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To protect your privacy, we will take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request, such as by requiring you to submit your request via your account.
we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
When you are asked to provide information, you may decline to do so; but if you choose not to provide information that is necessary to provide some of our Services, you may not be able to use those Services.
"If we cannot verify your identity, we may deny your request in accordance with applicable law.Excerpt from Grindr's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “If we cannot verify your identity, we may deny your request in accordance with applicable law.”
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