How we use organizer contact details.

Updated November 10, 2026. Applies to the review requests we send on a speaker’s behalf.

What this page covers.

Speakers on Short List Speakers can give us the name and email of an organizer who booked them, so we can ask that organizer for a review. This page explains what we do with those details. It covers the review request only. If an organizer also subscribes to The Short List for Organizers, requests a speaker, or creates an account, our Privacy policy covers that, and a review request never changes it.

For speakers adding an organizer.

What we use the details for

One thing: asking that organizer to review your session. The request comes from Rachel at Short List Speakers, from her own mailbox, once, with at most two reminders. Then it stops.

What we do with details you gave us for a review

We use them only to ask for the review. Unless the organizer chooses otherwise:

• We do not add them to a newsletter or any marketing list.
• We do not pitch them other speakers.
• We do not use their details for advertising.
• We do not share or sell their details.
• We do not contact them about anything other than your review.

If an organizer comes to us on their own, for example to request a speaker or to subscribe to The Short List for Organizers, we help them with that like anyone else.

You are in control

• You choose which organizers to add, and nothing goes to them until you confirm the request.
• You can ask us to stop at any time. Email connect@shortlistspeakers.com with the organizer’s name, and the request and its reminders stop.
• If you would rather not share an organizer’s details at all, your organizer can write to us instead.

If your organizer would rather write to us

Subject: Would you put in a good word for me?

Hi [first name],

I had such a good time speaking at [event], and I'm hoping you'd be willing to say a few words about how it went.

I'm now on Short List Speakers, where organizers find speakers through reviews from other organizers who have booked them. I didn't want to pass your email along without asking first. If you're open to it, send a quick note to connect@shortlistspeakers.com with these four answers, and Rachel there will send you one short review request. That's it.

Your name:
Your organization:
The event:
Month and year:

Either way, thank you again for having me.

[your name]

For organizers asked for a review.

Why you heard from us

A speaker you booked gave us your name and email so we could ask you for a review. The request names the speaker and the event, and it comes from Rachel, from her own mailbox.

What is published

Before you submit, the review page shows what will be published. A rating is required, and a written review is optional. What you submit may appear on the speaker’s listing and wherever we feature that speaker, including our newsletters, live showcases, and social channels. You choose how you are credited: your first name and organization, or “Verified organizer.” We never publish your last name or your email address.

What we keep

Your name, email, organization, the event and its month and year, your review, any private note you write to our team, and your newsletter choice. We keep your review for as long as the speaker’s listing is live. Private notes have no set deletion date today; we keep them so we can act if the same concern comes up again.

The only exceptions

We contact an organizer about anything other than the review only if:

• they were already known to us as an organizer before the speaker added them;
• they later send us a speaker request on their own; or
• they sign up for our newsletter on their own, including by checking the unchecked box on the review page.

Being named as a reference never, by itself, puts anyone on a list or triggers any other email.

You are in control

• Decline. Every request includes a decline link. It stops the request and its reminders about that speaker. A request about a different speaker is a separate request, with its own decline link.
• Take down your review. Use the correction or removal link on the review page, or write to connect@shortlistspeakers.com, and we take it down.
• Ask us to delete. Write to connect@shortlistspeakers.com from the address the request went to. Within 30 days we tell you what we deleted, and if anything has to stay, what it is and why.

Questions.

Questions about this page go to connect@shortlistspeakers.com.

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