Privacy

Effective October 24, 2026

Sheen Strong is a work of the Fulton Sheen Institute, Fulton Sheen Institute LLC, 701 S. Division Ave, Sandpoint, ID 83864. This page says exactly what happens to the information you give us when you enrol in the thirty days, and nothing more.

What we collect

When you enrol we ask for your first name, last name, email address, city and country, and whether you would like your city shown on the map. That is all the form collects. We do not ask for a street address, telephone number, date of birth or payment details, because enrolment is free.

Why

Your name and email address let us write to you. Your city and country place a flame on the map so that you can see who is keeping the hour with you, and so that others can see you. The country is also used to find the right city when several share a name.

We also count totals — how many began, how many days were kept and how many missed — so that we can see how the Forge is going. Those counts are never made by name, and never from anything you write in your journal.

The map

If you leave “Light my city on the map” ticked, your city and country appear on the public globe as a point of light, together with the running count of people enrolled. Your name and email address are never shown on the map and are never sent to the browser of anyone visiting the page: the map is drawn from a list that contains only city, country and map coordinates. If you untick the box, nothing about you appears on the map. You can ask us to remove your city later at the address below.

Where it is kept, and who processes it

Your enrolment is stored in a database at Supabase, and a matching contact record is created at GoHighLevel, the system we use to send email. The site itself runs on Vercel, which handles the request when you press the button and keeps ordinary server logs as part of running the site. To place your city on the map, its name and your country are sent to MapTiler, the mapping service, which returns coordinates. The globe’s opening view is an image of the earth served from this site (Blue Marble imagery: NASA); if you move, zoom or search the globe, your browser then fetches map images from MapTiler in the same way it fetches any image from any server. Those four companies process your information only to provide these services to us. We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with anyone else.

When you sign in to the Forge, your first name is copied from your contact record into your Forge record, so that a letter and the page can address you by name. Only the first name is copied — not your surname, your city or anything else — and you cannot be renamed from inside the Forge: it stays as you entered it when you enrolled. What you write in the Forge itself — your minutes, and anything you note down — is yours and is covered below.

If a sign-in cannot be completed straight away — because the service that holds our contact records is briefly unreachable — your email address is held in a queue for the one purpose of sending you the sign-in link, and it is deleted the moment the link is sent.

If you allow reminders, your browser keeps two small settings on your own device: whether the reminder should make a sound, and your answer to “did your phone sound or vibrate?” when you sent yourself a test. Neither is sent to us. Whether reminders are allowed at all is your phone’s own setting, not ours.

Sheen Strong is run from the United States. Wherever you enrol from, your information is stored and processed there.

What we will email you about

The thirty days — what to do, when, and encouragement along the way — and, after the thirty days, membership in Sheen Strong, the formation that follows the hour.

There are two ways to stop hearing from us, and they do different things.

Ours is the unsubscribe link at the foot of every letter, beside who sent it and our postal address. It opens a page with a single button; pressing it stops the Forge’s letters at once, and nothing else — anything else the Institute sends you is unaffected, and you can start them again from the same page. We do not write to you to confirm it. One kind of message still comes after you use it: the sign-in link you ask for yourself, because losing the letters must not lock you out of your own account. Your city stays on the map unless you ask for it to be removed separately, at the address below.

The other is not ours. Your mail program may show an Unsubscribe button of its own at the top of the message, near the sender’s name. That one is put there by GoHighLevel, the system we use to send email, and it is wider: it marks your address as one GoHighLevel will not send to, so every email we send you stops — including the sign-in link you ask for, which would leave you unable to get back into your own account. The same block can be set without your doing anything at all, if your mail provider rejects one of our messages or reports one as spam. If you simply want the letters to stop, our own link at the foot is the one that does that and no more. If you find yourself blocked and want to be written to again, tell us at the address below and we will lift it. We do not lift it on our own: we cannot tell a block you chose from one your mail provider set for you, and we will not undo a decision that may have been yours.

What we do not do

We set no analytics or advertising cookies and run no tracking scripts. The typeface and the map software are served from this site, not from a third party. Before the page opens publicly, people who hold the private preview link receive one cookie that remembers the link; it does nothing else and is not set for the public. If the map fails to load, the page sends us a short technical note (the page address, the browser type and the reason) so we can fix it; it contains nothing about you. Your network address is used for a moment to stop the form being flooded, and is not stored with your enrolment.

How it is protected

The site is served over HTTPS. Enrolments are written by the site’s server with a key that never reaches the browser; the database refuses to list, read or delete enrolments to anything but the site owner; and the public map is drawn by a function that can return only city, country and coordinates.

Who may enrol

You must be 18 or older to enrol yourself. Anyone younger should be enrolled by a parent or guardian, using the parent’s own email address.

Correcting or removing your information

To correct your city or name, enrol again with the same email address; the earlier entry is replaced. To see what we hold about you, to have your city taken off the map, or to have your enrolment removed entirely, write to privacy@fultonsheeninstitute.com from the email address you enrolled with and say what you want. We will remove it from Supabase and from GoHighLevel. We keep your enrolment until you ask us to remove it.

Links to other sites

The donation link at the foot of the page leads to the Fulton Sheen Movement’s own site, which has its own privacy practices.

Changes

If this page changes, the date at the top will change with it.