Privacy Policy
Last updated 15 August 2026
seemyfriends helps friends find time to see each other. Doing that requires knowing when you are free and how to reach you. This policy describes exactly what that means, and deliberately avoids collecting anything beyond it.
seemyfriends is operated from Canada by Chris Whitmore, and handles personal information under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
What we collect
| Information | Why we need it |
|---|---|
| Mobile number | The primary way the service reaches you. Proposals and confirmations are sent by text. |
| Email address (optional) | Account recovery and sign-in links, if you provide one. |
| Display name and time zone | So friends recognize you and so we never suggest 3am. |
| Calendar free/busy times | If you connect a calendar, we read only whether a period is free or busy. We do not receive event titles, descriptions, locations, attendees, or attachments — the permissions we request from your calendar provider do not grant access to them. |
| Your stated availability and preferences | When you are open to plans, how often you would like to see particular people, how far you will travel, what kinds of things you enjoy. |
| Your connections | Which people you have mutually connected with. Required to match you with anyone. |
| Messages you exchange with the service | Texts and conversations with our assistant. See Messages. |
| Meetup history | Which proposals were made and whether they happened, so the service learns when to suggest things. |
| Consent records | The date, time, IP address, and exact wording you agreed to when you signed up. Required by Canadian anti-spam law and by mobile carriers. |
What we never collect
- The contents of your calendar events — not titles, not locations, not who else is attending.
- Your contacts or address book.
- Your location. We use a home area you tell us, not device location.
- Payment information. The service does not currently charge.
What other people can see
This is central to how the service works, so it is stated plainly. A person you are connected with never sees:
- your calendar or your free/busy times;
- when you have told us you are available;
- your preferences about them, including how often you would like to see them;
- whether you declined a suggested time.
When a suggestion does not work out, both people are told only that it did not come together. We do not say who declined, and we do not distinguish a decline from a missed reply.
Messages
We keep the messages you exchange with the service. They are how the assistant learns your preferences and the way you like to make plans — that someone prefers weekend mornings, or that a particular friendship works best over a long walk. This makes the service better the longer you use it.
These messages are used only to operate and personalize your own experience. We do not sell them, share them with advertisers, or use them to train anyone else's models. You can delete them at any time by deleting your account or by asking us.
How long we keep things
| Data | Retention |
|---|---|
| Calendar free/busy times | Deleted within 7 days of the time period they describe having passed. |
| Messages | Until you delete them or close your account. |
| Meetup history | Until you close your account. |
| Consent records | Retained after account closure only as long as anti-spam and carrier rules require us to prove consent was given. |
A note on how the 7 days works. To suggest anything useful, the service has to look a few weeks ahead, so at any moment we hold free/busy information about upcoming dates. The 7-day limit applies once a period has passed: a Tuesday evening we knew about is deleted within a week of that Tuesday.
Aggregate patterns learned from that information — for example, that you tend to accept weekend suggestions — persist after the underlying free/busy data is deleted. They contain no calendar detail.
Who we share with
We do not sell personal information. We share it only with providers that operate the service on our behalf:
- Cloudflare — hosting, storage, and network.
- Twilio — sending and receiving text messages.
- Anthropic — powering the assistant. Conversation content is processed to generate replies and is not used to train models.
- Google / Microsoft — only if you connect a calendar, and only to read free/busy and write events we create.
Some of these providers process data outside Canada, including in the United States, where it may be accessible to foreign courts and authorities.
Your rights
Under PIPEDA you may:
- ask what personal information we hold about you and get a copy;
- ask us to correct anything inaccurate;
- withdraw consent and close your account at any time;
- ask us to delete your information, subject to the consent records noted above;
- complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Email privacy@seemyfriends.net and we will respond within 30 days. Deleting your account removes your profile, availability, messages, and meetup history.
Security and breaches
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and access is limited to what operating the service requires. See Security for detail. If a breach creates a real risk of significant harm, we will notify affected people and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner as PIPEDA requires.
Children
The service is not intended for anyone under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their information.
Changes
If this policy changes materially, we will tell you before the change takes effect. The date at the top always reflects the current version.
Contact
Privacy questions: privacy@seemyfriends.net
Anything else: hello@seemyfriends.net
Mail: 347 Wildwood Park, Winnipeg, MB R3T 0E6, Canada