Background Checks

Creating meaningful connections requires trust. That's why safety is an important part of how Private Kinship works.

Every Private Kinship companion must successfully complete a background check before they are permitted to meet with clients.

We also require new clients to complete a background check before meeting with a Private Kinship companion for the first time. This helps us create a safer environment for everyone involved.

Our goal is simple: both clients and companions should be able to approach each meeting with greater confidence, knowing that safety is taken seriously from the very beginning.

Background screening is one part of our broader commitment to maintaining clear boundaries, professionalism, respect, and safety in every Private Kinship relationship.

Mutual Choice and Consent

Every Private Kinship arrangement is based on mutual choice. Clients and participants both have the opportunity to decide whether a proposed arrangement feels comfortable and appropriate.

A match is not finalized until everyone involved has agreed to the role, activities, expectations, communication, and boundaries. Either person may decline a proposed match without being required to provide a reason.

Consent is ongoing. Activities, physical contact, emotional expectations, or changes to an arrangement must be mutually agreed upon, and participants and clients may communicate or revise their boundaries at any time.

Written Expectations and Boundaries

Before services begin, clients and participants will receive written information describing the proposed arrangement and the boundaries that apply to it. This may include the agreed-upon role, activities, schedule, location, communication expectations, physical-contact preferences, and other terms relevant to the arrangement.

Everyone involved will have an opportunity to review the expectations, ask questions, and decide whether they are comfortable proceeding. Services will not begin until the arrangement and its boundaries have been mutually agreed upon.

Some forms of ordinary, nonsexual physical contact—such as a handshake or hug—may be appropriate when everyone involved has discussed and agreed to them. Consent remains ongoing: agreeing to physical contact in advance does not create an obligation, and anyone may decline or withdraw consent at any time, including at the moment contact is proposed.

Private Kinship relationships are strictly platonic and professional. Sexual or romantic contact is not part of the service.