CONSENT HARBOUR

Privacy Policy

Version 1.4 · Effective October 24, 2026.

Consent Harbour is a community website for adults aged 18 and older. This policy explains what personal information the website handles, how it is used, who can access it, and the choices available to members.

The operator of Consent Harbour is responsible for the personal information handled through the service. Privacy questions and requests can be sent to support@consentharbour.com.

Profile details, interests, boundaries, images, and conversations may reveal sensitive information about your identity, relationships, sexual interests, or health. Share only what you are comfortable providing. Private messages are stored on the service and are accessible to the site owner; they are not end-to-end encrypted.

Information we collect

Account information: username, email address, a password hash, account status, role, and records of accepting the Terms and Community Guidelines. We also store email verification and password recovery records and sign-in session information.

Information you provide: display name, region, pronouns, gender, experience, relationship information, interests, boundaries, communication preferences, safety preferences, profile photos, and other optional profile details. Aftercare plans and worksheets may contain sensitive wellbeing information.

Community activity: connections, partner links, requests, blocks, messages and message images, group memberships, posts and replies, events and attendance responses, feedback conversations, reports, and moderation records.

Verification information: if you use adult verification, we collect the photo you submit, submission details, and the review result. Verification photos are separate from profile photos and are not displayed publicly.

Technical information: the service uses session cookies to keep you signed in. Hosting, security, and email systems may process connection and delivery information, such as IP addresses, timestamps, and error logs.

Optional signup referral: you may tell us how you heard about Consent Harbour. This answer and any explanation are visible only to the site owner and never appear on your profile. You can leave this question unanswered.

Basic sign-in activity: from Build 51 onward, we record the time of each account’s most recent successful sign-in and its count of successful sign-ins. These details are visible only in the owner’s account listing for account administration. Page views and continued use of an existing session are not additional sign-ins. Earlier login history is not reconstructed.

Optional birthdate and displayed age: you may save a date of birth in your profile editor. The full date is private and is available to you for editing; member profiles and previews display only the calculated age to people who can view the profile. The owner’s account listing shows the calculated age or that no birthdate was provided, not the full date. Supplying a birthdate does not grant adult-verification status.

Why we use your information

We use information to create and maintain accounts; provide profiles, discovery, connections, messaging, groups, events, and worksheets; apply your visibility choices; verify email addresses and review adult-verification submissions; deliver account recovery and verification emails; respond to feedback and support requests; investigate reports and enforce community rules; and operate, secure, troubleshoot, and back up the service.

Optional profile and worksheet information is used for the features you choose to use. You can leave optional fields blank. Sharing information about another person requires their permission.

Profile visibility and sharing

Your profile controls allow you to choose audiences for supported sections, including public visitors, signed-in members, connections, or only yourself. Discovery and private-messaging controls provide additional choices. These settings govern member-facing access; they do not prevent administrative access needed to operate the service.

Public information may be viewed, copied, or indexed by search engines. People who can view content may take screenshots or keep copies. Changing visibility or deleting content cannot retrieve copies already held by someone else.

Group posts, event activity, and other community content are visible according to the access rules of those features. Do not assume that profile privacy settings make all other activity private.

Restricted groups and invitations

Groups may allow all eligible members, require owner-approved adult verification or staff status, or require a private invitation. Membership and manager appointments are stored with the account. Invitations record the sender, recipient, group, response, dates and expiry; an invitation does not grant access until accepted. Private invitations appear only to the named recipient and authorized group managers through the application.

Appointed group managers can see their group's usernames, membership and invitation information and moderate that group's discussions. This appointment does not grant access to private profile fields or site-wide owner tools. The site owner retains administrative oversight, and authorized site moderators retain their existing moderation tools. Profile privacy does not conceal a username from managers of a group you join. Leaving or losing access does not automatically delete historical posts. Do not share group content outside its intended audience without permission.

Private messages feedback and administrative access

Private conversations are available to their participants under the website’s access rules. The site owner also has administrative access to read member conversations, including message content, for investigating concerns and resolving issues. This access is not limited by profile visibility settings.

Feedback is linked to the sender’s account and is not anonymous. Feedback conversations are available to the sender and the owner.

Authorized moderators can access information made available through their moderation tools, including reports and content requiring review. Adult-verification photos are available for private owner review.

Following discussions and reply notifications

Following a group discussion is optional and linked to your account. The site stores your chosen discussion follows and on-site reply notifications. Following does not add public activity, and follower lists or counts are not shown to other members. Reply notifications follow current group membership, blocking and content-visibility rules. Notifications contain a discussion link, not a stored copy of the reply text. You do not receive notifications for your own replies.

You can unfollow to stop notifications and remove that discussion’s stored notification, or leave the group to remove its follows. Account export includes your follows and notification state. Account deletion removes linked follows and reply notices; existing backup retention still applies. Group managers and moderators can pin and close discussions; management actions are recorded for review. Closing leaves existing posts available under their normal access rules.

Private bookmarks

Bookmarks are linked to your account and let you explicitly save library articles and stories to find later. Saving a bookmark does not add an interest, reading history, or public activity to your profile. Your bookmark list is available only to you through the member-facing application; no member, owner, or moderator bookmark-list viewing feature is provided. Administrative access needed to operate the service remains as described in this policy.

Bookmarks do not change a story’s access rules. Hidden or otherwise unavailable saved stories do not reveal their titles or text in your bookmark list; deleting a story removes its linked bookmarks. You can remove bookmarks, and account export includes your saved items. Account deletion removes linked bookmarks. Existing backup retention still applies.

Community Stories and anonymous posting

Stories, draft text, comments, graphic-content choices, anonymity choices, reports, and moderation records are linked to accounts in the service. Published stories are available to eligible signed-in members under the Stories access rules; profile visibility settings do not make a published story private.

Private story drafts are available through the member-facing application only to their author. Published and moderation-hidden stories can be reviewed by authorized owner/moderator tools. Administrative access needed to operate the service is separate from member-facing access.

Post anonymously displays Anonymous to members while retaining the account link so the author can edit, delete, and manage their story. The author’s comments on their anonymous story display Anonymous · Author. The owner and authorized moderators can identify the author for moderation. This option does not remove identifying details in the writing or prevent authorized viewers from keeping copies.

Removing a comment hides its text from ordinary member views; retained text may remain available in moderation reports. Account export includes the member’s own story content, comments, reports, and anonymity choices. Deleting a story removes its linked comments and reports; moderation audit records can remain. Account deletion removes the account’s linked story content. Existing backup retention still applies.

Service providers and other disclosures

Consent Harbour uses hosting, storage, backup, and email providers to operate the website and deliver account emails. Those providers process information needed for their services. Depending on the provider and service, information may be stored or processed outside your province or Canada and may be subject to the laws of those locations. Contact us for information about the providers and processing locations used for your account.

Information may also be disclosed where required by applicable law or in responding to a valid legal request. Any disclosure should be limited to information relevant to the request.

External websites linked from Consent Harbour have their own privacy practices.

Cookies and account emails

The website uses a session cookie for authentication. Blocking or removing it may sign you out or prevent authenticated features from working.

Password recovery and verification emails are sent when needed for the corresponding account function.

Retention and deletion

Account and activity information is stored to provide the features you use and support security, moderation, and operation of the service. Retention depends on the type of information and its purpose; not all records are automatically deleted after a fixed period. Contact us to request deletion or information about how long particular records are kept. Information retained for a legal requirement or a specific unresolved matter will be limited to what is needed for that purpose.

You can edit supported profile fields and visibility settings. The account deletion feature requires your current password and confirmation. It removes the account and linked database records, including conversations involving that account. Groups and events can remain after their creator’s account is deleted.

Deleting or hiding a chat is different from deleting an account and should not be treated as a guarantee that all messages have been erased for everyone.

Backup copies and some stored files may remain after a live record is deleted. Copies held by recipients or outside the website are outside our control. Contact us if you need help understanding or requesting deletion.

Security and your choices

The service uses password hashing, authenticated access, and access controls for private media and member features. No online service can guarantee complete security or prevent an authorized viewer from copying information.

Use a unique password, protect your email account, and avoid including identifying or sensitive details you do not want others to receive.

You may request access to your personal information, correction of inaccurate information, or deletion, and raise concerns about its handling. We may need to verify your identity and protect other people’s information when responding. Where applicable law limits a request, we will explain the relevant limitation.

Adults only

Consent Harbour is for people aged 18 or older. Do not create an account or submit personal information if you are under 18. Contact us if you believe a minor has registered or submitted information so the concern can be investigated.

Contact and policy changes

For privacy questions or requests, contact support@consentharbour.com and identify your request as a privacy matter. Do not send your password or additional sensitive images by email.

This policy’s version and effective date will be displayed on the website when it is published. We will update the policy when our privacy practices change and notify affected members of material changes. Where required, we will obtain additional consent before using personal information for a new purpose.