Hinge uses automated systems and machine learning to recommend potential matches to you and to make other decisions about your experience on the app. Details about how this works are available in a separate FAQ.
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The provision establishes that profiling and automated decision-making are operational components of the service's data processing framework. By referencing external documentation rather than disclosing specifics within the privacy policy itself, the clause structures how users access information about these algorithmic processes.
Hinge's algorithms — not human reviewers — determine which potential matches are shown to you and how prominently your profile appears to others, using your behavioral data and profile attributes. EU and UK users have the right to request human review of significant automated decisions.
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We use automated decision-making to help improve our products and services to you. For example, we may use automated technologies to send you job alert emails regarding roles that may be of interest to you based upon your search criteria...
Object to an automated decision-making (including profiling) in certain circumstances.
Request a review of decisions made solely based on automated processing of personal data.
"For information on how we process personal data through "profiling" and "automated decision-making", please see our FAQ.Excerpt from Hinge's Privacy Policy
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The provision establishes that profiling and automated decision-making are operational components of the service's data processing framework. By referencing external documentation rather than disclosing specifics within the privacy policy itself, the clause structures how users access information about these algorithmic processes.
Hinge's algorithms — not human reviewers — determine which potential matches are shown to you and how prominently your profile appears to others, using your behavioral data and profile attributes. EU and UK users have the right to request human review of significant automated decisions.
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