Firekeeper

What Firekeeper Keeps

A man should know where his words go before he writes them.

This page is the plain version. The formal one lives at the Privacy Policy. If the two ever disagree, tell me, and I will fix it.

What you can do here without giving me anything

Read every page. Watch every video. Walk the whole world. You can explore all of Firekeeper without giving me your name or your email. Firekeeper currently uses no advertising trackers, no pixels, and no third-party analytics services on this site.

What I ask for, and when

The waitlist. Your name and email, an Instagram handle if you choose to give one, and anything you write in the open field. I also record how you arrived - the page or link that brought you here - so I know which doorways men are actually walking through. After you sign up, I ask a few optional questions about what you’re carrying and what you’d want from a room like this. Optional means optional. Skipping them changes nothing about your place in line.

The Proof Gap. Your answers, your scores, and whatever you wrote in your own words. Then your name and email, so the Snapshot has somewhere to go. The Snapshot is generated immediately. I then personally read what you shared, including the evidence, season, conditions, and recognition beneath it, to prepare your personal Proof Read. This is the most personal thing on this site, and I treat it that way.

Contact. Your name, email, what you wanted to talk about, and what you said. Your note is not saved in Firekeeper’s own database - it is delivered to my mailbox, and that is where our conversation lives.

That is the whole list. No payment details. No account. No password. No third-party sign-in.

What I do with it

Send you the thing you asked for. For the Proof Gap, that means generating and sending your Snapshot, and then personally reading what you submitted to prepare your Proof Read. Answer you. Invite you when the door opens. For optional waitlist research, understand in the aggregate what men are actually carrying, so The Fire is built for the men in it and not for an imagined room.

What I do not do with it

I do not sell it. I do not rent it. I do not trade it. I do not sell, rent, trade, publish, or disclose your Proof Gap answers for someone else’s use. I do not use what you wrote as public content - not in a post, not in a talk, not as an example - unless I have asked you and you have said yes.

Who else touches it

Firekeeper runs on other people’s machinery, and that machinery necessarily processes and stores what you submit in order to work: the company that hosts this site and its database, and our hosting provider’s managed email service, which delivers the mail. They process information because they operate the infrastructure Firekeeper relies on.

How long I keep it

Only as long as it is still doing the work you gave it to me for.

  • Waitlist: while you're waiting, and up to two years after we last hear from each other.
  • Optional research answers: eighteen months.
  • Proof Gap reflections - the words you wrote: one year, then deleted.
  • Proof Gap contact details and results: up to two years.
  • Messages you send me: kept in my mailbox and reviewed for deletion about two years after our last exchange - by hand, not by a script. The delivery record contains only limited delivery information, not your name, topic, or words, and it is deleted after about a year.
  • Email delivery records: about a year.
  • If you unsubscribe, I keep only what is needed to keep honoring that choice.

If you want out

Ask. One line is enough. I will delete what I hold within thirty days and tell you when it’s done - keeping only what’s needed to honor an opt-out or meet a real legal obligation. You do not owe me a reason, and it does not close a door. You can always come back.

Firekeeper updates include a way to unsubscribe. If you unsubscribe, I keep only enough information to make sure we honor that choice.

Where to reach me

The honest part

Firekeeper may ask men to entrust us with things they do not say lightly.

We take reasonable measures to protect that information, but no system is perfectly secure, and I will not pretend otherwise. What I can promise is this: what you write here is treated as something entrusted, not something owned.

For the formal disclosure, see the Privacy Policy.