Privacy

1. Who is responsible

Corner Table is run by: Kindleye Limited. That company decides how your personal data is used and is responsible for it under the Ordinance.

2. What we collect, and why

• Your email address. To sign you in and to write to you about the service.
• The basics: first name, date of birth, gender, who you would like to meet, the area you work in and the area you live in. To decide who could suit you, and to show a first name, an age and a home area on an introduction.
• Your mobile number. For reminders about a date. It is never shared with another member.
• Your conversation with Juno, and what Juno understood from it. This can include your line of work, job title and employer, whether you want or have children, smoking and drinking, faith if you choose to mention it, how long you plan to stay in Hong Kong, languages, your must-haves, and your own words about your life and what you are looking for. It is the heart of the service: it is how we choose. Your employer is asked for one reason, so that you are never matched with a colleague.
• Your background, if you choose to tell us. Juno asks how you would describe your own background or heritage, in your own words. You can skip it. It is used for one thing: some members will only meet someone of a certain background, and we can respect that only if we know each person's own. If you skip it, we cannot introduce you to those members. It is never shown to another member.
• Your photos. To show on an introduction, once a person on our team has looked at them.
• Your identity check. A specialist provider, Didit, checks your identity document and a live selfie. We receive and keep: pass or fail, your legal name, and the date of birth on the document, which replaces the one you typed when you joined. We also keep two one-way fingerprints, which cannot be turned back into what they were made from: one made from the document, and one made from the name on it with the date of birth. The first makes a ban hold if someone returns with a new email; the second lets a person on our team see that someone may be returning with another document, and never closes an account by itself. We do not store the document itself, its number or the selfie on our own systems. The provider keeps the photos of the document, the details it read from it and the selfie for one year, then deletes them. In that time it compares your selfie with those of other people it has checked for us, to spot the same person applying under another name, and a person on our team can look at a check that needs a second look.
• Your statements. The date you stated that you are 18 or older and single, and the date you accepted the terms.
• What you do in the service. Your yes or pass and any reason you give, the evenings and areas you offer, anything you tell us for a booking (such as an allergy, or that you do not drink), payments and credits, your private debrief, reports you make or that are made about you, and any strikes.
• Payments. When you pay by card, our payment provider takes the card details: we keep a record of the payment, not the card number. When you pay by bank transfer, our bank shows us the name on your account, the amount and the time, and we keep a record of the payment. A refund of a bank transfer is sent to the mobile number on your account, or to another number you give us for it.
• Notifications. If you switch on phone notifications, the address your browser gives us for sending them. We also keep a log of which messages we sent you, without their content.
• Technical records. Basic server logs, and a record of actions taken by our team on your account, so that mistakes can be traced.
• Public page visits. On pages anyone can read (the home page, About, Guides and the legal pages), our host records which page was opened and roughly where the visit came from. It does not use cookies and it does not identify you. Signed-in pages are not included.

Do you have to give it? The basics, the conversation, the photos, the identity check and the statements are needed. Without them we cannot introduce you to anyone. Anything Juno asks about faith, children or habits is up to you. You can say you would rather not answer. The less we know, the harder it is to choose well.

3. The AI, plainly

• Juno is an AI. Your conversation, and the profiles being compared when we look for an introduction, are processed by an AI provider in the United States.
• Your conversations are never used to train the AI.
• The AI proposes. A person on our team checks every introduction before it goes out, and you can correct anything the AI got wrong about you.

4. Who sees what

Nobody can browse you. Another member sees something about you only when an introduction to you has been sent to them. Then they see only:

• your first name and your age (never your date of birth);
• your line of work, in general words, and your home area;
• your approved photos, through links that stop working after a short time;
• a short description, and a note written for them on why you two might fit and where you differ.

If they ask Juno a question about you, Juno may answer from a short list of everyday facts, such as your languages, your weekends or whether you smoke.

Another member never sees: your surname, email, phone number, employer or job title; your conversation with Juno; how you describe your background; your must-haves; your answer to an introduction or your reason for a pass (they learn only whether it is going ahead); or what you tell us after a date. There is one exception, and the form says so when you reach it: if you tell us the other person did not come, we ask them for their side, and they may be told that this is what you said.

Our team can see your account so that they can review applications and photos, check introductions, book tables and handle reports. They use it for that and nothing else.

Venues receive a first name for the booking, and nothing more.

5. Companies that help us run the service

We use service providers for: hosting and the database; the AI; identity checks; payments (a card company, and our bank for transfers); email; text messages; and phone notifications, which travel through your browser maker’s own service. Each receives only what it needs for its job and may not use it for anything else. Some of them process data outside Hong Kong, including in the United States and, for the identity check, the European Union. We will list them by name here before launch.

We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers. We disclose it to others only where the law requires it, or where it is needed to protect someone from serious harm.

6. How long we keep it

• While you are a member, we keep what is listed above, so the service can work.
• When you delete your account in Settings, we delete your profile, your conversation, your photos, your answers and your debriefs. It is permanent. A date still being arranged is called off first, an introduction still open is withdrawn, and a date that has just taken place has to be settled for both of you before the account can go, which takes up to three days.
• One thing outlives a deleted account, and only when there is something to remember: if you had strikes that still counted, a report about you, or had used the no-fee first date, we keep a one-way code made from your email address, and the two fingerprints of your identity check if you passed one, with those three facts, for one year. None of them can be turned back into your address, your document or your name. They are there so that deleting an account and applying again does not wipe a record or give a second no-fee first date.
• The identity provider keeps the photos of your document, the details it read from it and your selfie for one year after your check, then deletes them.
• We keep payment records for as long as Hong Kong tax and company law requires, which is at least seven years.
• If you were banned, we keep the fingerprint, the email address and the reason, so that the ban holds. We keep reports about safety for as long as they may be needed to protect other members or to answer the police or a court.
• The other person keeps whatever you told them yourself.

7. Your rights

• See it and correct it. You can read and correct what Juno understood about you in the app, at any time. You also have the legal right to ask for a copy of your personal data and to have it corrected. We answer within 40 days, as the Ordinance requires.
• Export it. Settings has a button that gives you your data as a file.
• Delete it. Settings has a button for that too.
• If your account is closed. Sign in, and the page you land on has the same two buttons: a copy of your data, and delete it. Or write to us and a person does it.
• Pause. You can stop introductions without deleting anything.

8. Direct marketing

Messages about your introductions, your dates, your payments and your account are part of the service. They are not marketing. We will use your data to send you marketing only if you have said yes, and you can change your mind at any time, free of charge. We never pass your data to anyone else for their marketing.

9. Cookies

We set only the cookies the service needs: the ones that keep you signed in, and, if you arrived through a member’s invitation, one that remembers it for 30 days. We set no advertising cookies.

10. How we protect it

Browsers cannot read our database. Every request goes through our server, which first checks who is asking. Photos are stored privately and shown only through links that expire. Payments and identity checks are handled by specialist providers, so card numbers and identity documents are never stored on our own systems. A bank transfer shows us only what any bank shows the person being paid. No system is perfect. If something goes wrong that puts you at risk, we will tell you.

11. Adults only

Corner Table is for people aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If we learn that we have, we delete it.

12. Questions and complaints

Write to us first, using the details below. We would like the chance to put it right. You can also complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong, at any time.

If this notice changes in a way that matters, we will tell you by email before the change takes effect. See also the terms and what we check.