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Source-backed from Bumble Privacy Policy

This report covers the Bumble Privacy Policy (U.S. version) of Badoo Trading Limited and Bumble Trading LLC as it applies to the Bumble app and its Sites, including its BFF mode. Its controls also draw on Bumble’s Cookie Policy (last updated June 16 2025), its Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy for Washington consumers, which the Cookie Policy links to, a BFF Support article about icebreakers in the separate Bumble For Friends app, and the Bumble support article Verifying with your ID (last updated April 29, 2026), read for this report. The policy’s section for people living in California shows headings without text on the page as captured, and its California notice at collection could not be read; practices the policy describes only for Badoo are not included. It does not cover the other pages the policy links to; these were not reviewed for this report.

179
reviewed findings
15
key findings
3
free to read here
24
verified controls

10 of them depend on where you live.

Privacy Snapshot

What the published policy covers, and how much we found under each. Tap one to read it.

  • Location 11 findings
  • Camera & Photos 3 findings
  • Microphone & Audio 2 findings
  • Contacts 1 finding
  • Messages 10 findings
  • Biometrics 10 findings
  • Sensitive Data 10 findings
  • Tracking 6 findings
  • Advertising & Profiling 22 findings
  • Sharing 29 findings
  • Controls & Permissions 47 findings
  • Other 28 findings

3 findings, in full

The first 3 of this report’s 15 key findings, complete — claim, reasoning, and the policy’s own wording.

Sensitive Data Bumble names your consent as its GDPR legal basis for sensitive details you choose to share

What this means

In its table of legal bases under the GDPR, Bumble says that, for optional information you choose to share in your profile, through profile verification or by adding Bumble badges, its legal basis for processing special category data is your consent. It lists racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data if used for identification, health data, and sex life or sexual orientation.

Bumble says that, for optional information you choose to share in your profile, through profile verification, or by adding Bumble badges, its legal basis for processing special category data, which covers racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data if used for identification, health data, and sex life or sexual orientation, is your consent.

Why this matters

These are among the most personal facts a dating profile can hold.

What the policy says

Your consent for special category data (racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and genetic data, biometric data if used for the purpose of identification, health data or sex life or sexual orientation).

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What you can do

A privacy control may reduce part of this practice.

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Biometrics No direct setting If requested or permitted, Bumble uses your ID photo and a selfie to verify you

What this means

Bumble says that, if requested or permitted, it uses a photo of your government-issued ID and a selfie for ID verification.

Why this matters

Verification uses both an ID document and a picture of your face.

What the policy says

If requested or permitted, photo of Government issued ID and selfie for ID verification

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What you can do

No setting found that directly changes this practice.

In the Bumble documents we searched for this finding, we did not verify a setting that changes this specific practice.

A broader option is available

Bumble's Your Rights section describes rights it says you generally have depending on the specific circumstances, and says your particular rights depend on your country; you use them through its Feedback Page, by email to its Data Protection Officer, or by contacting it. For Washington consumers' Consumer Health Data, which Bumble's Washington Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy says includes biometric data used as described in its Privacy Policy, such as photo verification, that policy gives rights to access it, to withdraw consent where Bumble processes it with your consent, and to request that Bumble delete it.

That is a wider action rather than a privacy setting for this practice — it changes more than this, and it is not the same as turning this off.

Tracking Control available in some regions Bumble shares your device's advertising ID with marketing service providers

What this means

Bumble lists the advertising identifier associated with your device among the information it shares with marketing service providers, which it partners with to market and advertise its App and measure its advertising campaigns.

Why this matters

Companies that market Bumble can receive an identifier tied to your device.

What the policy says

Marketing Service Providers* To partner with Service Providers focused on marketing services to: […] Advertising identifier associated with your device (Device ID)

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What you can do

A verified privacy control can reduce this, where it is available to you.

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12 more key findings a free account opens, by topic

  • Advertising & Profiling 2
  • Controls & Permissions 2
  • Sharing 2
  • Biometrics 1
  • Location 1
  • Messages 1
  • Other 1
  • Sensitive Data 1
  • Tracking 1

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  • Location 10 more
  • Camera & Photos 3 more
  • Microphone & Audio 2 more
  • Contacts 1 more
  • Messages 9 more
  • Biometrics 8 more
  • Sensitive Data 8 more
  • Tracking 4 more
  • Advertising & Profiling 20 more
  • Sharing 27 more
  • Controls & Permissions 45 more
  • Other 27 more

  • Complete report

    164 additional reviewed findings, each shown with the policy wording behind it, like the 15 above.

  • Privacy Tune-Up

    24 verified privacy controls, 8 of them high-impact — where each one is, what it changes, and what may stop working.

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