Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Match'dUP uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our public website or use the Match'dUP application.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.

Match'dUP is operated by:

In this policy, "Match'dUP", "we", "us" and "our" refer to the entity identified above.

Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies and similar technologies can be used to make websites function, maintain secure sessions, remember preferences, understand how services are used and, where applicable and permitted, support analytics or marketing.

Similar technologies may include local storage, session storage, pixels, software development kits and other mechanisms that store information on, or access information from, a user's device.

Match'dUP may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes.

Strictly Necessary

These technologies are required for the website or application to function properly.

They may be used for purposes including:

• account authentication
• maintaining secure sessions
• security and fraud prevention
• remembering essential cookie choices
• providing requested functionality
• maintaining essential application state
• supporting payment and account functionality where required

Where these technologies are strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested, they cannot generally be disabled through our cookie consent mechanism.

Blocking them through your browser may cause parts of Match'dUP to stop functioning correctly.

Analytics

With your consent where required, we may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use Match'dUP.

These may help us understand information such as:

• which pages are visited
• how visitors navigate the website
• which features are used
• approximate session duration
• technical performance
• errors
• general usage patterns

We use this information to understand and improve Match'dUP.

Analytics technologies requiring consent will remain disabled unless and until the required consent has been provided.

Functional

We may use optional functional technologies to remember choices or provide enhanced functionality that is not strictly necessary to provide the service.

Where consent is required, these technologies will remain disabled unless you choose to allow them.

Marketing

Match'dUP may in future use marketing or advertising technologies to measure campaigns or provide relevant advertising.

Where consent is required, these technologies will not be activated unless you expressly choose to allow them.

We will not treat continued use of Match'dUP as consent to marketing cookies.

When you first visit Match'dUP, you may be presented with a cookie consent interface.

Where consent is required, you will be given clear choices:

• Accept All — allow optional cookie categories.
• Reject Optional — reject cookies and similar technologies that are not necessary.
• Manage Preferences — choose which optional categories you want to allow.

Rejecting optional cookies will not prevent you from using the core Match'dUP service.

Some technologies may operate without optional consent where they are strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user or another applicable legal exception applies.

For Match'dUP, these may include technologies necessary for:

• logging into your account
• maintaining authentication
• protecting account security
• processing a transaction requested by you
• maintaining essential application functionality
• storing your cookie preferences

We will still provide information about these technologies where appropriate.

Optional technologies will be controlled according to the choices presented through our consent mechanism.

They may include:

• analytics
• functional
• advertising or marketing

Optional categories will not be treated as accepted merely because you continue browsing Match'dUP.

Some functionality may be provided by third-party service providers.

Depending on Match'dUP's production configuration, these may include providers of:

• payment processing
• analytics
• application infrastructure
• security
• customer support
• other functionality

Where a third party uses non-essential storage or access technologies requiring consent, those technologies will be subject to the applicable consent choice.

Where required, we will identify relevant third parties and explain their purposes through our cookie information or preference interface.

Match'dUP intends to use Stripe for payment processing.

Payment-related technologies that are strictly necessary to securely provide a transaction requested by you may be treated differently from optional analytics or marketing technologies.

Once Stripe is connected, Match'dUP will audit the technologies used during checkout and update this Cookie Policy and cookie inventory where necessary.

We will not classify a technology as "necessary" merely because it is commercially useful to Match'dUP.

You can change or withdraw your optional cookie choices at any time.

Use the Cookie Settings link in the Match'dUP website footer to reopen the preference interface.

You can then:

• enable optional categories
• disable optional categories
• reject optional technologies
• update a previous decision

You can also control cookies through your browser, although blocking strictly necessary technologies may prevent parts of Match'dUP from operating correctly.

Different cookies and similar technologies may remain for different periods.

Some are session technologies and expire when your browser session ends.

Others are persistent technologies and remain for a defined period or until deleted.

Match'dUP will maintain an inventory of technologies used in production, including their purpose and applicable duration.

We may store information recording your cookie preference so that:

• we can respect your decision
• we do not repeatedly ask you on every page
• we can demonstrate appropriate consent where necessary
• we can identify when consent may need to be requested again

We may update this Cookie Policy where:

• Match'dUP introduces new technologies
• our service providers change
• analytics or marketing functionality changes
• payment functionality changes
• legal or regulatory requirements change

Where appropriate, we may ask you to make a new cookie choice following a material change.

The current version will display its latest update date.

If you have questions about Match'dUP's use of cookies or similar technologies, contact: