Effective 5/1/07
We have created this Privacy Policy to let you know why we collect information from you and what we do with it. WeddingPages.com and all of its trade names, including The Knot, is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program and this statement discloses the privacy practices for The Knot (www.theknot.com). TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit initiative whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the TRUSTe principles of fair information practices. Because WeddingPages.com wants to demonstrate its commitment to respecting your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. By displaying the TRUSTe trustmark, WeddingPages.com has agreed to notify you of:
1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third-party personal identification is collected from you through WeddingPages.com.
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under Shop for Weddings control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
Contact us
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact WeddingPages.com by emailing customerservice@weddingPages.com and writing "Privacy Policy" in the subject line. You may also write to WeddingPages.com at: WeddingPages.com c/o The Knot, 1679 Wedding Way, Redding, CA, 96003. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe through the "TRUSTe WatchDog Dispute Resolution Process". TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with WeddingPages.com to resolve your concerns.
How we collect your information
The first thing to remember about privacy is that there is only so much information that any website can collect without your answering of specific questions. WeddingPages.com logs IP addresses (in other words, the location of your computer on the Internet) for system administration, troubleshooting, and to examine overall traffic trends. (For example, IP addresses help us determine the percentage of people coming from various online gateways, such as Yahoo! or America Online.) This information, in aggregate form, is recorded for administrative purposes only. IP addresses are not linked to any personal information. WeddingPages.com does not use a cookie, a small data file stored on your computer, to customize portions of our site to your preferences. The cookie by itself doesn't tell us, or anyone else, who you are, what your email address is, or anything else personal. You provide that information when you purchase something from WeddingPages.com, and only WeddingPages.com and The Knot have access to that information. If you choose to set up your browser to reject all cookies, please understand that you may be limited to some the areas or functionality within our site. You can browse WeddingPages.com and view our site without registering or providing any personal information. However, in order to take advantage of our personalized services, you are required to provide us with information such as your name, email address, real-world address. We collect similar information from users who choose to receive information about WeddingPages.com offers. We always let you know before we collect any personal information from you.
What we do with the information we collect
Information we collect is used to send you information about WeddingPages.com. You may choose at any time to remove your name and address from this mailing list by editing your privacy preferences (see paragraph below).
Changing your personal information and/or newsletter subscription
You can access or update your subscriptions to our site offers, at any time. To unsubscribe, you can follow the instructions on the bottom of each email offer.
Our security procedures
Your privacy is very important to us, but due to the existing legal regulatory and security environment, we cannot fully ensure that your private communications and other personally identifiable information will not be disclosed to third parties. Under certain circumstances, the government or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Additionally, in the unlikely event we need to investigate or resolve possible problems or inquiries, we can disclose any information about you to private entities, law enforcement, or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate. Finally, we use industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers (SSL) where appropriate. We also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in the WeddingPages.com and The Knot offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage requiring keys, photo ID key cards and biometric scans to access. We hope this policy clarifies our procedures regarding your personal information. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email customerservice@weddingpages.com.
Legal disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.
Notice of changes
If at some point in the future, there is a change to our information usage practices that affect your personally identifiable information, we will notify you by email of the relevant changes. At the time of this message, you will be able to opt-out of this information usage by sending a message to customerservice@weddingpages.com. We will also post the changes in our privacy statement 30 days prior to a change. You should also check this posted privacy statement for changes. The Knot encourages you to learn as much as you can about your privacy on the Internet. To find out more, visit TRUSTe.