The intent of this policy is to fully disclose our privacy practices to you. We will only use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy

Your consent
By using our site, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy, which was last updated on May 12, 2004. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be reflected on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it.

The personal information we collect
BridalSpace.com collects personal and financial information necessary to provide accurate and convenient billing, appropriate matching, responsive customer service and to respond to your requests for our customized products and services and to allow you to use the resources available on our website, including the creation and maintenance of a Member Profile. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, name, physical address, email address, phone number, age and any other information that itself identifies or, when tied to the above information, may identify you as a specific individual. BridalSpace.com also collects information related to your wedding, including dates and places of the wedding and reception and information relating to your gift registry and honeymoon. BridalSpace.com also uses order forms for you to request certain information, products and services. On such order forms, we collect your contact information, financial information (including credit card numbers) and demographic information.

How we collect your information:

Forms - BridalSpace.com collects information via on-line forms that you complete and submit to receive various services. Information collected from such submissions can include contact, demographic and wedding related information.

Contests - BridalSpace.com conducts sponsored contests to give you the opportunity to win great prizes. Your participation in these is entirely optional. Information collected for such contests can include contact, demographic and wedding related information. All contestants must be 18 years of age or older to participate.

Cookies - "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies in several ways (and thousands of other sites are currently using them too!). Cookie files are used to better understand how you go through our website so that we may tailor your experience at our website. Cookies are also used to tell us whether you have visited our website previously, and to help us determine whether you came to our website from a particular Internet link or banner advertisement. Cookies can also be used to help you to save and retrieve passwords and other information and preferences you use on our website, saving you from having to re-enter this information upon every visit to our website. Cookies cannot and will not be used by us to retrieve any personal information about you from your computer that you have not previously and voluntarily provided to us. However, cookies may also be received when you link to websites of advertisers on BridalSpace.com and we do not have control over how they use this information. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. However, most of our features will not function if you do not accept cookies. For more information on cookies, see Cookies

IP Addresses - When you connect to our website, we record your IP addresses. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer so that data (such as the web pages you request) can be sent to you. Our computer uses IP addresses and cookies to gather broad demographic information about users in a particular area. This information does not, however, contain anything that can identify you personally.

Chat rooms, forums & message boards - We make chat rooms, forums and message boards available to you. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Please see Terms and Conditions of Use

With whom your information is shared and how it is used
When you provide information to BridalSpace.com, the information is stored in our database, such information is used by BridalSpace.com in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Information we collect is used to tailor your experience at our site, to show you content that we think you might be interested in, and to display the content according to your preferences. We also use such personal information to send you information and promotional materials on us and some of our advertisers.

BridalSpace.com may post contest entries on its web site at any time. The identity of the persons entering such contests will be kept confidential and will never be posted on the website and/or shared with any third party.

BridalSpace.com may post questions submitted to its wedding consultants. The identity of the persons submitting such questions will be kept confidential and will never be posted on the website and/or shared with any third party.

Your identity and contact information submitted through the BridalSpace.com "Member Signup Form" will be shared with subscribing BridalSpace.com service providers and will be made available to subscribing BridalSpace.com service providers for viewing in the BridalSpace.com community website. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information. Members may change their information at any time from the "My Profile" page.

Your wedding related information submitted through the BridalSpace.com "Member Signup Form" will be shared with all subscribing BridalSpace.com members.

Your identity, contact and wedding related information submitted through the BridalSpace.com "Service Request Form" will be shared with subscribing BridalSpace.com service providers.

BridalSpace.com respects your privacy and if at any time you wish to discontinue any or all of these services you may do so by sending a request to unsubscribe@BridalSpace.com

In addition to the circumstances described above, we may disclose your information if required to do so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authorities, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable, including (without limitation) when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

The choices you have about the collection and use of your information:
As a user, member, or contest entrant you will occasionally receive e-mail updates from us about important functionality changes, special offers from us and our advertisers, new BridalSpace.com services and other noteworthy news items about us. If you would rather not receive these e-mail updates, just let us know by replying to one of the e-mails with "Remove" in the body of the e-mail. Our site also provides you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such communications from us at the point where we request information from you. In other words, if you don't want us to send you e-mails about our advertisers' business, just let us know. BridalSpace.com reserves the right to limit registration to those who will accept emails and to those who will provide the requested information.

Accessing and updating your information
At any time, you can view and/or update all of the information contained in your Member Profile by logging in to your account and following the appropriate links. Your account log-in can be easily accessed by visiting our community home page at http://community.BridalSpace.com. However, even if you delete or change some personal information in our registration database, it may still be stored on our, or other databases (including those kept for archival purposes).

Security measures taken to protect your personal information
All order information you provide to us is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a widely used coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt or scramble data before you send it to us. Transactions will not be permitted if your browser does not accept SSL encryption. Only authorized personnel from BridalSpace.com or its partners can decode this information and such personnel will only do so in accordance with our or their Privacy Policy. In addition, to attempt to deter the theft of credit card numbers and other personal information residing in our system, we and our retail partners have installed secure "firewalls" and/or have implemented other security measures to help protect our systems against "hacker" break-ins. Additionally, all credit card numbers are encrypted in our system until either the customer or BridalSpace.com requires the information.

Privacy practices of our advertisers
Please be aware that on our site we have advertisements and links to other websites that may collect personal information about you. This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices or policies of such websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all such sites, as their policies may be materially different from our Privacy Policy.

Changes to this policy
This privacy policy may change at any time. Changes will be updated on this page.