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The act of providing sensitive data is itself treated as consent, meaning no separate consent mechanism is required beyond the user's voluntary submission.
Providing sensitive personal data to Tinder — including information about sexual orientation, sexual life, health, or political beliefs — constitutes your consent to its use under the Privacy Policy.
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We will only collect, use and disclose your personal data with your consent, unless otherwise permitted or required by law. Your consent may be given expressly or implied, depending on the circumstances and the sensitivity of the information involved.
You may give us your Identity Data, Contact Data, Financial Data, Profile Data, and other information by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, e-mail or otherwise.
telemetry information collected includes: (i) microservice settings, (ii) usage data and (iii) hardware environment.
"Some of this data may be considered sensitive or special in certain countries, such as details about sexual orientation, sexual life, health, or political beliefs. If you choose to provide this data, you consent to us using it as laid out in this Privacy Policy.Excerpt from Tinder's Privacy Policy
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The act of providing sensitive data is itself treated as consent, meaning no separate consent mechanism is required beyond the user's voluntary submission.
Providing sensitive personal data to Tinder — including information about sexual orientation, sexual life, health, or political beliefs — constitutes your consent to its use under the Privacy Policy.
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