Privacy, in plain language

What we collect. For group organizers: your name and email. For members: the name you register with, your email, optional pronouns, your reminder preference, and — the heart of it — your answers to your group's monthly questions.

What it's for. One thing: making your group's monthly Patchwork. Your answers appear only in your own group's digest, which goes only to your group's members. We don't sell data, run ads, or share your words with anyone outside your group.

Consent. You join only by registering yourself and ticking the consent box, and your answers appear only while that consent stands. Every email we send includes a personal link to change your reminders or leave the group — no login, no phone call, no guilt trip.

If you leave. We stop emailing you and nothing new is shared. Answers you gave in past issues remain part of those issues — like photos in an album that already went out.

History. Past cycles, answers, and digests are kept as your group's permanent history. We never bulk-delete a group's memories.

Who helps us run this. A short list of boring, standard services: Railway (hosting), Resend (email delivery), Anthropic (drafting the digest text — your answers are processed to write it, not used to train anything), and Stripe (payments, organizers only). Each sees only what it needs to do its job.

Security. Personal links use long unguessable codes, organizer sign-in is passwordless, and secrets live in a proper vault, not in spreadsheets.

Questions or requests? Email patchworks@mypatchwork.life — a human reads it.