privacy

what we collect

Your phone number, which is how you sign in. Your first name, date of birth, the court you pick, your zip code, and your answers to the short onboarding questions. An optional recovery email, if you give us one.

We ask for your date of birth to confirm you are 18 or older. The main staff grouping screen shows an age range rather than the date, but authorized staff systems can access the exact date in your record. Your zip code is five digits and nothing finer. Staff see it when they read your application.

Before your first application we ask five more questions to help put groups together: the kind of group you want, how you like to talk to people, what industry you work in, what kinds of afters you want, and when you are free. Those answers are required before an ordinary attendee can apply.

We also keep your applications, attendance status, account and message choices, and the wording shown when you make a text-message choice. Our infrastructure processes basic request and security information needed to connect you to the service, protect accounts, and diagnose failures.

When you apply to a paid after, we keep the event, amount, currency, payment and refund states, dates, and opaque payment-provider references. Stripe's payment sheet collects payment-method and billing details directly. AfterFive does not store your card number, security code, wallet token, or billing contact details.

what we do with it

We use it to operate your account, decide who to invite to which afters, put groups together, and tell you about your own applications and events. Your answers are shown to the authorized staff who put groups together.

We do not sell your data, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not use it to train anything.

All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information won’t be shared with any third parties.

Mobile information, including phone numbers and SMS opt-in data and consent, will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. We may provide this information to service providers solely to operate AfterFive messaging, as described below.

what other guests see

Nothing. Other guests never see your name, your number, your answers, or whether you applied to or are attending an after. Guest lists are not public in this app.

who else touches it

Google Cloud hosts our database and servers. Firebase handles sign-in. Prelude sends your verification code. Resend sends our email. Stripe processes paid event applications, payment authentication, and refunds. Each one only receives what it needs to do that job.

Stripe receives payment-method and billing details through its native payment sheet. Its SDK may also collect device characteristics and interaction data for payment functionality, analytics, and fraud prevention. Stripe says it does not use this data for advertising or tracking. If card scanning is available on iPhone and you choose it inside payment entry, the camera is used for that scan; there is no camera request at launch.

If optional Event Alerts are enabled, a messaging delivery service provider will process the phone number, message, delivery status, and replies needed to deliver and operate those event messages on our behalf. We use service providers for these limited functions, not to let them advertise to you or use your information for their own marketing.

Service providers may process information only to perform services for AfterFive or as required by law. We do not give them permission to sell it or use it for their own advertising.

how long we keep it

We keep account, profile, application, attendance, and communication information while your account is active and for as long as it is needed to operate the service and fulfill the purposes described here. We keep consent records and limited operational or security records for as long as reasonably needed to document your choices, protect the service, prevent abuse, or meet legal obligations.

When information is no longer needed for those purposes, we delete it or remove identifying details. Retention can differ by type of information and why it is being kept; we do not claim one fixed period for every record.

your choices

You may update your profile information in the app. You may also email support@afterfive.club to ask us to correct information, provide a copy of your information, or help with deletion.

Your recovery email is optional. Editorial emails include an unsubscribe link. The Event Alerts choice is separate, optional, and off by default. It has no effect on whether you can join AfterFive, apply for or attend an event, or make a purchase.

deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from your profile. It removes your sign-in, active profile, answers, applications, attendance and consent records, and the local personal links from any payment records, and it cannot be undone.

We may keep the minimum pseudonymized transaction and refund facts needed for accounting, support, fraud prevention, disputes, chargebacks, and legal obligations. Those records can include amounts, dates, event and status history, and restricted Stripe references. Authorized staff may use a Stripe reference for accounting or support, so we do not call those records irreversibly anonymous. Stripe retains its own records under its policies.

Some limited information may remain temporarily in service backups or be retained separately when reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, or a legal obligation. We do not use information retained for those limited reasons to advertise to you.

messages

When you ask to sign in, Prelude sends a one-time verification code to the phone number you provide. That user-requested authentication message is separate from AfterFive Event Alerts.

Event Alerts are an optional text program for application status, confirmations, reminders, location or schedule changes, cancellations, and safety updates for events you apply for or attend. The choice is separate, off by default, and not required to join AfterFive, apply for or attend an event, or make a purchase. Marketing is not part of the Event Alerts program.

When you make a text-message choice, we keep what you answered, when you answered, and the version of the wording you read. A new answer is added rather than written over the old one so the record shows what you agreed to on the day. Deleting your account deletes that record too.

Event Alerts delivery is not active yet. Once delivery and reply processing are enabled, reply STOP to an Event Alert to stop Event Alerts and HELP for help. Those commands will apply to Event Alerts; they will not stop a verification code you separately request from Prelude when signing in. You may also email support@afterfive.club.

The weekly email carries an unsubscribe link, and so will every editorial email we send. Unsubscribing never stops messages about an after you applied to.

Read the SMS Program page for messaging details and our general Terms of Service for use of AfterFive.

protecting information

We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information and limit access to people and providers who need it for their work. No online service can promise perfect security, so please tell us promptly if you believe your account or information has been compromised.

contact

Questions, or want a copy of your data? Email us at support@afterfive.club.