Privacy
Reading about queer dating should not create a record that you read about queer dating. For some of our readers that is a preference. For others it is the difference between being out and being outed, and in a number of countries it is a legal exposure. So the design rule is that we do not hold what we do not need.
What we do not collect
- No account is required to read anything here.
- We do not ask your orientation or gender identity. Not in a form, not in a quiz, not as an optional field. We have no reason to hold it, so we do not ask.
- We do not run third-party advertising or tracking pixels. No ad network, no social pixel, no session recording. On a site like this, an ad network learning which page you read is the entire problem.
- We do not sell, rent, or share visitor data. There is no arrangement under which a third party receives data about you from us.
What we do collect
Aggregate page counts, so we know which pieces are useful. Not tied to an identity, and not able to reconstruct one person's reading.
Anything you type into a correction form, only if you submit it. It does not ask who you are. If you volunteer that anyway, we would rather you did not, and we will not use it for anything except replying.
Standard server logs, including IP address, held briefly for security and abuse prevention.
Why we are strict about this
Data about sexual orientation is a special category under the EU GDPR and sensitive personal information under the CCPA. Beyond the legal position, the practical risk is specific: the consequence of this leaking is usually not spam, it is a person being outed to family, an employer, or a government.
There is no database of queer users here, because there are no user accounts.
Cookies
No advertising or tracking cookies. Any cookie set is functional.
Reading privately
Two notes we would rather give you than not:
- A private or incognito window keeps this site out of your device's history. It does not hide anything from your network provider.
- On a shared or family device, browser history is usually the exposure that matters most, and clearing it is the thing that actually helps.
If you are somewhere that criminalises being queer, treat any website — including this one — as something that can be observed at the network level, and use tools built for that purpose rather than trusting a privacy policy.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes and material changes get a note.