Privacy
We know who you are.
The world never will.
This is a database of identified survivors. That sentence is uncomfortable on purpose. We ask for your real name, your city, and your country before you write, because we owe you a platform that is not built on shadows. Anonymity to the public is a choice you make; anonymity to us would make us unaccountable to you.
What we hold, and why
- Your email — to verify you and to write to you about your story. Never published, never shared.
- Your first name, surname, city, country, and, if you offered it, your gender identity and state or region — held privately so we can be accountable for who tells what.
- The five parts of your story — and only the display name and story text ever become public, and only after a person has reviewed them.
- A record of consent and the moment you gave it.
What the world sees
The display name you chose (your real first name, a chosen name, or Anonymous), a story title if you wrote one, and the five parts of your story. Nothing else. Not your surname, not your email, not your city, not your country. Not a timestamp precise enough to identify you.
How the data is protected
Access to the identified columns of the stories table is restricted at the database level. The public archive reads from a hardened view that exposes only the display name, title, and story parts of stories that have been approved and not erased. Signed-in survivors and signed-in members of the public cannot read anyone's identifying information — only the moderation team can, and only for the purpose of reviewing and publishing.
Erasure
Write to us and we will remove your story. Not soften it, not archive it — remove it. The public archive will lose it immediately, and the identified record will be erased. No explanation required. This is your right.
Cooldown
One story per email address every 30 days. Not to gatekeep — to protect the writer from the shape of a night that turns into a habit.
If you change your mind
At any point — before you send, after you send, after you are published, years from now. Write to us. We will listen. We will act.