1. BACKGROUND

Bring Me Bae, Inc. ("Bring Me Bae") has prepared this Privacy Policy to explain the information we collect when you use our mobile application or our websites, and our other products and services including our groups, events, or surveys. For simplicity, we just refer to all of these as our "service" in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy covers how we use and share that information, and your choices about that information. In addition, you may choose to use the service to share information with other users, including your friends and contacts ("Users"). We suggest you read this Policy in conjunction with our Terms of Service.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as by adding a statement to our website or by sending you a notification).

‍We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy whenever you access the Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.

1. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Registration Information

When you create an account ("Account"), depending on how you wish to complete your profile we may collect certain information ("Registration Information") about you, such as:

Name;
Email address;
Mobile number;
Gender identity;
Date of birth;
Sexual Orientation;
Photographs and videos;
Dating region (city, state, zip);
Education;
Profession;
Interests;
Ethnicity;
Religion;
Height;
Family information (whether you have kids);
Marital status; and
Login and related information for social media accounts that you connect to your Account (this could include, for example, your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter accounts).

Once you register, you will be able to review and change this information (with the exception of date of birth, and name) at any time just by logging in to Bring Me Bae and selecting Edit Profile.

It is your responsibility to ensure that your account details are kept up to date. If your phone number changes, please update this in your account, or email us at [email protected].

The information we collect helps to enhance the service and authenticate our Users via third parties. Registration Information such as your sexual orientation, first name, first initial of last name, height, profession, education, interests username and your about me section will be visible to Users who are presented with your profile.

Purchases Information

If you decide to purchase any of our premium services, we will process your payment information via bank transfer, and retain records relating to your purchase history.

Usage Date

Using the service generates data about your activity, including how you use it (e.g., when you logged in, features you've been using, actions taken, information shown to you, referring webpages, ads you interacted with) and how you interact with others (e.g., searching, matching, communicating). We may also receive data related to interactions you had with our ads on third party's websites or apps.

Links

We may keep track of how you interact with links available on Bring Me Bae including third-party services by redirecting clicks or through other means. We may share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.

Bring Me Bae Success Stories, Surveys, and other Contributions

We will collect any information you provide in response to research surveys or requests for feedback testimonials, or participation in marketing campaigns (for example, if you let us know that you have found a match on the service, we may contact you to ask if you would be happy to feature in advertising for Bring Me Bae).

Customer Support Data

When you contact our Customer Support team by emailing [email protected], we will receive your email address as well as the information you send to us to help resolve your query. Finally, our moderation tools and teams can collect data as part of their investigations.

Where legally allowed, we can also receive information about suspected or convicted bad actors from third parties as part of our efforts to ensure our members' safety and security.

Cookies And Similar Technologies

When you visit our service, we may collect personal information from you automatically by using cookies or similar technologies. A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device or browser that allows us to recognize and remember you. Please review our Cookie Policy to learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies.

Inferred Information

We may infer certain information about you (such as your salary) based on the information we collect.

3. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We use your personal information for:

Service delivery. We use your personal information to provide our services, including to:

• Provide, operate and improve the service and our business;
• To create, maintain, and authenticate your account;
• Process your payments (sometimes through third-party vendors) and complete transactions with you;
• Communicate with you, including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
• Understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the service and our communications; and
• Provide support for the service, and respond to your requests, questions, and feedback.
• Research and development. We may anonymize personal information and use the anonymized information for research and development, including to analyze and improve the service and promote our business.

Marketing and advertising. We and our advertising partners may use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes, including:

Direct marketing. Where you authorized us to do so, we or our advertising partners may send you direct marketing offers and communications as permitted by law, including, but not limited to, notifying you of special promotions, offers, and events via in-app messages, email, text message, telephone, and should you give us your address, postal mail.

Interest-based advertising. We may engage advertising partners, including third-party advertising companies and social media companies, to display ads on the service and other online services. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interaction over time across the service, our communications, and other online services, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share anonymized information about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising to those or similar users on other online platforms.

Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:

• Comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal processes, such as responding to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;
• Protect our, your or others' rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
• Audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies;
• Enforce the terms and conditions that govern the service; and
• Prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical, or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft;
• Developing and improving tools to prevent, detect and fight against violations of our Terms, fraud and other illegal or unauthorized activities;
• Preventing recurrences, notably by preventing individuals who violate our Terms from creating a new account
• For more information on safety, integrity and security generally, visit our Safety Tips page.

4. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

Our policy is to not disclose your Registration Information or personal information, except in the limited circumstances described here:

• Service Providers – We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your Registration Information or personal information with these third parties, but only for the purposes of performing these functions and providing such services. More information about this is available directly below.
• Payment Processing and Telecommunications Companies – To facilitate payments for our premium services.
• Law and Harm – As we mentioned in theTerms of Service, we think it is very important that all Users behave while using the service. We will cooperate with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. We will also cooperate with law enforcement inquiries from within or outside your country of residence where we are required to by law, where there is an investigation into alleged criminal behavior or to protect the vital interests of a person. This may include preserving or disclosing any of your information, including your Registration Information if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to comply with a law or regulation, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues e.g. through anti-spam providers to protect the service from criminal activity or to protect our rights or property or those of third parties. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
• Business Transfers – In the event that Bring Me Bae or any of its affiliates undergoes a business transition or change of ownership, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, re-organization, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, or in the event of insolvency or administration, we may be required to disclose your personal information.
• Marketing Services Providers – To help us serve marketing and advertising on third-party websites and applications and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
• Aggregated Information – We may share aggregated information with third parties that includes your personal information (but which doesn't identify you directly) together with other information including log data for industry analysis and demographic profiling.

Sharing your personal information with Service Providers

We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us ("Service Providers"). The suppliers with which Bring Me Bae shares User personal information vary depending on a variety of factors, such as which of our services a User engages with. For example, to provide our services to Users, we typically use the following suppliers:

• Payment processors — such as our bank
• Authentication services – to allow customers to authenticate their account and offer users a higher level of confidence in the user's identity
• Product improvement and market research – we use third party platforms and agencies to carry out customer surveys and market research to improve our products and services
• IT services – some of the third-party software providers used in the operation of our business may process Users' personal information

Sharing your personal information with Marketing Services Providers

We partner with providers of marketing services (such as Meta) ('Marketing Services Providers') to help us market and advertise our services on third-party websites and applications and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. For example, Marketing Services Providers may help us:

• to exclude you from advertising campaigns aimed at finding new users, if you already have a Bring Me Bae account;
• to show Bring Me Bae advertisements to users who have visited Bring Me Bae’s service but haven't yet created a Bring Me Bae account;
• to show Bring Me Bae advertisements to existing Users to encourage them to use the service (for example, when we release new features for the service, we may advertise these features to existing users);
• to create an audience for our advertisements of other potential users who have similar characteristics to you based on the information the Marketing Service Providers holds about you (also known as a Lookalike Audience); or
• to include you in a 'custom audience' that will receive Bring Me Bae advertising content (a custom audience is essentially a list of people who we think are most likely to be interested in a particular advertisement).

We share a limited amount of your personal information with these Marketing Services Providers, namely:

• the advertising identifier associated with your device (this is a random number assigned by your mobile device manufacturer (for example Apple or Google) to your device to help advertisers (including the manufacturer) know when an ad has been viewed or clicked in an app, and when an ad causes a 'conversion' (for example, downloading the app advertised to you))
• your approximate estimated location (based on your IP address)
• age and gender
• data about your visit to our service and action was taken on those (for example if you downloaded or created an account on our service)

Some platforms require user consent before Bring Me Bae is permitted to use data gained through the platform for advertising purposes and where this is the case, Bring Me Bae will only use this data where the necessary consent has been obtained. Through your device's privacy settings, you also have the option to prevent or limit device identifiers from being shared with third-party advertisers and what use is made of the device identifiers. If you would like more information about your choices and how you can stop your device identifiers from being shared with third-party advertisers, please visit this page.

In some cases, these third parties will also use the data that they collect for their own purposes, for example, they may aggregate your data with other data they hold and use this to inform advertising-related services provided to other clients.

Sharing with Meta

Where we share data with Meta as our Marketing Service Provider (including via the Facebook "Like" function), we are Joint Data Controllers with Meta for this processing. This arrangement means that Bring Me Bae has to provide you with this notice, but you should contact Meta if you wish to exercise your data protection rights. Further information, including how Meta enables you to exercise your data protection rights and subsequently processes your information as an independent data controller can be found in Meta Data Policy.

This data referred to above can include interactions with our service or other information collected from cookies or similar technologies including the Meta pixel. This allows us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, improve our marketing practices, and helps us deliver more relevant advertising to you and people like you (including on social media such as Instagram and facebook).

5. WHAT OTHERS MAY SEE ABOUT YOU

When using Bring Me Bae service, you should assume that anything you post or submit on the service may be publicly viewable and accessible, both by Users and non-users of the service, unless we explicitly agree that the information will not be public. Accordingly, we suggest that our Users be careful about posting information that could be made public.

Please be careful about posting sensitive details about yourself on your profile such as your phone number or email address. You may also choose to add sensitive information about yourself to your profile, such as your religion or social media handle. Please remember that photographs and videos that you post on Bring Me bae may reveal information about yourself as well. When you do upload and choose to tell us sensitive information about yourself in your profile, you are explicitly consenting to our processing of this information and making it public to other Users, unless we’ve otherwise agreed to keep your sensitive information private.

Your profile and other information you make available via the service, including certain information added to your profile through third party accounts (such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn – see section 8 of this Privacy Policy for more information about this) may be viewed and shared by Users with individuals who may or may not be users of the service. For example, a User may recommend you as a match to his or her Facebook friend(s) by taking a screenshot of your profile picture and sharing it, regardless of whether such friend(s) is also a User of the service.

Please also note that Users can see expired Matches and obtain a copy of their conversation history. Bring Me Bae has no control over how users may then publish or use that information.

6. AGE 18 OR OLDER

You must be at least 18 years old to use Bring Me Bae.

Bring Me Bae does not knowingly collect any information about or market to children, minors, or anyone under the age of 18. If you are less than 18 years old, we request that you do not submit information to us. If we become aware that a child, minor, or anyone under the age of 18 has registered with us and provided us with personal information, we will take steps to terminate that person's registration and delete their Registration Information from Bring Me Bae. If we do delete a profile because you violated our no children rules, we may retain your email and IP address to ensure that you do not try to get around our rules by creating a new profile.

7. SECURITY

We strive to take all appropriate security measures to help protect your information against loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, or disclosure. We use reasonable security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information such as secured servers using firewalls.

Unfortunately, no website or Internet transmission is ever completely 100% secure and even we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur, but here are some tips to help keep your data secure:

Please make sure you log out of your Account after use, especially if you share devices.
Please don't share the password you use to access your Account with anyone else.
Change your password periodically.
If you ever think someone has had access to your password or Account, please email [email protected]. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information while it is being transmitted to the service and any transmission is at your own risk.

8. LINKING OTHER ACCOUNTS TO BRING ME BAE

You may be able to link your Account with your Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and TikTok accounts. This allows you to share some information from those accounts directly to your Account (for example, Instagram photos, or your Twitter username).

We only receive the limited information that these parties permit to be transferred (as detailed by each third party and agreed by you when you first connect your account from such platforms with your Account).

9. YOUR RIGHTS

Privacy laws applicable in your country may give you the following rights:

• Right to be informed: what personal information an organization is processing and why (we provide this information to you in this Privacy Policy).
• Right of access: you can request a copy of your information.
• Right of rectification: if the information held is inaccurate, you have the right to have it corrected.
• Right to erasure: you have the right to have your information deleted in certain circumstances.
• Right to restrict processing: in limited circumstances, you have the right to request that processing is stopped but the information retained.
• Right to data portability: you can request a copy of certain information in a machine-readable form that can be transferred to another provider.
• Right to object: in certain circumstances (including where information is processed on the basis of legitimate interests or for the purposes of marketing) you may object to that processing.

If you want to exercise any of your rights listed above please email us at [email protected]. For your protection and the protection of all of our Users, we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity before we can answer the above requests.

If you have a concern about how we have processed your request or your personal information, you should contact us in the first instance via the contact details listed above. Keep in mind, we may reject requests, including if we are unable to authenticate you, if the request is unlawful or invalid, or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy or other rights of someone else. If you wish to receive information relating to another member, such as a copy of any messages you received from them, the other member will have to make a request themselves.

If you are a resident of Texas, Oregon, Montana, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, or New Jersey USA, if we deny your privacy request, you may be able to appeal by contacting us, and explicitly referencing "Privacy Request Appeal." If you have concerns about the result of your appeal, you may contact the attorney general for your state.

In certain countries, including in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your personal data. The data protection authority you can lodge a complaint with may be that of your habitual residence, where you work or where an alleged infringement took place.

10. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS

Because we operate a global service, the sharing of your data laid out in Section 5 involves cross-border data transfers to the United States of America and other countries that may have different laws about data processing. When we transfer personal data outside of the EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or other countries whose data protection laws have been deemed adequate by the European Commission or other competent governmental bodies, we typically rely on what are called standard contract clauses. These standard contractual clauses are commitments between companies transferring personal data, binding them to protect the privacy and security of your data. Contact us for a copy.

11. DATA RETENTION AND DELETION

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for the legal basis relied upon (as set out in Section 3 above) and as permitted by applicable law.

You may permanently delete your Account at any time, though we recommend deactivating it first since deletion is irreversible.

When your Account is deactivated, we take reasonable efforts to make sure it is no longer viewable to users on the service. For up to 28 days after deactivating, it is still possible to restore your Account to active if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated. After 28 days, we cannot guarantee that your personal information will be retrievable from our systems unless it meets the following conditions:

• we must keep it to comply with applicable law (for instance, if you make purchases within the service, some personal data may need to be kept for accounting purposes);
• we must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law;
• there is an outstanding issue, claim, or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or
• the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing Users' safety and security. For example, information may need to be kept to prevent a user who was banned for unsafe behavior or security incidents from opening a new account.
• To prevent abuse and/or misuse of Bring Me Bae by a User following termination or deletion of a profile/Account we shall retain such information as we deem in our sole discretion may be necessary to ensure that User does not open a new account and profile in breach of our Terms of Service and to ensure compliance with all laws and regulations.

Warning: Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may still be viewable and/or accessed to the extent such information has been previously shared with others, or copied or stored by others. We cannot control this, nor do we accept any liability for this. If you have given third-party applications or websites access to your personal information, they may retain such information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies.

12. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

As Bring Me Bae evolves, we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at bringmebae.com/privacy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you, for example, via an email to the email associated with your Account or by posting a notice on Bring Me Bae’s website.

13. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you.