BrideGenie Privacy Policy
Last Revised Jan 31, 2024
PRIVACY POLICY
Justi LLC ("Company", "us" or "we") respects the privacy of the visitors to its Web site, BrideGenie.com, as well as other affiliated sites and mobile applications linking to this Privacy Policy ("Site"). This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information, Automatically Gathered Information and Anonymous Information (each defined below) you submit to us or which we gather when you visit our Site. By accepting our Terms of Use Agreement, or by registering for a User Account on the Site you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to ALL users of the Site, including both registered and unregistered users and visitors, ("Users"). "Bride Users" are Users, who are brides, grooms, newlyweds and others using the site for planning a wedding or event. "Vendor Users" are Users who are vendors who provide services in the event industry. "Personal Information" is information about you that is personally identifiable to you, like your name, address, email address or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.
Users of the sites and applications that are part of the Site may be able to adjust the manner or amount of information that is publicly disclosed or shared with third parties by adjusting privacy settings (the "Privacy Settings") within those sites or applications. These include, without limitation:
- For the BrideGenie.com (both desktop and mobile) Web sites and the BrideGenie mobile application, collectively with the "b$g Properties").
CONSENT
By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy by us or by third parties with whom we have a relationship. Your Personal Information may be processed by BrideGenie in the country where it was collected, as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country. In addition, in the event you contact BrideGenie via telephone, you understand, acknowledge and agree that such phone conversations may be recorded.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our Services and Site change and expand. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we may email announcements, introduce pop-up notifications, or otherwise notify you through other means. Unless otherwise provided, the revised terms will take effect when they are posted. Once any changes that we make to this Privacy Policy become effective, your continued use of the Site after such time will signify your acceptance of the new terms.
INFORMATION WE GATHER
Registration and Account Information
If you register with the
Site, we may collect and store Personal Information that specifically
identifies you or the account you set up with BrideGenie (your
"Account"), including, for Bride Users, your first name, last name,
e-mail address, wedding role (e.g., bride or groom), wedding date, and
location of wedding, and for Vendor Users, business name, address,
phone number, web and social media address, e-mail address. If you add
Personal Information of others, such as your fiancé or business
partner, to the Site in your profile or otherwise, you are
representing that you are authorized to provide us with such
information and that we may treat it in accordance with any applicable
Privacy Settings that you have selected and otherwise in accordance
with this Privacy Policy. We may, in the future, include other
optional requests for information from you to help us tailor the Site
for you and deliver personalized information to you. We may supplement
Personal Information you provide us with additional information
purchased from third parties for marketing purposes. In addition, if
an Event User adds a vendor to its planning tools, or provides a
review of a new vendor, we will automatically add that vendor's
information to our catalog.
Password
Online Surveys, Contests and Advertising
occasionally,
BrideGenie may conduct User surveys to collect information about our
Users' preferences. These surveys are optional, and if you choose to
respond, your responses will be treated in accordance with the survey
terms, if any, and otherwise in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
These surveys may be conducted by and processed through third parties.
Similarly, we may offer contests to qualifying Users in which we ask
for contact and demographic information such as name, email address
and mailing address. The demographic information that BrideGenie
collects in the registration process and through surveys may be used
to help us improve our Services and Site to meet the needs and
preferences of our Users. This may include targeting advertising to
you about our Services and Site. Information we gather through a
contest may also be disclosed to third parties as necessary for prize
fulfillment and other aspects of any contest or similar offering.
Additionally, if we run a co-branded contest or survey with a partner,
unless the survey or contest terms provide otherwise, information that
you provide pursuant to that contest or survey may be provided to that
partner, after which it will be subject to that partner’s
privacy policy.
User-Submitted Information
BrideGenie reserves the right to
retain any and all information submitted by Users through use of the
Site, including but not limited to reviews, public profile
information, information submitted to surveys (created by us or any
other third party), personal messages sent through the Site, and posts
to message boards or forums. We may supplement Personal Information
you provide us with additional information purchased from third
parties for marketing purposes.
Automatically Gathered Information
BrideGenie automatically
collects information including but not limited to, browser type,
browser software version, browser characteristics, IP address,
location information, type of computer or mobile device, mobile
carrier, unique device identifier, requesting and referring URLs and
other information that may personally identify you ("Automatically
Gathered Information"). We reserve the right to collect and manage
this information at our discretion. We may use cookies, web beacons,
and other tracking technologies ("Tracking Technologies") to conduct
research and analytics, to maintain records of Users' activities on
our Site, to manage use of our Site and Site services (including third
party services), to deliver advertisements to you or otherwise
customize and improve your user experience, and as deemed necessary
for additional Site management purposes. Additionally, we can and will
use IP addresses to identify a User when we, in our sole discretion,
determine that it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of
Use, Privacy Policy, or to protect our service, Site, customers,
vendors, or others. We may combine your Automatically Gathered
Information with your Personal Information. If we do, we will treat
the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is
combined.
Email to Friends Feature and Referral Program
BrideGenie lets
Bride Users easily allows you to invite friends/affiliates via email.
BrideGenie also offers the ability to send friends/affiliates emails
to BrideGenie. If you choose to use either feature, we will use your
email address to copy you on the message or to send on the email your
behalf, and you hereby grant permission for such use.
Public Information
As part of registration, you may set up a
Profile describing yourself, your wedding (My Profile). This profile
will not be publicly available as a default. Other sites and mobile
applications that are part of the Site may have separate Privacy
Settings. If you change your Privacy Settings, some information that
was previously public and that you change to a private setting may
remain cached and publicly available temporarily or indefinitely by
search engines and others who archive publicly available content.
Site Activity
We may collect and store information about your
use of the Site, such as the terms that you search for, the pages or
screens that you view, and the activities that you conduct on or using
the Site, including which vendors you review, list as favorites or
booked or call or contact using the Site and how you conduct those
activities (collectively, "Site Activity"). Site Activity may include
actions that we are able to collect or infer using automatically
Gathered Information.
HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE INFORMATION
Site Transactions and Administration
We may use your information
(including Personal Information and Automatically Gathered
Information) for our own internal purposes, including but not limited
to contacting you via email or telephone to inform you about updates
to our Services and providing you with information relating to
e-commerce transactions that you conduct on the Site. We also reserve
the right to disclose your information as described in the paragraphs
below.
The BrideGenie Community
The community area of the Site, if
available, including forum and other discussion areas, is for the
benefit of Users. It is a public discussion and communication forum
whereby content (best practices, suggestions, etc.) is generated by
the BrideGenie community. By your participation to this area of the
Site, you acknowledge that the information posted will reside in the
public domain and will be publicly available. From time to time
BrideGenie Staff may examine this content or other user behavior to
confirm that the terms of purchase are not being breached and
BrideGenie may remove any content that is inappropriate in
BrideGenie's sole discretion. We strongly recommend that you refrain
from posting any Personal Information in this forum. You may not post
the Personal Information of any other person on the forum. See our
Terms of Use for more information. An Event User may be able to change
the way his or her information is presented in forums within the WW
Properties by adjusting his or her WW Privacy Settings. Other sites
and mobile applications that are part of the Site may have separate
Privacy Settings.
Publicly Disclosed Information
BrideGenie does not have any
obligation of privacy with regard to information that a User discloses
publicly on the Site, including, without limitation, publicly posted
profile information, forum comments, reviews, or pictures. The terms
of use of the individual Site specify the licensing and ownership of
such publicly posted content.
BrideGenie Vendor Catalog
The BrideGenie Catalog provides a
listing by sortable category/fields of participating BrideGenie Vendor
Users as well as a listing of local businesses. If a BrideGenie Vendor
is registered, the vendor's Storefront will be made available on the
Catalog unless the vendor chooses to unregister from the Site. As
specified in our Terms of Use, after BrideGenie and the Vendor User
have terminated their relationship, BrideGenie shall be entitled to
retain all reviews associated with a Vendor User on the Site as well
as basic directory information, including, without limitation,
business name, address and telephone number.
Advertising
We may send you email communications including
information that we think may be of interest to you. You may opt out
of receiving these email communications either when you register to
become a Member or via the Preferences section of your Account
settings. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads
when you visit the site. These companies may use information about
your visits to this and other websites including Automatically
Gathered Information in order to provide advertisements about goods
and services that may be of interest to you ("Online Behavioral
Advertising"). These companies may use cookies or other Tracking
Technologies to conduct the Online Behavioral Advertising and their
use of your information or information about you is subject to their
privacy policies, as applicable. Please note that the choices you make
are specific to the browser on a particular device and that if you use
a different browser, you will need to opt-out again. BrideGenie does
not respond to browser-based Do Not Track signals. We use Google
Analytics, which uses cookies and other, similar technologies to
collect information about use of the Site anonymously and report
trends, without identifying individual users.
Co-Branded or Partnered Services
BrideGenie may enter into
co-branding or partnering relationships with third-party Web sites and
companies to provide products and Services to our Users or to such
third parties' users. BrideGenie may share your Personal Information,
including User ID and password, with certain third-party service or
product providers as required to provide a specific product or service
that you request from a co-branded page or co-branded site.Subject to
any terms of the co-branded or partner offering, Personal Information
you provide on the co-branded Site may also be stored and used by the
co-brand partner according to its privacy policy. Please take the time
to review these third-party privacy policies. BrideGenie is not liable
for any use of your Personal Information by a co-brand partner. .
Legal Requests
BrideGenie may disclose information about you if
we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a)
comply with relevant laws or legitimate legal process or law
enforcement instructions, investigations and orders, including
subpoenas or warrants served on us; or (b) protect or defend the
rights, property, privacy or safety of BrideGenie, our affiliates, you
or others.
Affiliates
BrideGenie has or may have subsidiaries, joint
ventures or other companies under a common control (collectively,
"Affiliates").We may share some or all of your Personal Information
with these Affiliates, in which case we will require our Affiliates to
honor this Privacy Policy.
Acquisition
If our company or all or any portion of our assets
related to the Site are acquired by another company (including in any
bankruptcy or similar proceedings), that company will possess the
Personal Information collected by us and it will assume the rights and
obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this
Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy inures to the benefit of
successors and assigns of BrideGenie.
Anonymous Information
We may create Anonymous Information
records from Personal Information by excluding information (such as
names) that makes the information personally identifiable to you. We
may use this Anonymous Information for any purpose including to
analyze inquiry, request and usage patterns so that we may enhance
Services and the Site. We reserve the right to use and disclose
Anonymous Information to third parties in our discretion. "Anonymous
Information" means information that is not associated with or linked
to your Personal Information.
Comments Submitted by Users
BrideGenie constantly seeks to
improve the quality of the services we provide and the User experience
on the Site. We value your input and encourage you to help us expand
and make improvements to the Site by providing us with any thoughts or
comments you might have regarding our services or the operation of the
Site ("Suggestions"). All ideas, suggestions comments and proposals
you send to BrideGenie (collectively, "Submissions") are
non-confidential and shall become the sole property of BrideGenie.
BrideGenie shall own all rights therein, including all intellectual
property rights. BrideGenie shall be entitled to use and/or
disseminate the Submissions in any manner and for any purpose
whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation or credit to
you.
BrideGenie Vendors
We may share information from or about Bride
Users who use the Site with BrideGenie vendors, including Personal
Information and Site Activity. You are able to make some modifications
to the types of information shared with vendors by using the WW
Privacy Settings.
SECURITY
We will use commercially reasonable methods to keep
Personal Information securely in our files and systems. Our Payment
System is operated using secure Internet connections, using SSL
(Secure Sockets Layer) encryption, to help protect your financial
data. Please note that with current technology, the security of your
data as it travels over the Internet or as it resides in any storage
system cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure.
REGARDING CHILDREN
BrideGenie Web sites are designed and
intended for use by adults. We do not intentionally gather Personal
Information about persons who are under the age of 18.
TERMINATING YOUR MEMBERSHIP/ACCOUNT
We save your Personal
Information until your membership with us is terminated and you
unsubscribe to email notifications. To terminate your membership,
contact Customer Service at help@BrideGenie.com. If you terminate your
membership, your Personal/Profile Information cannot be recovered. You
may continue to receive email communications for a short period of
time until we have updated all of our databases. After termination of
your membership, your Personal Information may remain on our archived
database and records. Notwithstanding the above, we will maintain
information on Users who have been removed for violating our
Membership Agreement, and we will maintain email addresses in our
unsubscribe lists.
Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten)
You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data. Information may be deleted from our system upon request to help@BrideGenie.com. We undertake to perform the deletion within one month (30 calendar days) and will send you a confirmation once the information has been deleted. Wherever possible, we will aim to complete the request in advance of the deadline.
CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, you may contact Customer Service at help@BrideGenie.com