POPIA-Compliant Framework • Last Updated: June 2026
Welcome to GraceMatch. We are profoundly committed to safeguarding your personal privacy and fully aligning our operations with the strict provisions of South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA). This Privacy Policy details how we transparently collect, process, store, securely share, and protect your identity files when utilizing our platform ecosystem. By building a profile, you explicitly affirm consent to these active processing procedures.
To properly run matchmaking metrics, the system retains core identifier values:
*Note: Sexual preferences or specific faith tenets are entirely optional, processing solely upon your voluntary configuration disclosure.
Under POPIA processing parameters, data records are limited strictly to:
We utilize explicit legal bases to evaluate and handle records securely:
User Consent • Contractual Necessity • Legitimate Platform Operations • Legal Obligations
We may contract with reliable third-party service providers (cloud storage arrays, processing tools, and secure SMS gateways). We never sell, trade, or rent personal information. Where data assets flow outside South African borders for hosting reasons, we legally mandate our global hosting providers to maintain equivalent security frameworks matching local POPIA regulations.
Information clusters remain stored only for the logical lifecycle required to provide match options or settle statutory records. Deleted profiles undergo secure, cascading purges, saving only basic anonymized references needed for ongoing security audits. Security safeguards incorporate multi-tier data encryption, system firewalls, strict role-based data access controls, and scheduled security auditing processes.
You maintain full statutory rights to access your file archives, demand adjustments to inaccurate items, request absolute profile deletions, or object to specific tracking options.
National Information Regulator Contact Info:
Website: https://inforegulator.org.za/
Honorable interaction protocols for platform fellowship
We aim to cultivate a highly respectful, safe, and transparent environment anchored in shared values, enabling Christian singles to discover meaningful connections and faith-first relationships.
Users must interact with authentic kindness, value individual boundaries, state tracking intentions clearly, and process any interpersonal rejections gracefully and without retaliation.
Harassment, digital stalking, physical threats, intimidation, and discriminatory hate speech are absolutely banned. We operate an immediate removal response for any vulgar or sexually explicit content blocks.
Catfishing, creating alternative fake identities, romance scams, and financial solicitations of any kind will trigger automated administrative blocks and absolute loss of account access privileges.
Profiles must present real, unmodified photographs of the actual account holder. Utilizing the interface to spread corporate marketing promotions, product links, or third-party commercial spam is forbidden.
Foundational protective policies for digital and real-world meeting security
Healthy connections require consistent clarity. We track interaction safety using these primary definitions:
Absence of any coercion or platform pressure.
Absolute transparency from all parties.
Applies solely to the clear, agreed boundaries.
Can be withdrawn cleanly at any moment.
Passive compliance never equates to consent.
The following vectors trigger instant systemic banishment: sexual assault or explicit intimidation, coercion tactics, blackmail, revenge pornography, doxxing, or unauthorized publishing of conversation screenshot logs.
When transitioning your interaction parameters offline, actively utilize these guardrails:
Public Assembly: Always coordinate initial meetups in busy, populated public zones.
Independent Transit: Arrange your own vehicle routing to and from the venue location.
Peer Notifications: Explicitly inform real-world friends or family of your timeline targets.
Intuition Mapping: Trust your internal warning signs. Exit the space if anything registers as suspicious.
GraceMatch coordinates an absolute zero-tolerance policy approach covering child exploitation, sexual misconduct tracking, financial fraud, human trafficking loops, or non-consensual media distribution. Violations result in account locks, profile deletion, and direct file referral to localized law enforcement agencies.