BRIDES FOR A CAUSE

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://bridesforacause.com.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit Brides for a Cause, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse Brides for a Cause, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what web or search terms referred you to the website, and information about how you interact with the website.

Examples, not all-inclusive, of Personal Information:

  • When you contact Brides for a Cause through email or the contact page form, you are providing potentially personally identifiable data in the form of your name and associated email;
  • When you use any form on the Brides for a Cause website, you are providing potentially personally identifiable data in the form of your name, email, and preferences;
  • When you sign up for the Brides for a Cause newsletter, you are providing potentially personally identifiable data through you name and email address;

COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

Brides for a Cause uses cookies to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. Cookies and other technologies are used to render the web pages faster for a better user experience.

Brides for a Cause provides an Instagram Feed to show posts. The website uses an API to connect to Instagram and although we do not collect personally identifiable information from you, the third party website may use cookies and other methods to track how you interact with the feed. You can view the Instagram privacy policy here: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/?entry_point=ig_help_center_data_policy_redirect

Brides for a Cause uses Google Analytics to analyze user interactions with the website. The information collected may include log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, the number of clicks, inferred demographic information, location, and keyword and search terms. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and improving the website for all users. The Google Analytics privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en_US

LOG FILES

Brides for a Cause follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

 

ONLINE PURCHASES

Additionally when you make a purchase, donation, or attempt to make a purchase through the website or the connected websites for our stores, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.  All payment processing is completed through a PCI-compliant third-party payment processor. No credit card data is stored on our servers.

THIRD PARTY PRIVACY POLICIES

Brides for a Cause’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use the data collected from your visit to our website to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our website. For example, Brides for a Cause may generate analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the website, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns.

 

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your personally identifiable information with third parties for SEO, appointment scheduling, newsletter sign up, and security purposes.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the website–you can read more about how Google uses your personally identifiable data here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

When you schedule an appointment on our website through Acuity Online Appointment Schedule, we may collect personally identifiable data from you. Their privacy and security policy can be found at https://help.acuityscheduling.com/hc/en-us/articles/219149587-Security-Privacy-Compliance.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Website’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

GDPR – YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the website), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.  Additionally, please note that your information might be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION

When you send a message through the contact form, submit any of the forms on the website, or browse the website, we will maintain your personally and non-personally identifiable Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

When you place an order through the Website, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

CHILDREN’S AND MINOR’S INFORMATION

Brides for a Cause adheres to the regulations of both the COPPA and CCPA in regards to protecting the privacy of children online. The Brides for a Cause website is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. Our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Brides for a Cause does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy was updated and is effective on MArch 23, 2022. We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info @bridesforacause.com or by mail using the details provided below:

Brides for a Cause
2505 SE 11th Ave, Suite 120
Portland, OR 97202

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