Tea Dating Advice

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Tea Dating Advice (simply known as Tea), is a women-only social media platform founded in 2023 by Sean Cook. The purpose of the app is for women to share their experiences with dating local men, including checking for criminal records. Some have described the app as a "whisper network".

Tea Dating Advice

Basic information
Founded	2023
Legal Structure	Private
Industry	Social media service
Official website	https://www.teaforwomen.com/

Consumer-impact summary

Freedom

Users can delete their accounts by contacting the [email protected] email. Users who fall under GDPR or the CCPA can access, correct, update, or request deletion of their account.

Privacy

According to the privacy policy, collected information includes email address, date of birth, location, photograph, and ID photograph. Data such as ID are stated as being "stored only temporarily and will be deleted immediately following the completion of the verification process", however data can be retained if Tea needs to comply with legal, tax or accounting requirements per the Data Retention section. User information is also shared with third party advertisers by default unless the user contacts Tea directly to opt-out.

Business model

According to the in-app purchases list, users can pay $7.99 for reverse image searches and criminal record checks, with the subscription tiers ranging from $4.99/month for Tea premium and $9.99-$19.99 for Tea Pro.

Market control

As of 2025, the app claims to have more than 1.6 users, with recent numbers going up to 4.6 million as of July 27, 2025.

Incidents

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Tea Dating Advice category.

Public database leak (2025)

In July 2025, a 4chan post detailed a Firebase database leak connected to the Tea app which included 72,000 images, 13,000 being selfies and ID with the remaining 59,000 being from direct messages and posts.

On July 27, Tea made an official statement hidden on their website that stated no email addresses or phone numbers were breached and "only users who signed up before February 2024 were affected". This questions the reliability of the privacy policy, as the verification photos were not deleted over a year after verifying the accounts.

See also

• Bumble

External links

• Tea Dating Advice on the App Store
• Tea Dating Advice on Google Play