City Week works without an account. You can sign in with Google, or with an email address and a password, if you want the events and shopping list you saved on your other devices too — or to post on the board. The one other thing we can hold is an email address, and only if you type it in and ask us to.
From reading the site, a count and nothing more. When a page opens, we note which page it was, the day, the country the visit came from — and inside the United States, the state — and, if you followed a link to get here, the name of the site the link was on, such as google.com. When you press Save, open an event or a place, add something to your calendar, or follow a link to a shop or a map, we note that it was pressed and on which page. Your browser keeps a yes or no saying whether it has opened City Week before, and we note that too, so we can tell new readers from returning ones. No IP address, no cookie, no device details: nothing that tells one reader from another. It is how we learn whether people find City Week, and which parts of it they use. We run no outside analytics. The one part of the site that comes from another company is the deals box, described below.
We set one small cookie, described below, and it says which area you last picked from the menu — not who you are. Unless you sign in, we do not know who visits, and we have no way to find out.
If you sign up for the weekly letter, we keep the address you typed. That, and signing in if you choose to, are the only things on this site that ask you for anything.
If you subscribe, we store three things: the email address you typed, which language you were reading in, and the date you signed up. No name, no anything else, and we do not ask.
We use it to send one email a week about what is on and what is on sale. We do not use it for anything else, and we never sell, rent or hand the list to anybody.
Every letter carries an unsubscribe link, and pressing it is the end of it. You can also write to info@cityweek.co and ask to be taken off, or to be told what we hold about you; either way we do it and delete the address.
The list is held at Resend, which is also what sends the letters — one company, doing that one job. Nobody else is given the list.
Signing in is optional, and everything on the site works without it. It exists so that what you save — events you mean to go to, items on your shopping list — shows up on your phone and your computer alike.
When you sign in with Google, Google tells us an id for your account there, your email address and your name. We never see your password, and we ask for nothing else — not your contacts, not your calendar, not your photos.
If you make an account with an email address and a password instead, we first send a six-digit code to that address, so we know it is yours. We keep the address and a scrambled form of the password that cannot be turned back into it; the password itself is never stored, and nobody here can read it. A code is kept only in scrambled form too, and stops working after 15 minutes. If you later sign in with Google under the same address, it opens the same account.
We keep that id, the email address and name, the dates you joined and last signed in, and what you saved on each area's pages. We use it for one thing: showing you your saved items wherever you sign in. Signing in does not put you on the weekly letter, and we never sell, rent or hand any of it to anybody.
Delete account, in the account menu at the top of every page, removes your account and everything you saved, at once. Signing out removes the copy in that browser. You can also write to info@cityweek.co and we will delete it, or tell you what we hold.
Signed in, your browser carries two cookies from us: cw_s, which says which account is signed in on this browser and is sealed so it cannot be altered, and cw_in, which says only that someone is signed in, so the page knows to fetch your saved items. Both last 180 days or until you sign out. While you are signing in, a third, cw_o, lasts ten minutes and makes sure the answer that comes back from Google is the one you asked for.
You can delete your account yourself, in the City Week app or on cityweek.co:
Or write to info@cityweek.co from the address on the account, and we will delete it for you.
Deleting removes, at once and for good: the account (its id, email address, name and scrambled password), everything you saved, and every board post you wrote, with its translations. Nothing tied to the account is kept afterwards. The weekly letter is separate: if you subscribed, the unsubscribe link in any letter takes you off it, or ask us.
To post on the board you sign in first. A post holds what you write in it — the title, the details, the amount, the neighbourhood, how to reach you and the languages you speak — and which account wrote it. Before it appears we read it, and its text is translated into the board's other languages by Claude, made by Anthropic; nothing else about you goes with it.
Once approved, the post is shown to anyone who opens the board. How to reach you is shown only to readers who are signed in, so robots and passers-by do not collect it — but anyone can make an account, so write only what you are happy for strangers to see. A post comes down 30 days after it went up and is then deleted, with its translations. You can take it down sooner from Your posts on the board, and deleting your account deletes your posts at once.
If you press Near me, your browser asks your permission and then gives this page your coordinates. They are used on your own device to sort the list by distance. They are never sent to us, and we have no server that could receive them.
Your last position is kept in your browser for one day so the list opens without a wait, and is discarded after that. Clearing your browser's data for this site removes it immediately.
When you open cityweek.co, it opens the area nearest you. Cloudflare, which serves the site, attaches an approximate place to every request, worked out from your IP address; we use it only to choose that area and do not keep it.
The language you picked, your saved items, whether you closed the line that offers the City Week app, and the yes or no described above are stored by your browser, on your device. If you are signed in, your saved items are also kept with your account, as described above; if you are not, they never leave your device.
One cookie, cw_pick, holds the name of the area you last picked from the menu — for example oahu — so that cityweek.co opens it again next time. It holds nothing else, lasts one year, and is sent only to this site. Clearing your browser's data for this site removes it.
On the front page of each area, a box from EmpowerLocal shows weekly deals from nearby stores, supplied by Flipp, and sometimes an ad. It is what pays for City Week.
The box's code comes from EmpowerLocal and Flipp and runs on every area page of the site. To choose what to show, Flipp works out an approximate place, a postal code, from your IP address, and sets a cookie, flipp-uid, that lasts one year. For readers in the United States it also matches that cookie with LiveRamp, so that deals and ads can be picked using what those companies know from other sites and apps. We do not see or keep any of it.
In the City Week app for iPhone, the box appears only if you allow tracking when the app asks; if you say no, it never loads. In the Android app and in a browser it loads like the rest of the page. Clearing your browser's data for this site removes the cookie.
Their policies: Flipp, EmpowerLocal, and LiveRamp, where you can opt out.
The site is served by Cloudflare, which keeps ordinary server logs — an IP address, a time, a page — the way every web host does. We use them only to keep the site running.
The page counts described above, and accounts, saved items and board posts if you sign in, are kept in a database at Supabase. Only we can read them. If you sign in, Google knows that you signed in to City Week.
If you make an account with an email address and a password, the six-digit codes are sent by Resend, the company that sends the weekly letter.
The typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts, so your browser makes a request to Google and Google sees your IP address in it.
Links to events, shops, cinemas and maps take you to other companies' sites, which have their own policies. We have no part in what happens once you leave.
City Week is a public listing of what is happening in a city. It is not aimed at children, and we do not knowingly keep an email address or an account from one. If a child has signed up, write to us and we will remove it.
If this ever stops being true — if we add a way to save things across devices, or start measuring who visits — this page changes first, with the date below. It changed on 22 September 2026, when the weekly letter was added; on 29 September 2026, when the site started remembering the area you last opened; on 4 October 2026, when we started counting page views; on 6 October 2026, when signing in with Google was added so that saved items can follow you between devices; on 9 October 2026, when signing in with an email address and a password was added; and on 10 October 2026, when the board was added; and on 12 October 2026, when the count started to note the US state, what was pressed, and whether a reader is new; and again on 12 October 2026, when how to reach a poster started being shown only to signed-in readers; and on 2 November 2026, when cityweek.co started opening the area nearest you and remembering only an area you pick; and on 4 November 2026, when the deals box was added.
Questions, corrections, or a request to remove something: info@cityweek.co