Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: July 18, 2026
Last Updated: July 19, 2026

Privacy, discretion, and responsible information handling are fundamental to how Nightveil Collective operates.

1. Introduction

Nightveil Collective (“Nightveil Collective,” “Nightveil,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) values privacy and is committed to handling personal information with care, discretion, and reasonable security practices.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, retain, and safeguard personal information when you:

Visit nightveilcollective.com (the “Website”);
Submit an inquiry, application, or intake form;
Complete an eligibility or age-verification process;
Communicate with us;
Make or attempt to make a payment;
Participate in a membership, written communication, curated digital experience, or other approved service; or
Otherwise interact with Nightveil Collective.

Nightveil Collective is a private, approval-based digital business operated by Interstellar Venture LLC.

We seek to collect only the information reasonably necessary to operate and secure the Website, review inquiries, determine eligibility, provide requested services, process or confirm payments, maintain appropriate business records, prevent misuse, and comply with applicable legal obligations.

By using the Website or voluntarily submitting personal information, you acknowledge that you have reviewed this Privacy Policy. Where consent is required by applicable law, we will request it separately, including through our cookie consent banner where appropriate.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, do not submit personal information or continue using Website features that require personal information.

2. Our Privacy Commitment

Privacy is part of the Nightveil Collective service experience. Whenever reasonably practicable, we strive to:

Collect only information reasonably necessary for a clear and legitimate business purpose.
Limit access to personal information to authorized persons and service providers that need it for legitimate operational purposes.
Use reputable providers for website hosting, forms, security, age verification, communications, analytics, consent management, and payment processing.
Retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary or legally required.
Delete, redact, restrict, or anonymize unnecessary information when reasonably practicable.
Communicate with approved participants through an approved username, display name, or initials when a legal name is not necessary.
Maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards.
Review our practices as the Website, services, technology, and applicable legal requirements evolve.

3. Eligibility and Age Restrictions

The Website and all Nightveil Collective services are intended only for individuals who are at least 18 years old and have reached the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction.

Certain services, platforms, payment methods, or verification providers may impose a higher minimum age. Where a higher age requirement applies, that higher requirement will control.

Minors may not:

Submit forms or applications;
Request review or approval;
Send payments;
Access private materials;
Participate in memberships or services; or
Communicate with Nightveil Collective for the purpose of obtaining services.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors.

If we learn that a minor submitted information, we may deny access and delete or restrict the information. We may retain limited records when reasonably necessary for safety, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute handling, or prevention of repeated misuse.

4. Information We May Collect

4.1 Information You Provide

Depending on how you interact with Nightveil Collective, you may voluntarily provide:

Legal name, preferred name, initials, display name, or username.
Email address, social-media handle, or another approved contact method.
Age eligibility confirmation.
Limited age or identity-verification information.
Inquiry, application, intake, preference, boundary, or membership responses.
Communication preferences and approved platform information.
Messages, written communications, documents, files, or other content you choose to submit.
Payment status, payment amount, transaction date, transaction reference, account name, confirmation details, or dispute status.
Information reasonably necessary to administer access, membership, renewal, restrictions, safety, or account status.
Privacy request information.
Any other information you voluntarily provide in connection with an inquiry, application, request, or approved service.

4.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit or interact with the Website, our hosting, website, analytics, form, consent-management, and security providers may automatically collect limited technical information, including:

Internet Protocol address.
Browser type and browser version.
Device type and operating system.
Device or browser language settings.
Approximate location derived from an IP address.
Pages viewed and links selected.
Referral source.
Date and time of visits.
Time spent on pages.
Form activity, submission dates, and timestamps.
Website performance and error information.
Cookie identifiers and similar technical identifiers.
Consent selections and cookie preferences.
Security, fraud-prevention, bot-detection, and spam-prevention signals.

This information may be used to:

Operate and secure the Website;
Maintain Website functionality;
Troubleshoot technical problems;
Understand Website performance and visitor interaction;
Improve the Website and user experience;
Remember consent preferences;
Prevent automated abuse, spam, fraud, and unauthorized activity; and
Preserve relevant operational or security records.

4.3 Internal Administrative Records

We may maintain limited internal records relating to:

Inquiry or application status.
Age-verification or eligibility status.
Verification method, result, and review date.
Approval, denial, restriction, suspension, or termination status.
Membership, access, renewal, payment, or communication status.
Safety, privacy, fraud, misuse, chargeback, or dispute concerns.
Requests to access, correct, restrict, or delete personal information.
Legal, accounting, tax, and operational requirements.

5. Information You Should Not Submit

Nightveil Collective does not need and does not intentionally request unnecessary sensitive information.

Unless we specifically request information for a legitimate and lawful purpose, do not submit:

Social Security numbers.
Tax identification numbers.
Passwords or login credentials.
Security codes or authentication codes.
Full debit or credit card numbers.
Full bank account numbers.
Bank login information or financial passwords.
Unredacted government identification numbers.
Identification-document barcodes or QR codes.
Unnecessary copies of signatures.
Medical records or diagnoses.
Therapy records or crisis information.
Private financial statements.
Pay stubs or tax returns.
Detailed debt records.
Precise home addresses or real-time locations, unless specifically required for a lawful purpose.
Information that could unnecessarily endanger your safety, employment, family, relationships, finances, or real-life identity.

If unnecessary or excessive information is submitted, we may delete, redact, restrict, disregard, or securely dispose of it where reasonably practicable.

You remain responsible for deciding what information you voluntarily disclose.

6. Age and Identity Verification

Nightveil Collective may require age or identity verification before providing access to private information, payment instructions, memberships, private materials, or other services.

Verification may be completed through:

A trusted third-party verification provider;
A platform-based verification process; or
Limited manual review when appropriate.

When a third-party verification provider is used, that provider may collect and process information under its own privacy policy and terms.

Nightveil Collective may receive only a verification result, verification status, date, method, or limited confirmation rather than a complete identity document.

If manual review is authorized, you should cover or blur information that is not reasonably necessary to confirm eligibility, including:

Home address;
Identification number;
Barcode;
QR code; and
Signature.

Manual verification materials may be deleted after review when they are no longer reasonably necessary.

We may retain a limited record of the verification method, date, result, and status. Materials or records may be retained longer where reasonably necessary for legal compliance, fraud prevention, safety, payment disputes, platform requirements, or business recordkeeping.

7. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Website.
Review inquiries and applications.
Determine eligibility.
Confirm age-threshold compliance.
Communicate with applicants, approved participants, and members.
Provide memberships, written communications, curated digital experiences, digital materials, and other approved services.
Administer preferences, access, renewals, restrictions, and account status.
Process, verify, reconcile, or document payments through third-party providers.
Maintain tax, accounting, transaction, legal, and operational records.
Respond to privacy requests.
Enforce our Terms and Conditions, confidentiality requirements, boundaries, payment terms, and access rules.
Detect and prevent fraud, spam, automated abuse, impersonation, harassment, unsafe behavior, unauthorized access, chargebacks, and other misuse.
Respond to complaints, disputes, payment reviews, chargebacks, legal requests, or platform investigations.
Protect the rights, privacy, safety, property, and security of Nightveil Collective, its operator, users, service providers, and others.
Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, tax obligations, and valid governmental requests.

Nightveil Collective does not use personal information to provide legal, medical, mental health, financial, tax, investment, debt-management, crisis, or other licensed professional services.

8. Legal Bases for Processing

Where the European Economic Area General Data Protection Regulation, United Kingdom GDPR, or a similar law applies, we process personal data only when a valid legal basis is available.

Depending on the circumstances, those bases may include:

Consent

We may rely on consent when you voluntarily provide optional information, agree to receive certain communications, or accept non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

Contract or Pre-Contractual Steps

We may process information when necessary to review an application, respond to an inquiry, administer an approved service, process a requested transaction, or take steps requested before entering an agreement.

Legal Obligation

We may process information where necessary to comply with tax, accounting, fraud-prevention, regulatory, court, payment-record, or other legal obligations.

Legitimate Interests

We may process information based on legitimate interests, including:

Operating and securing the Website;
Preventing misuse;
Maintaining appropriate records;
Enforcing agreements;
Resolving disputes;
Protecting privacy and safety; and
Improving Website functionality.

We rely on legitimate interests only when those interests are not overridden by applicable individual rights.

Vital Interests

We may process information when reasonably necessary to protect a person from a serious and immediate safety risk.

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent for future processing by contacting us or adjusting available cookie preferences.

Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal and may prevent us from providing a requested feature or service.

9. Payments and Transaction Information

Payment instructions are generally provided only after review or approval.

Payments may be processed through independent third-party payment processors or platforms, including Stripe and Cash App where applicable.

Nightveil Collective does not intentionally collect or store:

Full payment-card numbers;
Bank passwords;
Complete financial-account credentials; or
Payment-platform login credentials.

We may receive or retain limited transaction information, including:

Payment status.
Payment amount.
Payment date.
Payment method.
Username, account name, or payer name.
Transaction identifier.
Transaction reference.
Receipt or payment confirmation.
Refund, reversal, failed-payment, chargeback, or dispute status.
Information reasonably necessary for accounting, tax, fraud prevention, enforcement, or dispute response.

Payment providers process personal and financial information under their own terms, privacy notices, compliance requirements, security practices, and legal obligations.

Their collection and use of information are governed by their own policies.

10. Third-Party Services and Data Sharing

Nightveil Collective uses third-party service providers to operate the Website, process inquiries and applications, administer memberships, facilitate payments, provide digital services, maintain security, manage consent preferences, analyze Website performance, communicate with users, and support ordinary business operations.

Depending on how you interact with Nightveil Collective, these providers may process, receive, or have access to personal information on our behalf or independently under their own terms and privacy policies.

Our service providers may include:

Website hosting and domain providers.
Website infrastructure, content management systems, and plugins, including WordPress.
Application, inquiry, intake, and form-processing providers, including Jotform.
E-commerce, webshop, digital-order, membership, checkout, and transaction-management providers.
Customer relationship management and workflow-management providers.
Payment processors and payment platforms, including Stripe and Cash App where applicable.
CAPTCHA, bot-detection, spam-prevention, fraud-prevention, and security providers, including Google reCAPTCHA.
Cookie-consent and preference-management providers, including Complianz.
Website analytics and performance providers, including Google Analytics.
Search-performance and Website diagnostic providers, including Google Search Console.
Age and identity-verification providers.
Email, messaging, and communication providers.
Cloud storage, file-management, and business-record providers.
Logging, website-security, and technical-monitoring providers.
Professional service providers, including legal, accounting, tax, compliance, insurance, and operational advisors.

We may share information with these providers when reasonably necessary to:

Process applications or membership requests.
Administer memberships, services, and customer records.
Process payments and related transactions.
Operate Website or e-commerce functionality.
Provide customer support and business communications.
Maintain consent selections and cookie preferences.
Understand Website use and performance.
Identify Website errors or technical problems.
Prevent fraud, spam, bot activity, abuse, and unauthorized access.
Maintain Website security and functionality.
Maintain appropriate business, payment, accounting, and legal records.
Comply with legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, or contractual obligations.

We seek to share only the information reasonably necessary for a provider to perform its services or support Nightveil Collective’s legitimate operations.

Third-party providers process information according to their own privacy practices, contractual obligations, service terms, and applicable law.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of any third-party service you choose to use through or in connection with Nightveil Collective.

11. Google Analytics and Website Measurement

The Website may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with the Website and to improve performance, navigation, content, and user experience.

Depending on your consent selections, configuration, and applicable law, Google Analytics may collect information such as:

Pages visited.
Approximate geographic region.
Browser and device information.
Referral source.
Session activity.
Time and date of Website interactions.
Technical identifiers.
Cookie or similar technology information.

Google Analytics may use first-party cookies or similar technologies to distinguish users and sessions. Google requires sites using Analytics to disclose the service’s use and associated data processing.

Where required by applicable law, analytics cookies and similar non-essential technologies will be activated only after you provide consent through our cookie banner or preference center.

You may reject or withdraw consent for analytics cookies through the Website’s cookie-preference controls where available.

Nightveil Collective may also use Google Search Console to understand Website visibility, indexing, search performance, technical errors, and security issues. Google Search Console generally provides aggregated Website and search-performance information rather than information submitted directly through Nightveil Collective forms.

12. Google reCAPTCHA

The Website or its forms may use Google reCAPTCHA to help identify automated activity, prevent spam, protect forms, and reduce abuse or fraudulent submissions.

Google reCAPTCHA may evaluate technical and interaction-related signals to help distinguish legitimate users from bots or abusive traffic. Google describes reCAPTCHA as a service designed to protect websites from spam and abuse.

Information processed through reCAPTCHA may be handled by Google according to Google’s applicable terms and privacy practices.

Blocking reCAPTCHA or related security technologies may prevent certain forms or Website functions from operating correctly.

13. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Website may use cookies, local storage, pixels, scripts, tags, and similar technologies for:

Essential Website operation;
Website and form security;
Form functionality;
Bot and spam prevention;
Consent-preference storage;
Basic Website measurement;
Analytics;
Performance monitoring; and
Troubleshooting.

Depending on Website configuration and your consent selections, these technologies may include:

Strictly Necessary Technologies

These technologies support essential Website functions such as security, page operation, consent-preference storage, form submission, and session management.

Strictly necessary technologies may operate without optional consent where permitted by applicable law because the Website may not function properly without them.

Preference Technologies

These technologies remember limited choices, settings, or consent preferences.

Analytics and Performance Technologies

These technologies help us understand how visitors use the Website, identify technical problems, and improve Website performance and user experience.

Security Technologies

These technologies help detect bots, spam, fraud, automated submissions, or other abusive activity. This may include technologies used by Google reCAPTCHA.

Consent Management

Nightveil Collective uses a cookie-consent and preference-management tool, including Complianz, to present cookie choices and remember consent selections.

You may manage your preferences through the Website’s cookie banner, preference center, or “Manage Consent” control where available. Complianz provides mechanisms that allow visitors to reopen consent settings and change their preferences.

Where required by applicable law, analytics and other non-essential cookies are used only after you provide appropriate consent.

You may also manage or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain technologies may cause portions of the Website or its forms to function incorrectly.

We do not intentionally use cookies to collect unnecessary sensitive information.

Additional information about cookies used on the Website may be found in our separate Cookie Policy.

14. When We May Share Information

Nightveil Collective does not sell personal information for money.

We may disclose information only when reasonably necessary:

To service providers described in this Privacy Policy.
To process or confirm a payment.
To investigate fraud.
To address a refund, chargeback, payment review, or dispute.
To legal, tax, accounting, compliance, insurance, or other professional advisors.
To comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, tax obligation, or valid governmental request.
To investigate or prevent fraud, abuse, harassment, impersonation, threats, unauthorized access, or unsafe activity.
To enforce agreements.
To protect the rights, privacy, safety, property, or security of Nightveil Collective or others.
In connection with a merger, reorganization, financing, sale, transfer, or other business transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality and legal requirements.
At your direction or with your consent.

We do not publicly post private applications, verification materials, payment confirmations, or private communications merely because they were submitted to us.

15. Legal Requests and Required Disclosures

We treat submitted information as private business information. However, no privacy policy can guarantee that information will never be disclosed.

We may preserve or disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is:

Required or permitted by applicable law;
Necessary to comply with valid legal process;
Required by a payment processor, platform, insurance, or fraud investigation;
Necessary to enforce an agreement; or
Necessary to protect safety, rights, privacy, property, or security.

Where legally permitted and reasonably practicable, we may seek to limit disclosure to information relevant to the request.

We may be legally prohibited from notifying you about certain requests or disclosures.

16. Data Retention and Account Closure

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including:

Providing services;
Administering access and memberships;
Maintaining business and tax records;
Resolving disputes;
Responding to chargebacks;
Enforcing agreements;
Preventing repeated misuse;
Protecting privacy and safety; and
Complying with legal, regulatory, contractual, or platform requirements.

Retention periods may vary by category.

For example:

Inquiry and application records may be retained during review and for a reasonable period afterward.
Form submissions and communications may be retained as needed to administer services, preserve relevant context, or respond to disputes.
Payment and transaction records may be retained for accounting, tax, fraud, chargeback, enforcement, and legal purposes.
Verification documents may be deleted after review when no longer needed, while a limited verification-status record may be retained.
Denied, blocked, suspended, or restricted-user records may be retained to prevent repeated fraud, harassment, impersonation, unauthorized access, or unsafe activity.
Consent preferences and related records may be retained to operate the consent system and document visitor selections where appropriate.
Privacy-request records may be retained to document our response and compliance.

If your participation ends or you request account closure, we may delete or anonymize information that is no longer needed.

We may retain information reasonably necessary for legal, tax, payment, fraud-prevention, security, dispute-resolution, enforcement, or recordkeeping purposes.

17. Data Minimization and Security

We aim to limit collection and retention to information reasonably necessary for legitimate business purposes.

We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures appropriate to:

The nature of the information;
The sensitivity of the information;
The Website and services involved; and
The size and operation of the business.

These measures may include:

Restricted access.
Password-protected accounts.
Multi-factor authentication where available.
Platform security controls.
Reputable third-party providers.
Bot and spam protection.
Consent-management controls.
Deletion or redaction of unnecessary files.
Limited internal records.
Security updates and monitoring.

No website, form, payment platform, storage system, or communication method can guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for protecting your devices, accounts, passwords, and communication channels and for avoiding unnecessary sensitive submissions.

If we become aware of a security incident affecting personal information, we will evaluate the incident and provide notices where required by applicable law.

18. Confidentiality and User Conduct

Nightveil Collective’s privacy obligations concern how we handle personal information.

Separate contractual confidentiality requirements may also apply to applicants, members, approved participants, or recipients of private materials.

Private forms, links, passwords, documents, payment details, written communications, and materials are intended only for the approved recipient.

Unauthorized recording, screenshotting, reposting, leaking, distribution, impersonation, or misuse may result in:

Denial of access;
Suspension;
Restriction;
Termination; or
Other remedies available under applicable agreements or law.

19. Your Choices and Privacy Requests

You may choose not to provide optional information. However, failure to provide required information may prevent us from:

Reviewing an application;
Verifying eligibility;
Processing a request;
Processing a payment;
Providing access; or
Providing a requested service.

Depending on applicable law and the circumstances, you may have the right to request:

Access to certain personal information.
Correction of inaccurate information.
Deletion of certain personal information.
Information about our processing practices.
Restriction of certain processing.
Objection to certain processing.
Portability of certain personal information.
Withdrawal of consent where consent is the legal basis.

You may also manage non-essential cookie preferences through the Website’s cookie banner or preference center where available.

To submit a privacy request, email:

privacy@nightveilcollective.com

Please describe your request clearly.

We may need to verify your identity or authority before responding. We may deny, limit, or delay a request where permitted by law, including when information is reasonably necessary for:

Legal compliance;
Tax or accounting records;
Payment records;
Security;
Fraud prevention;
Dispute resolution;
Chargebacks;
Contract enforcement; or
Protecting another person’s rights.

20. United States State Privacy Notices

Residents of certain United States states may have additional privacy rights if the relevant law applies to Nightveil Collective.

Depending on the jurisdiction and applicable requirements, those rights may include:

Access.
Correction.
Deletion.
Portability.
The right to opt out of certain sales.
The right to opt out of certain sharing.
The right to opt out of targeted advertising.
The right to opt out of certain profiling.

Nightveil Collective does not sell personal information for money.

Based on our intended business practices, we do not knowingly sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

If our practices change, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any legally required notices or choices.

California residents may submit applicable requests using:

privacy@nightveilcollective.com

We will not unlawfully discriminate against an individual for exercising an applicable privacy right.

Certain information, processing activities, and requests may be exempt from state privacy-law requirements.

21. EEA, UK, and Similar Privacy Rights

If the GDPR, UK GDPR, or a similar privacy law applies, Nightveil Collective may act as the controller of personal data submitted directly to us.

Subject to applicable conditions and exceptions, you may have the right to:

Be informed about processing.
Access personal data.
Correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Request deletion.
Restrict processing.
Object to certain processing.
Receive certain personal data in a portable format.
Withdraw consent where consent is the legal basis.
Lodge a complaint with an applicable supervisory authority.

These rights are not absolute.

We may retain or continue processing information where permitted or required by law.

Requests may be sent to:

privacy@nightveilcollective.com

22. International Data Transfers

Nightveil Collective is operated from the United States.

If you access the Website or submit information from another country, your information may be transferred to, processed in, or stored in the United States or another country where our service providers operate.

Privacy laws in those locations may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Where required by applicable law, we may rely on:

Provider safeguards;
Contractual protections;
Adequacy decisions or mechanisms;
Consent; or
Another lawful transfer method.

23. Automated Decision-Making

Nightveil Collective does not currently use solely automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects concerning applicants or members.

Security, CAPTCHA, analytics, spam-prevention, payment, and platform tools may use automated signals to identify suspicious, fraudulent, or abusive activity.

Where reasonably appropriate, relevant results may be reviewed before a final access or service decision is made.

24. External Links and Independent Platforms

The Website may contain links to third-party websites, forms, verification services, payment pages, communication platforms, or other independent services.

A link does not mean that Nightveil Collective controls or endorses a third party’s privacy or security practices.

Information submitted directly to a third party is governed by that third party’s privacy policy, terms, and security practices.

You should review those policies before submitting information.

25. No Professional Services

Nightveil Collective provides private digital memberships, written communications, curated digital experiences, digital materials, and related digital services.

Nightveil Collective does not provide:

Legal advice;
Medical advice;
Mental health treatment;
Financial advice;
Tax or accounting advice;
Investment advice;
Crisis services;
Debt-management services; or
Other licensed professional advice or services.

26. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Information submitted to or communications received from Nightveil Collective should not be treated as creating a professional-client relationship.

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in:

The Website;
Services;
Technology;
Third-party providers;
Business practices; or
Legal obligations.

The revised version will be posted with an updated effective date or “Last Updated” date.

Where required by applicable law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent.

Your continued use of the Website following an update does not waive rights that cannot legally be waived.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

27. Contact

For privacy questions, concerns, or requests, contact:

Nightveil Collective
Operated by Interstellar Venture LLC
Email: privacy@nightveilcollective.com
Website: nightveilcollective.com