What a creator can and cannot see about you

What a creator typically sees

That is broadly the list. Creators do not see your legal name, your email address, your card details or your billing address — the platform holds those and does not pass them on.

• •Your display name and username on the platform — whatever you chose, which does not have to be your real name.
• •Your profile picture, if you set one.
• •That you subscribed, when, and at what tier.
• •Your messages and any purchases you made from them.
• •On some platforms, a coarse country-level location.

What the platform holds, and who can reach it

The platform holds considerably more: legal name and payment details for billing, IP address, device information, and full message history. That is normal for any payment-processing service, and it is subject to data protection law.

It can be disclosed to payment processors, to authorities under lawful process, and in a data breach. None of that is specific to this industry, but it is worth knowing rather than assuming otherwise.

The three ways subscribers identify themselves

• •A display name or username reused from another account. This is by far the most common, and it is trivially searchable.
• •A profile photo used elsewhere. A reverse image search connects accounts in seconds.
• •Details volunteered in conversation — a city, a job, a distinctive circumstance. Three innocuous details are frequently enough.

On this site specifically

• •Reviewers appear under a pseudonym they choose. We never publish your email address.
• •We hold a confirmed email — that is the minimum honest basis for saying a review came from a real person — and a salted hash of your IP for abuse control. Raw IP addresses are never stored.
• •A creator sees your pseudonym and your review text, nothing more.
• •Be aware that a review describing a distinctive transaction may be identifiable to the creator involved, however you sign it. Worth weighing when deciding how much detail to include.

Practical steps, in order of effect

• •Use a unique display name and no reused profile photo.
• •Use an email address you do not use elsewhere.
• •Do not volunteer identifying details in conversation, particularly in combination.
• •Consider a virtual or single-use card if statement privacy matters — this addresses the billing side, which the display name does not.
• •Turn on two-factor authentication. The realistic privacy risk here is your account being compromised, not a creator identifying you.