Privacy Policy
How The Curious Commons handles account information, profile information, community activity, and the choices you make about what other members can see.
Effective: October 4, 2026
1. Information you provide
When you create or use an account, you may provide information such as your username, email address, date of birth, nickname or display-name preference, profile and cover images, location, relationship information, interests, profile prompts, favorite games, website or blog information, and other content you choose to add to your profile or community activity.
2. Age verification
The Curious Commons is for adults age 21 and older. Your date of birth is used to determine eligibility. Your full date of birth is treated as private account information. Where the service offers an age-display preference, you may control whether a calculated age is shown to other members.
3. Account and technical information
We may process information reasonably necessary to operate and secure the service, including WordPress account identifiers, authentication/session information, timestamps, security and moderation records, notification preferences, and technical information associated with use of the site.
4. Presence and activity
Community features may use recent presence information to determine whether you appear online and may display contextual activity such as participating in a community feature. Privacy settings may allow you to control whether other members can see online or last-active information. Historical account activity may be retained where reasonably necessary for operation, safety, abuse prevention, or recordkeeping.
5. Community content and communications
Information you intentionally post to profiles, rooms, groups, events, blogs, games, or other community areas may be visible to other members according to the feature and its privacy or permission settings. Private or restricted features are intended for their designated audience, but no online system can guarantee that another recipient will not copy or disclose information they receive.
6. How information is used
Information may be used to create and maintain accounts, provide community features, authenticate members, enforce the 21+ requirement, remember preferences, deliver requested notifications, support moderation and safety, prevent abuse, diagnose technical problems, and comply with applicable legal obligations.
7. Service providers and integrations
The site may rely on hosting, realtime communication, voice/video, email, notification, security, or other technical providers to operate particular features. Information is shared with service providers only as reasonably necessary to provide those functions or as otherwise permitted or required by law. Third-party sites you choose to visit have their own privacy practices.
8. Member choices
Use available profile and privacy controls to decide what optional profile information you provide and what supported activity indicators other members may see. Avoid posting information you do not want other members to know. You are responsible for information you voluntarily disclose directly to another member.
9. Safety, moderation, and legal requirements
Information may be preserved, reviewed, or disclosed when reasonably necessary to investigate abuse, enforce site rules, protect users or the service, respond to valid legal process, or address an emergency where permitted by law.
10. Data retention
Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain legitimate security or moderation records, resolve disputes, meet legal obligations, and protect the integrity of the community. Different categories of information may have different retention periods.
11. Security
Reasonable administrative and technical safeguards are used to protect account information, but no website, network, or storage system can guarantee absolute security. Use a strong, unique password and protect access to your account.
12. Changes to this policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated as the service, its features, or legal requirements change. Material changes may be presented for renewed acknowledgment where appropriate.
13. Related terms
Your use of the service is also governed by the Terms of Service, including the member-interaction, consent, and offline-meeting safety provisions.