Queer Donors

Website Terms of Use

Version: 6 June 2026

These terms govern your use of queer-donors.com. The site is run by William Smith EI; full identification and hosting details are in the legal notice. It is a free resource, separate from the one-to-one therapy practice at therapyhub.eu, and using it never creates a therapeutic or professional relationship between us.

1. What this site is — information and support, not advice

Queer Donors is a free, general resource centring the emotional experience of queer egg donors, sperm donors, and surrogates. The content here, including any stories shared by others, is for general information and peer support only.

Nothing on this site is medical, legal, psychological, or other professional advice. In particular:

  • It is not therapy or counselling, and reading it doesn't make me your therapist.
  • It is not medical advice about donation, fertility, hormones, pregnancy, or your health.
  • It is not legal advice. The law on donation, anonymity, parenthood, and surrogacy differs significantly from country to country and changes over time.

For anything specific to your situation, please speak to a qualified professional: a doctor or fertility clinic, a lawyer in your jurisdiction, or a registered therapist.

2. Not for emergencies

This site isn't a crisis service. If you or someone else is at risk, contact your local emergency number (999 in the UK, 112 in France and the rest of the EU), or a crisis line — you'll find options at findahelpline.com. The Get Support page lists further resources.

3. Sharing your story

You can submit your story through the form on this site. Sharing is voluntary, and a few things follow from it:

  • You decide what to share. Please don't include more personal detail than you're comfortable making public, and please don't identify other people (donors, recipients, partners, clinics, or children, including donor-conceived people) without their consent. Where you mention others, keep them unidentifiable.
  • It's your story to give. By submitting, you confirm the story is your own experience and yours to share, and you give me permission to edit it for clarity, length, and the privacy of anyone mentioned, and to publish it on this site (and in related guidance or research) as part of building a library of support.
  • Anonymous by default. Your story will only ever be published anonymously, unless you give separate, explicit consent to use your name.
  • I may decline or remove content. I can choose not to publish a story, and I can edit or take down published stories at any time.
  • Before publishing. You can ask me not to use your story, or to delete what you sent, at any time before it's published.
  • Once published. Because stories are published anonymously, a published story can't be withdrawn. If you'd given consent to be named, you can ask me to remove your name, but the anonymous story itself will usually remain.

How your submission is handled is set out in the Privacy Policy.

4. Email updates

You can sign up to receive occasional updates by email. Signing up is voluntary, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email, and it doesn't create any obligation on either side. How your email address is handled is set out in the Privacy Policy.

5. Intellectual property

The content of this site (text, design, and original materials) is mine, or used with permission, unless stated otherwise. Stories remain the experiences of the people who shared them and are published under the permission described in section 3. Please don't copy, republish, or reuse content from this site without my written agreement. Third-party content remains the property of its owners.

6. Acceptable use

Please use the site lawfully and respectfully. Don't try to disrupt it, gain unauthorised access, submit content that is unlawful, abusive, or harmful, or misuse the site in any way that could harm it or other users. Given the sensitivity of this subject, please treat anything you read here with care.

7. Links to other sites

Where I link to other websites, for example crisis resources, professional bodies, or support organisations, I do so for convenience. I don't control those sites and am not responsible for their content.

8. Availability

I aim to keep the site available and up to date, but I provide it "as is." It may occasionally be unavailable, change, or contain errors, and I don't guarantee uninterrupted access.

9. Privacy and cookies

How I handle personal data is set out in the Privacy Policy. This site does not use cookies, tracking pixels, or analytics.

10. Liability

I'm not liable for any loss arising from your use of, or inability to use, the site, or from reliance on its general content or on stories shared by others. If you're a consumer, this doesn't affect your statutory rights.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by French law. If you're a consumer, you keep the protections and the right to bring proceedings available to you where you live.

12. Changes

I may update these terms from time to time; the current version is the one published here, with the date shown above.

13. Contact and language

Questions about these terms: [email protected]. This page is provided in English; a French version is available on request.