Privacy

Austin AI Events is a community calendar and a weekly email. This page says what we collect and what we do with it.

Visiting the site

• We record the page, your browser's user agent, the site that sent you here, and a scrambled version of your IP address. We don't store the IP address itself.
• We record how the calendar gets used: which events are opened, how long they stay open, which ones get clicked through or added to a calendar, and which filters get tapped.
• Those records carry the scrambled IP address and a random ID. The ID lives in a cookie for 90 days, so we can tell one busy visitor from several quiet ones.
• Your site visits aren't tied to your name or email address.
• A few smaller things sit in your browser: a one-day cookie so a visit is only counted once a day, a note that you signed up so we stop showing you the signup box, and your light or dark setting.

Signing up

• We count how many times each signup box on the site was seen, and how many signups and confirmed signups each one brought in.
• A seen box is recorded with the scrambled IP address, plus the random ID if your browser already has one. Counting a box never sets that cookie.
• We log signup attempts and event suggestions against the scrambled IP address, to limit abuse.
• If you sign up for the digest, we keep your email address, your city, which signup box you used, and when you signed up, confirmed and were last sent an email.
• If you answer the question after confirming, we keep your answer with your address.
• Our email service tells us when a message bounces or gets marked as spam, and we keep that too.

The digest

• When click tracking is on for a send, the links in that email go through our own site on the way to the event. Each link knows who it was sent to.
• We record that you clicked, which event or link it was, and when.
• If you forward the digest, the links still point back to you, so a friend's click gets recorded as yours.
• When open tracking is on for a send, the email includes a tiny invisible image. We record who it was sent to and when it loaded.
• Mail apps and security scanners can load images and follow links by themselves. We filter out what we can, and treat opens as a rough number.
• Clicks and opens are stored with the scrambled IP address and your browser's user agent, which help us spot those scanners.

Services we use

• Vercel hosts the site and counts visits with its own analytics.
• Supabase holds the database.
• Resend sends the email.
• If you tell us about a missing event, an AI model from Anthropic reads the link you sent.

We don't sell or share anything tied to you, apart from these services, which run the site and email for us. Nothing tied to your email address leaves our system except through them. Only totals do, like how many people signed up in a city, and we may share those totals.

Unsubscribing and deleting

• To unsubscribe, use the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any digest and confirm on the page it opens, or use the unsubscribe button your mail app shows beside the message.
• We stop sending after that, though a digest already queued for that week can still arrive.
• We keep what we collected but remove the link to you, so your clicks, opens and survey answers stay as records with no person attached.
• Your address stays on file, marked unsubscribed, which is how we know not to email it.
• We keep what we collect while the calendar runs.
• Ask, and we'll delete the record of your contact information.

Questions

Reply to any digest.

Last updated November 2026.