Privacy
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Link a date is for moving from a chat to a real date without sharing your phone number. It has no accounts, no ads and no trackers, and it sets no cookies.
What is stored
Only what the people on a date type: the title, the day and time, the time zone, the place, a link to the place, a note, the chat messages, each person's quick "On the day" update and each person's "how to spot me" note. The two private links are not stored. Only a scrambled fingerprint of each is kept, so nobody can open a date through the site without its link.
The details, and the messages in a chat, are stored as plain text in the site's database, and only the site owners have access to that database.
Adults only
Link a date is for people aged 18 or older. It asks you to confirm this with a checkbox. It does not ask for or keep your age, name or any proof.
Rooms
A room stores its name and description. A post stores the nickname, the text, the general area and the optional day and time that its author typed. A request to join is a normal date, with the same data as any other date. A post expires at its time, or after 3 days if it has no time. An expired post is hidden from the board, and it is deleted once it has no requests left, because the poster opens the requests through the post. A room with no posts is deleted after 30 days, and a room with no activity at all is deleted after 180 days. The admin can delete a room, and the poster can delete a post, at any time. Deleting a room or a post also deletes the dates, chats and updates that belong to it. Rooms are not listed anywhere, and search engines are asked to ignore them.
Who can see a date
Anyone who has the link. Share it only with the person you invite.
How long it is kept
A date is deleted automatically 30 days after it took place. The person who made it can delete it at any time from their own link.
Limits on use
To stop abuse, the site limits how fast one visitor can create dates and send messages. For this it counts requests per network address for the current minute only. The count is not saved and is not tied to anything you wrote. For making rooms, posting and asking to join, it counts per network address over the past hour. That count is kept as a scrambled value, not the address itself, and every entry is deleted after an hour.
If you write to us
If you report something by email, we receive your email address and your message. We use them only to look into the report and to answer you. If you send the link of a date, we can open the date as that person sees it to check it.
Sending
This site sends no email. You share the invitation link yourself.
No connection to other services
Link a date is not connected to any other company or service with a similar name.