Account information: Display name, email address, authentication credentials, and verification status.

Content you post: Text, photos, videos, polls, and other content you voluntarily submit to the platform.

Demographic data (voluntary): Age, gender, education, income, religion, ethnicity, fitness level, relationship status, children, employment, location type, and political orientation. Every demographic field includes a "Prefer Not to Say" option. This data is used exclusively to generate anonymous, aggregate analytics on polls and posts. You may delete it at any time.

Credit transaction records: Records of credit purchases and platform actions charged to your credit balance. These do not include payment card details, which are processed by Helcim (primary) or Stripe (fallback) and never stored by OpenForum.

Usage data: Aggregate, non-identifying data about platform interactions used to improve the service.

• We do not build behavioral profiles for advertising purposes
• We do not track your activity across other websites or applications
• We do not sell, license, or transfer your personal data to any third party for any purpose
• We do not use your data to train AI models without explicit consent
• We do not retain payment card information

We use your data solely to operate and improve OpenForum.social. Specifically:

• To authenticate your account and deliver the platform to you
• To process credit transactions and maintain your balance
• To generate anonymous, aggregate analytics that you and other users access through paid reports
• To enforce our content policy (the three prohibited categories only)
• To evaluate community group creation requests against the platform's hierarchical taxonomy for novelty and appropriate placement, using artificial intelligence (Claude). Only the group name, description, and proposed category are transmitted for evaluation. No personal data is included in this process.
• To send platform notifications you have configured

We use the following third-party services to operate the platform:

• Helcim: Primary payment processor for credit purchases. Your payment data is governed by Helcim's privacy policy.
• Stripe: Fallback payment processor for credit purchases. Your payment data is governed by Stripe's privacy policy.
• Supabase: Database and authentication infrastructure.
• Vercel: Hosting and content delivery.
• Cloudflare: CDN, DNS, and video streaming infrastructure.
• Anthropic (Claude API): AI features including content moderation, match recommendations, and analytics. User content submitted for AI processing is subject to Anthropic's usage policies.

We select vendors with strong privacy practices and do not authorize any vendor to use your data for their own purposes beyond the services they provide to us.

• Access: You may request a copy of your personal data at any time.
• Deletion: You may delete your account and all associated data through Settings. Demographic data can be deleted independently without deleting your account.
• Correction: You may update your account information and demographic data through Settings at any time.
• Portability: You may request an export of your data in a machine-readable format.

For requests, use the Claude Bar on the platform.

We retain your account data for as long as your account is active. Upon account deletion, your personal data is removed within 30 days. Aggregate, anonymized analytics data derived from your activity may be retained indefinitely as it contains no personally identifiable information.

Video content and livestream replays are subject to the retention periods disclosed at upload (typically 12 months for uploaded video, 30 days for livestream replays).

We implement industry-standard security measures including encrypted data transmission, secure authentication, and access controls. No system is perfectly secure. If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it through Claude Bar immediately.

OpenForum.social is operated from the United States. If you access the platform from outside the United States, your data will be transferred to and processed in the United States. We comply with applicable US privacy law. We do not represent that the platform complies with the privacy laws of any other jurisdiction, and we do not accept jurisdiction-specific privacy demands from foreign governments.

Admin access disclosure. Executive trust and safety staff and Claude may access your account at OpenForum only under credible threats of violence or unlawful activity and only when accompanied by a valid request from a verified law enforcement official.

Warrant policy. OpenForum serves user data only under a qualified warrant issued by a court with jurisdiction over Wyoming, the state of incorporation. Bulk surveillance requests, fishing expeditions, and political pressure disguised as law enforcement are refused.

No censorship beyond three rules. OpenForum does not remove, suppress, throttle, downrank, shadow-ban, or deprioritize any content outside its three published content rules, regardless of the source of the request. This applies to requests from governments, law enforcement, institutions, advertisers, and private parties.

First Amendment. OpenForum treats the First Amendment of the United States Constitution as a fundamental human right. OpenForum does not comply with speech restrictions from jurisdictions whose laws do not comport with First Amendment principles, except within that jurisdiction's own territorial reach.

All privacy inquiries handled through Claude Bar.