Curious about AdultFriendFinder but nervous about what kind of personal information you’ll have to provide to a well-known hookup site with a history of data breaches? You’re right to be cautious about your data, but we’re here to reassure you that you can sign up to AFF with a minimal contribution of personal information.
Here’s the info you’ll need to provide to AdultFriendFinder to sign up for both a free and a paid account.
Free accounts
Because free accounts are extremely limited in what they can do on the site, there are very few actual requirements for signing up. At a minimum, you will need to provide AFF with your email address, date of birth, and location, as well as your marital status and sexual orientation. Unlike many other dating sites, which also require a public-facing profile photo, AFF allows you to browse the site anonymously, without having a single photo uploaded to your profile.
If even this paltry amount of information puts you off, consider that you can use a burner email address and not give away sensitive info, though if you want to earn verified status on AFF in the future, you will need to correct the record to match your government-issued identification.
Paid accounts
If you decide you enjoy the AdultFriendFinder experience and want to give yourself more freedom on the site to explore and message people, you’ll need a premium membership, which means providing even more (and more accurate!) personal information about yourself.
Aside from the credit card number, you’ll also need to provide an accurate address, including your country, city, state, and ZIP code.
If even that data commitment makes you nervous, but you still want to explore the site as a premium member, you can actually bypass having to provide a credit card (and the physical address needed to verify it) if you use one of their alternative payment methods, like a mail-in check, digital gift card, or prepaid debit card.
Not all of these payment options are available in every country, but if you really prize anonymity and data security, the prepaid account option is the most secure.
