Privacy Policy

This privacy policy was created to tell you why we collect information from you and what we do with it. The Bridal Insider and our various wedding community websites (herein referred to as BI) is a leading source of information to Brides and Grooms planning weddings. We are an open resource website and encourage all visitors to partake of our many free resources and information. Please use the following information to understand our privacy of your information within the BI websites.

How We Collect Your Information

Please remember that there is only so much information that our website can collect without your answering of specific questions. The BI 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 Google, MSN Search, Yahoo! or America Online.) This information, in aggregate form, is recorded for administrative purposes only. IP addresses are not linked to any personal information.

BI uses a cookie, a small data file stored on your computer, to customize portions of our site to your preferences. This way, you answer certain questions only once and not every time you participate in an activity or event. 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 register with us, and only BI has access to that information. If you choose 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 use BI websites and read our content 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, wedding date and similar information. We collect similar information from users who choose to participate in our programs. We always let you know before we collect any personal information from you.

We offer message boards, personal wedding areas, chat rooms, blogs and interaction between users and vendors when users request it on our website. Any information you voluntarily disclose when you post to one of these areas becomes public and may be used by us for marketing or commercial purposes. If you choose to post comments on our website, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit is public and can be read, collected, or used by other users of those areas, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for any personally identifiable information you choose to submit.

If you choose to use our “Send to a Friend” feature, which allows you to send an e-mail message to specified addresses and which contains a link to an article on our website that you think may be of interest to your friends, we will ask you for the e-mail address that the message should be sent to. We will automatically send a one-time e-mail inviting the recipient to read the article. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our “Send to a Friend” feature.
How we Use the Information We Collect

Information we collect from you is used improve our websites’ content, customize certain pages for you, and update you about our offerings and promotions on occaision. We do not share your information with others outside of our organization.
Changing Your Personal Information Profile

You can access or update your personal information at any time. To unsubscribe from a newsletter we send, you can follow the instructions on the bottom of each newsletter, or edit your privacy preferences in your member profile. If you would like to deactivate your membership with us, you should contact us at support@BridalInsider.com . It is helpful if you are clear in your direction, so if you wish to be completely de-activated from our website, clearly say so in the email.
Links to Other Sites

BI contains links to many other websites including our member vendors. We cannot be responsible for their content or for private information that you may choose to share with them. Please note: Information you release directly to parties who provide services to through our websites, such as any vendors or other sites you encounter on the Internet may be subject to different rules of use, disclosure or information sharing. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing personal information to third parties. If in doubt, we encourage you not to share the information.
Our Security

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 our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are given access to your information. 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.
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 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. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.