You may think that just because you delete the form or an email, that is erased everywhere, but that is never the case.  That web form or email is stored on several ISP servers and will likely never go away.  So, in the unfortunate event that somebody wanted to see if there were forms or emails between you and whomever, they could easily do that if they had the system access and skill.  So, short story is that if somebody wanted to find proof of something, they could.  Ditto for text messages by the way.

but MY time is worth much more to me than yours, and I refuse to fill out those forms for anyone, even you.

I bend over backwards to make it easy for people to do business with me, I don't jump through hoops to spend my money.

I can just imagine me telling one of my clients that because I charge XXX dollars per hour for my time that they need to jump through hoops for me before I will accept them as a client. Not likely, and yes I do make more per hour than any provider I know of, but I would never say that my time is more valuable than a prospective client, not if I really wanted that person as a client that is. lol

Your email is tagged and stored at the incoming mail server. Tagged every intermediate server it goes through and finally tagged by the receivers email server before it is delivered.

Web Form is stored on SQL database and by law ISP MUST store emails for minimum 12 months, analyze it and keep a record of when it was destroyed.

Same for databases.

The only way only your eyes sees it for to string your own wires and that is not even possible since you will need a license

So I would send an email but I will not include personal information. I will give you necessary info over the phone. Web forms "NO WAY". If you ask if I am circumcised, or other personal questions, I am not interested, Thank You Very Much!

What amazes me is why would someone need my employment info anyhow...since knowing where I work doesn't make me a good or bad client and as for safety, since we aren't allowed to know any personal info about the ladies (and over the years I've met some real bad ones) that's why many of us use TER. The ladies will say "you can learn all you want about me from my reviews so don't ask any revealing questions"...Well, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander".
I can understand some sort of screening for guys with no or few reviews but at some point the fact that I haven't seen a provider in a long time shouldn't matter. I've got 30 reviews here and 17 OK's on another sight...as far as I'm concerned those 2 numbers are sufficient screening from my point of view.

Hey Steph, I don't think anyone is arguing against certain screening.  The point is in the manner by which that info is communicated.  Doing it by way of the web, establishes evidence for eternity and personally, I don't consider that approach to be wise.  Providing some amount of info by voice over a telephone is a whole lot different than sending it through the web.

Lots of good points made,  Reasonable discussions.  Helpful to us all.  Shows that we are a community afterall.

OK.  Just to stir the pot a little.  I'm sure NO PROVIDER would EVER actually keep any completed forms in the event she got busted and needed some leverage to get some leniency. lol  Call me paranoid, but -- hell, yeah I'm paranoid!!

I won't do either, I will however provide virtually any screening information a provider requests, but only after speaking to her and developing some type of feel for who I am dealing with.

As I said, I am divorced and the boss. I don't really care who knows that I frequent prostitutes. I refuse however to simply send out "screening information" to someone I have never spoken to. If a woman can't spend a minute or to speaking to me before I subject myself to screening because her time is "so valuable" , I don't have time to send her some silly email "applying" to be a customer.

Hey u only live once so in Richard Pyror motto if worried about ramifications lie lie and lie some more to SO or Uncle LEO. I really care we are here to have fun and pound the mound so to speak.

How refreshing to finally see a provider response that makes sense, doesn't sound arrogant, and doesn't put her personal time/safety on a pedestal above her clients.  Oh, and I didn't even have to hear about the five appointments a day that you refuse, the lines of clients stacked up at your door, and you didn't even mention the "fuck you" if you don't like it rhetoric.... How refreshing.... Thank you.

Re: Great thread.....

I have a background in IT Security and the data center industry; and data handling is what I do, day in and day out.

The bottom line is that email and these web forms may as well be post cards, period. It is up to the individuals using these means of communication if they want to worry about it or not. Chances are, since there are far more dangerous freaks than ya'll (shocker, I know... ), that no one will pay much attention to the emails or web forms; unless the provider or customer is being looked at for anything.

By the time the data (be it web form/email) makes it to the provider, like someone said earlier, it is absolutely tagged and logged so many times; it would shock you. The final time it gets tagged is when it goes into whatever data center is hosting the website or email server. They have to cover their asses from an acceptable usage stand point; and prove on a very regular basis that they aren't hosting kiddie porn in their facilities. Tagging the data that comes into their facilities is a CYA against the FBI coming in and literally taking the servers away. I mean that literally.

So rest assured, there is NO security in the web forms and email, period, full stop. At a minimum, whatever hosting company directs that data, and the data center company providing space to that hosting company, is paying VERY close attention to those web forms and emails.

Like I said, you just need to decide if its worth the risk.