for behavioural advertising. Where advertising uses cookies, identifiers or profiling that requires notice, consent or an opt-out, we will provide the applicable control.

8. External services

Embedded or linked services such as YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Instagram or other approved providers may receive technical information when you load, play or open their content. Those providers process information under their own privacy policies. Avoid opening external content if you do not want to interact with the relevant provider.

9. Retention, deletion and backups

• Profile-visit information displayed in Profile views is retained for up to 30 days, with repeat visits represented by the most recent visit date.
• An account deletion request normally enters a 30-day recovery period, after which active account data is deleted or anonymized unless continued retention is permitted or required.
• Content and messages are retained while needed to provide the service or until valid deletion, removal or account actions apply, subject to the rights of other participants and legal requirements.
• Reports, moderation actions, security logs, contact requests and source or rights records are retained according to the seriousness of the issue, limitation periods, fraud-prevention needs and applicable legal obligations.
• Operational backups are protected separately and expire under a rolling disaster-recovery schedule. Deleted data may remain inaccessible in backups until the relevant backup expires and will not be restored to active use except for disaster recovery or legal necessity.

10. Your choices and rights

You can edit your profile, manage photos, control public content, download the available account data export, block users and request account deletion. Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict or object to processing, withdraw consent, receive portable data and complain to a data-protection or consumer authority. Where applicable, an authorized agent may submit a request for you. We may verify identity, ask for information needed to locate the data and retain the minimum record required to document our response. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a protected privacy right.

11. Security and recovery

We use measures designed to protect information, including HTTPS, secure cookies, hashed credentials and tokens, scoped permissions, rate limits, audit records, protected backup destinations and access controls. We review access and restore procedures in proportion to the risks presented. No transmission, service or storage system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or unauthorized access will never occur.

12. International processing

Information may be processed in countries where our service providers, infrastructure or authorized support teams operate. Where a transfer is restricted by applicable law, we use a legally recognized basis and safeguards appropriate to the transfer, such as an adequacy decision, approved contractual protections or a permitted exception. You may contact us for information about safeguards relevant to your data.

13. Data incidents

We maintain procedures to investigate suspected loss, destruction, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of or access to personal information. When an incident triggers a legal notification requirement, we will notify the relevant authority and affected individuals within the period and in the form required by applicable law. Notifications will describe the nature of the incident and available protective steps when required and reasonably possible.

14. Cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies or similar storage that is necessary for sign-in, session continuity, security and user-requested features. If we introduce non-essential analytics, advertising or personalization technologies, we will provide notice and consent or opt-out controls where required by applicable law.

15. Age and automated safeguards

Account registration is limited to people aged 18 or older. Public people search does not reveal private birth dates. We use technical signals for rate limiting, security monitoring, spam detection and content prioritization, with human review where appropriate. They are not intended to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. If that changes, we will provide any notice, explanation and rights required by law.

16. Changes and contact

We may update this Policy when the service, our practices or applicable law changes. Material changes will be posted with a new version and effective date and notified where required. The data controller is Meecat, located at . Privacy requests can be sent through Contact us. If applicable law requires a local representative or data protection officer, their current details will be made available here or through the relevant regional notice.