Privacy Policy

Shown next to events you post, reply to, sign up for or react to.

Shown next to your name. You can change or remove it in Profile.

Optional, from Edit profile. People in your groups can see them.

You sign in to post events and to join a group. If you sign in with email, we use it to send sign-in codes and to keep your events and groups tied to you. The owners of each group you’re in can see it on the group’s member list, so they can reach you. Other members don’t see it.

We text it a sign-in code when you ask for one, and nothing else. The owners and admins of each group you’re in can see it on the group’s member list, so they can reach you. Other members don’t see it. You can change or remove it in Settings.

We receive the basic profile Google shares (name, email and profile picture link) and use only the name and email, for the same reasons as above. We never see your Google password and don’t access anything else in your Google account.

Replying to an event without an account needs only a first name. Signing up for a job or spot (a seat, a time slot) without an account also asks for a phone number or an email address. Only that event’s lead and co-hosts can see it, so they can reach you about it. We only text you if you check the box agreeing to texts about an event.

If you add someone as a friend (with a friend link, or a request to someone in one of your groups), each of you can see the other’s name, photo, place and “About you”, and which groups you share, and you can invite each other to events. Removing a friend is quiet. A request you turn down is kept so that person can’t ask again.

Events, locations, dates, photos, RSVPs (going, maybe, can’t), job sign-ups and their notes, votes, updates, album photos, comments and replies, and reactions, including thank-yous. These are visible to members of the groups the event is posted to, and one event is visible to anyone its link is shared with. A private event is seen only by its lead, the group’s admins, and people who have its link or have replied.

If you report a comment, an event, a photo or a person, we keep the reason you picked, your note, and a short copy of what you reported (the comment’s words or the event’s title). The owners and admins of that event’s group see the report but not who sent it; Eric sees who sent it. A report about a group’s own admin goes only to Eric. You can take back a report while it’s open.

Who you’ve blocked, so the app can hide their comments and photos from you and stop their friend requests. They aren’t told.

Notes from “Give feedback” are saved with your name so Eric, who runs Spark Hub, can read them. Nobody else sees them. Each note also carries what helps track down a glitch: your device and browser, whether you use the Home Screen app, your screen size, the app’s version, which screen and event you were on, your last few taps (what you tapped, never what you typed) and any recent errors. A screenshot is added only if you pick one, and it’s kept private to you and Eric. Never your location.

A lead can share their number on an event they lead. It’s kept on your account, never shown on your profile, and only reaches the people you pick (people going or signed up, or anyone who sees the event) through the Text button. It stops when the event ends or when you turn it off. Texts go between your phones: Spark Hub never sees them. This is separate from a number you sign in with. A sign-in number is never shared on an event.

Which notifications you’ve read and which topics you want. If you turn on phone notifications, we save an address your browser gives us for this device so we can send to it. Signing out removes it.

To make future suggestions possible (like a usual time or the jobs an event needs), Spark Hub keeps simple anonymous counts about events, such as what changed after posting, which jobs were taken and how quickly, and how many people came. They hold no names or phone numbers and nobody can see them in the app. If an event is deleted, the counts stay but its title does not, unless it was a mistake or a test, in which case they go too.

So the app remembers your activity on this phone without an account. It’s stored in your browser.

So the app opens straight away, it keeps a copy of your groups and events in your browser (never guests’ phone numbers). Signing out clears it.