Statement of policy · Effective on publication
The standard.
Most accounts in this format promise anonymity by convention. Convention is not much use in a supervised profession, so here is the actual policy — in public, so you can hold us to it.
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There is no direct-message channel, and that is the point.
An advisor sending a work story from a personal phone has created a business communication that nobody archived. The SEC has spent several years pursuing exactly this — one sweep alone reached twenty-six firms for a combined $390 million, and stand-alone advisers have been fined, not only the large broker-dealers.
That exposure would land on you and your firm. It would not land on us. Which is a bad trade for you, so we removed the channel. Submissions arrive through Form OH-1 and nowhere else.
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We do not ask who you are.
No name field. No email field. No account, no login, no "optional, never published" box that quietly builds a list anyway.
The practical effect is that there is no contributor list in existence — nothing to leak, nothing to sell, nothing to hand over. We are not protecting a list well. We are declining to create one.
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Nothing publishes in the words it arrived in.
Removing a name does not de-identify a story in a market where everyone has met everyone. So identifying texture is altered rather than merely stripped: figures move into bands, geography is genericized, and distinguishing details are recombined across submissions so that no published item maps cleanly onto a single event.
If a firm ever ran its own archives against what we publish, the text would not match — because it is not the same text.
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Raw submissions are deleted on a thirty-day cycle.
Long enough to edit and schedule. Not long enough to constitute a record of anything.
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What we will not publish, at any volume of pleading.
Anything client-identifying. Anything non-public about a security, a transaction, or a firm's business. Anything naming an individual. And anything that reads as a grievance against a specific person rather than an observation about the work — that is a different kind of account and it is not this one.
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Sponsored content is always marked.
Every paid placement carries disclosure, every time, without exception and without the disclosure being rendered in four-point grey. Sponsors buy attention. They do not buy the appearance of not having bought it.
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The one thing we cannot promise.
We cannot shield you from your own firm's supervision policies. Nobody can, and any account telling you otherwise is selling you something.
Read your policy. Use a personal device. Use judgment. We have removed every risk that was ours to remove; the remainder is unfortunately yours.