Sawadee Thai LLC ("Sawadee Thai," "we," "us," or "our") operates sawadeethai.club, its installable web application, native mobile applications, and related Sawadee Thai services. We are a California dating service focused on connecting people and cultures.

This Privacy Policy applies when you visit, create an account, use discovery, profiles, interests, matches, chat, translation, reporting, support, or other Sawadee Thai services. It does not govern third-party services that have their own privacy policies.

Privacy questions or requests: sawadeethai.club@gmail.com

Depending on how you use Sawadee Thai, you may provide:

• Email address and the identifiers needed to authenticate your account through Apple, Google, or Facebook. We do not use provider names, profile photos, birthdays, or gender to populate your Sawadee Thai profile
• Account and eligibility information you provide, including display name, birth year, gender, and languages; age is derived from birth year, and we record your member-since date
• Up to nine profile photos in total; the first photo is your profile image
• Discovery preferences, including who you are looking for, age range, distance, units, and profile-verification preference
• Text messages, interests, matches, blocks, reports, feature requests, and support messages
• If you inquire about business promotion: the business legal name, business contact name, contact email, website destination, business bio, a 1024 × 1024 square marketing image, proposed promotion dates, and related correspondence
• Permission choices for approximate location, photos, and notifications
• Information voluntarily included in a report, appeal, privacy request, or communication with us
• If you choose identity verification: your legal first and last name, date of birth, consent record, camera-readiness result, verification status, and a Stripe Identity session reference

Firebase Authentication may receive and retain standard provider identity metadata, including a provider name or photo. Facebook includes basic public-profile access as part of sign-in. This authentication metadata is separate from your Sawadee Thai profile and is not used to populate its display name, photos, gender, or birth year.

Do not send passwords, government identification numbers, identity-document images, selfie files, financial account details, or other information we have not requested through email, chat, support, or profile uploads. Government ID and live-selfie capture for verification occur only in Stripe's secure Identity flow.

We and our service providers may automatically process:

• Device, browser, operating-system, app-installation, language, IP address, push-subscription, security, and diagnostic information
• Sign-in, active-installation, session, last-app-activity, page, feature, and interaction events used to maintain your account and enforce one active app session
• Presence and last-active information used to show online or offline status
• Approximate latitude and longitude when you grant location access, plus city, state, and country derived from it
• Technical records used to prevent abuse, enforce rate limits, investigate reports, and protect accounts
• Transaction confirmation and limited purchase or checkout details from Apple or Stripe when you make a voluntary contribution; Sawadee Thai does not receive or store your full payment-card number

Browser and device permission prompts are controlled by your browser or operating system. Photo uploads use the browser or device picker only when you choose a file; this does not give Sawadee Thai access to your entire photo library. If you enable notifications, we process a device push subscription or token to deliver permitted message, interest, match, account, and safety updates. Chat push notifications use a generic alert and do not include private message text. You can change location, camera, and notification permissions in device or browser settings.

Other eligible members may see the public profile information needed for discovery: display name, age, gender, languages spoken, state and country, profile and gallery photos, verification status, and online or offline status.

We keep registered email, user ID, legal last name, full date of birth, city, approximate coordinates, provider information, permissions, preferences, account history, moderation information, and statistics in restricted account or operational records. Other members do not receive your legal last name, email, full birth date, city, precise or approximate coordinates, permission history, or moderation records. After successful verification, only the verified first name is used as the public display name.

Blocking limits profile and media access between the two accounts. It does not erase reports, safety records, or information we must preserve for legitimate safety or legal reasons.

Location is optional and improves nearby discovery. With your permission, we obtain device-provided coordinates, reduce their precision for discovery, calculate approximate distance, and derive city, state, and country. Other members see only approximate distance and your state and country—not your coordinates or city.

If you move within the same city, we may refresh coarse coordinates without rewriting city, state, and country. If the derived area changes, we update the affected location fields. You may expand your distance preference to worldwide discovery. If you deny or disable location, discovery remains available with randomized eligible profiles and country shown instead of distance; maximum-distance filtering and nearby ranking are not applied.

Location can still reveal sensitive inferences. Do not use profile information to track, stalk, identify a home or workplace, or otherwise harm another person.

We process information to:

• Create, authenticate, maintain, and secure accounts
• Confirm adult eligibility and enforce account restrictions
• At your request, verify a government ID and matching live selfie through Stripe Identity, use Stripe-returned verified name and birth-date fields after a successful result, and lock the verified first name and birth date
• Display profiles and provide discovery based on preferences, distance, recency, presence, and verification status
• Validate public display names and language labels against narrow formatting and safety rules before publishing them
• Record interests, create or remove matches, deliver notifications, and provide text chat
• Translate a message at an eligible verified member's request
• Upload, crop, store, display, replace, and remove profile media
• Receive and investigate reports, enforce these Terms, prevent fraud, and protect people
• Respond to support, feature, accessibility, legal, and privacy requests
• Review business-promotion inquiries, administer approved campaigns, process related payments, and prevent advertising fraud or abuse
• Operate, troubleshoot, measure, and improve reliability, performance, and accessibility
• Comply with law, valid legal process, and obligations to preserve evidence

We do not use personal information to make decisions about employment, credit, housing, insurance, or other legally protected eligibility.

Translation is available only to eligible verified accounts. Before the first translation, we ask for explicit consent. If you accept and request a translation, the selected message and target language are sent through a protected server function to OpenAI. The request uses a pseudonymous safety identifier and does not include your public profile. You may decline and continue chatting without translation.

We send API requests with response storage disabled. OpenAI states that API data is not used to train its models by default, but API abuse-monitoring logs may retain submitted content for up to 30 days unless legal or approved data-control requirements apply. The translated copy in Sawadee Thai expires with the original message. Avoid translating sensitive personal information.

Machine translations can be incomplete, inaccurate, or misunderstand context. Do not rely on translation for emergencies, legal advice, consent, financial instructions, or other high-risk decisions.

We disclose information only as reasonably necessary:

• To other members, through the public profile, discovery, interests, matches, presence, and conversations you choose to use
• To infrastructure and security providers, including Google Firebase, Google Cloud, Firebase App Hosting, and reCAPTCHA
• To Apple, Google, or Facebook when you choose that provider for authentication
• To OpenAI when an eligible user requests message translation
• To Apple for voluntary native iOS in-app support purchases, and to Stripe for voluntary website support checkout, payment processing, and—when you request it—government-ID and matching-selfie identity verification
• To payment, accounting, and campaign-service providers when reasonably necessary to administer an approved business promotion
• To professional advisers, auditors, insurers, or vendors bound to appropriate confidentiality and data-protection duties
• To law enforcement, regulators, courts, or others when we reasonably believe disclosure is required by valid process, necessary to protect life or safety, investigate fraud or abuse, enforce agreements, or defend legal rights
• In a merger, financing, reorganization, asset transfer, or similar business transaction, subject to appropriate safeguards and notice where required

Each third party may process information under its own terms and privacy policy.

Sawadee Thai does not sell personal information or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We may display paid, contextual business-promotion cards in discovery. These cards are selected from active campaigns rather than from a profile built from a member's activity, and are clearly labeled "Advertisement." A promotion is not a match recommendation or an endorsement by Sawadee Thai.

If you tap an advertisement, you leave Sawadee Thai and the destination business may receive ordinary web-request information, such as your IP address, browser information, and referrer, under its own privacy policy. We do not provide the advertiser with your private Sawadee Thai profile, registered email, precise or coarse coordinates, matches, interests, or chat data.

If these practices change, we will update this Policy and provide any notice, opt-out, or consent controls required by law before the new practice begins. We honor legally required privacy choices, including valid Global Privacy Control signals where applicable to a covered practice.

A business may contact sawadeethai.club@gmail.com to ask about a paid promotion. We use the submitted legal business name, contact name, email address, website, business bio, 1024 × 1024 marketing image, proposed dates, correspondence, review notes, and payment or invoice records to evaluate eligibility, communicate with the business, administer an approved campaign, prevent fraud, and meet accounting or legal obligations.

If approved, the business name, image, bio, destination URL, and "Advertisement" label may be visible to members. The contact person's name, contact email, review correspondence, payment details, and internal eligibility notes are restricted to authorized staff and service providers. We do not require an advertiser to provide member account data.

Promotion inquiry records that do not proceed may be deleted or de-identified when no longer reasonably needed. Approved campaign, payment, tax, dispute, fraud-prevention, and legal records may be retained for the applicable accounting, safety, contractual, or legal period. Native iOS support purchases are processed by Apple and website support payments are processed by Stripe; Sawadee Thai does not receive or store a full payment-card number.

Upload only current photos of yourself or photos you own and have the rights and consent to use. Do not upload another person's photo without permission, photos of minors, intimate images, hidden-camera material, copyrighted material you cannot use, or deceptive images intended to impersonate someone.

Profile media is cropped and compressed for display, stored in Firebase Storage, and made visible only to eligible members who are not blocked. Replacing a photo is designed to replace the prior file in that slot.

Sawadee Thai does not use ordinary profile or gallery photos to create facial-recognition templates or biometric identifiers. If you voluntarily start identity verification, Stripe Identity—not Sawadee Thai—captures your government ID and a live selfie, performs document, liveness, and face-match checks, and returns a result plus verified identity fields. Our app does not download or store separate copies of the raw ID or selfie files in Firebase. Stripe Identity retains those files under Stripe's privacy and retention policies. We store the minimum verification record needed to provide and defend the badge, including the Stripe session reference, consent version, result, timestamps, verified legal name, and birth date. You may decline verification and keep the limited unverified experience, or contact us about a non-biometric accessibility or legal accommodation where required.

We keep information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described here:

• Chat messages and requested translations: expire 24 hours after creation and are removed by automated cleanup. Deletion may occur shortly after expiry while the cleanup process runs.
• In-app interest, match, and system notifications: expire after 7 days unless removed sooner. The underlying interest or match remains until a member withdraws interest, blocks the other account, or the relationship is otherwise removed.
• Conversation-list records: archived after about 6 months without a new message. Archiving does not retain expired message text.
• Pending, uncommitted photo uploads: cleaned up after about 24 hours.
• Rejected public-profile updates: the rejected text is not stored in the safety event. A one-way hash, reason codes, account identifier, and timestamp may be retained in a restricted record for up to 90 days to secure the service and understand repeated abuse.
• Profile and conversation reports: only the profile details and selected photos or messages submitted for safety review are copied into restricted evidence storage. Included context is shown before submission. Evidence is accessible only to authorized safety staff for 90 days from submission and is then removed by automated cleanup. Original messages still expire after 24 hours. Expired messages cannot be recovered for a new report. Account deletion may remove associated evidence earlier.
• Identity verification: Sawadee Thai retains the verification result, verified identity fields, consent record, and provider-session reference while the account remains verified and as needed for fraud, appeals, safety, and legal obligations. We do not retain Stripe's raw ID or selfie files. Stripe controls its own verification-media retention and redaction under its services and privacy terms; you may contact us to request deletion or redaction where applicable.
• Account, profile, preferences, media, relationship records, support requests, and operational records: retained while the account or service relationship is active and then deleted, anonymized, or retained for a limited legitimate reason.
• Reports, moderation records, security logs, fraud-prevention records, transaction records, and legal holds: retained only for the period reasonably necessary to protect people, prevent repeat abuse, meet accounting or legal duties, resolve disputes, or establish and defend legal claims.
• Business-promotion inquiries and campaigns: unsuccessful inquiries are retained only as reasonably needed for communication, eligibility review, fraud prevention, or disputes; approved campaign, payment, tax, and contract records may be retained for applicable accounting and legal periods.

Backups and provider caches may take additional time to cycle out. Data preserved for a legal hold, safety investigation, chargeback, tax duty, or abuse-prevention record is isolated from ordinary product use and removed when that reason ends.

You may schedule account deletion from Settings or contact sawadeethai.club@gmail.com from your registered email. Scheduling immediately disables login, removes the profile from discovery and interaction, revokes active sessions, and prevents the registered email from being used for another Sawadee Thai account while the request is pending.

There is a 30-day waiting period. Before the deadline, the only way to request cancellation is to email sawadeethai.club@gmail.com. To prevent unauthorized recovery, we require sufficient identity verification and an authorized staff member must approve and record the restoration. After backend deletion completes, it is irreversible and the account cannot be recovered.

After the waiting period, an automated backend process removes the Firebase Authentication account, public and private profiles, discovery data, uploaded profile media, preferences, interests, matches, blocks, conversations, account-linked reports and requests, device registrations, presence records, and other user-linked service records. It also removes references held in other members' relationship records and recalculates affected totals. Provider backups and caches may require additional time to cycle out.

A narrowly isolated record may be preserved when required by law, a valid legal hold, payment or tax obligations, unresolved safety matters, fraud and repeat-offender prevention, dispute resolution, or legal claims. A legal hold pauses final account deletion until the hold can lawfully be released. When supported credentials are available, account deletion also asks the connected Apple, Google, or Facebook provider to revoke Sawadee Thai's access. This does not delete the separate provider account, and each provider may retain records under its own policy.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to know or access, correct, delete, or obtain a portable copy of personal information; object to or restrict certain processing; withdraw consent; opt out of sale, sharing, or certain profiling; limit certain uses of sensitive personal information; and appeal a denied request.

California residents may have rights under the CCPA, as amended, including rights to know, delete, correct, opt out of sale or sharing, limit covered uses of sensitive personal information, and receive equal service for exercising privacy rights. We do not discriminate for exercising a privacy right.

Submit a request through Contact or email sawadeethai.club@gmail.com. State the right you wish to exercise. We may ask for information reasonably needed to verify you. An authorized agent may submit a request where permitted, but we may require proof of authority and identity verification. You may appeal a denial by replying with "Privacy appeal."

We use layered administrative and technical safeguards, including authenticated access, separate public and private records, server-side authorization, restricted storage paths, rate limits, App Check, encryption provided by our infrastructure, and limited staff access.

No service can promise absolute security. Protect your provider account and device, sign out of shared devices, and report suspected account misuse promptly. We will provide legally required notices if a qualifying data breach occurs.

Sawadee Thai is operated from the United States. Information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate. Privacy protections may differ from those in your country. Where required, we use an appropriate legal basis and transfer safeguard for cross-border processing.

Sawadee Thai is only for people age 18 or older. We do not knowingly allow or collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has created an account or appears in profile media, report the account immediately or contact us so we can investigate and remove the information as appropriate.

We may update this Policy as the service, law, or our providers change. We will change the effective date and provide prominent notice or obtain consent when required for a material change.

Sawadee Thai LLC California, United States Email: sawadeethai.club@gmail.com Website: https://sawadeethai.club/contact