What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Grindr does with your data
Grindr uses your data, including sensitive profile details, for AI features and personalised ads, shares it with advertising and marketing partners, may require a biometric video selfie for age checks, and keeps device identifiers up to two years after you delete your account.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
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Grindr’s own policy says “Grindr may share your personal information with service providers and third-party partners to provide you the Services, such as with parties that act on our behalf for purposes of fraud prevention and customer support. We also may share your personal information with advertising and marketing partners to help facilitate advertising experiences, and with other partners that support the Services or with whom you provide personal information to directly (such as our payment processors).”
Our summary Grindr shares personal information with service providers, third-party partners, advertising and marketing partners, and payment processors, and may transfer it to an acquiring company in a business transaction.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
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Grindr’s own policy says “In order to serve ads (i.e., displaying ads, personalizing ads, measuring ad performance, etc.), we may need to process personal information we collect automatically, such as your advertising ID and IP address, as well as personal information we receive from other sources (e.g., consent preferences).”
Our summary Grindr processes automatically-collected data including advertising ID and IP address to display and personalize ads, and separately states it improves its marketing and advertising efforts through third-party cookies for serving ads to free users.
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
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Grindr’s own policy says “We and our partners also use cookies for certain advertising purposes, including collecting information about your use of other sites and services to provide advertising (either on or off the Services) about products and services tailored to your interests.”
Our summary Grindr and its partners use cookies, pixels and similar technologies to collect information about the user's activity on other sites and services, and to deliver interest-based advertising both on and off Grindr.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
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Grindr’s own policy says “We also retain a device identifier (i.e., IDFV and Android ID) and limited log information for a period of up to two years following account deletion to support internal reporting, metrics, and statistics.”
Our summary Grindr keeps a device identifier and limited log data for up to two years after account deletion, and may retain account information, device identifiers, log data and chat messages tied to banned accounts for safety, security, fraud-prevention and legal-compliance purposes.
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Processes your face or other biometrics
Face matching, liveness checks or similar.
What this costs you. You can change a leaked password in a minute. You cannot change your face. A biometric breach is permanent in a way nothing else is.
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Grindr’s own policy says “In certain jurisdictions, we may require you to provide a video selfie or pair a video selfie with an official photo ID to confirm you are 18 years of age or older. This will involve processing your biometric information.”
Our summary Grindr may require a video selfie, alone or paired with a government photo ID, for age assurance in certain jurisdictions, and states this involves processing biometric information.
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Trains AI models on your content
Your photos, messages or activity are used to train machine-learning models.
What this costs you. This one has no undo. Once your content is inside a trained model, no erasure request can lift it back out.
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Grindr’s own policy says “Provide the Services with artificial intelligence-driven features (“gAI™”) and improve and develop such features, including by using your sensitive personal information, for personalization, recommendations, and other enhancements, and to support platform and user safety.”
Our summary Grindr uses personal information — expressly including sensitive personal information — to provide, improve and develop its AI-driven features, and its legal-bases table lists machine learning and AI for personalization, recommendations and safety, with message content named among the data consented to for service improvement.
Grindr is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Grindr do with my personal data?
According to Grindr's own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-14, it discloses 6 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps, keeps your records long-term, processes your face or other biometrics, trains ai models on your content.
Can I withdraw my consent from Grindr?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Grindr track me for advertising?
Yes — Grindr's published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Grindr declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-14. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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