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Effective Date: The earlier of 2024-12-23 or user acknowledgment.The table below describes all the purposes for which we collect, use, share, and otherwise process Personal Information of our users through the Grindr Properties, the categories of Personal Information, the lawful basis under which we process Personal Information (where required by law), the source of the Personal Information, and the categories of recipients of Personal Information. Grindr retains and deletes Personal Information pursuant to its data retention policy <a href="https://www.grindr.com/privacy-policy/personal-information-collected-and-data-retention/en-us" >[LEARN MORE]</a > and has established appropriate technical and organizational security controls to protect Personal Information.We have a dedicated data security team that actively works to monitor the integrity and safety of the Grindr Properties. We have policies and protocols in place to help protect Personal Information. We consistently strive to improve our defenses in the ongoing battle against bad actors. That said, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure, and Grindr cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information.Note: Legal bases apply as required under applicable law to individuals in certain jurisdictions such as Brazil, EU/EEA, and UK. The processing purposes listed below are applicable regardless of your jurisdiction.<table><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Processing Purpose</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Categories of Personal Information (as listed in the "Personal Information Collected" section)</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Legal Basis</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Data Source</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Shared With (outside of Grindr) <a href="https://www.grindr.com/privacy-policy/third-parties/en-us" >[LEARN MORE]</a ></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">1. Provide you with the Services associated with your Grindr account, which may include:<ul><li>Facilitating communications between users of the Services, including messages, photos, audio calls, video calls, videos or audio at your request.</li><li>Troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data.</li><li>Processing your location to allow you to use our Services.</li><li>Sending service notifications and displaying first party ads.</li><li>Processing your purchases and transactions.</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">The Personal Information You Are Required To Provide for creating a Grindr account generally includes your email, phone number and password. If you are registering for an account through Facebook or Google log-in, those respective credentials will be required when utilizing those methods. We may need to process Personal Information You Have The Option To Provide (including your Location information) in order to facilitate communications between you and other users of the Services. In the course of your interactions through the Service or with any other Grindr Properties, we may identify the device you use to access the Grindr Properties and certain activities you conduct through the Personal Information We Receive From Your Device When You Use The Grindr Properties. Such Personal Information generally includes hardware and software information (e.g., device make, model, and carrier), user activity data (e.g., user profiles you have viewed, products and services purchased), and information obtained via cookies. Please note that we may receive Personal Information We Receive From Third Parties about your purchases (e.g., from our payments service providers).</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Performance of Contract</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>You</li><li>Your Device</li><li>Service Providers</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>Service Providers</li><li>Other Partners</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">2. Answer your inquiries and provide you with support.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">In addition to the categories of data mentioned above, we may need to process additional Personal Information You Have The Option To Provide for the purposes of answering your requests (e.g., you may want to disclose some of your messages with other users when reporting inappropriate behavior or disclose additional information about you to support the report).</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Performance of Contract</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>You</li><li>Your Device</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>Service Providers</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">3. Improve our Properties and ensure safety within the Services (including machine learning/AI and automated decision making), which may include:<ul><li>Providing or enhancing our security features, including authentication, anti-spam, fraud protection, brand safety, quality assurance, abuse prevention controls, and investigating, preventing, or responding to suspected illicit activities.</li><li>Collecting statistical information about the use of the Services and Properties</li><li>Identifying, blocking, and/or removing illicit content or activity through AI  algorithms</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">We may need to process:<ul><li>Personal Information You Are Required To Provide*;</li><li>Personal Information We Receive From Your Device When You Use The Grindr Properties;</li><li>Personal Information You Have The Option To Provide; and</li><li>Personal Information We Receive From Third Parties.</li></ul>*Note that we do not use Personal Information You Are Required To Provide, such as email address and password, for statistical purposes.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Legitimate Interest - it is in our interests to analyze the way in which Users are accessing and using our Properties so that we can continually enhance our security features and accurately generate and maintain internal user counts and metrics.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>You</li><li>Your Device</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>Service Providers</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">4. Protect our interests as a company for different purposes, such as:<ul><li>Enforcing the Grindr Terms of Service</li><li>Assessing claims that any content violates the rights of third parties</li><li>Answering customer requests</li><li>Protecting the rights, property or personal safety of Grindr, its users or the public</li><li>Establishing or exercising our legal rights or defending against legal claims</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">We may need to process:<ul><li>Personal Information You Are Required To provide;</li><li>Personal Information We Receive From Your Device When You Use The Grindr Properties;</li><li>Personal Information You Have The Option To Provide; and</li><li>Personal Information We Receive From Third Parties.</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Legitimate Interest - it is in our legitimate interests to protect our legal rights, defend legal claims and to protect our Users and third parties from harm</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>You</li><li>Your Device</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>Service Providers</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">5. Allow you to enjoy and empower certain Service and Property features such as:<ul><li>Enabling you to make any information that you choose to provide in your Profile ("About Me") or in your post associated with a Right Now session visible and available to other Grindr users</li><li>Sending you notifications and reminders based on the data you have voluntarily provided to us (e.g., testing reminders)</li><li>Presenting public service messaging or similar communications based on your Personal Information (e.g., Profile Information or use of the Grindr Services)</li><li>Facilitating communications between users of the Services, including messages, photos, calls, video calls, videos or audio at your request, where such communications include special categories of data.</li><li>Accessing your camera, photo roll, and microphone to allow you to include photos in your public profile, and photos, audio, and live video messages in your private and group messages at your request.</li><li>Accessing your location to allow you to share your current location in your private and group messages at your request.</li><li>Engaging in training to improve data models to support the Grindr Services (e.g., personalization and chatbots)</li><li>Personalizing and customizing your experience on the Grindr Services by providing tailored recommendations through machine learning/AI and automated-decision making.</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">We may need to process:<ul><li>Personal Information You Are Required To Provide;</li><li>Personal Information We Receive From Your Device When You Use The Grindr Properties;</li><li>Personal Information You Have The Option To Provide, including sensitive Personal Information; and</li><li>Personal Information We Receive From Third Parties.</li></ul>Please note:<ul><li>You may need to adjust your device settings or permissions to enjoy certain features of the Services (e.g., allowing Grindr to access your microphone for sending audio to other Grindr users, or allowing Grindr to process your location for sending your current location to other Grindr users - (note: the location you share is not updated once shared). You are also required to disclose certain information in your Profile (e.g., self-reported health information), which is visible to other Grindr users, to utilize certain features of the Services (e.g., testing reminders).</li><li>If you do not grant the necessary permissions, or if you do not disclose the required information, such features may not work correctly.</li><li>Profile Information will not be shared with third-party partners except with Service Providers that support the core functionality of the Services.</li><li>If you do not provide consent to process select categories of Personal Information (e.g., sensitive Personal Information), you will be opted out of data model training and/or a personalized/customized experience enabled by machine learning/AI and automated decision-making while using the Grindr Services.</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Consent</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>You</li><li>Your Device</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>Service Providers</li><li>Other Partners</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">6. Allow third-party ad / marketing partners to use cookies and other technologies on the Grindr Services for the purposes of serving ads.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">In order to serve ads (i.e., displaying ads, personalizing ads, measuring ad performance, etc.), we may need to process:<ul><li>Personal Information We Receive From Your Device When You Use The Grindr Properties  (e.g., advertising ID and IP address); and</li><li>Personal Information We Receive From Third Parties (e.g., consent preferences).</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Consent</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>You</li><li>Your Device</li><li>Third Parties</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>Ad / Marketing Partners</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">7. Conduct surveys or obtain your feedback about our Properties.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">We may invite you to participate, on a voluntary basis, in surveys about our Properties. Such surveys allow us, for example, to research your behaviors to improve our Properties. If you choose to participate in surveys, we may need to process Personal Information You Have The Option To Provide, including sensitive Personal Information (e.g., your answers to our questions, testimonials, feedback), which may include using this information for the purposes of audience segmentation.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Consent</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>You</li><li>Your Device</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>Service Providers</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">8. Respond to legal requests from law enforcement agencies, regulators, and other third parties to comply with legal obligations.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">We may need to process:<ul><li>Personal Information You Are Required To Provide;</li><li>Personal Information We Receive From Your Device When You Use The Grindr Properties;</li><li>Personal Information You Have The Option To Provide, including sensitive Personal Information; and</li><li>Personal Information We Receive From Third Parties.</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Comply with Legal Obligations - in response to requests from EEA member states Legitimate Interest - it is in our interests to comply with the laws to which we are subject outside of the EEA</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>You</li><li>Your Device</li></ul></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><ul><li>Requestor related to Legal Obligations        </li></ul></td></tr></table><ul><li>Controller: Grindr LLC</li><li>Controller and Data Protection Officer Contact Information: PO Box 69176, West Hollywood, CA 90069. You can also submit a request to contact Grindr's EEA/UK Data Protection Officer (DPO) through our website <a href="https://help.grindr.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id%3D360006692913%26tf_360056453953%3Dform__privacy_request__eea_dpo" >here</a > and Grindr's Brazil DPO <a href="https://help.grindr.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id%3D360006692913%26tf_360056453953%3Dform__privacy_request__brazil_dpo" >here</a >.</li><li>EEA and UK Representative Contact Information: If you are based in the EEA or UK or have GDPR-related inquiries, you may contact our EEA and UK Representative by submitting your request or inquiry to the postal address listed <a href="https://www.grindr.com/privacy-policy/eea-rep-addresses/en-us" >here</a > for your country of residence, by emailing [email protected], or submitting an online form at<a href="http://www.datarep.com/data-request"> </a><a href="http://www.datarep.com/data-request" >www.datarep.com/data-request</a >. Please make sure your request is addressed to DataRep and not Grindr LLC. Please do not use this for general support inquiries. General support inquiries can be submitted <a href="https://help.grindr.com/hc/en-us">here</a> or via the support link within the App. </li></ul>

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