Privacy
This site was built to keep almost nothing. No accounts, no logins, no profile of you sold to anyone. Here’s exactly what that means — in plain words, not legalese.
Two things, and only if you choose to hand them over: your email (if you sign up to follow along) and a short prayer note (if you send one when a room begins). That’s the whole list. No accounts, no passwords, no advertising cookies, no profile of you, and nothing ever sold or traded.
If you sign up to follow along, your address goes to Mailchimp — the tool we use to send the journey — and it’s used for one thing only: to send you The Returning Glory. We keep it until you tell us to stop; every email has a one-click unsubscribe, and the moment you use it you’re out for good. We never sell, rent, or hand your address to anyone.
At the Sending, you can tell us a room is beginning. That form asks for your name, and optionally your city and a short note or prayer request. It reaches us through Netlify (which stores the submission) so a real person can pray over it and, if you asked, reach back. We never use it for advertising or counting visits, and we delete these notes once we’ve prayed over them — within a few months at most.
We use Netlify Analytics, which counts visits entirely from our server’s own logs. There is no tracking script, no cookies, and nothing placed on your device at all — it can’t identify you and never follows you anywhere. We look at it for one reason: to learn whether this journey is reaching people and which pages they read, so we can make it better. Numbers, never names.
So a page can offer to let you “pick up where you left off,” your own browser quietly remembers which weeks you’ve opened. The same goes for the Table Charter on The Sending — what you type there saves to your own browser so it’s waiting when you come back. Both live only on your device — it is never sent to us and we never see it. Clear your browser data and it’s gone, with nothing left behind anywhere else. Any page you open also leaves a copy of itself — and of the fonts and stylesheet it uses — in your browser’s own cache, so the site still opens when you’re offline. That cache never leaves your device either, and clearing your browser data clears it too.
The tools we lean on — Mailchimp (email) and Netlify (hosting, the note form, and visit counts) — act as service providers on our behalf, only for the purposes above. Both are based in the United States, so if you’re in the EU or Brazil your data may be processed there under their standard terms. A few links also carry you off this site — the PDFs you download, and a link to The Potter’s House at thehouse.app — and once you walk through one of those doors, that service’s privacy practices apply, not ours. The weekly gathering videos are the one thing that loads from off-site on its own: they come from YouTube’s no-cookie player, so YouTube sees the request — and your IP — when a week one, two or three page opens, and on Week 0 only once you press play. Nothing else on this site calls out; even the fonts are served from here.
The Returning Glory is operated by Dexter Jakes, and this data is ours to answer for. It’s your data: write to us any time to ask what we hold, to get a copy, or to have it deleted — hello@thereturningglory.com, or just reply to any email we send you. We’ll make it right. Wherever you live — including under the EU’s GDPR or Brazil’s LGPD — those rights are yours here. This site is meant for adults; we don’t knowingly collect anything from children, and if a minor has sent us their details, tell us and we’ll remove them.
Last updated August 2026. We built this site to keep almost nothing — that isn’t a missing feature, it’s the point.