No Caste
HumansHere does not collect, store, ask about, infer, or use caste in any part of the product.
This means:
• No caste field at signup. We never ask for caste, sub-caste, gotra, or any variant. There is no dropdown, no text field, no optional toggle.
• No caste data in our database. We have not collected this information from any user, at any point, in any form.
• No caste in matching. Caste is not a variable in our discovery model. It cannot be inferred from our model. It plays no role in who you see or who sees you.
• No future plans to introduce it. Caste filtering is not on our roadmap and never will be. This is a values decision, not a feature decision. We will not build it if users ask for it. We will not build it if competitors have it. We will not build it under any condition.
On religion and mother tongue
We do collect religion and mother tongue as optional fields. These are not caste, and we want to be explicit about why we treat them differently.
Religion and language are how many people describe their own cultural and spiritual lives. They show up in how someone celebrates, what they eat, what they read, what they sing to themselves on a Sunday morning. For some users, these are essential to how they imagine a relationship. For others, they’re irrelevant. Both readers are welcome on HumansHere.
What we do not do:
• We do not require either field. You can complete your HumansHere profile without sharing religion or mother tongue.
• We do not allow these fields to function as caste proxies. Sub-community, gotra, jati, varna, and similar caste-coded fields are not collected, not under religion, not under mother tongue, not under any other label.
Religion and language describe how someone moves through the world. Caste describes where they were placed in a hierarchy by birth. We treat them as fundamentally different categories, and we build accordingly.
Why this matters
The category HumansHere is part of, broadly, the world of arranged introductions in India, has historically been built around caste matching. Platforms like Shaadi, Jeevansathi, and Bharatmatrimony have offered caste filters for decades, and the existence of those filters has shaped what “arranged” means in the Indian context.
We are using the word arranged to mean something different. The “arranged” in “arranged dating” means you arrange your own, your terms, your questions, your choices. Not your family. Not your community. Not the system. You.
A platform built on that premise cannot also offer caste filters. The two are incompatible. A product that lets you filter people out before they’ve spoken is not building a new category. It’s repackaging the old one.
On the larger question
We can speak to what HumansHere does as a product. We cannot speak to what every user privately carries with them when they date. People bring their full selves to any relationship, including the parts of their identity shaped by where they come from. Those conversations, about background, family, community, expectations, belong to the people having them, not to a platform.
HumansHere’s job is to make sure the platform itself is not the thing perpetuating the structure. The product does not see caste. What two people choose to talk about, share, or value in their own relationship is up to them.
If you have questions
You can read this page anytime. If you find any place in the product that contradicts what’s written here, anywhere caste data is requested, stored, or used, write to us and we will fix it the same day.
We mean every word of it.