Dated 21 September 2026.
Updated 1 October 2026.
Plain English, no legalese we can avoid. If anything here is unclear, write to us: the address is at the bottom.
When you sign in, our sign-in provider (Clerk) gives us your phone number. That's how sign-in works, and it's all sign-in gives us.
When you set up your profile, we collect your name, date of birth, gender, who you want to meet, and your intention. Height, job, and ethnicity are optional. Ethnicity is picked from a fixed list, or you can say you'd rather not answer.
We collect the photos you upload, the plans you post, the hands you raise on other people's plans, and your check-in answers after a meeting. When you open the feed, the app sends your approximate location, rounded to two decimal places, so we can show you how far away a plan is. That location isn't tied to your profile. When you search for a venue while posting a plan, the app sends that same approximate location to our server, so places near you can be found faster.
Another person sees your first name and age, your photos, your intention (what you're looking for), and whether you're verified. They also see the display-only fields on your profile: height and job, if you've filled them in. If you've answered ethnicity, it shows there too, and on your plans, and people can choose to see plans only from certain ethnicities. If you haven't answered, or you chose "Prefer not to say," you're never filtered out by that choice, and "Prefer not to say" itself is never shown to anyone.
Other people also see your show up rate: a percentage built from what the people you've met say afterward, when they check in, about whether you actually showed up. We never show anyone the individual answers, only the percentage, and only once at least three people have answered. In the same way, your own check-in answers about the people you meet count toward their show up rate.
A plan you post shows its general area, not the address. The exact spot is only shown to the person you pick, and only once they've confirmed.
If you report someone, we keep who made the report, who it's about, the reason you picked, anything you wrote in the note, the plan it was about if you chose one, and when you sent it. Only the Overby team sees reports. The person you reported is never told, and nobody else can see that a report exists.
If you block someone, we keep who blocked whom and when. A block hides you and that person from each other: neither of you sees the other's plans, and anything already arranged between you ends the same way an ordinary cancellation would. The person you blocked is never told. You can see and undo your blocks in Settings.
If we decide an account broke our community rules, we close it. A closed account can't use Overby any more, but its owner can still delete it and everything in it. If they do, we keep one thing: a one-way fingerprint of its phone number, made with a secret key, so that number can't be used to rejoin. Nothing else about the account is kept.
To post a plan, we ask you to verify it's really you. The app captures three quick frames through your camera: one facing forward, two following a prompt we choose at random. Your selfie is compared with your lead profile photo, either automatically by Amazon Rekognition or by a person on our team who reviews it. Automatic comparison isn't turned on yet, so today every selfie is reviewed by a person; when it is turned on, a close enough automatic match will verify your account immediately. Either way, the frames are deleted the moment a decision is made.
The frames are kept privately: never public, only ever reachable through a link that expires in minutes. They're deleted the moment a decision is made, or after 72 hours at the very latest, whichever comes first.
We ask for your explicit consent before every capture. We never store a face template, a "face print," or any numeric measurement of your face. The similarity score from the comparison is written to a log line for debugging and nothing more permanent.
The selfie check involves biometric identifiers under laws like Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act, and similar laws in Texas and Washington. Those laws ask us to get your consent, publish a retention and deletion schedule, and tell you what we hold if you ask. We do all three: consent is collected for every capture, the frames are deleted on a decision or at 72 hours as described above, and you can write to us any time to ask what we have on file.
We don't sell your information. A short list of companies process it on our behalf, each for one job:
Your profile, photos, and plans stay while your account exists. Selfie verification frames are the one thing on a hard clock: deleted the moment a decision is made, or after 72 hours at the very latest. Blocks stay until you undo them or either account is deleted. A report stays while it's waiting for us to look at it, and is deleted 12 months after we've made a decision on it, or sooner if the person who made it deletes their account. If you close your account, see below.
You can close your account any time from Settings. That removes your profile, your photos, any selfie frames still on file, your plans, the hands you've raised on other people's plans, your blocks (yours and anyone else's on you), the reports you've made, and your sign-in account itself. A report someone else made about you stays for the time described above, with your account no longer attached to it, so we can still act if the same thing happens again. People you met keep the first name they already knew you by in their own history. Closing your account doesn't reach into someone else's.
Overby is for adults. You must be 18 or older to use it, and we check your date of birth when you set up your profile.
This website sets none.
Questions about any of this: hello@overby.date.
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