This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using WedBuzz, located at www.wedbuzz.com and its directly associated domains (collectively, "WedBuzz" or "Site"). This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 1, 2008.
By using or accessing the WedBuzz Site you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If there are updates to the terms of this Privacy Statement, we will post those changes and update the revision date in this document, so you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it, and what choices you have.
We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our Site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. WedBuzz does not collect, use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as financial or medical information.
In a few areas on our Sites and online customer support tools, we ask you to provide personal information via web form or email that will enable us to enhance your Site visit, to assist you with technical support issues or to follow up with you after your visit. It is completely optional for you to participate. For example, we request information from you when you:
1. Contact us via email
2. Request a price quote, product literature or event information
3. Provide feedback in an online survey or fill out a comments form
4. Participate in a sweepstakes or other promotional offer
5. Subscribe to a newsletter, e-mail alert or a mailing list
In each of the instances above, we may ask for your name, e-mail address, phone number, home or business address, type of business, customer preference information and customer number, as well as other similar personal information that is needed to register or subscribe you to services or offers.
Our online surveys or contests may ask visitors for contact information (like their email address), and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level). If we ever ask for significantly different information we will inform you.
When you visit WedBuzz you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Site.
We collect no personally identifying information without your consent or voluntary submissions. For example, when you register with WedBuzz, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address and certain kinds of demographic but not personally identifying information including, but not limited to, your city or zip code, your gender and birth date.
When you visit the Site, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all WedBuzz visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user such as frequency and duration of visits to the Site.
When you use the Site, you may open an account, search for vendors and service providers and rate and comment on those vendors and service providers, among other things. Vendors and service providers may also open an account, respond to customer comments and provide additional information regarding their products and services, among other things.
We may send you information about our various products and services, or other products and services we feel may be of interest to you or for marketing purposes and to review and improve the WedBuzz Site and WedBuzz services.
WedBuzz may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Personal data collected at our Site may also be combined with information you provide WedBuzz through other sources such as product registration, call centers or public events such as trade shows or seminars or with data obtained from third parties.
Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed by WedBuzz’s subsidiaries and affiliates or agents.
Our site uses cookies to improve user experience of the Site and to facilitate the transfer of data between the sites and the individual. We may also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Site. Your IP address may also be used to gather broad demographic information such as the country where the requests are coming from.
WedBuzz may also from time to time make chat rooms, guest books, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and other users may collect your data. When you interact with other users WedBuzz cautions you against giving out personal information to strangers on line, which they may use for illegal or harmful purposes. You should therefore exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
We may also occasionally share aggregated, anonymous information with vendors and our business partners in order, among other things, to offer services and products that we think might be valuable to you. To the extent we do share any personally identifying information with vendors and business partners, we require that they keep such information confidential.
In addition, WedBuzz may be required to disclose personal information in connection with law enforcement, fraud prevention, regulation, and other legal action or in the good faith belief it is necessary to do so to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on WedBuzz or its Site; (b) to protect and defend the rights or property of WedBuzz; (c) act to protect the personal safety of, its customers, or the public; and (d) in relation to merger, sale or business consolidation or in response to requests from auditors, consultants or attorneys.
WedBuzz is committed to protecting the personal information you provide us. WedBuzz strives to keep your personal information accurate. We have implemented technology, management processes and policies to see that customer information is maintained in a commercially reasonable manner so that it is accurate, current, and complete. We also have procedures to see that requests to correct inaccurate or incomplete information are acted upon in a timely manner.
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification, unlawful destruction or accidental loss and to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of the information. WedBuzz also has in place appropriate physical and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect.
Our policy is to prohibit employees from accessing your personal information unless there is a business reason to do so and we store personal information on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. All our employees who have access to and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors’ personal data.
If you open an account you will be presented with several opt-ins with respect to your submission of personally identifying information. Further, WedBuzz users may modify any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated periodically.
You can opt-out of receiving further marketing from WedBuzz at any time by contacting us at privacy@wedbuzz.com. In the case of newsletters or mailing lists, you will be able to "unsubscribe" to these mailings at any time. If you wish to obtain a copy of particular information you provided to us, or if you become aware the information is incorrect and you would like us to correct it, contact us at privacy@wedbuzz.com.
We will allow you to change the data that we hold about you and where appropriate, you may have the data erased, changed or completed.
WedBuzz does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for WedBuzz services or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on WedBuzz. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@wedbuzz.com.
In the ordinary course of business, the WedBuzz Site may contain links to other websites. These may be in the form advertisements or preferred vendor links. Our merely providing advertisements or links to third party websites does not mean we guarantee the privacy practices of those websites. WedBuzz does not have access to or control of the any information that may be collected by the third party advertisers.
Accordingly, we encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every Site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by WedBuzz at the WedBuzz Site.
Personal data given to WedBuzz may be transferred across state and country borders for the purposes of data consolidation, storage and simplified customer information management or to countries outside of the European Economic Area. By using WedBuzz’s Site, its products and services you consent to our transferring your information to other countries including those which do not provide the same level of data protection as may be provided in the country where you reside. By using WedBuzz, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Your use of WedBuzz’s Site, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate the updating date. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current Privacy Policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@wedbuzz.com