Last updated: October 2026
Our privacy promise. Your photos, personal details and documents are used only to run your matrimony profile and keep members safe. We never sell them, never show them to advertisers, and never share your phone number or email with anyone you have not matched with.
1. What we collect
- Account: your email address, and a password (stored only as a salted, one-way hash, which we cannot read) or your Google sign-in identifier.
- Profile details: name, gender, date of birth, marital status, height, hatti, seemae, religion, education, work, family details, partner preferences and the "about" text you write.
- Contact details: your phone number and contact email.
- Photo: the profile photo you upload.
- Verification documents: if you ask for a detail to be verified, the document you upload as proof (for example an ID, a degree certificate or an employment letter).
- Payments: what you paid for, the amount, the date and the payment reference. Payments are made by UPI on our payment partner's secure screen; we never receive or store your UPI PIN, bank account or card details. Payment records are kept as long as accounting and tax rules require, even after your profile is deleted.
- Activity: interests sent and received, matches, blocks, reports, and basic technical logs needed to keep the service secure.
2. How we protect your photo
- Photos are kept in private storage. They are not reachable by a public link; the site checks who is asking before it serves a photo.
- Only members whose profile is approved, and who are allowed to see your profile, can see your photo. Members of the same gender as you never see your profile at all.
- You can choose "Show my photos only on request". Then your photo stays hidden until you approve a specific person. You can withdraw that approval at any time, and a match can always see your photo.
- Blocking a member immediately hides your photo and profile from them.
3. How we protect your personal and contact details
- Your phone number and contact email are private. They are shown to another member only after you and that member have accepted each other's interest (a match). They are never shown in search results or to strangers.
- Other profile details are shown only to approved members who are allowed to view your profile, not to the general public or search engines.
- You decide whom to approach: you can ignore or reject interests, block any member, or report a profile.
- We do not sell your personal data and we do not use it for advertising.
4. How we protect your ID and verification documents
- Your ID is required before a profile can go live, so that every profile belongs to a real person. Other documents (degree, job, marital status) are optional and each one adds a ✓ to the details it proves.
- Documents are stored privately and are never shown to other members. Other members only see a tick next to a detail we checked.
- Only our admin team can open a document, and every time one is opened it is recorded in a log.
- How long we keep them: while your profile is active, and for 3 months after it ends (if you delete it or we remove it). After that they are deleted automatically. We keep them this long so that we can act if a profile turns out to be fraudulent. A document you withdraw before we review it is deleted straight away.
- If you change a verified detail, its tick is removed and you must verify it again.
- Please send only what is needed. You may cover your ID number, as long as your name and date of birth are readable. If we ever ask for income proof, the same rules will apply and sensitive figures may be covered.
5. How we use your information
- To show your profile to suitable members and to let members send, accept or decline interests.
- To review profiles and documents, and to keep the community safe (including acting on reports).
- To email you about activity on your account, such as interests, matches, photo requests and review results.
6. Who can see what
- Other members: your approved profile and photo (subject to your photo setting). Your contact details only after a match.
- Our admin team: your profile, contact details and documents, only as needed for review, support and safety.
- Service providers: we run on Cloudflare (hosting, database and file storage). We may use an email service to deliver our messages and Google for "Continue with Google". They process data only to provide those services for us.
- We may disclose information if the law requires it or to protect someone's safety.
7. Reports and blocking
If you report a profile, only our team sees who reported it. The reported member is not told. A reported or blocked profile is hidden from you afterwards.
8. Keeping and deleting your data
- You can edit your profile at any time.
- You can ask us to delete your profile. We then remove your profile, photo, interests and matches. Your documents are kept for 3 more months and then deleted (see section 4). Write to our support address from the email you registered with.
- Accounts removed or banned for breaking our rules may keep a minimal record (email and the reason) so that they cannot simply return.
9. Security
Passwords are hashed, sessions use secure cookies, sign-in attempts are rate limited, and access to photos and documents is checked on every request. No online service can promise perfect security, so please choose a strong password and keep it to yourself.
10. Children
Badaga Weds is only for adults who are legally eligible to marry. Parents or family may help create a profile, but only for an adult family member and with that person's knowledge.
11. Changes and contact
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will tell members by email or on the site. Questions or requests: our support address.