Getting your data out
Years of locks, the keyholders you trusted, what you completed and what you did not: that history is the most valuable thing you accumulate on a chastity platform, and on most of them you cannot get it back out.
This matters more here than in most software, because the data is unusually sensitive and the companies holding it are unusually small.
Why this is not a paranoid question
Kink platforms are typically run by one or two people in their spare time. That is not an insult — it is true of Chaster, and it is true of us. It means the realistic risks are not a hostile corporation selling your data. They are more mundane and more likely: the site shuts down, the maintainer burns out, an account gets banned by mistake, a payment processor forces a change, or a database is lost.
In every one of those cases the question is the same. Can you walk away with your history, or does it evaporate with someone else’s hosting bill?
What a real export looks like
“Contact support and we will consider it” is not an export. Under GDPR you have a right to data portability, and a platform that actually honours it gives you:
- A machine-readable file — JSON or CSV, not a PDF and not screenshots
- Everything, not a summary: locks, timings, messages, profile, settings
- Self-service, without emailing a human and waiting a month
- No paywall — data portability is a right, not a premium feature
If any of those four is missing, you do not really have your data. You have permission to ask for it.
Questions worth asking any platform
Before you build up history somewhere, it is fair to ask:
- Can I export everything myself, today, without asking anyone?
- What happens to my data if the site closes?
- When I delete my account, what is actually deleted, and when?
- Where are the images stored, and who can read them?
- Is any of this written down publicly, or am I taking it on trust?
The last one is the tell. A platform that has thought about this has written it down. One that has not will answer warmly and vaguely.
How it works on Keyhold
Settings → Data Export produces a single JSON file with your account and profile, your locks and their keyholders, the tasks you created and their submissions, your verification history, your posts, and your direct messages. It is generated on the spot, it is not a support ticket, and it is not a paid feature — free accounts export exactly the same data as paying ones.
By the standard above, one gap remains, and we would rather say where: the image files themselves are not included yet, only their records. Everything else — every message, post, comment, task, submission, notification, gem transaction, review and device — is in the file, with no cap on how far back it goes.
Deletion is documented with the same specificity, including the parts that are awkward: it takes effect 30 days after you ask so you can change your mind, message threads survive because the other person’s history is not ours to erase (though your text in them is destroyed), file deletion runs through a background worker rather than instantly, and media flagged as CSAM is retained under legal hold. Those caveats are on the security page because you should know them before you need them, not after.
We would rather you leave with your history than stay because you cannot take it with you. A platform that keeps people by holding their data hostage has stopped competing on whether it is any good.
Free accounts get the same export, the same deletion, and the same published security posture as paid ones. Three active locks, no card required.