Privacy policy
Last updated: August 2026
This describes what Queer Common collects, why, and what we do not do. It is written to be read rather than to protect us, so it says plainly where the limits are.
What we collect
Your email address, so you can sign in. We never store a password, because sign-in works by emailed link.
Whatever you choose to put on your profile: display name, pronouns, handle, bio, identity tags and visibility. Every one of those is optional except visibility.
What you post, the rooms you join, and the messages you send. Grant applications and any budget file you upload.
What we do not collect
No advertising trackers. No third-party analytics profiling you across other websites. No location tracking — the site guesses your language from your browser settings, not from where you are.
Who can see what
Your profile is visible according to the setting you chose. Posts are visible to the members of the room you posted in. Direct messages are visible only to the people in the conversation.
Moderators see reported posts, and metadata about direct messages — who opened one, when, and the stated intent — but never their contents.
Where your data lives
On Supabase, which hosts the database in the region chosen when the project was created, and on Vercel, which serves the website. Sign-in emails are sent through Resend. Each of those companies processes data on our behalf under their own terms.
We do not sell your data to anyone, and we do not share it with advertisers.
Your rights over your data
You can edit or clear almost everything about yourself from the Settings page at any time. You can ask us to delete your account entirely by contacting us; posts you made may remain with your name removed, because deleting them would tear holes in other people's conversations.
If you are in the UK, EU, Brazil or another region with data protection law, you have rights to access, correct, export and erase your data. Contact us and we will act on it.
Legal requests, stated honestly
If a court with jurisdiction over our hosting providers compels disclosure, we may be legally required to comply. We will resist requests we believe are unlawful and tell affected members where we are permitted to.
We say this because a promise we could not keep would be worse than none. Share accordingly, especially if you are somewhere hostile.
This is a draft
This policy was written to describe the platform accurately, but it has not been reviewed by a lawyer. If you are handling grant money or members in regulated jurisdictions, have a solicitor review it before you rely on it.