Your data

Three things, and they do not have conditions on them.

It is encrypted. What you write — the line you give at the hour, your messages to your brothers, what is recorded about your evening — is sealed before it is stored, with the key held outside the database. A copy of the database on its own is unreadable.

It is never sold. No third party ever receives a row. No advertiser, no analytics company, no data broker, nobody.

It is used only for the betterment of the members. It exists so the order can serve the men in it. Nothing else reads it, ever.

What is recorded

The order records what happens and what you looked at:

• What you do — the word you give, whether you kept it, the hour you joined, the votes you cast, the messages you send.
• Where you looked — which tab you opened, which brother’s card you read and for how long, how far back you scrolled, whether you read a knock.

The record of what you looked at holds the shape of it, never the words. Where a message would go, the record keeps its length and nothing else.

Your private Katib record

Katib uses the answers you save, your earlier tasks and your reports to choose a useful task. Your table does not receive those answers, your private conversation, task feedback or reflections. You can inspect, edit or clear saved answers in Table or You. Clearing answers leaves earlier messages and task history in your record.

You can change an unsuitable task before reporting it. Both tasks stay in your private record. Reviews count your reports and days off separately. Missing records are not reported failures. Reflections are your own words, optional, and can be edited or cleared. These records do not measure your character or change how rank is earned.

Who sees what

• You. Everything about you, plainly. Nothing is withheld from you about yourself.
• Katib, the order’s scribe. It reads the record so it can tell you what is true and put a suggestion in front of you. It never rules on anything, and it never speaks a verdict about a man.
• Your table. Your nights and your word — who came to the hour and who did not. That is what a table is: five or seven men who hold each other, and men cannot hold what they cannot see.
• Your city and the Order. Your rank, which is public by design and sits on your passport. Nothing else. Not your nights, not your word, not one number.

No other man ever sees where you looked, on any surface. Not your table, not the man who vouched for you, not the man holding the table this week.

What is read outside the order

Two services outside the order read text, and the three clauses above bind both of them. The first one writes: when Katib says something in his own words instead of the order’s standard wording, a few lines go out and a sentence comes back. For a daily task, those lines can include your saved answers and recent tasks and reports. For a private question, they can also include recent messages from your conversation.

The second one writes nothing at all. It is called TypeSafe. It is sent one line and a short list of answers we wrote, and all it can do is pick one of them — yes or no, or one of these. It is used for small readings the order would otherwise get wrong: for example, whether a message from one table to another is fit to deliver. It cannot write a sentence, it cannot act, and nothing it picks is ever shown to you or to any man as a number or a mark against anyone. It was added on 17 September 2026.

Neither one is sold anything, and neither is sent a roster, another man’s record, or anything about your evening that the question does not need.

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What is never done

• Nobody is asked to account for a miss. The table knows; nobody interrogates, and no reason is ever collected.
• Nothing is scored across tables. A table is measured; a man is not.
• Nothing is purged on our own. The order keeps what it is given. If you ask us to erase your record, we do; see Privacy.

If you leave

Leaving is not a failure. You keep your days and your rank. Your record stays sealed and stays yours, until you ask us to erase it.