Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2026

This is a plain-language draft prepared to reflect how ForthrightMatch actually operates today. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Before ForthrightMatch collects full profile data or payment information, this policy should be reviewed by a licensed lawyer in Ontario and updated to match the actual systems in use at that time (including our payment processor's own requirements).

ForthrightMatch ("we," "us") is operated from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why, and what rights you have over it, in line with Canada's federal privacy law, PIPEDA (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act).

1. What we collect today

Right now, ForthrightMatch is a landing page, not yet a full platform. Today, we only collect:

Information	Why	Where it's stored
Your email address	To notify you once when ForthrightMatch launches	Formspree (our form provider) and our inbox at info@forthrightmatch.com
Your consent (checkbox)	Required under Canada's anti-spam law (CASL) before we can email you	Recorded with your submission at the time you send it

We do not use tracking cookies or analytics on this landing page as of this policy's last update.

2. What we'll collect once the full platform launches

When ForthrightMatch launches as a dating platform, we expect to collect: your profile information and photos, messages you send through the Service, your age confirmation, and payment information (processed by a third-party payment processor — we do not store your full card details ourselves). We'll update this policy with specifics before that happens.

3. Why we collect it

To notify you at launch — your email, with your consent.
To operate the Service — once launched: your profile, to show it to other members; your messages, to deliver them; your payment information, to process purchases of message credits.
To keep the Service honest — we manually review new profiles to confirm they represent real people, which is core to how ForthrightMatch works.

4. Who we share it with

Today: Formspree, which operates the signup form on this landing page, under their own privacy policy. We do not sell your email address, and we do not share it with anyone else.

Once launched: your profile will be visible to other verified members, as is the nature of a dating platform. Payment information will go to our payment processor, not to us directly. We will never sell your personal information to advertisers or data brokers.

5. Your rights

Under PIPEDA, you can:

Withdraw consent — ask us to stop emailing you, at any time, by writing to info@forthrightmatch.com. We'll remove your email from our list.
Access what we hold about you — ask us what information we have on file for your email address.
Correct or delete it — ask us to fix or remove information we hold about you.

We'll respond to any of these requests within 30 days.

6. How long we keep it

We keep your email on our launch-notification list until we either send the launch announcement and you don't create an account, or you ask us to remove it — whichever comes first.

7. Changes to this policy

We'll update the date at the top of this page whenever this policy changes, and post a summary of significant changes here.

8. Contact

Questions about this policy, or to exercise any of the rights above: info@forthrightmatch.com

If you're not satisfied with our response, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at priv.gc.ca.