Ok, I can appreciate the chat can be access by the head admin (or whoever it is) as it helped resolve a misunderstanding between myday and Gkathy, but what about confidentiality?

I go to the womyn's meeting, and we are told (and asked) that was is said in there stays in there, that it is a safe place to share.  After seeing that the chat transcripts can be accessed after the fact, makes me even less inclined to share and makes the rooms even feel less safe.

Ma'iinganikwe (burned too many times to risk it anymore)

Thank you for your comments, we appreciate your concern.

All "professional level" chat rooms, such as DigiChat, AddOnChat, FlashChat, and ParaChat to name a few, provide the owners with access to chat transcripts, for Administrative and legal purposes. This feature is not unique to Recovery Realm.

On the bottom of each and every Recovery Realm ©™ web page you will find information regarding  our "Terms of Use" and our "Privacy Statement".

Recovery Realm is commited to protecting your privacy, anonimity and to developing a community that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. We make no apologies on our stance.

Chat transcripts are not freely accessable by the members of Recovery Realm. Administrative members and "trusted servants" of Recovery Realm may  however access any  transcipt inorder to gain clarity on an event and thereby resolve any issues that may  arise and affect our site's health and  growth.

There can be no ongoing online recovery without some degree of moderation, if only to kill off the hardcore trolls. It takes rather more moderation than that to create a healthy, civil online recovery community.

If you want that to happen, you have to give of yourself. Merely providing this space but not tending the conversation is like expecting that your front yard will automatically turn itself into a garden.

In short NO-  Recovery Realm  does not make IP addresses public.