Privacy policy
What MatchMyIdea collects, why, who processes it, and what you can do about it. Written in plain language on purpose.
Effective date: August 26, 2026
What we collect
- The idea text you type and your answers to any clarifying questions. This is the input your search runs on.
- Your email address, if you provide it to receive matches or create an account.
- Account data: your saved searches and delivered matches.
- Usage events, such as which pages were visited and whether a search completed. Used in aggregate to improve the product.
- Payment status from Stripe: which match pack you bought and whether payment cleared. Card numbers never reach us.
- Short-lived network signals, used only to keep the free-match allowance fair and discarded quickly.
Why we collect it
Four reasons: to run your search and deliver matches, to save your matches when you ask us to, to prevent abuse of the free-match allowance, and to understand which parts of the product work so we can improve them. We don't sell your data, and we don't use your idea text for advertising.
Cookies
Two cookies. An anonymous identifier that lasts about a year remembers this browser's free-match allowance. A session cookie keeps you signed in. No third-party advertising cookies.
Who processes your data
- Stripe processes payments.
- A managed authentication provider handles sign-in. We never store passwords.
- An email provider sends your matches when you ask for them by email.
- Cloudflare serves our traffic over HTTPS.
- Search and model providers receive your idea text in order to run the search. They receive the text of the search itself, not your account details.
Retention
Ideas and matches are kept so you can come back to them. Delete them from your account page at any time and they're gone. The short-lived network signals used for abuse prevention are kept briefly and then discarded. Payment records are retained as required for accounting.
Your rights
You can export your data, correct it, or delete individual searches and your whole account from the account page. No account, or prefer to ask a person? Email hello@matchmyidea.com. If you appear in someone's matches rather than being a user, see data, privacy, and corrections.
The technical protections behind all of this are on the security page, and the rules of the service are in the terms.
A note on legal review
As of the effective date above, this policy describes our real data flows accurately but has not yet been through formal legal review. We chose to publish the honest version now rather than wait. It will be revised when that review is complete, and the effective date will change with it.