Privacy policy

What we collect

When you propose a talk or workshop on our Speak page, we collect what you enter: your name, email address, LinkedIn or website, talk title, format, abstract, target audience, speaker bio, speaking experience, and anything else you add.

When you email us, we keep your message and email address so we can reply.

We also collect information about how the site is used, through Google Analytics (see Analytics and cookies).

How we use it

• To review your proposal and get back to you about it.
• To send a confirmation email when you submit a proposal, with a copy to our organisers.
• If your talk goes ahead, to list your name, talk details and bio on that meetup's event page, which we agree with you first.
• To understand which pages people visit and how they find us, so we can improve the site.

We don't sell your information or use it for advertising.

Analytics and cookies

We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are useful. It sets cookies (named _ga and _ga_72FXHWL6LE) to tell one visit from the next, and collects things like the pages you view, how you arrived, your device and browser, and your approximate location (city or country). Google Analytics doesn't log or store your IP address.

We don't use advertising cookies. To opt out, you can block cookies in your browser or install Google's Analytics opt-out add-on. Google's handling of this data is covered by Google's Privacy Policy.

Content from other services

Some parts of the site load content from other services, which means your browser connects to them and they can see your IP address:

• Our events, organisers and partners load from Bevy, the community platform Google Developer Groups use, with images from Cloudinary.
• The venue section of the DevFest Sydney 2026 page shows a Google Maps embed.

Links to other sites, such as Meetup, LinkedIn, Instagram and our ticketing provider, are covered by those sites' own privacy policies.

Services we use

• Firebase and Google Cloud: host the website and store talk proposals.
• Resend: sends confirmation emails on our behalf.
• Google Analytics: measures how the site is used.

How long we keep it

We keep talk proposals for as long as we need them to review them and follow up with you, and for a reasonable time afterwards for our records. If you'd like yours deleted sooner, email us and we'll remove it.

Your rights

You can ask us to show you, correct or delete the information we hold about you at any time. Email hello@gdgsydney.com and an organiser will look after it.

GDG Sydney is an independently run community group and is not an official Google product or service. If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page.