Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 16, 2026
LoveJan is a privacy-first dating app for the Persian-American diaspora and all who wish to join.
What we collect
- Account: an Apple-issued identifier via Sign in with Apple. We do not collect your name or email from Apple, and we do not collect phone numbers.
- Profile: display name, birth date (for 18+ verification and age display), gender, who you're interested in, a chosen home city (city-level only), optional languages, relationship intent, generation, bio, and photos.
- Coarse location only: we store the centroid of the city you select — never your precise device location. We never request location permission and never access GPS. Distance to others is shown only as rounded buckets (e.g., "Nearby", "~50 km").
- Activity: likes and passes, matches, and messages with your matches.
- Subscriptions: if you purchase Premium, we store an Apple transaction reference and an expiry date (validated with Apple). We never see your card details.
- We use no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs.
Why (GDPR lawful bases)
- Contract: to operate the matching and messaging service you sign up for.
- Consent: optional profile fields (languages, intent, generation, Travel Mode) — provided only if you choose. Withdraw anytime by editing or clearing them.
- Legitimate interests: safety (block and report) and fraud or abuse prevention.
- We do not profile by ethnicity or religion, and we do not infer sensitive characteristics. Pricing is flat and identical for everyone (no gender-based or personalized pricing).
Your rights (GDPR / UK GDPR / CPRA / PIPEDA)
- Access, portability, correction: edit your profile in-app; contact us for a copy.
- Erasure: Settings → Delete account performs an immediate hard, cascading delete of your profile, photos (both blurred preview and original), matches, messages, and your authentication record. This is irreversible and runs server-side.
- Objection, restriction, withdraw consent: clear optional fields or delete your account.
- California (CPRA): we do not "sell" or "share" personal information; no targeted ads.
- Canada (PIPEDA): Canadian users may contact us to access or correct their data and may escalate to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
International data transfers
LoveJan runs on Supabase infrastructure hosted on AWS (us-west-1, United States). If you use LoveJan from the EU, UK, Canada, or elsewhere, your data is transferred to and processed in the United States under appropriate safeguards (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses with our processors). City centroids and bucketed distances are the only location-related data processed.
Photos
Your full-resolution photo is private until you match: it lives in a private bucket and is only retrievable by someone you've mutually matched with. The feed shows a blurred, downscaled preview.
Retention
We keep your data while your account is active. On deletion it is removed immediately as described above. Backups, if any, are purged on our processor's rolling schedule.
Age
LoveJan is strictly 18+, enforced server-side at signup for all territories.