Last updated: 8 October 2026
Circuit (meetcircuit.com) is operated from London, UK. We keep the attendance record for the Rooms organisers run on Circuit: who came, and who came back.
The controller is Meet Circuit Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 17376774, registered office 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE.
Production data is stored in the United States (AWS us-east-1) via Neon PostgreSQL, and our application servers run there too. UK GDPR applies to your data wherever it is held. See International data transfers below.
Circuit has three kinds of reader, and they are told different things because different things are true of them.
The sections after those three apply to everyone. If more than one describes you, they all apply.
Visit counts, return rates, and whether you are a regular. All computed from attendance records, and shown to the organiser whose Rooms you attended.
Whether you keep your RSVPs. Kept RSVPs count at any organiser on Circuit: where an organiser has chosen it, a strong record lets you RSVP before a Room opens to everyone, on the web or in the Circuit app, or be invited sooner. Missed RSVPs count only at the organiser whose Rooms you missed, and only for nights where the door was run. Nobody is shown a score.
Some Rooms let guests make themselves visible to other people in the room. It is opt-in, and you can withdraw at any time.
The list is open from 6 hours before the Room starts until 24 hours after it starts. Only your name and avatar are shown. Your email address and your attendance history are never visible to other guests.
A Circuit member can bring one guest. If they gave us your name and email address, they told us they had your permission, and we emailed you to say so. That email carries a link that takes you off the list, and you can use it without asking them.
We hold your name and email for that Room’s date and delete them 30 days after it. The extra time is so that somebody who has taken themselves off a list cannot simply be added again. You have no account with us and never need one.
Membership adds an account, and everything below follows from having one. None of it applies to a guest who has simply been checked in.
When you join, we record that you confirmed you are 18 or over, and when. We do not ask for your date of birth.
Display name, bio, photo, and your membership status. Your member code is the short identifier embedded in a Circuit Card. You control what a profile shows and can edit or clear it at any time.
We store the email addresses you have verified, and you can hold more than one. If you use Sign in with Apple, we also store the stable identifier Apple gives us. Apple may give you a private relay address instead of your own; we store whatever address we receive.
Sign-in codes are stored for 10 minutes and then deleted. Sign-in tokens last until you sign out or delete your account.
A Card is a physical NFC card carrying a member code. When you claim one we record the claim, the time, and the IP address and browser the claim came from, so a Card cannot be quietly taken over by somebody else.
Tapping a Circuit Block, or having your Card tapped at a door, writes a verified attendance record. We keep the evidence for each accepted tap, not only the first, because that is what makes the record checkable.
Presence at a venue expires 2 hours after the tap. It is not location tracking: Circuit does not read your device location, and a tap tells us you were at a specific reader at a specific moment, nothing more.
Who’s here is off unless you turn it on. When it is on and you have checked in at a room, members in that room who also show their names can see yours, for 2 hours after your tap.
You can turn it on for one room at a time, or choose to be visible by default. If your standing choice is Connections only, your name is shown only to members you are connected with, and only when you are both in the room. A standing choice applies from your next check-in, not to a room you are already in, and we keep a record of when you made it and when you changed it. You can change it in your profile on circuit.fm or in Settings in the app, and turning it off takes effect at once.
A choice you make in one room wins over your standing choice, in either direction. Nobody sees who looked, and a member you have blocked is never shown to you, or you to them.
If you use the app and allow notifications, we store a device token from Apple, the platform, the device name you gave it, and when it was last seen. We keep a record of what we sent you.
You can turn notifications off in the app, and the token is deleted when the device unregisters or you delete your account.
Members can connect with each other. A connection is two-sided by construction: both people act, and neither can create one alone. Seeing another member’s circle requires a live connection, and you can block or report another member at any time.
Rooms your Connections share with you can shape where you are invited.
When you check in at Rooms, Circuit can use that, together with other members’ check-ins, to find Rooms you might want to go to. If several members who go to the same Rooms you do start going somewhere new, that Room can appear in your Signal.
It only ever works in aggregate. Nobody is shown to you, and you are never shown to anyone. We never tell you who, how many, or why: a Room found this way is labelled “Signal” and nothing else. It needs at least five people, and it never changes because of one person. It uses only verified check-ins, never what you saved, said you were going to, or your phone’s location. Organisers never see any of it.
We do not store who you overlap with. We keep only totals per Room, and the list of Rooms found for you, which you can see, export or remove.
We do this because it is how Circuit helps you find Rooms worth going to (legitimate interests). It is on unless you turn it off. “Use my attendance to help Circuit route people” on your Card switches it off: your check-ins then help nobody else, and no Rooms are found for you this way. You can turn it back on at any time.
Paid RSVPs and Card purchases are processed by Stripe, which receives what it needs to take the payment. We do not store card numbers. We keep the record of the hold and the transaction.
Deleting your account removes, in one action: your sign-in tokens, codes and verified addresses; your devices and notification settings; your connections, circle access, blocks and reports; your saved rooms; your Card claims; and the receipts from any identity merge.
Your attendance record at an organiser’s Rooms is treated the same way as any guest’s: it is anonymised rather than deleted, so the organiser keeps a count of who was in the room without keeping you.
Circuit and organisers are joint controllers under GDPR Article 26 for attendance data collected at check-in. Circuit provides the infrastructure; you determine the purpose. A joint controller agreement governs how responsibilities are allocated.
Circuit is Data Controller for member profile data, which is the account a member creates with us rather than with you.
You must have a lawful basis for collecting guest email addresses and attendance data, and you should tell your guests that attendance is recorded via Circuit and point them here. If a guest asks you for their data, we will help you answer.
You may add a co-host to a Room after guests have RSVP’d. If that happens we email those guests before anything is shared, and they can object using the link in that email. If they object, their record stays with the original hosts only.
API responses can be configured to return hashed email addresses (SHA-256) rather than plaintext. Outbound webhooks are signed with your secret. All API access is logged, including the requesting IP address and key identifier.
Under the UK GDPR and EU GDPR, you have the right to:
Legal basis: contract performance (running the service), legitimate interest (operating and securing it), and consent (marketing, profile features, cross-venue recognition, Who’s Here, notifications).
Circuit is a UK company. Production data is stored in the United States (AWS us-east-1), and our application servers run there too.
US-based processors (Neon/Databricks, Vercel, Apple, Stripe, Resend, Anthropic, Klaviyo) operate under Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) or equivalent safeguards.
We do not transfer data outside the UK/US corridor.
We do not use third-party tracking cookies, analytics cookies, or advertising scripts.
Email tracking. Some emails sent through Circuit by organisers include open and click tracking so the organiser can tell what is landing. Every such email carries a one-click unsubscribe link, which removes you from that organiser’s future emails immediately. Tracking is per-organiser; some organisers do not send tracked emails at all.
Circuit uses Anthropic (Claude) for natural language insight queries, recognition email composition, and report narration.
Processing is scoped to the organiser’s own data. Guest information from other organisers is never included. Queries, generated SQL and responses are logged for audit and debugging.
Anthropic processes data under their data processing terms. Data sent to Anthropic is not used to train their models.
Circuit membership is for people aged 18 and over. If you are under 18, write to hello@circuit.fm and we will delete your account. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
If you apply to work at Circuit, or to be a Circuit Society Founding Member, we use what you send us to consider your application and for nothing else.
When you apply for a role at circuit.fm/careers, we collect your name, email address, university, course and year (optional), a link or handle (optional), your answers and when you could start. The application is sent by email to careers@circuit.fm and is not stored in the Circuit database. It is used only to assess your application, and replies come from that inbox. Each application is deleted from that inbox 6 months after the role closes.
When you apply to be a Founding Member at circuit.fm/society/apply, we collect your name, university, course, phone number, email address, social links (optional), availability, your answers, a video link (optional), and your confirmation that you are 18 or over. Circuit stores the application, and it is used only to choose the cohort. If you are not selected, we delete it six months after applications for your cohort close. For the first cohort, applications close on 31 October 2026. If you are selected, your application is kept as part of your Founding Member record.
Legal basis: steps you have asked us to take before entering into a contract (considering your application), and legitimate interest in recruiting.
You can ask us to delete either kind of application at any time by emailing hello@meetcircuit.com.
We may update this policy. Material changes are communicated by email to organisers and posted here at least 30 days before they take effect. Corrections to statements that were inaccurate take effect immediately, because leaving something untrue on the page for 30 days would be worse.
The “Last updated” date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised.