1. Introduction and Scope
DateSugarMummy.com ("we", "our", or "us") is dedicated to safeguarding your personal data and upholding your digital privacy rights. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we process and store it, and what controls you have over your personal data when using our website and services.
2. Categories of Information We Collect
To provide you with secure age-gap dating services, we collect the following categories of information:
- Account Registration Details: Email address, hashed password, date of birth (to verify legal age of majority 18+), country, city, and gender preference.
- Profile Information: Public biography, lifestyle interests, relationship intentions, and uploaded gallery photographs.
- Verification Telemetry: Real-time gesture selfie photos submitted during the optional verification process. These images are processed exclusively for authentication and are never made public.
- Technical and Device Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, and access timestamps for fraud prevention and security monitoring.
3. Legal Bases for Data Processing
Under international data protection regulations, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), we process personal information under the following lawful bases:
- Performance of Contract: To provide you with messaging, matching, and account features under our Terms of Service.
- Legitimate Interests: To protect our platform from scams, abuse, automated bots, and unauthorized commercial exploitation.
- Explicit Consent: Where you opt in to biometric selfie verification or enable browser geolocation services.
4. Zero Data Selling Commitment
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data, photos, or messaging history to third-party data brokers or marketing agencies. Any data sharing is strictly limited to authorized infrastructure providers (such as secure cloud hosting and encrypted payment processing gateways) who are bound by strict data confidentiality agreements.
5. Search Engine Shielding & Public Indexing
All member directories and individual profile pages are configured with HTTP headers (X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noarchive). We instruct search engines (such as Google and Bing) never to crawl, index, or display your dating profile in search results.
6. International Data Transfers & Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)
As a global dating service spanning 55+ countries, your data may be processed on secure servers located outside your home jurisdiction. For European and UK members, transfers outside the European Economic Area are governed by standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, ensuring equivalent data protection safeguards.
7. California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) Disclosures
California residents hold statutory rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to know the categories of personal information collected, the right to request deletion of personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights. DateSugarMummy.com does not "sell" personal information or share personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising as defined by California statutes.
8. Children’s Privacy (COPPA) & Age Attestation
Our platform is strictly prohibited to individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If we discover that a user is under 18, we immediately terminate their account and permanently purge their data from our systems.
9. Your Privacy Rights & Data Controls
You hold the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Right of Access: You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- Right of Rectification: You may update or correct your profile details at any time in Account Settings.
- Right of Erasure (Deletion): You may permanently delete your account and all associated data with a single click.
10. Contact Our Data Protection Officer
For inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy or to exercise your statutory privacy rights, contact our Data Protection Officer at bond02318@gmail.com or visit our Contact Page.