Law Enforcement Requests

Version

1.0 (pending final legal review before public launch)

Operator

Vallabh Sakhare, trading as ScatterBrain (“we”, “us”)

Effective Date

2026-07-22 ·

Last Updated

2026-07-22

Law-enforcement contact

support@pipchat.in (subject: “LAW ENFORCEMENT REQUEST”)

This policy explains how Dinner Date handles requests for user data from law enforcement and other authorities. It is intended for law-enforcement and legal audiences and is read together with the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service (§42–43). Independent legal review recommended before public launch, and the formal legal-process address / nodal officer must be finalised.

1. Our commitment

We take user privacy seriously and we cooperate with valid, lawful requests. We disclose user information only where we are legally required or permitted to do so, and we try to limit disclosures to what a request lawfully requires. We may decline, narrow, or challenge requests that are overbroad, vague, or not properly issued.

2. Legal process we require

• Non-content records / subscriber information (e.g. account identifiers, registration data,

transaction metadata) — require valid legal process appropriate to the jurisdiction (for example, a lawful order, subpoena, or a request under India’s Code of Criminal Procedure / Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Information Technology Act).

• Content (e.g. message content still retained, safety records) — require the higher standard of

process for content that applies in the relevant jurisdiction (for example, a warrant or equivalent court order).

• Requests should identify the specific account(s) and data sought, the legal authority, and the

requesting officer and agency, and be sent through official channels.

3. What data actually exists

Requesters should understand the platform’s data-minimising design when scoping a request:

• Dinner Date does not keep a background location history of users. The only stored precise-location

data is an SOS trail (the user’s own device points, kept ~24 hours) if that user triggered SOS, and a single latest live-location point for an active shared date. Drift monitoring stores no coordinates at all — only yes/no signals and timestamps.

• Messages are retained for 90 days and then anonymised (text cleared); check-in audit records,

monitoring sessions, and SOS trails are retained 90 days. Data outside these windows may no longer exist. See the Account Deletion & Data Retention Policy.

• We do not hold users’ full payment-card data (store-processed purchases) and hold only transaction

metadata.

4. Emergency requests

In cases involving an imminent risk of death or serious physical harm, we may disclose information to authorities on an expedited basis where permitted by law, on receipt of a properly identified emergency request explaining the emergency and the information needed. This is exceptional and does not replace normal legal process for non-emergencies.

5. Preservation

On a valid preservation request, we may preserve specified account records for a limited period pending service of formal legal process, consistent with Applicable Law.

6. Notice to users

Our policy is to notify users about requests for their information before disclosure, so they may seek to protect their rights, except where we are legally prohibited from doing so, or where we believe in good faith that notice would risk harm (for example, child-safety cases, imminent-harm emergencies, or a lawful non-disclosure order).

7. Child safety

We report child sexual abuse and exploitation to the competent authorities and cooperate with related investigations, and we may preserve and disclose relevant information as required or permitted by law even absent a request. See the Child Safety & CSAM Policy.

8. How to submit a request

Send requests to legal@pipchat.in with subject “LAW ENFORCEMENT REQUEST”, from an official agency email where possible.

Dinner Date is not, at present, a Significant Social Media Intermediary under India’s IT Rules, 2021, and so is not required to appoint a separate Chief Compliance Officer, Nodal Contact Person or Resident Grievance Officer. Should it cross the applicable user threshold, those appointments and a physical legal-process address will be published.

9. No fee waiver / cost

We may seek reimbursement of costs for responding to requests where the law permits.

10. Changes

We may update this policy to reflect legal requirements and our processes.