Bumble Dating App: Meet & Date

"If you give Bumble access to your location in your device settings, we will collect information about your location when you use your mobile device. This can include information about WiFi access points and your longitude/latitude, and we can save your device's coordinates to offer certain features to you. We collect recent location data of where you opened the App to see if your device's coordinates match a general university or college area."

Bumble collects precise GPS coordinates, WiFi access point data, and longitude/latitude. They also use location data to determine if users are near university campuses, and share coarse location with advertising partners.

"We will need to change this Policy from time to time, but the most current version (at http://bumble.com/privacy-policy) controls how we use your information. Be sure to regularly check for updates, but we will let you know by email or notice of any material changes."

Bumble reserves the right to change the privacy policy at any time, with the current version automatically controlling how your data is used. Users are expected to regularly check for updates themselves.

"When we share personal information with Facebook in this specific context, such as through the Facebook 'Like' function, we are considered 'Joint Data Controllers' with Facebook Ireland for this data processing. We share limited personal information with advertising partners, if you provide your consent via a cookie consent banner, to show you relevant third party ads on our App. These authentication services may share this data with other third parties, such as wireless carriers and mobile network operators."

Bumble shares data with a wide range of third parties including Facebook (as joint data controllers), advertising partners, authentication providers like Prove (which further shares with carriers and mobile network operators), and AI providers like OpenAI.

"Geocoordinates, email, external IDs, phone number, gender, city, birthday, and name are retained for six years from account deletion/erasure. We keep records of our communications with you for 6 years after your account is deleted. We may keep details of certain blocked members for up to 15 years, depending on the seriousness of harm, to prevent them from rejoining as a member."

Bumble retains core personal data for 6 years after account deletion, and in some cases up to 15 years. Even purchase data may be kept for 10 years. The 28-day deletion window is just when processing begins, not when data is actually removed.

"This information covers your device's unique identifier, model, and operating system, as well as log and usage data. You can also choose to give our App access to your device's address book, which will only be used when you want to add someone to your contacts. We collect data about your profile photos that allows us to arrange them in a way that is favourable to you... This includes data such as which photos people spend the most time looking at."

Bumble collects device unique identifiers, model info, OS details, usage logs, and can access the device address book. They also track granular behavioral data like how long users look at specific photos.

"To share Bumble advertisements on third-party networks and measure their effectiveness: Gender, Age, Data about your visit to our App or Sites and the actions you take, IP address, Estimated location, Device ID. Information collected from cookies or similar technologies, including the Facebook pixel. If your account is blocked for any reason, our anti-fraud and anti-spam procedures might also block your account(s) on our other platforms and applications, such as Badoo."

Bumble uses device advertising IDs, Facebook pixel tracking, and cookies to track users across third-party websites and apps. They also link user identities across their family of apps (Bumble and Badoo) for account enforcement.

"If you delete your account, we make sure it is no longer viewable on the App. Just in case you delete by accident or change your mind, it's possible to restore your account for up to 28 days after deleting. After these 28 days, we start the process of deleting your personal information, unless: we must keep it to follow applicable law... the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention."

Account deletion has a mandatory 28-day waiting period before deletion even begins, and core personal data is retained for 6 years (up to 15 years in some cases) after deletion under broad 'legitimate business interests' exceptions.