Girdle & Gear Marriages Privacy Policy

At Girdle & Gear Marriages, accessible from our site, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and engage with our bespoke wedding planning, industrial-chic venue styling, custom vow writing, vintage machinery rental, and curated vendor network services. Please read this policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on our site includes:

• Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you register an account with us or when you choose to participate in various activities related to our services, such as online chat and message boards.
• Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the site.
• Financial Data: Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the site. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processor, and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.
• Data from Social Networks: User information from social networking sites, such as from Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and other social media platforms, including your name, your social network username, location, gender, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts, if you connect your account to such social networks.
• Data from Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys: Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.

How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via our service to:

• Create and manage your account.
• Deliver bespoke wedding planning, venue styling, and custom vow writing services.
• Process payments and refunds for our services, including vintage machinery rental.
• Email you regarding your account or services.
• Enable user-to-user communications.
• Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to the site.
• Generate a personal profile about you to make your future visits to the site more personalized.
• Improve the efficiency and operation of the site.
• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the site.
• Notify you of updates to the site.
• Offer new products, services, and/or recommendations, including our curated vendor network.
• Perform other business activities as needed.
• Request feedback and contact you about your use of the site.
• Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
• Respond to product and customer service requests.
• Send you a newsletter or other relevant marketing communications.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

• By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance. These service providers may have access to your personal information to perform their functions but are prohibited from using it for other purposes.
• Marketing Communications: With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
• Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
• Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions, including those within our curated vendor network.

Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Policy for Children

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 18. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

Your Privacy Rights (GDPR)

For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) grants you certain rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to be informed: You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data.
• The right of access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.

Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at: