Privacy Policy

Last updated 2026-10-03. Draft pending counsel review before public launch.

Plain-language summary first. Dating for Lawyers (“D4L”) never sells your data, runs no ad trackers inside the app, and never scans faces or collects biometrics.

What we collect and why

• Account: name, personal email (your sign-in), password (hashed), date of birth (to confirm you're 18+; only your age is shown).
• Verification: work email (encrypted; never shown; used to verify you and hide colleagues), bar state, bar number (encrypted; reviewers only), licensed name, and the good-standing document you upload. We delete the document within 7 days of the decision.
• Profile: first name, age, gender, who you're interested in, age range, neighborhood (picked from a list; no GPS), photos, prompts, optional practice area and languages.
• Photos: we strip location and camera data (EXIF) from every upload. Google Cloud Vision SafeSearch screens photos for explicit content; it does not identify faces. A person reviews every photo.
• Activity: likes, passes, matches, messages, reports and blocks, to run the service and keep it safe.
• Consent records: what you agreed to, when, with IP address and device type.

Partners (only if you opt in)

At sign-up there are separate, optional, unticked boxes. If you leave them unticked, nothing about you leaves D4L. If you tick one, we share only your name, work email, city and (if you added it) practice area with that partner, for these purposes:

• Harvest Season services: email about professional events and services, and matching your work email on advertising platforms to show you relevant ads.
• HYB AI workshops and trainings: email about professional events and services, and matching your work email on advertising platforms to show you relevant ads.

We never share photos, gender, orientation or preferences, date of birth, messages, likes or matches, personal email, bar number or verification documents. Turn either box off any time in Settings; we stop sharing on the next daily update and tell the partner to stop contacting you.

Retention

• Verification documents: deleted within 7 days of the decision.
• Closed conversations (unmatched, blocked, expired): kept hidden for 30 days for safety review, then deleted.
• Deleted accounts: hidden immediately, fully erased after 30 days. We keep only a one-way hash of your email and bar number if you were banned, and moderation audit records for 3 years.

Security

Encryption in transit, application-level encryption of work email and bar number, private storage for photos and documents served only through short-lived signed links, and two-factor authentication for staff.

Your choices

Access, correct or delete your data from the app, or email our support address. Members outside Illinois may have extra rights under their state's law; contact us and we will honor them.