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 also use 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 infer whether users are on college campuses, going beyond basic proximity matching.

"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. 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. You should be aware that some of these trusted third parties might also use the personal information they collect for their own purposes."

Bumble shares data with a wide range of third parties including Facebook (as joint data controllers), advertising partners, marketing service providers, and explicitly warns that some third parties may use collected data for their own purposes.

"If an account is blocked, we might need to keep some account information and a record of the behaviour that resulted in blocking the account as evidence for possible queries or legal claims for 6 years (or for 15 years in severe cases). 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."

Bumble retains core personal information including geocoordinates, email, phone number, and name for 6 years after account deletion, and in some cases up to 15 years. Customer support records are also kept for 6 years post-deletion.

"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 user information is handled. Users are expected to regularly check for updates themselves.

"When you use the App, we will collect information about your device for the purposes described in this Policy. 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."

Bumble collects device unique identifiers, model info, OS details, and log/usage data. They also request access to the device address book, which goes beyond core dating functionality.

"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. Actions you take on our Sites and how you interact with them, Information collected from cookies or similar technologies, including the Facebook pixel. Creating an advertisement audience of other potential members with characteristics suitable for our App based on a Marketing Service Provider's information (also known as a 'lookalike audience')."

Bumble tracks users across platforms using device IDs, the Facebook pixel, and cookies. They create lookalike audiences based on behavioral factors and share tracking data with marketing service providers to follow users across third-party websites and apps.

"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, there is an outstanding issue, claim, or dispute, the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention."

Account deletion is delayed by a 28-day restoration period, after which Bumble only begins the deletion process — with broad exceptions that allow retention for years. Core personal data is kept for 6 years and blocked account data up to 15 years post-deletion.