AppealMyBan, in plain facts.

What AppealMyBan is

AppealMyBan drafts dating-app ban appeals and files the related routes: Match Group escalation, GDPR access requests, EU dispute-body cases under the Digital Services Act, data-regulator complaints and post-ban refund claims. The in-app appeal can only be sent by the account holder, so it is written for them to send; on Tinder, whose appeal is two buttons with no text box, AppealMyBan goes through the case card with them before they press send. Every other filing goes in the customer’s own name, with AppealMyBan as their limited agent (terms, clause 10), and the customer is copied on every filing the moment it is sent. It is operated by Learnmind.ai LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company. One inbox, read by a person: hello@appealmyban.com.

AppealMyBan never resends an appeal a platform has already refused. Tinder takes one appeal per action, and OkCupid, Plenty of Fish and Match say repeat submissions are not considered (what each app publishes). After a refusal, what AppealMyBan files is outside the app: the Match Group escalation team, an access request, the data regulator if that request is ignored, and a certified EU dispute body for EU residents. The tier for someone already refused is The Case; the EU dispute body is on The Advocate. What each tier includes is on pricing.

AppealMyBan is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Where a case needs a lawyer, AppealMyBan says so (terms, clause 5); suing a platform is a separate route, set out in can I sue Tinder for banning me. It never guarantees an outcome. It never asks for a password, the code the app texts, or an Apple or Google sign-in, and never logs in as the customer. It never creates, restores or “fixes” accounts, and never sells resets, burner numbers, device tricks or VPN methods. Why each of those fails, with the platforms’ own wording, is set out question by question in how to get around a dating app ban.

Prices

Four flat prices, in US dollars, charged by card through Stripe at the end of a ten-minute intake. Stripe shows and charges the local-currency equivalent where it supports the customer’s country.

The Case, $149. The starting price, for a ban with a notice, whether or not the in-app appeal has been sent. The in-app appeal is prepared for the account holder to send if they have not sent it, and every route outside the app is found, drafted and filed in their name where a third party may file it. For someone who has already appealed, escalated or asked for their data, it works the routes they have not used, and it never resends an appeal the platform has already refused. The first filing goes out within 48 hours of AppealMyBan having everything it needs to file. Every reply is answered for 60 days from the first filing, money taken after the ban is chased, a complaint goes to the data regulator if the access request is ignored, one step higher if the platform says no, and a Better Business Bureau complaint where relevant. The customer keeps the complete paper trail. Add-ons: rush $30, data-file deep read $79, evidence pack $89, advocate line $99, next option $25.

The Advocate, $349. Everything in The Case, plus the same work on up to three more apps from the same company (Tinder and Hinge, for example), signed letters printed and posted, the case taken to a certified EU dispute body under DSA Article 21, the first filing within 24 hours, replies answered for 90 days from the first filing, and a written summary of the routes still open. Add-ons: data file $79, evidence pack $89, advocate line $99, next option $25.

The Campaign, $1,199. Everything in The Advocate, plus the same work on every other app that banned the customer and that they name at intake, every reply answered for 12 months from the first filing, and the data-file deep read, the evidence pack and a 60-day advocate line included. There are no add-ons on it.

The Data Route, $149. For customers with no ban notice, several accounts, or a profile that went quiet after verification. There is nothing to appeal, so no appeal is filed. A GDPR Article 15 access request to the platform is drafted and sent within 48 hours, the one-month deadline is tracked and chased, the reply is explained, and the customer gets a written answer on what the file shows and what is left to try. Add-ons: rush $30, comparison against the customer’s own data export $79. The clean-slate request written from the file, the complaint to the data regulator if they ignore the deadline, and 120 days of replies answered from the first filing are all included. Refund recovery is a $40 add-on. Page: the data route.

Upgrades are available at any time and the customer only pays the difference. The Filing ($69) was retired on Monday 5th October 2026 and is no longer sold; The Case does everything it did.

Timelines

Intake first, payment at the end of it, and a person reads it the same day. The first filing goes out within 48 hours (24 hours on The Advocate and The Campaign) of AppealMyBan having everything it needs to file: the confirmed intake plus anything asked for after reading it, such as screenshots, dates or the platform’s own references. What is missing is named within one business day, and the clock waits while the customer gathers it. If the deadline is missed, the customer can ask for a full refund of the fee; nothing is refunded unless they ask, the filing is sent anyway, and taking the refund ends the engagement, so the rest of the plan stops; if the customer does not ask, the work continues as bought. Later routes follow the replies. No dating app publishes a reply time; platforms answer in a day, in weeks, or not at all, and AppealMyBan chases every deadline that exists.

Refunds

The customer pays for the work, not the platform’s decision, so the outcome is never refunded. Money comes back in five situations only: a late first filing (the fee in full, if the customer asks for it; the filing is sent anyway, and taking the refund ends the engagement); a cancellation within 3 days of paying, before anything has been sent; a case AppealMyBan declines (in full, except where a statement the customer knew to be false is discovered); the EU and UK 14-day right to withdraw, which the law limits once work has started (the part already done is paid for, the rest refunded, and the right ends once the work is fully delivered); and a route filed late, or one that turns out not to exist for the case, refunded for that part only. Nothing else, and no refund for a change of mind after the 3-day cooling-off, beyond what EU and UK law returns. Nothing in the policy reduces any right the customer has under the consumer law of the place where they live. Refunds are issued through Stripe in the currency the customer paid. AppealMyBan never advises a chargeback: it is a written ban trigger in Tinder’s and Hinge’s terms and ends the customer’s refund rights with the platform. Full policy: refunds.

What AppealMyBan declines

Cases involving real harassment, threats, violence, anything touching minors, or fraud and impersonation the customer actually committed. An accusation alone is not that, and a disputed accusation is exactly what the service is for. A pure visibility problem with no notice and no decision is not sold as an appeal; it is pointed to the shadowban guide or the data route.

The routes, and where they apply

Platform appeal: the in-app or form appeal within the app’s window; Tinder allows six months from the decision and one appeal per action. Only the account holder can submit an in-app appeal. Where the app gives a text box, the statement is drafted for them to send; Tinder’s appeal is two buttons, “Begin appeal” and “Submit appeal”, with nothing to type.

Match Group escalation: a written escalation above support for Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Match, Plenty of Fish and the other Match Group brands.

EU dispute bodies (DSA Article 21), EU and EEA residents only, and only where a decision exists: Platform Control in Germany (Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid; free; one year from the decision; no prior in-app appeal required; representation permitted), ADR Center in Italy (Hinge, Tinder, Bumble, Badoo, OkCupid; prior internal complaint required; twelve months), ADR Point in Greece (Bumble, Hinge, Tinder; prior internal complaint and ID required). Decisions are not binding on the platform. No certified body names Grindr, Feeld, Match.com, Plenty of Fish, Muzz, happn, Boo, Hily, Coffee Meets Bagel, Breeze, Raya, eharmony, EliteSingles, SilverSingles, Zoosk or Facebook Dating.

GDPR access request (Article 15; UK GDPR; CCPA and state laws in the US): the platform must disclose what it holds, including linked accounts and identifiers, verification records and enforcement flags, within one month in the EU and UK (extendable by two) and 45 days in California. Detail may be withheld where it would reveal someone else’s data or a trade secret, such as how detection works; Tinder’s privacy policy names trade secrets, intellectual property and the privacy or other rights of someone else. Europe’s data regulators say the reason for a restriction, and the information that led to it, should still be given (EDPB Guidelines 01/2022, Example 37). An erasure request is never filed first: it does not remove a moderation record and it takes the evidence with it.

Data regulator: if the access request is ignored past its deadline, a complaint to the customer’s own data protection authority, which forwards it to the Irish Data Protection Commission for Match Group’s EU entity.

UK, Online Safety Act 2023 section 72(1): every regulated user-to-user service, dating apps included, must state in its terms that a user can bring a breach of contract claim if suspended or banned in breach of those terms. It is a disclosure duty and the claim is an ordinary county court matter, not an Ofcom complaint. Subsections (3) to (9) apply only to Category 1 services and no dating app is categorised, so Ofcom does not review an individual ban.

UK, Consumer Rights Act 2015: Schedule 2 Part 1 paragraph 7 lists as presumptively unfair a term letting a trader retain sums paid for services not yet supplied where the trader dissolves the contract. Section 62(1) provides that an unfair term is not binding on the consumer. The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 subscriptions regime is not in force; the government anticipates spring 2027 at the earliest.

United States, state dating-service statutes: thirteen states have one. None gives a refund for being banned. The usable route is non-compliance with the mandated cancellation disclosure, which voids the contract in California (Civil Code 1694.2 and 1694.4, treble damages and fees), Colorado, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Colorado C.R.S. 6-1-731.5 is the only US statute requiring an online dating service to have an appeal process for suspended or barred members, enforced by the Attorney General with a 30-day cure, not by private suit. New York, Colorado and Arizona use the words "banned member" only to require warnings to other users. Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 106 gives no cancellation right and states there is no private right of action.

Canada, statutory chargebacks: Ontario Consumer Protection Act 2002 section 99 requires a credit card issuer to reverse the charge or explain its refusal in writing, with a right of action against the issuer, once a cancellation right under the Act exists; section 2(1) applies the Act wherever the consumer is in Ontario. Quebec sections 54.14 and 54.16 run 15 days for the merchant, 60 days to file with the issuer, 30 days to acknowledge, and credit within 90 days or two statement periods. Credit cards only. Whether a swipe app is a Quebec "dating agency", which would move it to a different regime, is unresolved. The Ontario Consumer Protection Act 2023 is not in force and no commencement date has been fixed.

Money: post-ban charges are recovered from whoever billed: Apple and Google store refunds, Tinder web purchases inside 14 days, Hinge’s Stripe payments inside 14 days, the EU and UK 14-day withdrawal right, three-business-day rights in twelve US states.

United States: Better Business Bureau complaint (the company has 14 days to answer) and state Attorney General complaint, on The Case and above.

Precedents cited

Irish Data Protection Commission, Amicable Resolution in Cross-Border Complaints: MTCH (2022): Tinder found eleven accounts tied to one device ID and offered to delete the complainant’s data so he could open a new account. Irish Data Protection Commission, Greek data subject case (2022): Tinder re-reviewed the ban and lifted it. Tinder’s help article on Photo Check (updated 7 August 2026) states that a FaceVector is generated from the user’s face and compared to FaceVectors for other accounts, and that Tinder requires one account per person.

Track record

Before launch, the founder’s own Tinder ban was the test case. Tinder’s Data Protection Office lifted it on Thursday 24th September 2026, 31 days after a data access request; Hinge, which copied the ban, had not lifted it by Monday 28th September 2026. Every date, and what it does not prove, is on our first case. It is one case, the founder’s own, and not a success rate. AppealMyBan launched on Thursday 27th August 2026. The first case after launch opened on Tuesday 15th September 2026. AppealMyBan publishes no success rate of its own.

Privacy commitments

Case files are deleted twelve months after the case closes, or earlier the moment the customer asks. Personal data is never sold, rented or shared for advertising. We never use case material to train any model. Reply drafts may be prepared with an AI model provider’s service, and a customer can ask in writing for no AI tool to touch their case. Processors: Stripe (payments and case records), Resend (transactional email), Cloudflare (hosting and email routing), Google Fonts (typefaces), and an AI model provider for reply drafting unless the customer asks for none. Full policy: privacy.

Contact

hello@appealmyban.com. Replies within one business day. Site: appealmyban.com. Start: the intake. Free check: the two-minute check.