We value your privacy
At Winner Weddings, we value the trust placed us by the users of our website to protect their personal data. Data security is one of our highest priorities and we aim to be as clear as possible about what we do with personal data and why we do it. This Privacy Policy regulates the use by Winner Weddings of the information you provide when using the Winner Weddings website, which is run by Winner Weddings Ltd to provide a platform for wedding businesses to promote their products and services to prospective customers.
Information we collect
To register as a business on our website, we have to collect certain information from you. We use the information given to us by you to provide the service you request from us in the way that is set out in this privacy policy. You can change your registration details easily through the account management portal on the website or you can email us. The information we collect is listed below:-
Business name and password - we collect a business name to enable you to advertise your business. The password is created by you to protect your Winner Weddings account and any data you have stored there
Business location - without this we will be unable to share the location of your business with the people who would like to buy the products and services you are promoting through the Winner Weddings website. Depending on your level of subscription, your business location may be used to display a location map on your advert to share your business location with the people who are interested in your business
Email address - we contact you via email and will forward emails from prospective customers to you
Telephone number - We share your business telephone number with the users of the Winner Weddings website so they can contact your business about the products and services you are promoting
PayPal email address - If you decide to upgrade from a Ruby advert, we will take payment via your PayPal email address and store it to enable us to determine which PayPal account is linked with which business
Correspondence - if you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence
IP addresses - when you visit our site, we will automatically receive your IP address, a unique identifier for your computer or other access device
You may also provide us with personal information if you contact customer services, if you enter promotions or competitions run by us or if you get in touch with us in some other way, for example by way of an email facility provided on the website
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that may be placed on your device when you visit our site. When you next visit our site the cookie allows us to distinguish you from other users. Our site uses a number of different cookies. Below we explain the cookies we use and why we use them:-
Persistent cookies remain on your device until deleted manually or automatically
Session cookies remain on your device until you close your browser when they are automatically deleted
Essential cookies are technical cookies that are required for the operation of our sites. Without essential cookies our sites can’t operate properly. Essential cookies include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas
Performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our sites and to see how visitors move around them. This helps us to improve the way our sites work by enabling us to tailor our sites to the way visitors use them. The information we collect from performance cookies is aggregated which means that we cannot identify you from it
Experience cookies allow our sites to remember the choices you make. Our sites use experience cookies to provide you with enhanced and personalised features. For example, we use information collected through what are known as “web-analytic” cookies to compare the choices you make to those of our other customers so that we can learn from those choices. Information collected by experience cookies cannot track your browsing activity when you leave our sites to browse other sites
Marketing cookies record your visits to our sites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our sites and the advertising displayed on them more relevant to your interests. For example sometimes we use marketing cookies to limit the number of times that you see an advert. Sometimes we share information about your browsing activity, (which we have collected from cookies), with our advertising partners. They may use this information to advertise products, which may interest you, on other sites
You can refuse cookies by activating the relevant setting on your browser. However, if you do so you may not be able to access all or parts of our sites. If you carry on using our sites and do not change your browser settings we will assume you consent to us using cookies as described above
Storage of Data
We will not store your personal information for any longer than we need to, however we may be obliged by law to store your communications and personal information including activity logs and we may need to show details of these to government or authorised officials upon request. Like many websites, we use log files to monitor the effectiveness of our online marketing programmes.
Access Rights
You have a right to access the personal information that is held about you. To obtain a copy of the personal information Winner Weddings holds about you, please email us.
Security
At Winner Weddings, information security is very important and we have taken many steps to make sure your digital experience with us is secure. Information about you will be kept safe and secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure of your information, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect and secure information that is collected online.
To help us keep your information confidential you should:-
Keep your password secret
Never distribute the website addresses for pages that you have looked at while logged in as a registered customer
You should choose a password that is not obvious or known to anyone else
You should never give a third party your password, as you will be responsible for all activity and charges incurred through use of your password whether authorised by you or not
Payment Security
We use PayPal to process our payments. PayPal uses the latest SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology to make sure that the details you provide when placing an order are kept private and secure, making payments to us safe. Your browser will show when you are in a secure environment by displaying either a locked padlock or an image of a key in the grey bar at the bottom of the page; it may also warn you when you are entering a secured environment as you go to complete your payment through PayPal.
Links
Our website may contain links to let you to visit other websites of interest easily. Once you have used these links to leave our website, you should be aware that we do not have any control over that other website. As such we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting these websites, and they are not governed by this Privacy Policy. Winner Weddings is not responsible for any products and/or services featured on any third party website. You should exercise caution and look at the Privacy Policy applicable to the website in question.
Notification of changes to this Policy
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post these changes on this website so you know what information we collect and how we use it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will tell you. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.
Feedback
We want to make sure we're giving you the information about privacy and security that you want - let us know what you think. If you have any feedback, questions or concerns, please contact us using the form at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for using our website and we hope you enjoy your experience.
