Your privacy at ADM

Privacy information — updated 3 November 2026. This page explains how the current service handles information. Our detailed retention schedule, international-transfer safeguards and sensitive-data consent arrangements remain under review; this is not yet a complete privacy policy. Contact us with any privacy questions.

Who we are

ADM Dating Limited operates ADM — A Different Match — including dating, the Somewhere to Date venue directory and date planning. Contact adam@admdating.com, or ADM Dating Limited, 31 Gresham Close, Enfield, EN2 7AP, United Kingdom.

Information used by the service

Dating accounts use your email, account identifier, first name, date of birth, identity, your chosen relationship context, dating or friendship preferences, biography, interests, profile photographs and details you choose to provide. Date of birth is used for age eligibility and displayed age. Identity and dating preferences may reveal sensitive information, including sexual orientation.

We process likes, passes, matches, messages, chat photographs, nudges, date invitations and responses. Date plans contain the chosen venue and scheduled time. Safety records include blocks, reports, moderation decisions and photo-check records. Existing purchase and entitlement records may remain although new member purchases are closed.

Location and venue browsing

Dating uses either device coordinates, with your device permission, or coordinates returned from a UK postcode you enter, to calculate approximate distances and select profiles. Dating postcode lookups are sent to Postcodes.io; ADM saves the returned coordinates, not the postcode. Your public town/city is entered separately. An Explore destination can change where discovery takes place without claiming you live there. Public venue browsing does not require a dating profile. Venue searches may use a postcode or permission-based device location. Postcode lookups are sent to Postcodes.io. For signed-in members, saved places are stored privately with your account and can be accessed on other devices. Guest saved places stay on the device; you can choose to add them to your account after signing in. Removing a saved place deletes that account bookmark. Account deletion also removes account bookmarks.

Voluntary venue check-ins and introductions

Meet here is available at listed venues across the directory. Checking in is optional and self-reported: this feature does not collect GPS coordinates or track you in the background. You choose 30 minutes, one hour or two hours and confirm each check-in. A new venue replaces your previous check-in. You can stop sharing immediately; expiry also ends your visibility and pending introductions.

Without Open to meeting, your profile is hidden from the venue list and you contribute only to a protected activity count. Counts are available to signed-in members; exact totals below three are withheld. Choosing Open to meeting shows your first name, age, a short biography and first profile photo to compatible adult members who are also checked in and open to meeting at that venue. Mutual age, gender, relationship-context and friendship preferences, account eligibility and blocks are applied. A count or check-in does not prove physical presence.

Introduction requests contain the venue, suggested activity and time, participating accounts and response. New introductions require both members to opt in, expire after at most ten minutes, and end if either person stops sharing. Accepting creates or reuses your private chat connection and adds the agreed date plan; no free-form message is sent before acceptance. Existing matches can also invite each other through the normal date planner. Invitation controls include decline, withdrawal, reporting, blocking and rate limits.

Check-ins stop contributing or appearing as soon as they expire or you stop sharing. Expired check-in rows are removed by hourly housekeeping after 24 hours; introduction-request records are removed by the same process seven days after their expiry. An hourly run may add up to an hour to those removal windows. Accepted matches and date plans remain part of your ordinary account and chat history. Deleting an account removes its check-ins and introduction requests. Venue activity is not supplied to venues or advertisers by this feature.

Why information is processed

We use account and profile information to provide the service you request, create matches, deliver conversations and plans, and maintain account controls. Security and support processing helps prevent abuse, investigate reports, handle disputes and maintain reliability. Legal obligations may require some records to be retained or supplied to authorities. The precise lawful-basis and sensitive-data consent mapping remains under review. Acceptance of terms or an operating-system permission is not blanket data-protection consent.

Who can see your information

Your dating profile is shown to eligible members under discovery and availability settings. Existing matches can view your profile and photographs. Conversations and date plans are restricted to the participants through account-access controls. Authorised service personnel and providers may process data to operate the service, support you or investigate safety concerns. Messages are not represented as end-to-end encrypted. Other members can retain copies of information you share with them.

Photo and text safety checks

New profile photographs are checked using Amazon Rekognition in the London region before approved images are stored. This check identifies categories of potentially explicit content; it is not facial identification, age verification or a guarantee of safety. The service records approval information including a file hash and path. Profile text is checked for prohibited wording. Chat photographs use a separate upload route and do not currently receive the same automatic profile-photo scan. Existing photographs have not all been retrospectively scanned.

Identity verification

Optional verification uses Stripe for the identity-document and selfie process. ADM stores verification status and a reference. Read the separate identity-check privacy information before choosing this feature. A verified badge is not a background check.

Notifications, device storage and analytics

If you enable notifications, device tokens or web-push subscriptions connect alerts to your account. You can disable alerts in ADM or your device settings. Your device stores sign-in information according to your login choice, saved venues and interface preferences.

For signed-in members, basic activity events include visits, profile saves, messages sent, venue opens and date-planning actions. These events are linked to an account identifier. These event payloads do not include message text, selected venue, precise coordinates or scheduled date. Operational providers may also process connection and security logs. The current in-app advert placements do not send your location to advertisers.

Service providers and transfers

Supabase provides authentication, database, storage and backend services; the ADM project is in the London region. AWS provides the profile-photo check. Apple provides iOS distribution and push delivery. Stripe provides optional identity verification and historical payment processing. Hosting, email and postcode providers also support the service. A London project region does not by itself establish that every provider processes all data only in the UK. A complete account of provider locations and applicable transfer safeguards is still being prepared.

Retention and deletion

You can pause or permanently delete your account in Account & settings. Pausing hides your profile from new discovery while existing chats remain available. The deletion flow removes account/profile records and associated data and attempts to remove uploaded profile and chat media. Copies held by recipients are outside ADM’s account deletion process. Limited records may need separate retention for legal, dispute or safety purposes. Exact retention periods, backup expiry and handling of residual analytics and logs are still to be confirmed ; this page does not promise a fixed deletion period.

Your choices and rights

You may request access, correction, deletion or restriction of your personal information, object to applicable processing, and request portability where the relevant right applies. Where processing relies on consent, you can withdraw it; withdrawal does not affect earlier lawful processing. Email our privacy contact for a request or complaint. You can also contact the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

Adults only and updates

ADM dating is intended for adults aged 18 or over. Report suspected underage accounts through the report controls or our support address. We will date policy changes and explain material changes through the service as appropriate.