Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11th June 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information EcchiDreams collects, why we collect it, how we use it, when it may be shared, how long we keep it, and what rights members have over their information.

EcchiDreams is an adults-only online roleplaying and community platform. Because the community is adult-oriented, some members may choose to provide or publish sensitive information, including adult roleplay preferences, fictional sexual themes, limits, sexuality, or other information connected to their use of the site. This policy explains how that information is handled.

This policy applies to EcchiDreams, including the website, member accounts, profiles, forum posts, roleplays, EcchiTexts, galleries, clubs/groups, status updates, reactions, reports, moderation systems, account tools, and other community features.

1. Who we are

EcchiDreams is operated under the ProperTidy Co name by the EcchiDreams administration team.

In this Privacy Policy, “EcchiDreams”, “we”, “us”, and “our” mean the operators of the EcchiDreams website and community.

EcchiDreams is operated from the United Kingdom. Our hosting infrastructure may be located outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States. This means personal information may be stored or processed in countries with different data protection laws.

Privacy and account-related requests are explained in the “Data exports and privacy requests” section below.

2. About EcchiDreams

EcchiDreams is an adults-only play-by-post roleplaying and community platform.

Visitors may register one account, subject to EcchiDreams’ Terms of Service, registration checks, and age requirements. Members can use that account to create profiles, forum posts, roleplays, EcchiTexts, groups/clubs, gallery content, status updates, reactions, comments, and other user-submitted content.

EcchiDreams is intended for adults only. We require members to provide their date of birth during registration and we do not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to use the community.

Guests may be able to view some public or guest-visible areas of EcchiDreams, including some adult content. Search engines may index content that is visible to guests.

Members are encouraged to use pseudonyms and not to use their real names. EcchiDreams does not require members to provide their real name, physical address, financial information, identity documents, or payment details.

3. Not-for-profit operation

EcchiDreams is operated on a not-for-profit basis. We do not sell memberships, process payments, collect financial information, accept donations through the site, or sell members’ personal information.

EcchiDreams may display advertising. Any advertising revenue generated by EcchiDreams is minimal and is used toward the cost of operating the site.

4. Information we collect

We collect information needed to operate EcchiDreams, provide community features, protect the site, moderate the community, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations. We may also collect information that members choose to provide when using optional profile, roleplay, messaging, gallery, or community features.

The information we collect may include the following.

Account information

When a member registers or uses EcchiDreams, we may collect and store account information such as:

• username and display name;
• email address;
• password, stored in hashed form rather than plain text;
• date of birth;
• registration date;
• account settings and preferences;
• notification preferences;
• account status, such as active, deactivated, restricted, banned, or awaiting approval.

Members must confirm their email address before using the community.

Technical and security information

When someone visits or uses EcchiDreams, our systems may collect technical information such as:

• IP address;
• browser and device information;
• user agent;
• login and logout information;
• failed login attempts;
• session information;
• pages accessed;
• security and access logs;
• information used to detect spam, abuse, automated registrations, or ban-evasion.

This information is used to operate the site, keep accounts secure, investigate abuse, prevent spam, and protect the community.

Profile and community information

Members may choose to provide information through their profiles, posts, roleplays, EcchiTexts, clubs/groups, galleries, status updates, reactions, comments, and other community features.

This may include:

• profile fields;
• avatars and images;
• signatures;
• roleplay preferences;
• roleplay limits;
• sex;
• sexuality;
• fictional characters;
• adult themes;
• user-submitted posts and messages;
• reports, appeals, and moderation-related communications.

Some profile and preference fields are optional. Members can edit or remove many of these fields themselves while their account remains active.

Sensitive and adult information

EcchiDreams is an adult community. Members may voluntarily provide information about sex, sexuality, adult roleplay preferences, fictional sexual themes, limits, or other sensitive topics.

We do not require members to use their real names, and we encourage pseudonymous participation. We do not require members to provide sexual information in order to register.

Where members choose to provide adult or sensitive information, we process it only as needed to provide the community, display member-submitted content, operate profile and roleplay preference tools, support member interaction, moderate the site, investigate reports, protect users and staff, enforce our rules, and comply with legal obligations.

Members should not publish personal information that they do not want other members, guests, search engines, or third parties to see, depending on where the information is posted and who can access that area of the site.

5. How we use personal information

We use personal information to operate EcchiDreams and provide the community features members use.

This may include using information to:

• create and manage member accounts;
• verify email addresses;
• confirm that members meet the minimum age requirement;
• allow members to create profiles, posts, roleplays, EcchiTexts, galleries, clubs/groups, status updates, reactions, and other community content;
• display member-submitted content to other members, guests, or search engines where that content is posted in visible areas;
• send account, security, notification, moderation, and service-related messages;
• remember account settings and notification preferences;
• process reports, appeals, warnings, restrictions, bans, and other moderation actions;
• investigate spam, abuse, harassment, threats, exploitation, doxxing, blackmail, ban-evasion, underage-access, or other rule-breaking;
• protect members, staff, and the community;
• secure the website and detect suspicious or automated activity;
• prevent spam registrations and malicious use of the site;
• maintain backups and restore the site if needed;
• understand how the community is used through built-in statistics and analytics;
• display advertising;
• comply with legal obligations or respond to lawful requests;
• establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

We do not sell members’ personal information.

6. Lawful bases for using information

We process personal information only where we have a lawful basis to do so.

Depending on the situation, we may rely on one or more of the following lawful bases.

Contract

We process information where it is necessary to provide the EcchiDreams service to members. This includes account registration, login, profile features, posting, roleplaying, EcchiTexts, notifications, account tools, and other community features.

Legitimate interests

We process information where it is necessary for the legitimate interests of EcchiDreams, our members, staff, or the wider community, provided those interests are not overridden by a member’s rights and freedoms.

This includes site security, moderation, abuse prevention, spam prevention, ban-evasion prevention, underage-access prevention, community safety, service maintenance, backups, debugging, and protecting EcchiDreams from misuse.

Consent

We may rely on consent where members choose to provide optional information or enable optional features.

This may include optional profile fields, roleplay preferences, sexuality information, certain notification settings, cookies or similar technologies where consent is required, and other optional community features.

Where we rely on consent, members may withdraw that consent where technically possible and legally applicable. For example, members can edit or remove many optional profile fields while their account is active.

Legal obligation

We may process or retain information where required to comply with legal obligations, lawful requests, court orders, regulatory requirements, or other legal duties.

Legal claims and safety

We may retain and use information where necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, preserve evidence, investigate serious abuse, protect users or staff, or enforce site rules.

Special category information

Because EcchiDreams is an adult community, some information members choose to provide may relate to sex life, sexuality, adult roleplay preferences, limits, or other sensitive topics.

Where this information falls under special category data, we process it only where a relevant special category condition applies. Depending on the situation, this may include explicit consent where members voluntarily provide optional profile or preference information, processing information the member has chosen to submit or make visible through community features, or processing necessary for legal claims, safety, moderation, abuse prevention, or legal compliance.

Members can edit or remove many optional profile and preference fields while their account remains active.

7. EcchiTexts, roleplays, and reports

EcchiTexts are EcchiDreams’ direct/group messaging and private roleplay system. They are stored on EcchiDreams systems.

EcchiTexts and private roleplays are not routinely monitored by staff. However, they are not guaranteed to be completely private. Participants may report EcchiTexts or private roleplays to staff. When this happens, authorised EcchiDreams staff may review the reported content through the Report Centre.

Authorised staff may also access relevant EcchiTexts, roleplays, or account information where necessary for moderation, safety, security, abuse prevention, legal compliance, technical maintenance, or evidence preservation.

Where necessary, relevant excerpts from reported EcchiTexts, roleplays, or other content may be copied into moderation records. This is done to preserve evidence, investigate reports, enforce rules, handle appeals, protect members or staff, or defend against abuse or legal claims.

If one participant deactivates, leaves EcchiDreams, or leaves an EcchiText conversation, the EcchiText or roleplay may remain visible or available to the other participant(s).

If all participants leave or delete an EcchiText conversation, the conversation and its messages are deleted from the active database. However, relevant excerpts may still be retained in moderation records where the conversation was reported or used as evidence, and deleted content may remain temporarily in backups until those backups are replaced.

Members should not use EcchiTexts to share information they would not want another participant to report, copy, preserve, or disclose. Like any messaging system, recipients may be able to copy, screenshot, report, or otherwise preserve messages they receive.

8. Moderation, safety, and abuse prevention

EcchiDreams uses moderation records to protect the community and enforce the Terms of Service, rules, and staff decisions.

Moderation records may include:

• reports submitted by members;
• reported content;
• staff notes;
• warning points;
• restrictions;
• bans;
• appeals;
• evidence of spam or abuse;
• IP addresses, email addresses, usernames, display names, and registration information;
• relevant EcchiText excerpts or links where content has been reported;
• records relating to underage-access, ban-evasion, harassment, threats, exploitation, doxxing, blackmail, or other serious misconduct.

Moderation records are retained where necessary for community safety, rule enforcement, ban-evasion prevention, underage-access prevention, staff accountability, evidence preservation, legal compliance, or legal claims.

Banned accounts are not routinely deleted. We retain banned-account records to enforce bans, prevent evasion, preserve moderation history, protect members and staff, and defend EcchiDreams against abuse or legal claims.

Accounts found or believed to belong to underage users may be handled through the moderation and retention process described in Section 16.

9. Cookies and similar technologies

EcchiDreams uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the site, keep members logged in, remember settings, protect accounts, prevent spam, provide community features, display advertising, measure site use, and support embedded third-party content.

Cookies may be used for:

• login sessions;
• account security;
• remembering preferences;
• notification and account settings;
• spam and abuse prevention;
• analytics and statistics;
• advertising;
• embedded third-party media or widgets;
• technical operation of the site.

Some cookies are necessary for EcchiDreams to function. Without cookies, members may not be able to log in, stay logged in, use account tools, post content, send EcchiTexts, or use other community features.

EcchiDreams currently uses forum software that does not provide fine-grained category-by-category cookie controls. This means we may not be able to offer separate controls for every type of cookie or third-party technology. Members and guests can manage or block cookies using their browser settings, but doing so may affect how the site works.

Some third-party services used by EcchiDreams may set their own cookies or use similar technologies. These third-party technologies are controlled by those providers, not by EcchiDreams, and are subject to their own privacy and cookie policies.

10. Analytics and community statistics

EcchiDreams uses built-in community statistics provided by the forum software. These statistics help us understand how the community is used, maintain the site, identify technical problems, and manage community activity.

EcchiDreams also uses Google Analytics 4 through the forum software. Google Analytics may collect technical and usage information such as pages visited, approximate location, browser information, device information, and interactions with the site.

Google Analytics is provided by Google. Google’s use of data is governed by Google’s own privacy policies and settings. Google may provide its own opt-out tools or browser add-ons, but those tools are external to EcchiDreams and are controlled by Google.

11. Advertising

EcchiDreams may display advertising through AADS using the forum software’s internal advertising system.

When adverts are loaded, AADS or related advertising technology may receive technical information such as IP address, browser/device information, page information, and ad request information. AADS may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons, tracking URLs, or similar technologies according to its own privacy policy.

Advertising revenue from EcchiDreams is minimal and is used toward the cost of operating the site. We do not sell members’ personal information to advertisers.

12. Embedded third-party content

Members may be able to post or view embedded third-party content, such as videos, audio players, social media posts, rich embeds, or widgets.

This may include services such as YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitter/X, Discord, or similar providers.

Embedded third-party content may behave as if the member or guest visited the third-party service directly. These providers may collect technical information, set cookies, track interactions, or associate activity with an account on their own service if the user is logged into that service.

EcchiDreams does not control the privacy practices of embedded third-party services. Members should review the privacy policies and settings of those services if they are concerned about how those providers process information.

13. Anti-spam, anti-abuse, and security services

EcchiDreams uses anti-spam, anti-abuse, and security tools to protect the community.

These may include:

• Google invisible reCAPTCHA;
• Invision Community / IPS Spam Defense;
• Stop Forum Spam;
• Project Honeypot;
• server-side security and access logs;
• built-in moderation and account security tools.

These services may process information such as IP address, email address, username, registration information, browser/device information, spam scores, and other technical or abuse-prevention signals.

We use these services to detect automated registrations, spam, malicious activity, ban-evasion, suspicious logins, and other abuse.

Where necessary, EcchiDreams may share limited information with trusted anti-spam or abuse-prevention services. This may include display name, username, email address, IP address, registration information, spam evidence, or other relevant abuse-prevention information.

We do not share this information casually. It is used to protect EcchiDreams, other communities, members, staff, and the wider internet from spam and abuse.

These systems may affect whether an account is approved automatically, placed into manual review, restricted, or blocked.

Where a registration, account, post, or activity is flagged, EcchiDreams staff may manually review the account or activity and make a decision based on the information available.

14. Who we share information with

EcchiDreams does not sell members’ personal information.

We may share or make information available where necessary to operate, secure, moderate, or maintain the site.

This may include sharing information with:

• hosting and server providers;
• software providers, including Invision Community / IPS;
• anti-spam and abuse-prevention services;
• Google Analytics;
• Google reCAPTCHA;
• AADS;
• embedded content providers when members or guests load third-party embeds;
• email and server systems used to send account or notification messages;
• authorised EcchiDreams staff;
• external technical support contractors, where strictly necessary and authorised;
• law enforcement, regulators, courts, or legal advisers where legally required or necessary.

External technical support contractors do not have routine access to EcchiDreams member data. Where technical access is required, it is limited to what is necessary for support, maintenance, security, or troubleshooting.

Authorised EcchiDreams staff may access personal information only where needed for community administration, moderation, safety, security, technical operation, abuse prevention, legal compliance, or other legitimate site purposes.

15. International processing

EcchiDreams is operated from the United Kingdom, but our hosting infrastructure may be located outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States.

Some third-party services used by EcchiDreams may also process information outside the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area. This may include hosting, analytics, advertising, anti-spam, security, and embedded-content providers.

Where we use third-party services, their handling of information may be governed by their own privacy policies, legal terms, and transfer arrangements.

Members should be aware that their information may be processed in countries with different data protection laws from their own.

16. How long we keep information

We keep personal information only for as long as we need it for the purposes described in this policy, including operating EcchiDreams, providing community features, protecting the site, moderating the community, preventing abuse, complying with legal obligations, and preserving evidence where necessary.

Different types of information may be kept for different periods.

Active accounts

Account information is normally kept for as long as the account remains active.

This includes information such as username, display name, email address, date of birth, account settings, profile fields, notification settings, posts, roleplays, EcchiTexts, reports, moderation history, login history, and security information.

Community content

Posts, roleplays, comments, gallery content, status updates, reactions, clubs/groups content, and other user-submitted content may remain available after it is submitted, unless removed by the member where tools allow, removed by staff, hidden, deleted, anonymised, or otherwise restricted.

Where content is visible to guests, it may also be indexed by search engines or preserved by third parties outside EcchiDreams’ control.

EcchiTexts and private roleplays

EcchiTexts and private roleplays may remain stored on EcchiDreams systems while needed to provide the service, preserve conversations for participants, investigate reports, enforce rules, prevent abuse, or retain relevant evidence.

If one participant deactivates, leaves EcchiDreams, or leaves an EcchiText conversation, the EcchiText or roleplay may remain visible or available to the other participant(s).

If all participants leave or delete an EcchiText conversation, the conversation and its messages are deleted from the active database. However, reported EcchiTexts and private roleplays, and relevant excerpts from them, may be retained in moderation records where necessary. Deleted content may also remain temporarily in backups until those backups are replaced.

Moderation and safety records

Moderation records may be kept for the lifetime of an account and, where necessary, for longer.

This includes reports, warnings, restrictions, bans, staff notes, appeals, evidence, underage-access records, ban-evasion records, and records relating to harassment, threats, exploitation, doxxing, blackmail, spam, abuse, or other serious misconduct.

We retain this information to protect the community, enforce rules, prevent repeat abuse, preserve evidence, protect members and staff, and defend EcchiDreams against abuse or legal claims.

Banned accounts

Banned accounts are not routinely deleted.

We retain banned-account information where necessary to enforce bans, prevent ban-evasion, preserve moderation history, protect members and staff, investigate abuse, and defend EcchiDreams against legal or safety issues.

Underage users

EcchiDreams is for adults only.

If we discover or reasonably believe that an account belongs to someone under 18, we may ban the account, hide it from ordinary users, restrict access, remove or hide content, and retain relevant information in a restricted form.

This may include email address, IP address, username, account information, moderation notes, reports, and other evidence needed to prevent re-registration and protect the adult-only nature of the site.

If someone believes that an under-18 person has created an account or submitted information to EcchiDreams, they should contact us through the contact form.

Server logs

EcchiDreams and its hosting environment may generate server, access, security, mail, and error logs.

Routine access logs are normally rotated or overwritten according to server and hosting configuration. Current server settings indicate that archived raw access logs may be retained for a limited period and should not normally exceed approximately 180 days unless connected to a specific security, abuse, moderation, technical, or legal issue.

Logs connected to abuse, security incidents, moderation, ban-evasion, legal issues, or technical investigations may be retained for longer where necessary.

Backups

EcchiDreams keeps rolling backups for disaster recovery.

At present, backups are normally retained for up to approximately 60 days, with older backups replaced by newer backups.

If information is deleted or changed on the live site, it may remain in backups until those backups are replaced. Backups are not used for ordinary access and would only be restored where necessary for disaster recovery, security, technical recovery, or serious operational reasons.

17. Account deactivation, deletion, and anonymisation

Members may stop using EcchiDreams at any time.

How account closure is handled depends on the account’s history, activity, moderation status, and the information involved.

Accounts with no posts or meaningful activity

If an account has not posted, participated, or meaningfully used the community, EcchiDreams may be able to fully delete the account and associated information.

This is normally available only where the account has no meaningful community, moderation, safety, or abuse-prevention history.

Accounts that have participated in the community

Once an account has posted, sent EcchiTexts, joined roleplays, interacted with other members, received moderation actions, submitted reports, or otherwise participated in the community, full deletion may not always be possible or appropriate.

In those cases, EcchiDreams may instead deactivate, restrict, anonymise, remove profile information, hide information, or retain information on a case-by-case basis.

We may retain information where necessary for:

• community continuity;
• roleplay and conversation continuity;
• moderation history;
• report handling;
• staff accountability;
• safety;
• abuse prevention;
• spam prevention;
• ban-evasion prevention;
• underage-access prevention;
• legal compliance;
• evidence preservation;
• legal claims.

Deactivation does not necessarily remove a member’s display name, profile information, past content, EcchiTexts, reports, moderation records, or account history.

Members can edit or remove many profile fields themselves while their account remains active. If a member wants to remove optional profile information before leaving, they should do so before requesting deactivation, where possible.

In some cases, EcchiDreams may anonymise names, remove profile information, hide content, or take other steps where appropriate and technically possible.

Public and guest-visible content

Content posted in public or guest-visible areas may remain visible after account deactivation or closure unless removed, hidden, or anonymised.

Search engines, archives, screenshots, other members, or third parties may preserve copies of content that was visible to them. EcchiDreams cannot control copies made outside our systems.

Requests for erasure

Members may request deletion, erasure, anonymisation, or restriction of personal information.

We will review such requests case by case.

The right to erasure is not absolute. We may refuse or limit deletion where we need to retain information for moderation, safety, community integrity, abuse prevention, ban-evasion prevention, underage-access prevention, legal obligations, evidence preservation, or legal claims.

Where we cannot fully delete information, we may consider deactivation, restriction, anonymisation, removal of profile fields, or other appropriate measures.

18. Data exports and privacy requests

Logged-in members may use the built-in “Request PII Data” tool from their account security/privacy settings, where available.

When a member requests a copy of their personal information through this tool, the request may be reviewed by a community administrator. Once processed, the member will be notified when the export is ready to download.

Privacy, data access, correction, deletion, restriction, account, and other privacy-related requests can also be made through the EcchiDreams contact form:

https://ecchidreams.com/contact

We may need to verify that a request comes from the account holder before providing information, exporting data, changing account information, deactivating an account, or deleting information. This is to protect members from unauthorised access to their accounts or personal information.

We will not provide personal information about accounts you do not own, other members, staff, reports made by other users, internal moderation discussions, or third-party information unless required by law or clearly appropriate in the circumstances.

We may also refuse, limit, or redact information where disclosure would compromise site security, operational security, anti-abuse systems, staff safety, moderation integrity, legal obligations, or the privacy and safety of other people.

We will try to respond to privacy requests within a reasonable time. Some requests may take longer if they are complex, involve moderation records, involve EcchiTexts or reports, require technical review, or require us to balance privacy rights against community safety, legal obligations, or abuse-prevention needs.

19. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect EcchiDreams and the personal information stored on it.

This includes measures such as account passwords being stored in hashed form rather than plain text, access controls for staff tools, moderation controls, server security measures, anti-spam systems, backups, and monitoring for abuse or suspicious activity.

No website, server, software platform, or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Members are responsible for keeping their own account credentials safe, using a strong and unique password, keeping their email account secure, and contacting EcchiDreams if they believe their account has been compromised.

If we become aware of a serious security issue affecting member information, we will take appropriate steps to investigate, reduce harm, secure the site, and notify affected members or authorities where legally required.

20. Member responsibilities

Members are responsible for the information they choose to submit, publish, send, or share on EcchiDreams.

Members should not post personal information that they do not want others to see, copy, report, archive, screenshot, index, or preserve.

This is especially important for guest-visible areas, public posts, profile information, gallery content, roleplay preferences, EcchiTexts, and any content shared with other members.

Members should not submit personal information about other people unless they have a lawful and appropriate reason to do so.

Members should not use EcchiDreams to publish doxxing, threats, blackmail, exploitation, non-consensual personal information, or other content that violates the Terms of Service or site rules.

21. Your rights

Depending on where you live and the circumstances involved, you may have rights over your personal information.

These may include the right to:

• request a copy of personal information we hold about you;
• ask us to correct inaccurate information;
• ask us to delete or erase information;
• ask us to restrict how information is used;
• object to certain uses of information;
• request a portable copy of certain information;
• withdraw consent where we rely on consent;
• complain to a data protection authority.

These rights are not absolute. Some requests may be refused, limited, or handled differently where EcchiDreams needs to retain information for moderation, safety, abuse prevention, ban-evasion prevention, underage-access prevention, legal obligations, evidence preservation, community integrity, or legal claims.

If we refuse or limit a request, we will explain why unless we are legally prevented from doing so.

22. Third-party websites and services

EcchiDreams may contain links, embeds, advertisements, or references to third-party websites and services.

Those services are not operated by EcchiDreams, and their privacy practices, security, content, cookies, and policies are their own responsibility. Members and guests should review the privacy policies and settings of third-party services they use or interact with.

23. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When we make changes, we may update the “Last updated” date at the top of the policy. For significant changes, we may also provide additional notice through the website, announcements, account notifications, email, or other appropriate methods.

Continued use of EcchiDreams after changes take effect means the updated policy applies to future use of the site.

24. Complaints

If you are unhappy with how EcchiDreams handles your personal information, please contact us first so we can try to resolve the issue.

Where UK data protection law applies, you may also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.