Our Trust & Privacy Pledge
The gay-dating industry has spent years betraying the people who trusted it. We're building the opposite — and putting it in writing.
The biggest apps have sold users' precise location to advertisers, shared HIV status with third parties, leaked private photos, and let bots and scammers run wild — while charging premium prices. Trust isn't a feature they forgot. It's the thing they traded away. We won't.
What we will never do
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Never sell your data.Your information is not a product. We don't sell or trade it to advertisers — full stop.
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Never trade your health or identity.We don't collect HIV status to monetize it, and we'll never share sensitive data with third parties the way others have.
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Never let bots run the place.No paying to wade through fakes. Verification stops them at the door.
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Never design in discrimination.No ethnicity filters. No tools that make bigotry easier.
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Never expose your private media.Your content is secured by architecture, not left to a bug nobody fixes.
What we do instead
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Verify every profile.A real, age-checked human behind every account — no bots, no catfish, no time-wasters.
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Protect you from scams & sextortion.Anti-scam and anti-blackmail protection built in, plus free safety tools for everyone.
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Collect as little as possible.Privacy by design, discreet mode, and your content under your control.
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Moderate for real.Fast block & report, zero tolerance for abuse and anything involving minors.
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Actually care.Free crisis, mental-health, and sexual-health resources — we look after our community, not just our ad revenue.
This pledge reflects how we're building Throat Theory. Our full Privacy Policy and Safety Center have the details. References to industry incidents are drawn from public reporting (e.g., Grindr's 2018 HIV-status/location data sharing and its €/$ GDPR fine; Jack'd's private-photo leak settlement).