agape waitlist
Privacy note
Last updated: 24 October 2026
1. Who is responsible
Simon Lanker, trading as agape, Marktstrasse 30, 6436 Muotathal, Switzerland ("I").
Contact for anything about your data: privacy@agapeapp.net
2. What I collect
- Your email address.
- Your nearest city, and whether you are a woman or a man. Cities only open when they have enough women and men, so I need both to know when yours is ready.
- Proof of your consent: the version of the wording you agreed to, your confirmation that you are 18 or over, the date and time, and when you confirmed your email address.
- Your personal invite code, and if you joined through someone else's invite link, which link that was. This is how friends who join with your link earn you both 7 days of agape+ when agape opens.
- Where you found agape: if you came through a tagged link (for example agapeapp.net/ig from Instagram, or a flyer), the tags of that link (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content); otherwise the name of the website you came from, such as instagram.com, but never the page you were on there. From this I note one source with your sign-up: a friend's invite, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, a flyer, somewhere else, or directly.
- Only if you choose to answer the three optional questions after signing up: your age range, how often you go to church, and what you are looking for.
- Technical data that my providers process when you visit the page or receive an email, such as IP address, browser and device type, and time of access. This is used to deliver the page, keep it secure and prevent abuse. To stop automated sign-ups, the server also keeps your IP address in memory for up to 10 minutes, without saving it.
I don't ask for anything else.
3. Why, and on what legal basis
I use your details to keep your place on the waitlist for your city, to credit you both with agape+ when friends join with your link, to know when a city has enough women and men to open, to send you a confirmation email, and, once you confirm, to email you updates about the launch of agape. The optional answers help me understand who is waiting, so I build the right thing.
I do this only with your consent: Art. 6(1)(a) UK GDPR and EU GDPR, and under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP). agape is a Christian dating app, so your sign-up, and your answer about church, may reveal something about your religious beliefs. That is sensitive data, and I process it only with your explicit consent (Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR). That is why the box is not pre-ticked.
You are not required to join the waitlist. Nothing else depends on it.
4. Confirmation by email
After you sign up, I send you an email with a link. Only when you click it is your address treated as confirmed. If you don't click, I don't send you updates, and your details are deleted after 30 days.
5. What other people can see
Nobody else sees your email or any of your answers. The page shows only total numbers per city (how many women and men have joined). Your position and invite link are shown only to you, right after you sign up.
6. Who receives your data
These providers process data on my behalf, under my instructions:
- Render (website hosting and the waitlist database; servers in Frankfurt, Germany)
- Google Fonts (the page's typefaces are loaded from Google's servers, which see your IP address)
- Supabase (EU region, Ireland): sign-ups made through the earlier version of this page
- Resend (sending the confirmation email and updates; EU region, Ireland)
- Google Analytics, by Google Ireland Limited: only if you allow it (see section 8)
- Microsoft 365, via GoDaddy (the privacy@agapeapp.net mailbox)
I don't sell your data, and I don't share it with advertisers.
Some of these providers process data outside Switzerland, the UK and the EEA (for example in the USA). Where that happens, the transfer relies on an adequacy decision or on standard contractual clauses, with the UK addendum and the Swiss adjustments where needed.
7. Security
Your data is encrypted in transit, is stored on a private disk at my hosting provider, and only I have access to it.
8. Cookies and analytics
Without your permission this page uses only technically necessary storage: your answer to the analytics question is remembered in your browser so you are not asked again.
When someone opens one of agape's short links (such as agapeapp.net/ig or a flyer link) or an invite link, the server adds one to a daily count for that link. Nothing about the visitor is stored with it: no cookie, no IP address, no device details. This shows me how many people each channel reaches, and needs no permission.
When you first visit, you are asked whether I may use Google Analytics. Only if you click "Accept" does the page load it. It then sets cookies (named _ga) and tells Google which pages you view, which link or website brought you here, roughly where you are (country and city, from your IP address), your browser and device, and whether you joined the waitlist or confirmed your email. It never receives your email address or your answers. I use it only to see which channels (Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, flyers, friends' invites) bring people to agape. Advertising features and Google signals are switched off, and I don't use a tracking pixel.
The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and UK GDPR, and regulation 6 of the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations). Analytics data is kept for at most 14 months. Google may process it in the USA; that transfer relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK and Swiss extensions, and on standard contractual clauses.
You can change your mind at any time with "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page. If you say no, Analytics stops and its cookies are removed.
9. How long I keep your data
- Not confirmed: deleted after 30 days.
- Confirmed: kept until agape launches in your city, and at most 12 months. After that I delete it or ask for your consent again.
- Consent records (email, wording version, date and time) are kept for as long as I hold your email, so that I can show that you agreed.
- Withdrawal or deletion request: I act on it without delay and delete your data. I may keep only a record that the request happened.
10. Your rights
You can ask me at any time to give you access to your data, correct it, delete it, restrict its use, or send it to you in a portable format. You can also object to processing.
You can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing privacy@agapeapp.net. This doesn't affect anything I did before. Every update email will also contain an unsubscribe link.
You can complain to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) in Switzerland, or to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK (ico.org.uk). I'd be glad to have the chance to put it right first.
11. Age
This waitlist is only for people aged 18 or over.
12. Changes
If I change this note in a way that matters, I'll update the date above and, where necessary, ask for your consent again.