Privacy notice
Last updated: October 2026
AWS Community Pakistan is a volunteer-run community (including AWS User Group Lahore). This notice explains what we collect when you register for our events, apply as an industry partner, volunteer, or subscribe to updates, and what we do with it.
What we collect
- Registration details you enter: name, email, phone, city, LinkedIn, studies or work details, AWS experience, interests and your answers.
- Referral and campaign data: the referral code and UTM tags in the link you arrived from.
- Security and anti-abuse data: a salted, one-way hash of your IP address (never the IP itself) and your browser's user-agent.
- Website statistics: page-view counts. Unique visitors are counted with a hash that changes every day, so you can't be tracked across days. We don't use cookies for this.
Why we use it
- To review applications, send invites, tickets, reminders and event updates, and run check-in.
- To run the referral program and the public leaderboard. The leaderboard shows only your first name and last initial, and only if you allow it.
- To understand our audience in aggregate (for example, the share of students vs professionals) and to report aggregate numbers to partners.
Who we share it with
- Industry partners: only if you tick "share my profile with industry partners", only if you're approved to attend, and only limited professional fields (name, email, LinkedIn, company, role, experience, AWS skills).
- Service providers that run our infrastructure: Cloudflare (website, database, bot protection) and Amazon Web Services (website hosting, email delivery, backups).
- We never sell your data.
How long we keep it
Event registrations are kept for 12 months after the event, then deleted, except where you opted in to community updates (we keep your name and email for that until you unsubscribe). Backups expire after about 13 months.
Your choices
Event app. Confirmed attendees can sign in to the event app at /lahore/app/ with a one-time code sent to their registered email. You only appear in its attendee directory if you turn that on, and even then other attendees see only your name, headline, short bio and tags. Your LinkedIn profile (and your email, if you choose) is shown only to people whose connection you accept or who accept yours. Your phone number is never shown. Chat messages are only between people who accepted each other's connection request and are deleted 30 days after the event (they are not included in backups). Photos you share are shown to other attendees only after an organizer approves them. The registration agreement includes sharing your profile with event partners: when you scan a partner's passport QR, that partner may get your name, role and LinkedIn. To opt out of partner sharing or community updates at any time, email [email protected] or use the unsubscribe link in any update email. Connections, meetings, questions, board posts, photos, passport stamps and app profiles are deleted 90 days after the event.
Team, partners and community leaders. If you submit a team profile, your name, role, photo and LinkedIn are shown on the event website once an organizer approves it. Partner logos are shown once the partnership is approved. Community leaders who sign up for a personal link appear on the referral leaderboard with their name and AWS community role after verification; the group or university you give us is used only for verification and is never published.
Every update email has an unsubscribe link. To see, correct or delete your data, email [email protected] from the address you registered with.