Privacy Policy

• Account details: email, password (hashed by our auth provider), name, and birth year (only to confirm you’re 18+; never shown).
• What you tell Goodkin: personality answers, “I’d like to find” lines, context, what you can help with, availability, values, work, languages, vouches from friends, and optional voice intros (we keep the transcript and interests, never the audio).
• Location: a city or neighborhood you enter. We round coordinates to about 1 km (neighborhood) or 10 km (city) before storing them.
• Searches, intros, messages and group activity, including automatic translations.
• Billing: your plan and Stripe customer and subscription IDs. Card details are handled by Stripe; we never see your full card number.
• Basic technical data: hashed IP for rate limiting and abuse prevention, device and log data.

• Sell or rent personal data, or share it with advertisers.
• Infer sensitive traits (ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, health) from your photo, name, writing or behavior.
• Store your exact address or live location.
• Build profiles of private individuals who aren’t on Goodkin.

Goodkin builds a private matching summary from what you’ve shared and turns it into an embedding (a numeric representation) so searches in any language can find you. Jev from TypeSafe AI scores matches, checks whether a match is likely mutual, and screens searches and messages for safety. Language models reached through the Vercel AI Gateway understand searches, search the web, write match explanations and translate messages. We send these providers only what each task needs; they process it on our behalf. Profile fields you set to “Only me” are never shown to others, and context you mark “Matching only” is used for ranking but never displayed.

You only appear in search if you turn on Discoverable. Each profile field can be shown to Everyone, Matches, or Only you. With chat first on, new connections see only your first name and portrait until you both choose to reveal. Nobody can message you until you accept their intro. People you block can’t find or see you.

To help people find local services, Goodkin shows businesses, and people in a public professional or community role, using public sources such as license records, business websites and public reviews. Every fact shows its source and when it was checked. Anyone can ask us to correct or remove this information at goodkin.app/removal, with or without an account.

Searches and messages are screened automatically. Messages that look like scams, harassment or threats may be held and reviewed by our trust and safety team, together with any reports. We keep reports and safety records as long as needed to protect people.

We use Supabase (database and authentication), Vercel (hosting and AI Gateway), model providers accessed through the AI Gateway (including TypeSafe AI, Anthropic and OpenAI), Perplexity (web search), Open-Meteo (place lookup) and Stripe (payments and identity verification). Each processes data only to provide its service to us.

Wherever you live, you can see and delete what Goodkin learned about you, download a copy of your data, correct your profile, and delete your account from Safety & privacy. Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or CCPA), you may have further rights, including objecting to processing and complaining to a data protection authority. We don’t sell or “share” personal data as defined by the CCPA.

We keep your data while your account is open. When you delete your account we delete your profile, matching data, searches, intros and messages you sent, except records we must keep for legal, billing or safety reasons.

Goodkin is for adults 18 and over. We don’t knowingly collect data from anyone under 18 and delete it if we find it.

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