What we promise about your data
This is the plain-language version of what this network promises about your information. It says what starts private, what we will never do with what you put here, and what you can change or delete.
Everything you add starts private
Your profile, the things you post, your events, and your location all start at the most private setting there is. Nothing becomes public because you missed a step. Making something public is a separate choice you make about that one thing, and you can change it back.
Wherever you can share something, the screen tells you who can see it right now, and making it visible to more people asks you to confirm first. Nothing here should be exposed because you misread a checkbox.
Other people see what you agreed to share
Seeing anything of yours that you have not made public takes a request that you approve. Even after you approve it, that person sees what you chose to share with them and nothing else.
Your Tribe's material stays with your Tribe
Content that belongs to a Tribe or an organization is not visible to another Tribe unless that Tribe agrees to it. Tribes and organizations are their own entities here rather than a label on somebody's profile.
The map is opt-in, and coarse unless you say otherwise
You are never placed on the map by the platform. When a burn or gathering goes on the map, the person who put it there decides how precise that is, and the default is a region rather than a point on a road. Nothing we send out in order to draw a map carries who you are.
No form here asks you for cultural knowledge
Nothing on this network requires you to write down cultural or ceremonial knowledge, and none of it is ever put on a public page. The open text boxes that could hold something like that start private.
We do not sell it, and we do not hand it around
We do not sell your information, we do not make money from it, and we do not give it to advertisers. There is no third-party analytics on this site, no ad pixels, and no tracking code belonging to anybody else.
The companies that host the database and send our email see only what they need in order to run the network. We require them to keep it confidential and to use it for nothing but running the network.
Your material is not raw material
There is no public interface for pulling the contents of this network out of it. Somebody who is not signed in sees only what a member deliberately made public, and what members write is kept out of search engines.
What you write is never fed to AI training or to bulk research unless you have said yes to that. Scraping the network, and research on members who have not consented to it, will be forbidden by our terms of service, and those terms are not finished yet.
The people funding this never see your information
This project is paid for by a grant, and grant records in California are public records. Your information never becomes one. What the funder receives is counts, and screenshots of accounts we made ourselves for the purpose.
Deleting your account really deletes it
Deleting your account deletes your data. It is not hidden, deactivated, or held in case you come back. Your profile, your connections, your events and their rosters, and your location go with it. You can do this yourself at any time, from your account page.
Two things are worth saying plainly. Copies in our backups take longer to disappear than the account does, and how much longer is not written down yet; when it is, it will be on this page. And choosing how long we keep something, instead of deleting all of it, is a setting we have promised and have not built. Until it exists, deletion is the control you have, and it is a real one.
What this page does not promise
Everything above is a promise about how we behave with your information. None of it is a promise about where the servers are or who owns them, and no promise of that kind has been made. What is written here holds whatever the network turns out to be running on.
This is the plain version, not the legal one
A lawyer is budgeted to write our privacy policy and our terms of service, and neither is written yet. This page is our own explanation, written for a person rather than for a court. When the lawyer's wording arrives, it will be corrected into this page rather than posted at a separate address, so this stays the one place to read what we promise about your data.
Our terms of service has a page of its own, and it says what you agree to by using this network. It is a placeholder until that same work is done, and it says so at the top.