Privacy Statement
1. Introduction
1.1 The LoveWeddings.ie website (the "Website") is operated by All Weddings Limited ("we", "our", "us" or "LoveWeddings"). We respect your right to privacy. Any information provided by you to us will be treated lawfully in accordance with the terms of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 (the "Acts") and/or such amending legislation or other applicable data protection legislation as may be adopted in Ireland from time to time. The purpose of this Privacy Statement is to outline our policies and practices regarding the processing, collection, use and disclosure of any information you submit to us through the Website. You are accepting the terms of this Privacy Statement by using the Website. If you do not agree with or you are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Statement, your only remedy is to discontinue use of the Website.
1.2 The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices relating to the Website. In order to fully understand your rights, we encourage you to read this Privacy Statement, our Terms & Conditions and Cookies Policy. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of any other websites. This Privacy Statement applies only with respect to the information collected on the Website and not any information collected or obtained through other methods or sources. Please note that you must be at least 18 years old to use the Website. Each time you use the Website, you will be bound by the then current Privacy Statement and you should review this each time you use the Website to satisfy yourself that you are happy with it.
1.3 For the purpose of the Acts, the data controller is All Weddings Limited with its registered office at Unit 1104, 11/F, Crawford House, 70 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong.
Types of Information Collected
We may collect and process the following information about you:
2.1 information that you provide to us when using the Website or availing of our services or in response to specific information requests explicitly presented to you such as your name, company name, delivery address, e-mail address, payment details (including credit/debit card details), details of previous orders and any passwords of your choice;
2.2 information provided at the time of registering to use the Website, posting material (such as comments, postings reviews, ratings and other information) on the Website or requesting further services (such as activities you may sign up to on the Website);
2.3 if you contact us for any reason, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
2.4 optional information such as [your date of birth, where you are getting married and wedding date, rehearsal and reception details, information relating to your gift registry and honeymoon, gender and other demographic information to support your use of the Website;
2.5 we may ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them; and
2.6 details of your visits to the Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data and the resources, advertisements and linked sites that you access.
3. IP addresses and Cookies
3.1 For system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers, we may also collect information about your computer, such as your IP address, operating system and browser type. We gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to the Website. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is a little piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Cookies help us to improve the Website and enable us to provide a better and more personalised service by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage pattern and to recognise you when you return to the Website. Our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control. You are always free to decline such cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. If you choose to disable Cookies, you may not be able to access some parts of the Website or avail of any of our services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies to you when you log on to the Website. For more information, please see our Cookies Policy.
4. Purposes for which we hold your Information
4.1 We will use any personally identifiable information you provide to us for the following purposes:
4.1.1 to ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer;
4.1.2 to notify you after registration of your account details;
4.1.3 to provide you access to the Website and to allow you to participate in interactive features of the Website;
4.1.4 to respond to any queries you submit to us;
4.1.5 to send you information, products, services or vouchers for which you have asked or which we feel may be of interest to you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
4.1.6 to provide you with information on services offered by us, our partners or our advertisers where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
4.1.7 to seek your views on the Website and our services;
4.1.8 to inform you about any changes to the Website and services;
4.1.9 to process any requests we receive from you;
4.1.10 to fulfil any contractual obligations formed between you and LoveWeddings; and
4.1.11 to send newsletters, promotional emails and to offer related services to you from LoveWeddings.
4.2 We may also use your data, or disclose your data to selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about products and services which may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these.
4.3 We will always give you the opportunity to opt-out (or unsubscribe) in the future from any marketing or promotional emails we may occasionally send. You may change your preferences at any time and this option is provided in the promotional e-mail you receive or can be done by contacting us directly at admin@LoveWeddings.ie. Even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications, LoveWeddings reserves the right to notify you about your account. If you do not want us to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the registration form on which we collect your data.
4.4 We use any non-personally identifiable data gathered from visitors to the Website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise the Website.
4.5 We do not, without your consent, disclose information about identifiable individuals to third parties, but we may provide anonymised statistical data to them for research and survey purposes. We may also use such information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
5. Where we store your personal data
5.1 The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us. Such staff may be engaged in the processing of your payment details and the provision of follow up services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
5.2 All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password or username which enables you to access certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password or username confidential. We ask you not to share this information with anyone.
5.3 Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. We have security in place such as firewalls, backup and other appropriate technical security measures.
6. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
6.1 We will not disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required for the Website services. Examples of such services include analysing data, providing marketing services, processing payments (including credit card payments), and providing customer service. In such circumstances, the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements. We may disclose some or all of your personally identifiable information (other than credit card information) with merchants or suppliers, including, but not limited to, product and services suppliers, airlines, car rental agencies, and travel agencies, whose services you have purchased for their commercial purposes and to provision the services. You may not use the Website if you do not want us to use or disclose personally identifiable information collected about you in the manner identified in this Privacy Statement. If you choose to disclose personally identifiable information when posting comments or other information or content through the Website, this information may become publicly available and may be collected and used by others. We will not have any obligations with respect to any information that you post to parts of the Website available to others.
6.2 We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order: (a) to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order or other statutory or legal requirement; (b) to enforce the Website Terms & Conditions or other agreements or to protect our rights, property or safety of All Weddings Limited and its subsidiaries and group companies; or (c) to protect the safety of users of the Website, or others.
6.3 We may disclose your personal information to other members of the All Weddings Limited group of companies and approved contractors or sub-contractors working on our behalf.
6.4 We may provide non-personally identifiable data to third parties, where such information is combined with similar information of other users of the Website. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit the Website, the demographic breakdown of our users of the Website, or the activities that visitors to the Website engage in while on the Website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include, for example, potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.
7. Sale of Business
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your personal data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Statement and provided that the third party uses your personally identifiable information only for the purposes that you provided it to us.
8. Security
Your personally identifiable information is held on secure servers hosted by our Internet service provider. The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you transfer the data at your own risk. However, we take your online security very seriously and we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate industry and technical protocols and standards) to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, use, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure. We endeavour to use appropriate security measures.
9. Links
9.1 The Website contains links to other sites. LoveWeddings is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices on such linked sites. This Privacy Statement governs only information collected on the Website. When linking to another website, you should read the privacy policy stated on that website. The terms of our Privacy Statement do not apply to these outside websites. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
9.2 The Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties for your convenience and information only. We accept no liability in connection with any third party website accessed via a link from the Website, or any contract entered into or through a third party website. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
10. Your Rights
10.1 You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by emailing us at admin@loveweddings.ie.
10.2 The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
11. Accessing, Updating, Verifying and Deleting personally identifiable information
You have the right to object to the use of your data and the right to block any specific uses of your data and may inform us of any changes in your personally identifiable information, and in accordance with our obligations under the Acts, we will update or delete your personally identifiable information accordingly. To find out what personally identifiable information we hold on you or to have your personally identifiable information updated, amended or removed from our database or if you would like a copy of some or all of your personally identifiable information, please email us at admin@loveweddings.ie. Any access request may be subject to a prescribed fee (which will not exceed €6.35) to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
12. Changes to this Privacy Statement
We may amend this Privacy Statement on occasion, in whole or part, at our sole discretion. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Statement on the Website. The changes will be posted on the Website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Privacy Statement, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner. Continued use of the Website following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acceptance of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Statement, as it may be amended from time to time, in whole or part, you must cease use of the Website.
If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Statement, please contact us at: admin@LoveWeddings.ie. Our registered address is All Weddings Limited, Unit 1104, 11/F, Crawford House, 70 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong.
