Effective Date 5/8/26
Who we are
Singles Bay Area is a company hosting events throughout the Bay Area. Our website address is: https://singlesbayarea.com.
Information We Collect
We collect information from you to help find your best matches and create better event experiences. This includes:
Personal Details: Name, email address, phone number, physical address, and photos.
Lifestyle & Preferences: Your occupation, hobbies, interests, and your responses to our quizzes, surveys, and personality assessments.
Personal Beliefs and Values: To help with deep compatibility matching, you may voluntarily share information regarding your religious beliefs, political views, or specific lifestyle habits. (In legal terms, these categories are classified as “Sensitive Personal Information” under California law).
How We Use Your Information
We use your information to:
Grouping and Matching: We analyze your quiz responses and profile data to see who you might click with. This allows us to suggest compatible matches, organize members into groups with similar traits, and tailor our events to specific segments of our community.
Business Insights: We analyze trends and categorize our members to better understand our audience’s needs. We use this identifiable information (including names and specific traits) to improve our overall business operations and event planning.
Provide and improve our Services: To provide you with access to our Services, to personalize your experience, and to improve the quality and functionality of our events.
Communicate with you: To send you emails, text messages, or other communications, such as event invitations, newsletters, and customer support messages.
Process payments: To process payments for event tickets and other services.
Conduct marketing and advertising: To send you promotional materials and advertisements that may be of interest to you.
Cookies
If you interact on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Third-party service providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in providing our Services, such as payment processors, email marketing platforms, and data analytics providers.
Business partners: We may share your information with our business partners for marketing and promotional purposes.
Law enforcement: We may disclose your information to law enforcement or other authorities if required by law or in response to a valid legal request.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Choices (California Privacy Rights)
You have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:
- Access, Correct, or Delete: Request to see, update, or delete the personal information we hold about you.
- Opt-out of Sale or Sharing: Direct us not to “sell” or “share” your personal information with third parties for certain types of advertising.
- Limit the Use of Beliefs and Values: Request that we limit the use of your sensitive personal information (such as religious or political views) strictly to providing our core matching services.
Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure.
Children’s Privacy
Our Services are not intended for children under the age of 21. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 21.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this page.
For Quizes and Other Activities
1. Information We Collect
By participating in this quiz, you agree to provide us with certain “Personal Information” as defined by the CCPA and CPRA. This may include:
- Identifiers: Name, email address, and social media handles.
- Personal Characteristics: Age range, gender, or professional background.
- Preferences: Interests related to dating, social mixers, and lifestyle choices.
2. How Your Information is Used
We use the information collected through this quiz to:
- Provide personalized quiz results.
- Facilitate event check-ins and networking opportunities.
- Send marketing communications regarding future events, mixers, and community updates.
- Improve our event programming and outreach strategies.
3. Your Rights Under CCPA/CPRA
As a California resident, you have the following rights regarding your data:
- Right to Know: You may request to know what personal information we have collected and how it is used.
- Right to Delete: You may request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you.
- Right to Correct: You may request that we correct any inaccurate personal information.
- Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information. Note: We do not sell your personal data to third parties for monetary gain.
- Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: You can request that we limit the use of any sensitive data provided.
4. Data Retention
We retain your information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined above or to comply with legal obligations.
5. Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.
6. Consent
By clicking “Agree” or “Start Quiz,” you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and consent to the collection and use of your information as described. You may unsubscribe from our marketing emails at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link provided in our communications.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at singlesbayareaevents@gmail.com