Last updated 15 September 2026
Tech Flow is operated by Advanta Digital LLC, a Florida company doing business as Tech Flow.
Your email address, first and last name, and what you bought. Stripe collects your card and billing address on its own page and returns only your billing postal code to us, which we use to work out which chapter you are near.
Your email address. There is no password — we email a six-digit code. Failed attempts are counted against your address for a short time so the code cannot be guessed.
Whatever you choose to fill in: name, photo, ZIP, phone, job title, company, LinkedIn and Instagram, a short bio, what you can be asked about, and a city label. You decide how much of this exists and who can see it.
Your email, name and ZIP code. The city we show you is worked out from the ZIP; we do not look up where you are.
Your own email, name and ZIP, plus your answers about your family: whether you have children, how many, which broad age bands they fall in, and what they are interested in. See children below for what we deliberately never ask.
The organisation name, website, EIN, city and mission, plus the name, email and phone of the person applying. We look the organisation up in ProPublica’s public database of nonprofit filings and keep a snapshot of what it returned. Only the organisation name or EIN you typed is sent there — never your name, email or address.
Your email and name, which circle and which billing term, and the state of your membership. Stripe holds the card and the billing address.
Your rating, anything you write, and whether you ticked the box letting us quote you. Without that tick your words are never published.
utm tags on a URL) and, if someone referred you, their referral code. Both are attached to an order you place.We never see or store card numbers. We do not ask for a date of birth, a government ID or a social security number. We do not look up your location from your IP address. We do not buy lists or enrich your record from data brokers, and we run no face recognition on any photo.
These are the cookies this site sets itself.
tf_utm
Which campaign or link brought you to the site.
30 days
tf_ref
The referral code of the member who invited you.
30 days
tf_ticket
A signed pass that lets you reopen a ticket you just bought without signing in. It is not a login and cannot be read by scripts.
120 days
tf_last_email
The last address you signed in with, so the sign-in box is already filled in.
400 days
Sign-in cookies
Set by Supabase, our database and login provider, to keep you signed in.
Until you sign out
Meta and Microsoft Clarity set their own cookies through the scripts described below. You can clear or block all of these in your browser settings; the site works without them, though you will be signed out.
We use a small number of companies to run the service. Each gets only what it needs, and none of them is allowed to use it for their own purposes.
We will also hand over information if the law requires it, and if the business is ever sold your data would move with it. Nothing else leaves.
Your email address, phone number and ZIP code are never shown publicly. They are not on your profile page, not in any listing, and not in the code that builds them.
A member profile is private until you make it otherwise, and stays private until it is completely filled in — an unfinished profile is visible to nobody but you. Most members choose between keeping it private and showing it to people attending the same event. A page that is fully public and indexed by search engines is a separate step, and today applies to members who have spoken at one of our events. A public page shows your name, photo, job title and company, your links, your bio, what you can be asked about, and the state you are in — worked out from your ZIP, never the ZIP itself.
Guest lists are visible only to people holding a ticket to that same event, and only show members who chose to be seen there.
We email you when you have agreed to hear from us, or because you bought something and need the details. Every marketing email carries an unsubscribe link, a one-click unsubscribe your mail app can use, and our postal address.
We can see whether an email was delivered, opened and clicked. That is how we find out a campaign was dull or an address has stopped working. You can turn off whole categories — events, your chapter, the newsletter, member updates, Tech Flow Kids — separately, or all of it at once, from the preferences link in any email. No sign-in needed.
An unsubscribe is permanent until you ask otherwise. If your address bounces hard, or you mark us as spam, we stop sending to it and that cannot be undone by a later sign-up form.
Tech Flow is for adults. Nobody under 18 should create an account, and we do not knowingly collect anything from a child.
Tech Flow Kids is the one place children come up, and the form is answered by a parent about their own family, never by a child. It asks how many children you have, which broad age bands they fall in, and what they are interested in. It deliberately does not ask for a child’s name, date of birth, exact age, school, photograph or any way to contact them, and there is nowhere in our system to put those things.
If you believe a child has given us information anyway, email us and we will delete it.
A photo you upload is stored at a public web address, so anyone with the link can open it even if your profile is private. Replacing a photo leaves the old file reachable at its old address; ask us if you need one actually removed.
Photos taken at our events may be published in a gallery or used to tell people about the community. Tell us if you would rather not appear in one and we will take you out.
Orders, tickets and the emails we sent you are business records and we keep them for as long as we run Tech Flow. Consent records are kept deliberately — the point of them is to show what you agreed to and when, including after you have unsubscribed.
When we delete a person from our records, the account sits in a bin for 30 days and is then permanently erased along with their registrations and history.
Wherever you live, you can ask us to do any of these, and we will do them free of charge:
Email events@jointechflow.com from the address we have for you and we will handle it. Deleting your account does not undo a ticket you have already bought or a refund you are owed, and we may keep the minimum needed for tax and accounting.
There are no passwords to steal, because we do not use them. Our database refuses requests from the public internet entirely — every read goes through our own server first. Payment details never touch our systems.
No system is perfect. If something ever does go wrong with your data, we will tell you rather than hope you do not notice.
Tech Flow is run from Florida and your data is stored in the United States, where privacy law differs from the law where you live. Some of our members are in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia; the rights listed above are offered to everyone, wherever you are, rather than only to people in places that require them.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If we ever start doing something materially different with your data, we will email you rather than rely on you re-reading this page.
Advanta Digital LLC, a Florida company doing business as Tech Flow
events@jointechflow.com
See also our terms of use.