The first promise
Privacy here is not a setting you switch on. It is the ground the Court is built upon. Below is exactly what we collect, why, how long we keep it, and the promises that hold underneath — said plainly, because clarity is its own luxury.
Your name, in two parts
You choose a name, and that alias is who you are everywhere the Court can be seen — the directory, the room, every message. Your legal name is collected once, held apart, and used for a single purpose: confirming who steps through the door. It is never a display name, never searchable, and never shown to another member.
What is gathered
An email to reach you, in confidence. How you came to us, and any sponsor who vouched. A few words on what draws you and how you hold consent. Your legal name and age, for the door alone. We do not ask for more than the gate needs, and we never sell, rent, or trade any of it. There are no third parties in the room.
How long it is held
Your legal name is deleted within 90 days of a declined application, or within 12 months of inactivity if you are received and then go quiet. These figures are illustrative placeholders for this page — the standing policy is published in full and stated in a real number, never as “kept as long as needed.” When the window closes, the record goes with it.
The roster
The list of who belongs to the Court does not leave the Court. It is not a marketing asset, not a partner benefit, not a thing that is ever handed over. No member can export it, and neither can we hand it to anyone outside the room.
Photographs
Anything you share stays sealed by default. Another member sees a photograph only when you have chosen to unlock it for them — on your terms, one grant at a time, and revocable the moment you change your mind.
The directory
You are not listed unless you ask to be. The member directory is something you step into deliberately, and a single tap takes you back out — quietly, immediately, no note left behind. This is how “the roster is never shared” and a directory can both be true: the roster is ours to guard, and your place in the directory is yours to give or withdraw.
Verification
Identification is confirmed once, in the moment, at the door. The document itself is never stored — no image is written to disk. What remains afterward is a verification token: a plain record that a check was passed, holding none of the document behind it. Honest, and no quieter than the truth.
Payment
When an evening is ticketed, your card or bank statement reads with a discreet, neutral descriptor — nothing that names the Court or hints at the room. What you attend is between you and the threshold you crossed.
If the worst happens
We hold to a plain promise: in the unlikely event the roster is ever compromised, we tell affected members directly and promptly, say what was reached and what we are doing, and never let the news reach you late or dressed up. The no-photography norm inside the room carries a real consequence — a breach of another member’s privacy is grounds for removal from the Court.
What you bring to the Court stays with you alone. The retention figures named above are illustrative for this page; the governing policy is set out in full where it is kept current.