Privacy Policy

• Account data: first name, last name, username, email, phone, and sign-in/identity verification records.
• Profile data: city, age group, gender, tattoo experience, and account preferences.
• Listing and interaction data: listings you create, reference images, descriptions, favorites, save actions, messages, and records arising from comments/ratings flows.
• Location data: the city selected during registration and, if you use the relevant feature, device location provided by your browser.
• System data: IP address, browser information, session records, error and security logs.
• Pinterest integration data: If you choose to connect your Match.INK account to Pinterest, we may process limited account and integration data through an authorized connection via the Pinterest API/OAuth (including identifiers needed for connection and publishing).

We do not request special categories of personal data that are unnecessary for the platform’s standard product flows.

We recommend that you do not share sensitive data (such as health information) in messaging, listing descriptions, or support channels.

• To create accounts, sign in, and protect account security
• To display profile and preference fields
• To operate listing creation, messaging, and offer flows
• To provide favorites, saves, and discovery experiences
• To run notifications and support processes
• To enable nearby listings and distance calculations (including kilometer-based calculations)
• To maintain platform security
• To provide Pinterest features to the user who authorized the connection; to publish your own Match.INK content; and to enable link-backs to public pages

• Firebase Authentication: account sign-in and identity verification
• Firebase Storage: uploaded images and file metadata
• MongoDB: account, profile, listing, message, notification, and operational records
• SMTP e-posta altyapisi: password reset, verification, and support communications
• Google Maps Platform: map display, nearby listings, device location, and distance calculations
• Pinterest: limited data exchange with Pinterest services under an authorized integration (API/OAuth).

Some of your data may also be shared with other users where required by the relevant flow. For example, your listings and limited account information needed to arrange communication may be shown to the relevant artist.

Data related to Pinterest is processed only for the purposes described above; it is not sold, not redistributed for unrelated commercial purposes, and not used for unrelated third-party advertising.

We do not act on your Pinterest account without your explicit authorization and without a corresponding user action or awareness, as applicable.

Match.INK is not affiliated with Pinterest, and is not endorsed or sponsored by Pinterest. Trade names and marks belong to their respective owners.

Some of your data may be processed through infrastructure with cross-border connections due to services such as Firebase, Google Maps Platform, and the Meta measurement described below.

These transfers are managed under the appropriate legal basis under applicable law, including explicit consent, adequacy decisions, appropriate safeguards, or other transfer mechanisms suitable for the product.

Your personal data is retained while your account is active or for as long as required by the relevant service.

When your account deletion request is verified, your data is placed into a deletion process. The deletion process is generally completed within 30 days at the latest.

Records subject to legal retention obligations may be kept for the required period.

If you disconnect Pinterest through Match.INK, further integration-driven actions toward Pinterest stop; active access credentials and tokens are disabled or removed as appropriate for their validity. Immediate erasure of every technical record may not always be possible due to legal obligations, security needs, or service-provider log retention practices.

Match.INK uses the Meta iOS SDK in iOS version 1.1.2 and subsequent supported releases. This integration is activated only when you grant Apple App Tracking Transparency (ATT) permission; denying permission does not prevent account, discovery, listing, or messaging features. This SDK integration is not enabled for the consumer web or Android.

When you grant permission, the advertising identifier (IDFA), app launch/activation events, and SDK technical data (including device and app information, network/IP information, and diagnostics) may be shared with Meta. The purpose is to attribute installs and activations from Meta/Instagram advertising and measure and analyze advertising performance. Meta may match this data with data from other apps or services for advertising measurement; this constitutes tracking under Apple’s definition.

Our app code does not add account IDs, names, email addresses, phone numbers, messages, or portfolio content to this integration. Automatic in-app purchase event logging is disabled. The SDK may process device identifiers, so this data should not be assumed to be fully anonymous.

You can change permission in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking. When permission is revoked, the app does not initiate new activation events. This choice does not automatically erase data previously sent to Meta; provider-side retention and deletion are subject to Meta’s policy. The Match.INK account deletion timeframe above is not a retention or deletion commitment for Meta. You may contact our privacy address below with requests.

Meta Privacy Policy

• For privacy and KVKK requests: privacy@match.ink
• For technical support and general requests: support@matchink.app
• For the account deletion process: /account-deletion