Event MessagesPrivacy Policy
Last updated 3 October 2026
Event Messages is operated by Push Instant Notifications LLC ("we"). This policy describes what the app collects, why it needs it, and who else handles it. We do not sell personal information, we do not share it for advertising, and the app contains no advertising, no analytics and no third-party tracking.
What we collect
| Information | Why |
|---|---|
| First and last name | Shown as the author on updates you post, and to the organizer on their subscriber list. |
| Email address | Signing in, and resetting your password. |
| Mobile phone number | Confirming you are a real person reachable at a real number. We send a one-time code by SMS and check it. Organizers can see the numbers of people subscribed to their event. |
| Device notification tokens | Delivering push notifications to your phone. A token identifies a device, not a person, and is removed when you sign out of that device. |
| Content you post | The events you create and the updates you write are stored so subscribers can read them. |
| Events you subscribe to | Deciding who gets notified when an organizer posts. |
| Crash reports | Finding and fixing crashes. If the app crashes, it sends a technical report: what the app was doing when it failed, the app version, your phone's model and operating system version, and a random identifier for this installation of the app. It is not linked to your account: we do not attach your name, email address or phone number to it. |
| Reports and blocks | Keeping the app free of abuse. If you report an update, we store which update it was, your reason and any note you add, together with your name and email address, and email the report to our support address so we can review it. The organizer is not told who reported them. If you block an organizer, that choice is stored on your account so their events stay hidden from you. |
| Purchase records | Proving an event has been paid for, and our own accounting. See "Payments" below. |
We do not collect your location, your contacts, your photos, or any advertising identifier. We do not build a profile of you and there is nothing in the app that follows you to other apps or websites.
Dictation
You can dictate an update instead of typing it. When you do, your device's own speech recognition converts the audio to text — that is Apple's on iPhone and Google's on Android, governed by their privacy policies. We never receive the audio, and we never record or store it. Only the text that appears in the box, once you post it, reaches us. Dictation is optional; the microphone is used only while you are actively dictating.
Payments
Events are paid for by in-app purchase through the App Store or Google Play. We never see your card. No card number, no billing address and no payment method reaches us or is stored by us at any point — Apple and Google collect the money and pay us.
What we do keep, for each completed purchase, is an accounting record: the store's transaction identifier, which event was bought, who bought it, the amount and currency where the store tells us, the country of the buyer's store account, and the time of the charge. We are required to keep these records for tax and accounting purposes, and they are retained after the related event is deleted.
Who else handles your information
- Google (Firebase) — our app runs on Firebase. Google stores the database, handles sign-in and phone verification, delivers push notifications on our behalf, and receives crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics).
- Apple and Google — as the stores that process payments, and as the providers of the dictation described above.
- Zoho and Resend — our email, including automated messages such as password resets.
These are service providers acting on our instructions. We do not give your information to anyone else, other than where the law requires it.
What other people can see
When you subscribe to an event, the organizer of that event can see your name, email address and phone number on their subscriber list, so they can identify who is attending and grant posting rights. When you post an update, your name appears on it to everyone who can read that event. Updates cannot be edited or deleted by the person who posted them; we may remove an update that breaks our terms, after which subscribers see a notice in its place.
Keeping and deleting your information
We keep your account information for as long as your account exists. Unsubscribing from an event removes that subscription immediately. An organizer can delete an event after it ends, removing the event, all of its messages and every subscription to it. Automatic routines are also executed purging events 30 days after events end (unless organizers perform event deletions before then).
A report is deleted along with the event it is about, or when the person who filed it deletes their account. If you delete your account, a report about one of your updates is kept with the update, which shows "Deleted user" in place of your name. The email copy stays in our support mailbox as the record of how the report was handled.
You can delete your account and the personal information attached to it from inside the app at any time — the sign-out arrow, then Delete account — or by writing to support@eventmessages.com from the address on the account, which we will action within 30 days. Purchase records are kept for as long as tax and accounting law requires, with the personal details in them reduced to what those obligations need.
Security
Information travels encrypted between your phone and our servers. Access is enforced on the server, not merely hidden in the app: the rules governing who may read or write each record run on Google's infrastructure and apply no matter what software is talking to it. Phone numbers must be verified by SMS before an account can be used, and payment status can only ever be set by our servers after the store confirms the transaction.
Children
Event Messages is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has created an account, write to us and we will remove it.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see the information we hold about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, or to object to how we use it. Write to support@eventmessages.com and we will help. You will never be charged or treated differently for exercising these rights.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of this page. Where the change is significant we will also say so in the app.
Contact
Push Instant Notifications LLC
support@eventmessages.com