Privacy Policy
Last updated October 21, 2026
The short version. Hank-e is a dating app for adults, so some of what you share is sensitive: your orientation, your role and your kinks. We use it to show you good matches and keep the community safe. We don't sell it, we don't use it for advertising, and you can delete your account from inside the app at any time.
1. Who we are
Hank-e ("Hank-e", "we", "us") runs the Hank-e mobile app and the website at hankeapp.com. This policy covers both. Questions go to support@hankeapp.com.
Hank-e is currently in an early test (alpha). Some features described in the app may change as we learn from testers.
2. What we collect
| What | Details |
|---|---|
| Account | Email address and password, or your Google account details if you sign in with Google. |
| Profile | Username, first and last name, date of birth and age, height, build, gender, orientation, role (dom, sub or switch), your kinks and limits, your bio and your photos. |
| Location | Your device's location, at approximate (not precise) accuracy, when you allow it. We use it to show people near you. |
| Activity | Likes, matches, blocks, reports, when you were last online, and whether messages have been read. |
| Messages | Your messages, stored encrypted. See Messages and notifications for what isn't encrypted. |
| Device | A push notification token, your app version and your phone's platform (iOS or Android). |
| Feedback | Anything you send us through the in-app feedback form, with the screen you sent it from. |
| Waitlist | If you join the waitlist on our website: your email, the city you give us and your phone type. |
| Support | What you write when you email us. |
We don't use advertising trackers or analytics SDKs in the app or on this website.
3. Sensitive information
Your orientation, your role and your kinks reveal things about your sex life and sexuality. The law in many places treats this as sensitive information, and so do we. You choose whether to add it, you can change or remove it at any time, and by adding it you agree to us using it for the purposes in this policy: showing your profile to other members and matching you with people who fit.
We don't use sensitive information to infer anything else about you, and we never sell it or share it for advertising.
4. How we use it
- To run the app: create your account, show your profile, find people near you who fit what you're looking for, and deliver your messages and notifications.
- To keep people safe: check that members are 18 or older, screen photos before they appear, review reports, and remove people who break our rules.
- To improve Hank-e: read your feedback and fix what's broken.
- To contact you: about your account, your waitlist invite, or changes to these terms. We don't send marketing email without asking.
- To meet legal obligations: when the law requires it.
5. What other members see
Other members can see your profile card: your username, age, photos, bio, role, kinks, the other profile details you fill in, and whether you were recently online. The app never shows other members your email address, your last name, your date of birth or your exact location.
Anything you send in a message can be saved or screenshotted by the person you send it to. Only share what you're comfortable with.
6. Who we share it with
We don't sell your personal information, and we don't share it for targeted advertising. We share it only with the service providers we need to run Hank-e, who may use it only to provide their service to us:
| Provider | What they do for us |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Hosts our database, sign-in, file storage and server functions, in the United States. |
| Google Sign-In, if you use it. Google Cloud Vision screens photos for explicit content when you upload them. Firebase Cloud Messaging delivers push notifications. | |
| Apple | Delivers push notifications to iPhones and distributes the app. |
| Cloudflare | Hosts this website and stores the waitlist. |
| Slack | Our team gets in-app feedback in a private Slack channel. |
We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect someone from serious harm, or as part of a sale or merger of Hank-e. If that happens, this policy will still apply to your information.
7. Messages and notifications
Messages are encrypted on your phone before they're sent, so the full text is stored on our servers in encrypted form.
What isn't encrypted today: to show a preview in push notifications, we store the first 50 characters of each message unencrypted, and that preview passes through Google and Apple's notification services on the way to the other person's phone.
We're working on removing these previews. We'll update this policy when we do.
8. How long we keep it
- Your account: until you delete it. Deleting your account in the app removes your profile, so other members can't see you anymore.
- Reports and safety records: we may keep reports made about an account, and the details needed to stop a removed member from rejoining, for as long as we need them to keep the community safe.
- Waitlist: until you join the app, ask to be removed, or we stop running the waitlist.
- Support emails and feedback: as long as we need them to help you and improve the app.
Backups may hold deleted information for a short time before it's overwritten.
9. Your choices and rights
- Edit or remove your profile details and photos at any time in the app.
- Turn off location or notifications in your phone's settings. Some features, like finding people nearby, won't work without location.
- Delete your account in the app: Profile → Delete account.
- Ask for a copy of your information, a correction, or deletion of anything we hold, including waitlist signups, by emailing support@hankeapp.com. We'll answer within 30 days, and sooner where the law requires.
Depending on where you live (for example California, Colorado, Virginia, the UK or the EU), you may have additional rights, such as to object to or limit certain uses of your information, or to complain to a data protection regulator. Email us to use them. We won't treat you differently for using your rights.
10. Security
We use encryption in transit, encrypted message storage, access controls on our database, and screening for uploaded photos. We're continuing to tighten these controls during the alpha. No system is perfectly secure, so we can't promise that information will never be accessed without permission. If something goes wrong, we'll tell affected members as the law requires.
11. Adults only
Hank-e is only for people 18 and older. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone younger. If you think someone under 18 is using Hank-e, report them in the app or email support@hankeapp.com and we'll remove the account.
12. Changes and contact
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app or by email before the change takes effect. The date at the top shows the latest version.
Questions, requests or complaints: support@hankeapp.com.