How we handle your data.

Fellowship of No is a small community. We collect what we need to review your application and stay in touch — nothing more. This page lays out exactly what we collect, why, and how to ask us to delete it.

1. Who we are

"Fellowship of No" is the data controller for the personal information described in this policy.

For privacy questions or requests, email privacy@fellowshipofno.com.

2. What we collect

Application data

• The areas of life where people-pleasing shows up for you (multi-select).
• How costly people-pleasing is across time, financial, mental, physical, and relational dimensions — a 1–10 scale and optional free-text per dimension.
• Why you're applying now (free text).
• What you've already tried (multi-select + optional free text).
• Your email address.
• Your marketing-email opt-in choice (default: opted out).
• A record that you accepted this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service, including the version and timestamp.

Technical data

• Your browser's User-Agent and Referer headers.
• A salted SHA-256 hash of your IP address. We do not store your raw IP.

Correspondence

Any emails you exchange with Chad after submission. These live in Chad's email inbox and are retained per his normal practice; deletion on request.

3. Lawful basis for processing

Under the EU/UK GDPR:

• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) covers the application data. Because some fields touch on mental and physical wellbeing, we treat your consent as the basis for these as well.
• Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) covers the hashed IP / abuse-prevention data, weighed against the minimal privacy impact of storing only a salted hash.

You may withdraw consent at any time by emailing us — see Your rights.

4. What we use it for

• To review your application and decide on next steps.
• To reach out to you — usually within two business days — about your application.
• If you opted in, to send occasional updates from Chad.
• To investigate abuse or spam targeting the application form (hashed IP only).

We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use it to train AI models.

5. Sub-processors

We use the following third parties to operate the service. Each has its own DPA and security commitments:

• Supabase Inc. — hosts the database and the serverless function that receives your application.
• Resend Inc. (US) — sends the notification email to Chad when you submit.
• Google LLC (Google Workspace, US) — receives and stores the notification email in Chad's mailbox, and hosts any subsequent correspondence with you.
• Vercel Inc. (US) — serves this website over its CDN.

6. International transfers

If you're in the EU, UK, or Switzerland, your data may be transferred to the United States via the sub-processors above. We rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) signed with each provider as the transfer mechanism. You can request copies of the relevant clauses by emailing us.

7. How long we keep it

Application records are retained for three (3) years from the date of submission, after which they are deleted. You may request earlier deletion at any time — see Your rights.

If you become a member of the Fellowship, your information is retained for as long as you remain a member, plus a short period afterward.

8. Your rights

Under GDPR, UK GDPR, and many US state privacy laws (including CCPA / CPRA), you have the right to:

• Know what we hold about you (right of access).
• Correct anything inaccurate (rectification).
• Have your data deleted (erasure / "right to be forgotten").
• Restrict how we process it.
• Receive a portable copy of your data.
• Object to processing based on legitimate interest.
• Withdraw consent — without affecting prior processing.
• Lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority (e.g. your country's data-protection regulator in the EU/UK, or your state's attorney general in the US).

To exercise any right, email privacy@fellowshipofno.com with "Privacy request" in the subject line. We respond within 30 days.

9. California residents (CCPA / CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act:

• Categories of personal information collected: identifiers (email), sensitive personal information (your self-assessment of mental and physical health), Internet or other electronic network activity information (User-Agent, Referer, hashed IP).
• Right to know, delete, and correct: exercise these by emailing the address above. We do not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
• Right to opt-out of sale or sharing: we do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. There is therefore no "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link to provide — but we wanted to be explicit.
• Right to limit use of sensitive personal information: we use sensitive personal information solely for the purpose for which it was collected (reviewing your application).

10. Cookies & local storage

The application form uses your browser's localStorage to save your in-progress answers so you can leave and come back without losing your place. This draft data lives only in your browser, is automatically cleared when you submit the form, and never leaves your device. If you start an application and don't finish it, the draft remains on this device until you submit, manually clear your browser's site data, or your browser's storage is wiped for other reasons.

We do not use tracking cookies. We do not run analytics on the application flow. If that changes in future, we will update this policy and add a consent banner before any such tracking begins.

11. Children

The Fellowship of No is for adults 18 and over. We do not knowingly accept applications from minors. If we discover that someone under 18 has submitted an application, we delete it.

12. Changes to this policy

The version number and date at the top of this page reflect the current policy. Any material change bumps the version. When that happens, applications submitted under an older version of this policy require you to re-confirm consent before any further submission.

13. Contact

Email privacy@fellowshipofno.com. We aim to respond within five business days, and always within the 30-day window required by law.