Plans Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect for Plans

Information You Provide or That Is Collected During Plans Use

When you use Plans, we collect additional information related to your participation, including:

• preferences and responses used to support grouping (such as “This or That” selections);
• city selection and any indication of interest in unsupported locations; and
• information about how you discover and use Plans.

Information Received from Bumble

When you access Plans through Bumble, we may use information from your Bumble profile to support your experience in Plans. This may include profile details such as your name, date of birth, hometown, school, and job, as well as information about your activity on the app.

We use this information to help you get started with Plans, including pre-filling onboarding where available, grouping users into events, and shaping your experience in the service.

Because Plans is part of the Bumble ecosystem, information may be used across Bumble and Plans to support these functions. For example, Plans may use Bumble profile information to help group users, and may share activity-related signals back to Bumble to enable features such as matches.

Invitee / Non-User Contact Information

Plans allows users to invite others by sharing their contact information. When a user chooses to send an invite, Bumble may receive and process contact details about an individual who is not yet a Plans user, such as a phone number and, where available, a contact name. This information is provided by the inviting user, not collected directly from the invitee.

We use this information to send an invitation on the user’s behalf and to support the invite process, such as maintaining invite records, helping prevent duplicate invitations, and linking an invitation to a later sign-up if the invited person chooses to join.

Invited individuals may receive an initial message inviting them to learn more about Plans. Additional communications may be sent if the individual responds to the invitation, signs up for Plans, or otherwise engages with the service. Invited contacts are not treated as Plans users unless they choose to participate.

To deliver invitation messages, contact information may be processed through our messaging providers as described below.

If an invited individual does not engage with Plans, we may retain limited information about the invitation (such as the contact details and invite status) to manage invitations and support the operation of Plans. If the individual chooses to sign up, this information may be associated with their Plans account.

Event Participation and Activity Data

When you use Plans, we collect information about your participation in events and related activities.

Attendance or no-show status may be based on a combination of information, including your own inputs and information provided by other participants during post-event interactions. For example, participants may indicate whether others attended as part of event feedback. These signals help us understand participation and engagement with Plans. These signals are based on available information and may not always be accurate.

We use this information to operate and coordinate Plans events, understand participation, improve the Plans experience, support connections between participants, and inform how the service operates for you and other users.

Post-Event and Interaction Data

After a Plans event, you may choose to provide feedback and make selections about your experience and the people you met.

As part of this process, attendees may provide feedback or indicate preferences about other identifiable participants during post-event interactions. These inputs are used to support how Plans operates, including enabling connections, understanding participation and engagement, and improving the event experience.

Messaging and Communications Data

Plans operates primarily through SMS and/or RCS messaging. We collect and use:

• your phone number as a messaging identifier;
• information about messages sent in connection with Plans (such as invitations, confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups); and
• your interactions with those messages.

2. How We Use Plans Information

We use information collected through Plans to provide and operate the feature, support connections between users, and improve the overall experience:

• to create and manage events;
• to send Plans communications;
• to support connections and interactions;
• to understand participation and improve Plans;
• to support invite features; and
• to measure and improve how people discover and use Plans.

3. What Other Attendees Can See

Plans is designed to introduce participants to each other in stages. The information that you can see about other attendees—and that they can see about you—depends on where you are in the event experience.

This information is shared only with participants in the same event or related Plans activities, and not with the general public.

Bumble does not control what other participants do with information they see, and once information is shared in this context it may not be possible to reverse that visibility.

4. How We Share Plans Information

We share Plans-related information in limited ways to operate the feature and support your experience.

With other Plans participants

We share certain profile and event-related information with other attendees to enable participation and interaction. This may include information such as your first name, age, hometown, school, and, at certain stages, profile photos. This information is shared only with participants in the same event or related Plans activities as part of using the service, and not with the general public.

With service providers

We share information with service providers that help us operate Plans. This includes messaging providers that process phone numbers and related delivery data to send invitations and event-related communications, payment providers that process transactions, and providers that support infrastructure, analytics, and the operation and improvement of Plans.

With Bumble

Because Plans is part of the Bumble ecosystem, information may be used across Bumble and Plans to support functionality. This includes receiving profile information from Bumble to help with onboarding and grouping, and sharing activity-related signals to enable features across Bumble services.

With invited contacts

When a user invites someone to Plans, we use the contact information provided by that user to send an invitation on their behalf and to manage the invite process, such as maintaining invite records and supporting onboarding if the invited person chooses to join.

5. Messaging and SMS/RCS Disclosures

When you use Plans, we collect and process information related to messaging used to support the feature. This includes:

• your phone number used to send and receive Plans-related messages;
• message delivery information, such as timestamps, delivery status, and related technical data;
• interaction signals, such as whether you respond to a message or take action through it (for example, tapping a link or confirming attendance); and
• contextual information related to the message, such as event status, RSVP activity, or invitation status.

We use this information to send and manage Plans-related communications, understand how users interact with those communications, and support event coordination and participation within Plans.

6. Data Retention

If you delete your account, we make sure it is no longer viewable on the App. Just in case you delete by accident or change your mind, it’s possible to restore your account for up to 28 days after deleting.

After these 28 days, we start the process of deleting your personal information, unless (a) we must keep it to follow applicable law, (b) we must keep it to prove we followed applicable law, (c) there is an outstanding issue, claim, or dispute that requires us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved, or (d) the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing safety and security for people using our services.