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Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 17, 2026

Weekly Shenanigans, operated by Weekly Shenanigans LLC (“we,” “us”), publishes a simple, public list of local events and venues. This policy explains what we do, and mostly don’t do, with information when you visit the site.

Browsing needs no account

You never need to create an account, log in, or give us an email address to browse. We don’t ask for your name, phone number, or any personal details just to see what’s happening.

If you create a free resident account

An account exists for one thing: building your own calendar of the events, classes, and food & drink specials you want to go to. Adding something to that calendar is the only part of the site that requires one.

If you choose to create one, we store the name you give us, your email address (which is also your login), your residential postal code, so we can show you what’s happening nearest you, and the items you add to your calendar, and which emails you asked to receive. We never ask for your street address, and we don’t sell or pass your email address to anyone. You can change any of it, or close your account, from your calendar page at any time.

Registration also asks a few optional questions: what you’re usually up for, who you tend to go out with, your age range, and your gender. Every one of them can be left blank or answered “prefer not to say,” and skipping them changes nothing about your account. We use them to decide what to put in front of you, and to shape the emails we are building — nothing is sent today. When your calendar page offers you a pick, your towns and these answers, never your name or email, are sent with the candidate listings to an AI service (Anthropic) to put them in order; see The AI service we use for what that means. They are never shown on your profile, never sold, and never handed to an organization as anything other than anonymous totals. An organization may learn that a hundred people nearby are interested in live music, never who those people are.

What we store

To make the site work, your browser remembers the town you’re viewing, using your browser’s local storage. That preference stays on your device; the only place it travels is inside the anonymous page counts described under Analytics below, so we can tell which towns are being read about. It is never tied to you.

Analytics

We count our own pages, and nobody else does. There is no third-party tracking script, no advertising pixel and no outside measurement of any kind. What we keep is a first-party count of page views and of clicks on a listing’s own links — the page, the rough device type (phone or desktop), the town lens you were browsing under, and the site you arrived from. None of it includes your name, your email, or anything typed into a form, it is never joined to a resident account, and it is never sold or shared. It exists so an organization can be told “your listing was seen 40 times this week” — as a total, never as who.

Third parties on the page

The typeface used across the site is served by Google Fonts, so loading a page makes one request to Google, which necessarily sees your IP address and browser. Google states it doesn’t use these requests for advertising, and no cookie is set. We intend to serve the font ourselves so that even this request goes away.

There is one other, and it never appears on a page a resident reads. When an organization enters card details — adding a payment method, or paying for a promotion — we load Stripe’s payment library from js.stripe.com. It has to come from Stripe: they don’t permit hosting it ourselves, and the security of card handling depends on the script being theirs rather than ours. It sets cookies and takes a fingerprint of the device to detect card fraud, which is the job it is there to do.

We load it only on the pages that take a payment, and only at the moment a card form is actually opened. Browsing events, classes, food and drinks, or any listing on this site never loads it, never sets those cookies and never tells Stripe anything about you. If you have never entered a card here, Stripe has never seen you.

Your card number is typed into a frame served by Stripe and goes straight to them. It does not pass through this site and we never see it, store it, or have any way to. What we keep is the brand of the card and its last four digits, so an organization can recognise which of their cards is on file.

The AI service we use

A few parts of the site hand text to an AI model, and every one of them goes to the same place: Anthropic, through its commercial API. When your calendar page offers you a pick, the candidate listings go with your towns and your optional answers, never your name or email. When an organization drafts a post, scans a menu or flyer, or asks what its view counts mean, the text it typed or uploaded and its own figures go the same way. Nothing else does.

We use Anthropic under its commercial terms, and under those terms what we send is not used to train Anthropic’s models. Anthropic processes it only to return an answer to us, keeps it only briefly for abuse monitoring under its own privacy terms, and does not use it for anything of its own. We don’t send your name, email, or anything else that identifies you unless you typed it into the text being processed yourself.

How lists are ordered

Everything you see is in plain date order: what is happening soonest, first. Nothing is ranked by what you clicked, how long you looked, or anything else about you. There is no personalised feed and nothing designed to keep you scrolling; every list is paginated and it ends. Organizations can pay to promote a post, and those are always clearly labelled as theirs.

Links to other sites

Event and venue listings often link out to a venue’s own website or ticketing page. Those sites have their own privacy practices, which we don’t control. Please review their policies before sharing any information with them.

Your rights over your information

Connecticut’s Data Privacy Act gives Connecticut residents specific rights over their personal data. We offer the same rights to everyone, whether the data reached us through a resident account, an organization account, a ticket order, a card on the Board, or a message you sent us. You can:

• Ask whether we hold personal data about you, and see it. We will send you a copy in a form you can read and, where it is practical, take elsewhere.
• Correct it. Name, email, postal code, and the optional answers can be changed from your calendar page; anything else, ask us.
• Delete it. Closing your account from your calendar page deletes it. Ticket orders and cards on the Board are kept for as long as the seller or the tax rules need the record, and deleted after that; ask us and we will tell you where a given record stands.
• Opt out of targeted advertising, of the sale of your data, and of profiling used to make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. We do none of the three. The only automated sorting we do is the pick on your calendar page, which changes nothing but the order of a list; to switch even that off, clear the optional answers on your calendar page, or ask us.

How to ask. Use the controls on your calendar page for anything they cover. For everything else, email support@weeklyshenanigans.com with the subject line Privacy request, from the email address we have for you; that is how we confirm the request is yours, and we may ask one or two questions to be sure. Someone you authorize can opt out on your behalf if they can show us you asked them to. There is no charge, unless a request is repeated or clearly unfounded, and we will never treat you differently for making one.

When you will hear back. We answer within 45 days. If a request is unusually involved we may take up to 45 more, and we will tell you within the first 45 if so. If we decline a request, we say why, and you can appeal by replying to that email within 60 days. We answer an appeal within 60 days, in writing, with our reasons; if we still decline, that answer includes how to raise the matter with the Connecticut Attorney General.

Children

The site is a public listing intended for a general audience and is not directed at collecting information from children. Because we don’t collect personal information to browse, none is collected from children either.

Changes

We may update this policy as the product grows. We’ll revise the date above when we do, and for a change that matters to how your data is used we will say so on the site or by email.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Please get in touch, or email us directly at support@weeklyshenanigans.com.

This policy is not legal advice. It should be reviewed by a qualified attorney, and again whenever what we collect or whom we share it with changes.