Kilig is operated by JVANET PTY LTD (Australia) and serves members primarily in the Philippines, so it answers to both jurisdictions.
This page does not claim blanket compliance.A dating platform that will handle identity documents should not be asking anyone to take “we comply with all applicable laws” on trust. Each item below names a specific law, states the specific thing Kiligdoes about it, and says plainly where the answer is “not yet”. Kilig has not launched, and this framework is pending review by Philippine and Australian counsel.
What it requires: Governs the processing of personal data, with a 72-hour breach notification duty and criminal penalties.
What Kilig does: Personal data is held in Singapore. Identity documents are never stored on our systems. Precise location and legal name are kept in a table no client can read. Members can export or erase their data without asking a person.
What it requires: Organisations processing sensitive personal information must register with the National Privacy Commission and designate a DPO.
What Kilig does: A DPO contact address is published ([email protected]). Registration and formal designation must be completed before the first production identity check — not before launch, before the first real verification.
What it requires: Prohibits businesses that, for a fee, match or offer Filipinos to foreign nationals for permanent partnership, including through online platforms. Legitimate dating platforms are carved out.
What Kilig does: Every paid feature is available to every member on the same terms. Nothing is priced or gated by nationality, and discovery ranking does not weight or order by nationality or citizenship. A build-time check rejects the vocabulary associated with the prohibited model across app copy, this website, and store listings.
What it requires: Covers gender-based sexual harassment in online spaces, including unwanted sexual advances and misogynistic or sexist remarks made through digital platforms.
What Kilig does: Reporting and blocking are free and available to every member with no tier requirement. Blocks are enforced in the database, not only in the interface. Contact details are never exposed by default and cannot be purchased. Reports are acted on within 24 hours.
What it requires: Criminalises capturing, copying or distributing intimate images without consent.
What Kilig does: Photo storage is private, served only through short-lived signed links. Sharing intimate images without consent is prohibited by the Terms and is grounds for permanent removal.
What it requires: Covers physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuse, including abuse committed by a person the victim has or had a dating relationship with.
What Kilig does: Account deletion carries a reversible 14-day window specifically because deletion is sometimes performed under pressure from an abusive partner. Blocks survive an account being deleted and re-created. Safety controls are never behind a paywall.
What it requires: Criminalise child sexual abuse material and the online sexual abuse or exploitation of children.
What Kilig does: Minimum age is 18, enforced in the database and again in the server-side onboarding function — not by a tickbox. Any sexual content involving a minor is grounds for immediate permanent removal and reporting to the authorities.
What it requires: Covers computer-related fraud, identity theft, and offences committed through information systems.
What Kilig does: Optional identity verification is handled by a specialist provider. Reports naming a possible offence are retained in a restricted store so they can be produced if lawfully required.
What it requires: JVANET PTY LTD is an Australian company, so the Australian Privacy Principles apply to how it handles personal information.
What Kilig does: The same access, correction and erasure paths satisfy both this and RA 10173 — one implementation, one audit surface. Complaints may be taken to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
What it requires: Establishes complaints schemes for cyber-abuse and non-consensual intimate images, and expects services to act on serious harm.
What Kilig does: In-app reporting, blocking, and a 24-hour action commitment on reports of objectionable content. A published, monitored contact address.
What it requires: Consumer guarantees cannot be excluded by agreement.
What Kilig does: The Terms state this explicitly and do not attempt to exclude non-excludable rights.
What it requires: Requires content filtering, in-app reporting, the ability to block abusive users, published developer contact, and action on objectionable content within 24 hours.
What Kilig does: All five are the product's design commitments. The Terms carry an explicit zero-tolerance clause, and the developer contact is published on this site.
What it requires: Digital goods must be sold through the platform's own purchase system, and must not be redeemable for real-world value.
What Kilig does: Gifts and tokens exist only inside the app. They have no cash value and cannot be converted to money, goods, services, or anything of value outside the platform — the capability is absent from the codebase, not switched off. A build-time check fails if it reappears.
What it requires: Both stores require an accurate age rating and a data-safety declaration matching actual behaviour.
What Kilig does: 18+ throughout. The declarations are completed in the consoles at submission and must match this site's privacy policy exactly.
Kilig is built for the Philippines and is not marketed in the European Union or the United Kingdom, so it does not hold itself out as a GDPR-first service. The rights it does provide — access, correction, export, erasure, and a route to a regulator — are offered to every member regardless of where they are.
Privacy and data requests: [email protected]. Data Protection Officer: [email protected]. How reports and harmful behaviour are handled is set out on the safety page.