Privacy Policy

What Match By Zodiac collects, why, and the controls you hold — in plain words, and written to match what the service actually does.

Last updated November 8, 2026 · Match By Zodiac · Questions: matchbyzodiac@gmail.com

What we collect

Account: your email address and a scrambled (hashed) copy of your password — never the password itself. The 6-digit codes we email for verification and password resets are stored only as hashes too, and they expire in minutes.

Profile: your display name, exact birth date, gender, who you are looking for, the city you type in, your bio, your prompts and answers, and your interests.

Birth details (optional): if you add a birth time and place, we store the time, the place text, how sure you told us the time is (exact, approximate, or not sure), and the coordinates and timezone the place resolves to. They are what your Moon sign, Rising sign, birth map, and Guna Milan score are computed from.

Photos: the photos you upload, smaller display copies the app makes from them, and the result of the photo check on each one.

Activity: your swipes, matches, saved members, blocks, the reports you file and reports filed about you, your posts and post photos, and your Talk Center replies.

Messages: only the sealed (end-to-end encrypted) text, its encryption envelope, and the sender's public key. We cannot read message content — see below.

Sessions and safety counters: your sign-in sessions, and rate-limit counters that stop the service being abused.

How it is used

To run the service: showing your profile to other members, choosing your daily matches, working out signs and compatibility, computing your chart from your birth details, delivering messages between matches, and keeping the community safe through reports and blocks.

A few things leave our systems, for named jobs only. Your birth place text is sent to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service to turn it into coordinates when you save it — that lookup is how every location-based chart is placed. Emails (verification codes, password resets, and — unless you turn them off in Settings — new-match emails) are sent through Cloudflare's email sending. The photo check runs on Cloudflare's AI platform, and sign-up and sign-in are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot check.

What other members see

Other members see your display name, your age — worked out from your birth date, never the date itself — your zodiac sign, your photos, your bio, the location you typed in, your prompts, and your posts. They never see your email address, your exact birth date, your birth time, or your birth place.

Photos are served only to signed-in members, and only while the photo is on a current profile and neither side has blocked the other. Photos are not restricted to matches only, because Discover shows photos before matching — so a signed-in, non-blocked member who obtains a direct photo link can view that listed photo until they are blocked or the owner is hidden.

Your messages stay yours

Messages are end-to-end encrypted between matched members: sealed on the sender's device under keys only the two devices hold, and stored on our servers as ciphertext we cannot open. If you lose access to your key — for example, by resetting your password while signed out — older messages stay sealed, and we cannot recover them.

Alpha 0.1, the AI assistant, is the one conversation that is not member-to-member: what you ask it is processed to answer you, and those chats are not stored on our servers.

The Talk Center is public

Talk Center posts and replies are public to the member community — the feed shows members their own posts and posts from the opposite gender. Anything you post there can be read, appreciated, saved as part of a profile view, and replied to by other members. Keep private things in encrypted Chat, never in the Talk Center.

No selling, no advertising trackers

We do not sell your personal data. Match By Zodiac carries no third-party advertising and no advertising trackers. The service sets one cookie — your signed-in session. Your browser also stores your message key on your own device, so your messages can unlock without your password being kept anywhere.

How long we keep it

For as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, your profile, photos (including their display copies), posts, matches, messages, swipes, saved members, blocks, reports involving you, sessions, and message keys are deleted with it. Security and rate-limit counters expire on their own, and the email codes we send expire within minutes.

Your rights and choices

Settings is your control room. There you can see your sessions and sign out everywhere else, manage the members you have blocked, correct your birth time and place, turn new-match emails on or off, change your password, download a copy of your data, and delete your account entirely.

The download (Settings → Download my data) covers your account, profile, posts, and activity. It does not include message text: your messages are end-to-end encrypted and unreadable to us, so there is no readable copy to export. Other members appear in the export only by the display name and sign you already see in the app.

For anything else about your data — a request for access, correction, or deletion beyond what Settings already does — email matchbyzodiac@gmail.com and we will respond within a reasonable time.

Adults only

Match By Zodiac is for adults. You must be 18 or older to hold an account; we check your birth date at sign-up, and an account we learn belongs to someone under 18 is removed, with its data.

Changes and contact

We may update this policy; the current version always lives on this page with its date. Questions about your privacy: matchbyzodiac@gmail.com.