Privacy policy

Ready to Mingle (“we”, “us”) organises private, invitation-only gatherings in Toronto, Ontario. We are responsible for the personal information described here and handle it in accordance with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). [Legal entity name and mailing address to be added.]

When you register, we collect only:

• your preferred name and email address;
• your age group and gender;
• the gatherings you reserve a place at, and when you reserve or cancel;
• your phone number, if you choose to give it;
• the date and time you gave consent and confirmed your email; and
• whether you asked to hear about upcoming gatherings, and when (this is optional).

To protect the forms from abuse, we briefly keep a scrambled (one-way hashed) version of the internet address your request came from. It cannot be turned back into your address and is deleted within 24 hours. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies. When you enter an invitation code, one small cookie remembers that on your device for 30 days so you don’t have to enter it again; it contains no personal information.

To confirm that your email address belongs to you, to register you as a guest, to invite guests of a similar stage in life to each evening and keep the numbers of women and men balanced (that is the only use of your age group and gender), to reach you by phone about a gathering you’re attending if you gave us your number and, only if you asked us to, to tell you about upcoming gatherings. We never send marketing text messages. We do not sell, rent or trade your information, and we do not use it for advertising.

We ask for your consent when you register. Agreeing to hear about upcoming gatherings is a separate, optional choice. You may withdraw either at any time, without contacting us: use the unsubscribe link in any email about gatherings, or the “Manage my registration” link in the email we sent when you registered, which also lets you delete your details.

When you register, we send a link to confirm your address, a note once you are registered and, if you register again with an email we already have, a short reminder that you are already registered. When you reserve a place at a gathering, we send a link to confirm it, a note once your place is confirmed with a link to cancel and, if you ask again, a reminder that you already have a place. If you ticked “Email me about upcoming gatherings”, we may also occasionally invite you to a gathering. Those emails come from Ready to Mingle, are sent through our email service provider, and each one includes a link to unsubscribe. We do not send newsletters or share your address with anyone else.

Your information is stored in a secured database operated by our hosting providers [provider names to be added], and our emails are delivered through an email service provider. These providers may store or process data outside Canada, including in the United States, where it may be accessible to authorities under local law. Access to registration data is limited to the people who organise the gatherings.

If you do not confirm your email, your registration is deleted automatically after seven days. Confirmed registrations are kept while Ready to Mingle is active, or until you ask us to delete them.

You can see the details we hold about you and delete them yourself at any time, using the “Manage my registration” link in the email we sent when you registered. If you no longer have that email, register again with the same address and we will send you a fresh link. To change your details, delete your registration and register again. If you have a concern we cannot resolve, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

For any other privacy question, write to us at [mailing address to be added]. We will respond within 30 days.