“Consistent with your permissions, we may collect your location information, including your precise geolocation, for purposes like determining your distance from other users.”
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Precise geolocation is among the most sensitive location data types; its collection is conditioned on user permissions, but its permissible use extends to distance-based features visible to others.
Grindr may collect the reader's precise geolocation, subject to the reader's permissions, and use it to determine the reader's distance from other users.
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Precise geolocation is among the most sensitive location data types; its collection is conditioned on user permissions, but its permissible use extends to distance-based features visible to others.
Grindr may collect the reader's precise geolocation, subject to the reader's permissions, and use it to determine the reader's distance from other users.
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