Privacy

DanceSeekers is a verified directory of public social and participatory dance events. We collect the minimum needed to make the site work. We don't sell your data, and we only share it with the vendors and organizers needed to deliver what you asked for — for example, your name with an organizer when you buy their ticket. The details are below.

Accounts & sign-in

When you sign in, we store your email address and (optionally) your name and a profile image. Sign-in uses a one-time magic link. We never see or store a password.

A signed session lives in a secure cookie on your device for up to 30 days. You can sign out anytime from your account page.

Saved events

When you tap the heart on an event, we save the event slug, title, date, and city. If you're signed in, that list lives on your account so it follows you across devices. If you're not signed in, the list lives only in your browser's localStorage and never touches our servers.

Public save count

We show an aggregate “X saved this” count on event cards when 2+ people have saved an event. The count is anonymous. Your identity is never connected to it publicly.

Attendance & badges

If you mark that you attended an event, we record it on your account to power badges and milestones on your profile. You choose what to record. Your badges live on your account, and sharing them more widely is up to you. You can ask us to clear your attendance history anytime.

Newsletter signup

If you subscribe to the weekly digest, we store your email and any city or style preferences you provide so we can send the digest and stop sending it when you unsubscribe. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link.

Submissions, claims, and corrections

When you submit an event, claim a listing, or report a correction, we store what you sent us so we can review and follow up. If you're signed in, we link the submission to your account; if not, we keep your contact info only as long as we need it to act on the submission.

Organizer dashboards

Approved organizers can edit their own listings through /dashboard. We log who made what change for our own integrity but don't publish that audit trail.

Organizers can add teammates to help manage their listings. Anyone an organizer adds can see that organizer's dashboard data, including the names and emails of people who bought tickets to their events. The owner controls who has access and can remove them anytime.

Ticket purchases

If you buy a ticket through DanceSeekers, we store your name, email, the event, and the order details so the organizer can admit you and we can send your confirmation and receipt. Your card details go straight to Stripe — we never see or store them.

Because the organizer is the seller, your name and email for that order are shared with the organizing team so they can run their door list and reach ticket holders if plans change. They shouldn't use it for unrelated marketing.

Third-party services

DanceSeekers runs on a small set of vendors. Each only sees the subset of data they need to do their job:

• MongoDB Atlas: stores all of the above (users, listings, saves, submissions). Encrypted at rest.
• Railway: hosts our application servers. Sees only request/response traffic.
• Resend: sends magic-link sign-in emails and transactional notifications. Sees recipient email + email body.
• Stripe: processes ticket payments when an organizer sells tickets through DanceSeekers. Stripe is the payment processor — it handles your card details, identity verification, and payouts directly. We never see or store your card number. Only involved if you actually buy a ticket.
• Cloudinary: stores images organizers upload for their pages (logos, cover photos, gallery images). Only organizer-uploaded images live here, not your personal data.
• Tockify and other organizer iCal feeds: we readpublic event data; we don't share user data with them.

Analytics

We use Rybbit, a cookieless, privacy-friendly analytics service, to understand which pages and filters are useful. It sets no cookies, no third-party ad cookies, and doesn't track you across other sites or build an advertising profile. We see aggregate page views and filter usage, not individuals.

Retention

Account data sticks around as long as your account is active. Submissions and corrections are kept until they're acted on, then archived. Anonymous local saves never come to us at all.

Your rights

You can:

• See what we have on you (just visit /account once signed in)
• Clear your saved events anytime
• Delete your account by emailing us. We remove your record within 7 days
• Unsubscribe from any email with one click

Children

DanceSeekers is intended for adults. We don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 13.

Contact

Questions, deletion requests, or anything else? Email hello@danceseekers.com.