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Here’s exactly what happens.

We ask for exactly what the filings need, and nothing else. Each field has a job:

• The exact wording of your ban notice - and, on Tinder, the case card behind it. It names the policy section, the violation type and whether you were flagged by automation, by reports, or by a Tinder reviewer. That one line changes the whole approach.
• Dates (ban, last payment, renewal) - six months from the action is the outside limit on Tinder, Bumble, Badoo, OkCupid, Match and POF. Grindr and Feeld publish no window at all. Hinge’s help centre gives none, but its ban screen can carry its own date, so read yours. Sooner is better everywhere.
• Whether you have already appealed - this is the one people hide. Tinder will not hear a second appeal on the same violation. OkCupid, POF and Match say repeat submissions are not considered and may move your place in the queue. We need to know before we touch anything.
• Whether you have opened a new account since - it changes what we can honestly argue, and we would rather build around it than be surprised by it halfway through.
• Whether you have filed a chargeback - say so now. A chargeback is a ban trigger written into Tinder’s and Hinge’s own terms, it ends your refund rights, and it has taken people’s Apple accounts with it. We work around one. We never advise one.
• How you paid (Apple, Google, the website, Stripe) - the billing channel decides which money route exists and which clock is already running down.
• Whether you can produce photo ID today - Hinge can demand it before it will accept an appeal at all, and some Tinder “bans” turn out to be a selfie or ID challenge in a ban’s clothing.
• Your country of residence - it decides which routes legally exist for you.
• Your side of the story - the context a template reviewer never saw.
• On Grindr, HER and Feeld, your explicit consent - which app you were on can say something about you that data law treats as sensitive. We ask before we write it down anywhere, and you can say no and still be represented.

Most ruined appeals were ruined on day one, by the banned person. So the first thing we send you is a list of what to stop doing:

• Do not appeal again in anger. Tinder will not take a second appeal on the same violation. OkCupid, POF and Match say repeat submissions are not considered. Grindr auto-closes duplicates. You get one shot, and most people take it at 2am. We make it count.
• Do not email or post at staff. Hinge’s own help centre says messages sent that way are not processed and can delay your place in the queue. There is no executive inbox worth finding.
• Do not file a chargeback. It is a ban trigger in Tinder’s and Hinge’s terms, it ends your refund rights, and it has disabled Apple accounts. If money is owed, there are routes that do not detonate the appeal.
• Do not ask them to delete your data. Erasure does not remove a ban record - Tinder, Hinge and Bumble all keep those lawfully, for years - and it destroys your evidence and can kill the login that Tinder’s appeal runs on.
• Do screenshot everything today. Ban notice, case card, receipts, the subscription screen, anything still visible. Some of it goes away.
• Do keep the account reachable. Same email, same number, same payment method on file. Every route we build points back at those.

Dublin and Dallas get different levers, and so do Tinder and Grindr. This is the real map, named route by named route:

• The platform’s own appeal (everyone) - the only channel that reinstates at scale, and it is a different animal in every app. Tinder’s Appeals Center has no statement box at all: it runs on your login and offers “Begin appeal”, then “Submit appeal”. Hinge takes a written statement, in-app only, and may demand ID first; its one help-centre form is for people who cannot submit ID. Bumble and Badoo use the form inside the block notice. OkCupid, POF and Match share one web form, once. Grindr’s wizard caps you at 1,000 characters and a single file under 50MB.
• The Match Group escalation team (Match brands) - a second human look across every Match Group account you hold, once. Its form will not submit without a ticket reference from the app’s own customer care, so keep that reference. It is real, it is theirs, and almost nobody banned from Tinder knows it is there.
• An EU certified dispute body (EU/EEA) - an independent body certified under Article 21 of the Digital Services Act, free to you (except a filing it treats as clearly malicious). Its decision does not bind the platform. Platform Control in Germany is named in the European Commission’s register for Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid; it does not require you to appeal in-app first, works in German or English, expressly allows a representative, and targets 90 days. ADR Center in Italy names Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, Badoo and OkCupid on its intake form, wants the in-app appeal first, and takes cases up to twelve months old. ADR Point in Greece names Tinder, Hinge and Bumble, wants the in-app appeal first plus a copy of your ID, and states no deadline at all. No certified body names Grindr, POF, Match or Feeld anywhere. None of these decisions binds the platform, and Article 21 says so. They are in use: on Match Group’s own 2025 EU figures, Hinge had 636 disputes taken to these bodies, with 161 decisions reversed, and Tinder 335, with 66 reversed.
• The access request (EU · UK · California and other US states) - make them disclose what they hold on you. Hinge says ban reasons are left out of its data exports, so expect the file, not always the reason. One month in the EU and UK, plus two if it is genuinely complex, with the UK clock now running from the moment they have your ID. Forty-five days in California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and Texas, extendable once. Access, never erasure first. In the founder’s own case, an access request to Tinder ended with its Data Protection Office lifting the ban.
• The regulator (EU · UK) - if the access request is ignored, the complaint goes to your data protection authority. The Irish Data Protection Commission has published two Tinder case studies. Both began as erasure requests, not access requests. In one, after the DPC stepped in, Tinder re-reviewed the ban and lifted it; in the other, Tinder offered to delete the man’s data so he could open a new account.
• The money routes - Apple and Google store refunds from your own account, Tinder web purchases inside 14 days, Hinge’s Stripe payments inside 14 days, the EU and UK 14-day withdrawal right, the three-business-day right in twelve US states, and Bumble’s 6-day weekly and 14-day monthly rule. Since August 2025 an FTC order bars Match.com, OkCupid, POF and The League from retaliating over a billing dispute. It does not cover Tinder or Hinge.
• The public record: BBB (US · Canada, opt-in) - one complaint per business per 24 months, 14 days for the company to answer, visible for three years. Plainly: it builds the file. It does not lift bans, and Match Group answers ban complaints with a template saying it cannot process appeals that way. If you want the record, we send it. We will not sell it to you as a lever.
• Where you live may add one - India’s Grievance Appellate Committee is binding and decides within 30 days. Brazil’s consumidor.gov.br gives the company 10 days to reply. In the UK, data-protection complaints run under the DUAA.
• Your State Attorney General (US, footnote) - Washington, Colorado, Texas and California all say in their own words that they do not investigate or resolve individual complaints. Your AG logs patterns. We will send it if you want the record, and we will not pretend it is anything else.

The appeals that come back reversed have a shape in common. They are calm. They answer the specific policy section named in the notice rather than the ban in general. They add the one fact the first reviewer never had. They attach evidence only where it settles something. And they are submitted once, properly, not five times angrily. Where there is a character limit we write to it: Grindr’s is hard-capped at 1,000. Hinge prints no limit, and a short statement still reads best.

What you were banned for changes the work entirely. 94% of Tinder’s 2025 EU terminations were scam, fraud and inauthentic-account sweeps, mostly automated - which makes them the category where a real person has the most to argue, because the argument is simply that you are one, and that is an argument evidence can win. Conduct bans are different. Harassment, harm and cases involving minors were decided by humans who read something first. Those are the cases we decline and refund, and we tell you at intake, not after you have paid.

You confirm the facts of your case, then we draft and file. You are copied on everything as it goes out. Nothing is guessed.

No app promises a time, and neither do we. On Match Group’s 2025 EU figures, half of appeals were decided within 17 hours 36 minutes. What we do promise is that nothing arrives without a plain-English note on what it means and what fires next - because several of the rules are the opposite of what they look like:

• Silence means different things per app. On OkCupid, do not wait on a written refusal: after a fortnight with nothing, treat it as a no. On Grindr, silence is normal - the median in its 2025 EU transparency report was 281 hours, nearly twelve days, and half took longer. On Tinder, Hinge, Bumble and Badoo, a decision usually arrives far sooner, so a long quiet there is worth a nudge on another route rather than another appeal.
• Asked for ID? Send it. Hinge may require ID before some appeals; without it the appeal cannot go in. And some Tinder bans turn out to be a selfie or ID challenge wearing a ban’s clothes. We tell you exactly what to send and what to leave out.
• “No reason given” is standard, not personal. Grindr withholds reasons outright and Hinge’s decision emails often carry none. It changes nothing about the route map, and it is precisely what the access request is for.
• A denial is a fork, not the end - but only sometimes. It tells us which remaining route now carries the case, and, just as usefully, where a second attempt would cost you your position rather than help. On every tier we answer every reply for you.

Whatever happens, you end with the complete file: everything, every reply, every deadline met - yours to keep. If it worked, that file is the thing that stops it happening twice. If it did not, on The Advocate and The Campaign you also get what is left in writing: the routes still open, the ones that are closed and why, and an honest read on each - including the times when the honest read is “nothing further, and here is the reason”.

And one number worth holding on to while you wait, because it is the only kind we will ever quote. In 2025, under EU transparency rules, Hinge reversed 36.1% of the appeals it received, OkCupid 37.4% and Grindr 10.9% of appeals against account bans, Match Group across all its EU brands 31.8% of all appeals, Tinder 21.2% of account bans, Bumble 9.2% of appeals against account suspensions and Badoo 7.4% of all its appeals. Across the Match Group brands that is roughly one appeal in three overturned. Those are the platforms’ own published figures. We publish no success rate of our own. The cases and counts behind it are in do dating app ban appeals work.