What happens between us stays between us.

Happy Endings (happyendin.gs and any apps we offer) is operated by Brown Paper Press LLC, a Washington limited liability company doing business as Happy Endings (“we”, “us”). We are responsible for the personal information described here. Happy Endings is for adults in the United States. Questions go to .

Three promises sit above everything else in this policy: we do not sell your personal information; we do not use it, or share it, for advertising; and we never use your words, or let anyone use them, to train artificial intelligence.

Some of what you share is sensitive under state law: your sexual preferences (Spice), sex life, gender identity (including being trans or non-binary), sexual orientation, ethnicity, the biometric comparison in the ID check and, arguably, what you read and write here. We collect sensitive information only with your consent, asked for at the point you give it. Apart from the ID check, every sensitive field is optional. You can change or remove it in your settings, or withdraw consent, at any time. We use sensitive information only to provide the features you chose, to keep members safe and to meet legal duties. On our website, the intentions you click, such as Lust or Kink, are kept with your email on our mailing list, but only once you tick the box to join. We never sell it, never use it for advertising and never send it to our analytics tools.

• To create your account, show your profile and tales, and deliver chapters, submissions, footnotes and chats.
• To suggest chapter ones and co-authors from your preferences and who you’re seeking.
• To verify age and identity, prevent fraud, enforce our terms, review reports and protect members.
• To keep writing human, using typing records and reports.
• To process payments, refunds and renewal reminders.
• To understand how the app is used, in aggregate, and fix what breaks.
• To send account and service messages. We send marketing only if you opt in, and you can opt out any time.
• If you join our mailing list, to tell you when Happy Endings opens and send news, and to see which posts and pages bring people to us. Every email has a link to unsubscribe.
• To meet legal duties, including reporting child sexual abuse material, and to defend legal claims.

We read members’ words only when we need to: to review a report or a Kink tale before it reaches the Nightstand, to investigate a safety or legal issue, or when you ask us to. Sealed footnotes are sealed from your co-author, not from that review.

These providers act on our instructions under contracts that limit their use of your information to the work they do for us. We also share information when the law requires it (section 14), with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children when we report suspected child exploitation, to protect anyone from imminent harm, and with a company that takes over Happy Endings, which must honor this policy. We do not sell personal information or share it for targeted advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of; if that ever changed, we would ask first.

• Your pen name, or your first name if you have none, and your initial instead of a photo.
• Your age range and that you’re verified.
• Your author photo, only after you and a co-author both choose to swap.
• Your Dust jacket profile details you choose to show.
• Chapters and submissions you share, footnotes once you match, and your chats with that member.
• Published tales, to Nightstand readers, under your pen name, or “a former author” if you take your name off.

Anything you share with another member can be remembered or copied by them, even though our terms forbid it. Share with care.

We use cookies and similar storage for two things. Some are needed for Happy Endings to work, such as keeping you signed in and remembering your choices, and can’t be switched off. One is for analytics: our analytics service uses a cookie to recognize your device, so we can see which features get used and fix what doesn’t work.

Analytics is on unless you switch it off. You can do that when you first visit, or any time with “Cookie settings” at the foot of every page. When it’s off, nothing is stored for analytics and visits are only counted, without identifying your device. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we switch analytics off for you.

We do not record sessions or screens. We strip your words, Spice, profile details, real name and email from anything sent to our analytics service, and we don’t collect IP addresses with it. We use no advertising, social media or cross-site tracking cookies.

This notice is given under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act, Washington’s biometric identifier law and Colorado’s biometric data rules.

• What. When you verify, our identity verification partner takes a scan of your face geometry from your live selfie and from the photo on your ID and compares them.
• Why. Only to confirm that you are a real adult and the person on the ID, once, at sign-up, or again if we have reason to doubt an account.
• Consent. We ask for your written consent on the screen before the check, naming our partner. Without it you can’t verify, and verification is required to write with others.
• Who holds it. Our partner processes the face comparison for us and deletes the ID images and face data within 30 days. We never receive a face template. We keep the live selfie as a photo, as your default author photo, unless you replace it.
• Never sold. We do not sell, lease, trade or profit from biometric data, and we disclose it only to our verification partner, or as the law requires.
• Destroyed. We delete the selfie when you delete your account, and in any case within 24 months of your last use of Happy Endings. Our partner’s copies go within 30 days.

This section is our consumer health data privacy policy under Washington’s My Health My Data Act. The only consumer health data we collect is the biometric data described in section 8, and possibly information you choose to give about your gender identity. We collect it from you, with your consent, to verify your identity and age and to show the profile you choose. We share it only with our verification partner, which processes it for us, and with no one else without your separate consent. You have the right to confirm whether we hold your consumer health data, to see it and the list of anyone we shared it with, to withdraw consent and to have it deleted. Use section 11 to ask; you can appeal any refusal. We never sell consumer health data.

Wherever you live in the US, you can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you and give you a copy, correct it, delete it, or withdraw any consent you gave. Many of these you can do yourself in settings, including deleting your account. Otherwise email . We will confirm your identity through your account, answer within 45 days (sometimes extended once by 45 days, with notice) and never treat you differently for using these rights. If we refuse, we will say why and you can appeal by replying to our answer; if you’re unhappy with the appeal, you can contact your state attorney general. You can use an authorized agent, who must show your written permission.

California residents: this policy describes the categories of information we collect, their sources and purposes, and who receives them. We do not sell or share personal information as California defines those words, and we use sensitive personal information only for the purposes the law allows, so we offer no “Do not sell or share” or “Limit the use” links. We honor Global Privacy Control. We respond to Do Not Track signals the same way.

We encrypt information in transit and at rest, limit staff access to what each task needs, and choose providers who do the same. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your information, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

Happy Endings is only for people 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone younger. If we learn that someone under 18 has an account, we close it and delete their information, except what we must keep to report exploitation.

We disclose information to law enforcement or others only when we receive valid legal process, such as a subpoena or warrant, or when we believe in good faith that someone faces imminent danger of death or serious harm. We read each request and push back on ones that are too broad. Unless the law or safety forbids it, we tell the member before disclosing.

Happy Endings serves the United States only, and we store information in the United States. Some providers may process limited information elsewhere under contracts that protect it.

If we change this policy, we will post the new version with its date, and tell you by email or in the app at least 30 days before any change that affects how we use information you already gave us. We will ask for your consent again before using sensitive information in a new way.

Brown Paper Press LLC, doing business as Happy Endings. To delete your account, use settings or email fluffer at Happy Endings.