{"id":2199,"date":"2019-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtchdevimport.wpenginepowered.com\/single-news\/481\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:00:00","slug":"481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/single-news\/481\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Update: Introducing Traveler Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"left\">\n<p style='font-feature-settings: \"liga\", \"onum\", \"kern\"; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; text-rendering: geometricprecision; color: rgb(102, 105, 109); font-family: \"Proxima Nova Soft\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;'>It\u2019s no secret that we believe everyone has the right to live how they want to live and love who they want to love. And while there are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gotinder.com\/righttolove\/\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still efforts to protect our freedoms from LGBTQ discrimination here in U.S.<\/a>, it\u2019s important to remember that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.org\/maps-sexual-orientation-laws\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there are still nearly 70 countries around the world that have laws effectively criminalizing LGBTQ status.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style='font-feature-settings: \"liga\", \"onum\", \"kern\"; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; text-rendering: geometricprecision; color: rgb(102, 105, 109); font-family: \"Proxima Nova Soft\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;'>Starting today, we\u2019re rolling out a Traveler Alert that will appear when Tinder is opened in one of these locations to ensure that our users are aware of the potential dangers the LGBTQ community faces \u2014 so that they can take extra caution and do not unknowingly place themselves in danger for simply being themselves.<\/p>\n<p style='font-feature-settings: \"liga\", \"onum\", \"kern\"; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; text-rendering: geometricprecision; color: rgb(102, 105, 109); font-family: \"Proxima Nova Soft\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;'>Our LGBTQ community will no longer automatically appear on Tinder when they open the app in these areas. Once the alert is activated, users will have the choice to remain hidden while in that location or opt into making their profile public so that they can connect with new people. If a user chooses to be shown on Tinder &#8211; and has added sexual orientation or gender identity to their profile &#8211; it will not be displayed until they leave that area.<\/p>\n<p style='font-feature-settings: \"liga\", \"onum\", \"kern\"; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; text-rendering: geometricprecision; color: rgb(102, 105, 109); font-family: \"Proxima Nova Soft\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;'>The alert will appear when users are on the ground in these countries, as well as if they are using Tinder\u2019s Passport feature to connect and match with people anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p style='font-feature-settings: \"liga\", \"onum\", \"kern\"; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; text-rendering: geometricprecision; color: rgb(102, 105, 109); font-family: \"Proxima Nova Soft\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;'>We worked with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.org\/\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ILGA World<\/a>\u00a0to help establish locations in which Traveler Alert will appear. Together, we also added new information to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotinder.com\/safety\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safety Tips<\/a>\u00a0to include relevant information about this update.<\/p>\n<p style='font-feature-settings: \"liga\", \"onum\", \"kern\"; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; text-rendering: geometricprecision; color: rgb(102, 105, 109); font-family: \"Proxima Nova Soft\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;'>Traveler Alert on Tinder is rolling out for users on both iOS and Android in the coming days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that we believe everyone has the right to live how they want to live and love who they want to  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,26],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-single-news","tag-pressrelease","tag-tinder"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}