Regulars · Houston
Last updated September 30, 2026.
Regulars is a Houston-only membership that sets members up on 1:1 video coffee chats with each other, to make friends. To pick who you talk to, we have to know a little about you. This page lists what that actually is — not a category summary, the real fields.
When you sign up: your email address, and whichever of these you choose to give — first name, your part of town, and the kind of thing you’d leave the house for. If you offered to host something, we keep what you said. We also store a share code for you, the code of whoever’s link you arrived on if you came in on one, and the campaign tags (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign) and landing page from the link you came in on.
When you answer the ten questions: your first name, age band, gender (woman or man), neighborhood, how far you’d travel to meet up, how long you’ve been in Houston, the days and times you’re free for a call (morning, lunch, evening or late, Houston time), where you land on a set of sliders about what you’re like on a night out, your interests, two free-text answers (what you could talk about for an hour, and your ideal Saturday), how many calls a week you want, who you’re happy to have 1:1 calls with (women, men or anyone), and any social handles you add.
One interest you can pick, Faith & church, says something about your beliefs. Like every interest it’s optional, and if a call partner picked it too, they’ll see it as something you share.
We no longer ask about food or allergies. If you answered those questions when we did, we still hold your answer, and we’ll delete it if you ask.
When you save a card: Stripe collects your card details directly; they never reach us. Stripe tells us your card’s brand, last four digits and expiry date, and the state of your membership: when it started, when it renews, and whether it’s set to end. We keep those, along with Stripe’s reference numbers for you and your subscription.
When you have calls: each call’s time, its Meet link, and whether it was booked, moved or cancelled, and by whom; how the pairing scored on the things we match on; your survey answers; and any strikes, pauses, blocks or reports on your account.
Technical: a few cookies (below), standard request logs kept by our hosting and database providers, and page-view counts from our host’s analytics, which use no cookies.
Before a call, the person you’re matched with sees:
After the call, your first name and the call’s date stay in their list of past calls. Inside Google Meet they’ll also see your Google account’s name and photo (see below).
We don’t show them your email address or anything else from your profile. Your other answers are readable by you and by us, and by no other member. The database enforces that rather than trusting our code to remember: your profile is locked to your account.
After each call you answer a short survey: whether the call happened, how it was (1 to 5), whether you could be friends, whether you’d meet in person, what you clicked on, and anything we should know.
Only Regulars sees your answers. They are never shown to the person they’re about, or to any other member. We don’t show anyone ratings, scores or tallies from surveys — not about you, not about anyone. You can’t see what someone said about you, either. Reports work the same way: what you write goes only to us.
We use survey answers for matching: they decide who we pair you with next. We also use them to run calls fairly. “Did it happen” is how no-shows are handled, and we read everything written under “anything we should know”.
Calls run on Google Meet, under Google’s own terms and privacy policy. We don’t build or host the video.
When a call is booked, we create it as a Google Calendar event from our Google account, hello@regularshtx.com. Google sends the invite, with the Meet link, to the email address you signed up with. So Google handles your email address and the call’s time, as it would for any invite.
Inside Meet you appear under your Google account’s name and photo, as on any Meet call. If that shows your full name, your call partner will see it. Google controls that, not us.
We don’t record calls, and we can’t see who joined or what was said. Whether a call happened comes from your surveys. We never ask for your phone number.
We use a small number of companies to run the service:
They handle data to do their part of the job. Stripe and Google also deal with you directly when you pay or join a call, under their own privacy policies. We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with advertisers.
We set no advertising or third-party tracking cookies. Our own code sets five, all first-party, and all but one there to make something you asked for work:
On the card step, Stripe’s own script also sets two cookies (__stripe_mid and __stripe_sid) to help stop card fraud. They are Stripe’s, under Stripe’s privacy policy.
While you are part-way through the questions, the answers to the step you’re on are also kept in your own browser’s local storage so a closed tab doesn’t lose them. That never leaves your device, and it is cleared as soon as the step saves, or when you sign out. If you dismiss the card that offers to add Regulars to your home screen, your browser remembers that too.
Your account, profile, call history and survey answers stay until you ask us to delete them, or until the account has been dormant for two years. Ask and it goes — see below. Stripe keeps its own record of your payments for as long as the law requires, and deleting your Regulars account doesn’t remove it.
Email hello@regularshtx.com and we will, within 30 days: send you a copy of everything we hold about you, correct anything wrong, or delete your account and its data outright. You can also edit your profile answers yourself from your dashboard at any time. You do not need to give a reason, and asking costs you nothing.
Depending on where you live you may have these rights by law — in Texas, under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act. We would rather just honour them for everyone than check.
Regulars is for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has signed up, email hello@regularshtx.com and we will remove the account.
If we change what we collect or why, we will update this page and change the date at the top. If the change is material, we will email everyone who has signed up rather than hoping they re-read this page.
hello@regularshtx.com. A person reads it. See also our terms.