Our philosophy on public information, community consent, and how events are managed on KinkKal.
KinkKal operates as a community-driven directory and aggregator. Our goal is to solve the discovery problem within our community by helping people find the incredible events happening locally and globally.
To do this, we list events that maintain a public-facing presence on the open internet. If an event has a public website, a public ticketing page, or a public social media profile that anyone can freely access, we consider that "front door" information to be public. We only publish limited details, typically the date, city, and a link to your public website, meaning we are not disclosing anything beyond what is already publicly available.
When KinkKal launched, the platform faced a common "chicken-and-egg" problem: a calendar is not useful unless it already contains a meaningful number of events, but organizers are less likely to submit organically until there is an audience using it. To solve this initial discovery problem, we bootstrapped the calendar by indexing publicly available information.
We no longer use automated scrapers or bots to pull data with the exception of tools to pull any new dates of events from your website. However this is a manual process to trigger a scan and exists solely to speed up data entry. Today, our ongoing standard is entirely manual and community-driven. Every new event on KinkKal is added in one of three ways:
We recognize that many events require applications, strict vetting, or memberships. KinkKal does not bypass your vetting process. We do not host tickets, reveal secret locations, or share private passwords. We simply provide a link to the organizer's public-facing website. How you handle ticketing, vetting, and door admission remains entirely under your control. We are just pointing people to your front door.
We deeply respect the culture of consent within our community. While linking to public websites is a standard internet practice, we understand that "publicly visible" does not automatically mean an organization wants to be included in a third-party calendar. We respect that distinction.
If you are an event organizer and prefer not to be included in the KinkKal directory, we will honor your request immediately and without debate.
Find your event on the calendar, click to open it, select the "Claim Event" button, then click "Remove" and fill out the form to request a deletion. Alternatively, you can click "Submit Event", select "Remove", and search for your event. If you have any issues, please contact removals@kinkkal.com for assistance.
Once removed, your organization and events will be added to our internal blocklist. This ensures that even if an enthusiastic attendee tries to submit your event again in the future, our system will automatically reject it, keeping your information off the platform in perpetuity.
Should you ever reconsider and want to be included on your own terms, our doors are always open.