Last updated: October 31, 2026
1. Who we are
Amanah Marriage is an Islamic marriage-introduction service that helps serious applicants connect through an identity-verified, privacy-focused and permission-based marriage-introduction process.
2. Privacy-first public profiles
We do not publicly display full names, email addresses, phone numbers, exact addresses, government IDs, or private contact details. Public profile listings are limited to approved non-identifying information such as first name, profile number, city, country, age/category, education, citizenship/immigration status, general financial readiness, and marriage preferences.
3. Information we collect
- Account information, such as legal first and last names, email, password credentials stored securely, telephone number, account settings and subscription status.
- Marriage-questionnaire and profile information, such as age, city/country, education, citizenship/immigration status, financial readiness, religious practice and partner preferences.
- Contact information, such as email or phone number, used privately by the admin.
- Verification and admin-review notes needed to assess eligibility and safety.
- Payment and subscription information processed by third-party payment providers.
- Technical information, such as IP address, device/browser data, cookies, security logs, and analytics data.
4. How we use information
- To review applicants and determine whether a profile may be approved.
- To create and manage non-identifying public profile listings.
- To deliver Express Interest directly to the intended member for that member's acceptance or decline, while maintaining an administrative audit record.
- To protect private contact information and allow members to decide whether to disclose it in their own messages.
- To manage accounts, subscriptions, payments, support, fraud prevention, and security.
- To comply with legal obligations and enforce website rules.
5. Legal bases for processing
Where required by privacy laws such as GDPR or UK GDPR, we rely on one or more legal bases, including your consent, performance of a contract, legitimate interests, legal obligations, and protection of users and the service.
6. Member-to-member actions, consent and administrative audit records
Eligible members may send Express Interest directly to another eligible member. The recipient, not an administrator, decides whether to accept or decline. Mutual acceptance may enable an Introduction Room without routine administrator approval. Important service events, including interest activity, introduction activity, account closure and other security or account events, may be recorded in an administrator-accessible audit log for safety, fraud prevention, support, dispute handling, security and legal compliance. Audit records may identify the acting member, affected member, event type, related record, time and a limited event summary. Private message content is not copied into the general activity log merely because a message was sent.
7. Sharing with service providers
We may use trusted service providers for hosting, payment processing, email, security, analytics, backups, and customer support. These providers may process information only as needed to provide their services and must protect the information appropriately.
8. International data transfers
Your information may be processed in countries other than your own. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers, such as contractual protections or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
9. Cookies and analytics
We may use cookies or similar technologies for login sessions, security, preferences, analytics, and performance. Where required by law, users should be offered cookie notice and consent options.
For first-party website analytics, Amanah Marriage records the requested page, time and, when available, a country code estimated from the visitor's connection IP address using locally installed IPv4 and IPv6 country databases. Logged-in visits and recognized automated traffic are excluded from this page-view counter. The page-view analytics table stores the country code rather than the visitor's IP address. Separately, account-registration or terms-acceptance IP addresses and security logs may be retained for account security, abuse prevention, compliance and administrative purposes. The administrator may use a stored registration IP address to estimate a newly registered member's country when no approved-profile country is available. IP-derived countries are approximate and may be inaccurate due to VPNs, proxies or network routing; they are not proof of residence or nationality.
10. Data retention
We keep personal information only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy, including account management, admin review, legal compliance, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, and safety. Users may request removal of their profile subject to legal and administrative requirements.
11. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information. No online service can guarantee absolute security, but we aim to reduce risk through privacy-by-design, limited public profile information, admin controls, access restrictions, and secure service providers.
12. Your privacy rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or receive a copy of your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw consent or complain to a privacy regulator. We will respond to privacy requests as required by applicable law.
13. Canadian, US, EU/EEA, UK, and other regional rights
We aim to respect major privacy principles including transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, consent where required, reasonable security, access/correction rights, deletion rights where applicable, and clear contact procedures. Specific rights vary by jurisdiction, including Canada, US states, the EU/EEA, the UK, and other countries.
14. Children and minors
This service is intended for adults seeking marriage. We do not knowingly provide matchmaking services to children or minors. Users must meet the minimum legal age requirements in their jurisdiction.
15. Automated and rules-based processing
We use rules-based automation to operate the service, including eligibility checks, identity-derived fields when available, membership access, profile recommendations, interest routing and workflow transitions. When Stripe Identity supplies verified sex/gender, date of birth or legal-name information, Amanah Marriage may use that verified information and lock the corresponding questionnaire field. If Stripe verifies the identity but does not provide sex/gender or date of birth, the member may provide the missing gender or age information directly. Automated matching or workflow tools do not guarantee compatibility or marriage and do not replace members' own judgment.
16. Identity verification, verified attributes and face comparison
Amanah Marriage may use Stripe Identity to validate a government-issued identity document and identity attributes and may use a verified selfie for identity verification. Depending on the document and verification result, Stripe may provide attributes such as legal name, date of birth, sex/gender and issuing country. Amanah Marriage may store verified attributes needed for account integrity and questionnaire automation. Date of birth, legal last name, government-document information and other private identity data are not intended for public profiles. When a verified attribute is unavailable, the service may ask the member to supply the missing information rather than requiring administrator selection.
Amanah Marriage may use Amazon Web Services/Amazon Rekognition CompareFaces to compare a member-submitted profile photograph with an identity-verification selfie for anti-impersonation and profile-integrity purposes. Face-comparison results are used as a security signal and do not establish character, compatibility or suitability for marriage.
17. Applicant photographs and public-profile visibility
A questionnaire photograph is required from applicants for private administrative review. For a man seeking a woman, the submitted applicant photograph is required to be displayed on an approved public profile. For a woman seeking a man, the photograph remains required for private review, but public display is optional and is hidden unless she chooses to show it. Private photographs and public-profile photographs may be used only for the purposes described here and for administering the marriage-introduction service.
18. Multi-factor authentication and account recovery
Administrators are required to use multi-factor authentication (MFA). Regular members may enable MFA voluntarily. We store MFA security information, such as an authenticator secret and status, to operate this protection. MFA credential handling and recovery depend on the authentication methods currently offered; members should use account security settings to manage available options.
If a member loses access to an authenticator, an authenticator recovery request does not by itself disable or change the existing MFA credential. Recovery may require verification of the registered email, a fresh identity verification including government ID and matching selfie, and administrator approval. Recovery records may include request status, timestamps, technical/security information, Stripe verification-session references, and administrator decisions or notes. Only after an approved recovery is the old MFA credential invalidated and a new authenticator setup required.
19. Security and administrative review records
We may retain reasonable security and audit records concerning login protection, MFA enrollment and recovery, identity-verification status, administrator review, profile approval, and related security events to protect accounts, investigate misuse, administer the service, and meet legal obligations.
20. Private introduction messages
After mutual interest, Amanah Marriage may provide a private Introduction Room. Messages sent there are stored by Amanah Marriage for operation of the service, safety, moderation, reports, dispute handling, security, recordkeeping and legal compliance. Amanah does not automatically disclose members' registered email addresses or telephone numbers in an Introduction Room. A member who types contact or other personal information into a message voluntarily discloses that information to the other participant. Authorized administrators may access introduction records where reasonably necessary for the purposes described above.
21. Account closure and success announcements
Members may close and archive their accounts and may provide a reason. Closing an account removes the member from approved public profiles, ends applicable active introduction activity, and marks the local subscription record cancelled. Account and service records may be retained as described in this policy rather than immediately deleted. If a member reports a successful relationship or marriage, a public congratulations message using first names is displayed only when the closing member explicitly consents and confirms that the submitted partner name may be published. Up to the 30 most recent consented success announcements may appear on the home page. Aggregate counts of reported marriages and current active introductions may also be displayed.
22. Payments and membership plans
Membership is currently offered without a fee. Any future paid plans, billing terms, renewal and cancellation details will be disclosed before checkout. Payments, if introduced, may be processed by Stripe or another disclosed provider.
23. Security providers and automated abuse prevention
We may use Cloudflare Turnstile and related security controls to distinguish legitimate activity from automated abuse, protect forms and accounts, enforce rate limits and investigate suspicious activity. Technical and security information may be processed for these purposes.
24. Wali information
Where a female member chooses or is required by the service workflow to provide Wali information, Amanah Marriage may process the Wali's name, relationship, email, optional telephone/country, contact preference, confirmation status and related security records for the purpose of facilitating the Wali feature. Wali information is private and is not part of the public member profile.
25. Service providers and cross-border processing
Identity verification, payment processing, face comparison, security, email, hosting or other service functions may involve third-party providers and processing outside the member's province or country. We limit provider access to purposes needed to operate, secure and support the service and apply safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
26. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised date.
27. Contact
For privacy questions, access or correction requests, complaints, or withdrawal of consent where applicable, contact the Privacy Officer through the Contact Us page and select or specify “Privacy”. Please do not send government-ID images or passwords through the contact form.
28. Introduction retention and safety investigations
Under the current operational retention policy, ordinary ended introduction conversations are scheduled for deletion after 180 days. Records may be retained longer for a report, dispute, investigation, legal obligation or documented hold. Security-breach records are retained for at least 24 months. Actual deletion timing may depend on operational systems, backups and lawful retention requirements.
29. Photo integrity checks
Profile photographs and identity-verification images are separate. Where enabled, a temporary close-up selfie may be compared with a submitted profile photograph to help detect impersonation. Automated face comparisons are probabilistic and uncertain cases may require manual review. The comparison selfie is not used as the public profile image.
30. Legal-name changes and identity reverification
Members may request correction of their legal first or last name through the account-settings process when available. Identity verification relies on a match between the member's legal name and the identity document. Changing either legal name after successful verification may suspend the prior verified status and temporarily restrict identity-dependent features, including new Express Interest requests, accepting introductions and sending introduction messages, until a new identity verification succeeds. Existing questionnaires, interests and introduction records are not automatically deleted solely because the name changes. The member will receive a warning before confirming an identity-resetting change. Previously completed verification sessions must not be treated as proof of the new legal name.
31. Identity-verification failures and account restrictions
Identity checks may be incomplete, declined or unavailable, including because of document quality, name mismatch, age verification, provider decisions or service restrictions. The service may record verification status, session references, outcomes and relevant security signals, and may limit identity-dependent features until verification succeeds. Government-ID and selfie processing by Stripe is subject to Stripe's own privacy practices. An identity check does not constitute a criminal, marital-status, immigration, employment or financial background check.
32. Privacy complaints and accountability
Amanah Marriage designates a Privacy Officer responsible for handling privacy inquiries. You may ask for access to or correction of personal information and may make a privacy complaint through the Contact Us page. Requests are handled subject to applicable law, identity confirmation, lawful retention duties and the rights of others. We may update this notice when our practices change.