Privacy Policy

86 Club is the responsible party for the personal information described in this policy. You can reach us about any privacy matter at members@the86clubs.co.za.

This policy covers the 86 Club website, the member area, digital membership cards and our merchandise store.

We collect only what the club needs to run.

• — Account details: name, email address, password credentials handled by our authentication provider, and your unique 86 Club member number.
• — Profile details you choose to add: city, industry role, short bio and avatar image.
• — Membership details: tier, status, start date, renewal date, seat number and membership history.
• — Payment details: transaction references, amounts, currency, payment status and subscription identifiers. Full card numbers are never stored by 86 Club — they are handled by our payment provider.
• — Event participation: registrations, guest counts and notes you submit.
• — Communications: contact form submissions and transactional email delivery records.
• — Technical information: log and security data generated by our hosting infrastructure.

We process personal information for the following purposes:

• — To create and administer your account and membership.
• — To take membership payments and manage recurring subscriptions.
• — To issue and verify your digital membership card.
• — To manage event registrations and partner benefits.
• — To send transactional emails such as welcome, activation, receipt, renewal, failed payment, cancellation and expiry notices.
• — To keep the platform secure, prevent fraud and comply with legal obligations.

We use a small number of operators, each with a specific role. They may only process your information on our instructions.

• — Supabase — hosts our database and authentication, storing account, member and membership data.
• — Paystack — processes membership payments and recurring subscriptions. Card data is entered on Paystack’s own secure page.
• — Resend — delivers our transactional membership emails.
• — Shopify — operates the 86 Club merchandise store and processes order, delivery and payment information when you shop. Shopify does not operate the 86 Club membership system.
• — Website and application hosting and infrastructure providers — run and serve the site and its server functions.

Each membership card carries a unique verification token. When the card is scanned, a verification page shows only the minimum needed to confirm standing: validity status, display name, member number, tier name and the month the membership started.

No email address, payment information or contact detail is exposed through card verification. Tokens can be revoked or reissued by an administrator, which immediately invalidates the previous code.

Transactional emails relating to your account, membership, payments and card are part of the service and are sent while your account is open.

Any purely promotional communication is optional. You can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe route in the message or by emailing us; opting out does not affect transactional messages.

We use strictly necessary cookies and browser storage to keep you signed in, remember your shopping bag and secure form submissions.

We do not run advertising trackers on the 86 Club site. The merchandise store may set cookies required by Shopify to complete checkout.

Access to member data is protected by database row-level security so that members can read only their own private records. Payment, webhook and email records cannot be written from the browser.

Secret credentials for payments and email are stored as server-side secrets and are never exposed to client code. Traffic is served over HTTPS.

We keep account, membership and payment records for as long as your account exists and thereafter only as long as needed for legal, accounting and dispute-resolution purposes.

Policy acceptance records and payment records are retained as evidence of the agreement between us and are not deleted when a newer policy version is accepted.

Subject to applicable law, you may:

• — Ask what personal information we hold about you and request access to it.
• — Ask us to correct or update inaccurate or incomplete information.
• — Ask us to delete information we no longer have grounds to keep.
• — Object to processing in certain circumstances and withdraw optional consent.
• — Complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa.

Some of our service providers process and store information outside South Africa. Where that happens, we rely on providers that offer a level of protection comparable to POPIA and contractual safeguards covering their handling of your information.

This policy carries a version and effective date. Material changes are published here with a new version, and where required we will ask you to accept the updated version.

For any privacy request, contact members@the86clubs.co.za.