The short version
We collect as little as possible. There are no ads and no tracking cookies. Profiles are optional.
Email alerts (Buttondown)
If you sign up for email alerts, your email address goes to Buttondown, the service that sends our newsletter. We use it only to send you concert updates. We never sell or share it. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can ask us to delete your address at any time.
Optional profiles
You can use the whole site without a profile. If you create one, we store:
- Your email address, used to send your sign-in link and, only if you turn alerts on, a "Your Grand Rapids picks this week" email listing upcoming events that match your picks. Alert emails are sent from [email protected] (Google Gmail). Every alert email has a one-click link to turn alerts off, and you can also switch them off in your profile.
- Your picks: the genres, venues, artists, teams, game types and seasonal event types you choose, plus your alert setting.
- When the profile was created, last saved and last signed in.
- A short-lived sign-in link token (expires after 15 minutes or once used) and a sign-in session token (expires after 30 days or when you sign out).
No password is stored. This data lives on Cloudflare (Workers KV), the service that runs our profile server. We never sell or share it. Sign-in emails are sent through an email service (Google Gmail, from [email protected]) that receives only your address and the link. If it is unavailable, a backup email service (Mailjet) may be used instead. Your browser keeps your session token and a copy of your picks in localStorage.
To delete it: sign in, tap your initial under the Concerts / Sports / Seasonal toggle, then tap Delete my account. Your profile and email are removed right away. Or email us at the address below and we'll delete it for you.
"I'm going" and "Interested" picks
Listings you mark are saved only in your own browser (localStorage) and are never sent to us. Clearing your browser data removes them.
Cookies and tracking
This site sets no tracking cookies.
This site uses GoatCounter, a cookie-free counter that records anonymous page views and button clicks, no personal data. It is hosted on GitHub Pages, which may keep standard server logs (see GitHub's privacy statement).
Affiliate links in the future: some ticket links may become affiliate links. When you click one, the ticket seller or affiliate partner may set its own cookies on its site to credit us for the referral. Those cookies are covered by that partner's privacy policy, not ours.
Other sites
Ticket, venue and calendar links go to other websites, each with its own privacy policy. If we turn on optional features like an event-submission form (Google Forms) or comments (giscus/GitHub), those services handle what you choose to send them.
Questions
Email [email protected]. If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top.