Privacy notice

Updated September 12, 2026.

What is stored

Here4It stores your display name, selected neighborhood, account username and a salted password hash, your gatherings and commitments, invitation access, messages in a gathering’s group thread, reports, blocks and, if you add them, a profile photo and a photo for a gathering you host (shown to anyone who can see the gathering, including in shared link previews, and deleted when the gathering is cancelled). A session cookie keeps you signed in. Private-link guests provide a first name and an email address or mobile number so Here4It can identify them and notify them about the gathering. Accounts keep an email address or mobile number too, for plan updates and for the one-time code that resets a forgotten password; the code itself is kept only as a salted hash and expires after fifteen minutes.

Who can see it

People with an invitation link can see its gathering, participants’ names and shared updates. Nearby gatherings can be discovered by other people using Here4It, who see the gathering and who is in but not the group’s messages until they join. Links can be forwarded. Account credentials, session secrets, email addresses and mobile numbers are not shown to participants. Do not post a home address or sensitive information in a gathering.

Storage and measurement

Data is stored in a database on a cloud server in the United States, with daily backups kept for seven days. We record basic usage analytics, such as which events were viewed, to understand whether invitations become commitments and plans. We do not use advertising trackers and we do not sell your data. When you submit a search, the words you typed and the titles and descriptions of the public catalogue are sent to OpenAI to rank results; nothing about you is sent with them. Public event facts are fetched from attributed sources; following an external link is subject to that provider’s policies.

Your choices

You can change your name and neighborhood, leave a gathering, block a person, or delete your account and participation from your account screen. Deletion cancels your hosted gatherings and removes your name, contact details, login credentials, photos, messages and analytics; the account row is anonymised and minimal moderation records can remain. Deleted data ages out of daily backups within seven days. Restoring a backup requires reapplying subsequent deletion requests.

Notifications and contact

We send email and text messages only for the notifications you asked for: joining confirmations, plan notices, cancellations and password recovery codes. They go out through third-party delivery providers (an email provider and an SMS provider), which receive the address or number and the message in order to deliver it. Plan changes also appear on the shared page. Contact the operator for access, deletion or moderation help.

Contact: [operator email — set before launch]

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