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Route: /policies/likefaithmatch · Full text: Terms and Agreement § 12

LikeFaithMatch is for single adults 18 and older, and you must confirm your age separately before entering. LikeFaithLink does not run criminal background checks. Optional Pastor approved and Father approved badges record personal references; ID verified records a limited photo-ID check during a live video call, without storing ID copies. No badge guarantees identity, age, marital status, honesty or safety. Never send money. Keep early conversations on the app, meet first in a public place, arrange your own transportation, and tell a trusted friend where you're going. Report anyone who pressures you, asks for money, or seems to be a minor. Read Safety & trust badges for red flags and meeting precautions.

LikeFaithMatch Privacy & Matching Disclosure

Your answers stay private. Your compatibility becomes visible.

Who may participate. Single adults 18 and older (and of the age of majority where they live) who separately choose to join. No LikeFaithLink account is ever added automatically, and LikeFaithMatch activity is never posted to your regular feed. Discovery currently connects men and women; you choose "Man", "Woman" or "Prefer not to disclose" yourself — we never guess it from names, photos or AI. If you prefer not to disclose, you can keep a profile but won't use Discover.

Who can see your match profile. Only signed-in, eligible, opted-in adults who fit your preferences and whose preferences you fit. It shows your display name, age, city and country, short bio, connection intentions, and anything optional you add (languages, interests, church background). Match profiles are not public web pages and are not indexed by search engines. Your date of birth, email, phone, address and payment details are never shown.

What we collect and what stays confidential. For each optional question: your answer, the partner answers you'd accept, how important it is (No preference, Slight, Important, Very important, Dealbreaker), and an optional private note. No other member, church, employer, business or ministry can see any of this. Answers are kept separate from FaithWorks and MinistryMatch and are never used for advertising or hiring.

How compatibility is calculated. Our servers compare answers automatically (this is profiling). For each question you both answered, each side's satisfaction is weighted by how much it matters to that person: Just for fun 1, Slight 2, Somewhat important 5, Very important or Dealbreaker 10. A partner answer you marked acceptable counts fully. On pick-several questions, credit is given for shared selections, fairly whether someone picked a few or many. On agree–disagree scales, nearby answers earn partial credit, and "Maybe" earns half credit against Yes or No. Each person's weighted satisfaction is calculated per category, and the two are combined with a geometric mean, so both people's preferences count equally. A category percentage is shown only when at least 5 questions (6 for Bible & Doctrine) were answered by both, and is rounded to the nearest 5%. The overall percentage is a weighted average of eligible categories and is shown only with enough coverage. Skipped questions, answers marked Not applicable or Prefer not to answer, answers you keep for yourself only, and answers to questions that have since changed never count as agreement or disagreement. Percentages estimate how closely selected preferences align — they do not predict relationship success or determine spiritual worth.

How dealbreakers work. A dealbreaker is a pass/fail requirement that applies in both directions. If either person's dealbreaker isn't met, neither appears in the other's Discover. For each dealbreaker you choose whether an unanswered question excludes someone or is allowed as "compatibility not established." No one is ever told which preference excluded them.

Privacy limits. Compatibility scores are derived from your confidential answers and are linked to your profile, so they are personal information, not anonymous data. To limit what can be inferred, we use minimum question counts, rounding, daily lookup limits, 24-hour score caching and lookup audit logs. These reduce but cannot fully eliminate inference risk.

International discovery. Off unless you choose "Open to international relationships." Members in different countries only see each other when both have opted in. Your information may be processed in the United States.

Your rights. You can view, correct, skip or clear any answer at any time, pause or delete your match profile, and withdraw questionnaire consent — which erases all your answers immediately. Email privacy@likefaithlink.com for access or other privacy requests.

Safety, reporting and blocking. Blocking hides you from each other at once. You can report harassment, romance scams, requests for money, impersonation, suspected minors, inappropriate content, threats and suspicious international activity. Authorized safety staff may review relevant information only when needed to investigate a report.

Retention. Answers are deleted when you withdraw consent or delete your match profile. Cached compatibility results expire after 24 hours. Reports and safety records are kept as described in the Privacy Policy.