// PRIVACY
How we handle your information.
What the site stores without asking
Two things, both strictly functional and neither shared with anyone: your cookie choice, so the banner stops asking, and a note that you have already watched the intro animation on the front page, so it does not replay. Neither identifies you and neither leaves your browser.
The mailing list
If you subscribe we store your email address, the time you signed up, and the IP address and browser string you signed up from. The last two exist so that if anyone ever claims we mailed them without permission, we can show exactly when and from where the signup happened.
This site sends you nothing
The website only collects. It has no ability to send email at all — no mail server, no sending credentials, nothing. The list is exported to a separate mailing provider that does the sending, and that provider owns the confirmation step, the unsubscribe link, and the postal footer under its own privacy terms. We will name it here once it is chosen.
What we send, and how often
About one email a month, occasionally two, telling you when and where the next meetup is. That is the whole programme — no sales sequence, no drip, no partner blast.
What we will never do
Sell your email address. Rent it. Trade it. Share it with a sponsor, a recruiter, or anyone else. If that ever changes we will ask your permission first — we will not quietly update this page and call it consent.
Where it is stored
The list lives in a Cloudflare D1 database in our own account. The site is served by Cloudflare Pages, which keeps standard request logs the way every web host does. If you accept analytics, that data goes to Google under their privacy terms. A copy of the list also reaches whichever mailing provider we use to send. Nobody else has a copy of anything.
Leaving, and getting your data
Every email carries an unsubscribe link, handled by the mailing provider, and it works immediately. To be removed from our own database as well, or to ask what we hold on you, say so at a meetup or reply to any email on the list and we will delete the row.
The meetups themselves
There is no sign-in sheet, no badge scanning, and no attendance record. Show up, talk shop, leave. If someone is taking photos they will say so first, and you are free to stay out of frame.
Going further than this page
We only control what happens on this site. If you want to raise your privacy everywhere else, the Electronic Frontier Foundation maintains the best plain-English guidance we know of — tracker blocking, encrypted messaging, browser hardening, and what surveillance actually looks like in practice. It is worth an hour of your time.
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