Privacy and safety on Gold-Date

Published 6 October 2026

When you use a shidduch site — especially as part of the religious and traditional community — trust is everything. You share personal details, photos and what you hope for in a marriage. Here is how Gold-Date protects you at every stage.

Protecting your account

• Password guessing — every log-in attempt passes a Cloudflare CAPTCHA check, and repeated attempts are rate-limited.
• Fake accounts — email sign-up passes a CAPTCHA check, and disposable, throwaway email addresses are blocked.
• Passwords — stored only in hashed form. We never keep your actual password.
• Sessions — you stay signed in with short-lived tokens that renew automatically.
• Google and Facebook — you can sign in with one click, without another password.
• Email verification — every account must verify its email address before using the site.

Protecting your photos

• You decide who sees you — switch on private photos and other members must ask to see them; you approve or decline each request.
• Genuine images only — uploads are checked to make sure they are real images, and screenshots are detected automatically.
• No hidden data — location, camera and other metadata are removed from every photo you upload.
• Human review — our team approves every profile photo before it is shown.

Protecting your conversations

• Offensive-language filtering — messages are checked for inappropriate language in Hebrew, English, Russian, Arabic and French.
• You decide who can write to you — five message filters run on our server, so they cannot be bypassed from the other side.

Golda has safeguards too

Golda, our AI matchmaker, has her own protection against attempts to manipulate her or to make her reveal internal information.

Blocking and reporting

• Block in one click — choose a reason (spam, harassment, inappropriate content, a fake profile) or write your own. A blocked member can no longer message you, like you or view your profile.
• Reports — every report reaches our team and is reviewed. Members who break the community rules can be removed.

Infrastructure you can rely on

• Automatic clean-up removes accounts that never verified their email, and expired verification links.
• Accurate online status — if you close the app suddenly or lose your connection, the system notices within minutes, so nobody sees you “online” when you are not.

The bottom line

We built Gold-Date for people who value tzniut (modesty), privacy and trust. Every protection here is designed around one idea: that you should feel safe being yourself. Join Gold-Date — it is free to join.