Price

TBA, and a draft rather than a decision. Twenty-five dollars if you are paying for yourself, ninety-nine if your employer is paying, and low cost or gratis for students and the between-jobs. Priced to cover the room and the coffee, not to build a margin.

On sale

TBA. Once the venue is signed and we know how many chairs there are.

Refunds

None if you change your mind or cannot make it. It is a twenty-five dollar ticket and running a refund process would cost more than the tickets do. Transfer it to somebody else instead, which you can do freely and without telling us. If something has gone badly wrong for you, email a human and we will work it out like people, but do not plan around it.

If we cancel it

You get your money back in full. Not less fees, not as a credit, not as a voucher toward next year. Sponsors take a deduction for costs already committed, because the sums there are large enough for that to matter and their agreement says so plainly. Yours does not, because at twenty-five dollars a deduction would be petty.

If we move it

Your ticket moves with it and you need do nothing. If the new date does not work for you, say so and you get a full refund instead. This is the likelier shape of a spring conference in Colorado going wrong: not a cancellation, a date change.

If the weather does something

A freak blizzard that shuts I-25 or the canyon, a venue that loses power, a day that has to be cut short. Refunds then are at our discretion, and discretion is an honest word here rather than a weaselly one: a good deal of the money is already spent on a room and on food that got bought either way. Whatever we decide is published with the rest of the accounts, with the reasoning next to it, and you can judge it in public the same as everything else on this site.

Transfers

Yes, freely, to anybody, at any time, and you do not have to tell us. If you want the badge to carry a different name, tell us before the print deadline. Otherwise take the badge as printed and write on it, which is what the pen is for.

At the door

Your ticket. Nothing else. No identification, no confirmation of your employer, no scan.

The badge

Likely paper, and whatever it ends up being made of it will carry no chip, no barcode and no QR. The material is not settled. The part that is settled is that nobody can scan you, because there will be nothing on you to scan, and that is most of the point.

What we hold

The name you want on the badge, one email address, and which ticket you bought. That is the whole list. It is deleted one year after the event, and the year exists only because late CPE claims do. Leave no trace has the rest.

Adult event

There is a bar, the talks are not sanitized, and some of the material will be blunt. No age requirement is set and none will be. Make your own decision, the same as you do about everything else here.

Buying one

Your receipt names these terms by web address, and buying a ticket is acceptance of them. There is nothing else to sign and no account to create. Four ways to pay: an invoice settled by ACH, a credit card, Bitcoin, or cash at the door. ACH keeps the most of your money in the room rather than with a processor, and it is the sensible one if an employer is paying. For an invoice or for Bitcoin, email hello@cachecon.com. On the second of those we will first point out that settling up for a privacy conference on a permanent public ledger is not the win people think it is.

Conduct

The code of conduct and the park regulations are conditions of entry rather than suggestions, and they apply to everyone in the building including the people running it. Breaking them can mean being removed, and being removed does not come with a refund.

Photographs

Consent is a conversation, not a colored lanyard. Ask the person. That binds you exactly as hard as it binds the organizers, the speakers and the sponsors, and it covers wide shots of a full room.

Recording

Talks are recorded only where the speaker has said yes. Hallways, the Island and the bar: never. Do not be the person who decides otherwise.

The program

Subject to change. Speakers drop out, sessions move, and a room only holds so many people, so some sessions will fill and you will occasionally have to pick something else. We will not pretend otherwise in advance to make a schedule look better.

Activities

The hikes, the run, and anything on snow are separate from your ticket. Each one has its own waiver, you sign it when you sign up for that activity, and you will be able to read the whole thing first. A conference ticket is not a waiver for walking up a mountain in early spring.

CPEs

A signed certificate, handed to you at the door, with nobody to chase afterward. Take it with you and you never need us to hold anything at all.

Cash at the door

Available, welcome, and the only genuinely private option on the table. The caveat is capacity: the room holds what it holds, tickets bought ahead come first, and if we are full when you turn up then we are full and we will be genuinely sorry about it. So if cash is the plan, send a note to hello@cachecon.com beforehand. No name required, just a heads up that one more person is coming. That is how we count chairs and order food, and it is the one number we cannot guess our way to.

Who you are buying from

Belisle Research and Security LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, which runs this conference. Explained in full here, including the conflicts.

About that waiver. It is a real one and it is deliberately not buried in this page. Organized walks on Horsetooth and Arthurs Rock in early spring are on trails that are either perfect or a sheet of ice, and anything involving snow is more so. Anybody joining one of those signs a waiver for that specific activity, written plainly, at the point of signing up, and never as a line somebody scrolled past while buying a conference ticket.