Privacy Policy

SD AI Studio is operated by A Rhea of Hope, Inc., a California corporation. This policy covers sandiegoaistudio.com, our event calendar, newsletters, meetup submission forms, and related SD AI Studio pages.

We collect information you choose to provide, including:

• Email addresses, subscription status, and signup source.
• Meetup submissions, including your email, event link, and description.
• Phone numbers and SMS consent records if you choose to join an SMS program.
• Messages, shared projects, or other material you intentionally submit.

We also receive limited technical and usage information such as IP address, browser and device type, pages viewed, referring page, approximate region, and interaction data. PostHog may provide product analytics and masked session recordings; form inputs are masked. Vercel provides hosting and aggregate web analytics.

At in-person events, we may capture photographs, video, and audio. Event pages and on-site notices provide additional context when recording is planned.

• Deliver newsletters, event information, and requested follow-ups.
• Review and publish appropriate meetup listings.
• Operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the site and events.
• Prevent abuse and enforce reasonable participation rules.
• Create recaps, recordings, and learning material that tighten the feedback loop between one gathering and the next.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We use service providers to run the site and community, including Vercel, Neon, PostHog, Resend, Cloudflare, TwentyFive, and event or registration platforms. They may process information on our behalf for hosting, storage, analytics, email delivery, CRM, security, and event operations. We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect safety or rights, or as part of a business reorganization.

Material you intentionally submit for public posting, and event footage or audio identified as public, may be shared publicly and redistributed by others.

The site and its providers may use cookies or similar storage for analytics, security, and basic functionality. Third-party sites you open from our pages follow their own privacy policies.

When a browser sends Global Privacy Control or the legacy Do Not Track signal, this site does not initialize PostHog analytics. You can also limit cookies or scripts through your browser. Other providers may still receive the technical information needed to deliver the site.

We retain information for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes above, legal obligations, dispute resolution, and community records. Newsletter data is retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion. Public event recordings and recaps may be retained indefinitely.

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, but no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Every newsletter includes an unsubscribe link. SMS participants can reply STOP. You may ask to access, correct, or delete information associated with you by emailing lucas@sandiegoaistudio.com. We may need to verify your request and will respond as required by applicable law.

If you have a concern about event footage or audio, contact us with enough detail to identify it. We will consider reasonable requests, although we cannot control copies already shared by third parties.

The site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Contact us if you believe a child has provided information.

We may update this policy as our practices change. Material changes will be posted here with a new effective date. Questions or requests can be sent to lucas@sandiegoaistudio.com.