Privacy Policy
Draft for review. Not a final published policy.
HerpDate is a dating service for adults. We do not provide medical advice or require you to enter a diagnosis.
Health information you choose to share
We store the account and profile information you provide, your photos, conversations, preferences and safety reports. Health information can appear in profile text, prompt answers, photos, messages or reports, including information another member reports to us.
The current product has no separate diagnosis or structured health-status field. Your use of a dating service like HerpDate may itself reveal sensitive information.
How information is used
Account and profile information supports sign-in, discovery, matching and conversations. We also process information to investigate reports, moderate content, protect accounts and respond to data requests.
When AI-assisted moderation is enabled, text submitted for review can be sent to an AI service provider. Moderation is not a medical assessment.
Content sent to an AI service provider is used only to provide the requested feature. We do not allow AI service providers to train models on your content.
Who can receive information
Other members can see the profile content shown to them and messages you send them. Consider what you want someone to know before adding it to your profile or a conversation.
Authorized staff can access information for support and safety work. Hosting, storage, payment and enabled moderation or measurement providers can process information needed for those services. A recipient may keep a copy of information you have already shared with them.
Your choices and account controls
- Edit your profile and prompts, remove photos or pause discovery from your member controls.
- Download the available account and profile export from Account. Including text identified as health-related requires re-entering your account password.
- Use the separate profile privacy control to remove detected health-related text from your bio and prompt answers. Review the remaining text yourself; automatic detection cannot recognize every disclosure. This control does not remove conversations, reports or copies held by other people.
- Request account deletion from Account. This ends account sessions, hides the profile from discovery and clears selected account and profile information.
Retention and deletion
An account deletion request does not immediately erase every record or backup. Safety reports, records subject to a legal hold and information held by service providers require separate handling.
The final retention schedule and complete deletion process are still under review. This draft does not promise that every retained record or backup is erased within a fixed number of days.
Cookies and measurement
Sign-in and security use necessary cookies. HerpDate does not load third-party analytics or advertising tags. An earlier cookie choice does not enable those tags. We retain first-party operational events to understand how the service works.
Your chosen city
Discovery uses the city you select and its approximate center. The city selection feature does not request your device location.
City data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.