Date-Near is part of Valente Systems EAS.
Closed beta notice · Updated October 23, 2026 · Version 2026-10-23-acceptance-2
You must be at least 18, provide truthful information, use only photos you have the right to use, and follow the Community Rules. You may not impersonate another person, request money, solicit investment, harass, exploit, threaten, publish another person's private data, or use Date-Near for illegal activity. We may suspend accounts, preserve records, and cooperate with lawful requests when needed for safety or legal compliance.
Manual photo review and verification indicators are moderation trust signals, not a guarantee of identity, legal age, intentions, conduct, compatibility, or safety. Members are responsible for their choices and interactions. Never send money, payment details, passwords, government identifiers, intimate images, or other sensitive information to someone you have only met online. Report suspicious conduct in the app and, where appropriate, to law enforcement or the FTC.
To the extent permitted by law, Date-Near provides the beta service as available and does not guarantee matches, outcomes, availability, or the conduct of other members. Nothing in these Terms limits rights or responsibilities that cannot lawfully be waived.
DATE-NEAR DOES NOT CONDUCT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON MEMBERS.
Our human photo and ID consistency reviews are separate from criminal screening. A review badge is not a background check or a guarantee of another person's intentions or conduct.
These precautions do not remove Date-Near's own responsibilities or any rights you have under applicable law.
A member may choose to enable a shareable preview of their own profile. Sharing is off by default and can be turned off later. A shared preview may show the member's display name, primary public photo, relationship intention and bio; it does not include exact location, private verification images, matches or messages. A link can be forwarded or screenshotted, and copies made by others may remain after sharing is disabled. Do not share another person's profile, image, private conversation or personal details outside Date-Near without permission, except where necessary to report abuse or comply with law. Screenshots of chats are technically possible; Date-Near does not promise to prevent them. Unauthorized sharing may expose the person who shares the material to legal claims; each user is responsible for their own conduct to the extent provided by law. This rule does not remove Date-Near's own legal obligations, duties to respond to reports, or non-waivable consumer rights.
We collect account email, profile details, public profile photos, private verification-submission images, support messages, consent records, safety reports, appeal and rights requests, and security/service logs. We use these data to secure accounts, verify email and photos, operate safety features, respond to support, prevent fraud, comply with law, and improve the service. We do not sell personal information. We do not display a member's exact address or precise map pin to other members. If you enable sharing, the limited preview described above becomes accessible to anyone with its link until you turn it off or your account is deactivated.
Private camera-verification images are restricted to authorized reviewers and deleted after a review decision. The current beta uses manual image review and does not create or retain facial-recognition templates. If a future release uses biometric identifiers or biometric information, Date-Near will publish the required notice, consent and retention/destruction terms before collecting it.
Members may request access, correction, deletion, or a copy through Help or signed-in privacy controls. A deletion request immediately hides the profile while the privacy team completes the request. We may retain limited records for law, security, fraud prevention, or disputes. California residents may have additional rights where applicable.
You choose whether to provide your sexual orientation, gender identity, genders you are interested in, whether you have children, drinking or smoking preferences, education, hobbies, sports, religion, preferred date settings, zodiac sign and Chinese zodiac animal. These details help you describe yourself and use discovery filters. They can be visible to eligible Date-Near members; leaving a field blank does not stop you from using Date-Near. You can edit or clear these answers in My profile. We do not infer your orientation, religion or health from your photos, identity documents or conversations. You can request alcohol-free dates without disclosing a recovery program or medical history. These optional answers are not included in your external shared preview; anything you write in your bio may be visible there if you enable sharing. Zodiac details are for personal interests and entertainment, not scientific predictions of compatibility or relationship outcomes.
Your date of birth is optional and private. We use it to calculate your age and apply discovery age filters. Eligible Date-Near members may see your age, never your date of birth. Your birthday is not included in external shared previews or sent to the other Loop apps through this feature. Saving a birthday does not verify your age or identity. Once saved, corrections go through Safety & account controls; you cannot freely change it in your profile. It is handled under the account-deletion and retention rules in this notice.
If you choose to propose a date inside a match conversation, we store the place, date, time, time zone, optional note and response to show the current plan to both participants. Changing an accepted plan requires a new response. Plans are not included in shared profile previews or sent to the other Loop apps or outside contacts through this feature. Choose a public place; do not enter a home address or other sensitive details. Date-Near does not book the venue, verify the meeting place, track attendance, monitor the date or contact emergency services. You may cancel the plan or use the existing block and report controls. Plans are handled under the account-deletion and retention rules in this notice.
You may download an upcoming accepted date as a calendar file after choosing Add to calendar. The file contains the public place and time, a generic title and a private event identifier, not member names, profile photos, messages or the optional plan note. Nothing is sent to a calendar provider automatically. If you import the file into a calendar, that calendar's sharing and sync settings apply; a private event label is not a guarantee of confidentiality. Downloaded copies do not update or disappear when a plan changes, is cancelled, or an account is deleted. Check the current plan in Date-Near and update or remove your calendar copy yourself.
Share date plan is a separate, optional action for an upcoming accepted plan. You see the exact outgoing text before copying it or opening your device's sharing options. It includes the agreed place and time, not your private plan note, profile, photos or conversation. Anything you type into the place field is included, so review it first. Date-Near does not choose or contact a trusted person for you. Copied or shared information does not update or disappear when the plan changes; tell your trusted person yourself. This is not a check-in, live location or emergency-monitoring service.
Blind dates are optional and use a separate nickname and conversation. To join, complete adult profile approval, save an adult birthday, choose who you want to meet and a relationship intention, and keep your nearby area current. Joining pauses ordinary discovery, matches and chats and turns off your public profile link; leaving resumes those ordinary connections but does not turn that link back on. Invitations consider reciprocal preferences, the same relationship intention and nearby location. We show your nickname, age, intention, selected hobbies and sports, and any zodiac and family-plan details you chose to share, not your name, biography or photos. The affinity percentage is the rounded overlap of your selected interests with the other person’s interests, not a scientific or astrological prediction; it is unavailable when either profile has no interests. A chat opens only after an invitation is accepted. Photos become available only when both people consent; either may withdraw future access, but cannot erase screenshots or material already seen. No legal name is revealed by this feature. Messages can still identify you if you share personal details, and previously viewed or saved profiles cannot be made unknown again. You may end, block or report a connection; reports enter the human moderation queue. Leaving blind dates ends its pending invitations and conversations. These records follow the account-deletion and retention rules in this notice. No scientific compatibility or relationship outcome is promised.
This dated operational supplement does not rewrite prior acceptance records or imply that existing members accepted new terms. It describes the retention controls now in use; earlier consent records retain their original policy version.
A Date-Near case hold is limited to selected safety, appeal, support or rights-request text records. It requires a documented basis, an opaque case reference, review within 7 days and expiry within 30 days of each authorized review. These are product safeguards, not universal legal retention periods. An extension requires a new authorized decision, not automatic renewal. Open cases can retain a limited, separately restricted evidence copy while the unrelated profile, photos and conversations are erased. Legacy whole-account or unsafe-storage deferrals require explicit human conversion or release even after their review deadline; an unknown court obligation is not silently cancelled. These exceptions must be escalated, not treated as permission for routine indefinite profile retention.
Private Date-Near camera-review images are separate from case holds: they are detached from review access after a decision or deletion request. Incomplete submissions have a 7-day limit; unresolved submissions have a 30-day limit. Expired images are denied through the review API even if a cleanup worker is delayed. Physical file removal uses retry queues, so storage outages or missed jobs can delay removal. Minimal pseudonymous decision, consent and deletion audit records are not the same as raw images and are not guaranteed anonymous.
Shared ID/selfie/OCR processing belongs to the separate Loop Identity verifier, not these Date-Near profile/case holds. Its raw verification evidence is cleaned up at a terminal decision or request expiry under that service's policy; pending shared requests and cleanup failures must be checked with that service. This change does not activate external AI processing or establish provider zero-data-retention. Backups, provider/platform logs, legally required records and copies already obtained by others have separate controls and may remain after live-account erasure. This is not a promise of zero retention, immediate removal from every copy, or complete legal compliance.
Only if you choose to submit an ID review, Date-Near sends your ID and selfie images to the separate, encrypted Loop Identity service for human consistency review. The same review status is available to TheLoopLocal and WasMine under your unique LoopPassport ID; the raw images are not copied to those apps or made public. Images are deleted after a decision. Incomplete requests expire after 7 days; unresolved reviews expire after 30 days. The decision record and limited audit information may be retained for safety, disputes and legal obligations. This review does not establish legal age or guarantee identity or safety; Date-Near applies its own adult and profile-photo rules.
After photo approval, you may choose to use device location to find members within approximately 62 miles (100 km). We request browser permission only after your explicit action. The browser rounds your location to two decimal places before sending it; the server also rounds incoming coordinates and keeps only that approximate area. We do not publish your coordinates or precise distance. We do not use a manually entered city, paid travel mode or a worldwide fallback for nearby discovery.
A location expires for discovery and new reactions after 30 days. An hourly cleanup deletes expired areas, normally within one hour after the 30-day expiry. Only your latest area is stored, not a travel history. Turning location off deletes that area immediately and stops nearby discovery and new reactions; existing matches and conversations remain available. Deletion requests also remove the area. Limited consent records are retained as described in this notice. Location is not sent to an identity/OCR provider or shared through LoopPassport.
Device location is not proof of physical presence. Browsers, devices and software can provide inaccurate or falsified readings. We reject stale or low-accuracy fixes and apply distance checks on the server, but cannot promise to detect every VPN, modified device or GPS-spoofing tool. A nearby profile or photo review is not a guarantee of safety. Meet in public and do not disclose financial details, your home address or other sensitive information to strangers.
For new introductions, Date-Near checks the genders each person has selected in both directions. An empty selection means no gender preference has been specified. We use the gender identity a member provides, not an identity inferred from their photos or sexual orientation. Changing these preferences does not end an existing match.
Pausing your profile stops new introductions and likes while keeping your existing matches and conversations available. It does not change your separate choice to enable a shared profile link. You can resume discovery from My profile. Matches do not expire automatically.
Either participant can end a match. This stops the conversation for both people and does not automatically block the other member. Ending a match does not erase all records: limited connection, message and decision records may remain for safety, disputes and account-deletion processing. You can still raise a safety concern through Help. Blocking, reporting and requesting account deletion are separate controls.
Be respectful. Consent is required. No hate, threats, non-consensual sexual content, commercial sexual exploitation, scams, fake identities, underage participation, doxxing, or unsafe financial or intimate exchanges. Block and report concerning behavior. In an emergency, contact local emergency services.
Reports automatically block the reported member for the reporter and create a human moderation ticket. Members may appeal a photo review, moderation, access, or privacy decision using the signed-in safety controls. We review reports and appeals, may restrict features while reviewing, and do not promise a particular outcome. If someone shares intimate imagery without consent, use Help to request prompt removal and consult applicable legal resources.