Privacy Policy
Grounded Dating
Last updated: 28 April 2026
Grounded Dating (“Grounded Dating”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is a UK-based company providing curated, in-person blind date introductions.
We are the data controller for the personal information you provide to us.
Contact:
Email: info@groundeddating.com
When you sign up or interact with us, we may collect:
• Full name
• Date of birth
• Email address
• Phone number
• Gender
• Who you are open to meeting
• Availability and preferred social venue
• Referral or invitation code
• Communications with us
We may also conduct identity verification prior to confirming a date. ID verification is handled securely and is not retained longer than necessary.
Certain information you provide — specifically information about who you are open to meeting — may reveal sexual orientation. Under UK GDPR, this is classified as special category data.
We only collect and process special category data where it is strictly necessary to provide our matchmaking service and where you have given explicit consent.
Where identity verification is required prior to confirming a date, ID checks are conducted securely. We do not retain copies of identity documents longer than necessary for verification purposes.
We do not knowingly collect personal data from individuals under the age of 18.
We do not collect payment details through unsecured forms.
Information about who you are open to meeting may reveal sexual orientation. This is considered special category data under UK GDPR.
We process this information only for the purpose of providing matchmaking services and only with your explicit consent.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
We use your information to:
• Verify your identity
• Assess suitability for curated introductions
• Match you based on availability and venue preference
• Communicate with you about your date
• Maintain safety and trust standards
• Improve our service
We do not sell your personal data.
We do not use automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
We process your personal data under the following lawful bases:
Contract — to provide the dating introduction service you request.
Legitimate Interests — to operate, improve and safeguard our service.
Explicit Consent — for processing special category data (such as sexual orientation).
We do not publicly share your personal information.
We may share limited information with:
• A matched date (first name only prior to meeting, unless otherwise agreed)
• Partner venues (name for booking purposes only)
• Professional service providers (e.g. hosting, secure data storage)
All service providers are required to handle your data securely and in accordance with UK data protection law.
We will retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, and where required for legal compliance, dispute resolution, community safety and fraud prevention. Inactive user data may be retained for up to 6 years for these purposes.
You may request deletion of your data at any time.
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your information, including:
• Secure cloud storage
• Restricted access controls
• Two-factor authentication where available
However, no system can guarantee absolute security.
Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:
• Access your personal data
• Correct inaccurate data
• Request deletion
• Restrict processing
• Withdraw consent
• Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
ICO website: ico.org.uk
We will only send marketing communications where you have opted in, used the form groundeddate.com or where permitted by law.
You may unsubscribe at any time.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available on our website.
If you choose to subscribe to our community updates or join our offline community mailing list (including where promoted Nadia Aghios’ YouTube channel or events), we will collect your email address for the purpose of sending:
• Updates about Grounded Dating
• Event announcements
• Community news
• Related content and initiatives
We will only send promotional or marketing communications where you have provided clear consent to receive them.
You can withdraw your consent and unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us directly.
We do not sell or share your email address for third-party marketing.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
14. Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
15. Interacting with the site: Notice
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
