# Nova Dating

> A dating app with one paid tier at A$7.50 a month instead of a four-tier
> ladder, where the free side is genuinely usable: unlimited messaging, real
> safety tools, and no ads on either tier. Built and operated by Viridian
> Dynamics in Australia, with member data held in Sydney.

Nova Dating is in closed testing. Android is first, iOS follows. There is no
signup on the website — accounts are created in the app. nova.dating exists to
explain the product and to host the legal documents at a public URL.

The short version of why Nova exists: the major dating apps have moved the
things people need to use the product at all behind escalating paywalls. Nova
charges once, cheaply, and never sells safety. Blocking, reporting, photo
verification and the verified-only filter are free permanently, by policy.

## What it costs

- Free: unlimited messaging with every match, 25 likes a day, 1 Hot a week,
  blocking and reporting, photo verification and the verified-only filter,
  Overseas Mode in both directions, match reviews, and self-serve data export
  and deletion.
- Premium, A$7.50/month: unlimited likes, see everyone who liked you,
  unlimited rewind, the advanced filters (height, home country, appearance,
  lifestyle, intentions), 5 Hots a week, 2 profile boosts a week, a weekly
  photo performance report, and priority placement.
- Extra Hots: A$1.50 each, and they never expire.
- No ads on either tier. No data sold, ever.

## How matching works

- [Terms of Service, section 5](https://www.nova.dating/legal/terms): the
  matching rules in plain language — mutual right swipe, a 72-hour window for
  somebody to make contact, missed matches that either person can reopen once,
  and the woman sending the first message in a match between one man and one
  woman.
- A like can carry a 240-character note, which the other person can read
  whether or not they match back. It is not a message and cannot be used to
  start a conversation it is not your turn to start.
- Unmatching is permanent and works in both directions. Neither party can
  undo it, including the operator.
- Reviews can only be left by someone you actually matched with, as a small
  fixed set of emoji tags that includes ghosted and never-replied.

## Privacy and engineering

- [Privacy Policy](https://www.nova.dating/legal/privacy): what is collected,
  who can see it, where it is stored.
- [Data Retention and Deletion](https://www.nova.dating/legal/data-retention):
  how long each kind of data is kept and exactly what deletion removes.
- [Safety](https://www.nova.dating/legal/safety): the safety tools and how to
  use them.
- Member data is stored in Sydney, Australia. Row-level security is enabled on
  every table in the database, so the access rules are enforced by the
  database rather than by the application asking nicely.
- Who liked you is withheld from a free account by the server returning
  nothing at all — not by blurring a photograph in the page, which comes off
  with one developer-tools toggle.
- Paid placement is deliberately ranked below anyone who has already liked
  you, so money can never bury a person who actually reached for you.
- Minimum age is 18, enforced by a database constraint rather than a checkbox.
- External links and Snapchat handles are rejected in profiles and messages by
  a database trigger, so first contact stays somewhere blocking and reporting
  still mean something.

## Contact

- Support, privacy requests and safety reports:
  Support@viridiandynamics.com.au
- Operator: Viridian Dynamics, Australia.
- Full detail for machine readers: https://www.nova.dating/ai