Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy

Sprig is a dating service. Some of what you choose to share can reveal information the Act protects. On Sprig, the categories we collect are:

• Orientation and gender identity: the gender, orientation, and “seeking” preferences you set on your profile.
• Sexual behavior and desire: your answers, notes, acceptable-answer selections, importance levels, and dealbreaker flags for the compatibility questions we flag as sensitive because they concern sexual behavior or desire. Surrounding romance and affection questions, such as date nights or how you like to be shown affection, are not flagged.
• Family planning: the same, for flagged questions about whether you want children and about fertility.
• Health practices: a smaller group of flagged questions concerning medication, preventive care, and mental-health practices such as therapy.
• Anything else we flag: flagging is decided question by question rather than by category, so a flagged question can appear anywhere in the question bank, and the consent screen appears before the first one you encounter.
• Information we derive: your compatibility scores with other members are calculated in part from the answers above, and are treated as consumer health data. Scores are calculated when they are needed and are not stored, so there is no separate copy of them to keep or delete.

Some lifestyle questions, including those about alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis, are not currently flagged. We keep that judgment under review.

You, directly. We do not buy data about you, enrich your profile from data brokers, pull from social media, or infer health information from your browsing. The compatibility scores described in Section 1 are calculated by us, and they are calculated only from what you have given us. If you do not provide something in the categories above, we do not have it.

Matching. Computing compatibility between you and other members, including orientation-aware discovery, meaning we show you people you are seeking who are also seeking you.

Showing your answers to other members. Another member can see your answer to a question only if they have answered that question themselves, and never if you have marked your answer private. A private answer still counts toward matching but is not displayed to anyone and is not identified question by question. Members can choose to feature a small number of their answers on their profile, where anyone can see them. A private answer cannot be featured, and marking a featured answer private removes it from the profile at the same time. The flagged questions covered by this policy can never be featured, and the Service does not offer the option for them. The full visibility rules are in Section 5 of our Privacy Policy.

Safety. If content is reported by the member who received it, our safety team reviews the reported content and, for safety-critical reports such as a possible minor, a limited window of recent messages from that conversation. This is described in the “Messages are private” section of our Privacy Policy.

We do not use consumer health data for advertising of any kind. We will not use it for any purpose not listed here without asking you first.

Profile basics. Your gender, orientation, and who you are seeking are collected when you build your profile. We collect these because they are necessary to provide the service you have asked us for: Sprig cannot show you compatible people without knowing who you are looking for.

Flagged questions: two separate choices. Before the first flagged question you reach, we ask you two things, on two separate screens, one after the other. Neither is part of accepting our Terms of Service, and creating an account does not give either consent.

The first: may we ask these questions and keep your answers? If you decline, flagged questions are removed from your question flow and we do not ask again there. Declining does not limit anything else in the Service.

The second: may members who have answered the same question see your answers? If you decline, your answers to flagged questions are kept private. They still count toward your compatibility with other members, but no one is ever shown them. This is a choice about visibility rather than a refusal to take part, and it limits nothing else.

We record the date of each consent separately. If you reach a flagged question somewhere other than your main question flow, for example on another member's profile, we ask the same two things there rather than stopping you without explanation.

Marking a single answer private. Whichever choice you made on the second screen, you can mark any individual answer private. A private answer still counts toward matching and is never displayed to anyone.

Changing your mind. The two consents are held separately in Settings and either can be changed at any time. If you turn sharing on later in Settings, we ask whether it should apply to answers you have already given or only to answers from then on. We do not make answers you have already given visible without asking you first.

Withdrawing. Withdrawing your consent to collection deletes your existing answers to flagged questions, stops those questions from being asked, and clears your sharing consent at the same time. Because compatibility scores are calculated when they are needed rather than stored, deleting your answers removes them from any future calculation.

Other members. Only as described in Section 3, and only where you have given the consent described in Section 4. Never in bulk, never publicly, and never to a member who has not answered the same question.

Service providers. We use providers for infrastructure hosting, private file and backup storage, and email delivery. They process consumer health data only on our instructions and only to provide those services to us. We may change providers within these categories.

Legal and safety. Where disclosure is required by law, or necessary to prevent imminent harm, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Affiliates. None. Sprig has no affiliated companies, and no affiliate has access to member data.

We do not sell consumer health data. A sale would require your separate written authorization meeting the requirements of the Act, and we would have to ask for it specifically. We do not share consumer health data with third parties for their own purposes.

Under the Act you have the right to:

Know and access. Confirm whether we are collecting, sharing, or selling your consumer health data, and obtain a copy of it. This includes a list of every third party and affiliate with whom we have shared it, together with an active email address or other online mechanism you can use to contact each of them.

Withdraw consent. To our collection of your consumer health data, and to our sharing of it, in Settings or by email.

Delete. Ask us to delete your consumer health data. Deleting your answers, or your whole account in the Safety Center, removes the data from the live Service. We notify every affiliate, processor, contractor, and other third party we have shared it with, and they are required to honor the deletion. Copies held in our encrypted backups are deleted within 180 days of the date we confirm your request, and we do not use them in the meantime. If we restore a backup, data you have asked us to delete is not returned to the Service.

Not be discriminated against. For exercising any of these rights.

To exercise any right, use the in-app controls or email [email protected]. We will verify the request comes from the account owner and respond within 45 days. We may extend that once, by a further 45 days, where reasonably necessary, and we will tell you within the first 45 days if we do and why. In-app controls and email are the ways to submit a request; postal mail is not a request channel.

Appeals. If we decline a request, we will explain why and tell you how to appeal. An appeal receives a fresh review and a written response within 45 days. If you are not satisfied after appealing, you may contact the Washington Attorney General at atg.wa.gov/file-complaint.

We do not use geofencing of any kind. Location on Sprig is a ZIP code you enter yourself, converted to an approximate area center. The Service does not collect precise location, and location metadata carried in a photograph is removed when the photograph is uploaded.

We will announce material changes by email or in-app notice before they take effect. A new use of consumer health data, or a new category of recipient, will not happen without asking for your consent first.

Sprig Dating LLC
c/o Washington Commercial Registered Agent LLC
100 N Howard St STE R
Spokane, WA 99201
[email protected]