hudsn.
hudsn.
hudsn. Privacy Policy
hudsn. Privacy Policy
hudsn. Privacy Policy
Effective date: [DATE] Last updated: [DATE] Company: [HUDSN LLC] (“hudsn.,” “we,” “us,” “our”) Contact: info@hudsn.date | [Mailing address]
Effective date: [DATE] Last updated: [DATE] Company: [HUDSN LLC] (“hudsn.,” “we,” “us,” “our”) Contact: info@hudsn.date | [Mailing address]
This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use and share it, how long we keep it, and the choices and rights you have. It applies to the hudsn. app, hudsn.date, the waitlist, and related services (the “Service”).
This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use and share it, how long we keep it, and the choices and rights you have. It applies to the hudsn. app, hudsn.date, the waitlist, and related services (the “Service”).
The short version:
The short version:
• We verify you live in Hoboken or Jersey City, then delete your ID and address documents.
• We verify you live in Hoboken or Jersey City, then delete your ID and address documents.
• We do not sell your personal information and do not share it for targeted advertising.
• We do not sell your personal information and do not share it for targeted advertising.
• Gender, sexual orientation, and similar details are sensitive, and we only use them with your consent.
• Gender, sexual orientation, and similar details are sensitive, and we only use them with your consent.
• Other members never see your exact location, your birthday, or which events you’re going to.
• Other members never see your exact location, your birthday, or which events you’re going to.
• You can pause, edit, download, or delete your data.
• You can pause, edit, download, or delete your data.
1. Information you give us
1. Information you give us
Category
Examples
Required?
Account
Account
First name, birthday, email and/or phone number used to sign in
First name, birthday, email and/or phone number used to sign in
Yes
Yes
Mode and preferences
Mode and preferences
Mode (all, lgbtq+, friends, party), who you want to see, age range
Mode (all, lgbtq+, friends, party), who you want to see, age range
Yes
Yes
Gender identity
Gender identity
How you identify, including a self-described gender
How you identify, including a self-described gender
Yes
Yes
Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation
In lgbtq+ mode only
In lgbtq+ mode only
Optional
Optional
Profile
Profile
Photos, bio, prompts, interests, neighborhood
Photos, bio, prompts, interests, neighborhood
Photos yes; rest optional
Photos yes; rest optional
Basics
Basics
Kids, smoking, drinking
Kids, smoking, drinking
Optional
Optional
Residency documents
Residency documents
Government ID and proof of Hoboken or Jersey City address
Government ID and proof of Hoboken or Jersey City address
Yes, deleted after review
Yes, deleted after review
Human verification selfie
Human verification selfie
Selfie with a code
Selfie with a code
Optional, deleted after review
Optional, deleted after review
Messages and invites
Messages and invites
Chats and event invites with your matches
Chats and event invites with your matches
No
No
Reports and support
Reports and support
Reports you file, bug reports, emails to us
Reports you file, bug reports, emails to us
No
No
Waitlist
Waitlist
Name, email, Instagram handle, mode interest, confirmation you’re 18+
Name, email, Instagram handle, mode interest, confirmation you’re 18+
For the waitlist only
For the waitlist only
Sensitive information. Your gender identity, sexual orientation, and status as transgender or nonbinary, plus the government ID you upload, are sensitive personal information. We ask for your consent before collecting it, use it only to run the Service as described here, and never sell it or use it for advertising. You can withdraw consent for optional sensitive information (like orientation) at any time by removing it from your profile. Withdrawing consent for required information (like gender) means you can’t use matching features, and you may delete your account.
Sensitive information. Your gender identity, sexual orientation, and status as transgender or nonbinary, plus the government ID you upload, are sensitive personal information. We ask for your consent before collecting it, use it only to run the Service as described here, and never sell it or use it for advertising. You can withdraw consent for optional sensitive information (like orientation) at any time by removing it from your profile. Withdrawing consent for required information (like gender) means you can’t use matching features, and you may delete your account.
2. Information we collect automatically
2. Information we collect automatically
• Usage: likes, passes, matches, features used, time spent, and settings like mode and appearance.
• Usage: likes, passes, matches, features used, time spent, and settings like mode and appearance.
• Device: device model, operating system, app version, language, time zone, and crash and performance logs.
• Device: device model, operating system, app version, language, time zone, and crash and performance logs.
• Identifiers: a device or app identifier and IP address, used for security, fraud prevention, and keeping you signed in.
• Identifiers: a device or app identifier and IP address, used for security, fraud prevention, and keeping you signed in.
• Location: [OPEN DECISION. Option A: we don’t collect device location; distance is based on neighborhoods. Option B: with your permission, we use approximate location to show rounded ranges after a match (for example, “about a mile”). We never show your exact location to anyone, and you can turn location off in your phone settings.]
• Location: [OPEN DECISION. Option A: we don’t collect device location; distance is based on neighborhoods. Option B: with your permission, we use approximate location to show rounded ranges after a match (for example, “about a mile”). We never show your exact location to anyone, and you can turn location off in your phone settings.]
• Photo metadata: photos can contain hidden data such as where they were taken. We remove location and other hidden data from photos when you upload them.
• Photo metadata: photos can contain hidden data such as where they were taken. We remove location and other hidden data from photos when you upload them.
• Website: hudsn.date may use cookies or similar tools for basic operation and [analytics]. See Section 11.
• Website: hudsn.date may use cookies or similar tools for basic operation and [analytics]. See Section 11.
3. Information from other sources
3. Information from other sources
• Apple and Google tell us whether you have an active subscription and when it renews. We never receive your full card number.
• Apple and Google tell us whether you have an active subscription and when it renews. We never receive your full card number.
• Other members, for example when someone reports you, blocks you, or sends you a message.
• Other members, for example when someone reports you, blocks you, or sends you a message.
• Public records: during verification, our team searches your name on the National Sex Offender Public Website (nsopw.gov). We keep only a pass or fail result, not the records themselves.
• Public records: during verification, our team searches your name on the National Sex Offender Public Website (nsopw.gov). We keep only a pass or fail result, not the records themselves.
• Law enforcement or legal process, if we receive a valid request.
• Law enforcement or legal process, if we receive a valid request.
4. How we use information
4. How we use information
Purpose
Examples
Verify eligibility
Verify eligibility
Confirm age, residency, and registry status
Confirm age, residency, and registry status
Run matching
Run matching
Show you compatible members in your mode, apply mutual filters, blocks, reports, and pauses
Show you compatible members in your mode, apply mutual filters, blocks, reports, and pauses
Provide features
Provide features
Messaging, events, share sheet, boosts, subscriptions, notifications
Messaging, events, share sheet, boosts, subscriptions, notifications
Safety and integrity
Safety and integrity
Review reports, detect fake accounts, spam, and scams, investigate misconduct, prevent banned users from returning
Review reports, detect fake accounts, spam, and scams, investigate misconduct, prevent banned users from returning
Communicate
Communicate
Verification results, safety notices, account, security, and billing messages; optional updates
Verification results, safety notices, account, security, and billing messages; optional updates
Improve the Service
Improve the Service
Fix bugs, measure which features work, plan new ones
Fix bugs, measure which features work, plan new ones
Legal
Legal
Comply with laws, respond to valid legal requests, enforce our Terms, protect rights and safety
Comply with laws, respond to valid legal requests, enforce our Terms, protect rights and safety
We do not use your information to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you through automated processing alone. Account removals for safety are made or reviewed by a person.
We do not use your information to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you through automated processing alone. Account removals for safety are made or reviewed by a person.
5. What other members can see
5. What other members can see
• Your profile: photos, first name, age, neighborhood, bio, prompts, interests, basics, gender, badges, and, in lgbtq+ mode, your orientation if you added it.
• Your profile: photos, first name, age, neighborhood, bio, prompts, interests, basics, gender, badges, and, in lgbtq+ mode, your orientation if you added it.
• Never shown to other members: your birthday, last name, email, phone number, exact location, “looking for” or “friends with” preferences, documents, or which events you plan to attend.
• Never shown to other members: your birthday, last name, email, phone number, exact location, “looking for” or “friends with” preferences, documents, or which events you plan to attend.
• Events: the only attendance anyone sees is “you’re both in,” shown only to two matched members who both accepted the same invite.
• Events: the only attendance anyone sees is “you’re both in,” shown only to two matched members who both accepted the same invite.
• Shared profile links open only for signed-in, verified hudsn. members, and you can turn sharing off in privacy settings.
• Shared profile links open only for signed-in, verified hudsn. members, and you can turn sharing off in privacy settings.
• Blocked and reported members can no longer see you anywhere on the Service.
• Blocked and reported members can no longer see you anywhere on the Service.
• Anything you send in a message can be seen by the person you sent it to, and they could screenshot it. Only share what you’re comfortable sharing.
• Anything you send in a message can be seen by the person you sent it to, and they could screenshot it. Only share what you’re comfortable sharing.
6. How we share information
6. How we share information
We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising.
We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising.
We share information only as follows:
We share information only as follows:
• Service providers who process data for us under contracts that limit their use and require security: [hosting and database, e.g. Supabase or Firebase; subscription management, e.g. RevenueCat; email delivery; push notifications; crash reporting; analytics, if any; customer support tools; Cloudflare for the admin dashboard].
• Service providers who process data for us under contracts that limit their use and require security: [hosting and database, e.g. Supabase or Firebase; subscription management, e.g. RevenueCat; email delivery; push notifications; crash reporting; analytics, if any; customer support tools; Cloudflare for the admin dashboard].
• Apple and Google to process subscriptions and deliver push notifications.
• Apple and Google to process subscriptions and deliver push notifications.
• Safety and legal: to comply with law, subpoenas, court orders, or valid government requests; to respond to an emergency involving risk of death or serious injury; to report child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as required by law; or to protect the rights, property, and safety of hudsn., our members, or the public.
• Safety and legal: to comply with law, subpoenas, court orders, or valid government requests; to respond to an emergency involving risk of death or serious injury; to report child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as required by law; or to protect the rights, property, and safety of hudsn., our members, or the public.
• Business transfers: if hudsn. is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, information may transfer to the new owner, who must honor this policy.
• Business transfers: if hudsn. is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, information may transfer to the new owner, who must honor this policy.
• With your direction or consent, for example when you share an event or profile link.
• With your direction or consent, for example when you share an event or profile link.
We may share de-identified or aggregated information (for example, “40% of members use friends mode”) that can’t reasonably identify you.
We may share de-identified or aggregated information (for example, “40% of members use friends mode”) that can’t reasonably identify you.
7. How long we keep information
7. How long we keep information
Information
How long
ID and address documents
ID and address documents
Deleted as soon as the review is finished, approved or not
Deleted as soon as the review is finished, approved or not
Human verification selfie
Human verification selfie
Deleted as soon as the review is finished
Deleted as soon as the review is finished
Registry check
Registry check
Pass or fail result only, kept while your account exists [plus X years for safety]
Pass or fail result only, kept while your account exists [plus X years for safety]
Profile, preferences, photos
Profile, preferences, photos
While your account exists; deleted within [30] days after you delete your account
While your account exists; deleted within [30] days after you delete your account
Messages
Messages
Deleted within [30] days after both people in the conversation have deleted their accounts, or after you delete yours
Deleted within [30] days after both people in the conversation have deleted their accounts, or after you delete yours
Reported or blocked conversations
Reported or blocked conversations
Kept for safety review for up to [X years]
Kept for safety review for up to [X years]
Safety records for removed accounts
Safety records for removed accounts
Limited records (such as reason, date, and identifiers needed to prevent return) for up to [X years]
Limited records (such as reason, date, and identifiers needed to prevent return) for up to [X years]
Subscription records
Subscription records
As long as required for tax and accounting, up to [7] years
As long as required for tax and accounting, up to [7] years
Backups
Backups
Overwritten on a rolling basis within [X] days
Overwritten on a rolling basis within [X] days
Waitlist
Waitlist
Until launch plus [X] months, or until you unsubscribe
Until launch plus [X] months, or until you unsubscribe
8. Your choices
8. Your choices
• In the app: edit your profile, remove optional information, change your mode and preferences, pause your profile, turn off profile sharing, manage notifications, and delete your account.
• In the app: edit your profile, remove optional information, change your mode and preferences, pause your profile, turn off profile sharing, manage notifications, and delete your account.
• Marketing emails: unsubscribe using the link in any email.
• Marketing emails: unsubscribe using the link in any email.
• Push notifications and location: manage in your phone settings.
• Push notifications and location: manage in your phone settings.
• Photos: you can remove any photo, as long as you keep the minimum required.
• Photos: you can remove any photo, as long as you keep the minimum required.
9. Your privacy rights (New Jersey and elsewhere)
9. Your privacy rights (New Jersey and elsewhere)
Depending on where you live and whether the law applies to us, you may have the right to:
Depending on where you live and whether the law applies to us, you may have the right to:
• Know and access the personal data we have about you;
• Know and access the personal data we have about you;
• Correct inaccurate data;
• Correct inaccurate data;
• Delete your data;
• Delete your data;
• Get a copy of your data in a portable format;
• Get a copy of your data in a portable format;
• Opt out of the sale of personal data, targeted advertising, and profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects (we don’t do these);
• Opt out of the sale of personal data, targeted advertising, and profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects (we don’t do these);
• Withdraw consent for sensitive data; and
• Withdraw consent for sensitive data; and
• Appeal if we deny your request.
• Appeal if we deny your request.
We honor these rights for all members, whether or not the law requires it.
We honor these rights for all members, whether or not the law requires it.
How to make a request: email info@hudsn.date from the email on your account, or use [in-app option]. We will verify your identity before acting, for example by confirming your account email or asking a question only you would know. An authorized agent may make a request for you with written permission. We will respond within 45 days and may extend once by 45 days if reasonably necessary, telling you why. We do not charge for requests unless they are clearly unfounded or excessive.
How to make a request: email info@hudsn.date from the email on your account, or use [in-app option]. We will verify your identity before acting, for example by confirming your account email or asking a question only you would know. An authorized agent may make a request for you with written permission. We will respond within 45 days and may extend once by 45 days if reasonably necessary, telling you why. We do not charge for requests unless they are clearly unfounded or excessive.
Appeals: if we deny your request, reply to our response with “appeal.” We will respond within [45] days. If you disagree with the outcome, you may contact the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.
Appeals: if we deny your request, reply to our response with “appeal.” We will respond within [45] days. If you disagree with the outcome, you may contact the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.
Universal opt-out signals: we honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) and similar browser signals as a request to opt out of sale and targeted advertising.
Universal opt-out signals: we honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) and similar browser signals as a request to opt out of sale and targeted advertising.
No discrimination: we will not deny you service or charge you differently for exercising your rights.
No discrimination: we will not deny you service or charge you differently for exercising your rights.
10. Security
10. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, including [encryption in transit and at rest, secure document storage with automatic deletion, access limited to team members who need it, multi-factor authentication for team accounts, a log of team actions, and regular security reviews]. Team members who review documents are bound by confidentiality obligations.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, including [encryption in transit and at rest, secure document storage with automatic deletion, access limited to team members who need it, multi-factor authentication for team accounts, a log of team actions, and regular security reviews]. Team members who review documents are bound by confidentiality obligations.
No system is completely secure. If a data breach affects your personal information, we will notify you and any required authorities as required by New Jersey law (N.J.S.A. 56:8-161 et seq.) and other applicable laws.
No system is completely secure. If a data breach affects your personal information, we will notify you and any required authorities as required by New Jersey law (N.J.S.A. 56:8-161 et seq.) and other applicable laws.
11. Cookies and similar technologies (hudsn.date)
11. Cookies and similar technologies (hudsn.date)
Our website may use:
Our website may use:
• Essential cookies needed for the site and waitlist form to work;
• Essential cookies needed for the site and waitlist form to work;
• [Analytics] to understand visits, [using privacy-friendly tools where possible].
• [Analytics] to understand visits, [using privacy-friendly tools where possible].
We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. You can block cookies in your browser settings.
We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. You can block cookies in your browser settings.
12. Children
12. Children
The Service is only for adults 18 and older (21 and older for party mode). We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that a minor has created an account or joined the waitlist, we will delete their information. If you believe a minor is using the Service, report it in the app or email info@hudsn.date.
The Service is only for adults 18 and older (21 and older for party mode). We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that a minor has created an account or joined the waitlist, we will delete their information. If you believe a minor is using the Service, report it in the app or email info@hudsn.date.
13. Where information is stored
13. Where information is stored
We are based in the United States, and your information is stored and processed in the United States.
We are based in the United States, and your information is stored and processed in the United States.
14. Team access
14. Team access
Only team members who need access for their role can see personal information, and each access to verification documents and reports is logged. Team members may not review, or access the accounts of, people they personally know, and must step aside from any such review.
Only team members who need access for their role can see personal information, and each access to verification documents and reports is logged. Team members may not review, or access the accounts of, people they personally know, and must step aside from any such review.
15. Changes to this policy
15. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. If we make material changes, we will notify you in the app or by email before they take effect and update the “last updated” date. If a change would use sensitive data in a new way, we will ask for your consent first.
We may update this policy. If we make material changes, we will notify you in the app or by email before they take effect and update the “last updated” date. If a change would use sensitive data in a new way, we will ask for your consent first.
16. Contact
16. Contact
Questions or requests: info@hudsn.date [Mailing address]
Questions or requests: info@hudsn.date [Mailing address]