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Privacy policy

Last updated 9 November 2026

This policy explains what personal information The Half collects, why, who we share it with and the choices you have. "We" means Stanley Smith, Prime Apartments, 483 Green Lanes, London, N13 4FG. We are the data controller for your information. If you have any questions, email hello@thehalfapp.com.

What we collect

When you apply

• Your email address, first name, date of birth, department and home city.
• Your credits (shows, roles and years) and the proof you send that you work in theatre, such as a contract, payslip, programme page, union card, or a Spotlight or agent link.

When you're a member

• Your profile: photos, bio, prompt answers, current show and tour dates (the cities you'll be in and when).
• How you describe your gender, and who you'd like to meet for dates or as friends. If you choose to, your gender in your own words and your pronouns. You decide whether those two show on your profile.
• Who you like and pass on, any note you send with a like, your matches, and the messages you send and receive, including photos and voice notes.
• Meetups you host or say you're going to.
• If you turn on notifications, a token that lets us send them to your phone.
• Your settings, such as pausing your profile or hiding from your own company, and the people you block.
• Which membership you have, and when it renews. Payments are handled by Apple or Google; we never see your card details.
• Reports you make, or that are made about you, including a copy of any message that was reported.

Automatically

• Basic technical information needed to keep the service running and secure, such as when you signed in and error logs.

We don't use advertising trackers and we don't sell your information.

Adverts

There are no adverts in The Half. If that ever changes, we'll update this policy and tell you in the app first, and we'll ask for any permission the law requires.

If you join the waitlist

Before the app opens, you can join our waitlist on this website. We keep your email address, department and the city you're working in, the invite code we give you, and who invited you. We also keep a scrambled version of your internet connection's address for two hours, to stop spam sign-ups, then delete it.

We use this to email you your invite link, to email you when The Half opens, to see which cities and departments to open in first, and to credit people for their invites. When someone you invited applies in the app, the person who invited them can see that one more of their invites has applied, but not who. Our lawful basis is your consent. You can leave the list at any time with the "Leave the list" button on the home page, or by emailing us, and we delete your details straight away. If you don't join the app, we delete your waitlist details 6 months after it opens.

Information that needs extra care

Using a dating app can reveal things about you, such as your sexual orientation, through who you choose to meet. We only use this to show you people and to show you to people, as you've asked. You can change your choices or delete your account at any time.

Why we use it, and our lawful basis

• To run The Half for you (your account, profile, Discover, matches and chat): because it's necessary for our contract with you.
• To check that members work in theatre and are 18 or over: because it's necessary for our contract with you, and in our legitimate interest in keeping The Half safe and genuine.
• To keep members safe (reviewing reports, removing people who break our guidelines, filtering abusive messages, preventing fraud): in our legitimate interests and those of our members, and to meet our legal duties under the Online Safety Act 2023.
• Information that reveals your sexual orientation: with your explicit consent, which you give when you choose who you'd like to meet.
• To send you emails about your application and account: because it's necessary for our contract with you.
• To meet legal and accounting duties: because the law requires it.

Who can see what

• Other members see your profile: first name, age, department, current show, the city you're in and until when, your photos, bio, prompts, and credits once we've checked them. They never see your surname, email, date of birth or proof.
• People on your own show don't see you, and you don't see them, while "Hide me from my own company" is on (it's on unless you turn it off).
• Our review team sees your application and proof, and any reports and reported messages. They don't read your other messages.

Who we share it with

We use a small number of companies to run The Half. They only process your information on our instructions:

• Supabase: our database, sign-in and file storage, hosted in the EU (Ireland).
• Vercel: hosting for our website.
• Resend: sending emails such as your sign-in code and application decision.
• Expo, Apple and Google: delivering notifications to your phone, if you've turned them on. They receive your phone's notification token and the text of the notification.
• Apple, Google and RevenueCat: taking membership payments and telling us which tier you're on.

The show names you can search in the app come from our own list of UK tours, and from shows members add.

Some of these companies are based in the United States. Where your information leaves the UK, we rely on the UK's adequacy regulations or the International Data Transfer Addendum to protect it. We may also share information with the police or other authorities when the law requires it, or to protect someone from serious harm.

How long we keep it

• Proof you work in theatre: deleted once your application has been reviewed.
• Your account, profile, matches and messages: until you delete your account. Then we delete them straight away, and they drop out of our backups as those are replaced.
• Reports: kept for up to two years so we can spot repeat behaviour, then deleted.
• If you tell us why you're leaving: kept without your name.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your information, ask us to correct or delete it, object to or restrict how we use it, ask for it in a portable format, and withdraw your consent at any time. You can delete your account yourself in the app: Profile, Account and safety, Delete my account. For anything else, email hello@thehalfapp.com. We'll reply within one month.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Age

The Half is only for people aged 18 and over. If we learn that someone under 18 has applied, we delete their account.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.