What we keep, and why.

What we collect. Your name and email when you RSVP, propose a talk, or subscribe. Dietary needs if you give them. Company and role if you add them to your profile. Whether you bring a guest; we never ask for the guest's name. Feedback you give after a meetup.

Why. To hold your seat, order the right food, email you about the meetup you signed up for, and review talk proposals. The newsletter goes only to people who opted in.

Emails. A confirmation when you RSVP (for an online RSVP, it carries the watch page link), a seat offer when you are on the waitlist, and a notice when an event you RSVP'd to changes. A reminder the day before and a short feedback request the morning after; turn those two off on your profile. Speakers get emails about their proposal.

Member directory. The directory lists members who chose to be listed. It is off for you until you choose otherwise in your profile: hidden, visible to signed-in members only, or public. A public listing has its own page that anyone can open and search engines can index. Public is locked until you come to a meetup: one check-in at the door, or 10 minutes of its live stream. While a live stream plays, the watch page tells the site once a minute, and the site counts those minutes on your RSVP for this rule. Until then a Public choice shows to signed-in members only. An organizer can make an exception. A listing shows your name, or a directory name you choose, plus company, role, headline, the links you add, and a photo if you upload one. The photo also shows next to your talk on an event page when you speak. The page of a listing also lists the meetups you came to, in person or on the live stream, and the month of the first one, to the same people who can see the listing. When a public page is shared, its preview image shows your name, role, company, and photo. When you RSVP, a listing also puts your photo or initial and first name under “Who's going” on that event page, to the same people who can see the listing; after the meetup it shows there if you checked in. A member who is not listed shows there as a blurred placeholder: no name, no photo, and nothing that identifies them. A listing never shows your email. Choose Hidden to leave the directory, and the event pages, at any time. After a meetup you came to, in person or on the live stream, the feedback email can carry one note that says you can choose Public. It goes once, and only while event emails are on in your profile.

Who sees it. The volunteer organizers. Sponsors do not get the attendee list. A venue may need a name list for building access; we tell you on the event page when that is the case.

How long. As long as you have an account. Download everything we hold about you, or delete your account and all of it, from your profile page. A talk you gave stays on the past agenda without your name. Or email brad.risse@devobsessed.com and we do it for you.

Cookies. One session cookie to keep you signed in. No advertising trackers.

Connected apps. An AI client you sign in through this site, such as Claude Code, holds a token that lets it act as you. Your profile page lists those clients and disconnects any of them.

Recordings. Talks are recorded. The audience is not the subject of the recording. Tell an organizer if you do not want to appear.

The stream. A meetup that streams plays on its watch page on this site, for people with an RSVP and for the organizers. The stream and its recording come from Mux, a video service. Mux receives your IP address and browser details, as any video host does, and counts views without a cookie. We send Mux no name or email.

Recorded talks. The home page and the pages of past meetups show talk recordings that are on YouTube. The still image of each video comes from YouTube's image server, so YouTube receives your IP address and browser details when the page loads. The player loads only when you press play, from YouTube's privacy-enhanced host (youtube-nocookie.com). After you press play, YouTube can store data in your browser, as its player does on any site. We send YouTube no name or email.

Live questions. During a meetup, people with an RSVP can send a question for a talk from the ask page or the watch page. Your name goes with it. Until an organizer uses a question, only you and the organizers see it. An organizer can read it aloud in the room, or show it on the stream with your first name. Then everyone watching sees the question and your first name, and the recording of the stream keeps them. We delete the questions 30 days after the meetup.