Hinge uses your profile, usage, and technical data to show you targeted ads and measure advertising effectiveness, relying on its own business interest as the legal basis in jurisdictions where explicit consent is not legally required.
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Targeted advertising on a dating app draws on highly personal data including your interests, preferences, and platform behavior, and the policy asserts legitimate interest as a sufficient legal basis in many jurisdictions rather than requiring your consent.
Interpretive note: The scope of advertising controls available in app settings is not detailed in the policy text, so the degree to which users can meaningfully limit targeted advertising is uncertain from the document alone.
Hinge personalizes ads based on your profile and usage data, and in many regions outside the EEA and UK does so without requiring your consent, relying instead on its commercial interest in funding free features. Users can manage advertising preferences in app settings to limit some but potentially not all of this processing.
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"Performing and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns run on our service; Performing and measuring the effectiveness of marketing campaigns promoting our own service on third-party platforms; Communicating with you about products and services we believe may interest you. Grounds for processing: Consent (where required under applicable law) and otherwise our legitimate interest. It is in our legitimate interest to promote our service and to show ads to our members which are tailored to their interests, as a way to improve their experience and help fund the parts of our service which are free.Excerpt from Hinge's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: For EEA and UK users, the use of legitimate interest rather than consent as the basis for targeted advertising processing engages GDPR Article 6(1)(f) and requires a documented legitimate interest assessment balancing Hinge's …
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Targeted advertising on a dating app draws on highly personal data including your interests, preferences, and platform behavior, and the policy asserts legitimate interest as a sufficient legal basis in many jurisdictions rather than requiring your consent.
Hinge personalizes ads based on your profile and usage data, and in many regions outside the EEA and UK does so without requiring your consent, relying instead on its commercial interest in funding free features. Users can manage advertising preferences in app settings to limit some but potentially not all of this processing.
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