What we know about you.
Very little, on purpose. Here is the whole list. Last changed 16 September 2026.
| What | Why | Who sees it |
|---|---|---|
| A name or handle | So people can recognise you next week | Everyone at your table |
| An email address, only if you give one | You can sit down without one. If you give one: to tell you a table is starting, and — if you leave that switch on — once when an evening is set for your part of the world. Nothing else: there is no newsletter | Nobody but the operator |
| A password, only with an email | Stored hashed. Not readable by anyone, including us | Nobody |
| The object you chose | It is your face here | Everyone at your table |
| Interests you picked | To seat you with people who share them | The people at your table see only the interests you have in common with them. Somebody deciding whether to join a table sees what they would share with it and with how many people — never who |
| A timezone | To show times in your own clock. Detected from your browser | Nobody |
| What you said at a table | So the table works | The people at that table, while it runs. Deleted when the table closes — except the last lines before a vote, kept with the removal so a human can judge it |
| Gestures you make at a table (a reaction, a raised glass) | So the table sees them | The people at that table, while it runs. Deleted with the conversation when the table closes |
| What you brought | The arrival ritual | Everyone at your table |
| Who you would sit with again | To try to seat you together, only if you both chose each other | Nobody. The other person learns of it only by choosing you too |
| If you ask to host a dinner: when, how many, and what it is for | To set the dinner up | The person who runs this. Deleted if you close your account |
| If you host a dinner: its name and invitation | So your guests know what they are accepting | Anybody holding the invitation link. Guests who accept are shown to you by the name they chose, and nothing else |
| If you offer to sponsor: an organisation, an email, your offer, and any contribution you make (amount and bank reference) | To answer you, and to keep an honest record of who supports the tables | The person who runs this. Only your organisation's name is ever shown, as a credit, and only if you sponsor something |
| Downloading the app | Nothing is recorded: not a count, not who, not which phone | Nobody |
| The app reminding you about a table | Your phone sets those reminders itself, from hours it already knows. There is no push service, no device token, and nothing is sent back here — we do not even know whether you have them on | Nobody |
| The app watching your table while it is closed | If you leave that switch on, the app asks this site every 25 seconds — the same signed-in request it makes when open — while you are at a table, so it can tell you something is new. Android shows a notice the whole time, and you can stop it there. It never says what was said, only how much. No push service, no Google, no device token | Nobody |
| An idea you send us | So the platform can be made better | The person who runs this. It is anonymous — the words are kept, and nothing about who wrote them, so nobody can reply to you |
There is no upload button anywhere
No photographs, no files, no real name, no age, no location, no phone number. Not "optional" — there is nowhere in this software to put them.
A timezone is not a location. It says what hour it is where you are, not where that is, and it is shown to nobody.
None
No analytics, no advertising network, no third-party scripts or fonts, no tracking pixels, no cookies except the one that keeps you signed in. Nothing about you is sold or shared, because there is no arrangement under which that could happen.
Where a sponsor is mentioned, it is chosen at random. It is not chosen using anything about you, and the count of how often it was shown cannot be traced back to a person.
What is said goes when the table closes
Everything said at a table is deleted the moment the table closes. Nobody can read it afterwards — not the people who sat there, and not the operator.
The one exception: if a table votes somebody out, the last lines before the vote are kept with that removal, so a human can judge it on evidence rather than on memory.
You can close your account at any time
From your page. Your handle, email, password, interests, blocks and sit-again choices are erased, and seats at anything still to come are released so those tables are not left short.
We do not delete the row outright, because the shape of what happened at past tables is what protects other people. After closing, nobody — including the operator — can work out whose account it was.
One person, on one server
Not a company. The data sits on a single rented server and is not copied anywhere else. If you want to know what is held about you, or want it gone, close your account — or write and ask.