Privacy Manifesto
Privacy is the product.
This is not the legal privacy policy (that lives at /terms). This is the values statement. Share it. Link to it in comments. Hold us to it.
01 — Why this audience deserves better
People who prepare tend to be skeptical of surveillance. Not paranoid — skeptical. That's a reasonable position. Location data, browsing history, and purchase patterns are routinely harvested and sold by platforms that frame themselves as helpful tools. Preppers are often specifically targeted as a demographic because their interest in storable food, generators, and water filtration maps cleanly to advertisers.
We built Get Ready with a different assumption: that you shouldn't have to choose between useful intelligence and your privacy. An intelligence platform that tracks your location and sells your data is not a tool for prepared people — it's a tool against them.
02 — What we collect and what we don't
What we collect
- + Your email address — to send magic links and briefings.
- + Your ZIP code(s) — to generate Area Studies and local intelligence.
- + Your subscription status — to determine which features you can access.
- + Usage data we need to operate the product (which area studies you've generated, which briefings you've received).
What we don't collect
- — Your home address — unless you choose to provide it for a higher-precision study (explicit opt-in).
- — Your real-time location — ever.
- — Third-party analytics (no Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no Mixpanel).
- — Ad network data — we have no ad partners and never will.
- — Device fingerprinting data.
- — Data from other websites or apps.
03 — Why ZIP-only mode exists
A 5-digit ZIP code is enough information to generate a highly accurate Area Study. ZIPs cover relatively small geographic areas — often a few square miles in urban settings — and all the data sources we use (NOAA, census, crime databases) operate at ZIP or county level anyway.
You can use Get Ready without ever entering your street address. Your home address never has to leave your browser. If you choose to enter a full address for higher geographic precision, you're making an explicit choice — we tell you clearly, we don't default to it, and we store it encrypted at rest with restricted access.
ZIP-only mode is the default. It's not a downgrade. It's a feature.
04 — No analytics. No trackers. For real.
Most platforms say they don't track you while loading dozens of third-party scripts that do. We took a different approach: there are no third-party analytics scripts on this website. The fonts are self-hosted (no Google Fonts CDN requests). There are no social media share buttons that load remote scripts.
Our hosting provider (Vercel) collects standard web server logs — IP address, request path, timestamp — as any server does. We don't use those logs for advertising or third-party analytics. We use them for the same reason a building has a security camera at the entrance: to know if something went wrong.
05 — Data retention and deletion
Your data stays in your account for as long as your account exists. If you delete your account, your data — studies, areas, briefings, and account information — is deleted from production systems within 24 hours and from backup systems within 30 days.
To delete your account: account settings → Delete Account. No email-to-support required. No waiting period. No "are you sure" dark pattern loops.
06 — What Stripe and ElevenLabs can see
Stripe handles payments. When you pay, Stripe sees your payment method, billing information, and transaction amount. We see a customer ID and subscription status. We do not see or store your credit card number. Stripe's privacy policy governs what they do with payment data.
ElevenLabs synthesizes our audio briefings. The text of briefings is sent to ElevenLabs for synthesis. Briefings contain no personally identifying information — they're intelligence summaries about weather, events, and conditions in a geographic area. No user data is sent to ElevenLabs.
07 — If this company sells
If Get Ready is ever acquired, merged, or wound down, we commit to the following:
- — You will be notified by email at least 30 days before any acquisition closes.
- — You will have 30 days to export your data and delete your account before any data transfers to a new owner.
- — User data will not be sold as a standalone asset — it transfers only as part of a complete business acquisition, under the same privacy commitments.
- — If we cannot obtain those commitments from a buyer, we will delete user data before closing.
We are not currently in acquisition discussions. This commitment exists because we've seen what happens when privacy-forward products get acquired without it.
08 — Security disclosures
If you discover a security vulnerability, contact us at security@getready.fm. We respond within 48 hours. We do not pursue legal action against good-faith security researchers. We will credit researchers who disclose responsibly, if they choose to be credited.
Last updated: April 2026. This document will be updated when our practices change. Changes that reduce your privacy protections will be announced by email.