Privacy

Names disappear with the event

Event Doorbell handles people's names at a door, so it's built to forget them rather than accumulate them. Here is everything that's stored, and for how long.

Guests

If you scanned a code

You typed a name and maybe answered a question or two. That creates:

  • The name you typed, your answers, and the times you rang.
  • A random token stored in your own browser, so the page can show your status and let you change your answers. It identifies that one arrival and nothing else.

Deleted with the event — 24 hours after it was created, sooner if the host clears the list or ends it. Recurring events clear between sessions.

No account, no password, no email address, no tracking, no advertising identifiers. Your name is visible to the host and any co-hosts — nobody else.

Hosts

If you created an event

  • Your email address, because it's how you sign in.
  • The events you own — code, name, and when they expire.
  • Sign-in tokens and sessions, stored as one-way hashes. A copy of the database holds nothing that could be used to sign in as you.

Kept until you ask us to remove it. The events inside still expire on their own schedule.

History

Recurring events

A standing event keeps a short history so a host can see attendance over time. It is counts only: how many people came, how many were greeted, the average wait, and how many chose each answer.

Names are never carried across, and free-text answers are reduced to how many people responded — never what they wrote. The newest 24 sessions are kept.

Never

What we don't do

  • No analytics, no third-party trackers, no advertising.
  • No selling or sharing data. There's nobody to share it with.
  • No location data. The QR code knows the door; the app doesn't.
  • No marketing email — only sign-in links and co-host invites.
Processors

Who else is involved

The site runs on Cloudflare: hosting, storage, and the email that delivers your sign-in link. Cloudflare processes requests on our behalf under their own terms.

Bot protection on the sign-in form is Cloudflare Turnstile, designed to work without tracking people across sites.

Control

Deleting things

  • An event: open its dashboard and end it — that wipes it immediately.
  • A guest list: "Start a new session" on a recurring event clears everyone straight away.
  • Co-host access: every invite email carries a link that removes it, no account needed.
  • Your account: email hello@mattevanstech.com.

Questions about any of this?

A real person answers, usually the same day.

Last updated 16 August 2026.