New York (CNN Business) Tinder is following in Uber's lead in adding in-app safety features for dates that become unsafe.

The dating app is adding new safety features, including a panic button that alerts safety authorities if something goes wrong during a date. Tinder has also added the ability to check-in, telling friends where the daters are.

US users will receive the free new tools next Tuesday in a new section of the app called the Safety Center. Match, the dating conglomerate that owns Tinder , will roll out the new tools to its other US dating services later this year. The company also owns OkCupid, Hinge and the flagship Match.com.

Safety Center will roll out to US users in late January.

The tools will be powered by Noonlight, a safety platform that Tinder made an investment in. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

To use the new Safety Center tools, users will have to also download Noonlight and enable the app's location-tracking tools. Users' dates information, such as location, will have to be manually entered into a new "Tinder Timeline" tool that can be shared with friends.

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