The Antiquity Guild
The Guild's commitment to your information, in plain language.
If you join as a Member: a username you choose, an email address, a hashed password, your monthly contribution amount and tier name, and (if Stripe is used) a Stripe customer reference. If a Representative gave you a code when inviting you, that code is recorded.
If you serve as a Representative: a handle, an email, a hashed password, your SCAS allocation and usage totals, your Oath affirmation timestamp, and the contracts and retroposity acts you author.
If you receive aid as a Neighbor: a handle, optionally an email, a hashed password. Cases linked to your account hold the title and what was provided, but no identity beyond what you choose to share with your Representative.
If you sign up for the newsletter: the email address you give, when you signed up and how (the public form or your Member account), the time you confirmed, the time you unsubscribed if you do, and a scrambled copy of the codes in your confirmation and unsubscribe links. If you signed up from your Member account, the connection between the two is kept so your dashboard can show and change your newsletter choice. Once issues are sent, the record also notes the last issue sent to you and whether it bounced or was reported as unwanted.
The Member, Representative and Neighbor capacities have separate accounts and permissions. Signing in to one does not grant access to another; a matching name or email does not prove authority over its records.
To protect accounts, the application records sign-ins, failed attempts and attempts to reach the operator area with a timestamp and account capacity. New application security and request records omit network addresses (IP) and persistent substitutes such as IP hashes. Temporary request counters use bounded working memory and expire automatically. Older records or backups may still contain previously collected addresses until scoped removal is completed. Hosting and email providers keep their own records under their own retention arrangements; application changes do not erase those copies.
The site does not impose a password length minimum or composition rules. Temporary request limits can ask you to wait after repeated attempts; they do not suspend your account. Your export includes the sign-ins recorded in your account history. Separate failed-attempt security records are not included in the automatic export; contact the Guild about additional records or corrections.
The Guild controls its application database as institutional records (see § Guild Custody & Access). Outside services may hold copies while providing website hosting, backups, payment processing and email delivery. Messages also remain in recipients’ mailboxes. Provider configuration, retention and deletion require separate verification; this page does not claim every provider or backup copy has been removed when an account closes. Choosing an external Directions link opens another provider’s service with the resource address; the Guild does not send your device location through that link.
If you contribute through Stripe, Stripe processes the payment and may collect payment and billing details. The Guild sends checkout information including the name and email you give, amount, contribution label, recurring choice, and relevant account and billing references. The Guild receives payment records and provider references needed for accounting and account handling; it does not receive your full card number or security code through this checkout. Stripe retains its own payment and customer records, including after contributions stop. Exact provider retention and deletion are separate from closing a Guild account.
The Living Book is explicit:
Sign in to your dashboard. Export My Data downloads a plain-text copy scoped to this account, including account history, authored ideas and stories, advisory votes, event responses, your data requests, Guild financial records already linked to this Member account, and newsletter status for your current verified address. It is not every record in every system: unlinked gifts, separate security records and provider or backup copies are not included. You can request removal of particular information without leaving, and withdraw a waiting request. Closing your account stops contributions and access immediately. You may choose a 30-day recovery window or immediate removal, subject to required record review. Stories are withdrawn by default unless you explicitly choose to keep sharing them. Newsletter subscription stops by default unless you choose otherwise; your address remains marked unsubscribed to honor that choice. Restoring an account does not restart payments or republish stories.
Member Sign In Become a MemberYour plain-text export includes your account and service records, authored contracts, referral codes, retroposity entries, improvement proposals, stories, private reflections and data requests within this capacity. It does not grant access to another person’s confidential history or all records held by providers. You may resign at any time without completing a handover first; service access ends immediately. Personal removal and optional 30-day recovery are separate from service authority, and an existing review hold can delay removal. Recovery does not restore Representative service or Guardian authority. Stories are withdrawn by default unless you explicitly choose to keep sharing them. Necessary care and accountability records require separate review; you can request particular removals without resigning.
Rep Sign InA registered Neighbor (Quiet Account) can sign in to export their account and case view, request particular removals without leaving, or close the account with an optional 30-day recovery period. An export does not expose another person’s confidential records. For a help request made without an account, the private status token lets its holder check status, decline contact, withdraw the request and change optional future-care retention permission. Keeping selected identifiable details for possible future care requires separate, explicit and revocable permission; this is not permission to contact you, share your history or publish it. Withdrawal does not automatically erase records needed for current care or another required purpose. Exact retention periods, mixed case text and backups require purpose-specific review.
Neighbor Sign InIf you join the Representative waiting list, the Guild keeps the contact details, area and note you choose to send so it can consider future paid work and contact you as allowed. Joining is not an employment offer. You can use Contact the Guild to ask about these records or request removal; exact retention periods are not yet established.
If you write through Contact the Guild, the Guild keeps your message, its topic, any replies and notes about it, and an email address only if you choose to be answered by email. The Guildmaster reads these messages today. The Guild does not store the network address (IP) you write from (see Security logging above for the brief count in working memory and the host’s own logs), and how long messages are kept is not decided yet.
If you submit a report at /report, no login is required. The form asks for nothing that identifies you unless you choose to give a way to contact you; only whoever handles reports uses it, and only in the way you allow. If you choose to come back for a reply, you get a reference and a separate secret; otherwise there is nothing to keep. The Guild handles every report with confidentiality per Living Book § Termination Policy & Process. Today the Guild has one person, the Guildmaster, who reads and handles reports; independent internal review is not yet available, including for concerns about the Guildmaster, and a report marked on the form as about the Guildmaster, or one the Guildmaster declares a conflict on, is held unless the reporter chooses to send it; held reports stay in the Guild’s records and backups like every report, but the site shows them to no one. A Representative’s name or number and a Node or area are optional and kept only as you type them; nothing about where you are is guessed from your connection.
Material changes to how the Guild handles data are recorded in the public Change Log per Living Book § Edits & Amendments. The Guild does not silently change its data commitments.
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