Privacy
Privacy Notice
Last updated 5 November 2026
Discretion is not a feature of TES. It is the condition on which it operates.
This notice explains what personal information we collect through this website, why we hold it, who else handles it, and the rights you have over it.
Who is responsible for your information
TES is the trading name of Ibiza Digital Labs Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under number 16806149, whose registered office is at 10 Ann Lane, London, England, SW10 0BN. In this notice, “TES”, “we” and “us” mean that company.
We are the controller of the information described here. For any question about your information, or to exercise your rights, write to faye@theexitsociety.com.
What this notice covers
This notice covers theexitsociety.com: applying for membership, The Circle, and writing to us. If your application is accepted, membership itself, including your profile, introductions, messages and identity verification, takes place in the TES app. That has its own privacy notice, which you will be shown before you begin.
What we collect
We collect only what you choose to tell us. We do not gather information about you from other sources, and we do not buy, rent or enrich data.
When you apply for membership
| First name and surname | To address you personally. |
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| Date of birth | TES is only for people aged 18 and over. It also helps us understand who you would like to meet. |
| Where you currently live | TES is international; this tells us where you are based. |
| Occupation, and company (optional) | To understand your world. |
| Email and phone | To reply to you, and to contact you about your application. |
| Instagram (optional) | Only if you choose to share it. Seen only by the TES team, never by other members. |
| A photo (optional) | Only if you choose to share one, to help us consider your application. Seen only by the TES team, never by other members. |
| A few lines about you | In your own words: who you are, and what brings you to TES. |
| Introduced by a member (optional) | If you name a member, we confirm privately with them that they introduced you. We tell them only that you named them, and nothing else from your application. |
If you have been invited into The Circle
| Full name, email, telephone | To know who you are and to reach you. |
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| Date of birth | To confirm you are 18 or over. |
| Where you are based, and where else you spend time | TES is international; this tells us where you are. |
| What you do, and a little about yourself | To understand your world, so that we can welcome you properly. |
| Instagram, LinkedIn | Optional, and only if you choose to share them. |
| A recent photograph | So that we can put a face to the name. It is not published, and is not used for facial recognition or any automated analysis. |
| Whether you are open to a private introduction, and to hearing about gatherings | So that we never approach you about something you would not welcome. |
| Confirmation that you are 18 or over | A condition of taking part. |
When you write to us, we keep your message and our reply.
We do not ask for financial details or identity documents through this website. Please do not send them by email or through either form.
Personal and sensitive details
TES is a dating membership, so you may choose to tell us personal things, for example about past relationships, or details that reveal your sexual orientation, beliefs or health. Our forms do not ask for these, and you need not include them. If you do, we use them only to consider your application and to understand who you would like to meet, and we rely on your explicit consent, which you can withdraw at any time by writing to us.
Why we are permitted to hold it
Under the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR, we rely on:
- Steps you have asked us to take before membership: considering your application and replying to it.
- Our legitimate interests in running a selective, safe membership: checking that applicants are suitable and over 18, and confirming introductions with the members named. We have weighed these against your interests, which is why nothing is published and nothing is shared without good reason.
- Your consent, for anything sensitive you choose to share, and for hearing about gatherings. You may withdraw consent at any time without affecting anything done beforehand.
How your information is used
- To read and consider your application. Every application is read by a person; no decision about you is made by automated means.
- To reply to you, and to arrange the next steps if you are accepted.
- To confirm an introduction with the member you named, if you named one.
- For The Circle: to welcome you and, only if you have said you are open to it, to consider an introduction or invite you to a gathering.
Applying, or joining The Circle, does not by itself create a membership or entitle anyone to an introduction or an invitation.
Who your information may be shared with
We keep the number of people and systems involved deliberately small, and share only what is necessary.
- The member you named, only to confirm that they introduced you.
- Our service providers, listed below, who handle information only on our instructions.
- Where the law requires it, or to establish or defend legal claims.
We never sell or rent your information, and we never make it publicly searchable.
Service providers
| Netlify, Inc. | Hosts this website. Based in the United States. |
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| Supabase, Inc. | Stores what you submit through our forms, including any photograph, in TES’s private database, held in the European Union (Frankfurt). Only the TES team can see it. |
| Resend, Inc. | Sends the emails we write to you, such as our reply to your application. Based in the United States. |
| Microsoft (Microsoft 365) | Provides our email, so correspondence with you is stored there. |
| Google Fonts | This site loads typefaces from Google’s servers, which receive your IP address as a result. No cookie is set, and you are not tracked or profiled. |
Where we engage other providers, they work under written terms requiring them to protect your information and use it only on our instructions.
International transfers
Some of our providers are based outside the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area, mainly in the United States. Where your information is transferred, it is protected by appropriate safeguards, such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or an adequacy decision.
How long we keep it
- Applications that do not go ahead: 12 months from our reply, then deleted. Any photo you sent is deleted sooner, within 6 months of your application.
- Applications that are accepted become part of your membership, covered by the TES app’s privacy notice.
- Circle details that do not go ahead: 2 years, then deleted.
- Correspondence: for as long as it is relevant to the above.
You may ask us to delete your information at any time, and we will, unless we must keep it, for example to establish or defend a legal claim.
Cookies
This site uses one cookie, and only if you enter The Circle.
| tes_circle | Remembers that you entered a valid access code, so you are not asked again. It lasts 12 hours, contains no personal information, and is strictly necessary for that feature. |
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We run no analytics, no advertising pixels and no tracking of any kind, so there is nothing optional to consent to.
Security
This site is served only over an encrypted connection, and what you submit is transmitted encrypted. Access is limited to those at TES who need it. No system can be guaranteed secure, but we take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your information, and keep them under review.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- ask for a copy of the information we hold about you;
- have inaccurate information corrected;
- have your information deleted;
- restrict or object to how we use it, including objecting to processing based on legitimate interests;
- receive it in a portable form;
- withdraw your consent, where we relied on it.
If you have given us a photograph, you may ask us to delete it without deleting anything else. To exercise any of these rights, write to faye@theexitsociety.com. We will respond within one month, free of charge.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please tell us first and we will try to put it right. You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk). If you live in the European Union, you may also complain to the data protection authority in your country.
Changes to this notice
If this notice changes materially, we will update the date at the top. Where a change affects information you have already given us, we will tell you directly rather than rely on you noticing.
Questions about your information?
Write to faye@theexitsociety.com and it will be answered personally and in confidence.