Privacy Policy

Properly Met respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal information when you use our website, create a profile, upload photos, or interact with our service.

1. Who we are

Properly Met is a dating profile platform that allows users to create and share a personal dating profile page.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, Properly Met is the data controller for the personal information we collect and process.

Contact email: hello@properlymet.co.uk

2. Information we collect

We may collect and process the following types of information:

• Your email address when you sign up, log in, or request access.
• Your profile information, such as display name, handle, bio, location, preferences, and other details you choose to add.
• Photos and images you upload to your profile.
• Information about your profile visibility and account settings.
• Basic usage information, such as pages visited, device type, browser type, IP address, and technical logs.
• Messages, reports, feedback, or support requests you send to us.
• Interaction data, such as likes, profile views, or other features if enabled.

3. How we use your information

We use your personal information to:

• Create and manage your account.
• Display your public or shared dating profile.
• Allow you to upload, edit, and manage profile content.
• Provide login, authentication, and account security.
• Operate, maintain, test, and improve Properly Met.
• Respond to support requests, feedback, reports, or safety concerns.
• Prevent misuse, spam, fake profiles, harassment, or unauthorised activity.
• Comply with legal obligations.

4. Lawful bases for processing

We process your personal information under the following lawful bases:

• Contract: to provide the Properly Met service when you create and manage an account.
• Consent: where you choose to publish profile information or upload photos.
• Legitimate interests: to keep the platform secure, prevent abuse, improve the service, and understand how people use Properly Met.
• Legal obligation: where we need to comply with applicable laws or respond to lawful requests.

5. Public profile information

Properly Met is designed to help users create shareable dating profiles. Any information you choose to publish on your profile may be visible to people with access to your profile link, depending on your visibility settings.

You should avoid adding sensitive information to your profile, such as your home address, workplace, financial details, private contact details, or anything you would not want others to see.

6. Photos and uploaded content

If you upload photos or other profile content, we store and display that content as part of your profile. You are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to upload and share any content you add to Properly Met.

We may remove content that breaches our Terms of Use, Community Rules, safety policies, or applicable law.

7. Cookies and similar technologies

Properly Met may use cookies and similar technologies to make the website work, keep users signed in, protect accounts, remember choices, and understand how the website is used.

Some cookies are strictly necessary for the service to function. If we use non-essential cookies, such as analytics or marketing cookies, we will request your consent where required. The ICO says users must be told what cookies do and why, and non-essential cookies generally require consent.

For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.

8. Who we share your information with

We do not sell your personal information. We may share limited information with trusted service providers who help us operate Properly Met.

• Hosting and deployment providers, such as Vercel.
• Database, authentication, and storage providers, such as Supabase.
• Email delivery providers, if we use them to send login links, service emails, or account notifications.
• Analytics providers, if analytics are enabled.
• Legal, regulatory, or safety authorities where required by law or necessary to protect users.

9. International transfers

Some of our service providers may process personal information outside the United Kingdom. Where this happens, we rely on appropriate safeguards required under UK data protection law, such as adequacy regulations, standard contractual clauses, or equivalent protections.

10. How long we keep your information

We keep your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide Properly Met, manage your account, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent misuse, and maintain platform security.

• Account and profile data is kept while your account is active.
• Uploaded photos are kept while they remain attached to your account or profile.
• Support messages may be kept for a reasonable period to help us resolve issues.
• Technical logs may be kept for security, debugging, and abuse prevention.

If you delete your account, we will delete or anonymise your personal information unless we need to retain it for legal, security, fraud prevention, or dispute resolution purposes.

11. Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Ask us to delete your personal information.
• Ask us to restrict how we use your information.
• Object to certain types of processing.
• Request a copy of your information in a portable format.
• Withdraw consent where we rely on consent.

To exercise your rights, contact us at hello@properlymet.co.uk.

12. Account deletion

You can request deletion of your account by contacting us. Once your account is deleted, your public profile will no longer be available.

Some limited information may remain in backups, logs, or records for a short period before being permanently deleted, or where we need to keep it for legal, safety, or security reasons.

13. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect your personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for keeping your login access secure and for being careful about what you choose to publish on your profile.

14. Children

Properly Met is intended for adults aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly allow children to create accounts or use the service.

If we become aware that a person under 18 has created an account, we may remove the account and associated information.

15. Safety and misuse

We may review reports, investigate suspicious activity, restrict accounts, remove content, or suspend access where we believe there has been a breach of our Terms of Use, Community Rules, safety guidance, or applicable law.

16. Links to other websites

Properly Met may contain links to other websites, social media profiles, or third-party services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third-party services.

17. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make significant changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify users, such as updating the date on this page or providing a notice within the service.

18. Complaints

If you have concerns about how we use your personal information, please contact us first so we can try to resolve the issue.

You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office.

Website: ico.org.uk

19. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, contact us at:

hello@properlymet.co.uk