Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2026

Semantic match ("we", "us") is a dating app that matches people by the semantic similarity of what they write. This policy lists the data we collect and what we do with it.

What We Collect

• Account info: Name, email, birth date, location
• Profile content: Your "About Me" and "Looking For" text, photos (up to 3)
• Preferences: Relationship preferences and dealbreakers you set in your profile
• Activity: Who you like, messages you send
• Technical: When you signed up, when you were last active

How We Use Your Data

Communication: We email you login links, match notifications, and message notifications. Resend delivers these emails.

Photos: Your photos are stored on Cloudinary's servers.

Matching: We send your profile text to OpenAI. Its AI models rewrite the text as short standardized sentences, which can include traits inferred from what you wrote, and convert those into "embeddings" (lists of numbers) that we compare to find compatible matches. How matching works describes each step with an example. OpenAI does not store your text.

Analytics: We use GoatCounter to count page views. GoatCounter does not use cookies and does not track individual users. We log anonymous server-side events (e.g. signup page visits) with your IP address to see how people find and use the site. We record when you last used the site and when you edit your profile (to enforce rate limits).

Who We Share Data With

The app depends on these services, and each receives some of your data:

• Cloudinary - Your photos are stored on Cloudinary's servers.
• Resend - Your email address is shared with Resend to deliver emails to you.
• OpenAI - Your "About Me" and "Looking For" text is sent to OpenAI to be rewritten as standardized sentences and converted into match embeddings. OpenAI does not store this data.
• DigitalOcean - Our server and database are hosted on DigitalOcean.

We do not sell your data or share it with advertisers.

Where Your Data is Stored

• Database: Your account, profile, messages, and activity data are stored on servers in Frankfurt, Germany (EU).
• Photos: Profile photos are processed and stored by Cloudinary Inc. in the United States. See their privacy policy.
• Profile processing: Your profile text is sent to OpenAI (US) to generate embeddings. OpenAI does not store it.

Your account, messages, and activity data stay in the EU. Photos and AI processing go through US-based services.

How Long We Keep Your Data

• Your account and profile data are kept until you delete your account
• Messages are kept until either user deletes their account
• Login links expire after 1 hour

Deleting Your Data

You can delete your account from your profile page. Deleting removes your profile, photos, messages, likes, and matches permanently.

Security

• Login is by emailed link, so there are no passwords to steal
• Data is transmitted over HTTPS
• Photos are resized and processed before storage

No system is 100% secure. If you discover a vulnerability, please email us.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@semanticmatch.me

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