Coffee Meets Bagel

We ding this product for sharing personal information as well as inferences drawn from personal information to third parties for targeted advertising purposes.

Privacy policy

"Information we obtain from other sources:

Facebook. In order to register with certain Coffee Meets Bagel apps, you may be asked to sign in using your Facebook login. If you do so, you are authorizing us to access and process certain Facebook account information, including information about you and your Facebook friends who might be common Facebook friends with other Coffee Meets Bagel users. By allowing us to access your Facebook account, you understand that we may obtain and process certain information from your Facebook account, including your name, email address, birthday, work history, education history, current city, pictures stored on Facebook, and the names, profile pictures, relationship status, and information about your Facebook friends. We only obtain information from your Facebook account that you specifically authorize and grant us permission to obtain.
Third-Party Services: We may receive the information described in this Privacy Policy from third party services, such as analytics providers and advertising partners.
Other users. Users of Coffee Meets Bagel may provide us with information about you, including through customer support inquiries."

"If you use our video chat feature, you will need to provide the Coffee Meets Bagel app with access to your camera and microphone. We and others you video chat with may collect the content and information you make available using our video chat feature."

"Pursuant to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may use the information we collect from you for the following business purposes:
1. facilitate matches with other Coffee Meets Bagel users;
2. respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
3. to tailor and provide communications to you about Coffee Meets Bagel and related offers, promotions, advertising, news, upcoming events, and other information we think will be of interest to you;
4. monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities;
5. investigate and prevent fraud and other illegal activities;
6. provide, maintain, and improve Coffee Meets Bagel and our overall business;
7. where we otherwise have a legitimate interest in doing so, for example, direct marketing, research (including marketing research), network and information security, fraud prevention, and enforcing our terms, conditions and policies or defending against legal claims; and
8. for any purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent."

"Use for Research. In addition to the uses outlined above, by using Coffee Meets Bagel, you agree to allow us to anonymously use the information from you and your experiences to continue our research into successful relationships, including how to create and foster these relationships, so that we may continue to improve the Coffee Meets Bagel experience. This research may be published in our blogs or interviews. However, all of your responses will be kept anonymous, and we assure you that no personal information will be published."

"Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, Coffee Meets Bagel does not sell personal information to third parties. Coffee Meets Bagel does permit third parties to collect the personal information described above through our service and shares personal information with third parties for business purposes as described in this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to providing advertising outside of our service based on users’ online activities over time and across different sites, services, and devices (so-called “interest-based advertising”). The information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Policy."

"“Do Not Track.” Some browsers transmit “do-not-track” signals to websites. Because of differences in how browsers incorporate and activate this feature, it is not always clear whether users intend for these signals to be transmitted, or whether they even are aware of them. We currently do not take action in response to these signals."

Supplemental Notice for California Residents

CoffeeMeetsBagel shares the following categories of information with advertising partners: "identifiers", "commercial information", "internet or other electronic network activity", "inferences drawn from other personal information to create a profile about a consumer".

"“Sales” of Personal Information under the CCPA. For purposes of the CCPA, Coffee Meets Bagel does not “sell” personal information, nor do we have actual knowledge of any “sale” of personal information of minors under 16 years of age."

How do I create a Coffee Meets Bagel account?

"We will never share your phone number or access your Facebook data without your permission."

We ding this product as it is unclear if all users, regardless of location, can get their data deleted.

Privacy policy

"In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to:

Access Personal Information about you, including: (i) confirming whether we are processing your personal information; (ii) obtaining access to or a copy of your personal information; or (iii) receiving an electronic copy of personal information that you have provided to us, or asking us to send that information to another company (aka the right of data portability);

Request Correction of your personal information where it is inaccurate or incomplete. In some cases, we may provide self-service tools that enable you to update your personal information;

Request Deletion of your personal information;

Request Restriction of or Object to our processing of your personal information; and

Withdraw Your Consent to our processing of your personal information.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as set forth below. We will process such requests in accordance with applicable laws."

"Data Retention

Coffee Meets Bagel retains the personal information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our services or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws. As outlined above, Coffee Meets Bagel works with a third-party identity verification company, Persona, to use biometric identifiers and associated information for photo verification. Biometric data will be destroyed when the verification purposes have been satisfied, within no more than 3 years of your last interaction with Persona, unless otherwise required by law or legal process to retain the data."