what we collect,
and why.

1. What we collect, and why

Everything below exists to run a specific part of Iraada. If we ask for it, here is exactly what it is for.

To create your account

• Email — how you sign in, and how we reach you about your account.
• Password — stored only as a one-way hash. We can’t read it back, and neither can anyone who breaks in.

For your profile

• First name, birth year, gender, who you’re interested in — confirms you’re old enough to be here (21+) and who we should be showing you.
• City and languages — so Discover shows you people you could actually meet.
• Height, relationship timeline, value tags, lifestyle answers — the honesty Iraada runs on. Height goes on your profile; it never becomes a filter.
• Prompt answers and photos — the substance of a profile. A few honest answers, real photos, nothing staged.

To confirm you’re real

• A live verification selfie — checked against your photos and a pose we ask for on the spot. A person on our side reviews it, approves or rejects it, then we delete it. Every time, whatever the outcome.
• A phone number, only if phone verification is switched on for your account — it exists to stop one person running two accounts, and it is never shown to anyone, including your matches.

While you use the app

• Letters, likes, and passes — the mechanics of how Iraada works.
• Reports and blocks — so we can act on them and keep an honest record of what happened.

2. What we never ask for

No salary. No caste. No location tracking — we don’t read your GPS or follow your phone around. No access to your contacts. These are not buried in fine print somewhere; they are fields that simply do not exist in our database. Filtering people by money, background, or looks is exactly what Iraada was built against — we are not going to quietly collect the ingredients for it.

3. How we store and protect it

Everything lives in MongoDB Atlas, a cloud database, on a site hosted by Vercel. Your password is hashed one-way before it is ever saved, so what we store cannot be reversed back into your actual password. Verification selfies are the one thing we deliberately do not keep — captured live, reviewed by a person, deleted right after, whether you are approved or not. Access to the database and our admin tools is limited to the small team running Iraada, and only for moderation, safety, and support.

4. Who we share it with

Nobody. We do not sell your data, and we do not run ads, third-party trackers, or analytics on Iraada today. The only outside parties involved at all are the infrastructure we run on — Vercel for hosting, MongoDB Atlas for the database. They process data on our behalf, under standard hosting agreements, never for their own purposes.

5. How long we keep it

We keep your data for as long as your account exists. Want it gone sooner? Email us and we will delete your account and the data attached to it. There is no self-serve delete button yet, so a person on our team does it by hand — which means it is not instant, but it does happen. Verification selfies do not wait for that request; they are deleted right after review, always.

6. Your rights

You can ask what we hold on you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it — write to hello@iraada.app for any of it. That inbox is newly set up, so bear with us if a reply takes a few days. India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is phasing in as we build; we intend to meet it as it takes effect, and the same address is where any grievance under it should go.

7. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so — in the app, or by email, not just by quietly editing this page. The date below is always the current version.

Effective 8 August 2026.