Privacy

Last updated: 2 November 2026

Short version: no tracking, no ads, no analytics, no selling data. You can browse events without an account and without cookies. We only store what we need to let organizers publish events.

Who is responsible

BornToExpire (https://borntoexpire.com) is responsible for the personal data described here. Questions or requests: iam@borntoexpire.com.

If you just browse

• No account, no cookies. Browsing events, event pages and calendar feeds sets no cookies.
• No trackers or third parties. No analytics, ads, social media widgets or external fonts. Everything is served from our own server.
• Server logs. Like every website, our hosting provider's web server records technical data for each request: IP address, date and time, page requested and browser type. It is used only to keep the site running and secure, and is deleted automatically after a limited time.

If you are an organizer

For your account we store:

• your email address, to log in and to contact you about your account. It is never shown publicly.
• your display name, which is shown with your events.
• your password, stored only as a one-way hash (Argon2). Nobody, including us, can read it.
• when your account was created.

The events and venues you publish are public on purpose: on this site, in calendar feeds, and in the calendars of people who subscribe or add your events.

If you write to us to ask for an account, we keep that email conversation for as long as you have an account.

Why we may do this (GDPR): to provide the service you asked for (Article 6(1)(b)) and, for server logs, our legitimate interest in running a secure website (Article 6(1)(f)).

Cookies

We use one cookie, bte_session. It is only set when you open the login page or log in. It keeps you logged in and protects forms against forgery. It is strictly necessary, so we don't ask for consent. It is signed so it can't be tampered with, and it expires after 14 days. Logging out clears it.

Links to other services

Some buttons and links take you to other services, which then handle your data under their own privacy policies:

• Google Calendar: the event details are sent to Google when you click the button.
• OpenStreetMap: the venue address is sent when you click a map link.
• Calendar subscriptions: your calendar app (Google, Apple, Outlook…) fetches the feed from our server regularly.
• Links that organizers add to their events.

How long we keep data

• Organizer accounts, events and venues: until the account is deleted.
• Past events stay on the site as an archive, unless the organizer asks us to remove them.
• Server logs: deleted automatically by our hosting provider after a limited time.

We never sell or share personal data. It is stored on our hosting provider's servers, which process it only on our behalf.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your personal data, or object to how we use it. Email iam@borntoexpire.com and we will answer within 30 days. Deleting an organizer account also removes its events and venues.

Changes

If this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top. Organizers are told by email about important changes.