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1Publisher

Service

PartyPPL, partyppl.nl, and the apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and Apple TV

Trade name

PartyPPL

Chamber of Commerce number

97359866

VAT identification number

NL005264805B67

Address

Pater R.D. Kloegstraat 7, 5684 TK Best, the Netherlands

Contact

info@partyppl.nl

Fast contact

The support contact form, also without an account, or support@partyppl.nl. We respond within five working days, usually sooner.

Phone

0499 22 40 16

Privacy

privacy@partyppl.nl

Security

security@partyppl.nl, the report form on security.partyppl.nl and /.well-known/security.txt

Responsible for the content

The PartyPPL editorial team, at the same address

These are our business details as a service provider (article 3:15d of the Dutch Civil Code). PartyPPL is the trade name of the business registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce under number 97359866. Every agreement with PartyPPL is with that business. Post reaches us at the address above; for anything faster, e-mail and the contact form work better.

2Who makes it

PartyPPL is conceived and edited by party people who stand in the room themselves. The agenda team checks what organisers and visitors post; the moderation team handles reports; the editors write the news.

Design, website, apps, backend, infrastructure and the security baseline: we build and run them ourselves.

Why this platform exists is on About.

3What it runs on

Hosting and database

A server of our own at OVHcloud in Germany (Limburg an der Lahn), with the database, the stored files and the realtime chat. At busy times an extra OVHcloud server in Germany joins in, with a read copy of the database. A second server at OVHcloud in Canada keeps a continuous standby copy and also resizes pictures and draws the share cards. Cloudflare sits in front for DNS, CDN and attack protection, so all traffic passes through Cloudflare.

Payments

Stripe, with Stripe Connect Express for payouts to organisers.

E-mail

A mail server of our own on our server in Germany receives mail to addresses on partyppl.nl, with webmail for our team. What we send, including support's answers, goes through Resend.

AI

Claude by Anthropic, for completing public event data and, when it is on, our marketing team's weekly report. On the iPhone, Apple Intelligence, on the device itself. See AI at PartyPPL.

Apple

Push notifications, Live Activities, Apple Wallet and Sign in with Apple.

Maps

MapLibre with map tiles from OpenFreeMap, based on OpenStreetMap data. © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Fonts

Unbounded and DM Sans, open source and served from our own server.

What that means for your privacy is in the privacy statement and on the cookie page.

4Where the event data comes from

Organisers

Post themselves through the portal, for free. Goes past the agenda team, usually within 24 hours.

Visitors

Submit a night at /aanmelden. That goes past the agenda team too.

Import

We read the public agendas of clubs, festivals, promoters and ticket platforms: structured data on their own pages, public feeds and official APIs. Those events go live automatically, with a filter on date, duplicates and whether it is nightlife.

Completion

What is missing, a model (Claude) looks up on the organiser's site and at the shop: poster, site map, ticket types, the official shop, prices elsewhere and token prices. Prices and token prices are shown as an indication, with source and date; a site map goes past a person first.

We take facts: what, when, where, who plays, what a ticket costs, where to buy it, from what age. Plus the poster. For some sources we also show the description as the source published it openly itself; otherwise we write one from the facts, sometimes with AI (see AI at PartyPPL). If the rights holder does not want a text or poster with us, we take it down.

Our importer is called pppl-bot, works with a fixed maximum of requests per round and reads robots.txt first for every page; what it forbids, we do not fetch. Every source is named on Sources; that is where the credit is, not under each event. The ticket button on an event page goes to the official shop.

5Our channels

New nights and a weekend overview are posted automatically on our own accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Mastodon. They contain only public event data: title, date, venue, city, genres, the first names of the line-up, price, poster and link. Never anything about visitors.

Other posts are written by our team. From the platforms we only read the totals of our own accounts, such as followers and reach; never who reads.

6"This is wrong"

Something wrong about your club, festival, act or event? We fix it. You do not need an account.

Mail info@partyppl.nl with the link and what is wrong:

• Wrong details: the right date, time, line-up, price or age limit. For venues, artists and organisations you can also suggest a correction yourself when logged in.
• Wrong venue or organiser: we link it correctly.
• Stop importing: we take the source out. No discussion.
• Taking over: if you organise it, you can claim the page and manage it yourself. Artists claim their profile through For artists.
• Images: if you hold the rights and want it gone, it goes.

We respond within five working days. Urgent, such as a wrong date just before the event? Put "urgent" in the subject.

7Reporting unlawful content

If you think something on PartyPPL is unlawful, such as a copyright infringement, defamation, a privacy violation or other illegal content, report it. This is our point of contact under the Digital Services Act. The full procedure, with the statement of reasons, appeals and measures against misuse, is on Reports and appeals.

Reporting address

info@partyppl.nl, with "melding" in the subject

Faster, on the site and in the app

The Report button on every message, review, report, question and answer, photo and profile

Languages

Dutch and English

Point of contact for authorities

The same address, in Dutch or English

Put in your report:

1. the exact link to the content;
2. why you think it is unlawful;
3. your name and e-mail address (except for child sexual abuse, which can be anonymous);
4. that your report is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge.

What happens next:

1. An acknowledgement, by e-mail by the next working day at the latest.
2. A person assesses the report, normally within 24 hours, at the latest within five working days.
3. You hear what we decided and why. The person concerned gets the same reasons and hears what they can do about it, unless we cannot reach them or an investigation would suffer.
4. Both sides can object within six months at the same address. Whoever the decision affects can also use the form on the page the e-mail and the notification about it link to (partyppl.nl/bezwaar/...). Someone other than the person who decided answers within five working days.

If you still disagree, you can go to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body under article 21 DSA, or to court. We are not a member of such a body, but we cooperate.

What happens automatically and what does not. Public text gets an automatic score on signals of scams, hate, threats, drug dealing and spam; with a high score the text waits for a person and the writer sees that it is waiting. Removing and suspending is always done by a person. Also automatic: the import filter, rate limits and the fixed price on resale.

If you repeatedly file manifestly unfounded reports, or repeatedly post manifestly unlawful content, we may block that for a while. We warn first.

Conduct between users goes faster through Report; see the house rules.

8Press and business

Press questions, partnerships or just curious: info@partyppl.nl. About the API: api@partyppl.nl.

An organiser? Start at business.partyppl.nl.

9All legal pages

• Terms of service: the agreement between you and PartyPPL, including tickets.
• Cancellations and refunds: what happens to your ticket and your money, in plain language.
• Privacy statement: which data we process, why, for whom and for how long.
• Cookies & local storage: what sits in your browser and app.
• House rules: conduct in chat, forum, reviews and photos.
• Reports and appeals: reporting illegal content and appealing, under the DSA.
• Age and safety: why PartyPPL is 18+ and what parents can do.
• Accessibility: contrast, larger text, less motion, screen readers, and what is not done yet.
• Organiser terms: posting, ticketing, payouts, featuring and the API.
• Data processing agreement: the GDPR arrangements with organisers.
• Subprocessors: who receives personal data from us, and why.
• API terms: the rules for the API and the MCP server.
• Security: reporting a vulnerability.
• Sources: where the data comes from.
• AI at PartyPPL: where we use AI and what a person checks.

What changed

• 19 October 2026: honest about copied descriptions (for some sources we show the source's text, and take it down on request), robots.txt now for every page, and the new page AI at PartyPPL. Also: the extra server at busy times, the report form on security.partyppl.nl, our marketing team's weekly report, our team's own posts and the totals we read from our own accounts, and a short summary at the top.
• Corrected: we have not set an EU storage location, and the credits are on Sources rather than under each event.
• Robots.txt: we read it for some of the sources, not for all of them.
• New: Claude for completion, Apple services, our social channels and submissions by visitors.
• Five new legal pages in the overview: refunds, reports and appeals, the data processing agreement, subprocessors and the API terms.
• Since 30 September 2026 PartyPPL runs on a server of our own at OVHcloud in Germany, no longer at Cloudflare. Cloudflare is still in front for DNS, CDN and protection.
• 17 October 2026: PartyPPL is the trade name we work under, with the same Chamber of Commerce number, VAT number and address as before. Every agreement is with the same business as before, so nobody has to accept anything again. Also new: the contact form as a fast means of contact, the addresses for privacy and security, our own mail server and the second server in Canada.