Privacy and data choices
Privacy Policy
Which data browsing, accounts, entries and reports create, why each is kept and for how long, and how to ask for access, correction or deletion.
The short answer
Reading the Hong Kong escort adverts a reader compares here requires no account and no personal details. Data starts to exist when you do something: open an account, submit an entry, send a report, or trigger a technical log that keeps the site running. Each of those is listed below with the reason it exists, because a purpose is the only thing that justifies keeping data at all.
What arises here, and why
| Data | When it arises | Why it is kept |
|---|---|---|
| IP address, device and browser, requested URL, time | Every request, in server and security logs | To deliver pages, and to detect abuse and attacks |
| Name, email, password hash, account role | When an account is created | To let you sign in and to answer as the account holder |
| Display name, media, description, district, rates, contact details | When an entry is submitted for publication | Because it is the advertisement itself, and it is public by intent |
| Your message, the URLs you cite, anything you attach | When you send a report or a request | To act on the report and to keep a record of what was decided |
| A preference you set, such as the age acknowledgement | When you choose it | So the site stops asking on every page |
An entry is public by its nature: an advertisement exists to be read. Contact details submitted with an entry are used to reach the advertiser and appear publicly only where the entry itself shows them, but everything else an advertiser writes should be written as public from the start. What the desk can and cannot alter in a published entry is listed in About Us.
What is never asked for
- A password sent in a message, or a one-time code.
- Full payment-card numbers.
- Identity documents that were not specifically requested for a stated reason.
- Health information, and any special-category data that has no use here.
A message asking a reader for any of these is not from this desk. That pattern, and what to do about it, is covered in the Safety Warning.
Who else can see it
Data is not sold and is not passed on for anyone else's advertising. It reaches three kinds of recipient and no others.
- Service providers that run the infrastructure the site depends on, such as hosting and email delivery.
- An authority, where disclosure is legally required or is the only way to protect someone.
- The public, and then only the parts of an entry an advertiser published on purpose.
How long it stays
- Technical and security logs are kept for as long as they are useful for security and then discarded.
- Account data lasts while the account does, and is removed when it is closed, except where a record has to be kept.
- An unpublished entry stops being public immediately. The desk keeps a record that it existed, so that moderation history survives the removal.
- Reports about safety are kept longer on purpose, because a pattern across several reports is often the only way a problem becomes visible.
Making a request about your data
Write to [email protected] with the account email and the request in one sentence: access, correction, deletion, or a copy. Expect a question back before anything private changes hands, since the desk has to establish it is answering the right person, and that check protects you rather than the site. Requests about a public entry rather than about your own data go through Contact Us, and a request about photographs you own has a faster route through DMCA and Copyright Notices.
Hong Kong has its own supervisory authority for personal data. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data publishes what your rights are and how a complaint is handled, and reading it first is often faster than writing here. Where the register's obligations sit alongside this policy is set out in the Terms of Use.