Buyer beware

  • Time.ly is using your events to build their own network of events using your aggregated data. Any time you add an event to your “free” or “pro” version… The url for tickets and event URL is stored on the Time.ly database. They then can track clicks and information about any event added to your website. This is to be used later to help them build an event network. It also means that your hard work to build an event site could easily be compromised if there are ever issues with the time.ly web servers.

    You can read more about it here. https://time.ly/event-search-calendar/

    This surreptitious activity should be considered when making the decision to use this plugin.

    Oh… and by the way support is not a word known by the Time.ly team.

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  • A lot misinformation here. I will clear it up.
    -We tracked clicks on “buy tickets”, just an aggregate number, no identifying information. If this concerns you, update to the latest version. We no longer track this.
    -We do not currently aggregate events. We simply make it easy for you to share them in your community. We are not in any way selling event details, nor do we plan to. Who would really want to buy a link to the Tuesday night judo lesson in Okeechobee?
    -If one day we do decide, we will probably aggregate only references to the events, again improve sharing. It would be optional. Our calendar users mostly have public events that they are looking to promote. They see this as a feature, and we get asked about when it will be ready regularly.
    -If you really hate tracking (I assume you also don’t use google analytics on your sites) then simply use the Core plugin only.

    What we do track-
    If you install an add-on we track
    -PHP/WordPress/Timely etc versions. We use this to make determinations of what to support. For instance we recently modified a feature we built to support PHP 5.2, as we see a lot of sites are still running it.
    -Site URL. We could theoretically pull a list of URLs. We did this once a year or so ago. We may do it again sometime.

    Support in our forums, and here, looks alive and well to me…

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