How CarSwype Match handles your data.

Request account or data deletion

To request deletion of your CarSwype Match account without opening the app, email [email protected] from the email address associated with your account. Say that you want your CarSwype Match account deleted. Do not send your password or verification codes. We may ask you to verify account ownership before completing the request.

In the app, open Profile and choose Delete Account, then confirm. Account deletion removes your sign-in identity, account profile, preferences and target budget, swipe history, saved cars, private notes, comparison selections, partner referral consents, your partner referral activity history, profile corrections, discovery activity records, and your public top-five page and handle. Signing out or uninstalling the app does not delete your account.

We retain a minimal deletion audit record containing a hashed user identifier, deletion time, and deletion counts. This audit record has no automatic expiry. It does not contain your email, password, notes, or preference values. Security, legal, and backup retention exceptions are described below.

To delete decision data while keeping your account, use Reset Preferences in Profile. You can also remove saved cars or clear individual notes, or email [email protected] and specify the data you want deleted.

Overview

CarSwype Match helps you discover, save, and compare cars based on your taste, budget, and lifestyle. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.

Information We Collect

We collect the information needed to provide the app: account details from your sign-in provider, such as your user identifier, email, name, and profile image when available; onboarding preferences such as selected vibes and target budget; swipe decisions; saved cars; private notes; comparison selections; and corrections you make to your learned profile. We also record first-party discovery activity, including completion of the first ten choices, profile views and corrections, later saves and comparisons, and whether the displayed deck has run out of cars. These records help us assess recommendation usefulness. They are stored with your account and are not sent to an external analytics service. Reset Preferences clears these discovery activity records along with your decision inputs; account deletion removes them too.

If you opt into partner referrals, we also collect and store your consent choices for each partner category, the partner offers you open (including which offer, which saved car it related to, and when), and outcomes partners report back to us, such as whether a request or purchase was completed. You can review this activity at any time in the Partner Activity section of your profile.

Our authentication provider, Clerk, records session identifiers, IP addresses, device information, and approximate location derived from IP addresses for account security. We do not request precise device location. We may also receive basic technical information such as device, app, request, website analytics, and log data when you use the app, website, or API. Authentication tokens are stored using platform-provided secure storage where available.

How We Use Information

We use your information to sign you in, maintain your account, sync your preferences, power match scoring, show saved cars and notes, improve reliability, prevent abuse, and respond to support or account requests. If you opt in, we also use your consent choices to decide which partner offers to show you, and your referral activity to attribute and reconcile partner commissions.

Public Top Five

Sharing is off by default. If you publish from Matches, your chosen handle and five highest-ranked car matches become public on a page that anyone can visit, share, or find in search engines. The cars update automatically as your synced choices change. Your email, account identifier, budget, notes, swipe history, and private match explanations are not included. Your public cars may still suggest aspects of your taste to other people.

You can hide the page in Matches at any time. Reset Preferences hides it; account deletion removes the page and handle. Your handle is kept while the page is hidden so your link remains yours. Search engines, social networks, and people who previously copied the page may retain their own copies after you hide or delete it.

Email Communications

With your account email, we send messages connected to how you use the app: recall notices for cars you saved, a nudge if you stop mid-way through your first ten swipes, a note when your match profile is ready, occasional summaries of new cars that fit your preferences, and links to blog posts we think suit you. Accepting these emails is part of creating an account, and every email carries an unsubscribe link. You can turn off recall notices separately from other email, and unsubscribing never changes anything inside the app itself. We use an email delivery provider to send these messages, and we do not sell or share your email address with partners or anyone else for marketing.

Partner Referrals

Partner offers are optional and limited to four categories: insurance, financing, inspection, and warranty. Offers can appear on your saved cars, and only for categories you have consented to. We do not sell your data, and we do not share your swipes, notes, budget, or browsing history with partners. Partner money never changes your match scores or the order of your results.

Every partner offer is labeled with a disclosure before you continue, and confirming that disclosure is a separate, explicit step. When you choose to continue, we record that you opened the offer along with a unique reference and the car it related to, and we pass that reference to the partner so they know the visit came from CarSwype. You then leave our app and deal directly with the partner, whose own privacy policy applies from that point. The partner may later tell us that you became a customer and the commission amount.

You can review the offers you have opened in the Partner Activity section of your profile. To withdraw consent for a category, email [email protected]; withdrawing stops new offers in that category.

Service Providers

We use third-party providers for core infrastructure, including authentication, hosting, databases, analytics, and app distribution. These providers process information on our behalf so the app and website can operate securely and reliably. Partner companies in the categories above are independent businesses with their own privacy policies; they process your information when you choose to continue to them from a labeled offer.

Retention and Deletion

We keep account and preference data while your account is active or as needed to operate the service. You can use the app's account deletion flow to delete your CarSwype account data, including your Clerk sign-in identity, preferences, and swipe history. We retain a minimal hashed deletion audit record and may retain records where required for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, or backups.

Your Choices

You control partner referrals: review the offers you have opened in Partner Activity, and withdraw consent for a partner category at any time by contacting us, which stops new offers in that category. You can reset preferences, clear local app data through sign-out or account deletion flows, and control what you save or write in notes. You can also contact us at [email protected] for access, export, deletion, or other privacy requests.

Children

CarSwype Match is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes

We may update this policy as the app changes. When we do, we will update the date at the top of this page.