Effective October 16, 2026
Seattle Happenings is an Android app by Nicholas Ton that finds community events around Seattle and reminds you of them. Its events are on a website too, for iPhones and computers. This policy says what the app and the website do with information.
In short: there's no account, no ads and no analytics. What the app knows stays on your phone, what the website knows stays in your browser, and the developer never receives anything about you.
Everything the app knows is stored on your phone: the events it has found, the ones you star, hide or mute, your watchlist, the sources you add, and your settings. None of it is sent to the developer, who runs no server for it. Events are dropped a month after they end. The rest stays until you remove it in the app, clear the app's storage in Android's settings, or uninstall the app, which deletes all of it. Events it has put in your calendar are the exception: see Your calendar, below.
If backup is on, Android may include this in your phone's backup to your Google account, as it does for most apps. The Gemini key described below is always left out. Backup is controlled in your phone's settings.
Event pages. Each week, and when you tap Search now, the app downloads public event calendars, festival pages and local news feeds, and any page you add yourself. When you open an event that has a photo, it downloads the photo from the site that listed the event. These are ordinary web requests: as with any website you visit, those sites see your phone's IP address, but the app sends them nothing about you.
Weather. For the morning-of reminder, the app asks the U.S. National Weather Service (api.weather.gov) for the forecast in the town each event is in. It never sends your location: the app has no access to it. The forecast can be turned off in Settings.
Gemini, only if you add a key. The app works without one. If you add your own Google Gemini API key, the app sends the text of the public event pages it reads, and the names on your watchlist, to Google's Gemini API to sort and summarize them. Google handles that under your key, its Gemini API terms and its privacy policy. On the free tier Google may use what's sent to improve its products. The key is stored encrypted on your phone, and removing it in Settings stops this.
All of this goes over encrypted (HTTPS) connections.
The app asks for calendar access only if you turn on Starred dates in my calendar. It uses it to list your calendars so you can pick one, or to make a Seattle Happenings calendar that stays on your phone, and to add, move and remove its own events for the dates you star. It doesn't change your other events or send any of them anywhere. If the calendar you pick syncs to an online account, such as a Google calendar, the app's events sync there like any others.
Turning the setting off takes out the app's events for dates still to come. Events in your calendar belong to the calendar, so they stay if you uninstall the app without turning it off first; your calendar app can delete them.
There's no sign-in, no advertising, and no analytics or tracking code. The app doesn't ask for your location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone: the distance setting measures from a town you pick. The developer doesn't collect, sell or share personal information.
The website keeps your stars and filters, and what Search with Gemini finds, in your browser's storage and nowhere else; clearing the site's data in your browser deletes them. It has no sign-in, cookies, advertising, or analytics or tracking code. It's hosted on GitHub Pages, which logs visitors' IP addresses for security; see GitHub's privacy statement. An event's photo loads from the site that listed it only when you open the event, and Add to calendar sends an event to Google's or Microsoft's calendar only if you choose one.
Search with Gemini, only if you use it. The website works without it. If you give it your own Gemini API key, your browser sends the key, the addresses of public festival pages and the text of public news articles, which it reads from the news sites itself, to Google's Gemini API, and nothing about you. Google handles that under your key, its Gemini API terms and its privacy policy. On the free tier Google may use what's sent to improve its products. The key never goes to the developer. It's kept in your browser only if you tick Remember the key, and otherwise only until you close the page; Forget the key deletes it.
Seattle Happenings isn't directed at children under 13, and it doesn't collect personal information from anyone.
If this policy changes, the new version will be in the app and on this page, with a new effective date.
Questions about this policy or the app: nichkt@gmail.com.