Effective September 19, 2026
1. Scope
This policy applies to Artificially Feral: After Dark at afterdark.artificiallyferal.com. Other Artificially Feral sites, Ko-fi, and other linked services have their own privacy practices.
2. Account information
If you create an account, After Dark stores your email address, optional display name, a password hash, email-verification status, account role/status, and security/session information. Your plain-text password is not stored.
3. Purchases and library access
Checkout is handled by Ko-fi. After a Ko-fi Shop purchase, After Dark may receive information needed to record and match the purchase, including the checkout email, transaction reference, product reference, amount, currency, and payment status. After Dark does not receive or store your payment-card number.
Purchase access is attached only to an active account that has verified the matching email address. This helps prevent another person from claiming a purchase by knowing someone else's email.
4. Likes, reactions, comments, and reading analytics
After Dark records page visits using a random visitor identifier stored in a cookie. The application uses that identifier to count visits and approximate unique readers. It is not used for advertising. Readers may leave likes and lightweight reactions, which are shown publicly as aggregate counts. Logged-in verified users may also leave comments. Public comments can display the account's chosen display name.
Routine infrastructure and security logs may contain technical information such as an IP address, requested URL, timestamp, or user agent. After Dark does not intentionally store raw IP addresses in its page-view analytics table.
5. Community submissions
If you submit work for editorial review, After Dark stores the information you provide, which may include your name or pseudonym, contact email, submission, pitch, content notes, credit preference, monetization preference, and the submission-terms version and acceptance time. Content-removal requests may also include the published title or URL, contact email, and any optional context supplied by the contributor.
Submissions are stored in After Dark's database and mirrored into a private Google Doc used for editorial review. Submission handling is also governed by the separate Submission & Editorial Terms.
6. Email
After Dark uses Cloudflare Email Service to send transactional messages such as email verification and password-reset links. Delivery providers may process the recipient address and delivery metadata necessary to send, reject, or troubleshoot those messages.
7. Local storage and cookies
After Dark uses browser storage and cookies for essential site functions, including the 18+ age acknowledgement, sign-in sessions, a random analytics visitor identifier, and contributor-terms acceptance. These are not third-party advertising cookies.
8. Service providers
After Dark relies on service providers to operate the publication, including Ko-fi for checkout, Cloudflare for infrastructure and transactional email, Google for the private submission-review document, and the hosting/database infrastructure used by Artificially Feral. Those providers process information only as needed for their role and are also subject to their own terms and privacy policies.
9. Retention and deletion
Information is kept for as long as reasonably needed to provide account access, preserve purchase records, review submissions, maintain security, resolve disputes, and meet applicable legal or accounting obligations. Where applicable, you may request access, correction, or deletion of personal information, although some transaction or security records may need to be retained.
10. No sale of personal information
After Dark does not currently sell personal information or use third-party advertising trackers.
11. Adults only
After Dark is intended only for people age 18 or older. Do not create an account or submit information if you are under 18.
12. Contact
Privacy questions or requests can be sent to sexyaateam@gmail.com.