This notice explains how TCMeet uses personal information collected through tcmeet.com and the pre-launch early-access waiting list. It does not yet cover the full mobile dating service, which will have an expanded privacy notice before public beta access begins.
1. Who controls your information
TCMeet is a UK-based pre-launch project and is the data controller for the information collected through this website and waiting list.
General and privacy enquiries: hello@tcmeet.com
Early-access enquiries: beta@tcmeet.com
2. Information we collect
When you join early access, we may collect:
- Your name and email address.
- Your city and country.
- Your relationship status.
- Optional community-background information.
- Your confirmations, consent choices, timestamps and the version of the notices shown to you.
- Your IP address and technical request information used for security, abuse prevention and rate limiting.
- Welcome-email delivery status and limited delivery-error information.
- Messages you send to TCMeet.
3. Community-background information
Community background is optional. It may reveal racial or ethnic origin and is therefore treated with additional care. We use it only where you have given explicit consent, to understand the early community, plan outreach and decide where TCMeet should launch first.
You can choose “Prefer not to say”. You can also withdraw this consent at any time by emailing hello@tcmeet.com. Withdrawing consent does not affect use that was lawful before withdrawal.
4. Why we use information and our lawful bases
Administering early access
We use contact, location and eligibility information to record your interest, manage the waiting list, send your welcome message and contact you about an invitation. We rely on our legitimate interests in operating a genuine pre-launch waiting list and taking steps requested by people who want early access.
Optional community-background information
We rely on your consent and explicit consent. You do not have to provide this information to join the waiting list.
Optional launch news and community updates
We send optional promotional updates only where you have chosen to receive them. We rely on consent. You can withdraw that choice at any time.
Security and abuse prevention
We use IP addresses, request information and administrative records to protect the website, enforce rate limits, prevent automated submissions and investigate misuse. We rely on our legitimate interests in keeping TCMeet and its users secure.
Legal obligations and claims
We may use or disclose information where required by law, to respond to lawful requests, or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
5. Who we share information with
We do not sell waiting-list information. We may share limited information with:
- Hosting, database, email and technical service providers acting on our instructions.
- Professional advisers where reasonably necessary.
- Public authorities, regulators, courts or law-enforcement bodies where disclosure is legally required or necessary to protect rights and safety.
- A future buyer, investor or successor if TCMeet is reorganised or transferred, subject to appropriate confidentiality and data-protection safeguards.
6. International processing
Some service providers may process information outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States. Where UK data-protection law requires safeguards, we use recognised contractual or other lawful transfer protections.
7. How long we keep information
- Waiting-list records are normally kept for up to 24 months after your last meaningful interaction, unless you join the service, ask us to delete the record, or a longer period is reasonably needed for a legal or security reason.
- IP addresses and similar security information are reviewed and retained only for as long as reasonably needed to prevent abuse and investigate incidents.
- Email-delivery errors are kept only while operationally useful.
- Consent and suppression records may be retained where reasonably necessary to demonstrate your choices and ensure that an opt-out is respected.
8. Your rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:
- Ask for access to your personal information.
- Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Ask us to delete information.
- Ask us to restrict how information is used.
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
- Receive certain information in a portable format.
- Withdraw consent at any time.
- Complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
To exercise a right, email hello@tcmeet.com. We may need to confirm your identity before acting on a request.
9. Leaving the waiting list
You can leave the waiting list, withdraw an optional consent or change your contact preferences by emailing hello@tcmeet.com from the address you used to join.
10. Children
TCMeet early access is for adults aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly accept waiting-list registrations from children.
11. Automated decisions
The pre-launch waiting list does not use solely automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
12. Security
We use technical and organisational measures intended to protect waiting-list information. No online system can be guaranteed completely secure, but access is limited and the public form includes rate limiting and validation.
13. Changes to this notice
We may update this notice as TCMeet develops. The effective date and version at the top will change when a material revision is published. A broader notice will be provided before the mobile app begins processing full profiles, photographs, messages or verification information.