Privacy notice
Last updated: 13 November 2026
This notice explains what personal information getsocial.uk collects, why, and what happens to it. It also covers the business contact details we hold about people we contact about our events. It's written in plain English because we'd rather you read it.
Who we are
Get Social is Get Social Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 12415409, registered office 82A James Carter Road, Mildenhall, England, IP28 7DE. We're the data controller for the information described here. Get Social Ltd is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, registration number ZC255651.
If you have a question about your data or want to exercise any of the rights below, email hello@getsocial.uk.
What we collect, and why
When you send an enquiry
The enquiry form and the event-booking form ask for:
- your name and email address (required)
- your phone number (optional)
- for event enquiries: the type of event, headcount, preferred date and location (all optional)
- your message
- how you found us, from a short list (optional)
- a tick to confirm you're happy for us to get in touch about your enquiry
- an optional second tick if you'd like us to email you occasional news
We use this to reply to you and, if you go ahead, to plan and deliver your event. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in responding to people who contact us about our services.
If you tick the optional box, your name and email address are added automatically to our mailing list, hosted by Mailchimp, and we'll email you occasional news about Get Social events and games, including our other brands: No Sex Gay Weekend, The Gay Escape and the Popularity board game. Every email carries an unsubscribe link, and you can tell us to stop at any time by replying or by writing to the address above. If you don't tick it, you won't be added. Our lawful basis for that list is your consent; the time you ticked the box and the version of this notice you saw are recorded on your Mailchimp entry and kept for as long as that entry exists. If you unsubscribe, your entry stays on the list marked as unsubscribed, so that we never add you again by mistake; if you'd rather we deleted it outright, email the address above and we will. If you were already on the list, ticking the box changes nothing about your entry, with one exception: if you signed up for our news before but never confirmed by clicking the link we sent, your tick counts as fresh consent and we switch your entry to subscribed by hand.
When you ask to be told about a product
The “notify me” form on titles that aren't out yet asks only for your email address, plus which product you're interested in and the same confirmation tick. We use it to send you one email when that product is available. Our lawful basis is your consent. We note the time you ticked the box and which version of this notice you saw, and you can withdraw consent at any time by replying to either email or writing to the address above.
It also has the same optional second tick as the enquiry form. If you tick it, your email address is added to our Mailchimp mailing list, with a note of which product you asked about, exactly as described above. If you don't tick it, we email you only about that product.
When you ask for the free quiz round
The free-quiz form asks for your email address and a tick confirming we may email you the round. We use it to send that one email, and the round also appears on the page. Our lawful basis is your consent, and we note the time you ticked and which version of this notice you saw. It has the same optional second tick as the enquiry form: if you tick it, your email address is added to our Mailchimp mailing list with a note that you asked for the free quiz, exactly as described above; if you don't, we email you the round and nothing else.
Three things the forms collect that you don't type
- Which page brought you to us. While you browse, the page you're on remembers, in its own working memory only: the page you arrived on, the site that linked you here (only which site), any campaign tags in the link you followed, and the pages you visited here since. Nothing is saved to your device, in a cookie or in browser storage. If you send a form, that note goes with it and appears as one line in the enquiry email, so we know whether a blog post or a search led to your enquiry. When an enquiry reaches us, the site that linked you here and the page you arrived on are also counted in Vercel Web Analytics (see Cookies and similar things below), and Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track stops that. It is never sent otherwise, and it is gone as soon as you reload the page or close the tab.
- How long you spent on the form. The page measures the time between loading and submitting, on your device, and sends that number with the form. Submissions that arrive impossibly fast are treated as automated and not delivered. The number is kept only if a submission is filtered out, in the log entry described below, and only for as long as those logs are kept.
- A hidden field that real visitors never fill in. Bots do. If it's filled, the submission is discarded.
Where your enquiry goes
Both forms are delivered as an email to hello@getsocial.uk through Resend (resend.com), an email delivery service that acts as our processor. You'll also get a short confirmation email from us to the address you gave. Resend handles the sending only and doesn't use your details for its own purposes; its privacy notice is at resend.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Your enquiry then lives in our inbox, which is hosted by Google Workspace, acting as our processor. We keep it for up to two years after our last contact with you, after which it's deleted. If you ticked the box asking for occasional news by email, your name (on the enquiry form) and email address are also added automatically to our mailing list, hosted by Mailchimp; every email we send from it carries an unsubscribe link.
Our inbox is connected to Apollo.io, so that we keep one record of our business correspondence; our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in doing that. So Apollo can read the whole email carrying your enquiry, including everything listed above. Under its own privacy policy, and as a controller in its own right, Apollo may also add business contact details from it to its own contact database. Nothing from the forms goes into Apollo any other way. The deletion above covers our inbox: to have Apollo's copy removed too, or if you'd rather Apollo didn't process your email at all, tell us at hello@getsocial.uk, or contact Apollo at privacy@apollo.io.
Our server logs
Whenever you send an enquiry, the site records your contact details (name, email, phone, the event details and whether you ticked the news box, but never your message) in our hosting provider's logs at the moment it receives them, so that a lead can't be lost if the email fails on its way out. The same applies to the notify-me form (your email address, the product, and whether you ticked the news box). The same details are recorded if a submission is filtered as suspected spam or refused because too many arrived from one connection, so a genuine enquiry caught by mistake isn't lost either. Our host is Vercel (vercel.com), and those logs are kept for about a day before they're gone. Our lawful basis for these log entries, and for the spam checks described above, is our legitimate interest in not losing enquiries and in keeping the forms free of abuse.
If the email carrying your enquiry fails to send, or is bounced or rejected on its way to our inbox, we may also receive an automated alert carrying the same contact details, including whether you ticked the news box (never your message), at a mailbox we run outside getsocial.uk, so that we can still reply to you by hand.
If a page or form on the site breaks, the site may send an error report to Sentry (sentry.io), an error-monitoring service that acts as our processor, so that we can find and fix the fault. A report says which page failed and how, with your browser, operating system and device type. It never includes what you typed into a form, your cookies or your IP address, and Sentry sets no cookie. Reports are deleted automatically after 90 days at most. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in keeping the site and its forms working.
Where your data is processed
Resend, Vercel, Google Workspace, Mailchimp, Sentry and Apollo.io are all based outside the UK, so your details are processed abroad. Vercel also stores the event photos described below. Each provider relies on one of the UK's approved safeguards, as set out in its own terms: the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, which bind the provider by contract to protect your data to UK standards; or the UK-US Data Bridge, which covers US organisations certified under the Data Privacy Framework. Email hello@getsocial.uk to find out which applies to each provider, or for a copy of the relevant terms.
If we contact you about working together
If you work for a company or other incorporated organisation we might run events for, we may hold your business contact details: your name, job title, employer, work email address and work phone number, and what we've said to each other. We find some of these through Apollo.io, a business contact database, and some from your organisation's own public pages. We use them to email you about our events. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in telling organisations about our events, and every outreach email we send says where we found your details.
Apollo holds these details for us and records the emails we send and receive. It is also a source of them, and runs its own database as a controller in its own right, under its own privacy policy at apollo.io/privacy-policy. We keep your details while we're working together or talking about it, and delete them two years after you last replied or we last worked together, or sooner if you ask.
You have the right to object to this at any time. Reply “no thanks” to any of our emails, or write to hello@getsocial.uk, and we'll stop. We then delete your details and keep only your email address on a do-not-contact list, so that we never contact you again by mistake.
Your IP address
When you submit a form, or sign in to the site's admin area, the site uses your IP address only to count submissions from one connection within a short window (ten minutes for the forms, fifteen for admin sign-in). It's kept in the memory of the server handling your request, never in a database or a file, and is discarded when the window has passed or when that server is recycled. It also appears in the log entry described above if a submission is filtered as suspected spam or refused because too many arrived from one connection. Our lawful basis for this count is our legitimate interest in not losing enquiries and in keeping the forms and the admin sign-in free of abuse.
Photos from our events
Photos at our events are taken by us or by photographers working with us, and you may be in one. We use them on this site and in our own marketing, such as social media posts and material we show prospective clients. We never name anyone in them. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in showing what our events are like. We keep event photos for as long as we use them to show what our events are like; if you ask us to remove one, we delete it from the site and from our store. If you're in a photo and would like it taken down, email hello@getsocial.uk and we'll remove it. The photos are stored by our host, Vercel.
Cookies and similar things
The site sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device when you visit: no cookies, and nothing in your browser's local storage, session storage or IndexedDB. That is why there is no cookie banner. There are no analytics or marketing cookies, no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no session recording and no advertising tags. What you type into a form stays on the page until you send it; it is not saved on your device, and if the page reloads before you send, you'll need to start again.
We do count visits, with Vercel Web Analytics, run by our host. It records which pages are viewed, the referring site, and your broad location, browser, operating system and device type, and it counts a few actions: starting and sending a form (not what you type, and not which boxes you tick), which product a notify-me request was for, following a link to another site (only which site), following a “get a quote” link or a link from one of our blog posts to one of our pages (only which page it was on, which part of the page the button sat in, and which page it went to). It also notes how far down a page you scrolled (only whether you passed halfway and 90%), and, when an enquiry reaches us, which site linked you here and which of our pages you arrived on. It sets no cookie and stores nothing on your device. To tell one visit from another it uses a code worked out from your request, which is discarded after 24 hours and which we can't use to identify you; Vercel doesn't tie the counts to your IP address, and we only ever see aggregate numbers. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in knowing which pages work and whether the forms are being used. You have the right to object. The quickest way is to switch on Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track in your browser: when either is on, the site sends nothing to Vercel Web Analytics. You can also email us at the address above and we'll note it, though the browser setting is what stops the counting.
The one exception is for the site owner. admin-session is a cookie set only when the site owner signs in to the admin area to edit content. It lasts seven days, is only sent over HTTPS, and can't be read by scripts. It's strictly necessary for that sign-in to work, so it doesn't need consent. Ordinary visitors never see the sign-in page and are never given this cookie. The admin editing tool also keeps two small settings in the owner's browser storage so edit mode persists between pages. Its keyboard shortcut (Alt, or Option on a Mac, Shift and E) works for everyone, but it first asks our server whether you're signed in to the admin area, and stores nothing unless you are. For anyone but the owner the answer is no and nothing changes: no setting is stored and nothing is sent beyond that ordinary page request.
Fonts
The site uses the Poppins typeface, served from our own site. Your browser doesn't contact Google Fonts and Google receives nothing about your visit.
Links to other sites
Some pages link out to services we don't run: Outsavvy for tickets to our public quiz nights, Google for our reviews, popularitythegame.com where the Popularity board game is sold, and nosexgayweekend.com and thegayescape.com. Once you follow a link you're covered by their privacy notice, not this one.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask us to:
- tell you what information we hold about you, and give you a copy
- correct anything that's wrong
- delete it
- stop using it, or limit how we use it
- give it to you in a form you can pass to someone else
You can also object to our using your details on the basis of legitimate interests, and withdraw consent where that's the basis we rely on. Email hello@getsocial.uk and we'll respond within a month. If you're not happy with how we handle it, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Children
Our services are for organisations and adults. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18, and the enquiry forms aren't intended for them.
Changes
If we change how the site handles information, for example if we ever add a cookie banner or an online shop, we'll update this notice and the date at the top. The current version is always at getsocial.uk/privacy.