Last Updated: July 21, 2026
Dating means trusting someone with a little bit of yourself. Before you ever walk into one of our New Jersey speed dating nights, we want you to know exactly what NJ First Dates (njfirstdates.com) does with your information — no fine-print games, no buried surprises. This page is that promise, written the way we’d explain it to you across a table.
We keep our data collection to what actually helps us throw a good event and make good introductions. Here’s the whole list.
When you register for an event or reach out to us, you give us details like your name, email address, and phone number, along with your age, the gender you identify as, and who you’re hoping to meet. We use this to confirm you’re eligible, get you into the right room, and run the matching afterward.
We keep a record of which events you’ve booked, whether you attended, and the “yes / no” selections you make on your match card during the event. That’s the raw material our matching runs on.
When you pay for a ticket, your card details go straight to our third-party payment processor — we never see or store your full card number. We keep only what we need for a receipt and our own records, such as the fact that a payment was made and for which event.
Like most websites, ours automatically notes things like your IP address, browser and device type, and which pages you visited. This is ordinary technical housekeeping that helps the site work and helps us spot problems. More on cookies below.
Everything we collect points back to a handful of jobs:
This is the most important thing on the page, so we’ll say it plainly. During an event you mark, privately, who you’d like to see again. After the event, we compare selections.
We share contact information between two guests only when both of you picked each other. When that mutual match happens, we pass along each person’s first name, email address, and phone number so you can take it from there.
If the interest isn’t mutual, nothing is shared — the other person never learns you selected them, and you never learn who selected you. Your picks stay confidential either way. By joining an event, you’re agreeing to this exchange, because it’s the whole point of speed dating.
Outside of a mutual match, the only times your information leaves our hands are these:
What we will never do is sell, rent, or trade your personal information. There’s no advertiser list, no data broker, no exceptions.
We use cookies — small files your browser stores — to keep you logged in, remember your preferences, and understand which parts of the site people actually use so we can make it better. We may use analytics tools that rely on these cookies to see general traffic patterns. You can clear or block cookies in your browser settings; just know that some features may not work as smoothly if you do.
Your information is yours. At any time you can:
Just reach out and we’ll take care of it. One note: even if you opt out of promotional email, we’ll still send the essential service messages tied to events you’ve booked — confirmations, reminders, and match results.
We hold onto your information only as long as it’s useful for the reasons above — running your events, honoring matches, keeping accurate payment records, and meeting legal requirements. When it’s no longer needed, we securely delete it or strip it of anything that identifies you.
We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards — encryption in transit, protected servers, and access limited to the people who need it — to guard your information. No system online is ever completely bulletproof, so we can’t promise perfection, but we take this seriously and work to keep your data protected.
NJ First Dates events are for adults, and every event has a minimum age (generally 21+, sometimes 18+ depending on the venue and event). Our services aren’t meant for anyone under 18, and we don’t knowingly collect information from minors. If you believe someone underage has given us their information, please contact us and we’ll remove it.
If we update how we handle your information, we’ll post the revised policy here and refresh the “Last Updated” date at the top. If a change is significant, we’ll do our best to give you a heads-up by email. It’s worth a look now and then.
NJ First Dates is a New Jersey company, and this Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
Questions, requests, or anything about your privacy — a real person will read it and reply.