These rights give you meaningful control over your personal information and allow you to hold Bumble accountable for how your data is used.
Consumer impact
Bumble collects a wide range of sensitive personal data including biometric identifiers, precise geolocation, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and private messages, which are used for matching algorithms, content moderation, and advertising purposes. Your data may be shared with third-party advertisers and service providers, and transferred to the United States and other countries with potentially different privacy protections. You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data by contacting Bumble directly through the app settings or by emailing their data protection team.
What you can do
⚠️ These actions may provide transparency or partial mitigation but may not fully address the underlying issue. Effectiveness varies by jurisdiction and individual circumstances.
Export Your Data
Within 30 days
Go to your Bumble app settings, navigate to 'Privacy' or 'Account', and submit a data access or portability request, or visit https://bumble.com/help to submit a formal request. Bumble is required to respond within 30 days under GDPR.
Delete Your Data
Within 30 days
In the Bumble app, go to Settings > Delete Account to initiate account deletion, or submit a formal erasure request via https://bumble.com/help. Bumble must process this within the statutory timeframe.
Applicable agencies
FTC
The FTC has enforcement authority over failures to honour consumer data rights and deceptive privacy practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act.