Asks for a perpetual or irrevocable licence to content you upload
The terms of use of Tinder (version served in DE), archived on 2026-11-10, contains this sentence: "You further grant to Tinder a worldwide, perpetual, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free right and license to (a) collect and use Your Content to the extent necessary to perform its obligations and exercise its rights under the Agreement; and (b) to train, develop, adapt, modify, enhance, or improve the Services and other products or services including through our use of AI Technology.".
What we checked in each of the six areas, and what we found there. Not a score: an empty area means not tested yet; "their words" means we quote their documents below but have not tested it. Planet is a seventh row of measured facts from the same first look: what the homepage weighs before any tap, and a CO2e range with its method.
How Tinder's own help pages say you can reach a person, quoted as written on the date given. We did not contact them. Not tested by us; not a score.
Cancel article: not read: the site's robots.txt or the site itself refused our reader, and we never get around a refusal (page) Close-account article: not read: the site's robots.txt or the site itself refused our reader, and we never get around a refusal (page)
What the stores and its help centre say
The company's own declarations, copied as shown on the date given, with a link to the source and the hash of our archived copy. Not tested by us; not a score.
Google Play Data safety page: not read: the site's robots.txt or the site itself refused our reader, and we never get around a refusal. 2026-11-09 · source
Cancelling, per its help centre: not read: the site's robots.txt or the site itself refused our reader, and we never get around a refusal. 2026-11-09 · source
Closing the account, per its help centre: not read: the site's robots.txt or the site itself refused our reader, and we never get around a refusal. 2026-11-09 · source
In der Android-App
What an independent analysis of the published app file lists for Tinder (Android version 17.38.2, report of 2026-10-15). A permission says what the app can ask the phone for, not what it does with it. A newer version may differ.
8 tracker SDKs: AppsFlyer · Branch · Facebook Ads · Google AdMob · Google Firebase Analytics · IAB Open Measurement · Sentry · Tinder Analytics
Sentences copied word for word from the latest annual report of the company behind Tinder. Companies must tell investors what their business depends on.
“The Company’s revenue is primarily derived directly from users in the form of recurring subscriptions.”
Where the money comes from, in the company's own words.
Match Group, Inc. · annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the US SEC on 2026-02-26 · source · SHA-256 e7b8c72dbbb7…
Lobbying: was das Unternehmen angibt
US LOBBYING DISCLOSURE ACT · 2026-10-19 · THE MAKER OF TINDER
MATCH GROUP, INC. reports spending $220,000 in three months on lobbying the US government (Jul 2026 to Sep 2026).
Was für eine Zahl: This is the company's own quarterly report under US law. It covers everything the company does, not this app alone, and only what the law counts as lobbying.
Whole sentences copied exactly from Tinder's own documents, grouped by subject. Their words, not yet tested: this is quotation, not a finding, and no jury has looked at it. Each sentence links to the archived copy it came from.
AI TRAINING ON YOUR CONTENT
"You further grant to Tinder a worldwide, perpetual, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free right and license to (a) collect and use Your Content to the extent necessary to perform its obligations and exercise its rights under the Agreement; and (b) to train, develop, adapt, modify, enhance, or improve the Services and other products or services including through our use of AI Technology."
"Our systems and processes are generally designed to prioritize the detection and removal of the most serious and harmful violations (e.g., child sexual exploitation material or terrorist content), even if instances of such content are rare."
"When you make a purchase or request a refund, we keep the details of the transaction (e.g., what you purchased, the date of the transaction, and the price)."
"They provide us services such as data hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising, payment and refund processing, legal support, and security operations."
"If you purchase a subscription, it will automatically renew until you cancel, in accordance with the terms disclosed to you at the time of purchase, as further described below."
"If you cancel your subscription, you will continue to have access to your subscription benefits until the end of your subscription period, at which point it will expire."
"Completion of this informal dispute resolution is a condition precedent to filing any demand for arbitration or small claims court action (except to the extent a court finds the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Harassment Act” applies)."
"A court of competent jurisdiction shall have authority to enforce this provision and to enjoin any arbitration proceeding or small claims court action accordingly."
"If the request to proceed in small claims court is made after an arbitration has been initiated but before an arbitrator has been appointed, but before an arbitrator has been appointed, such arbitration shall be administratively closed by the arbitration provider (e.g., NAM)."
"We also share data with service providers and partners who assist us in operating the service, with other Match Group companies for the reasons laid out below and, in some cases, for legal and related reasons."
"Where permitted by applicable law, we may also share data with partners (such as companies facing similar threats), and they may share data with us, when necessary to promote the safety, security, and integrity of our service, our Members, our employees, and others."
"To protect the safety and security of our members, we implement a safety retention window of three months following account closure or one year following an account ban."
"If at any time you cease to meet these requirements, all authorization to access our Services or systems is automatically revoked, and you must immediately delete your account, and we retain the right to delete your account and remove your access to our Services without warning in our sole discretion."
"If an oral evidentiary hearing is requested, both Parties must be personally present at the hearing, regardless of whether either Party has retained counsel."
"We also collect data from third parties, like when you access the service through an account you have on another platform (e.g., Facebook, Google or Apple) or when you upload information from your account on another platform to complete your profile."
"When you choose to share with us information about other people (for example, if you use the contact details of someone you know for a given feature or if you submit a query or report involving a member), we process this data on your behalf to complete your request."
Screen recordings submitted to Abouit by users who stated they show cancelling or deleting their own account. Abouit did not record them and cannot verify who made them. Screens are counted by our published method. Submitted recordings are reported evidence: never a receipt, never part of a grade.
One request per person per day; nothing about you is stored.
Company response
none yet
What changed in its policies
TINDER · TERMS OF USE
international version
BEFORE · CAPTURED 2026-02-17"If you wish to exercise your right of cancellation, you may complete and send the below standard form of cancellation in the Appendix."
AFTER · CAPTURED 2026-03-28"If you wish to exercise your right of cancellation, you may complete and send the below standard form of cancellation."
BEFORE · CAPTURED 2026-02-17"For subscribers residing in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Wisconsin :"
AFTER · CAPTURED 2026-03-28"For subscribers residing in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Wisconsin:"
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