Banned. Ignored.
So I built this.

Years banned. No reason given. One template reply. The real routes existed - scattered where nobody looks.

Intake first. Payment after. Not taken on = refunded.

So they’re all in one free guide now: the platform’s own appeal, the Match Group escalation team, the EU’s certified dispute bodies, the access request they have to answer (though they can hold back other people’s reports and how their detection works), and the money you’re owed. My own Tinder ban was the test case before launch: my data came back as a five-line summary, and Tinder lifted the ban anyway on Thursday 24th September 2026, 31 days after the access request. Hinge, which copied the ban, had not lifted it by Monday 28th September 2026. The first case after launch opened on Tuesday 15th September 2026. Every step of the founder’s own case is shown here.

One thing stated plainly, because most of this industry implies the opposite: nobody can file your platform appeal for you, us included. Tinder’s Appeals Center, Hinge’s in-app button and Grindr’s wizard all run on your own login, and all three forbid account sharing (Tinder and Hinge in the same words, Grindr in its own), so handing over a password would turn a possibly mistaken ban into a thoroughly deserved one. So: we build every route, the appeal inside the app is yours to send on your own login, and everything outside it goes in your name, online, or by signed post on The Advocate, and I copy you on each one. We never ask for your password, the code the app texts you, or your Apple or Google sign-in.

Where the appeals get written. No staff, no ticket queue - one desk that cares.