Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Spark Networks GmbH is a leading global dating company with a portfolio of premium dating websites designed for singles seeking serious relationships.

Spark Networks GmbH, respects your privacy and has developed this Privacy Policy to illustrate that we are committed to the protection of your privacy and how we use any data and information we collect, with whom we share it and how we safeguard it. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully before using our website. By using our websites, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

This website privacy policy was updated on: 29th Feb 2024

2. Information we collect

We monitor visits to our website, principally so that we can make sure that it is easy to navigate, identify the areas that are of particular interest to visitors and generally improve the site and our services.

The information that we collect in this process will not identify you as an individual. We do not seek to identify individual visitors unless they volunteer their contact details through one of the contact features on the site. In some circumstances, our records will identify organizations visiting our site and we may use that information in managing our relationships with those organizations – for example, in considering how to develop the services that we offer them.

The Services offered by us are not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13 years of age. If we identify that we have collected information from users under the age of 13, we will take immediate measures to delete their data.

To provide this service, we collect process and use a range of your personal information. We take measures to guarantee the privacy of our user’s private information, such as pseudonymization and anonymization.

The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We comply with the strict provisions of German and European data protection law.

2.1 Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

2.2 Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

2.3 Contact Form Submissions

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

2.4 Website Visitor Information

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

2.5 Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

3. Your Rights

You have the following rights in relation to your information, which you may exercise at any time in written form.

3.1 Consent

If we use data for a purpose, which by provisions of law requires your consent, we will always ask for your explicit agreement and record your consent. You can revoke your given consent at any time and / or object to future use of your data. To revoke consent or make an objection, sending us an e-mail at [email protected] will suffice.

3.2 Individual Rights

  • The right to be informed

The right to be informed encompasses Spark Networks GmbH obligation to provide ‘fair processing information’, typically through a privacy notice. It emphasizes the need for transparency over how we use your personal data.

  • The right of access

The Right of Access gives you the right to request from Spark Networks GmbH information regarding your personal data. You have the right to request to: a) obtain information whether your personal data is being processed, b) in case it is, you can require to access the data and obtain a copy, and c) request to obtain supplementary information about the processing.

  • The right to rectification

It gives you the right to require from the Spark Networks GmbH to rectify inaccuracies about your personal data. In case the data that Spark Networks GmbH possess is not up to date or incomplete, you can require to complete the data.

  • The right to erasure/ Right to be forgotten

The Right to Erasure allows you to require from the Spark Networks Services to remove or delete their personal data from their system, so that their data cannot be found by third parties.

  • The right to restrict processing

The right to restriction of processing allows you to demand from Spark Networks GmbH to stop processing your personal data however, Spark Networks GmbH will still be able to store the data

  • The right to data portability

The Right to Data Portability gives you the right to require from Spark Networks GmbH to provide information in a structured, commonly used and machine readable form so that if you require it may be transferred to another data controller without hindrance.

  • The right to object

The Right to Object allows you to prevent Spark Networks GmbH from further processing their personal data if there are no legitimate grounds for the processing of the data.

  • Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

You have the right to refuse to be subject of automated data processing, if the decisions produce legal effects or if they significantly affect you.

  • The right to withdraw consent at any time

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing consent will be made easy by us.

  • The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If we do not respond to your request within a month, you have the right to lodge a complaint at the supervisory authority, and seek a judicial remedy.

3.3 Lawfulness of Processing

Spark Networks GmbH processes your data on the basis of Article 6(a) and 6(f) which state:

  • “(a) the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;” and

  • “(f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.”

If we use personal information for a purpose, which by provisions of law requires your consent, we will always ask for your explicit agreement and record your consent.

4. Further Information

For more information you can contact us at

Spark Networks GmbH
Kohlfurter Strasse 41/43
10999 Berlin
Deutschland (Germany)

Email:[email protected]
Fax: +49 30 868 000 220
Phone Number: +49 30 868 000 111