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Muzmatch
Muzz (formerly Muzmatch) is a dating and marriage app built for Muslims looking for serious relationships, not casual hookups. The whole thing is designed around faith-based values, with photo privacy…
About Muzmatch
Muzz (formerly Muzmatch) is a dating and marriage app built for Muslims looking for serious relationships, not casual hookups. The whole thing is designed around faith-based values, with photo privacy controls that let you blur pictures until you match, chaperone options so you can loop family members into conversations, and filters that sort matches by how religiously practicing they are.
Launched in 2015, the app reckons it’s grown to more than 10 million members worldwide and claims to have facilitated over 500,000 marriages, though as ever with dating app numbers, you’re taking the company’s word for it. We’ve covered the broader shift toward niche, intention-driven platforms in our rundown of polyamory and faith-based dating apps. The rebrand from Muzmatch to Muzz a few years back didn’t change the core pitch: marriage first, swiping for fun second.
1 articles
2023–2023
Peak: 2023 (1)
Privacy deep-dive
In summary
Muzz provides a well-structured, GDPR- and CCPA-aware privacy framework with clear retention periods, deletion rights, and named third parties, but undermines this by selling/sharing nearly all data categories—including sensitive religion and sexual orientation data—for advertising. Outdated supporting documents (2017 Cookie Policy) and broken compliance pages reduce overall transparency for a platform handling highly sensitive Muslim dating data.
- Annex maps data to purpose and legal basis
- Explicit consent for special category data
- 2-year retention for closed marriage profiles
- Data portability in machine-readable format (30 days)
- Names ad partners (AdMob, Meta, AppLovin, Pangle, Mintegral)
Privacy Concerns
- Medium Sensitive personal data sold/shared with ad networks and data brokersUnverified
- Medium Sensitive Personal Information explicitly listed among sold/shared categoriesUnverified
- Medium Broad collection of device identifiers and usage data shared with advertisers
- Medium Indefinite, sublicensable license over user content granted to Muzz
- Medium Chaperone feature shares full conversation transcripts including both parties' data
Privacy Positives
- High Impact Explicit consent required for special category data
- High Impact Biometric identifier not received by Muzz; deleted by provider
- Medium Impact Concrete 2-year retention for closed marriage profiles
- Medium Impact Data portability in machine-readable format within 30 days
- Medium Impact Clear opt-out methods including Global Privacy Control
Security Overview
70%
Security
Security Headers
HTTPS
Secure connection
Pass
HSTS
HTTP Strict Transport Security
Pass
CSP
Content Security Policy
Fail
X-Frame-Options
Clickjacking protection
Pass
X-Content-Type
MIME type sniffing protection
Pass
Referrer-Policy
Controls referrer information
Fail
Permissions-Policy
Browser feature controls
Fail
Mozilla Observatory Grade: B
Scanned: June 4, 2026
From Their Privacy Policy
Direct excerpts from Muzmatch's published privacy policy
Muzz does not receive the biometric identifier generated from the images. It is generated and held by Verification Provider until the identification or verification process has been completed, at which point it is deleted by the Verification Provider.
if you have a marriage profile and you have closed your account, the personal information in your account will be fully deleted and/or anonymised after 2 years.
We sell your Personal Data, subject to your right to opt-out of these sales.