Privacy Notice

This notice explains the main categories of information VYBE uses to operate the service, support member safety and process payments.

1. Information you provide

When you create and use a VYBE account, information may include your email address, password hash, profile display name, profile photo, bio, city/town/approximate area, gender, who you are looking for, dating intention, likes, matches, messages, reports and blocks.

Your profile location should be approximate. Do not enter your home address or exact coordinates.

2. Account and activity information

VYBE records information needed to operate accounts and features, including account status, last-seen activity, pass purchase and access-status records, matches, message timestamps and safety actions. Session cookies are used to keep signed-in members authenticated.

3. 18+ and terms confirmation

When you register, VYBE may record the time you confirmed that you are 18 or older and the time you accepted the Terms. These records support account administration and enforcement of the service rules.

4. Age assurance and payments

Stripe processes the credit-card authorization used for VYBE’s age-assurance and anti-abuse check, as well as payment checkout. VYBE may receive Stripe identifiers, card-funding classification and status information needed to know whether a credit-card authorization or payment completed and whether an age-assurance authorization or pass payment completed. VYBE does not directly store full payment-card details. Debit and prepaid cards are not accepted for the age-assurance check, and VYBE does not request an identity-document or selfie scan during signup.

5. How information is used

to create and secure accounts;
to display member-created profiles and rank Discover results;
to process likes, mutual matches and messages;
to operate VYBE Pass purchases and active access periods;
to prevent abuse, investigate reports and enforce blocks;
to maintain security, diagnose faults and protect the service.

6. Who information is shared with

Information may be shared with service providers where needed to run VYBE, such as payment processing and hosting/database infrastructure. Member profile information is displayed to other members as part of the dating service. Messages are shared with the matched recipient.

Information may also be disclosed where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect users, the service or others from serious harm, fraud or abuse.

7. Profile visibility and safety

Member profiles can be shown in Discover when visible and active. Blocking prevents further contact through the relevant account relationship. Reports are stored for review and safety administration.

8. Retention

VYBE should retain information only for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described here, including operating accounts, handling transactions, resolving disputes, security, abuse prevention and legal obligations. Different records may require different retention periods.

9. Your choices and rights

You can edit profile information, download a machine-readable account export and request account deletion from the member experience. Account deletion removes active profile and interaction data and pseudonymises the account. Limited transaction or safety records may be retained where legally necessary. Depending on applicable law, you may also have rights relating to access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or portability of personal information. These rights may have legal exceptions.

10. Security

VYBE uses technical and organisational measures including password hashing, secure session cookies in production, rate limiting, restricted origins for state-changing requests and payment-provider verification. No online system can promise absolute security.

11. Changes to this notice

This notice may be updated as the service changes. The revision date at the top shows the current published version.