Privacy notice.

Who we are

Kindred Matchmaking Society is a Canadian federal not-for-profit corporation, incorporated 22 July 2026 under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. This website and its waitlist are operated by the Society. Contact for anything in this notice: hello@kindredmatch.io.

Kindred is based in Canada, and the waitlist is open worldwide. Wherever you registered from, the handling described here applies to you, and so do your rights to see, correct, or delete what we hold. If the law where you live gives you additional rights over your information, email us and we will honour them.

This notice covers this website and the waitlist. What Kindred collects and does once you create a member account is set out in the member Privacy Policy.

What we collect

Two kinds of information, kept separate. First, what the waitlist form asks: your name, email address, phone number, the city you are in, and, if you choose to provide them, your age range and how you heard about us. Second, basic usage analytics: how many people visit, which pages they read, roughly where in the world they are, how many reach the waitlist, and how many follow the join page's link to create an account. We do not sell your information, and we do not use it to advertise to you on other sites.

To keep the site working and to understand how it is used, we rely on a small number of tools. A bot check on our forms tells a person from an automated program, so a public signup page is not swamped by spam; it sets no advertising cookie and does not track you across sites. We measure visits, and how quickly pages load, with our own tools and with tools provided by our service providers. Some of these set their own cookie. They are used only to count visits and improve the site, never to identify you, to follow you across other sites, or to build an advertising profile of you. Blocking them does not change how the site works.

Why we collect it

We use the form information to email you when Kindred opens in your city and about your place on the waitlist; count registrations by city, which determines where Kindred opens next; understand the shape of the early community through the optional age range; and understand how people find Kindred through the optional source answer. The optional answers do not affect your place in line.

Where it lives and who sees it

Waitlist entries are stored in Kindred's own database, on infrastructure the Society controls, and are accessible only to the founding team. They are not sent to any third-party form or spreadsheet, and they are not sold, rented, shared with advertisers, or disclosed to anyone else. The list is held by Kindred Matchmaking Society under this same notice.

If you ask to be removed from the waitlist, the confirmation link is sent to you by Kindred's email service. It keeps a record of that email: your email address, the subject line, whether it was delivered, and when it was opened and which link was clicked, with the time and the IP address each came from. The record is kept for one month and then deleted. The email service keeps no email content.

How long we keep it, and how it is erased

We keep your waitlist details until you join the platform, ask us to remove you, or the project winds down. There is no automatic expiry: a city can take a while to reach us, and we will not drop you from the list just because time passed. Because your details now live in Kindred's own database rather than a third-party form, they are covered by the same erasure process as a member account. If you remove yourself before joining, the whole waitlist entry is deleted. If you join and later delete your account, your email, name, phone number and any "Other" source text are erased; the channel category and other de-identified demand data are retained without those identifying details.

Your choices

You can remove yourself from the waitlist at any time using the form below, or by emailing hello@kindredmatch.io to see what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted. Removal and deletion requests are honoured without argument.

Enter your waitlist email and we’ll send a confirmation link there. Nothing is removed until you open the link and confirm.

Email you signed up with

Email me a removal link

Donations

If you donate from the donate page, you pay on a checkout page run by Kindred's payment provider, not on this website. The provider handles your card details, and Kindred never sees your full card number. Kindred receives what you enter at checkout, such as your name and email address, with the amount and date of your gift and whether it repeats monthly.

Kindred uses this only to record and account for your gift, to reply to you, and to stop or refund a gift when you ask. Donating does not add you to the waitlist. Your donation details are not sold, rented or shared with advertisers. Donation records are financial records, so Kindred keeps them for six years from the end of the tax year they relate to, as Canada Revenue Agency record-keeping rules generally require; the payment provider keeps its own records under its own privacy policy. To see or correct what Kindred holds about your gift, write to hello@kindredmatch.io.

This section was added in October 2026, when Kindred began accepting donations. It changes nothing about how waitlist information is handled.

Changes

If this notice changes in any way that matters, everyone on the waitlist is emailed before the change takes effect.