Who is responsible
Desire Atlas is responsible for the information handled through this service. Privacy questions and requests can be sent to support@desireatlas.online.
What the service is
Desire Atlas provides entertainment-only surveys for adults exploring sexual archetypes, interests, and experiences. The surveys are not medical, psychological, therapeutic, or diagnostic tools.
Information collected
- An email address used to verify access and retrieve private history.
- Required survey choices and free-text answers.
- The calculated score, archetype or Desire Map and the survey/scoring version used.
- Optional age bracket, relationship structure, gender identity, and country responses. State, province, or broad region is collected only when you opt into score comparisons.
- Records of required service consent and optional analysis, score-comparison, one-time comparison-notification, and announcement choices, including their policy version and time.
- If you choose to answer it, your interest in a possible future discovery service, preferred kinds of connection, and separate permission to contact you about research or beta testing.
- If you use partner mapping, the pseudonym you choose, the invited email address, invitation and consent status, and the mutual matches generated after both maps are complete.
- Essential security and delivery records such as token status, email delivery status, rate-limit counters, and redacted application events.
- An essential cookie recording 18+ confirmation and secure session cookies.
The service does not use advertising pixels, behavioural tracking, or traffic analytics.
Why information is used
- To validate answers, calculate a result, and show dated history.
- To verify email ownership and protect private pages.
- To compare a new score with a historically comparable result.
- At your request, to invite one partner and generate a private comparison containing only mutual or complementary matches.
- To respond to access, correction, de-linking, erasure, and support requests.
- To prevent misuse, investigate faults, and protect the service.
- With separate optional consent, to create de-identified aggregate analysis or announce a new survey.
- With separate optional consent, to include your latest Kink Score and any broad location you provide in anonymous comparisons. A local comparison appears only after at least 50 distinct participants are represented.
- With separate optional consent, to send one email when your first Kink Score comparison becomes available.
- To assess interest in a possible separate discovery service and, only where you opt in, invite you to related research or beta testing.
Required service processing, optional aggregate analysis, optional score comparisons, the one-time comparison email, and optional announcements use separate choices. Declining an optional choice does not prevent someone from receiving a survey result.
The discovery-interest question does not create a public profile, enable matching, share survey answers, or enrol anyone in a discovery service.
How identity is separated
Email addresses are designed to be encrypted and looked up through a keyed hash. Answers and optional demographics are encrypted using a separate key and connected through a random internal identifier. Encryption keys are kept outside the database.
The score-comparison index stores keyed location hashes rather than readable country or region names. Readable location responses remain inside the encrypted demographics record.
Partner mapping
Partner mapping is optional and one-to-one. The inviter provides an email address and chooses a pseudonym. The invited person must confirm control of that email address, choose their own pseudonym, and separately consent before joining. Neither person’s account email is displayed to the other.
Each complete Desire Map remains private to its owner. Once both people have completed their maps and consented, the service creates a dated shared comparison containing only mutual or complementary matches.
Unmatched answers, anything marked “not for me”, and optional demographics are not disclosed in the shared view. A shared match does not disclose every answer either person gave within that territory.
Either participant can revoke shared access. Revocation closes the shared comparison for both people without deleting either person’s private map.
Email discretion
Transactional emails use discreet subjects and preview text. A result email includes the score, archetype or ranked Desire Map together with its explanation. Individual prompt answers, partner matches and optional demographics are not included. A Kink Score email may also include an eligible anonymous comparison. If separately requested, the later one-time comparison email contains the score and dated comparison but not individual answers or demographics. Partner invitations use neutral subject lines and do not reveal either person’s full map.
Aggregate analysis
Responses are included in aggregate articles or analysis only where the applicable consent and law permit. De-identification removes direct identifiers and reduces unusual combinations that could identify someone. De-identified does not mean that every dataset is automatically safe to publish, so each output requires a disclosure-risk review.
Service providers and international access
Desire Atlas uses specialist hosting, database, backup, and transactional-email providers to operate the service. Those providers may process information internationally, and Australian-only data residency is not promised. Further information about these providers is available on request where appropriate.
Information is not sold. It may be disclosed to contracted providers that operate the service, to professional advisers under duties of confidence, or where disclosure is required by law. Provider access should be limited to what is necessary for their role.
Retention
Verified survey history is intended to remain available while the service operates so a participant can compare results over time. This preference is subject to consent, applicable law, privacy requests, and periodic review of whether continued retention is still necessary.
- Unverified drafts are proposed to expire after 30 days.
- Access links and sessions expire after their documented security window.
- A partner invitation must be accepted within 14 days. Unaccepted invitations may be removed 90 days after they expire.
- Accepted pairing history and encrypted shared-comparison snapshots are retained with survey history. Either participant can revoke shared access at any time.
- Delivery and security records use shorter operational retention periods.
- Only the latest opted-in Kink Score for an email address contributes to comparisons. Retaking the survey without opting in removes the earlier contribution. The dated comparison shown with a result remains attached to that historical result.
- A pending one-time comparison request is retained until it is sent or cancelled in private settings.
- Backups follow a rotating schedule. Approved erasure instructions are replayed after a backup restoration before the service reopens.
Erasure and de-linking requests
A signed-in participant can send a protected privacy request. The request is confirmed by email, reviewed by the operator, assigned a reference, and followed by a discreet completion notice. A support request is available when the original inbox has been lost, but recovery or disclosure may be refused when ownership cannot be established safely.
You may request erasure of identifiable information, de-linking of your email address from survey responses, or both. After de-linking, it may no longer be possible to retrieve those responses or include them in your history. Information may be retained where it is required for security, legal compliance, or to record that a request was completed.
Adults only
Participants must confirm that they are at least 18. The service does not intentionally collect information from children. Contact support@desireatlas.online if information may have been submitted by a minor.
Changes and contact
This page will be updated when the service or its information practices materially change. Where required, participants will be asked to review or consent to a changed use before it occurs.
Contact support@desireatlas.online or use the support page for questions.