Match 13 Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 2025
Security in Match 13
We store the following data for each user:
Public Profile Attributes (available to all users via autocomplete):
- Full Name
- House
- Profile Picture
Matches Profile Attributes (available only to mutual matches):
- Pronouns
- Concentration
- Phone Number
- Social Media
Private Profile Attributes (available only to the user themselves):
- Blocklist
- Crushes
- Ships
- Matches
Crushes and Matches
You (and only you) have access to your crushes, blocklist, and ships. If you receive any matches, only members of the pair will have access to that match.
Autocomplete
This service is only accessible to users who have authenticated with an @college.harvard.edu email registered with the Harvard College 2026 Class Committee. The autocomplete feature contains the names and Houses of members of the Class of 2026 that have opted into having their information shared with the Class Committee. Thus, the fact that someone is visible in autocomplete is not an indication that they are registered for Match 13. To protect your privacy and to uphold student directory guidelines, all emails are private on Match 13 until matchies are released—even emails that are available within the directory. We believe it is reasonable to include names in autocomplete because they are relatively public, but please contact us if you would specifically like your name to be removed.
Deleting Your Account
When you delete your account, all of the information from your profile page is deleted from our database.
We understand that Match 13 users trust us with sensitive information, and we greatly value that trust. We aim to be fully transparent about any privacy or security issues that may arise.
Full Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit match13.datamatch.me (the “Site”).
This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") that we gather when you are accessing or using our Services, but not to the practices of companies we don’t own or control, or people that we don’t manage. We gather various types of Personal Information from our users, as explained in more detail below, and we use this Personal Information internally in connection with our Services, including to personalize, provide, and improve our services, to allow you to set up a user account and profile, to contact you and allow other users to contact you, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to analyze how you use the Services.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us. For example, through the registration process and/or through your account settings, we may collect Personal Information such as your name, email address, and third-party account credentials (for example, your log-in credentials for third party sites). If you provide your third-party account credentials to us or otherwise sign in to the Services through a third party site or service, you understand some content and/or information in those accounts (“Third Party Account Information”) may be transmitted into your account with us, and that Third Party Account Information transmitted to our Services is covered by this Privacy Policy. Certain information may be required to register with us or to take advantage of some of our features.
We may communicate with you if you’ve provided us the means to do so. For example, if you’ve given us your email address, we may email you about your use of the Services. Also, we may receive a confirmation when you open an email from us. This confirmation helps us make our communications with you more interesting and improve our services. If you do not want to receive communications from us, please indicate your preference by opting-out. For email communications, you can opt-out using the unsubscribe link provided in the email.
In addition, we want to be clear what user data is accessible (via the search function) to other users, what is made available to matches, and what is kept available only to the user.
Public Profile Attributes (available to all users via autocomplete):
- Full Name
- House
- Profile Picture
Matches Profile Attributes (available only to mutual matches):
- Pronouns
- Concentration
- Phone Number
- Social Media
Private Profile Attributes (available only to the user themselves):
- Blocklist
- Crushes
- Ships
- Matches
Information Collected Automatically
Whenever you interact with our Services, we automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser or device, which may include your IP address, geolocation data, device identification, “cookie” information, the type of browser and/or device you’re using to access our Services, and the page or feature you requested. “Cookies” are identifiers we transfer to your browser or device that allow us to recognize your browser or device and tell us how and when pages and features in our Services are visited and by how many people. You may be able to change the preferences on your browser or device to prevent or limit your device’s acceptance of cookies, but this may prevent you from taking advantage of some of our features. Also, if you click on a link to a third party website or service, such third party may also transmit cookies to you. Again, this Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties, and we aren’t responsible for their privacy policies and practices. Please be aware that cookies placed by third parties may continue to track your activities online even after you have left our Services, and those third parties may not honor “Do Not Track” requests you have set using your browser or device. We may also use this data to improve the Services - for example, this data can tell us how often users use a particular feature of the Services, and we can use that knowledge to make the Services interesting to as many users as possible.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not rent, sell, or otherwise share your Personal Information in personally identifiable form to anyone. This includes members of the 2026 Class Committee and the Datamatch team.
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
Your account is protected by a password for your privacy and security. If you access your account via a third party site or service, you may have additional or different sign-on protections via that third party site or service. You must prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting your password and/or other sign-on mechanism appropriately and limiting access to your computer or device and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account.
We endeavor to protect the privacy of your account and other Personal Information we hold in our records, but unfortunately, we cannot guarantee complete security. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Through your account settings, you may access, and, in some cases, edit or delete the following information you’ve provided to us: -name and password -email address -user profile information
The information you can view, update, and delete may change as the Services change. If you have any questions about viewing or updating information we have on file about you, please contact us at cupids@datamatch.me.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MANAGE YOUR PRIVACY
You can always opt not to disclose information to us, but keep in mind some information may be needed to register with us or to take advantage of some of our features.
You may be able to add, update, or delete information as explained above. When you update information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. You may request deletion of your account by going to your Settings page or emailing us at cupids@datamatch.me. We may use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally.
MINORS
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please do not attempt to register for the Services or send any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 18 may have provided us personal information, please contact us at cupids@datamatch.me.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at cupids@datamatch.me.