If you link your Tinder account to Facebook or other third-party accounts, you authorize Tinder to access, store, and use information from those accounts under the same broad content license.
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Linking a Facebook or other social account to Tinder expands the scope of data Tinder can access and use beyond what you directly input into the Tinder app, including information from your social media profile.
Interpretive note: The actual scope of data accessed from third-party accounts depends on permissions granted at the time of connection and the current API policies of those third-party platforms, which may change independently of Tinder's terms.
Users who connect Tinder to Facebook or other platforms are granting Tinder permission to access and use data from those external accounts, which may include profile information, friend lists, or other data depending on the permissions granted at the time of connection.
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"By creating an account, you grant to Tinder a worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, right and license to host, store, use, copy, display, reproduce, adapt, edit, publish, modify and distribute information you authorize us to access from third parties such as Facebook, as well as any information you post, upload, display or otherwise make available.Excerpt from Tinder's Terms of Use
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Linking a Facebook or other social account to Tinder expands the scope of data Tinder can access and use beyond what you directly input into the Tinder app, including information from your social media profile.
Users who connect Tinder to Facebook or other platforms are granting Tinder permission to access and use data from those external accounts, which may include profile information, friend lists, or other data depending on the permissions granted at the time of connection.
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