Terms of Use

What this is

The Guild is a community of dads — and people who love dads — trying to raise the next generation with intention. This page is the agreement we're asking you to make with us when you join.

We wrote it in plain English first. The legal language can come later. The substance is here.

Who can join

You can join if you're an adult (18+) who wants to take fatherhood — or father-figure-hood — seriously. You don't need to be a parent. You don't need to be a Christian. You do need to be willing to be honest about who you are and where you are.

Children cannot create accounts. The Guild is built for the parents, not the kids.

What we expect of each other

• Tell the truth.Don't pose. Don't perform. Bring what's real.
• Be kind, even when correcting. We can disagree without being cruel.
• Protect kids.Don't share photos or identifying details of children other than your own. Don't attempt to contact kids on or off the platform.
• Honor confidentiality.What's shared in your guild stays in your guild unless the person who shared gives you permission to repeat it.
• No selling, no recruiting, no MLM. The Guild is not a place to grow your business or your church. There are other places for that.

What gets you removed

We'll remove your account, with no warning, for any of:

• Predatory or grooming behavior toward children
• Sexual content of any kind, including imagery, conversation, or solicitation
• Harassment, threats, or doxxing of another member or their family
• Hate speech targeted at people for race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexuality
• Sharing another member's confidential information without permission
• Using the platform to commit fraud or to recruit for illegal activity

For everything short of the above, we'll talk first. The goal isn't enforcement — it's relationship.

Pastoral and crisis content

The Guild Advisor (our AI assistant) and the founding-four are not licensed therapists, counselors, pastors, or medical professionals. We're dads who've lived some things and want to walk with you. If you're facing a mental-health crisis, abuse, or self-harm, please reach out to a licensed professional — and let one of us know so we can support you while you do.

We've built our advisor to recognize crisis language and point you to professional help quickly. If you ever feel the advisor responded poorly to something serious, email us at hello@guilddads.org so the Stewardship Council can review it.

Your content

Anything you write or upload stays yours. You give us a limited license to display it on the site as you intended (to your guild, to the wider community if you mark it public). We won't use your content for marketing without asking first. We won't train external AI models on your content.

If you delete your account, your content is removed from public view. Replies others wrote to your posts may remain in their threads with your name replaced by "a former member," because the conversation belongs to everyone in it.

The framework

The framework, language, and rituals of The Guild — covenant, apex group, goat weekends, the rest — are the original work of the founding four. We'll share them freely with anyone who wants to live them. We ask only that you not commercialize them or rebrand them as your own. If you want to start something adjacent that uses pieces of our framework, talk to us first.

Disclaimer

We provide The Guild "as is." We're a small nonprofit run by volunteers. We'll do our best to keep the site reliable, but we can't guarantee it. We're not responsible for what happens between members offline or for decisions you make based on conversations here. Use your own judgment, talk to your wife, talk to your pastor, talk to your doctor when relevant.

Leaving

You can leave anytime. You can delete your account anytime. We won't make it hard. We'll grieve a little, and we'll let you go.

Changes

If we update these terms in any meaningful way, we'll email every active member at least 14 days before the change takes effect.

Questions

Email hello@guilddads.org. A real human will reply.