Privacy policy

FikaMeet is a free, non-commercial service that connects people for one-on-one meetings and community events. It is run by a private individual in the EU, who is responsible for your data (the “data controller”). For anything about your data, write to support@fikameet.com.

• Account: name, sign-in email, the email you choose for notifications (if different), profile photo, headline, company, LinkedIn profile link, and your public username.
• Professional profile: bio, topics, rate, availability, time zone, and the MobilePay or Vipps number you add to receive payments.
• CV (if you upload one): we read your work history, education, skills, certifications and languages into your profile. The PDF itself is kept only until we have reviewed it, then deleted.
• Bookings and invites: who is meeting whom, when, the note sent with the request, the agreed price, and the confirmations each side makes.
• Event registrations: which events you registered for and the payment confirmations.
• Messages and reviews: what you write in a booking’s chat and the rating and comment you leave after a meeting.
• Sign-in data: session cookies, and the details LinkedIn returns when you sign in (used then, not stored as tokens).

• To run the service you signed up for (contract): your account, showing profiles, bookings, chat, reminder and booking emails, showing a Host the MobilePay number and amount once presence is confirmed.
• To suggest people you could meet (legitimate interest): using profile details, including those read from your CV.
• To keep FikaMeet safe and working (legitimate interest): handling reports, preventing misuse, and counting how the site is used, without identifying you.
• Where the law requires it (legal obligation): for example, if we must report information to the tax authorities.

FikaMeet doesn’t handle payments or charge a fee: money moves directly between members in the MobilePay or Vipps app, under Vipps MobilePay’s own privacy policy.

To run FikaMeet we use a few service providers: website hosting, a database and sign-in service, an email service, cookieless usage statistics, and a video-call service for meetings. They handle your data only to provide their service to us. Sign-in uses your LinkedIn account.

Meetings take place on Jitsi Meet, and its own privacy policy applies when you join a call. The person who opens the room may be asked to sign in there with Google, GitHub or Facebook.

Other members see your public profile and, if you have a booking together, that booking’s details, chat and reviews. Reviews are public on the profile. If you aren’t a professional, your profile isn’t public: only people you have a booking with (and FikaMeet’s admin, for support) see your name, photo, headline, company, city, bio and LinkedIn link.

Other members never see your email address, unless you share it with them yourself, for example in the chat. If you’re a professional, the MobilePay or Vipps number you add is shown to the person you meet, so they can pay you.

Some providers are based outside the EU. Where data leaves the EU, they rely on the safeguards GDPR requires. We don’t sell personal data and run no advertising trackers.

We use first-party cookies only to keep you signed in and to remember your cookie choice. Our analytics are cookieless. No advertising cookies.

• CV files: until we have reviewed them, then deleted.
• Everything else: as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, we cancel your open bookings and remove your profile, CV and the data linked to it.
• Payments made between members in MobilePay or Vipps are outside FikaMeet.

You can see, correct and delete your data. Most of it you can edit yourself at your profile, where you can also delete your account. You can also ask us to restrict or stop using your data, object to how we use it, or send you a copy of it. Write to support@fikameet.com.

We’ll post changes here and email signed-in members about important ones.