Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 12, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Pear, a product of Iris Connect LLC ("Pear", "we", "us"), collects, uses, shares and protects information when you use the Pear app, our website at peardating.org, and our waitlist (together, the "Service"). By using the Service, you agree to this policy.

Pear is a dating app built around short videos. Showing people who you are is the point of it, so some of what you share is meant to be seen by other users. This policy says what is shared with whom, and what stays private.

1. Information you give us in the app

Account: your phone number, which you sign in with. We text a one-time code to it to confirm it's yours.
Date of birth: to confirm you're 18 or older. Other users see your age, not your birthday.
Profile: your first name, gender, who you want to see, the age range and distance you set, and your school.
Videos and photos: the profile videos you record or upload (including the sound in them), your answers to prompts, captions, and story photos. Stories are shown for 24 hours.
Messages: what you send in chats, including "say hi" messages sent with a like, and voice notes.
Reports and support: what you tell us when you report someone, contact support, or fill in an optional reason when you delete your account.

2. Information we collect as you use the app

Location: if you allow it, your device's location, so we can show people near you and show others a rough distance to you (for example, "3 mi away"). Other users never see where you are, and we don't keep a history of your precise location. You can turn location off in your phone's settings.
Activity: who you like, pass, pair and unpair with, block or report, and when your pears start and end, so the feed, Likes You and the 14-day timer work.
Device and technical data: device model, operating system, app version, a push-notification token, IP address, and crash and performance logs, used to run the app, send notifications, keep accounts secure and fix bugs.
Camera, microphone and photo library: used only when you choose to record or pick a video, photo or voice note. We don't access them otherwise, and you can change these permissions in your phone's settings at any time.

3. If you joined the waitlist on our website

Email address, and optionally your school, gender, and whether you want to be a beta tester.
Referral code: if you arrived through someone's share link, the code in that link is stored with your signup. Share links you generate contain a short code derived from your own email address.
Referral counts: to tell when someone has invited enough friends to earn the founding-member look, we keep a count per referral code in a Cloudflare database. It stores the code and a one-way cryptographic hash of the joining person's email, not the address itself, and the hash is used only to avoid counting the same person twice.
Where you came from: how you found us, such as TikTok, Instagram, or a tagged link, worked out from the link you used, the app you opened it in, or the site that sent you.
Basic technical data collected by our host, Cloudflare, such as browser type, device, and approximate location derived from your IP address.

4. What other users can see

Your profile: your videos, first name, age, school, prompt answers, captions, stories, and a rough distance. These are shown to people on Pear whose settings match yours and whose profiles match your settings.
Your messages are seen only by the person you're chatting with.
Reports are confidential. The person you report is not told who reported them.

Anything you show another person can be screenshotted or recorded by them. Our community guidelines forbid using that to embarrass someone, but we can't technically prevent it.

5. How we use information

To run Pear: create your account, show your profile, build your feed, match you, run chats and the 14-day timer, and send notifications you've allowed.
To keep people safe: confirm users are 18 or older, review reports, enforce our community guidelines, and remove or limit accounts that break them.
To support you when you contact us.
To understand how Pear is used and improve it, including fixing bugs.
For the waitlist: to tell you about launch and early access, and to decide which campuses to open next.
To meet legal obligations and protect the rights and safety of our users and others.

Pear is a dating app, so information such as your gender, who you want to see, and the fact that you use a dating app is collected in that context. Depending on where you live, information of this kind may carry additional protection under privacy law.

6. How we share information

We do not sell your personal information, and we don't share it for advertising. We share it only:

With service providers that run parts of Pear for us, under their own terms and privacy policies: Cloudflare (hosting and our servers), Neon (our database), Mux (video storage and playback), Expo (push notifications), Loops (email), and a text-message provider that sends sign-in codes.
With other users, as described in "What other users can see".
For legal and safety reasons: when required by law or legal process, or when we believe in good faith that sharing is needed to prevent harm, investigate abuse, or protect someone's safety.
In a business transfer, such as a merger or sale, where your information would stay subject to this policy.

7. How long we keep information

While your account is open, we keep what's needed to run it. Stories are removed from view after 24 hours.
When you delete your account, we delete your profile, videos, stories and messages. Copies in backups are overwritten on their normal cycle.
We may keep limited records longer where we need them to resolve a safety report, stop a banned person from rejoining, or meet legal obligations.
Waitlist information is kept until Pear launches in your area plus 12 months, or until you ask us to delete it, whichever comes first.

8. Your choices and rights

Delete your account in the app (You tab, Settings, Delete account), or see peardating.org/delete-account if you can't get into the app.
Edit or remove your videos, stories and profile details in the app at any time.
Turn off location, camera, microphone, photo and notification access in your phone's settings. Some features won't work without them.
Unsubscribe from emails with the link in any email we send.

Depending on where you live (for example, under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, the CCPA, or the GDPR), you may also have the right to access, correct, delete, or get a copy of your data, and to opt out of certain processing. To exercise any right, email [email protected] with the phone number on your account (or the email you joined the waitlist with). We'll respond within the time required by law.

9. Cookies and tracking

Our website sets no cookies of its own and runs no advertising scripts. Our host, Cloudflare, may collect privacy-preserving aggregate traffic measurements that don't use cookies or track you across sites. When you join the waitlist, your email is also kept in your browser's local storage, on your own device only. The app does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

10. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information, such as encryption in transit and access controls. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, so we can't guarantee absolute security.

11. Children

Pear is only for adults 18 and older. We check age at sign-up and do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 18, we remove it. If you think someone on Pear is under 18, report them in the app or email us.

12. International transfers

Pear is run from the United States, and our service providers process data in the United States. If you use Pear from outside the US, your information will be processed there.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Pear changes. When we make material changes, we'll update the date above and, where appropriate, tell you in the app or by email before they take effect.

14. Contact

Questions about privacy? Email [email protected]. Pear is operated by Iris Connect LLC, Utah, USA.