• Your phone number is your account. We keep it, your first and last name, the Gathers you host or are invited to, your answers (in or out), and your comments.

• We text you only to confirm your number and about specific Gathers you are invited to. Reply STOP to any text to stop all of them.

• There are no ads, no tracking across other apps or sites, and we never sell or rent your information.

• Delete your account from the app or the web page any time. Your name and comments go immediately; everything else within 30 days.

• Your mobile phone number, used to confirm it is you and as your identity in MyGathers.

• Your first and last name, so hosts and guests can tell who is who.

• Gathers you create: title, time, place, cost, description, and who you invite.

• Your answers to invitations and the comments you post.

• The push-notification address of your device, if you install the app and allow notifications.

• When a host invites you, they give us your phone number. We keep it so the invitation can reach you and so your answer can be recorded. If you never respond or verify, we delete it 30 days after the Gather.

• Basic technical records needed to run the service: when a link was opened, when a code was sent, and errors. Phone numbers never appear in these records; where we need to count them we use a one-way hash.

• We do not use analytics or advertising SDKs, cookies for tracking, or device fingerprinting.

• To send verification codes, invitations, and notices about a Gather you are part of (a changed time, a cancellation).

• To show hosts who is in, out, or has not answered.

• To keep the service working and stop abuse, including rate limits on texting.

• To count, in aggregate, how many invitations lead to a response, so we can tell whether the product works. These counts are not tied to a name.

We do not use your information to build advertising profiles or to market MyGathers to you by text. No text ever promotes the platform; the only mention of MyGathers in a text is the link.

• The host and guests of a Gather see your name and your answer. Your phone number is shown to nobody except the host who entered it, and even they see it only in their own contacts, not in MyGathers.

• People with a Gather link can see the Gather's title, host name, time, place, cost, description, and the headcount. Names of guests and comments are visible only after a person has confirmed their phone number and is on the guest list.

• Service providers that process data on our behalf, under contract, only to provide their service to us:

• Twilio (United States): sends verification codes and text messages, and receives your STOP replies.

• Amazon Web Services (Canada (Central) region): hosts the service and database.

• Expo (United States): delivers push notifications to the app.

• Apple and Google deliver push notifications to their devices.

• Nobody else. We do not sell, rent, or share your information for advertising. We disclose it only if the law requires us to, or to protect someone from harm.

Because Twilio and Expo are in the United States, texts and push notifications are processed there. Your phone number is sent to Twilio each time a text is sent to it.

We text you for two things only: a verification code you asked for, and invitations and notices about a specific Gather, sent because a host chose you.

Reply STOP to any MyGathers text and we will stop texting that number permanently, for every Gather and every host. You can still open links and respond on the web, but you will not be able to verify a new sign-in by text until you reply START. Reply HELP for the contact address. Standard message and data rates may apply.

• Your account, name, Gathers, answers and comments: as long as you have an account.

• Phone numbers of people who were invited but never confirmed their number: deleted 30 days after the Gather.

• Cancelled Gathers and everything attached to them: deleted 90 days after cancellation.

• Sign-in sessions: expire after 90 days without use.

• Technical logs: 30 days.

• STOP requests: kept indefinitely, because the law requires us to honour them.

Delete your account from the Account screen in the app or from the account menu on the web page. We remove your name and your comments right away, and detach your phone number from every Gather within 30 days. Hosts will see a blank where your name was. We keep only the record needed to honour a STOP request.

You can see everything we hold about you by opening the app, since that is all of it. You can correct your name there. You can delete your account there. If you want a copy of your data in a file, or have a question or complaint, write to support@mygathers.com and we will answer within 30 days.

If you are in Canada, you may also complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. If you are in the United States, state laws may give you additional rights; write to us and we will honour them.

MyGathers is for people 13 and older. We do not knowingly keep an account for anyone younger; if you believe we have, write to us and we will delete it.

Phone numbers are stored in a private database that is not reachable from the internet. Verification codes are never stored by us. Sign-in tokens are stored hashed. Connections are encrypted. No system is perfect; if a breach ever affects your information, we will tell you.

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so on the web page and in the app before the change takes effect. The current version is always at mygathers.com/privacy.

Loransia Consulting Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. support@mygathers.com.