Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 20, 2026

Things To Do Locally ("we", "us") runs a network of local event sites, including York Happening, Durham Happening, and Halton Local, and the Things To Do Locally mobile app. This policy explains what we collect for your Things To Do Locally account, which you use to sign in on any of our sites, and what the app collects. Each site also has its own privacy policy covering its newsletter, analytics and advertising.

Your account

One account works on every site in the network. When you create or use it we keep:

• Your email address and name
• A securely hashed password, if you set one
• If you sign in with Google or Facebook: your account identifier, name, email address and profile picture from that service
• Events you save and reminders you set

Signing in

You sign in at accounts.thingstodolocally.ca. When you then visit one of our sites, it receives a single-use code that tells it who you are, and it starts its own signed-in session. Signing out on any site signs you out of your account and of every site you signed in to with it.

Each record of a signed-in session stores the browser (user agent) and IP address it was started from, to help us keep accounts secure.

Cookies

We use essential cookies only to keep you signed in and to protect our forms from abuse (including a security check from Cloudflare Turnstile). Our sites' analytics do not use cookies. Our local event sites show ads from Google AdSense, and Google uses cookies to show and measure those ads (see each site's privacy policy, and how Google uses information from sites that use its services).

Our mobile app

Our iPhone and Android app works without an account. When you first open it, the app creates a random identifier for your device so it can remember your choices. We store, against that identifier:

• The regions and towns you follow
• The events you save
• The alerts you choose (weekend picks, festivals and holidays, school days off and closures, severe weather), and a push notification token if you allow notifications
• Whether you joined the newsletter from the app (not your email address)
• The app and phone software version, so we can support older versions

We do not collect your name, contacts or precise location, and we do not track you across other apps or websites. If you choose "Use my location" when you set up the app, your phone finds your approximate location and town, and suggests a region; the location stays on your phone and is never sent to us. Event reminders are scheduled on your phone and are not sent to us.

Alerts use public information, such as Environment Canada weather warnings, school board calendars and school bus cancellation notices. We only send the alert types you turn on. Push notifications are delivered by Apple (iPhone) or Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (Android).

Newsletter. If you join the newsletter in the app, your email address and chosen areas go directly to our email provider, who sends you a link to confirm before you receive anything. You can unsubscribe from any email.

You can delete everything we hold about your device at any time: tap Delete my data in Settings on iPhone, or in the You tab on Android. This removes your saved events and preferences from our servers and from your phone. Deleting the app also removes its data from your phone. To remove your email address, use the unsubscribe link in any newsletter.

How we use your information

• To sign you in and keep your account secure
• To send the emails you ask for: sign-in links, password resets and event reminders
• To show your saved events and reminders on our sites

We do not sell your information or share it with anyone for their marketing.

Service providers

We use providers for hosting, email delivery, security checks and, if you choose them, sign-in with Google or Facebook. They process information only to provide those services.

Your choices and rights

You can see, correct, download or delete the information in your account yourself, from the Edit Profile page on any of our sites. The download is a file with everything we hold about you. Deleting your account happens immediately: it removes your account, your saved events, reminders and follows, and your name and email address on events you submitted, from every site in the network, and removes you from our newsletters.

For anything else about your information, write to [email protected].

Age requirement

Our sites are for adults: you must be at least 19 years old to use them (see our Terms of Service). We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 19. If you believe someone under 19 has given us their information, contact us at [email protected] and we will delete it.

Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date above, and tell account holders by email about significant changes.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected].