Legal
Last updated July 28, 2026
Lark is an early, invite-only preview. It is still in active development and has not publicly launched. By creating an account you agree to treat the app and everything in it, its features, screens, designs, flows, and any non-public information you see, as strictly confidential, the same way you would under a non-disclosure agreement. Please do not screenshot, record, republish, or share what you see here, and do not disclose it to anyone outside the preview. Access is granted for testing and feedback only. You may not use Lark for any personal, dating, commercial, or business purpose at this stage, and you should not rely on it as a live service. We may change, pause, or end the preview, and revoke access, at any time, and the app is provided as-is with no warranties while we build it.
Your account email, the profile you build (name, age, gender, photos, prompts, interests, bio, job, education, location), the pitches and messages you send and receive, your match history, and basic usage events. If you invite a matchmaker by SMS we store a hint of the phone number you entered (not your contacts) and pass that number to our SMS provider, Twilio, to deliver the one message. Before you have an account, our pre-launch waitlist stores the email you submit, any referral code and the link source you arrived from, and any optional details you choose to add after joining (how you heard about us, whether you'd join as a dater or matchmaker, and your city). We use these to send your invite, credit whoever referred you, understand which channels bring people in, and plan where to launch. We also briefly log IP addresses and send records to prevent abuse and duplicate emails.
To run the product: showing your profile to matchmakers who browse, delivering pitches and messages, powering match features, and sending you notification emails about new pitches and matches. We don't sell your data, and we don't share it with advertisers. We also use activity signals, like how many introductions someone has recently received, to decide which profiles to feature to matchmakers who browse. We never show counts. Email team@larkdating.com to opt out of being featured.
Several features use AI. Compatibility insights, pitch angle hints, and conversation openers send relevant profile text (like prompts and interests) to Anthropic's Claude API. Before a pitch or intro is delivered, its text is screened by Claude to block harmful or abusive content. Photo verification sends the live selfie you submit, alongside your profile photos, to Claude's vision model to confirm you're a real person, the selfie is checked in the moment and not stored. Semantic matching sends profile text to Voyage AI to build the embeddings that rank who you might click with. In every case the content is used only to produce that result, isn't used by those providers to train their AI models, and isn't retained by them beyond the request.
Lark trains its own matching model on how introductions go: the pitch text, the profile embeddings described above, and the outcome (accepted, messaged, or met). This never leaves Lark, it's what makes the next introduction better than the last. You can opt out any time in Settings → Privacy & safety → Data preferences; opting out keeps your activity out of model training without changing how the app works for you.
Matchmakers browsing the app can see dating profiles (that's the product). Your messages are visible only to you and your match. Read activity is private, the other person never sees whether you've read their message. Rejections are never shown to the person who was pitched for.
Data is stored with Supabase (database, authentication, and photo storage). Payments are processed by the Apple App Store and Google Play (via RevenueCat), and, for web purchases, by Stripe. We never see your card number. Notification and account emails are sent via Resend, and matchmaker SMS invites are delivered by Twilio. AI features use Anthropic (Claude) and Voyage AI as described above. When you search for your city, the place name is sent to LocationIQ and OpenStreetMap to turn it into an approximate location. Our waitlist and some forms are protected from bots by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks a challenge token from your browser. We use Sentry to monitor errors so we can fix crashes. We don't sell your data or share it with advertisers.
Profile → Settings → Delete account permanently removes your profile, photos, prompts, pitches, matches, messages, and usage records, and deletes your login. There's also an Account Refresh option that resets discovery history without deleting you.
We use a small number of strictly-necessary cookies to keep you signed in. We may use privacy-friendly product analytics to understand feature usage in aggregate. We don't run third-party advertising trackers and don't sell or share your data for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Depending on where you live (e.g. the EU/UK under GDPR, or California under CCPA/CPRA), you can request access to your data, correct it, delete it, export a copy, or object to certain processing, without being discriminated against for asking. You can do most of this in-app (edit your profile, delete your account); for anything else email team@larkdating.comand we'll respond within the timeframe the law requires. We don't sell your personal information.
We keep your data while your account is active. When you delete your account it's removed promptly; limited records may persist briefly in encrypted backups or where we must keep them to comply with the law, resolve disputes, or enforce our terms.
Lark is for adults. You must be 18 or older to use it.
Lark Dating, Inc., a Delaware corporation, is the data controller for your information. Questions about your data? Email team@larkdating.com.
© 2026 Lark Dating, Inc. All rights reserved. Lark and the Lark logo are trademarks of Lark Dating, Inc.