Privacy Policy

Last updated 2026-10-04.

Plain-language summary first. Dating for Lawyers (“D4L”) never sells your data, runs no ad trackers inside the app, and never scans faces or collects biometrics.

Who we are

Dating for Lawyers is operated by Hybrid Foundation, a trade name of Hybrid Advisors, Inc. Contact: support@datingforlawyers.com, or by post at the address on our contact page.

What we collect and why

• Account: name, personal email (your sign-in), password (hashed), date of birth (to confirm you're 18+; only your age is shown).
• Verification: work email (encrypted; never shown; used to verify you and hide colleagues), bar state, bar number (encrypted; reviewers only), licensed name, and the good-standing document you upload. We delete the document 7 days after the decision.
• Profile: first name, age, gender, who you're interested in, age range, neighborhood (picked from a list; no GPS), photos, prompts, optional practice area and languages.
• Photos: we strip location and camera data (EXIF) from every upload. Google Cloud Vision SafeSearch screens photos for explicit content; it does not identify faces. A person reviews every photo.
• Activity: likes, passes, matches, messages, reports and blocks, to run the service and keep it safe.
• Consent records: what you agreed to, when, with IP address and device type.

Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics on our website and inside the iPhone and Android apps to see how D4L is used, so we can fix what's confusing and keep what works. Plausible processes this data for us.

• What: which pages are opened (the page type, never the address details, for example “a chat” and not which one), where a visit came from (another site's name, or a campaign tag), and a few actions: starting and finishing sign-up, sending verification, completing a profile, a like, a match, sending a message, and opening the app. Plausible also sees your device type, browser and country from the request.
• No cookies, no ID: analytics sets no cookie and stores no identifier on your device. Plausible counts visits with a code that changes every day and keeps no IP address, so it can't follow you across days, sites or apps.
• Not included: your name, email, firm, bar number, photos, messages, who you like or match with, gender, orientation or preferences. Analytics is never linked to your account.
• No advertising, no selling: analytics is not used for ads, nothing is shared with ad networks, there is no ad tracking in the apps, and we never sell analytics data.
• Your choice: if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, we don't send analytics at all.

Partners (only if you opt in)

Partner sharing is offered only on our website. The iPhone and Android apps never show the partner boxes and never share your data with partners or for advertising.

At sign-up on the website there are separate, optional, unticked boxes. If you leave them unticked, nothing about you leaves D4L. If you tick one, we share only your name, work email, city and (if you added it) practice area with that partner, for these purposes:

• Professional services from Hybrid Foundation (D4L's operator): email about professional events and services, and matching your work email on advertising platforms to show you relevant ads.
• HYB AI workshops and trainings: email about professional events and services, and matching your work email on advertising platforms to show you relevant ads.

We never share photos, gender, orientation or preferences, date of birth, messages, likes or matches, personal email, bar number or verification documents. Turn either box off any time in Settings; we stop sharing on the next daily update and tell the partner to stop contacting you.

Retention

• Verification documents: deleted 7 days after the decision.
• Closed conversations (unmatched, blocked, expired): kept hidden for 30 days for safety review, then deleted.
• Deleted accounts: hidden immediately, fully erased after 30 days. We keep only a one-way hash of your email and bar number if you were banned, and moderation audit records for 3 years.

Security

Encryption in transit, application-level encryption of work email and bar number, private storage for photos and documents served only through short-lived signed links, and two-factor authentication for staff.

Your choices

Access, correct or delete your data from the app, or email our support address. To delete your account, see how to delete your account. Members outside Illinois may have extra rights under their state's law; contact us and we will honor them.