PRIVACY POLICY
I (Connie Johnson of Wit & Wonder Ceremonies) conduct bespoke wedding and naming ceremonies as requested by my couples and families. In order to create and deliver a unique and personal ceremony, I need to collect and process certain personal information relating to you, your family and your friends. Not everything you share with me is necessarily used in a ceremony. I want you to know that the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information is very important to me; I am therefore compliant with the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which came in on 25th May 2018. Please see below for more information on how I collect, store and use your personal information. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me on hello@witandwonder.co.uk
Wit & Wonder Ceremonies collects Personal Data and Anonymous Data from you when you visit the Website, or when you send me information or communications.
“Personal Data” means data that allows someone to identify you, including, for example, your name, address, telephone and mobile numbers, email address, and any information about you that is associated with or linked to, or could be linked to, any of the foregoing data.
“Anonymous Data” means data that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Data.
Anonymous Data does not permit the identification of individual persons. I collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data, as described below –
Contact Information
You might provide me with your contact information, whether through use of my services, sending an email communication or through personal contact with me during the collaboration process. If you, as a visitor to Wit & Wonder Ceremonies, elect to make an enquiry through my Website I will normally collect your first and last name, email address, and relevant details about your event.
Usage information
I collect usage information about you whenever you interact with our Website and services. This includes which webpages you visit, what you click on, when you perform those actions, what language preference you have, and so on.
How will I use the information I collect?
Wit & Wonder Ceremonies uses your Personal Data to provide services to you and your Ceremony. Such services include the preparations leading up to and including your Ceremony and the communications that these preparations require. Generally, the communication will be via email, telephone, WhatsApp, video call or direct contact.
I may create Anonymous Data records from Personal Data by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you. I use this Anonymous Data to perform statistical analyses of my customers so that I may look at trends and behaviours and this in turn helps me to plan and prepare for the future of the business.
Do I share your Personal Data with other companies?
I will only share your Personal Data with third party suppliers, once I have been formally engaged as your celebrant, and for the sole express purpose of introducing these third-party suppliers to you. I love matching my couples and families to other suppliers who will make their wedding or naming day better, but I do this on request and with my couple’s/family's express permission first. I do not act as an agent to third party suppliers. I do not sell, trade, or rent the Personal Data collected from my services to third parties.
If you send a testimonial or comment to me or post it on another platform or site, I may post it on to my site or use it in my advertising and social media materials. I will attribute your testimonial to you by posting your name next to your comment on my site or advertising and social media materials, if provided.
Keeping your data up to date, changing your mind and opting out
Please note that at all times you are responsible for updating your Personal Data to provide me with your most current contact details. I consider it your responsibility to keep your Personal Data up to date so that I do not send any communications via emails or postal addresses that are not valid or are for any reason not capable of delivering to you.
Should you decide to stop receiving further communications from me, you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by informing me in writing.
If you are contacting me by email, please be sure to include your full name and address in your opt-out request in order to allow me to process your request for any changes to your preferences.
Social media, social commerce and other third parties
I work with trusted third parties, including sites like Trello, Facebook and Instagram, and I may use application developers who specialise in social media so that I can connect to your social networks. Other social networks I use include Pinterest and Youtube. All of these companies operate Third Party Sites. I may provide access to my Sites by third parties, venue-related suppliers and business partners so I can generate interest in my products and services among members of your social networks and to allow you to share product and service interests with friends in your network. I cannot control how your data is collected, stored, used or shared by Third Party Sites or to whom it is disclosed. Please be sure to review the privacy policies and privacy settings on your social networking sites to make sure you understand the information they are sharing. If you do not want a Third Party Site to share information about you, you must contact that site and determine whether it gives you the opportunity to opt-out of sharing such information. Wit & Wonder Ceremonies is not responsible for how these third parties may use information collected from or about you.
Where is your information processed and Personal Data stored?
I am committed to protecting the security of your Personal Data. I use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Data from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure.
Even though I have taken significant steps to ensure that your Personal Data is not intercepted, accessed, used, or disclosed by unauthorised persons, you should know that Wit & Wonder Ceremonies cannot eliminate security risks associated with Personal Data.
My business can be accessed globally via my website, email address and modern-day technology so your Personal Data may be processed both in and outside of your own country. When you submit your details and in whichever country you are situated you agree to the data being transferred to the UK and processed under the terms of the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 which stem from European Directives 95/46/EC and 2002/58/EC respectively. If you are not in agreement please do not give us your personal details.
Access to your Personal Data
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. I am also legally obliged to request you to provide me with identification so that I can be certain that you are entitled to receive the requested data.
Services Wit & Wonder Ceremonies may use
Wit & Wonder Ceremonies often uses Google Analytics to track how visitors are using my website and to look at your browsing behaviour, journey and device or browser used. No personally identifiable information is collected via Google analytics. This information is used to help improve the experience for the users.
Cookies
My Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of my Website. This helps me to provide you with a good experience when you browse my Website and also allows me to improve my Website.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
I may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If I make material changes in the way I collect, use, and/or share your Personal Data, I may notify you by sending you an email to the last email address you provided to me by writing to your last known postal address and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on my site. Any material changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective 30 days following my posting of the notice of the changes on my site.
These changes will be effective immediately for new users of my services.
The information provided by you to me during your use of the services, or otherwise when using the Website will be held by me on my servers and computers and used by us to review, develop and improve the Website and on-line services, and to enable me to provide you with relevant information as requested by you and also information concerning my marketing programmes.
I will not sell your personal information.
Due to the nature of the Internet, the information and data provided by you may be transferred outside the country where it is submitted to me. If you are submitting such information or data from a country within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) it is possible that it will be transferred outside the EEA.
I will not hold such information or data for any longer than is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy statement.
The Website may include hyperlinks to other Websites. Your use of such hyperlinks is subject to this policy statement. If you use the hyperlinks, then you will be leaving the Website. Your access and use of other Websites will not be governed by this policy statement, and it is your responsibility to check the other Websites and the privacy policies that may govern those sites to ascertain how your information and data will be treated if you access and use them.
You have the right to request access to and/or the correction or deletion of any personal information about you held by me.
If you have any questions concerning this Data Protection and Privacy Policy please contact me at hello@witandwonder.co.uk
By accepting this policy statement you consent to the use (including processing and storage), transfer and disclosure of your information and data referred to in this policy statement for the purposes set out in this policy statement.