Your own privacy & account security
The public clues that help you compare a profile can also reveal details about you. Review your own accounts and images with a narrow purpose, then decide which links, permissions or identifying details you want to change.
Begin with your own username or photos. Make changes through the actual service's current account and privacy settings.
Find public social profile clues with our TraceSeek app.
Audit your own username footprint before dating
Audit your own public handles and self-links before dating, then decide what to separate. A practical, self-directed guide to cleaner boundaries.
Read the guideReview your own dating photos for overshared details
Use a background-detail worksheet to check dating photos for overshared clues at home, work and around bystanders, then choose less revealing images.
Read the guideSecure your own dating and social accounts
Lock down your own dating and social accounts with unique passwords, multi-factor authentication and official recovery settings. No password-sharing.
Read the guideDeleting a dating app versus checking account settings
Removing an app is a device action. Whether it changes your own account state is separate, so read the service's own settings wording.
Read the guideKeep minimal private notes during a profile check
A calm method for brief, purposeful notes during a public profile check: set one question, keep few fields, store privately, and set a deletion date first.
Read the guideBefore using a profile-search app: permissions and data choices
Check a profile-search app's listing and terms, pick the least revealing clue you can, and assume any search provider may receive what you submit.
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