What we keep, and what we never will

When you build in the Forge, the numbers stay in your own browser until you seal a Charter. Only a sealed Charter is written down — the build you chose, its price, the name and email you gave, and the reference by which we call it.

When you ask for the house letters, we keep the email address you gave and nothing else. When you carry a petition to the Alliance, we keep what the petition asks for.

The free instruments — the Vellum Bench, the Workshop benches, the three games — keep their work in your browser. Best scores, drafts and settings live on your machine. Nothing is sent to us.

A manuscript pasted into a bench in your browser stays in your browser. A manuscript sent to the house for a commissioned build is held for the work and for delivery, and is never sold, licensed, published, offered as a sample, or used to train any model. The words remain the property of their author.

Payments are taken by Stripe. The house never sees or stores your card. We keep the amount, the date, and the reference so the Charter's ledger balances.

The house measures whether an advertisement brought you here. That measurement uses tags from Google and, where a campaign runs there, from Meta, TikTok or Pinterest.

Nothing of that kind runs before you grant your leave in the Keeping of Embers — the window that meets you at the foot of the page. Refuse and the tags stay dark; grant it and you may withdraw your word at any hour from the door in the footer. Refusing costs you nothing — every instrument, every game and every page works the same either way.

What those tags report is arrival and two moments: a build begun in the Forge, and a Charter sealed. Never your manuscript, never your name.

Only the trades that make the work possible: the hosting and database that run this site, Stripe for payment, the sender that carries the house letters, and the advertising platforms named above for measurement alone. The house sells nothing to anyone, and never has.

Charter records are kept while the work is live and afterwards as the house's accounts require. Letters are kept until you ask to be let go — every letter carries that door.

Write to the house at any time and ask what is held of you, ask for it corrected, or ask for it struck out. The address below is answered by a person.