Dating Quarter
Privacy
Version 1.1 · 19 September 2026 — adds the waiting list
This is the document we would want to read. It says what we actually do today — not what sounds best — and it says plainly where we are still building.
The short version. We don't sell your data. We don't run advertising and there is not a single third-party tracker in this product. We don't read your conversations to train anything. You can take everything with you or delete all of it, yourself, at any moment, without asking us.
1 · Who we are
Dating Quarter is run by Kronos. We are the data controller for the information described here.
Before launch, this section must name our registered legal entity and address, and a contact for data protection questions. It is left explicit rather than filled with something approximate, because getting a controller's identity wrong in a privacy notice is exactly the sort of thing that makes the rest of the document untrustworthy.
You can reach us about anything on this page at hello@datingquarter.com.
2 · What we hold, and why
Only what the thing needs to work. Each row below exists because something would break without it.
| What | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| The waiting list — the name, email address, gender, age and rough location you type on datingquarter.com, and the little figure you build | So we can write to you when the door opens, and so we know who is waiting and roughly where. We also keep the internet address your browser sent it from, to spot junk. Kept until the list closes or you ask us to remove it — email us and it goes the same day. The figure is a drawing, not your profile; nothing on the list is shown to anyone but us. This is the only thing the website collects. |
| Your email address | It is how you sign in, how you get back in if you forget your password, and the only way we can reach you about your account. |
| Your password | Stored only as an Argon2id hash with a unique salt. We cannot read it, and neither can anyone who steals the database. |
| Your date of birth | To confirm you are 18 or over. Dating Quarter is adults only. |
| Your profile — name, photos, the words you write | It is the thing other people see. You choose every part of it and can change or remove any of it. |
| Your decisions — who you passed on, who you said yes to | So you are not shown the same person forever, and so a match can happen when two people both say yes. |
| Your messages | To deliver them. A conversation only opens when both people have said yes. |
| Blocks | To keep someone away from you, permanently. |
| Sessions — which devices are signed in | To keep you signed in, and so you can throw a device off if you lose it. |
Special category data
Some of what a dating profile says about a person is treated as sensitive under UK and EU data protection law — including anything that reveals sexual orientation. Where you choose to put that in your profile, you are choosing to publish it inside Dating Quarter, and we handle it on that basis. You can remove it at any time.
What we do not collect
- No advertising or analytics trackers. There is no Google Analytics, no advertising pixel, no session recorder, and no third-party script of any kind in this product.
- No precise location. We do not ask for or store GPS. If you tell us a rough area, it is because you typed it into your own profile.
- No contact list, no photo library, no microphone.
The website's own visit log. Like every website, ours keeps a plain access log — address, page, time, browser string — which we keep and read to count visitors and see which pages are looked at. Nothing on the page adds to it: no script, cookie or pixel.
3 · What we never do
- We never sell your data. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone, in any form, including "anonymised" or aggregated form.
- We never train AI on your conversations. Your messages are for the person you are talking to.
- We never advertise to you inside the product, so there is no commercial reason for us to profile you — and no quiet incentive pulling the other way against everything else on this page.
- We never show your dating profile outside the Dating Quarter. Your photos live here and nowhere else on the wider street.
The last one is structural rather than a promise: photos are attached to your dating profile specifically, and nothing else in Kronos reads them.
4 · How it's protected — honestly
We would rather tell you exactly what is true than call ourselves "bank-grade" and hope you don't check. So, plainly:
What is true today
- Passwords are hashed with Argon2id, individually salted — the current recommended standard, not an older or faster algorithm.
- Every connection is HTTPS, always.
- Sessions expire both on inactivity and absolutely, and you can end them.
- Changing your password signs out every other device automatically — so if someone had a way in, they lose it the moment you act.
- A password reset link is single-use, expires within the hour, and is stored only as a hash, so a stolen database yields no working links.
- Asking to reset a password tells nobody whether an account exists at that address. Someone cannot use us to find out whether you are here.
- Conversations are consent-gated by design: nobody can send you a message unless you have both said yes.
What we are still building
Naming these is the point of the section.
- Two-factor authentication is not available yet.
- Encryption at rest for profile content is not yet in place; access to the server is restricted, but that is not the same thing and we won't pretend it is.
- Messages are not end-to-end encrypted. We can technically read them. We don't, and nothing in the product does — but you should know that rather than assume otherwise.
- Independent security review is scheduled before public launch, and we will not open the doors to strangers until it has happened.
We would rather you trusted a short list of true things than a long list of impressive ones. When these land, this section changes and the date at the top changes with it.
5 · If someone is harassing you
This is the part we care most about getting right.
Meeting people means occasionally meeting someone who behaves badly. If that happens to you here, it is our problem, not just yours.
- Block is permanent and silent. They are never told. They cannot see you, reach you, or find you again. You can see the list of people you have blocked at any time, and looking at it tells them nothing.
- Closing a conversation is quiet. Nobody is notified that you left.
- Reporting reaches a person, not a queue. When you report someone we look at it ourselves, and we will act — including removing them entirely.
- We will help beyond the app. If you are being threatened or stalked, we will preserve the evidence you need, provide it to you or to the police at your request, and take the account off the platform. You do not have to argue with us about whether it was serious enough.
Being straight with you about status: block and unmatch are live now. The in-app report button is being built and is not finished at the time of writing — until it lands, email hello@datingquarter.com and it reaches us directly. We would rather say that than let you discover it when you need it.
If you are in immediate danger, please contact the police on 999 (UK) or your local emergency number. We can help with evidence and with removing someone — we cannot help fast enough in an emergency.
6 · Your rights, and how to use them
Under UK and EU data protection law you have rights over your data. We have tried to make the important ones things you can simply do, rather than things you have to request and wait for.
- See and change what we hold — your profile is editable in the app.
- Delete everything — Settings → leave the quarter. It removes your card, your photos, your decisions, and closes your conversations, immediately and permanently. It is not a queue and not a 30-day grace period. It is gone.
- Get a copy of your data — email us and we will send it.
- Object, restrict, or complain — email us. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, and you can do that without going through us first.
When you delete your account, the messages you sent stay removed, but the fact that the other person had a conversation remains part of their record of their own life. Your card and your words go; their memory of talking to someone is theirs.
7 · How long we keep things
- Your account and profile: until you delete it. There is no expiry and no quiet archive afterwards.
- Password reset links: one hour, then deleted whether used or not.
- Blocks: kept after you delete your account only as an anonymous marker, so a blocked person cannot reappear to you if you ever return.
- Safety records: where we have removed someone for harming others, we keep enough to stop them simply signing up again. This is the one case where we keep something about a person who asked to be forgotten, and we think it is the right call.
8 · The narrow cases where we would share
"We never share your data" is the kind of sentence that is easy to write and impossible to keep, so here is the true version. We share your information in exactly three situations:
- With the people you choose. Your profile is visible inside Dating Quarter. Your messages go to the person you sent them to. That is the product.
- With the services that make it run. Today that is our email provider (Postmark), used only to send you account mail such as verification and password resets, and our hosting. They act on our instructions and cannot use your data for their own purposes.
- Where the law compels us, or to protect someone from serious harm. Where we are legally allowed to tell you this has happened, we will.
That is the whole list. If it ever grows, this page changes first.
9 · Changes
If we change anything on this page that affects you, we will tell you in the app and by email before it takes effect — not quietly, and not by updating a date and hoping you re-read it.