Does Tinder train on your data?
Tinder names machine learning as a way it develops features, on the same wording as its sister app Hinge. Neither says whether your data trains anything.
This clause is real, but it doesn't resolve the training question - see the finding below.
"Developing and improving new features and services, including through machine learning and other technologies, and testing them out"
- 30 Aug 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All accounts (free and paid)
- global
- Fetched from the company
- F6F898C3…0AA0
Why this is still UNCLEAR: The clause appears word for word in Hinge's policy, which is the same corporate group, and the second mention is the Match Group formula about data that "cannot identify or be attributed specifically to you" being used to create new technologies "including through machine learning". Machine learning is named as a means of building features. What is never said is whether what members write and upload is what it learns from. This entry was nearly filed as an adverse grade on a first pass; reading the two policies side by side is what showed the clause describes a method rather than an input.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Not established
- Not stated
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- Not established
How to opt out of Tinder AI training
Plan by plan, from what Tinder's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All accounts (free and paid)
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. The clause appears word for word in Hinge's policy, which is the same corporate group, and the second mention is the Match Group formula about data that "cannot identify or be attributed specifically to you" being used to create new technologies "including through machine learning". Machine learning is named as a means of building features. What is never said is whether what members write and upload is what it learns from. This entry was nearly filed as an adverse grade on a first pass; reading the two policies side by side is what showed the clause describes a method rather than an input.
What this policy has done since we started watching
The record starts here. Tinder's policy was first captured on 30 Aug 2026, and there's no earlier copy to compare it against, so this verdict has no history behind it yet. From now on every re-read is diffed against that copy, and anything that moves appears here.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We haven't yet written to Tinder about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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