Courtship AILegal
Privacy policy
Last updated 14 October 2026
The short version
We store what you share, encrypted, to give you advice. The relevant parts go to our AI provider to produce each answer and nowhere else. We do not sell data, run advertising, or train models on your content. You can download or delete everything in one tap.
1. Who is responsible for your data
Next Step Forward FZ-LLC, FDRK8909 Compass Building, Al Shohada Road, Al Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, runs Courtship AI and is responsible for your personal data (the “controller”). Contact for anything about your data: [email protected].
2. What we collect, and why
| What | Details | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Account details | Email, password (stored only as a secure one-way hash), when you joined and were last seen | To create and secure your account and contact you about it |
| About you | What you tell the onboarding conversation and the coach: name, age, location, what you are looking for, values, interests, how you text, and the “learnings” the app keeps from your dates | To tailor every piece of advice to you |
| Your profile | Your dating-app photos and bio when you ask for a review | To review them. Photos are stored with the review so you can see it again |
| Matches and chats | Names, the text of conversations you add or paste or that is read out of your screenshots, notes, dates, briefings and debriefs | To read the chat and advise you. Screenshots (of a chat or of a match’s profile) are read once to extract the text; the images themselves are not stored |
| Check-ins | Mood, connection and notes from relationship check-ins; remembered dates | To show trends and remind you |
| Billing | Plan, billing period, purchases, and Stripe identifiers. Card details are handled by Stripe; we never see your full card number | To take payment, work out your allowance and keep accounts |
| Notifications | A push subscription for your browser, if you turn notifications on | To send the reminders you asked for |
| Security | Sign-in attempts and session records; a short-lived count of failed attempts by network address | To keep accounts secure and limit abuse |
| Support | What you tell us when you ask for help, and the record of any helpdesk access to your account | To help you, and so you can see what was done |
3. Legal bases
We process your data to provide the Service you signed up for (contract); to keep it secure, improve it and handle support (legitimate interests); to meet legal duties such as tax records; and, for notifications, with your consent, which you can withdraw in the app at any time.
4. Who processes your data for us
| Provider | What they do | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Our AI model provider (a large language model service in the United States) | Produces the advice | The text and images needed for the answer you asked for: the relevant profile details, the conversation, the screenshots. Under the API terms your content is not used to train their models. |
| Stripe | Takes payments, runs subscriptions, calculates tax and sends receipts | Email, billing address, tax ID if you give one, payment details |
| Apple, Google and Mozilla push services | Deliver notifications to your device | An encrypted notification payload; they cannot read it |
| Hosting | Runs the Service and holds the encrypted database | Everything above, encrypted at rest |
We do not sell personal data and do not share it with advertisers. We may disclose data where the law requires, or to protect someone’s safety.
5. Cookies
One cookie, to keep you signed in. No analytics or advertising cookies. See the cookie policy.
6. How long we keep data
For as long as you have an account. Deleting your account removes your profile, photos, chats, check-ins, notifications and our copy of your purchase history at once. Stripe, our payment processor, keeps the invoices and payment records that tax law requires (normally five years); they hold no chat content. Our backups are overwritten within 30 days.
7. Security
Your profile, photos, chats and check-ins are encrypted before they are stored (AES-256-GCM, with a key kept apart from the database). Connections use HTTPS. Passwords are hashed with scrypt. Access to accounts by our team is limited to support and always recorded. Found a security problem? Tell [email protected] and we will respond quickly and thank you.
8. Your rights
You can see, download and delete everything from the You screen, with no need to ask us. Depending on where you live you may also have rights to correct data, object to or restrict processing, and complain to a supervisory authority. Email [email protected] and we will help within 30 days.
9. Children
Courtship AI is for people aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect data from children; if you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.
10. International transfers
Our providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States. Where the law requires, transfers are covered by standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards.
11. Changes
We will post changes here and, for material changes, tell you by email or in the app.
12. Contact
[email protected] for anything about your data, [email protected] to report a security problem, or write to Next Step Forward FZ-LLC, FDRK8909 Compass Building, Al Shohada Road, Al Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.