Understanding that your privacy is of utmost
importance, A Wedding Guide Book and our subsidiaries takes
seriously our commitment to protecting your confidentiality. Please read
carefully our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Contact Information
prior to using our site.
This Privacy Policy is hereby
incorporated in our Terms of Service Agreement, and by registering for a
user account on the Site you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to all users, including those just visiting
this Site without registering.
Privacy Policy / Visitor
Agreement
A Wedding Guide Book.com (Site) respects the
privacy of our visitors, guests and registered users. This Privacy
Policy is provided to you by A Wedding Guide Book, An International
World of Weddings Corporation, (AIWOW) and its subsidiaries, Weddings By
Francine, Wedding Roundtable Workshops, and ("we" or "us").
This
“Privacy Policy and Visitor Agreement” is intended to inform you of our
policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of
personal information, automatically generated information, and anonymous
information you submit to us, or which we gather when you visit our
Site.
This “Privacy Policy and Visitor Agreement” is a binding
legal contract between you and us. Please carefully read this agreement.
By using this service, you signify your acceptance of the terms as laid
out in this document. If you do not agree to these Terms of Service,
please do not use this Site or any subsidiary of AIWOW, including but
not limited to blog sites maintained by AIWOW.
Because the Internet is a developing medium; we
reserve the right to change the terms of this agreement from time to
time without notice. By continuing to use the service after AIWOW posts
any such changes, you accept this agreement, as modified. All modified
terms and conditions shall take effect immediately upon posting to
AIWOW. Please review this page occasionally because all changes will be
binding on visitors/users of sites owned by AIWOW and its subsidiaries.
This Terms of Service Agreement may not be
modified, amended, and/or changed by you in any manner; however, you may
choose to terminate your use or membership at your choosing. This Terms
of Service Agreement is effective beginning on January 1, 2010 for all
users.
When registering with A Wedding Guide Book, or by
using the service, you agree that we may use and disclose, as we see
fit, consistent with applicable laws, any information you provide, or
that we obtain concerning your use of our service. If you want to remain
completely anonymous, you are welcome to take advantage of the
information on our sites without registration.
To make our Site(s) more suitable to the needs of
our visitors, we use a standard feature of browser software called a
cookie, which assigns each visitor a random, unique number, a kind of
user ID that resides on your computer. A cookie doesn't actually
identify “you” as the visitor, only the computer that you, as a visitor,
use to access our Site. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself through
the registration process, we won't know who you are, even though we may
have assigned a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a
cookie can contain is information you provide. A cookie cannot read
unrelated data off your hard drive.
Our advertisers and the third parties that provide
products or services through our Sites may also assign their own cookies
to your browser. This is a process that we do not have control over.
Cookies provide analysis to assist us in tailoring our Site to your
needs, to deliver a more comprehensive, and personalized service.
Cookies enable us to avoid showing you the same ads over and over again
during a single visit; they track the pages that visitors are most
likely to look at and how often. Knowing which pages are most visited
enables us to build a better site for your enjoyment, entertainment and
education of our subject matter.
Of course, you can set your browser not to accept
cookies, but in doing so, you may not be able to take advantage of the
personalized features enjoyed by other visitors to our sites. This
decision is entirely up to you.
Your Agreed Upon Consent
You agree to
the terms of our Privacy Policy by using this Site, and you expressly
consent to the processing of your personal information according to this
Privacy Policy by us or by third parties with whom we have a
relationship or partnership.
Your personal information may
be processed by A Wedding Guide Book, An International World of Weddings
or one of our subsidiaries in the country wherein it was collected,
including the United States of America, where laws regarding processing
of your personal information may be less exacting than laws in your
country. In the event you contact A Wedding Guide Book, An International
World of Weddings or a subsidiary via telephone, you acknowledge,
understand and consent that such phone conversations may be
recorded.
Age of Usage
No one under 15 years old
may use this web site, forum or post on a blog owned by An International
World of Weddings Corporation.
Your Password
If the portion of the Site
you choose to make use of requires you to set up a User ID and password,
you agree to be responsible for maintaining your password as
confidential and understand that you are responsible for any activity
that occurs on your account as a result of you sharing your password
with another or your failure to protect it. A Wedding Guide Book, An
International World of Weddings, and its subsidiaries are not
responsible for any loss or damage arising from your failure to maintain
the confidentiality of your password.
Online Surveys
Optional surveys may
frequently be used to collect information regarding our Users'
preferences. Surveys are always optional and anonymous. Occasionally
these surveys will be conducted by third parties. Except with respect to
our survey partners, your survey results are not shared with third
parties in a personally identifiable form. The demographic information
collected by AIWOW in the registration process may be used to help us
improve our Site to meet the needs and preferences of our
Users.
Online Contests
On occasion, AIWOW may offer
contests to certain Users' in which we ask for contact and demographic
information such as your full name, email address, mailing address, city
and state. Information we gather through a contest may be disclosed to
third parties as necessary for prize fulfillment, and other aspects of
any contest or comparable offering.
How Your Personal
Information Is Used and Disclosed
Registration
Information
Your personal information is used for our own
in-house purposes, including contacting you via email. We reserve the
right to disclose your information as required and allowed by law. We
provide you with the opportunity to receive newsletters via email, and
you may decide to opt out of receiving our newsletters at any time.
A Wedding Guide Book, An International World of
Weddings, or a subsidiary may enter into a partnering relationship or
co-branding with third-party web sites and companies to provide products
and services for our Users, and to such third parties' users. We reserve
the right to share your personal information, including your User ID and
password, with certain co-branded third-party service or product
providers as required to provide a specific product or service that you
request from a co-branded page or co-branded site. We may share some or
all of your personal information with our registered affiliates, who
will be required to honor our privacy policy. AIWOW is not liable to you
for any use of your personal information by an affiliate or co-brand
partner.
We also reserve the right to transfer your personal
information as part of a transfer of all or part of A Wedding Guide
Book, or An International World of Weddings Corporation assets to a
buyer. If our company or our assets related to the Site are acquired by
another company, that company will acquire the personal information
collected by AIWOW and its subsidiaries and it will assume the rights
and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this
privacy policy.
We may provide your personal information to
third party contractors to the level necessary to provide you with the
services on the Site and to help us communicate with you or to maintain
the Site. These contractors do not have independent rights to share your
personal information.
Security
Your privacy is very important
to us, and we will use reasonable methods to keep your personal
information secure in our files and systems, 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.
A Wedding
Guide Book and/or An International World of Weddings agrees to cooperate
with all law enforcement investigations, as well as other third parties
to insure that such laws as; intellectual property rights, harassment,
fraud, theft, and others’ rights are upheld. Your use of this site
authorizes A Wedding Guide Book and/or An International World of
Weddings to make known any information about you, if we believe in good
faith that such disclosure is necessary to abide by relevant laws or to
respond to subpoenas or warrants served on AIWOW, and to protect or
defend the rights or property of A Wedding Guide Book and/or An
International World of Weddings or third parties; or assist in a lawful
investigation.
Submitted Comments
All ideas,
submissions, comments, suggestions, offers and proposals you send to A
Wedding Guide Book and/or An International World of Weddings, or our
subsidiaries, are non-confidential and shall become the sole property of
An International World of Weddings Corporation. AIWOW shall own all
rights therein, including all intellectual property rights. As the owner
of these properties, AIWOW shall be entitled to use and/or disseminate
all submissions in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever, commercial
or otherwise, without compensation or credit to you. We may or may not
identify you as the source of a suggestion or comment without your
consent.
Forum / Blog Comment Violations
A
Wedding Guide Book and/or An International World of Weddings does not
regularly edit questions, answers, or comments on our website or blogs.
However, we reserve the right to remove content that in our sole
discretion, we deem to be inappropriate. Depending on the level of
offense, you may be banned from using our interactive services.
Links To Other Sites
A Wedding Guide
Book and/or An International World of Weddings is not responsible for
the privacy practices or the content of other web sites to which our
Sites link or to those who link to our Sites. When clicking on a link,
you may be directed away from our Site(s) and be taken to another
location. Be sure to read the posted privacy statement of that web site
to understand their policies and procedures.
When posting to
our forums and blogs, please follow these rules:
Do not post or
link to content (including photographs) containing obscene, profane,
vulgar or sexually explicit language.
Do not post (or link to) violent, racist,
incendiary, abusive, slanderous, threatening, belligerent or otherwise
objectionable comments or material aimed toward any individual or group
of individuals.
Do not post (or link to) objectionable content
that violates federal, state, local or any other laws. Do not post
others’ personal information. Do not exploit or solicit minors.
This privacy policy inures to the benefit of
successors and assigns of A Wedding Guide Book and/or An International
World of Weddings Corporation.
Contact
Information
For any question regarding this privacy
policy, please contact our customer service department at
info@aweddingguidebook.com
