Privacy.
What we collect
When you join or apply, we store the information you give us: your email, and anything optional you choose to add. We also record how you found us.
An account holds more, all of it optional and all of it entered by you: a display name, a photo, a short bio, links to your own profiles elsewhere, your city, your role, what you are looking for, and the answers on any application you send.
Signing in with Google gives us the email, name and profile photo on that Google account, and nothing else. Setting a password stores it hashed; we never see it.
We record the events you save or mark yourself going to, and the points your account has earned. Points rows say which action earned them, and a referral row records the address that joined through your link. See Referrals.
We use Google Analytics to understand site traffic. It sets cookies and collects usage data (pages visited, device, approximate location) under Google’s privacy policy.
Who can see it
Your profile is yours. There is no public member directory and no public profile page, so nothing you put on your account is published anywhere on this site.
Hackathon makers are the other case. If you put your name on a project at one of our hackathons, the project gallery shows that name, and a maker page lists your projects with your job title, your employer and a link to your LinkedIn profile, as you gave them when you registered. Nothing else from your registration is published: no email, no phone number, no answers. To change your maker page or take it down, use the contact form and we will do it promptly.
One exception, stated plainly: an uploaded photo is stored at an unlisted address that does not require a sign-in. Anyone given that address can open the image. It is not linked from anywhere and not indexed, but treat it as you would any file you host.
How we use it
To run the society: event invitations, the member newsletter, application review, and replying when you contact us. We don’t sell your data, and sponsors never receive the member list.
Where it lives
Member data is stored securely with vetted service providers in the US. A small number of third parties process it on our behalf so that messages reach us, email reaches you, and event registrations work. They act only on our instructions and under their own privacy policies.
Referrals
If a friend joins through your referral link, we record that on your points row so a credit can be checked. If you were the one referred, your address stays on the referrer's row after you delete your account, because deleting it would let the same referral be paid twice. Nobody is ever shown who referred whom: the account page shows counts only.
Your choices
Everything on your account is editable from the account page, including the photo, which you can remove.
Email is split into three: events, tutorials and analysis. Turn any of them off on your account page, or use the unsubscribe link at the foot of any message we send.
You can delete your account yourself, from the account page. It removes your photo, your profile, your saved events, your points and your membership row, then closes the account. It cannot be undone, and one thing survives it by design: if somebody referred you, your address stays on their referral row so the same referral cannot be paid twice.
Prefer not to do it yourself, or want something we have not covered? Reach us through the contact form and we will take care of it promptly.