What happens next
New messages are looked at in batches, usually every few days. The review needs only the group's public details: its name, address, city and activity. We check the group's own public page, and if the group is open to new people, we add it in a later update of our list. Nothing you write is published as you wrote it: a group's page shows only the facts we check on the group's own page.
We send no email from this form. If we have a question, we may write to the address you give.
What we keep, and who sees it
We keep what you write in this form. We set no cookie and keep no IP address. Like every page of this site, your visit is counted by the site's own page-view counter, which does not name you: thingstojoin.com/privacy says how.
Your email address and your note are encrypted as soon as our site receives them, and they stay sealed. Only we open them, at a terminal on our server, with our review command, and only if we need to write back to you. Nothing of it is published.
We delete your email address and note 90 days after we have looked at your message, or 120 days after you sent it if we have not looked at it by then. Backups of our database can keep them, encrypted, for up to about 13 months after that. Cloudflare, which serves this site, keeps its own copy of your message for three months from the day you send it, your email address and note encrypted as above, and nobody can delete that copy sooner. To have your message deleted earlier, write to us through thingstojoin.com/contact: we delete ours at once.