Privacy

This describes what RSVP Ella actually does with information. It is written to be read, not to be skimmed past.

What guests give us

A guest never makes an account. To RSVP they type a name — that is the only thing required. Everything else is optional and only exists if the guest chooses to enter it or the host chose to ask for it:

• a note to the host
• the names of anyone they are bringing
• what they are bringing, if the host turned on a potluck list
• clothing sizes, if the host asked for them
• answers to the host's own questions
• messages, reactions and poll votes in the invite's chat

We never require an email address, a phone number or a password from a guest.

There are two places a guest may choose to give us more, both after they have already replied, and both entirely optional:

• An email address, to be sent a copy of their own RSVP. Used for that single message and then discarded — never written to the database, never attached to the guest list, never shown to the host.
• A phone number, to get a text if the host announces something about that party. This one is stored, on that guest's row for that one invite, because it has to exist for a later message to reach them. The host can see who opted in. It is never used for another host's event, never used for marketing, and clearing the box — or replying STOP — ends it.

Skip both and nothing changes: the invite, the updates and the guest list all work the same.

What hosts give us

A host creates an account, so we hold their name and email address, and a password stored only as a scrypt hash — the password itself is never written down. We also hold whatever they put into their invites: title, date, place, description, and any cover photo they upload.

A host who subscribes pays through Stripe. We send Stripe the host's name and email address to set up billing, and card details go straight to Stripe without passing through us. We keep Stripe's customer and subscription references, which plan it is, its status, when it renews or ends, and whether the free trial has been used.

Cookies

Two, both strictly functional. A host gets a session cookie so they stay signed in. A guest gets one small cookie per invite so that returning to that invite shows the answer they already gave, on that device.

There are no advertising cookies and no tracking cookies, because there is no advertising and no tracking.

Analytics

There are none. No analytics product, no tag manager, no session recorder, no advertising pixel, no third-party scripts of any kind run on these pages. We do not build a profile of you and there is nothing to sell, because we do not collect it.

Who else touches it

Running the service means a few companies handle data on our behalf:

• Supabase — the database and the storage bucket cover photos go into.
• Vercel — hosting. Their servers see the ordinary web request information any web host sees.
• Cloudflare — the DNS for rsvpella.com.
• Stripe — takes hosts' payments and holds their card details.
• Twilio — sends the text messages, where a host or guest asked for them.
• Resend — sends the emails: a host's new-RSVP alerts, and a copy of an RSVP where a guest asked for one.
• Apple, Google or Mozilla's push services — only for a host who switches on RSVP notifications, and only to deliver that notification.

Two things reach outward only when someone chooses them: tapping an address opens Apple or Google Maps, and the GIF picker, where enabled, searches Giphy. In both cases you are handed to that company at that moment, under their terms.

How long it is kept

An invite's information lives as long as the invite does. When a host deletes an invite, the guest list, answers, messages and any phone numbers attached to it go with it. A guest can take themselves off an invite at any time using the “Not you? Remove me” link at the bottom of their RSVP, which removes their number along with everything else.

Children

RSVP Ella is not aimed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them. A child's name appearing on a guest list because a parent typed it is the parent's decision, not an account.

Asking us about your information

Write to support@rsvpella.com and we will tell you what we hold, correct it, or delete it. For something on an invite you were a guest at, it helps to include the invite code.

Changes

If this changes, the date at the top changes with it. We will not quietly start collecting something this page says we do not.